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Good morning! More snowdrops! 🌱

submitted 20 hours ago • 35 comments

Bucolic fantasy is up to 6500 words and fast approaching its wordcount limit. Aiming to push through and finish it today! And then...probably shaving off 1000 words to make it manageable.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

A February newsletter! Including a list of everything I've been working on, and what you can expect to see from me soon. Paid tiers get access to exclusive fiction, but anyone can join for free to get updates like this and keep track of all my projects and upcoming releases 🖤✨

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"Amongst The Clearing" by @anthonyhurd.bsky.social feels like a beautiful reminder to nurture our relationships and embrace them fully for as long as you can, while you can. #beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #love #figurativeart #artcollectors #artmagazine #artinspo #art

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

"I'm cringe but I'm free" is a catchy meme phrase and all but it's also 100% true. Life is a lot more fun when u can just openly enjoy weird shit you like without worrying so much about peer pressure or what other ppl will think. Why live ur one precious life so beholden to other ppl's opinions of u

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

Bucolic fantasy is up to 6500 words and fast approaching its wordcount limit. Aiming to push through and finish it today! And then...probably shaving off 1000 words to make it manageable.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

As the garden is still sleeping it is wonderful that my orchids are currently doing so well. #flowersonfriday 🌱 📷 #Flowers #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling #FlowerReport

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

The world feels so heavy right now. For anyone who needs a little #flowerreport timeline cleanse today, behold my dad’s orchids 💚🩷

submitted 19 hours ago • 6 comments

Took another few inches off this morning. Might go properly short in the summer when it's too hot to function.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

In celebration of my books being on Itch now, for the next week you can get any one for half off, OR all three for $3! 🌈📚 itch.io/s/148444/im-...

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Dream of Spring (medium blue, warm red, sunflower)

submitted 15 days ago • 16 comments

Review and recommendation for The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi! A swashbuckling, get-the-gang-back-together historical fantasy featuring a pirate blackmailed out of retirement to track down a girl who was kidnapped by a deranged sorcerer in search of a legendary lunar treasure. An excellent romp ✨

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Dear Ontario, so many of you didn’t vote last time. Those who didn’t vote made up the majority. Please vote this time. You can really make a difference. At advance polls, you just need to bring ID if you don’t have your card yet!

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Last day for this! 🌈📚 #AroWeek

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Brain-work is also part of writing. Walking the dog while you let yourself mull plot points, chatting out character notions with someone, doodling little plot webs or other diagrams—all of that is writing too, not just "I got X words on the page today."

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Read my queer epic fantasy books ~>> Atop the Trees, Beneath the Mountains Kindle Unlimited: amzn.to/4iWwmbD The Liar's Throne (serializing)-- AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/62886277 Royal Road: www.royalroad.com/fiction/1055...

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If you enjoy lush prose, immersive settings, gothic horror, and want your vampires feral with bloodlust, ONCE UPON A DARK OCTOBER is the perfect standalone sapphic fantasy romance. 🦇🫀Out now in ebook, paperback, and Kindle Unlimited! books2read.com/u/4AM9Qk

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

One more week for our BIPOC-only short story collection call! We haven't received many submissions yet, and we'd love to read yours. If you've been going back and forth about submitting because you're not sure your book will be a good fit, send it in anyway: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The post you've all been waiting for!! Here's a whole bunch of books for Aromantic Awareness Week! #AroWeek #booksky 🌈📚💙 queerbooksweekly.com/aromantic-aw...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

A February newsletter! Including a list of everything I've been working on, and what you can expect to see from me soon. Paid tiers get access to exclusive fiction, but anyone can join for free to get updates like this and keep track of all my projects and upcoming releases 🖤✨

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Here is the Demon Lust, she's only just started acquiring warlocks, but she's very enthusiastic about it. #demons #ttrpg #warlock #fantasyart #illustration #character #art #fantasy There may be an uncropped version at @squidkink.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Review and recommendation for The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi! A swashbuckling, get-the-gang-back-together historical fantasy featuring a pirate blackmailed out of retirement to track down a girl who was kidnapped by a deranged sorcerer in search of a legendary lunar treasure. An excellent romp ✨

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Cleaned this story up and got it submitted this morning! Birds, whales, seals, nature's recovery from past atrocity, and ghosts. I also spied some of the art for the zine and it's looking so good 🖤 #PolarLights #polar_zine

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I just finished A Novel Engagement and MY H E A R T!!?!??! 😭🥺💜

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The weather warming up means more sniff strolls with the beast and she’s been enjoying that.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Stegobeetle

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The mighty Arrowhead Wyvern :)

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Sea of Rays

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

happy #aroweek 💚🤍🖤 #aromantic #art

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

"You are Enough." Graphite drawing with digital painting. Painting is coming to Everyday Original on November 25th.

submitted 113 days ago • 7 comments

DID YOU KNOW you can read an exclusive early draft of my first giant epic fantasy novel? I post #TheBlackKnightSaga chapters 2x a week, and paid memberships fund my writing of more books. Ch 46 went up today 🖤✨ ⚔️Read Ch 1-7 free: www.patreon.com/posts/ch-1-s...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

THE POTION GARDENER paperback is now on bookshop.org as well! And it should be available to order from your favourite local or indie bookstore. 🌈📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈💜 #booksky #TransBooks365

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Looking at these two next to each other, they're a great example of my two extremes lol. Sweet fluffy lighthearted low-angst fantasy romance versus queer horror with every content warning imaginable.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Hippogryph, but dog #art #mythology

submitted 55 days ago • 7 comments

Not to sound self serving but supporting (aka giving money to) independent artists, writers, self-employed creators in general, is, in fact, praxis. why? bc you are supporting low wage people that actually create things. whether intended or not, it's an act of solidarity with an actual craftsperson

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

Cleaned this story up and got it submitted this morning! Birds, whales, seals, nature's recovery from past atrocity, and ghosts. I also spied some of the art for the zine and it's looking so good 🖤 #PolarLights #polar_zine

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Sick and tired (Disclaimer: trans is at the head for a reason, but all else is random. Getting distracted by what should go where is exactly the petty distraction they want.)

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

I've reached out to an immigration law firm. lawyers cost money but my life, in my opinion, is worth fighting for and I have things I yet need to do that are worth doing. If you want to help a queer, non-binary author with disabilities escape The Horrors, I have books 📚 books.daxmurray.com

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

This ends tomorrow. It's incredible how far this sale came. It only needs about 11 more people to reach the goal. But even if it doesn't, this was already a huge success! $129 out of $200 is amazing! Thank you so so much already!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Casual reminder that we're not just funding this anthology for readers but for authors as well. If we make it that last 30%, we'll be putting out an open call for submissions over the summer, so any aro authors writing short platonic SFF will have a shot to get published & get paid!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Today is my birthday and if you want to give me a gift, please repost my art 😊 #sciart

submitted 5 days ago • 59 comments

also, in light of ~waves arms at everything~ a reminder that A BLOOMY HEAD can be purchased at the following non-Amazon outlets:

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Please come support queer fiction in all its forms! It is SO necessary to put out more aromantic stories, and I know how much the first anthology has meant to others. I know how often I see it in Pride displays in bookstores, even 5 years later. #AroWeek #indiebooks #queerbooks

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