Kerstin Hall

Congratulations!!

ever look at an old piece of yours and think "honestly? i ate"

There will be blood alt poster - 2016

a traditional painting of herons in flight among trees, green, pink and white hues

I painted herons in flight. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper

screencap from the above link: I have found this problem fairly endemic to the romcomantasy (eh? eh?) subgenre to which McCallum’s debut belongs. Oh, I am so tired of reading book after book where nobody has ever done a single thing wrong, or, even if they have, it was all a terrible misunderstanding. I cannot bear these characters with personalities as smooth as Ken dolls, who run dear little retail shops in interchangeable Fantasylands and placeless middle Americas, unbothered by problems of inventory or human frailty. I am going to chew right through the bars of my enclosure, and go rampaging all around the countryside, if I am called upon to read one more book where a character’s big secret finally comes out, and the other character is like: “No problem, babe, I know your heart, and I understand that, while you initially had a scheme to sabotage my dreams, you changed your mind over the course of our courtship. Due to the trust we have built together, I understand this perfectly without your having to explain it.”

real footage of a critic being driven slowly out of her mind

HALFHEART cover reveal!

Years ago, the god of War took everything from aging mercenary Mordrena Halfheart—her homeland, her family, her god, even her magic. Now she’ll dig her nails and teeth into the chance at revenge, even if it kills her.

Preorder: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Halfhe...

the two phases of writing: (1) writing and (2) wandering aimlessly like an unmoored ghost and complaining about not writing

because I keep forgetting to mention it: LITERALLY ANYONE can nominate books for this prize! yes! that means you! you have until march 31st!

practice 🍂

We bombed Iran?! | I need to pay that bill | Kansas antitrans ID law!! | Don’t forget Hugo noms | do we still have Venezuela’s president? | *an email re: book promotion* | I can’t pay this bill | cutting funds to MN?? | I need to check on my friends | timeline fights about doomerism | taxes | REPEAT

if you're doing nebula nominations, please consider Blue Prince, a genuinely very well written and thoughtful game.

I bet everyone that says "I bet you're fun at parties" is actually not that fun at parties.

Oh well, you know…inspired by the best.

Huh, my reply disappeared.

Anyway! Thank you!

A sequel has always been the plan on my side. Unfortunately, that call is not entirely mine to make, at least if I want the book to be trad published — which I do.

Congratulations!!

I really liked this one.

Honestly one of my favourite books last year. SO worth it.

2 days left on this sale!

In this instance, that way will be “sneaky” and “obscured by jokes.”

buzzing, I tell you.

i am winning.

First post here! 🌿✨

digital painting of a jackdaw

digital painting study of a Eurasian jay

Digital painting of a magpie

Digital painting of a magpie

Here are some corvids

digital painting of a barn owl

digital painting of a buzzard

digital painting of a kestrel

Last year I decided to put my health first and take an extended break from paid illustration. I found I had an inexplicable compulsion to document all the birds I can see from my house in the most time consuming way possible.

Some predators:

Because I Held His Name Like a Key When I met the young Mr Turing, I had not yet ascended as Autumn’s King. Nowadays it has become fashionable for the sons and daughters of the lesser fey gentry to improve their position in the shif…

If you're still reading for award consideration, I'd be honored if you took at look at my story "Because I Held His Name Like a Key", which is on the Locus Recommended List and the BSFA longlist (and also check out the artwork by Catarina João that goes with it, it's so wonderful!)

Hello, just a reminder that this is happening later! 🤗

(I believe there should be question time at the end, if there’s anything you might want to ask.)

Hello, just a reminder that this is happening later! 🤗

(I believe there should be question time at the end, if there’s anything you might want to ask.)

A birth announcement for a book! Including the book cover, the size of the book (14 by 12) and weight of book (567 grams). There are faint, blue starts surrounding the book which is displayed against a light blue, watercolour background.

A.D. Sui (caucasian person with short, brown hair) is wearing a grey top coat and jeans, pointing to The Iron Garden Sutra on a bookstore bookshelf and smiling.

and we're live, folks!

THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA is now out everywhere books are sold! if you pre-ordered a copy, you should be receiving it soon (or already have) and if not, it's not too late to purchase the yellowest book in all of history!

It's true that the work is smarter than the author, but perhaps more true that the author through time--across the long process of writing, revising, etc.--is smarter than the author at any point in time.

keep seeing people talking about Hugo and Nebula nominations which means it is my professional duty to remind you that nominations for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize open on SUNDAY