Helena O'Connor

I took this pic btw, thats why no attribution. I was actually there, I sat in the chair in the cozy writing nook of my dreams 💖

Delicious in Dungeon.

We are very excited to unveil our special edition of Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher in association with @titanbooks.bsky.social ks!

Cozy writing nook goals

Wrote a chapter, blew up a mage 👍

Wrote a chapter, accidentally added more mages 🤷‍♀️

A black and white cat perched on top of a chair. His eyes are closed and he is yawning wide, displaying his sharp, sharp teeth.

behold my cat and his inherent majesty

screenshot of a slide deck that says please buy sublimation so that i dont have to return to the law firm. in the corner it says please buy my book if we all preorder my book i can write more weird fiction forever and not return to being a corporate lawyer

doing real productive shit tonight (making a slide deck of why you should buy my book, a piece of content NO ONE asked for and is NOT what does well on ANY social media)

Is so funny being roughly three books ahead all the time, like i say "my new book", oh you mean Willow Close? nope, thats already out. Oh, the mermaid horror? no, thats in the endless queue. Oh, the weird Sci Fi one? Nope, also in a queue 🙃 So for reference, current new book is royal mage isekai 👍

Worldbuilding for new novel, knowing i have to sell it in the first three chapters...
Me: with all the character development in chapter two, i hope it doesn't lag too much...
My brain: i mean, you have a lot of mages, what if some of them just... blew up?

Write book to make money? Haha, no
Write book to get famous? Haha, also no
Write book because you cant live if you dont put words on the page and you know it probably wont get published and probably noone will read it, but none of this matters because it is your calling and you love it. Haha, yes 👍

Stayed up till 5am editing a novella for sub, then immediately saw a call for novels id love to sub to, but its due in jan and the best fitting project i have is only like 2 chpts in... i can do it tho right 😭👍

Finished Cloudward Ho, which was awesome, and now im watching Starstruck and its already so goood 💕✨️

Editing my novella and just did the sci fi version of the world works the way i say because ✨️magic✨️ in that I had a moment of panic wondering whether peach blossoms could still be falling in late spring at sea level... and decided yes, because ✨️science✨️ 👍

The latest Aurealis (issue 186) includes a lovely review from Jemimah Brewster of my book Willow Close!!

"It takes skill to pull different kinds of horror together into one story"

"This is a very Halloween-y book, great for fans of slasher and cosmic horror in particular"

Thank you so much!! 🙏💕🐙

Thank you!! 🙏💕 Hope you like it, really looking forward to reading yours too!

Orion (my assistant) and some of my books/stories

Lilly-Mae who I always love to talk stories with.

Helena O’Connor, Leanbh Pearson and Matt Tighe in the background. Super talented writers.

A few years since I’d seen entertainer and writer Danny Wynne!

A really fun day @supanovaexpo.bsky.social with @ifwgpublishing.bsky.social

Gave away 50 of these sneak peek (peak! haha) 👀 previews of my novel Staerstone. Just a few left!

It comes out next year. Can’t wait!

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Random 4am thought. My book Willow Close is basically Scooby Doo x Cthulhu, with pizza, coffee and cats. Is this genius or am i very sleepy, idk will revisit in the morning 👻🐙🍕☕️😻

Spread Me Spread Me is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, bestselling author of Just Like Home. A routine probe at a research station turns deadly ...

Spread Me, my erotic horror novella about an isolated research team and the specimen that wants to explore them back, is available everywhere you buy books.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Color photo of a white man down on his knees, petting a white cat with tabby spots. The man is looking at the cat very earnestly as if talking to it or disciplining it about some serious matter. The cats looks annoyed that this man dares to be in its presence, much less to touch and speak to it. The room decor is a symphony of browns, typical of the 1970s.

Photo from my collection that I call “The Talk”. Obviously ca. 1970s.

My new year's resolution is gonna be somehow do better at socials media 🙃

a handful of novel editing tools (pens, highlighters, post-its, flags) wedged into a blue and green handmade ceramic cup. the cup has tiddies with starfish on them. mermaid tiddies, if you will.

"What advice would you give early career writers?"

*most lofty authorly voice* Well as we all know, it is important for an artisan to use the finest tools, and store them in the finest receptacles

So anyway, there's only three novels, a novella, and a short story i want to write next 🙃

Fishtopher, a classic brown tabby cat with green eyes, laying on his side. He holds a yellow banana cat toy in his front paws, and bites at it. His back legs are kicking the back end of the toy. An orange cat tail tip lays on top of Fish's tail, the orange cat out of frame.

he is a little baby cat. banana for scale

Some transgender people see only darkness in front and behind them.

The current climate is especially accelerating this.

Transgender people just want to love the people they love and live their lives as themselves.
Let's all join hands and change the world🫶🌏🫶

Black-and-white photo of a beautiful medium haired, white and tabby cat lying on its side and a dirt driveway or other hard packed service. It looks soulfully at the camera.

Those soulful eyes. 🥹 Photo from my collection, no date/info.

My photo shows a black and white floor mosaic with a depiction of a very striking octopus in the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum. The octopus with eight writhing arms is composed of small black tesserae (tiles) laid in a white tesserae background

Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum.

This magnificent #Roman monochrome mosaic makes quite an impact!

📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

Me, in a blue tshirt with a arch of flowers background, holding a copy of my novella Willow Close, and doing this: ✌️

A lil self-promo, forgive me, for my debut novella Willow Close! If you're in the mood for a sweet spooky story with fiesty protags, solid pacing, a dash of cosmic horror, and two really cute cats... check it out 🙏🤍

So my oh it's definitely gonna be a novella, oh well i guess maybe a short novel, oh well i guess it'll be a normal size novel etc etc... came in at 114k words 😭

Black and white photo of two white cats on a cushion or folded blanket. A shorthaired adult cat is on the right while a fluffy long haired white kitten is snuggled into her on the left. They appear to be a cozy mother and kitten, cuddled and relaxed.

“Just we two” Postcard from my collection. Copyright 1907, mailed 1909. This is by C.E. Bullard, my favorite of the Victorian/Edwardian cat photographers. He seemed to genuinely love cats and didn't restrain them or cram them into tiny costumes.