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Ness 🎃🇨🇦

@vriccithode.bsky.social

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aka Vanessa Ricci-Thode. Nebula Award-winning trashbag & queer SFF writer. SFWA & TWUC. Dogs, gardening and Canadian rage. she/they 💙💜🩷 I'm only here for the food thodestool.ca

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · Sep 11

hello new followers! i'm ness (she/they), nonbinary, bi/pan, acespec disaster who writes mostly gay fantasy novels. i mostly post about my dogs, with some writing, gardening and mental health stuff thrown in. i swear a lot? and sometimes rant. more about me on my website: thodestool.ca 1/?

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 47m

🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 51m

Nice!

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 1h

i generally recommend that people start with dragon next door. but yeah, whisperer is 1

Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 1h

at least my kid is still masking. (mostly. she's got to take it off to eat. i wish i could convince her to take the personal hepa to school)

Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 1h

hahahaha my kid's teacher is out sick with "the cold going around the school" and i want to fucking scream myself to death. why have we decided being sick all the time and giving it to everyone else is acceptable? (it's probably not a cold, it's probably covid 🙃)

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 1h

Dragon Whisperer is first in series (but also the weakest of my books as it's the first I published), Dragon Next Door is a standalone related to the series, Necromancer is my Nebula-winning kids book, also a standalone

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Cindy Vs. The Army of Darkness Phan @cindyphanauthor.com · 2h

The diva slumbers

Close up of a black standard poodle as she sleeps on a stair landing, resting her poofy head on a front paw.

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 2h

📚We need your help to build a world where LGBTQ+ stories can flourish and grow!
📚As attacks on our freedom of expression reach new terrifying heights, creating safe spaces for LGBTQ+ voices is more important than ever.
📚Donate here: bit.ly/sustainlambd...

Blue graphic with illustrations of nature including flowers, birds, and butterflies. Orange text reads: Sustain the ecosystem of LGBTQ+ stories with a monthly donation, Make a monthly gift of $25 or more and you'll receive an exclusive merch item!

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 1h

Anyway one mildly annoying thing about chronic illness is that if you DO take a sick day, people assume you 'caught something' rather than your own health conditions being, say, unstable things that can suddenly worsen. :(

I wish chronic illness was static! My life would be easier! But!

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 1h

goooood morning it is brisk and sometimes bright, sometimes ominous out there but that didn’t slow us down at all and you know it: Lucy Loved That Walk

Big fluffy black and tan husky mix with bright blue eyes, smiling at the end of a leash beside a sidewalk scattered with fall leaves.

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 1d

heck, you can get *all* my books (slightly discounted even!) through bookshop for anti-prime day WITH FREE SHIPPING, including my nebula award-winning spooky queer kids book! #booksky #kidlit 🌈📚
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Young Necromancer's Guide to Ghosts

Check out The Young Necromancer's Guide to Ghosts - Lusi is a perfectly normal 12-year-old wizard except for the part where she can talk to ghosts. But everyone knows ghosts aren't real, so at best...

bookshop.org

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 1d

heck yeah you can get my queer ace romantasy, the dragon next door, through bookshop for anti-prime day. 🌈📚
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Dragon Next Door

Check out The Dragon Next Door - Tollar's got a stolen dragon egg, and that's the least of her problems.Tollar is a hero for hire who just wants to deliver a stolen dragon egg to its ...

bookshop.org

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 1h

guess who's got 2 thumbs and slept 10+ hours last night (but still feels like shit) 🫠

Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 4h

it's dog o'clock

a smiling, giant fluffy white dog in a black and purple plaid bowtie.

Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 14h

Anyway I'm exhausted and frozen and I think I'm just going to go to bed now

Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 14h

Gods it rained off and on all evening. I really wish the organizers had cancelled this. I didn't make table and it was a low fee split with a friend 😬

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Team Two Dogs @lchanwrites.bsky.social · 15h

Must be great to be ridiculously photogenic

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Team Two Dogs @lchanwrites.bsky.social · 17h

Just chilling in the Luka wagon

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 16h

I got one out Nov 18 but it's 5th (and final) in a series

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Team Two Dogs @lchanwrites.bsky.social · 17h

What if tongue too big for mouf

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 17h

That, uh, seems unethical

Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 18h

Huzzah!

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Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social · 18h

🚨 HENCH 🚨 SEQUEL 🚨 HENCH 🚨 SEQUEL 🚨

Natalie Zed 🍁 @nataliezed.bsky.social · 23h

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...

the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 19h

it's dog o'clock

Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 21h

Oof, I now have to summon the energy to go sell books in the rain and cold. Really annoyed the organizers didn't postpone this.