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Noooooo! You work on yours too! We need to suffer creatively together 🙃

(My motto is “do as I say not as I do” FYI)

a woman wearing a fur coat and sunglasses is making a funny face . Alt: a woman wearing a fur coat and sunglasses is making a funny face .

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Sigh. Fiiiiiiiiiiine

Tech companies need to stop using science fiction dystopias as how to manuals...

Someone tell me I don't need to update all my covers just because it's been a few years.

This is the hard part of being an illustrator and author. I always want to fix things that don't reeeeeally need to be fixed so I can procrastinate on my WIP 😅

The Onion Has a New Plan to Take Over Infowars

Here's how we're taking over InfoWars.

I remember the original announcement a ways back, then they got push back. I'm delightfully shocked they pushed it through!

This is the chaos gremlin activism we need in 2026....

He was grateful. He didn't think he could bear seeing her look at him even through the facade of oil and pigment on canvas. The memory of her hatred and blame pinning him to the floor burned so brightly all else felt washed out in its wake. He couldn't decide how much of that memory was mutilated with time.

I was mad at myself that I didn't have a ton of usable prose written for Eclipse. I've mostly been worldbuilding/plotting/working on visual & formatting components.

Then I realized my Obsidian hadn't synced and there was a ton of half-written scenes I'd forgotten about 😅

Ah, the writing life.

Noice. I love some self aware bookmarks!

I unironically love that I immediately knew who this is and what it's from...

UPDATE:

For any authors looking to move from D2D, according to customer service you will not be subject to the fee if you delist your books but keep your account.

If you delete your account completely and decide to come back, they are now enacting an activation fee for new accounts.

Which…ugh

I am biting the bullet & removing my books from Draft2Digital

According to the reply my email they're standing by their decision to tack on fees in addition to royalties.

I'm still on Kindle, Kobo, Kofi, and itchio. I am researching ways to decentralize my books from big name distribution entirely

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Papaoutai with ppl who know the French lyrics and those who don’t 🥲

NGL I adore cognitive dissonance songs

Wohoooo! Wishing you the best release day!

Book cover for Wren's Aria by Helen Whistberry showing a bright-eyed brown wren perched among bright red poppies and green grass with beak open in song.

TODAY IS THE DAY!

My latest book, Wren's Aria, is out in the world!

A charming animal fantasy wherein open hearts and loyal companions triumph over tyranny and needless cruelty. Includes 52 original illustrations and cover art by me!

Full blurb and buying links in comments below

#WrensAria #sff

Hi! *waves* I'm Rue.

My current project is Eclipse, a visual epistolary novel. (No that's not a thing. Yet.)

Basically throw in all the hero/villain/enemies-to-lovers/scifi/fantasy tropes into a plastic bag, marinate it in le gay, and saute it with existential dread and you have je ne sais quoi.

My reaction any time I encounter ai slop in the wild

I'M ON SEASON 4 RIGHT NOW.

Seriously I don't know what is in this show, but I'm not typically a binger and I've gone through 4 seasons straight.

TBH though, I kinda appreciate that they don't just smush them together in a season or 2.

This is truly beautiful 💜

Illustration of a hand holding text that reads "New fires, old seeds. A story of decay and growth by Ruth Sparks." with fiery, abstract shapes above and rain-like lines throughout.

-The zine includes illustrations throughout, printed with a Kraft cardstock cover with hand painted accents and bound by hand.

I’ll be bringing some to upcoming events and it will soon be available in my store.

-They experience a conjunction of natural improbabilities that break the assumptions they’ve built their life upon.

But at its heart is a lost mother and child. They grieve relationships and love that corroded alongside the decaying landscape. (Cont)-

Illustration in black and white of flames surrounding a pine tree, with text that reads "do you think the first human to burn a tree for warmth...". A clenched fist is shown rising from below.

Black and white illustration of a clenched fist holding an abstract, fragmented representation of the Earth, with text reading "...knew where that path would take us?”

I’m almost done with the hand bound zine for my story “New Fires, Old Seeds.”

This short story follows a mother and child traveling north along the Great Lakes, now a brackish uninhabitable wreck after pollution, abuse of natural resources, and climate change. (Cont)-

One of my characters is a seer who processes her visions through song.

This is a visual epistolary book so in her POV sections there’s sheet music, musical symbols, lyrics etc breaking the text in addition to the comic panels, reports, and letters seen throughout the book.

How do we know they didn’t?

What if we all just missed the crescendo of this universe in the form of the greatest one liner ever told but it was posted on a glitching social platform and now the rest of existence is basically the outtro?

The fact that they looked at the shitstorm they created via their own environmental, social, and political machinations and thought “people must not be ordering because there are too many options let’s shove a robot at them to give them suggestions”…

2026 you are wild.

-discrimination of marginalized people in an already tempestuous political & social environment.

I’ve been hearing of workarounds to get books on Overdrive & Libby though no news on Hoopla.

Nevertheless we cannot ignore that adding additional hurdles to get books in libraries is Not Good.

-catalog are accessible through e-book and audiobook.

Indie publishing and specifically e-book publishing exists in part due to the under represented and underserved parts of communities.

Removing access by targeting the poorer & less popular titles is only going to exacerbate misinformation &-

-I volunteer at a rural library that can only sustain so many physical books due to space, and so many topics due to budget.

They fortunately are part of a digital cooperative, so their e-book catalog is significantly more robust and varied. Books that would never be in the physical-

One of my big concerns with D2D is the effect on libraries.

One of the reasons I chose them in the first place is their distribution to Libby and Hoopla.

Libraries are already under attack and now their catalog is going to take a hit, disproportionately affecting books by marginalized authors.-

I’m not disagreeing. This is forked & we’re going to lose even more before anything takes its place and who knows when that will be.

It’s more that this decision by D2D means they’re removing themselves as a viable option rather than looking at how they can evolve alongside indie creators.