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Catherine @catandherwips.bsky.social · 5h

I love when all 3 of my dogs stand next to each other while I have music playing in the kitchen because I can pet them and pretend to be a DJ at the same time!

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Catherine @catandherwips.bsky.social · 10h

My algo keeps showing me various types of mooncakes lately & I beg them to STOP. I love those & I have nowhere to get them right now.

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Catherine @catandherwips.bsky.social · 11h

Anyone know what this is from? Came up on my shuffle & I like the song

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Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 23h

i'm back in the fucking building (finally writing again)

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 3d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Cat Rector @catrector.com · 1d

Security is a must for creation. Yes, my work explores dark themes born out of past trials, but I didn't create a career DURING those trials. I was able to create when I had the safety to take time off, go to therapy, and start feeling safe. Financially secure artists will give you better art

Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1d

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 1d

It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?!
(Yeah yeah I did)

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Catherine @catandherwips.bsky.social · 1d

THISSS

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Catherine @catandherwips.bsky.social · Aug 20

Drowning in gold & light, the city of Aebbenary welcomes home its prodigal swan...but Bettina won't end her self-imposed exile for nothing.

Dark romantic fantasy with a gilded edge - read GARNER FOR GOLD now 🦢💛

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Dark romantic fantasy novel GARNER FOR GOLD by Catherine Labadie against a brick wall with two white wings painted on it

Trope map for dark romantic fantasy novel GARNER FOR GOLD by Catherine Labadie - the corrupting nature of power against the beauty of independence, squabbling divinities, mother's love both sweet & stifling, inevitable tragedy, even more twisted biblical themes, knowledge as poison & lover, 3 POVS from women in the same family

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Catherine @catandherwips.bsky.social · Aug 31

Together at last! 2 standalone cottagecore romantasy books for your autumnal reading 🍂

A TURN OF THE WHEEL - shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

A SONG FOR THE ROAD - www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Tales from Lyrassan standalone cottagecore romantasies - A TURN OF THE WHEEL and A SONG FOR THE ROAD by Catherine Labadie

Trope map for A TURN OF THE WHEEL - cottagecore enchanted orchard, potions & baking pies, treacherous faerykind + mysterious spirits, seasonal & betrothal rituals, honor duel, Slowburn with satisfying spice, sprinklings of Why Choose, small town, big issues

Trope map for A SONG FOR THE ROAD - he-falls-first, horrible goose foundling child, tolkienesque dwarves & elves, grumpy fmc + sunshine love interest, eldest daughter heals from neglect + found family, Slowburn with satisfying spice, bardcore + a quest, autumnal travels

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Catherine @catandherwips.bsky.social · Aug 31

I came across this yesterday & I need you all to see that this is Gwendoline/her house & car/her aesthetic with the burgundy & green in Long Grows the Dark! I originally planned to set it in the early 90s, but it ended up in a weird contemp adjacent setting instead so they could have cellphones. 💀

Several 90s themed hunter green items like a sofa, walls/wallpaper, cars, etc.

Copy of urban dual timeline angsty romantasy novel LONG GROWS THE DARK by Catherine Labadie

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Catherine @catandherwips.bsky.social · 1d

I chose the Edwardian era for Mere Flesh because I always wanted to write a sexy period drama with the weird societal rules heightening some of the tension. I learned it was a lot of frippery to keep track of, I'll tell you that much. 💀

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me about your work more grounded in the historical. What drew you to that setting? What things did you learn? #WritingPrompt

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Catherine @catandherwips.bsky.social · 1d

I chose a semi-vague Italian Renaissance era fantasy setting for Render to Silver because I feel it's a time where you can really lean into classical decadence & luxury. Plus it was fun!

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me about your work more grounded in the historical. What drew you to that setting? What things did you learn? #WritingPrompt

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Catherine @catandherwips.bsky.social · 2d

Unpublished and republished, we'll see now 😭

Catherine @catandherwips.bsky.social · 6d

Do I have to personally fistfight bezos or something.......

The pocket gothic edition of RENDER TO SILVER is published & technically available but it's been a week and the distributor is still fucked up lmao

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Catherine @catandherwips.bsky.social · 3d

A Turn of the Wheel deals with -

🍏 the panic that comes with realizing the life you & others planned for yourself isn't the one you want

🍏 being afraid to go after the things you want (& of yourself for wanting them) because you might get rejected

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Pretty potion themed spine art for cottagecore romantasy novel A TURN OF THE WHEEL by Catherine Labadie

Trope map for cottagecore romantasy novel A TURN OF THE WHEEL by Catherine Labadie - enchanted orchard, potions & baking pies, treacherous faerykind + mysterious spirits, seasonal & betrothal rituals, honor duel, Slowburn with satisfying spice, sprinklings of Why Choose, small town big issues

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Catherine @catandherwips.bsky.social · 2d

Could the local breweries stop fucking use extremely shitty Ai slop to market events. It's cringe & hideous....

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Eliza Stark @elizaveldastark.bsky.social · 5d

The most exquisite commission ever, my OC Rêverie by @2ghosts.bsky.social #dnd #art

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Catherine @catandherwips.bsky.social · 3d

Garner for Gold is neroli, jasmine, & something that smells expensive with a rich scent profile like frankinscence & myrrh.

Render to Silver is basil, copal, & wine. An additional whiff of candied lemon might occur.

A Song for the Road is probably straight pumpkin spice & maybe cedarwood haha

Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 6d

Fun new author game! What does your book smell like?!

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 6d

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

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kalinka 🦇🖤 @cothillion.bsky.social · 3d

yeah that's "besieger" 🦇🖤🦇

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Catherine @catandherwips.bsky.social · 3d

A Turn of the Wheel deals with -

🍏 the panic that comes with realizing the life you & others planned for yourself isn't the one you want

🍏 being afraid to go after the things you want (& of yourself for wanting them) because you might get rejected

👉🏻 shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

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Author C.A. Chaplin @cachaplin.bsky.social · 3d

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Catherine @catandherwips.bsky.social · 12d

Big sale on *all* my books coming up! Mark your calendars for the indie author halloween hauntfest & the Stuff With Fantasy Free Fall events on October 3rd - 6th 🎃