Saros is such a fun game... And I'm so glad I get to watch my partner play it instead of me because it's stressful enough watching ahahaha

Character art reveal day!! One month until the DEVOURING FORTUNE campaign launches, so I'll be sharing the incredible character art illustrated by @exaltxix.bsky.social for the next 3 weeks. Today I'll introduce you to REED, my transmasc disaster who is too impulsive for his own good.

Reed is reckless, determined to resurrect his people taken by the salt blight at any cost. This will lead him to make a forbidden bargain that threatens to corrode what remains of the world... Unless he can find a way to break his bargain. Launching soon! 👇 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ole...

My partner just made the BEST chicken noodle soup that is doing wonders for my sore throat

For my birthday this year I got diagnosed with chronic migraines! To celebrate (and raise funds for all the new meds) I'm having a Reverse Sale on Itchio ~ 6 queer SFF books for $25 until May 17. Come celebrate with me and add to your TBR ✨📚 itch.io/s/185702/rev...

I’m releasing my first little zine type book, which contains 15 of my horror creature illustrations with descriptions for each one! It’s currently available for pre-order in my shop to help fund the printing. Pre-order here: www.hannahcomstock.com/store/p/a-bo...

The answer is: You do! We all do!!

This one looks like so much fun, I cannot WAIT to read this when it's all ready and out!

This book sounds so so good and I cannot wait to read it

Who wants to read a fantasy book by a transmasc author where the world is decaying into salt as the fabric of time corrodes, and the last dregs of magic keeping the salt blight at bay are controlled by an order known as the House of Devouring? www.kickstarter.com/projects/ole...

I gotta say it is annoyingly difficult to take decent pics of this kind of stone, the hues/details are so subtle and so deep Anyway if you want some pretty rocks hmu

I think a lot of being a writer is being able to write ‘in spite of.’ The perfect conditions will not exist for most of us. But we have to write anyway. What’s your ‘in spite of’? #booksky #authorsky #writingcommunity

AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! Emile and Cylus looking STUNNING as they fall through warmly-lit Europan ice! So incredible to see them both come to life so beautifully 😭😭😭 And huge props and thanks to Roan who was thorough, thoughtful, and patient in bringing them to life! He was such a pleasure to work with!

Upright because of pedialyte today, truly the nectar of the gods

Pssst. Wanna help me reveal my utterly gorgeous, jaw-dropping cover on May 20th?? DO YOU WANNA???? 👀 #BookSky #QueerSky #WriteSky docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

My dream is being able to grow ramps in my backyard. One day, ONE DAY I will be successful

Y'all ever do something really thoughts empty like throwing trash in the toilet on accident instead of the garbage can and then having to fish it out...This post in no way brought to you by doing exactly that this morning

One of my most highly anticipated books this year—go add it on kickstarter!!!

Who wants to read a fantasy book where the world is decaying into salt as the fabric of time corrodes, and people are desperate to drink the last dregs of magic keeping the salt blight at bay? It's launching sooooon👇 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ole...

well if I wasn't sure yesterday i am definitely sure today I'm sick. BOO I GOT THINGS TO DO BODY.

My indie blog now has a section for authors selling their books directly! I'll start advertising/linking it soon, but I'm letting people in the Discord server already submit to test it out.

Chapter 27 of THE WARDS WILL FALL is up! Farseer meets Sabriel in this queer dark fantasy about a melancholic seer, possessed by a spirit, who must solve the mystery of the return of ancient magic before his soul is consumed. A new chapter a week. Read now 👇 www.oleandercraw.com/the-wards-wi...

God help me but I made a video to talk about two things I hate

I want to work more on Stormforks this morning but I need to finish the Kickstarter launch page so I can send it to some people to look over to make sure it all looks good. Fingers crossed I get this all looking good by the end of the week!

"I'm monogamous." "You're a*succubus*." Lost Girl is great

Release day! Faerie Forensics is officially out today. a.co/d/07Ti4RF2

current status of the ai bubble: "we gotta start lying about users using it"

I have some really good ones for a bunch of different characters buuuuut. This is Daryifel from Devouring Fortune ✨

Hey I got a Kickstarter launch coming up next month for a book that was multiple people's favorite read of the year/ever. Gooooo check it out!

Alright gonna finish this big glass of water and then get back into the basement garden mines

This is going to sound so basic but: you've gotta just do it You need to learn what a pitch is, what a genre is, and that you do have to communicate that more than not at all If you're more "my book has themes though," then figure out a way to communicate that concisely Marketing is a skill

Read a lot. Read widely. Read challenging books and fluffy books and nonfiction books and literary theory. As an author, your books are you craft, and constantly training those skills is the best think you can do for your art.

Have spent two hours repotting flowers and I don't want to any more today but I gotta finish 🥲

I acknowledge it's rather funny I post something about hyping myself up after reposting about hating myself due to editing I am a complicated person ok

There are SO MANY different options than Substack, which is also a labryinthian curse designed to entrap you within its walls and hold your subscriber base hostage on top of all the other problems with it

This is why I hype myself up and try to hype everyone else up.

Wheeeeeee I hate myself

Editing is just realizing you will put the same word three times in one sentence like a psycho and you actually have no idea what you're doing

Do something boring

ICYMI pre-orders are LIVE for the audiobook of The Wingspan of Severed Hands!

I'm fucking sick again. Cheer me up by buying or saying something about my writing!!

Gonna celebrate finishing new words by making white chocolate sour cherry scones, gardening and reading a good book for the rest of the day. Oh, but I guess I also need to post a Kickstarter prelaunch update so I guess I'll do that first.

Okay yay first draft of this bonus chapter DONE. This has been a very slow draft, but my mind has been on a thousand and one different things which always makes it challenging for me to get words out. Going to let this sit for a few days before coming back to it to edit a bit.

A very special call: Over our 20 (!) years we’ve published stories from all the continents of the world, except Antarctica. We want to remedy that. We’re looking for stories between 2000–6000 words from writers who are in, have recently been to, or have plans to visit Antarctica in the near future.

more ghosts

A ruthless transmasc fortune weaver and an ambitious cave priestess are drawn into dubious bargains, in DEVOURING FORTUNE, an unsettling and twisting dark science fantasy novel. Click 'Notify me on launch' so you don't miss it!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ole...

A ruthless transmasc fortune weaver and an ambitious cave priestess are drawn into dubious bargains, in DEVOURING FORTUNE, an unsettling and twisting dark science fantasy novel. Click 'Notify me on launch' so you don't miss it!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ole...

Rumours are true! We are now open for short fiction and poetry submissions from equity-deserving groups. Give us your words, your anxiety dreams of electric sheep, your last gasp of a dying star. As always: make it SFF, make it long-term www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

Ordered author proof copies of DEVOURING FORTUNE and I cannot WAIT to get these in the mail, it's going to be great

contemplating time