Ryan Consell
@stealingfromwizards.com
Discount Canadian store brand Green brother, fantasy author, lapsed bicycle scientist, Muppet biologist, waistcoat enthusiast, cosplayer, cat haver, he/him. I contain multitudes, sometimes they leak out.
Books: https://stealingfromwizards.com
Books: https://stealingfromwizards.com
Pinned
The Stealing from Wizards quadrilogy is complete!
Pickpocketing
Burglary
Kidnapping
Arson
Wizards, thieves, and misfits engaging in high adventure and petty crime.
📚💙
stealingfromwizards.com
Pickpocketing
Burglary
Kidnapping
Arson
Wizards, thieves, and misfits engaging in high adventure and petty crime.
📚💙
stealingfromwizards.com
The most powerful thing you can do for an author you like is to give them a meaningful review.
Books live and die by word of mouth.
Books live and die by word of mouth.
Okay, because I need to try and re-spark some writing community joy after… *gestures at everything* how about a revisit on a way you can absolutely support authors you love for zero dollars: by dropping a low-stress, three-sentence review somewhere.
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The most powerful thing you can do for an author you like is to give them a meaningful review.
Books live and die by word of mouth.
Books live and die by word of mouth.
Stealing from Wizards merch sale is on!
Get all the tees, mugs, and hoodies for the Stealing from Wizards fans in your life.
www.teepublic.com/user/stealin...
Get all the tees, mugs, and hoodies for the Stealing from Wizards fans in your life.
www.teepublic.com/user/stealin...
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Stealing from Wizards merch sale is on!
Get all the tees, mugs, and hoodies for the Stealing from Wizards fans in your life.
www.teepublic.com/user/stealin...
Get all the tees, mugs, and hoodies for the Stealing from Wizards fans in your life.
www.teepublic.com/user/stealin...
So it's award nomination season and I had the intention of starting up a nomination campaign for Stealing from Wizards. Then I started looking through eligibility and nomination criteria and was instantly exhausted.
So nominate me for stuff if you know how. I'm going to hide in a blanket fort. 😴
So nominate me for stuff if you know how. I'm going to hide in a blanket fort. 😴
November 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
So it's award nomination season and I had the intention of starting up a nomination campaign for Stealing from Wizards. Then I started looking through eligibility and nomination criteria and was instantly exhausted.
So nominate me for stuff if you know how. I'm going to hide in a blanket fort. 😴
So nominate me for stuff if you know how. I'm going to hide in a blanket fort. 😴
I wonder if Polaroid is going to see a resurgence in the age of AI. There is something appealing about the trustworthiness of the images being physical and immediate with no digital intermediary.
#breakfastthoughts
#breakfastthoughts
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I wonder if Polaroid is going to see a resurgence in the age of AI. There is something appealing about the trustworthiness of the images being physical and immediate with no digital intermediary.
#breakfastthoughts
#breakfastthoughts
I'm pretty sure Blue Prince is genius. It's just so well architected!
November 22, 2025 at 5:32 AM
I'm pretty sure Blue Prince is genius. It's just so well architected!
A big givaway that this is sketchy is that it's automatically turned off in Europe, UK, Japan, Switzerland, because they have tighter privacy laws. 🫠
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A big givaway that this is sketchy is that it's automatically turned off in Europe, UK, Japan, Switzerland, because they have tighter privacy laws. 🫠
I was pondering the various ways to end series last night instead of falling asleep. Is this a microblogging appropriate topic? Nope. Join me on this overlong journey.
November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I was pondering the various ways to end series last night instead of falling asleep. Is this a microblogging appropriate topic? Nope. Join me on this overlong journey.
General advice to authors: don't read the reviews.
My advice to authors: have literally the kindest and most wonderful fans on the planet.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9R2M684
📚💙
My advice to authors: have literally the kindest and most wonderful fans on the planet.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9R2M684
📚💙
November 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
General advice to authors: don't read the reviews.
My advice to authors: have literally the kindest and most wonderful fans on the planet.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9R2M684
📚💙
My advice to authors: have literally the kindest and most wonderful fans on the planet.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9R2M684
📚💙
Reposted by Ryan Consell
it's ✨holiday market✨ time! come find me and @stealingfromwizards.com and ✨books✨ this saturday at kwartzlab! it's gonna be great! #KitchenerWaterloo #ShopLocal #LocalArtists #LocalAuthors
November 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
it's ✨holiday market✨ time! come find me and @stealingfromwizards.com and ✨books✨ this saturday at kwartzlab! it's gonna be great! #KitchenerWaterloo #ShopLocal #LocalArtists #LocalAuthors
Okay folks, I have three events coming up in around Kitchener/Waterloo. Come get some books, get them signed, say hi!
