We are excited to announce that IN ONE MONTH FROM TODAY, TBRCon 2026 will officially be happening! 🎉🎊🍾 21 panels, 100+ authors, 4 live podcasts, and giveaways from our AMAZING 2026 sponsors! Mark your calendars for July 26th-August 1st! 🙌🏻 #tbrcon2026 Art by @alawinans.bsky.social

FOLKS, I GOT TO DO THE THING 📦 @shirakipress.com @alawinans.bsky.social

Please give a big BayCon 42/ Westercon78 welcome to our next group of Artist Alley Vendors! Please be sure to give them a follow and check them out during the show! 🎉 • Konyoco Designs • @klqdraws.bsky.social • Matt Abraham Books • @alawinans.bsky.social • @heartbeastsgame.bsky.social

I unfortunately know shockingly little about sports, but this week has really revealed that I follow a disproportionate number of New Yorkers. 🤔

I'm doing A Thing, since no one else does and I have the Fucking Time! (IYKYK) #SmallPress #SFFH

A couple new mini prints up in my store! 🌊 oliviawhen.com/store

Happy 5th birthday to #KidLitArtPostcard!! 🎉 Here's me as a kid, stealing neopoints and playing flash games. Hire me for your next project, I'm great at computers!

I am still reeling from this incredible gift. Professional model maker Dennis Chan (and husband of the talented @alawinans.bsky.social!) made this INCREDIBLE figurine of my grandparents. I can't stop turning it over in my hands. What a wild thing to see @yasimamura.bsky.social's work in 3D.

Had a wonderful time at the Locus Awards chatting with many lovely book folks. Also, unsurprisingly, people who do words for a living write incredible speeches. 😭 Congrats to all the finalists and winners!

@jeanniemarschall.bsky.social 's LIGHT & EARTH & MARROW is a disarmingly cozy novella about the horrors that await the unkenning. The scariest creatures in the darkness... just might be us, but we aren't alone in the woods. @alawinans.bsky.social - This cover is everything. ETA Sept 22, 2026!

Locus Art Director & Senior Editor #FrancescaMyman & Featured Local Artist #AlyssaWinans will conduct an art talk as part of the #LocusAwards weekend on SAT May 30, at 3:40PM at the Hotel Shattuck in Berkeley Buy your tickets before they sell out! locusmag.com/awards26#FrancescaMyman#AlyssaWinans#LocusAwards bio

Personal piece about showing your stripes. #illustration

It's release day for A LONG AND SPEAKING SILENCE, #7 in the Singing Hills Cycle of standalone novellas! Watch Cleric Chih fall flat on their face as they navigate being young, broke and alone in a new town! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Next Tuesday, 5/5, we've got the release of Singing HIlls #7, A LONG AND SPEAKING SILENCE! It's the start of the rainy season, and one very young cleric is waiting tables, listening to stories, and trying to help a refugee population in the river town of Luntien! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

I don't know how other artists pack for shows, but I enjoy dressing my frames and canvases in little shirts and cardigans like we're all going on a park outing. 🪁

So excited to be invited and interviewed for this! The Locus crew had some great questions for me.

A question I'm always asking myself. Some places I'll be, if anyone wants to say hi! 👋

Use promo code SHIRAKI to get 15% off Shiraki Press books at Bookshop.org, and support your favorite local book store in the process! We love Bookshop.org and you should too ❤️ bookshop.org/lists/shirak...

I finally managed to finish this piece after wrestling with it for four years. Sometimes my personal work chooses its own timeline! #illustration

Simon & Schuster's deluxe limited edition for Alexandra Christo's Cursekeeper was finally announced! In addition to the cover, I got to do edges, endpapers, and the case for this. Out November 3rd! Special thanks to AD and designer Danielle Mazzella di Bosco for letting me do all the things. 🔥 ❄️

Excited for my first #tdov ! 🏳️‍⚧️ I’m Magnus, a silkscreen printmaker out of Indy :) #transdayofvisibility #printmaking

Happy #TDOV! I'm a non-binary tattoo artist and TTRPG enjoyer, come hang out!

