Echocardiograms are so expensive that I really think they should offer a 30 percent discount if they fail to locate an alien chest-burster.

Distance- a haibun. More #haibun and #Haiku here: kasasagi.blog

Congratulations, Helena!

The weird thing I saw today was two fit guys without shirts in a car park … one posing against a brick wall, the other taking pics of him with a camera on a tripod. Not that weird. But by the time I left the carpark, photographer guy seemed to be taking close-ups of posing-guy’s butt… 🤣 Whyyyyyy?

@itsgreek2m2.bsky.social nice to meet you. I’m half Greek, from my mum.

Demanding much? Better to say what you want clearly in relationships, right. 🤣😜 None of that cool white and yellow shit. 💜❤️💜❤️💜

Had an exhausting but awesome climb outdoors yesterday. We did our usual warm up climbs, then I put a hard climb up with a clipstick and we had a top rope go on it, then when we pulled the rope the tip got stuck at the anchor. Oh noes… We were feeling tired and I’d already packed up but I…

Cool novel news is although it’s weird to be totally done with Staerstone after 5 years of commitment to it, I’ve rolled into the sequel, Staercrags, pretty easily. Still in love with my characters. Ready to make them suffer! 🖊️ #writer #fantasy #climbing #romance

Today my cat showed me a trick on my MacBook by sliding her back leg down the mousepad and switching apps. I finished the last proofing notes on my novel Staerstone. Gulp. Publishing is definitely terrifying sometimes. Maybe I should have let the cat do the proofreading, too. #fantasy #novel

So close to the send on this then… pop, fall, smackdown. 🤣 #climbing #boulder #mostly #falling

i did the thing (60min digital #drawnFox)

Staerstone’s Cover Novel cover reveal and a bit about the characters, Zericha and Andalu… They’re supposed to be enemies—to kill each other—but they’re drawn to each other from the first chaotic moment they meet.

THIS IS WHAT MY NOVEL LOOKS LIKE! If you thought's Alex's climb yesterday was exciting, you probably need to read this book... Follow me and my publisher for updates in the lead up to publication. #comingsoon #fantasy #adventure #romance #writer

My first blog post for the year, about my Tassie trip and my novel Staerstone's trajectory toward publication.

Super fun climbing adventures in Tasmania!

Tassy climbing adventures started in cloud today

Who parks like this? 🤣

I'm working on Staerstone's edits (from the editor) and he wrote "he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would scare easily" and I'm like, YAY he's standing up for Andalu and, yk, he's right. #Staerstone #fantasy #romance #novel

I joined a group book promo for fantasy/adventure books! Mine is a short story called POV: Parents say No. It’s freeeee on Bookfunnel. books.bookfunnel.com/thecountdown...

Orc Bitch coded characters

Hey social media, give me non-monogamous fantasy book recommendations. Not hard sci-fi, not love triangles, not something that is gonna make me depressed or have nightmares, just a frikken fiction where characters get to have relationships with more than ONE OTHER PERSON.

In grief I almost wished I hadn’t loved, but that feeling passed. If you’re lucky enough to know grief, at least you’ve loved deeply.

Try my brand-new Kilter board climb and tell me what you think. It’s named after my novel. 😊 It’s so hard to put a grade on these things… I was flogged when I set it. kilterboardapp.com/climbs/2EE44...

Breakfast, what to eat …

insane to me that every day we have bouldering planned in the evening, i’m just vibrating with excitement all day, how did i turn into a sports person???

Oops making TikToks is too fun. Alt I walk along the…things that stop cars from driving too close to the footpath. It’s a balance challenge on fast forward, then I go back. The last step is the longest. I make it! In my army green crocs with climbing gibbets. #mildlyparkour #floorislava #urbanplay

I had one cup of tea. I need more cup of tea.

PREORDER NOW! Two Tricksters & double the trouble! Trickster Tales Loki meets Wahn in a new speculative fiction novella @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social 🎭🦅🔥❄️🏳️‍🌈⬇️ mybook.to/Trickster

This was a fun purple climb. I did it twice but needed to project the beta with friends to work it out. And that reachy left hand move made me fall a few times. A really nice 4 at Cutloose on the Gold Coast. I’m still sore after all the other overhang climbing, lol.

Hey @pamelajeffs.bsky.social 😊

An interview with Barbara J Rosie… helenstubbs.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/a...

I love Helena O’Connor’s work. Can’t wait to read this.

A really fun day @supanovaexpo.bsky.social with @ifwgpublishing.bsky.social Gave away 50 of these sneak peek (peak! haha) 👀 previews of my novel Staerstone. Just a few left! It comes out next year. Can’t wait! If you want to know when it’s published sign up to IFWG’s newsletter or my blog.

Lovely night out in the rain in Brizzy. I’m glad it cooled down. Alt: A Sandia mocktail with watermelon and lemonade. Rain on the footpath. Illuminated trees, markets and city lights in the background. At the restaurant Olé in South Brisbane.

Day 2 Supanova in Brisbane. Come say hi I’m at Booth 24 with @hkstubbs.bsky.social & Matt Tighe @ifwgpublishing.bsky.social @ipicomics.bsky.social

Brisbane Supanova Fun with @hkstubbs.bsky.social @ifwgpublishing.bsky.social #events #fantasybooks #authorsofinstagram #brisnova2025

This is our table at Supanova! Come say hi. 👋

www.youtube.com/live/oBxtF11... This is a fun format. My palms are sweating watching it.

@omalliecatt.news how are employee conditions at Weyland-Yutani? 🤣

Fun green boulder. Big moves to jugs! This feels super easy for the grade (4) but it does have slightly dynamic moves and weird feet newbies might find hard. (?) Alt text: Climbing a green indoor climb then down climbing the orange which is a fun one too.

New novelette! "And on Their Graves a Fall of Angels" by Natalia Theodoridou! buff.ly/Qjm8Ial

Got this solar little water fountain to aerate my tadpole swamp and the warning says it might kill me if I use it too long or wrong. I’m doooomed.

Happy to (sort of) send this 6! Didn’t hold the top for long but I’m proud I used the volumes for my feet & matched feet on the higher one with no left hand hold. Alt text: Climbing a red indoor slab boulder. Tricky start with a sort of knee bar. Small holds and the feet are fairly steep volumes.

The corpse is saying, one last hug before you go? And the soul laughs nervously and says, I think I’m good!

We should do this in Australia @daveversace.bsky.social

Stranger Climbs! Core’s Halloween event. Pretty fun but I couldn’t stay long. Core, Carrara A black-lit climbing gym with glow in the dark art, full of dressed up people. The theme was Under the Sea so lots of beach babes (of all genders:) and sharks and scuba divers …

My mermaid craft — glow in the dark for Core’s (my climbing gym) Halloween event.

The clear sparkling waters of Kangaroo Island. February 2019.