Kwartzlab Holiday Market Nov 22. Local artists selling stuff, including me. Also makerspace tours: www.facebook.com/share/17YhA9...
Kwartzlab Holiday Market Nov 22. Local artists selling stuff, including me. Also makerspace tours: www.facebook.com/share/17YhA9...
November 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Okay folks, I have three events coming up in around Kitchener/Waterloo. Come get some books, get them signed, say hi!
Kwartzlab Holiday Market Nov 22. Local artists selling stuff, including me. Also makerspace tours: www.facebook.com/share/17YhA9...
Kwartzlab Holiday Market Nov 22. Local artists selling stuff, including me. Also makerspace tours: www.facebook.com/share/17YhA9...
Reposted by Ryan Consell
if you want queer HTTYD that obliterates the Bechdel test, i got 5 whole books in a #CompleteSeries for you! get three generations of powerful women (and friends!) plus a world of dragons 🌈📚 #QueerAdultSFF #IndieAuthor
books2read.com/rl/fireborn-...
books2read.com/rl/fireborn-...
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
if you want queer HTTYD that obliterates the Bechdel test, i got 5 whole books in a #CompleteSeries for you! get three generations of powerful women (and friends!) plus a world of dragons 🌈📚 #QueerAdultSFF #IndieAuthor
books2read.com/rl/fireborn-...
books2read.com/rl/fireborn-...
The Stealing from Wizards quadrilogy is complete!
Pickpocketing
Burglary
Kidnapping
Arson
Wizards, thieves, and misfits engaging in high adventure and petty crime.
📚💙
stealingfromwizards.com
Pickpocketing
Burglary
Kidnapping
Arson
Wizards, thieves, and misfits engaging in high adventure and petty crime.
📚💙
stealingfromwizards.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The Stealing from Wizards quadrilogy is complete!
Pickpocketing
Burglary
Kidnapping
Arson
Wizards, thieves, and misfits engaging in high adventure and petty crime.
📚💙
stealingfromwizards.com
Pickpocketing
Burglary
Kidnapping
Arson
Wizards, thieves, and misfits engaging in high adventure and petty crime.
📚💙
stealingfromwizards.com
KW folks,
I'm selling books alongside @vriccithode.bsky.social at the kwartzlab holiday market this weekend!
Come grab a copy of Arson and browse the wears of other local artists.
I'm selling books alongside @vriccithode.bsky.social at the kwartzlab holiday market this weekend!
Come grab a copy of Arson and browse the wears of other local artists.
November 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
KW folks,
I'm selling books alongside @vriccithode.bsky.social at the kwartzlab holiday market this weekend!
Come grab a copy of Arson and browse the wears of other local artists.
I'm selling books alongside @vriccithode.bsky.social at the kwartzlab holiday market this weekend!
Come grab a copy of Arson and browse the wears of other local artists.
I have reached the Skinner box period of book release.
Book sales bounce up and down by the day, and I have no way of knowing whether my actions had any influence, but my pigeon brain is convinced my behavior is important.
I haven't changed my socks since the random bump on Tuesday.
Book sales bounce up and down by the day, and I have no way of knowing whether my actions had any influence, but my pigeon brain is convinced my behavior is important.
I haven't changed my socks since the random bump on Tuesday.
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I have reached the Skinner box period of book release.
Book sales bounce up and down by the day, and I have no way of knowing whether my actions had any influence, but my pigeon brain is convinced my behavior is important.
I haven't changed my socks since the random bump on Tuesday.
Book sales bounce up and down by the day, and I have no way of knowing whether my actions had any influence, but my pigeon brain is convinced my behavior is important.
I haven't changed my socks since the random bump on Tuesday.
This is a credit where it's due, but also podcast recommendation post.
I listen to a lot of podcasts, and also write books. These podcasts have all directly, or indirectly, made me a better writer. 🧵
I listen to a lot of podcasts, and also write books. These podcasts have all directly, or indirectly, made me a better writer. 🧵
November 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This is a credit where it's due, but also podcast recommendation post.
I listen to a lot of podcasts, and also write books. These podcasts have all directly, or indirectly, made me a better writer. 🧵
I listen to a lot of podcasts, and also write books. These podcasts have all directly, or indirectly, made me a better writer. 🧵
Have we talked about Chekhov's Crowded Mantelpiece here?
