Awards Eligibility Post! I’m very proud of these three delinquents: Doppel Doppel Gang Gang (Baffling Magazine). Love Story in Colored Glass (Uncharted Magazine). Praise Song for the God of Restless Hands (The Dark). Links can be found on my website. Here’s to more art-making in 2026!

Start the New Year with a New Fantasy Series! And here's a Solaris selection to get you going... @natania.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social @mattfnwallace.bsky.social @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social @pennyvixen.bsky.social @ldcolter.com‬ and more!

An old favorite seasonal photo. I was working to deadlines through last night (technically thru today, but the weight has lifted now🎉) so a belated happy holidays to everyone. #dogs #shepherds #dogsofbluesky #snow #happyholidays

We asked @ldcolter.com for her best book of 2025, the book she'd love for Xmas & her anticipated read of 2026. Read the full article: https://geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why she picked @authortrmoore.bsky.social Kevin Wilson & more! https://geni.us/whilegodssl https://geni.us/whenthewindss

As the year draws to a close, we've asked a selection of Solaris authors 3 very important questions... Here are their answers 👉 https://geni.us/SolarisBks2025 FT. @kerstinhall.bsky.social @natania.bsky.social @julietmarillier.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @isabelcanas.bsky.social & more!

I'm very humbled to have not one, but TWO books among so many other great novels! (Sept and Nov)

Which sweet boi turned 4 this week? (At the drive-thru, waiting for his pup burger...) #dogs #dogsofbluesky #shepherds

The book promo blitz continues (three books releasing over 6 months! 😅)... and now, the award-eligibility post...

To celebrate the release of WHEN THE WINDS SING, @mynachang.bsky.social interviews author @ldcolter.com, talking PERILOUS GODS, Slavic folklore, the importance of research, the writing process, & ex-con Alex Orlov having a VERY bad day. https://mynachang.com/2025/11/18/author-interview-l-d-colter/

Always lovely to come home with a stack of the novels I have acquired for @solarisbooks.bsky.social, especially gathering a few weeks' worth. Desperately proud of these novels by @rainewilson.bsky.social @sapphomancer.bsky.social @artofelaineho.bsky.social and @ldcolter.com

#thanksgivingreading #slavicmythology #darkfantasybooks #solarisbooks #solarisnova #theperilousgods #whenthewindssing

This is an outstanding slice of Slavic fantasy with a hint of Tim Powers about it. Definitely recommended.

Story day!! I’m so delighted to debut in @unchartedmag.bsky.social with ‘Love Story in Colored Glass:’ an inter-dimensional love story about a starship that breaks reality - and a pair of lovers who find themselves, again and again, across the fracture. www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...

And a very happy thing #2 - Book Two, When the Winds Sing, releases today in the US and UK! 🥳 #darkfantasy #slavicmythology #fantasybooks

Two very fun things today... Thing #1 A feature at Mary Robinette's My Favorite Bit! Authors who influenced the book, my love of mythology, and how my main character's two near-deaths in childhood were actually my own. maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/my-f... #fantasybooks #solarisbooks #mythology

Reading 2025 fiction? Try the novelette "The Millay Illusion" by Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social! You can read it here! buff.ly/Z5hlKNV

A big thank you to @mynachang.bsky.social for the feature interview at Microverse today!

Two days to release date!! preorders are live at: geni.us/whenthewindss #darkfantasy #fantasyseries #mythology #slavicmythology #solarisnova #solarisbooks #noai #noromantasy #standalonebooks

#darkfantasy #newfantasybooks #mythology

Release date Nov 20th in the US and UK!! (And thank you again to Sam Gretton (art/design). Can't say enough how much I love my covers 😍) #darkfantasy #mythology #standalone #NoAI #solarisbooks

Slavic gods and nightmares from folklore arrive in Northern California, and Alex Orlov is about to meet them all.... Preorder link: geni.us/whenthewindss #darkfantasy #fantasyseries #mythology #bookstagram #newfantasy #slavicmythology #koschei #morana #perun #solarisbooks #solarisnova

My 100% no-AI book finally triggered an AI-generated scam. (Spoiler alert to the scammer: you don't need to ask an author if your readers can read and review a published book.) I brushed up the grammar and present to you: AI scam email as book promo! 😂 (Cover photo, graphics, and edits by me.)

