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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · Oct 24

Introduction thread! 🥰🍁🌳

Hello, I am an indie fantasy author with one chonky, very different high/epic fantasy series starter (will be 5 books when done) 🌳✨ and one standalone dark fantasy with horror elements novella 🩸🐦‍⬛☠️ published so far 😎 1/X

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love & barley 🐸🌶️🪏🎃 @loveandbarley.bsky.social · 2d

give greta thunberg a gundam

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Heat record today too 🙃.

J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 3d

We beat a record temp today with this. 15 degrees above the average high for Oct 5.

J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 4d

And here we have a 25-30 degree weekend in October ☀️😎🫠😳😬

J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 2d

(I also do not like grapefruit)

J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Mine is a small grapefruit 😁😬🫠.

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 3d

We beat a record temp today with this. 15 degrees above the average high for Oct 5.

J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 4d

And here we have a 25-30 degree weekend in October ☀️😎🫠😳😬

J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 3d

I didn't even notice 🤣. There are two. One looks like just kids books and this one. So cool!

J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 4d

It's a book vending machine 👀

An Ottawa Public Library vending machine at a community centre that has books in it.

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 4d

We had serious drought this summer too 😬. No chance of anything rotting from damp here 🙈. I'd switch with you to right things if you're supposed to have warmer weather! We're supposed to be quite chilly by now 🫠.

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 4d

And here we have a 25-30 degree weekend in October ☀️😎🫠😳😬

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 5d

It is almost impossible to write a book a year while working as a family breadwinner and being a present parent. If this is your situation, you are not failing. The world wants you to think you are so you buy things. Just keep swimming.

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 7d

A great book!

J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 9d

Litla Ljón (the Lionhead rabbit) is 10 years old today 🥳

J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 10d

I've found two pictures of the spotted tussock moth caterpillar where it was white rather than the yellow in the other hundreds of pictures. Fancy colour variant? I can't find anyone talking about this though so maybe it's just fake 😅.

An image of a spotted tussock moth that is white in the middle when they're usually yellow.

J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 10d

Grandma report: "They are watching some singing demon movie."

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 10d

Mine always got eaten by cabbage worms 🙃. I gave up on them years ago but wow, that is beautiful!

J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you! I do also love the modern Corvettes so this makes sense to me! I can basically only identify Corvettes, Camaros, and a couple other muscle cars 🤣. But only the modern ones 😅.

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 11d

No wonder it was so sexy 🤣. Thank you!!

J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 11d

I feel like this car must be so recognisable to someone who knows about old cars 🤣 heelllpp. It was so nice

J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 11d

Car identification help! I saw a cool old car driving around and unfortunately I know literally nothing about cars 🫠. Did a lot of searching and this is the closest image I found, from a random Etsy print (www.etsy.com/ca/listing/8...). Anyone know what it might be?

A cool old car image from Etsy where the print does not identify what car it is. The car is green-blue and very sexy.

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'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 12d

I keep thinking about buyers and how—over the space of a decade or two—I watched how the chain bookstore I worked at went from "let us tell find the right book for you" to "these books go here on these displays, exactly like this, no exceptions."

It… sucked.

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Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 12d

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

thewalrus.ca

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Nose Stuck in a Book Blog @nsiabblog.bsky.social · 13d

#booksky

Are you reading the books on your tbr? Yes. Yesterday I bought more books

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Canadian Snark Lady and Potato Lover @kristadb1.bsky.social · 12d

The purpose of this KS was to post a game made for his kids, and maybe raise enough money to buy burgers and fries, as a fun cap to it all ($50 usd goal)

Well.

I've pointed out they probably need dessert options now ;)

19 hours to go for this solo game.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sti...

We Don't Live on the Surface Anymore - A Solo-Journaling RPG

A solo-journaling TTRPG for after the end of the world.

www.kickstarter.com

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 12d

Love Húsafell, and love the grey in the basalt near glacial rivers 🥰.

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Jared Leys @jaredleys.bsky.social · 13d

Duck of the day! This is an Australian shelduck. Photo by JJ Harrison.

Female Australian shelduck standing in grass

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 13d

Also my immediate thought.

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