I have a new website! Moving to a different hosting platform meant I had to overhaul everything, but everything is set back up again! You can still order author copies of books directly from me, buy my e-books, and more! The only thing that's changed is the layout. www.tcsmithauthor.com/

Don't miss out on this bundle of some of the best indie ebooks from 2025, all just for $15! itch.io/b/3455/the-b...

A young royal and her bodyguard go on a road trip to save the kingdom...except the royal might have technically broken her bodyguard out of jail. ❤️ royal x bodyguard romance 👑 political intrigue ✨ low magic setting ⚔️ epic fantasy battles 🌈 queer & ND rep 🔗👇

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2025 may be over, but these twenty seven books, published in the last year, represents the best of the year, and offers hope in a world that seems to get harder to live in every day. itch.io/b/3455/the-b...

Start off the year right with some of the best indie books of 2025! 27 books for $15 only until 1/15. Features my brand new angsty enemies to lovers rock star romance No Love in LA 🌈 chaotic heavy metal FMC 🌈 stern washed up emo NB MC 🌈 found family 🌈 Satanism & many more great reads! 📚 📢 💙 🌈

The #SPFBO contest will open to new entries at 11am GMT on January 3rd. It will remain open to entries for 24 hours. After which 300 novels will be randomly selected to go forward into the contest.

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It's that time of year again! Looking back, I actually finished drafts of more than one piece. I have at least two story ideas I'm happy to go into the new year developing. I didn't necessarily work on what I expected to do this year, but fun was had. At the end of the day, isn't that the point?

chrysanthemums #kidlitart

QRP with your flower art 🌹🌹🌹🌹

Are you a professional illustrator in Australia? We've got an industry discord to share resources, jobs, opportunities and find collaborators! discord.gg/j9VBsY7nh7 #australia #aotearoa

The Harlow Mystery series is 30% off from Dec. 26th, 2025 to January 1st, 2026! Check out the Itch.io sale - Harlow Mystery series: itch.io/s/158372/box... The books are discounted on all other retailers as well! 🛒 Link in bio to find all my books! #boxingday #boxingdaysale #booksale #books

Here is my prior drawing of Alyx, from back in 2024.

Okay, so I have fallen into the trap of pairing up characters from wildly different series, but I just think they would hit it off, okay! Also, I like how their respective colour schemes work with each other. #Art #FinalFantasy #HalfLife2

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✨ COVER REVEAL ✨ Luminance Vol. 1 cover is here! info on release dates and where to find below ⤵️ #Queerotica #QueerErotica #EroticSky #Monsterfucker #Teratophilia #WriteSky #NSFW

I'm pleased to announce Cry Wolf's RELEASE DATE of ***February 10th, 2026!*** I know some folks have been very eager for this one! Ebook pre-orders will begin Jan 10th! The official COVER ART is by Luigiix, of course! #writesky #writingcommunity #PNR #werewolf #wlw #sapphic #lesbian #readersky 📢📚

Thank you for all the love for my little wildlife sketches 🥹 Here's the finished page. Doodling animals will forever be my favourite way to decompress. I love the bear. #FabelwesenArt #sketch #OCArt #OCSky #TradArt

Eliza is 50% off. It’s a fully-voiced visual novel about an AI therapy app. It was released in 2019, years before the idea of AI became what it is now. How much did it get right? What did it get wrong? Play it for yourself (play the whole thing) and decide. store.steampowered.com/app/716500/E...