☕🌸 Hi #TransDayofVisibility #tdov! 🏳️‍⚧️ I go by Bestica, Ani, Mouse, whatever feels right~ 😊 I'm an enby artist who enjoys surreal things that lurk in dreams~ I support & personal stories of self reflection, transformation, & connection. ✨Big fan of being weird, passionate, & unapologetically YOU✨

I want to draw more people-ish people this year, but sometimes they still get claw feet. #illustration

Reed City by Ghosti is out today, in ebook and paperback. I had a lot of fun illustrating and designing this one!

I fear that I, too, am simply a Ditto masquerading as a human.

THE COLOR OF TIME by @millieabecassis.com is out from @shirakipress.com on May 19. Hugo Award-winning artist @alawinans.bsky.social did this illustration, and I did the typography! Preorder at shirakipress.com/cot #booksky #sciencefiction #hopepunk

If you care about artists online, wether NSFW or not, you MUST write a comment. And it's simple to just write a comment there. Please go save your artists, and yourself if you are one.

So I don't know what to say about this book. Ten years after Saeldian ditched Kell in Baldur's Gate, they're back together for one last job Kell will get everything he ever wanted. Saeldian will lose everything they have except the power that keeps them safe--but it's the least they can do for him.

Here's the final piece of cover art I made for the new edition of the Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar Series by Isabel Allende. This is for the third and final book, Forest of the Pygmies! Many thanks to AD Lucia Baez

Little painting to say that if you're able please consider donating to keepMNhoused.com! Rent is due soon for lots of families who can't safely leave their homes right now. #keepMNhoused

In a fit of unusually specific SF bay area half-Asian Alys(s)a pride, I was wilding out seeing her on the podium. Incredible skating.

Happy year of the horse! We made it. Wishing you all health and prosperity. 🔥 🔥 🔥

So I have a broken bone on my left hand that requires surgery (that I'll have to cover whole... ouch), but my right hand CAN still draw so My commissions are open, mostly for digital (but I'm flexible with watercolors) ✌️ Open to options not listed too. RT super appreciated! vgen.co/bamioayam

🧵 THE INVISIBLE PARADE is eligible for Hugo Award nomination in the 'Best Graphic Story or Comic' category. 2026 Hugo Nominations now open thru March 28th! Nominators: Check inboxes for details from @laworldcon.bsky.social. 1/ #HugoAwards #BestGraphicStory

It's COVER REVEAL TIME! Look at this GORGEOUS illustration by @alawinans.bsky.social 💙 THE COLOR OF TIME releases May 19, 2026 at @shirakipress.com 🐍

Happy hourlies day to all those who celebrate. 🎉 ✍️ 1AM-11AM: Looking at a big clock that just says "art" at every hour. #hourlycomicsday #hcd #hourlies

This is the second figure I am bringing to Wonder Festival- an original mecha I am calling 唐龍門- the TANG LONG GATE, or とうりゅうもん. It's based on an idea I had of the Dragon Gate in San Francisco's Chinatown celebrating and protecting its residents. Table 3-16-05 #art #wf2026w

Publishing For Minnesota is going on right now, and there are so many amazing items you can bid on! Proceeds from this auction will support organizations providing legal aid, emergency assistance, food, and community resources to those in urgent need. www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

I love both @naominovik.bsky.social's writing and doing interior spots, so I had such a good time illustrating this special edition of Buried Deep and Other Stories for @subpress.bsky.social. Thanks to Allison Young for the art direction! Pre-order link: subterraneanpress.com/novik-bdaos/

ICYMI: preorder my books and get a free ebook!

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

When I'm brimming with feelings I can't find the right words for, sometimes all I can manage is a picture. Love and strength to Minnesota in this heartbreaking time.

If you haven't bought one of my books this might be a good time, lolsob This is the new book for Jun 30 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721856... All the books on this page have earned out: www.clpolk.com

I’m usually so bad at taking my own advice, but I’m gonna hang onto this one because I still feel this way. Art by itself won’t save us by itself, but community can. And I think it will.

Will be exhibiting at Wonder Festival for the first time! At booth 3-16-05 along with Shin Tanabe and James Marsano. I designed and sculpted this figure of DODONGO from episode 12 of the original Ultraman television series. #WF2026W #art

We're very excited to share our latest issue, featuring a range of fantastic art, fiction, poetry, and non-fiction - available digitally and in print. Huge thanks to all contributors, including Alyssa Winans @alawinans.bsky.social whose art appears on the cover! #art www.utopiasciencefiction.com

Bay folks! John and his book are both amazing, and definitely worth a trip to the North Bay on the 28th!