Tall Firs Productions

I just updated Hillary Behrman’s website with this book prominently over the artwork! I love my clients so much and it's so exciting when they come back to do book launch updates to their sites!

hillarybehrman.com

A dark blue border surrounds this square image that fades from a deep blue at the top to yellow at the bottom. It evokes sunrise or sunset. The words "Kate Lockwood Harris" appear in the center above an enter button.

I've got a new website! Check out katelockwoodharris.com Many thanks to @tallfirsproductions.com for the original artwork and design.

#Seattle history buffs, this is coming up on Tuesday!

I'll be at the Bay Area Book Festival this Sunday at the Marsh Theatre, 2:15, talking with Abby Reyes, Susan Lieu and Dorothy Lazard about memoirs, disclosure and reconciliation. Stop by! #BABF2025 #TheDeadAreGods

Website thumbnail: a blue painted canvas image floats behind the words 'KATE LOCKWOOD HARRIS' in white text, above a button that says 'ENTER'

New site! Author and professor @katelockwoodharris.bsky.social had seen the work I'd done for her UMN colleague, vvganeshananthan.com, and asked for a site of her, original artwork, and organization for her extensive academic publishing. Thrilled with how it turned out.

katelockwoodharris.com

Tami Haaland Tami Haaland is the author of four poetry collections, If I Had Said Beauty, What Does Not Return, When We Wake in the Night, and Breath in Every Room, winner of the Nicholas Roerich First Book Award.

A few years ago I met Sarah Salcedo @tallfirsproductions.com, who designed my website. Sarah continues to work with me whenever it's time for updates. Here's the most recent, updated version. www.tamihaaland.com

Tami Haaland Tami Haaland is the author of three poetry collections. She is a professor and the Interim Dean of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Montana State Billings, and was Montana's Poet Laureate from 2013...

New books and anthology updates are live on @tamihaaland.bsky.social's site! Visit to learn more ⬇️

I designed Tami's site in 2021 and one of the things I love about my job is not just creating sites, but supporting the artists I work with in an ongoing way as they bring out new work into the world.

An infographic. There are six panels. 1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded. 2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text. 3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky. 4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german. 5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say. 6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs.

However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

Carl Phillips Carl Phillips is an American poet and the author of, most recently, Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 and My Trade is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing. He teaches at Washingt...

In 2023, I was lucky to be able to work with @cphillipspoet.bsky.social on both a site for all his amazing books of poetry, but also on artwork that has become one of my favorite pieces I've done. Visit www.carlphillipspoet.com to learn more about the Pulitzer Prize winning poet and his work.

Illustrations of a keyhole, a bunch of strawberries, and an open book adorn an author’s website.

Next site! Author and craft educator (especially on folklore and fairytale) @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social’s site has an illustrated masthead—icons chosen by her, drawn by me.

Her latest book, #DreamsUnderGlass, from @lfpbooks.bsky.social, is amazing. Learn more about it and her work: ancawrites.com

Coll Thrush Coll Thrush is a professor of history and associate faculty in critical Indigenous studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, on unceded Musqueam territory. He is also the author of I...

Belatedly starting to post a selection of author sites I’ve done as I transfer this account over from X.

First up: This one was designed for professor and historian, @collthrush.bsky.social.

collthrush.com

Last month, right before the holidays, I got to work on a new website for @readandbreathe.bsky.social. Her latest book, What My Father and I Don't Talk About, is out this May!

Visit her website to learn more: michelefilgate.com

Cover of We Lived on the Horizon pictured on a desert overwritten with junk code. Text reads "Swyler achieves a seemingly impossible amount of sophisticated worldbuilding using an economy of vibrant prose. Singularly stunning and stunningly singular." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON is now out in the world. It's the first "timely" book I've written--wholly unintentional, I assure you.
If you've been thinking about AI, revolution, altruism, the future, gender, aging, and what care is ... it might be the book for you.

I'm very tired of people questioning the value of libraries and the value of having physical books at libraries.

Loved working with you, Anya!

