KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!)

I'm a strong believer that humans shouldn't have to tag their work, AI should, but here we are.

Having said that, yes. Yes I am very interested.

A photograph, in burnt-orange colour tones, of a maple leaf with a heart-shaped hole forms the background of a rectangular image. 19 book covers are arranged in two rows across the bottom. White text at the top reads "Hidden Gems! 19 books by Canadian authors you may never have heard of (but will totally wonder how your bookshelves lived without!) It also provides the date of the promo: March 1st to 15th, only on Itchi.io. The books involved are as follows: The Lion The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle The Dragon Next Door River of Crows Hope is the Thing with Feathers The Clockwork Empire Flesh and Bone Goblin Girl Moonshadow's Guardian Your Blood and Bones Winner Takes All The Flaws of Gravity Scrap Metal Angel Destined to be Normal Clipped Bloody Spade Baker Thief Path of the Warrior Prince Ewald the Brave

19 Canadian Authors.
19 novels.
One low price!
Sale ends on March 15th.
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Yeah when I was a kid I would re-read it all the time.
This and Dragonsong by Anne McCaffery

Yes!

#TBRuary finale. Old Favourite.

I have to, HAVE TO stop answering with HOUSE of Leaves, so instead I'll say I've been wanting to re-read a childhood favourite, Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede.

To me, it's the original cozy fantasy. If you have young girls in your life, get this book.

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This challenge has taught me that I am SUCH a mood-reader. I don't pay attention to awards. Sorry.

But if I can, I would like to recommend Demon Copperhead, winner of several awards. It's a retelling of David Copperfield, which is a book I've never read, but I loved this re-imagining.

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The Farseer Trilogy and its spinoffs are my best friend's favourite books.

I've gotten 50% into Assassin's Apprentice and I am so bored. I tried again and I got 52% percent. Still bored.

I'll try again, because they love them so much, and The Fool is great.

Post a character that starts with g

Post old memes to confuse young people

Colorado borders Kansas. Here is a Colorado non-profit that helps trans people relocate, Trans Continental Pipeline.

Please share.

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I know! I've yet to listen through the entire thing but what I've heard I liked a lot.

They're great live, too.

The cover for Wheelchair Seating for the Apocalypse with the text "when someone would ask me what I would do in case of zombies my immediate answer had always been Shoot myself in the head "

#horrorwriterschat

Thank you. This one made me think hard.

Wheelchair Seating for the Apocalypse is my most horrific horror. A woman in wheelchair makes cookies while zombies overrun her neighbourhood.

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#horrorWritersChat

This one is a toughie. I even looked at other people's replies for examples.

I'm not into romance. Clipped was ripe for a love interest. I ripped her right out of the manuscript, trashed it. No romance for Zak.

In XYZ Phrae/Mel are just best friends until the end.

#HorrorWritersChat

I think a through-line in my horror is depression, and suicidal ideation. Sometimes a little bit of addiction, as a treat!

What makes me choose them? Probably because they're so omnipresent.

#horrorWritersChat

Characters in both Wheelchair Seating and XYZ are vague enough that they can be any race.

Gail from Clipped is half-Black, half-Chinese. She's an emissary and 2nd in command for a city of sin and depravity. She is meticulous and very good at her job.

#horrorwriterschat

I'm Kyew and I write dystopia, and dabble in horror.

It's not really a character but I am absolutely in love with the band Zeal and Ardor, which make music inspired by the idea that Black slaves accepted Satan instead of Jesus.

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#WSPit #WSPitWIPs

WEYWARDxTHE CRAFT

Working title: Coven Thing.
A Salem witch, a Romani traveller, a Vodou priestess, a 90's wiccan. A coven spanning centuries & exists out of time. Together they hone their craft against persecution, demonic bloodlines, & work to keep magick alive.
#Hi #Dis #A #W

No, no of course not. Can't wait for the YouTube Apology Video.

Oh my goodness the way I laughed! Good luck with this! Keep going.

Amazing! Was it inspiration for the cover or for the dragon at all?

A toy of a green 2 headed dragon.

Also the cover unlocked a core memory of mine. I used to have this toy...

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I never preorder books, I'm a library girlie through and through and prefer audiobooks.

But I'm very much looking forward to The Dragon Has Some Complaints by @wiswell.bsky.social

It just sounds like such a fun take on the dragonrider school premise.

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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo.
All I know about it is that's about a heist and it's very popular.

I know I'm starting to sound redundant but it's intimidating!

I borrowed the audiobook off Libby TWICE, got about 3% in and knew it would wreck me so I'm scared but I wanna read it so bad.

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Let The Right One In

My version of that is guys with long hair who are way too into music and/or entertaining/controlling the masses...

Now I wanna draw Zak just standing there and one of the main antagonists floating around with a word bubble that says "Fuck Context"

...it was "What if ✨Society???✨ and that happened to an individual. Well, guess I need an individual now..."

And THEN I shoved OCs at him, hahahah!

"But Deia, who exists, and only exists, to be the main protagonist of Exocoetus, isn't an OC."

Same with Zak, the protag of Clipped. Clipped started with a thesis, and of course I needed a character with which to explore that thesis, but it was never "Here's my character who ____" It was...

I agree, calling the protagonists and antagonists and various supporting characters "OCs" feels...ephemeral?

Sure some started as OCs... and some didn't.