A humanoid feminine figure in light robes and a shawl with grey skin stands in a field of flowers with mountains behind her
Early sketch I did for Star Wars Path of Deceit by @tessagratton.bsky.social and @justinaireland.com
I would read the shit out of Scarecrow and Mrs. King. 20 book series, please.
We love to see book banners eat shit electorally
LISTEN. Thank you, Cecellia Wang.
forgot the most important of the genre
graphic advertising a $2.99 ebook sale today only for THE MERCY MAKERS by Tessa Gratton. The cover, featuring a tan woman with wavy brown hair holding a magical stylus as she smiles smugly and manipulates golden lines of magic, against a dark blue starry sky.
THE MERCY MAKERS ebook is on sale today!
Thank you so much for letting me know! <3 <3 <3
(also if you reply to the newsletter itself, I do get those emails!)
Truth bombs from Frog and Toad
this also happens w original fic, but it is so much worse w ff.
By the great @annienocenti.bsky.social
Daredevil #283 (1990)
Happy 85th birthday to Hayao Miyazaki ♡
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
There is *no* ethical use of genAI. It is built on stolen art, through exploitative labour, and every day as they train new model and answer query, they burn immense amount of energy & water.
It has no place in our field, none.
Duane Kearns Puryear, holding his panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It reads, in block letters: "My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. I was 22 old. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead..." There are several great resources to learn about Duane, his advocacy, his family, his panel, and the politics of memory and re-creation, especially this one by The Dallas Way: http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel Duane Puryear died in 1991.
It's your birthday, Duane.
A Blue Jay giving a mid-flight glance over his/her shoulder while showing those beautiful blue feathers.
I’ll take Genre Organizations Trying to Destroy Their Awards Systems for a thousand, Alex.
probably not until it's warm outside!!! LOL
Based on her narrative I would wait until at least the third play thru 😂
Yesterday at a certain point with my tattoo artist, I was like "I can't participate in conversation anymore bc pain but please keep talking" and she talked me through her entire 6th play-thru of this game in which she finally tried "dark urge" and had regrets! but it was very relaxing for me.
💀💀💀
My copy editor has pointed out that in book one they’re called cloud whales!!! WHOOPS 😂
And the babes together!
those adorable skywhales!!!
Cover illustration by Eleonor Piteira of the book 'The Shape of Monsters' by Tessa Gratton, featuring a reddish-brown skinned young man with dark short curled hair, dressed in a sleeveless dark robe. His left eye is glowing gold and he's pulling gold geometric threads apart with this hands. Below, there is the silhouette of a city, one small moon, and two tiny sky whales.
Here's the cover illustration I had the pleasure of painting for 'The Shape of Monsters' by @tessagratton.bsky.social , for Orbit Books!
It's Book 2 of The Moon Heresies trilogy and sequel to The Mercy Makers 🌔
Out June 2026!
oh, yes.
WOAH!!!!! that's so awesome.
😍
haha, I *should* do a newsletter before the end of the year...
cover of THE SHAPE OF MONSTERS, book 2 in the Moon Heresies Trilogy, by Tessa Gratton against a dark teal background with stars and threads of magic. Cover depicts a brown skinned young man in a sleeveless red-brown robe pulling apart threads of magic with his bare hands. His left eye is golden and possibly connected to the magical threads. Beneath him is a magical bronze city-scape, and in the gray-brown sky a single bright blue star falls.
THE SHAPE OF MONSTERS, Book 2 of THE MOON HERESIES TRILOGY, has a cover!
And it is perfect. No notes. Coming June 2026
Design by Stephanie Hess
Illustration by
@eleonorpiteira.bsky.social
Thank you!!!
