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Canadian author of magical middle grade books. Probably in the garden. RIVER OF CROWS | MIRROR OF WOLVES | STONE OF SERPENTS nptwrites.com/links | shop.nptwrites.com/ | nptwrites.itch.io | books2read.com/NPTwrites
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Dive into a brand-new adventure with book 1 of my Arcanium series! It has epic magic battles, evil villains, a grumpy gardening sorcerer with an apothecary shop, and lots of enchanted crows... 🐦‍⬛✨ #books #booksky #MGlit #booktok ➡️ shop.nptwrites.com ➡️ nptwrites.itch.io ➡️ books2read.com/NPTwrites

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My butterfly flowers (orange clumping milkweed, basically) have survived! I thought I had lost all 3 of them, but they're all poking through the mulch I put on that bed last week! AND one of the delphiniums I thought I'd lost (not my dark blue one, alas) also seems to be coming back now. YAAAY!!! 🌱😀

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Should be working on the current book, expanded my thread into a blog post instead. #WritingCommunity #KidLit nptwrites.com/busting-the-...

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

It's a holiday today, and it is actually not raining out and I would like to be able to take my laptop out to the patio to do some writing but IT IS SO COLD and windy. 🥶

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

First mint leaf harvest from my garden today! Boiling water for tea now. 🙂🍃🍵

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Good thread. Also, full disclosure, I'm nowhere near making even $1000 a year on book sales. *Nowhere* near. Hitting that mark is in the realm of dreams for me, and is one of the reasons it's SO hard as an indie. I *pay* more than that out of pocket each time I send a single book out into the world.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

Dive into a brand-new adventure with book 1 of my Arcanium series! It has epic magic battles, evil villains, a grumpy gardening sorcerer with an apothecary shop, and lots of enchanted crows... 🐦‍⬛✨ #books #booksky #MGlit #booktok ➡️ shop.nptwrites.com ➡️ nptwrites.itch.io ➡️ books2read.com/NPTwrites

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Last week it was summer to the point that it was too hot to sleep. This week, I feel like I need to bring my winter parka back out. 😑 #OttWeather #Ottawa (Also... my poor confused garden plants! 😣🌱)

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

⚡ [ Thunderborn ] ⚡ finished piece of my oc nerium. [ #art I #illustration I #horse I #oc I #darkfantasy I #darkart I #fantasyart I #stainedglass I #animalart I #fantasy ]

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

The climate impact of ChatGPT is so frustrating because you can’t get rid of plastic, or private jets or cars, but here’s a product you can opt out of on day one and the same people who recycle, who don’t litter, who believe in climate change are like “This is worth it to never use my brain again.”

submitted 23 hours ago • 151 comments

Thinking it's less "cagey and defensive" & more rage at the arrogance & betrayal by MSM. The *relentless* Biden-bashing prior to the US election while essentially giving Trump a free pass is the reason the US is in the mess it's in. Media really ought to do some fairly deep soul-searching about now.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The funding for students with high support needs is a disgrace and kids deserve better.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Just over 80% done the first draft of book 5, and book 4 is launching later this year, so that's kind of awesome. Aiming to have this thing pulled together by end of June, then on to book 6. #wip #WritingCommunity

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Canadians are facing multiple crises in critical public services like health care and child care, notes @laurentdcar.bsky.social. So why does the government expect citizens to pay Canadian businesses back more than half of what they pay in taxes? thewalrus.ca/corporate-welfar...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

This was after 2 months in NYC. It’s pure fantasy that schools could have opened with 0 issues if only politicians weren’t so cowardly.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

One of my favourite scenes in Mirror of Wolves is an action-packed showdown between Ty's grandfather (the 2nd most powerful sorcerer in Arcania) and the emperor's henchman who shows up at the apothecary looking for Ty. I'll let you guess who says which line. 😜 #booksky #reading ➡️ shop.nptwrites.com

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Essential public services aren't supposed to be corporate profit hogs! What if we took the same stance with healthcare? Public transit? Police services? This is all positioning by the employer to bully the union into a CA with concessions.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

I'm so glad spring is here and that the birds are back to recommending books again. #kidlit

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Ugh, I have *concerns*. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The "free speech" debate is 100% a trap, because as we can see with the U.S, as soon as these free speech types take over, they immediately persecute people for speech they don't like. They don't care about free speech. They care about *protected hate speech*.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting article. Made me think of the ASCII art posters that decorated my room when I was a child. Dot-matrix renditions of Bugs Bunny and Snoopy and Daffy Duck. And we used to make paper chains out of old punch cards that my dad would bring home from work. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Priorities? What about investing in schools, daycares and hospitals and the essential workers to staff these services?

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Well, seeing as I was up stupidly early today, I think it is high time for second breakfast.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

We're fundraising! Our goal is to raise $7,500 by the end of May so we can keep sending masks to folks across Canada to help them stay safe from viruses and wildfire smoke. 😷 🇨🇦 You can support us by donating here: donatemask.ca/fundraiser #YallMasking #MaskUp #VirusesAreAirborne

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