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Today's the day! My slightly unhinged queer enemies to lovers rockstar romance, No Love in LA is out! A heavy metal goddess with a crush on… The stern goth who hates her… The spark that ignites them both. Available from most retailers and to order from your local library 🖤 linktr.ee/kattakis

For @shokrakar.bsky.social, of their char with their bff's from #ffXIV 🐱💕 #commission #finalfantasy #ff #anthro #nekomimi #furry

END OF THE YEAR SALE BUY ONE GET ONE FREE (color shaded only) Comms will be delivered in January 5 slots open. DM if you're interested #commissionsopen #endoftheyear

A pregnant queen surrounded by threats and caged by expectations. Two loyal bodyguards who'd die for her but want to live for her too. My X-Files-inspired MMF romantasy novella is live on Amazon, Kobo, and Smashwords so far. Get Frostburn for $2.99! books2read.com/u/47aYWq

incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works

I only have one art of Bron so here's an updated coloured version. She's way too good for Liam #TPDox

#DeckTheHalls I have this one as Mads, but this should be Taylah, and Mads should be High Priestess. So oops. But ANYWAYS Maddy Upright: a thinker, a doer, a woman of science Reversed: lead by emotions and trauma and things she can't have #TPDox

"Holy fucking shit guys, we don't use AI to develope concept art! We use AI to develope concept art for our concept art! It's totally different guys trust me!" Fucking hell...

"guys guys there wont be ANY ai in the final product, weve only used ai to build the foundation our artists will use to work lol trust me the game is entirely human made!!"

If you don't know, or you know people who claim to not know, any Queer people in meatspace it's because they don't feel safe. We are not that rare. And while trans people are also Queer, it esp holds true for that group today as well. Not that rare.

(People jumping into my timeline, telling me to stop fighting AI? Get an instant block. Thank you for your understanding).

oh, and an example of an actual placeholder text - which is way faster to type than waiting for plagiarism machine to throw up some bullshit :P

the ai generated trash was just a placeholder that was meant to be replaced is just an excuse for when studios get caught using genai and are facing backlash against it and they know that most people don't want this trash that's why they're refusing to be open about it

ai generated placeholder text is such a dumb idea when you could get easily get lorem ipsum of any length www.lipsum.com (have been often using it for testing how much text could reasonably fit into a text box) or just type in "Placeholder text here - please, replace it later!" that actually tends

omg they rebranded ice cream

My birthday is coming up soon! I'm really hoping for a solid con tour next year, which means I need book stock! If you can, buy me a coffee, so I can get the stock I need! ko-fi.com/zyearthdefen...

How about some character art I drew for Tipping World, and a random tree? Color is very much still a Work In Progress and I'm low on the learning curve, but I'm fucking learning and growing and leveling up by virtue of trying, which is a win all on its own, isn't it?

I wrote this recently, which I'm pretty proud of. #TheOtherChosenOne

Aight, here's a bunch of art what I done made recently. All related to the Maldaccian Empire (space birds) from The Re-Emergence. We have two of the five maldaccian species in traditional dress, a 3D render of the Qesh'kal, the hero ship from the book, and a 3D render of Unit-17.

This one from a 2020 commission for @deadpool3iisij6.bsky.social with a bunch of photos of myself holding a broom handle in different poses

i got one of those tripod selfie sticks just for the purpose of taking my own reference photos 🫠 ( i also did this with the hands and plate in this piece bc plates are weird unflat circles )

⚠️ If you're doing stocking stuffers artists this year and you want an AdorkaStock reference deck I have just 5 portrait decks and 12 high low perspective decks left. Dec 25th arrival for US shipping cutoff is Dec 17 🎁 I will restock these but prob not until Spring. 🛍️➡️ ko-fi.com/adorkastock/...

Hi Fuck AI and fuck Larian Where are my fellow human creatives at, share your work so I can repost the hell out of it if you post AI on my timeline I hope all the garbage you generate is poisoned by Nightshade

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

🎶 It’s (radiator season) the most wonderful time of the year 🎶

Everyone is more or less okay with it” dude you make people emigrate to work there because you don’t do remote work, they risk having to change countries if they disagree with it

by using AI to generate concept art you're literally feeding baked vomit to your costumers, the point of concept art is research, intent removing *INTENT* and *MEANING* from your concepts means you're giving us nothing, an amalgam of meaningless imagery, regurgitated visuals, nothing more

Oh and the paperback covers are also human made with art by my dear friend @miripirim.art!