I can’t afford a fancy panic room, I have to panic where ever I am, like some kind of peasant

Oh hey, Indigo has Mercutio among its "most anticipated books of 2026", so it is 30% off until Jan. 11. ($18.89 CAD for the paperback, which comes out in August). I'd love this novel to find its readers, and pre-orders help, so Canadians, please check it out if you can www.indigo.ca/en-ca/mercut...

To give us an idea of books available on Kobo & Kobo Plus, I'd like to do a Kobo Books Thread🧵 So authors drop your; Genre & book or series description Kobo link & graphic Let us know if your book's also in Kobo Plus! 🌈📚🪐📚💙

manta ray #art

THE REANIMATOR'S FATE (TRM #4) is coming January 29th! 25 days to preorder your copy for: 📚A conspiracy to undermine the Society 📚A cursed book 📚Felipe battling his demons 📚Oliver truly embracing who he is 📚And a way for them to save their community books2read.com/trm4

Northern elves Digital illustration 2026

Welcome to 2026! The Trollbreath submission queues are now wide open, and will remain open until October 31st. Short stories, poetry, and all types of non-fiction pitches are welcome. This is our first year testing an "always open" policy, so please help support our work with a subscription:

I love a Goldfinch on a cold and frosty morning. #birds #goldfinch #frosty #freezing #photography

I'm not planning or expecting to publish a book this year, only short stories, but I'm laying the groundwork for 2027. I'm being more deliberate in the choices I make about what I'm spending my time writing, and what my overall body of work will look like down the road.

“In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.” (Catherine Mansfield) 🎨 Eyvind Earle #wintersky

A horse to start off the new year♡

Burnout year is over. First plans for 2026: ✨Garden witch story edits ✨Lovecraftian horror story submission ✨Revamp Patreon ✨New fantasy romance story ✨Romancing the Gothic bookclub visit ✨Indie Bites cover art ✨Spring/summer garden blueprints ✨Return to my small-town queer fantasy novel

Timeline cleanse. Here are some pretty plants.

For people that feel helpless, this period is so tough but there's ways to help for anyone. Go out there support Venezuelan ppl and artists living in it as they prepare for unpredictable times Here is a starter pack of artists with commissions or donations open as well: go.bsky.app/8daQmpX

Amur Dreams

Show me how you draw / paint horses 🐎 Happy Year of the Horse!

Looking back on some of my favourite moments of 2025. These 8-month-old cubs coming to check out the tundra buggy was definitely one of those unforgettable encounters. #mammals 🌿

"Cinder & Scales" Based on my DnD Ranger/Paladin whose inciting incident was his hometown being reduced to ashes. Watercolor, Gouache & a little Photoshop.

I want a victorian style conservatory connected to my art studio. With stained glass windows, multiple modified/modernized victorian style aquariums, and tons of beautiful healthy plants.

I say this often but it bears repeating: if you make your money from creating art then you NEED to find an art or craft where you just do it for fun and don't try to be perfect or make any money from it, and when anyone tells you to monetise it you say 'No', because otherwise your soul will die.

Look at these beauties. I fucking love Chicago. 😍 Legion Park today, directly across the river from the path where it gets closest to the river (where the mallards hang out.)

To breathe again. Smells like orange blossom and incense. #art #oc

for butter #orginalcharacter #taur #art

In an Egyptian marsh, 3300 years ago ~ a tawny cat hunts birds among papyrus stems, as butterflies flutter about / and a young girl grabs the leg of her hunter father (Nebamun Tomb Chapel, Thebes, 1350 BC, British Museum) artinsociety.com/lost-masterp...

meant to post this yday lol happy horse year 💕

We had a good run

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Winter Landscape because I'm on a hike right now and having a blast ❄️

If you're in the UK or mainland Europe & you'd like a spooky-cozy, comforting distraction from everything, you can snap up the ebook of Wooing the Witch Queen this month for just 99p at all online bookstores: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/step... #romancelandia

How about a promo day? If you're a non-American author that has been in any way affected by American imperialism please share your work and how best to support you under this thread. ❤️ #WritingPrompt

humans have the capacity to do anything you can think of. your fucking doomerism minimizes the work of billions of people to improve things for everyone and everything. please go be a narrow minded narcissist somewhere the rest of us don't need to hear it. I'm so fucking sick of it

Strawberry icecream birb…🍓🍓 #birdart #birdillustration #illustration #digitalart #art #birding #wildlifeart

This week's hyperfixation rabbithole: flower farming. It's currently -10C and snowing. I could do it though. I could start a flower farm.

✨ Centipede Knight 🌙

“Did you hear?” Cassia called as he approached his appointed nemesis of 15 years. “The old men have brokered peace. There’s to be no fight this year.” “Why come to deliver bad news in person?” Menthe asked. “I’d have heard of this alleged peace the instant I set foot back in the Winter Palace.”

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I must link, with relation to this, at least one of Natee's tributes to these horses which are truly incredible. bsky.app/profile/himm...

Other work of the Ladybird artists. Winter scene Artist: SR Badmin

Gotta make my big 2025 Year in Review and my big (???) Plans for 2026 posts next week, stay tuned ✨

2026🦄

Year of the horse

tapping the sign again #art

This new year, I woke up with an idea⚜️ #sketch #art

Today we had a little bit of snow 🤩 happy new year everyone 💛❄️ #art #illustration #natureart #digitaldrawing

My Nightvalean flash fiction "3 Stars for Divinity Death Match Season 3" is in Issue #9, "Reviews For TV Shows That Don't Exist." Let's kill the gods for televised entertainment in 500 words or less ✨

Bafflingly there are still people out there in the world who think being passionate about nature is “kind of weird”. or “a niche interest”. These people have it all wrong. Nature isn’t some quirky sideline to the main business. It IS the main business. Nature is us.

Hi everyone, I am opening commissions again and trying out Vgen for it! There are only 3 slots so please hurry if you are interested :)

“Did you hear?” Cassia called as he approached his appointed nemesis of 15 years. “The old men have brokered peace. There’s to be no fight this year.” “Why come to deliver bad news in person?” Menthe asked. “I’d have heard of this alleged peace the instant I set foot back in the Winter Palace.”

Word on the street is that in 2026 the next big thing in publishing is garish, avant garde science fantasy about anguished souls living in weird cities built on the bones of fallen civilizations they could never hope to understand

I've been laying awake at bedtime lately and then sleeping late in the morning, so today is a hard reset. I read for a while this morning when my alarm went off before getting up. Definitely micronapped between page-turns, but I can't hibernate all winter. I have books to write.