That's home. That's us.
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
I'm reminded that the 2020 animated Irish film Wolfwalkers, set in mid-17th c Ireland, killed off an animated Cromwell with notable satisfaction.
Tall Tales of the Holy Terror Tomboy, a book with a brown-haired, blue-eyed woman with flower barrettes in her hair on the cover.
Our tales are SF, and mine is set on Mars. Given Vernieda's exploits, lots of classic Westerns came to mind while writing the story--Support Your Local Sheriff, High Plains Drifter, & Shane, to name a few.
Anyway, it's a fun book & you should check it out! /fin
Tall Tales of the Holy Terror Tomboy, a book with a brown-haired, blue-eyed woman with flower barrettes in her hair on the cover.
The "tall tales" are four stories by Marie Croke, me, Rebecca Hardy, & Kara Race-Moore inspired by real-life tomboy hellion, Vernieda Smith, who stole horses, smoked cigars, & bedeviled law enforcement w/ prison breaks.
Tall Tales of the Holy Terror Tomboy, a book with a brown-haired, blue-eyed woman with flower barrettes in her hair on the cover.
You can get your own copy: aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...
(if you're going to Calgary Expo this year, I will have copies!)
The view of how a "Moon Colony" will work is fundamentally shaped by whether the geek in question was exposed first to Star Trek [competence porn] or Star Wars [grungy space underworld]. In this essay I will....
Most of the obvious ones already there, but I do think about this one whenever I see a bee
Tall Tales of the Holy Terror Tomboy, a book with a brown-haired, blue-eyed woman with flower barrettes in her hair on the cover.
My author copy of Tall Tales of the Holy Terror Tomboy arrived today! The book is so lovely, excellent design by @aanpress.bsky.social and stunning cover art by Caroline Jamhour.
My story is "Girl, Thief, Stranger".
Good news! OpenAI is canceling so many large purchase orders and datacenter expansions that the global price of RAM is dropping.
COURT: Supreme Court of British Columbia, Vancouver Registry DATE FILED: May 23, 2025 A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed in Vancouver against Anthropic PBC. The plaintiff alleges that Anthropic PBC violated copyright held by Canadian authors when training its large language models. Specifically, the plaintiff alleges that Anthropic PBC downloaded “Books3” dataset. This dataset contains large amounts of copyrighted works, including books and articles by Canadian authors. The plaintiff alleges that Anthropic PBC used and unlawfully copied and shared these copyrighted works, and did not license or otherwise obtain permission to do so from the copyright holders. If you have any questions about the case or information that you think may assist our investigation, please contact us by clicking on the contact button or calling the number below. Any communication is strictly confidential. Contact: Oliver Pulleyblank Phone: 604.697.2480 ext. 240
Canadian authors, if you aren't eligible for the US Anthropic lawsuit bc you didn't register US copyright, we have our own class action suit! It doesn't rely on registering copyright and you're included in the class by default 🇨🇦
Sign up for updates here: www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...
See, THIS is how you market.
Go preorder Glynn's book! A hot guy rescues a cat from a burning building! WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED?
Seagull painting, in a sketchy style
Close up of a very judgy watercolour seagull
I'm still struggling with minimal brush stroke painting, but my side eye continues to be amazing.
The jacket at hardcover edition of the silent places. The front cover shows the woods in winter with a lot of snow. There is an axe embedded in a tree trunk in the distance and spots of bright red blood. You can’t tell from the photo, but the title the axe and the blood are all glossy.
Spine for the hardcover edition of the silent places. Author name and title are both glossy.
Back cover for the hardcover edition of the silent places. It has the jacket copy and a review quote. The image of treason winter continue around the back, and there are more blood drops in the snow that are glossy.
Another view of the hardcover edition of the silent places showing the blue sprayed edges.
Look what was waiting for me at the post office. 👀
Oh, so are we all pretending that Project Hail Mary isn't actually about climate change??
fingers hold a lit match, lighting the darkness
Continuing to make plans & progress on our matchbox-sized, handmade, blind box project of stories titled - "Light a Match, Start a Revolution" - supporting the trans community. Among our writers - @zoeyhedman.bsky.social & @leootherland.bsky.social - are busy working on finely crafted tiny tales.
illustration inspired by Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's 1891 short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" depicting a woman touching sickly yellow torn wallpaper on a wall while shadowy hands reach toward her. There is another tall shadow of a figure on the wall and both figures look toward the viewer.
"The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight."
I made a "Yellow Wallpaper" piece back in 2017, but I re-read the story over the weekend and wanted to try again. Much happier with this version 🖤
*kermit flail* It's so pretty!
After a record 450+ submissions, IT'S TIME! Click below for an alert the moment we launch the Kickstarter campaign for Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 4 (Tuesday, April 7). Early bird backers (first 50 & 100) will be entered in giveaways! Pls SHARE WIDELY--thx!
A t-shirt featuring an illustration of a bird and the text, "I have once again been fucked over by my expectations"
A t-shirt featuring an illustration of a bird and the text, "Can you not"
A t-shirt featuring an illustration of a bird and the text, "I read some shit on the Internet, I'm an expert now"
A t-shirt featuring an illustration of a bird and the text, "Can you fuck off and never un-fuck off"
$13 tees until Monday at 5pm CT. eatf.art/13
Thank you!
Image shows the cover of The Nightshade Cabal against a chalkboard background with a light blue skull. Captions read: "Victorian Era Mayhem and Mystery, Thrilling Inventions, Reanimated Corpses, Found Family, Dueling Spellcasters, Canadian Setting, Surly Fae, and Award Nominated."
I don't know if this is the best time of day on a Friday to hit the algorithm or whatever, but I do need to buy new shoes this weekend so here's a plug for my book.
From @parliamentbooks.bsky.social
LINK: books2read.com/u/490zOw
Folks, my conservative MP just sent his newsletter titled "A STRONG ALBERTA WITHIN A UNITED CANADA" so I guess the federal party is picking a side finally so that's nice
There’s an entire Agatha Christie novel centered around what rubella does during pregnancy, that’s how bad rubella can be.
I love this one so much, it's Conan's reaction that's just...perfection.
Arriving next week. Pre-orders are always appreciated.
Buy this book.
Buy this series.
They are amazing.
Large tabby cat dives for the plate, held off only by my daughter's arm.
Daughter gently lifts the cat off the table, the cat still very much in "let me at that food" mode.
Eid Mubarak. Here is my daughter fending off a Beirut cat who belongs to the cafe but wanders in and out depending on the menu. If you celebrate, may your meal be as tempting as the makdous bi labneh was to this kitty.
Adding to the back cover quotes "You're a monster. - Glynn Stewart" 🥰
😞 😞