hypothetically. IF someone (to name no names) had a hard year and read a ton of books to get through it, of which loads were really good, how many books is 'too many' for a favourite books read in 2025 blog.......

Happy solstice! It hasn't snowed yet where I am, but it's looking promising later in the week

The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.

Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment. It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.

it really is the world that looks good!!

I've had a good read of this now, and although it’s clearly not aimed at us I do have some thoughts on it. Buckle up, lads!

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

pals you gotta quit spotify

Developed a new strategy for stickers too nice to stick: simply put them on my incredibly faded phone case to bring me joy for several weeks, until they’re so beat up they can be peeled off and put in my journal 🧠 (this one @slowedmountains.bsky.social I believe)

anyway if you want a speedy, kid-friendly, atmospheric little solo dungeon crawl where you can befriend monsters, die unusually, make your own character, & (I'm told) read it aloud to your D&D group, partner, or kids in the car, you can get this from bookshop.org or YOUR LOCAL BOOKSHOP

quite shocked (as well as excited tbh) to notice this bestseller badge, given that I actively tell people not to buy this book from amazon if they can possibly avoid it

tried sketching a 'fantasy' setting for a future project but realised it's just real Edinburgh. where I live. #art

#BandcampFriday 🔥

having the time of my life reading night at the vampire castle by @haridraws.bsky.social - would HIGHLY recommend✨ #booksky

black friday book haul from @bookshop.org arrived!!! Witchlore by Emma Hinds World Running Down by @al-distortion.bsky.social Night at the Vampire Castle, Into the Dungeon, and Into the Tower by @haridraws.bsky.social Scarlet Morning by @gingerhaze.bsky.social #booksky

Also, it’s not Black Friday anymore, but I’m running a sale in my shop until Dec 2nd! Featuring new art I keep forgetting to post here! palaceofposey.etsy.com

Anyone in the UK or US getting books online for xmas, consider SUPPORTING INDIE this weekend, also forever. all 4 of my published books are on bookshop, for anyone who's been meaning to pick them up & desires free shipping / the warm glow of not supporting amazon uk.bookshop.org/beta-search?...

tried sketching a 'fantasy' setting for a future project but realised it's just real Edinburgh. where I live. #art

even when I'm not writing about being very disabled, I usually realise I'm writing about being very disabled (development drawing process & thinking for my book that just came out, Night at the Vampire Castle) #art #books

fairly sure america is on holiday so I can post whatever I want, right

i don't want to have to second guess if every image is ai!! i don't want to edit with ai!! i don't wait to generate anything!!!! i don't want to talk to an ai chatbot!!! go away omg

‘I was just about well enough to get dressed’ ootd, voynich manuscript inspired clothes (from @hushfallarchives.bsky.social ) birthday present that just arrived

(when my book makes a list) haha fucking check THIS out. perfect meritocracy....very cool. vERy cool. (when my book is not on the list) i'm sick of the industry picking winners and losers. how are you even ranking ART, first of all,

YEEEESSSSSS!!! god this is so much FUN. the art & lovely flexibility of great ttRPG writing make the whole thing SO evocative & easy to dip into. Genuinely brings the past to life in a way I’ve not seen before and gives a sense of how it might FEEL to live in a different time. An insane achievement

I have received a beautiful package and have a sneaking suspicion it may be from @stoutstoat.co.uk

✨PUBLISHING ANNOUNCEMENT ✨ At long last, my Great Gatsby retelling - a psychological thriller/drama graphic novel filled with vintage glamour - is getting published! #GreatGatsbyIIE

The 1st instalment of my 1st serialized short story has landed in people's inboxes care of @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social! If you want to read "A Road Less Taken" over the course of this week, sign up! You'll get access to previous instalments too. www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-sc...

www.kobo.com/us/en/list/b... Strange Bedfellows also made Kobo's best graphic novel of the year list alongside some heavy hitters, if you needed more reason to check it out 👀

Publishing strategy: Observe lots of people like romance in fantasy Label everything romantasy Observe lots of people like fantasy without romance Label everything anti-romantasy Observe lots of people like romance in fantasy Label everything anti-anti-romantasy...

But wait there's more - pictish medicinal herbs 🌱

making plans to boost morale while ill in bed & home alone this weekend, aka hoping i'm well enough to draw new OCs and read comics

extremely sad that I'm not at thought bubble but I'm beaming my love and good thoughts out to all of you: your tables look great, mutuals please imagine me standing in front of you effusively praising everything you're up to or have ever been up to, because that's what I'm doing from afar

I get why a lot of non-disabled people want to pretend respiratory illnesses don’t exist, but as we’re coming up on another event I can’t safely attend, I encourage you to just THINK about wearing a mask at events - or at least on the train/ plane there, where there’s probably no reason not to

This was such a cool project and I'm really proud to have art in this incredible book with so much amazing art and writing! Was amazed when Brian told me that my pictish byrehouse illustration would be one of less than five detailed depictions in existence!

oooh even the preview is so interesting - I love the concept of instead of using history to ground fantasy, using "the conventions of a fantasy setting to capture the magic of real people from a forgotten time" and @anineillustration.com spotted on this lovely header!!

Im gonna be real sappy about this bear with me. When Quindrie press launched it shook my world. I loved Inhibit Eve’s webcomic for a while and getting to follow a project by them that had such a scale was exciting. The fact is Quindrie changed the way cartoonists in Scotland thought about comics. 🧵

Can’t tell you how much I’ve loved editing for Quindrie. Truly gutting it's so hard out there that an indie enterprise so successful, with such fantastic work and community support can’t continue. But very honoured to have been involved with them & massively 2nd-hand proud of what they’ve achieved-

Thought Bubble is next weekend! Really excited, but please please wear a mask - i see fewer & fewer each year, and COVID is just as serious as it was 5 years ago. TB is an amazing event, but it’s not worth getting disabled or immunocompromised.

"Such were the professor's words—rather let me say such the words of fate, enounced to destroy me." - Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley

he’s the best! he’s the best!

oooh I should probably post some of my art from my newest book with the literal word 'night' in the title, huh!!! quote with your night / dark #art 🌙

oooh I should probably post some of my art from my newest book with the literal word 'night' in the title, huh!!! quote with your night / dark #art 🌙

quote with your night / dark #art 🌙 using this as an opportunity to show you both juicy bits from old comics, but also secret crop from new WIP comics

It's so nice to see this comic series get the love it deserves. Literally a laugh out loud read!

In Search of Absent Pigments, part 1 of 4 🩵✨ A short comic by myself and @lindarrow.bsky.social, originally published in the Come Together anthology in 2019.

being 5000km from NYC is not going to stop me from feeling hopeful

Ivo and Satinder pinups! Plus a more risqué Easton in the reply for those of you who like greasy men in lingerie...

hmm. friends fear they've accidentally been writing another book while too ill to get out of bed again

a little free (belated) October blog - partly trying to work out if the picture will display here... www.patreon.com/posts/object...

Halloween Haunted House