Kelly Virens

🛻🥐🏔An Inspection So Sweet

The Supportive & Sweet Snippet. Decided to make an annotated snippet of a scene beta readers have been fawning over. 😍

Small Town Paranormal
ADHD Rep
Anxiety Rep
One Truck
Hiking
Meet Cute
HurtXComfort
Care Taking
Eco-Romance
Whimsy
Magical Realism
Older MCs

Hmmm, maybe 1,000 words. Bout to head to my weekly writing group.

Books 1 & 2 of the trilogy and their maps. Book three rounds this trilogy up.

Before we finish the trilogy, we hop over to Mt. Shasta to start the Enchanted Senses Series.

#author #writersky #trilogy #ecofantasy #redwoods #fantasybooks #magicalrealism

🌲💙🐦‍⬛Unkindness of Old Giants 🐦‍⬛💙🌲

June 10th, 2025.

This is a fantasy story about the power of friendship that knows no bounds.

All photos and art done by me except the character art done by @saphnoctis

#kellyvirens #storiesabouttrees #secretsofoldgiants #unikindnessofoldgiants #northcoast #sequel

Art I spent way too long making. But worth it. Use it however you like

#artistsky #procreatart #typography #typographysky

🐦‍⬛🐻🐈Prequel Novella Microtropes🐈🐻🐦‍⬛

Our ravens fight to be together.
Our bears learn their way together.
Our mountain lions find blessings & tragedies.

Swift of Storm is free to read right now via my newsletter. (Ebook download)

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#authorsky #novellas #kellyvirens

He isn't sure how he ended up in this situation. At times, he'd rather not be, but ya know, he's going to stick around, but they aren't so bad. Deep down, he knows he'd be lost without them both. She's crazy about him.

I'd say Sitka the bobcat, my bakery witch's loyal and wise familar. She knows Camille is good and cares deeply for the new home she found. Sitka also looks out for her and her love interest, Reyes. Art by terrafoxe on IG.
#sitkathebobcat #siskiyoucounty #kellyvirens #tellmorestories

📚📬🌿 Book Mail🌿📬📚

Don't Let the Forest In. By CG Drews

If you haven't picked this up, you really should. I got an e-ARC of it last year and couldn't put it down. Phenomenal read.

#booksky #Forestcore #Rotcore #BiRep #Aro/ACERep #DarkAcademia #dontlettheforestin #sprayededges #specialedition

Secret project characters
🛻 Hurt/Comfort
🥐 Dual POV (for real this time)
🛻 MCs in their late 30s
🥐 Hidden identity/family secrets
🛻 Cozycore+Feminine Rage
🥐 Animal companion
🛻 Witchy vibes
🥐 Small mountain town
🛻 One Truck
🥐 ADHD & Noise sensitivity rep
Art by seaborn.studios
#ocs #authorsky

an oil painting of a coyote with a prickly pear fruit in its half-open jaws. the coyote is mid-motion and looking slightly upwards to the left where it's moving. an unseen bright blue light lights it from the left. the prickly pear is partially split open with its pink juice spraying out in a stylized, explosion like burst from the coyote's mouth.

(to taste) only enough to know what you cannot have
#oilpainting

bluey doodle :3
#art #illustration

The bookmark collection.
I love matching a bookmark to the vibe of the book, but sometimes I do use whatever paper scrap I can find. 😅
What do you use?
#readersky #bookmarks #bookmarkcollection #readmorestories

💖📚☺️Inter connected Stand Alones☺️📚💖

But make it Romance edition. Something about a little romance read that sticks with ya. And this is the month for romance reads.

Sarah Hawly
Elodie Colliard

#elodiecolliard #sarahhawley #glimmerfalls #flatlay #romance

📚✍️📓Book Journal📓✍️📚

The Courting of Bristol Keats Mary E. Pearson

I loved this book. I want to see more of this in the genre, for sure. I was excited to get the OwlCrate edition because it's gorgeous. The end paper art and reverse dust jacket are 👌.

#readersky #fantasy #readingjournal

💙🐦‍⬛📖Dedications📖🐦‍⬛💙
Dedications are a thing that I know when I start writing the book who it's for, but explaining it in the right words is tough. It's probably because I always add too many words when I do not need to. Chronic overthinker things. #authorsky #writersky #kellyvirens #dedications

💯 my take on them. A great intro to new authors and stories.

When you text your bf that your roommates and their friends dragged you to the club just to blow you off for other people and he shows up to remind them that you only need him anyway.
(Wolf will absolutely wreck someone for upsetting Vaessa. Just an fyi. lol)

#artwork #ocart #ocs #art

📚 ☺️👌Anthologies👌☺️📚

How do you feel about them?

Here is a small but hopefully growing collection of anthologies I own. I'm even in one of them. My tiny dip into horror, but it's still heavily steeped in fantasy and trees.

#booksky #anthology #shortstories

@feverbeast.bsky.social
📖🏚📓 Book Journal 📓🏚📖

The House At Watch Hill by Karen Marie Moning

Who doesn't love a mysterious manor on a hill outside of New Orleans. This book is all things paranormal in the dark of night. Family secrets that make out MC question everything. #readersky #bookjournal

💚💙☺️You're so funny!☺️💙💚

~POSSIBLE BOOK 1 SPOILERS~
I've been seeing this a lot. This sums these MCs up well enough. Who doesn't like a little trauma and insecurity in our books?
Art by @mytinybookshelfs on IG @feverbeast.bsky.social

#authorsky #ocs #secretsofoldgiants

Amazing!

I hope there's a cameo by a certain other couple 👀

🏔🌿🛻 Secret Project Snippet 🛻🌿🏔
This quote really does speak volumes about the story, though. I will reveal who these fine folks are on Valentine's Day. But a lot has been shared in the newsletter already.
#authorsky
#booksky
#WIPwednesday
#tellmorestories #storiesabouttrees

An illustration of a tiger protecting cubs colored in Trans and nonbinary flag colors. Says: "protect trans & nonbinary kids!"

We're going to make it through this 🩷💙
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.

Where I was all weekend: Sonora, CA. Cabin time with friends and various creative endeavors.
#sonoraCA #cabintime

📚📖☕️Cozy Flatlay☕️📖📚

I don't know about you, but I could certainly use more cabin time in the mountains and cozy books right about now.

Just going to stay lost in some reads and the forest as long as I can over the next 1458 days.

#flatlay
#cozybooks
#readmorebooks
#booksky
#indiereads

Does anyone like maps? I make all my own. One is completed and printed in Secrets of Old Giants. One is in progress, and the other just started.

#authorsky #mapsky #mapartist

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I love me some character art. So let me introduce Miles Ashdale and Olive Fernsplash. My bold and bright bear shifter couple whose story is the feature of my latest novella.
Art by @araostar and @mytinybookshelf
#OCs #wtitersky #characterart
#authorsky #secretsofoldgiants