Probably my next dark fairytale linocut: my murder selkie, Roane, from “Seal, Skinned” (short story published in Remnants of Relics) who is also a background character in several other stories.

New anthology out that I have a story in… (for some reason the preview shows the summary of a different book). www.bearwestbooks.ca/Books/Anthol...

Apropos of nothing. I clearly haven't been annoying enough about my books so hello :) Please check out the Kickstarter for my vampire anthology, and support it if you can 🦇 Submissions open in June if the Kickstarter succeeds! 📚💙 www.kickstarter.com/projects/tal...

Today’s progress.

A little progress…

I’m all set up and ready for tomorrow. I’m mostly selling art, but I’ve got a selection of my (illustrated) books, too. I forgot my White Raven Press sign, though.

🌟STORY REVEAL🌟 Swamp Born Witch by Nico Silver @anagramforink.bsky.social Fen thought they’d left their past behind until a strange girl shows up at the witch’s house to haunt them with a part of themself they’d tried to forget 🖤📚🌈📚🪐

This weekend I’m selling art at the Fairy Faire in Sidney, and I’ve made a complete mess of my studio attempting a practice set up with my new grid wall.

Semi-regular plea to artists and diy framers to please use appropriate tape on your art. Please please please do not use masking tape, or duct tape, or packing tape, or regular cello tape. They are not meant for permanent use on art and they will actually damage paper over the long term.

Leopard skin.

I got a short story acceptance this morning that almost made me cry it was so lovely.

Legs…

Border cut (coloured in with Sharpie for better visibility).

The fingertips on my right hand are going numb and I have to start dinner, but I think I made some progress.

Ready to cut…

Reposting for reasons…

I just need to figure out the border, and then I can start cutting. But I’m back to my day job tomorrow, so that’s a next week problem.

Today’s task: add the surrounding foliage to this linocut design and maybe get it transferred to the lino.

Editing mode: activated.

Two of my prints made it to the extended long list for the Jackson’s Art Prize! You can see all 4200 pieces here: jacksonsart.awardsplatform.com/gallery/jlkz... The long list will be announced March 6, so we’ll see if I make it any farther then.

Hey, so you might have seen me repost the odd promo from Yearn, which is a new app for fantasy romance that’s attempting to challenge KU (and be better for both authors and readers).

Tomorrow I have an appointment to learn how to stick myself with needles. I am both excited and apprehensive.

I have a story featuring my swamp witch in this, if you like that sort of thing.

I was very pleased with myself for getting my newsletter done after work today. Then I realized I didn’t even mention the anthology I’m in that’s coming out. 😫

Applied to two art shows today. I forgot how long it takes to do those things.

I woke up to an anthology acceptance this morning, so that’s pretty cool.

First attempt. The type is smeared because the paper shifted when I put brown paper and a press blanket over it. Now contemplating how to avoid this.

Hopefully I will finish this short story tonight. In the meantime, here are some process shots of my latest linocut/letterpress.

QRP with your wings art!

Nothing to see here…. (reduction linocut on traditional battleship linoleum, letterpress from hand-set wood and metal type, on Arches Johannot cotton/esparto paper)

quote with your horn art!!

Last colour (not counting the type). I mixed the dark red I had leftover into black to get a sooty dark purple.

Final cutting on this reduction in progress. Maybe I’ll even get it finished today?

Anyone want to see the art that Threads just removed for “sexual activity”? (It was the second pic that did it, I’m sure.) (I’d share the uncensored version,too, but I don’t seem to have it on my phone.)

I’m thinking about adding some type on the mat and popping this thing in an antique frame. Just because.

One more colour on this, but two runs (once for the lino and once for the type on a different press).

I got an anthology acceptance today. It’s a small local publisher and pays in copies, but I’m still pretty pleased.

I didn’t do a print a month, but I somehow ended up with twelve prints for the year. Not a bad year, print-wise (in writing and publishing, on the other hand, I didn’t do so well).

Colour four today…

Excuse me while I feel insufferably pleased with myself for a bit. (I cut and printed this all in one afternoon.)

Third colour on this phoenix reduction linocut.

Back at work on this reduction linocut that’s going to be the first in a series of little linocut/letterpress posters of mythical beasts.

Once I’m done editing Sleeping Faun, I’ll be starting on the seekrit project, which may or may not involve the pictured items.

Tiny book jewellery in progress.

I keep forgetting to post about why I’m not posting much this month. Anyway, this is why:

I started today with a short story acceptance for an anthology and ended it by submitting a couple more stories (not to the same anthology).

I need to fix the title typography, but this will be the cover of my next horror-adjacent romantic urban fantasy Sleeping Faun (a sort-of-but-not-exactly sequel to Waking Pan).

Restocked some cards at the gallery where I work and reached chapter 21 of the WIP. Three chapters to go, probably?

I really need to get this craft fair prep done so I can work on all the ideas crowding my brain.

We are a cat family again. 🐈 🐈‍⬛