I've already read the 1st book in the series, and I'm very excited that Baba Yaga figures into the second. 👀

If Tim Powers is your jam, I think you'd like When the Winds Sing by @ldcolter.com. This is a beautiful use of Slavic gods and folklore, with characters who leap off the page fully formed.

Dawn this morning. No editing, no enhancement, and taken through a window. #sunrise #nature #photography

When the Winds Sing is coming soon!! And it's in some great company.

We've just turned the clocks back in the UK to try & embrace some brighter mornings as the year draws to a close. So, how about a selection of Solaris Books with historical and historically inspired settings ft. @natania.bsky.social @maryrobinettekowal.com @emmanewman.bsky.social & more!?

This week on Planetside… Our new Back to Basics series opens with a practical overview of how to submit stories professionally and what to do after you hit Send. Read “Story Submission 101” by @lrb.bsky.social at www.sfwa.org/2025/10/21/s...

Re-upping this blog post, since I just heard from an author who hired what looked like a self-publishing service provider but actually was a ghostwriting scam, and just got hit up for $9,000 for a book order scam writerbeware.blog/2025/05/09/t...

Wet leaves on a rainy day.

We've had the pleasure of taking care of this sweet and pretty girl for the past two weeks so she wouldn't be pastured alone while she's in a transition period. #horses #blueroan #nature #countrylife

October Newsletter with Halloween Vibes Some cool and creepy facts about Crescent City, CA, the (real) setting for When the Winds Sing, Book Two of the Perilous Gods, plus free Ch 1, and the animal video this month is in honor of Jane Goodall. l-d-colter-speculations.kit.com/posts/the-ha...

Thanks to @jamreads.com for the review below of While the Gods Sleep, book one of my three Perilous Gods novels. Go to the website for an additional interview where we talk about the full set (as well as many other great reviews)!

Book Two of The Perilous Gods Available for preorder now: geni.us/whenthewindss DepositPhotos: @ rclassenlayouts @ revvo @ prometeus @ T.DenTeam Book cover design: Sam Gretton Audio: freesound.org @universfield_don'tlookback #slavicmythology #darkfantasy #fantasyreads #solarisnova #solarisbooks

Thank you to Jamedi for the interview about my Perilous Gods series of books releasing now! Check it out at the JamReads link below.

Photos from today's walk at the Seattle Japanese Garden (thread). I was quite taken with these red leaves, dangling by a bit of spiderweb in a way that made them look like they were falling. #photography #PNW #autumn #FallColors #nature #red #31DaysOfHalloween #SeattleJapaneseGarden

One last hike yesterday to see the fall colors. #fall #nature #hiking #dogs #dogsofbluesky

geni.us/whilegodssl Book two is coming soon!

Duck bills look like tiny dog faces, which is particularly amusing to me when they are preening :) #photography #BirdSky #BirdOfTheDay #ducks #duck #birds

This hits harder for me than any celebrity death in a long time. Amazing woman. Contributed so much to conservation and understanding the animals we share the world with. Never stopped. She died while on a speaking tour.

A bouquet of goldfinches. #photography #BirdSky #bloomscrolling #nature #wildlife #PNW #BirdPhotography #birding #garden #birds

Heads Up: If you have Amazon Prime, my time-travel short story "3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years" is now available at no additional cost as part of Amazon's "First Reads" program, a sneak preview of the Time Traveler's Passport anthology, out in November: www.amazon.com/Days-Months-...

#darkfantasybooks #greekmythology #bookrelease

A House Between Sea and Sky is now available in audiobook at Audible! Thanks to Hollis McCarthy and Pete Cross for their extraordinary voice work. ❤️❤️❤️

Hooray!!

Winter is coming. Feeling that need to get out and hike the beautiful fall colors while I can. Dogs think anytime is a good time. #nature #photography #hiking

A must read for writers. I'm seeing same thing Jason is seeing, in form of scammers' creation of online "readers' communities" populated with bots. AI adoption by foreign scammers has been expanding since 2023 but this year has really been a watershed. They're becoming impossible to keep up with.

if you can help me (oh my god please help me) i have a glorified tip jar patreon (ive been doing co working two hour sessions and a monthly session for questions. this month i was going to play with the story engine so people could meet it) please don’t use the app they will take 30%

A few years ago we put Gary to the test against his buddy Drift to see who would be better at avalanche rescue. Think we might have a bit more training to do.