It's a writing technique I love to use and enjoy going off about. Also I'm on lunch, so buckle up...
It's a writing technique I love to use and enjoy going off about. Also I'm on lunch, so buckle up...
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Have we talked about Chekhov's Crowded Mantelpiece here?
It's a writing technique I love to use and enjoy going off about. Also I'm on lunch, so buckle up...
It's a writing technique I love to use and enjoy going off about. Also I'm on lunch, so buckle up...
Does anyone else experience excitement cross contamination?
I get weirdly excited about pileated woodpeckers, corgis, axolotls, crochet sculpture, monsterotica books, and orcas. It's not because I care about them, but because I have friends that are SO into them that I get excited on their behalf.
I get weirdly excited about pileated woodpeckers, corgis, axolotls, crochet sculpture, monsterotica books, and orcas. It's not because I care about them, but because I have friends that are SO into them that I get excited on their behalf.
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Does anyone else experience excitement cross contamination?
I get weirdly excited about pileated woodpeckers, corgis, axolotls, crochet sculpture, monsterotica books, and orcas. It's not because I care about them, but because I have friends that are SO into them that I get excited on their behalf.
I get weirdly excited about pileated woodpeckers, corgis, axolotls, crochet sculpture, monsterotica books, and orcas. It's not because I care about them, but because I have friends that are SO into them that I get excited on their behalf.
This is the kind of advocate authors hope for: questioning other people's life choices for not reading my books.
A+ no notes.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
#booksky.
A+ no notes.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
#booksky.
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is the kind of advocate authors hope for: questioning other people's life choices for not reading my books.
A+ no notes.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
#booksky.
A+ no notes.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
#booksky.
Doing to publicity tour thing for Arson means people keep asking me questions I've never thought about before. Recently:
"Which three character traits do you think were most instrumental to your success?"
Turns out the answer to that question is "wrote books instead of getting therapy."
🧵
"Which three character traits do you think were most instrumental to your success?"
Turns out the answer to that question is "wrote books instead of getting therapy."
🧵
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Doing to publicity tour thing for Arson means people keep asking me questions I've never thought about before. Recently:
"Which three character traits do you think were most instrumental to your success?"
Turns out the answer to that question is "wrote books instead of getting therapy."
🧵
"Which three character traits do you think were most instrumental to your success?"
Turns out the answer to that question is "wrote books instead of getting therapy."
🧵
I want to put "Best book hangover ever" as a blurb on the back cover.
It's so gratifying to have people finding peace and satisfaction in these books, and leaving happy.
Sticking the landing is tough.
#authorlife #bookreviews #booksky
It's so gratifying to have people finding peace and satisfaction in these books, and leaving happy.
Sticking the landing is tough.
#authorlife #bookreviews #booksky
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I want to put "Best book hangover ever" as a blurb on the back cover.
It's so gratifying to have people finding peace and satisfaction in these books, and leaving happy.
Sticking the landing is tough.
#authorlife #bookreviews #booksky
It's so gratifying to have people finding peace and satisfaction in these books, and leaving happy.
Sticking the landing is tough.
#authorlife #bookreviews #booksky
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Stealing fro Wizards: fun for kids, devastatingly relatable for adults. 😅
Hell this is how I felt until I was most of the way through my 20s.
November 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Stealing fro Wizards: fun for kids, devastatingly relatable for adults. 😅
Quote from today: "I've never related so hard to a character as I did to Kuro. The imposter syndrome. I felt exactly like him when I was starting my masters." 🤣
SfW isn't supposed to be an allegory for grad school, but I see it.
#booksky
SfW isn't supposed to be an allegory for grad school, but I see it.
#booksky
November 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Quote from today: "I've never related so hard to a character as I did to Kuro. The imposter syndrome. I felt exactly like him when I was starting my masters." 🤣
SfW isn't supposed to be an allegory for grad school, but I see it.
#booksky
SfW isn't supposed to be an allegory for grad school, but I see it.
#booksky
Groups who are unexpectedly fond of Stealing from Wizards:
Enbys
Furries
Tasmanians
BTS fans
Georgians (USA)
🤷
Enbys
Furries
Tasmanians
BTS fans
Georgians (USA)
🤷
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Groups who are unexpectedly fond of Stealing from Wizards:
Enbys
Furries
Tasmanians
BTS fans
Georgians (USA)
🤷
Enbys
Furries
Tasmanians
BTS fans
Georgians (USA)
🤷