Thanks so much to @sarah-salcedo.com for all her extraordinary work on my beautiful new website! It was a great experience collaborating with her!

Amazing client alert:

Anya Kirshbaum Anya Kirshbaum (she/her) is a bi/queer poet, somatic psychotherapist and aspiring beekeeper. Her work has appeared in SWWIM, The Comstock Review, Cirque, MER-Mom Egg Review, Crannóg, Solstice Literary...

New site! Last week, I launched a new site and artwork for @anyakirshbaum.bsky.social, a bi/queer poet, somatic psychotherapist, and beekeeper. Check out her work at www.anyakirshbaumpoet.com

Thanks to @lindzmcleod.bsky.social for this great holiday event. Winners, reach out to me here or thru @tallfirsproductions.com to talk art.

*If you didn’t win* but got excited by the idea of an illustration for your stories, poems, or essays, reach out anyway! I’m still taking winter commissions.

It’s the drummers drumming twelfth day of @lindzmcleod.bsky.social’s #12DaysofKindness and I’m up.

See details below for how to enter for an illustration of mine (and enjoy my lovely Christmaskull)!

Thank you, Jill! ❤️

Thank you, Anca!

Illustrations of a keyhole, a bunch of strawberries, and an open book adorn an author’s website.

Next site! Author and craft educator (especially on folklore and fairytale) @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social’s site has an illustrated masthead—icons chosen by her, drawn by me.

Her latest book, #DreamsUnderGlass, from @lfpbooks.bsky.social, is amazing. Learn more about it and her work: ancawrites.com

Book cover for Wrecked: Graveyard of the Pacific by Coll Thrush showing an aerial view of a wave engulfing a shipwreck

Long one of my favorite historians, @collthrush.bsky.social has written two amazing books: Indigenous London and Native Seattle and his forthcoming work, Wrecked: Navigating Colonialism in the Graveyard of the Pacific is out next May!

If you haven’t read his work, do yourself a favor and start.

Coll Thrush Coll Thrush is a professor of history and associate faculty in critical Indigenous studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, on unceded Musqueam territory. He is also the author of I...

Belatedly starting to post a selection of author sites I’ve done as I transfer this account over from X.

First up: This one was designed for professor and historian, @collthrush.bsky.social.

collthrush.com

I’ve been online since the days of listservs and Delphi and usenet and hand-coded websites. Twitter was great, briefly. What lasts? Website and their blogs—they rise and fall but don’t go away. My stats have been steadily rising again now for four or five years. And I own it—no one can close it down

A picture shows tiled faces on a yellow background, with text that reads: "tallfirscinema Today's big news-@vasantsalcedo was selected to participate in Washington Filmsworks' 2024-2025 Above the Line Education Forum for Documentary. This is an incredible opportunity to learn alongside the amazing filmmakers who were also chosen for the cohort and come out a better director and producer for all our current and future projects. From @wafilmworks: "Meet the 25 emerging documentary filmmakers participating in our current Above the Line Education Cohort! "The bill that passed during the 2022 legislative session gave us the ability to serve a wider array of emerging filmmakers in Washington State," said Executive Director Amy Lillard. "This is the first time in the organization's history that we're able to invest in the careers of documentary filmmakers who will undoubtedly bring culturally diverse stories and perspectives to both the big and small screen." • Dive deeper here: https://ow.ly/4XPA50UI8f0"

Big news—I was selected to participate in Washington Filmsworks’ 2024-2025 Above the Line Education Forum for Documentary. This cohort started last month and it's been so great. #filmmaking #keepfilminWA

Welcome new followers! I’m a filmmaker, author, and illustrator. Currently, I’m in production on three documentaries and I’m querying a disability + dragons family saga fantasy novel.

Here are some of my favorite published short stories and essays (speculative and literary) threaded below:

Just joined! My personal account, @sarahsalcedo.bsky.social, has been here since the start, but it’s time to migrate film and design accounts over here too. In the next week, I’ll repost art and sites I’ve done for all my amazing author clients like I had over on the old site.

Until then, hello!