Sofie Tholin

This is so interesting! I'm really curious, what words do you commonly use instead of 'said'? Like, if there were three 'he said/she saids' in a row, which tags would sound more natural to Polish readers?

a cropped detail of a digital illustration showing a crazed village woman mid-transformation into a corvid demon. the light from the moon is red and she is levitating in a corn field, her body contorting and a crazed smile adorning her face.

a digifal illustration depicting a sunlit forest clearing on which a ruined fort stands. its built of white stone with ivy slowly overtaking it a d through out the image, there are a few goblins scattered, patrolling the grounds. the one we see most clearly, on the foreground carries a spear and a grin on his face.

portrait of a brown haired pale man done in the style of an old looking oil painting. it is contained on a thin oval frame a d lit by a single point above. it shows a man wringing out his hands on a dirty rag. he is dressed in a worn white shirt, daek waiscoat and a pale yellow necktie. his hair is falling loosely around his face in a messy ponytail and gis face bears marks of decay. his eyes are glazed over like eyes of a corpse and he has the look of tightly concealed anguish on his face.

digital illustration depicting riders dressed in decorated, east slavic folklore inspired garb, mounted on giant goats, flying thru the sunset-lit orange sky. they have gleefull expressions on their face and are adorned in many shiny pieces of jewelery.

Hi #portfolioday
I'm Newt, a freelance artist, roleplayer and a folklore nerd based in Prague, Czechia.

Looking for work at the moment and would love to do more book covers, book illustration, TTRPG art and game/animation concept art!

Portfolio: eyeofthenewt.com
Socials: linktr.ee/EyeOfTheNewt

The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle turns TWO today. 😭

I had wanted to do something cool, like write a blog post or do a giveaway or even just make a new video, but I haven't had time.

Instead, I shall write a (probably) long thread here.

Mainly, I wanted to say thank you to everyone who's given it a chance

So excited for this!!!

Wonderful thread about a wonderful book. I pretty much pin all of my self-worth on my success/failure as a writer (which I do NOT recommend, haha), so I really relate to how hard it can be - but also to the joy it can bring! Thank you for sharing, and happy anniversary, TETK!

Doing another call to #booksky for participation in an event we're doing in November!

If you're a book blogger, reviewer, book lover, I'd love for you to join us with a review of an indie book or guest post about any book-ish topic.

More info ⬇️⬇️⬇️

www.readindiefantasy.com/announcing-a...

Marketing post! But lazy, because I'm deep in edits.

Please gaze at my books. Consider them well. Perhaps read? 💜
Some people really liked them, so you might as well!

books2read.com/skylarkinthefog
books2read.com/imbued
helynalc.itch.io

#BookSky #books #scifi #fantasy #indieauthor #indiebooks

Another month, another TBR, and for some reason I seem to be mostly reading sequels in October. Check out my plan here:
youtu.be/JRbY4kQvTX8
What are you planning to read?

#SFFChat Day 4 - Snippet: Haunting.

A snippet from Summer Empress. A villainess makes her spooky entrance!

It's time for an epic giveaway! To be in with a chance of winning the complete Dragon Spirit's trilogy by LL MacRae, please comment below with your favourite fictional creature companion. The winner will be announced at our Indie Author Summer Party at 9pm on Sunday 5th Oct. #bookgiveaway

Whiskers, Jhary-a-Conel's winged cat, from various Michael Moorcock books!

Oh wow, After Work looks amazing! Not sure what it says about me, haha, but it sounds right up my street. A snoop-and-rifle game? Yes please! :)

Why We Fear the Ocean There’s something down there…

The Deep Ones, a comic about sea monsters by me and @thorazos.bsky.social

Thanks very much to Tim for this lovely interview that really got me thinking pretty hard about my process, and why I do what I do. Check it out! :)

Thanks very much to Tim for this lovely interview that really got me thinking pretty hard about my process, and why I do what I do. Check it out! :)

BOOK COVER ARTISTS
QRP with your book covers.

hand-lettered & hand-skulled

#BookCovers #HumanMade #NoAI

On a background of crumpled vintage paper rests the book cover for Cheer The Sick, featuring a plague doctor dropping a bouquet of flowers. The tagline reads "What ails you?"

The ebook of my short story collection, Cheer The Sick, is a mere £2.49 at the moment. That's a lot of ghastliness per penny. Possibly too much ghastliness for such a trifling sum, actually.

blackshuckbooks.co.uk/cheer-the-si...

Can't beat analog when it comes to editing, IMO...

...even though my printer's an old piece of junk and I write 1000 page first drafts, so it takes me a week to print it all, haha.

A printed out page with so many notes, just... SO MANY NOTES, haha.

First draft finished! Murder, mystery, mayhem - and one rather important Moment - in an asylum seeker camp on Phobos.

Now onto the edits...

Oh wow, that's a fantastic illustration, truly horrific in the best possible way! I love the Tegenraanta, too. Consille sounds like a really interesting world (I mean, not sure I'd like to *visit*, but I'd love to read about it, haha).

We return to planet Consille where the horrifying Awns have eradicated (almost) all land based life. CW body horror for the next skeet. 1/n #SciFiSeptember #Writer #WorldBuilding

Captain Flora Lark and the cataphract Sigrid Rokland, exploring an underwater cave system on a planet far more alien than they expected.

Only on Google maps. :) I'd love to visit - besides the possibility of monster sightings, it looks beautiful. Did you go there for research?

A snippet from my WIP (which is 99% complete! Yay!). Still a first draft in pretty rough shape, but as a little teaser, here's a snippet in which our characters are having a bad time in the Big Wet.

#WIPSnips

#SciFiSeptember Day 7:

At a glance, I think people sometimes assume Iron Truth is all grimdark scifi and military action. It is, but it's also... this, haha. :)

Thank you! :)

Haha, yes - I'm forever spending days researching things that end up amounting to a single, and not necessarily important, sentence.

(That description of the foresail, though - absolutely beautiful!)

The Cycle of Suck Or, how writers talk themselves out of promoting their own work: UK writers' advice on how to get out of your head and get your book into the world.

British writers who hate having to promote yerself: you'll know the cycle of suck well.
bibliotta.com/musings/the-...

Genuinely shook up at how that Top Ten Habits list describes me to a T!

Finally got a chance to listen to this and was treated to a Memphre mention! So consider me hooked :)

(My taste is very simple - even a crumb of sea/lake monster and I'm all in)

I love the word lanehunter! Exactly the kind of vibe I like in science fiction :)