Tyche Books🍁

Book promo post. A textured orange-hued background with a book cover overlaid it. The book cover is for Starship Librarians and features a humanoid librarian in a retro-coloured spacesuit of oranges, creams, and teal, shelves books. They are framed by a window looking out onto space. Behind them is a bookcart with thrusters instead of wheels. Additional text says Now Available.

Happy Book Birthday to Shannon Allen, JR Campbell, & all the contributing authors to Starship Librarians!

Be sure to add this one to your home library! (& if you ever find bookcarts with rocket thrusters, please let us know).

Amazon: www.amazon.com/Stars...

Kobo: www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...

From a writer group post someone sent me: "...the attitude now is so exclusive and unwelcoming for those of us who are either pro-AI or use AI"

GOOD JOB, EVERYONE, KEEP MAKING THEM FEEL UNWELCOMED, YOUR SHAME IS WORKING. 🥰

I did not know about this when I posted about women being sexual harassers over the weekend. However, the below long post did not surprise me.

A stunning number of women do not understand consent, specifically people saying no *to them* or the need for women to also ask the consent of others.

Happy book birthday!

I'm only two books on, so may not grab this one until, oh, next week.

But I can solidly rec the first two.

And can just tell @michellemanus.com is going to wreck me well before book 7...

YouTube video by Erwin Beekveld They're Taking The Hobbits To Isengard HQ

HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY TO THE ALL-TIME BANGER THEY'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD

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Yoshita 1967 seems cool. The line is inspired by the designer's Indo-Kenyan heritage. Appears to involve a lot of handwork, such as crocheting and beadwork.

IG yoshita1967

Look, I’m sorry, but the shambles of title and name mispronunciations in this Hugo award ceremony is not funny. GRRM is sitting by his phone waiting for an apology.

Garden art

what bothers me most about "being anti-AI is abelist!" is how it erases the work of disabled artists and creators who found ways to express themselves without relying on a climate destroying plagiarism machine

Talking about what goes on behind the scenes in publishing on another thread just now put me in mind that I talk about predators/harassers (mostly) by name sometimes. For those who want info by names/stories:

On the writing side:

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On the con side:

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EDMONTON EXPO!

This bitch got her usual table - so you know the drill! Walk in the front door, see the Artist Alley sign in the far corner, walk all the way to the far corner. See back wall. Turn around. Go OH KRISTA!

🤘

(no idea on speaking schedule, will inform when I know if/when/what)

Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates oh. he speaks to you often? are you a Diet Coke? JMDeFee @LtlBfloJMD • 21h I have never heard Trump say that the Nobel Peace prize is his motivation. I have heard him say he wants the killing to stop.

JCO casually doing murders last night

Arched concrete bridge over a prairie river with city skyline beyond.

#GoodMorningFromSaskatoon where the morning light is changing rapidly as we slide into the next season

You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’

You don’t ‘run the gambit.’

gamut = entire range or series

gauntlet = severe trial

Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy

10 years ago today, me and Chompsky got stuck in a hole together <3

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Look folks (aka writers)

When we say "rack up those rejections!" we mean "be persistent over years" not "spam every possible agent/publisher with your work regardless of what they're looking for or even if they're open" 😕 If you don't do basic research you're just wasting everyone's time

Standing on a broken, partially uprooted tree trunk, a man throws his arms wide and his head back with eyes closed. He holds a straight sword so the tip pierces the fat crescent of moon looming overhead in the lavender sky. His tunic is open to expose his chest. The fabric billows as the breeze catches it, and the tails of a red sash flutter. One sleeve is in tatters as are the lower legs of his pants. A gray wolf sits on the gnarled roots below him, extending its neck in a howl. The moon looms large overhead in crescent. In silhouette, a castle burns in the background sweeping trails of smoke across the forested hills.

ROYAL ASSASSIN (1997)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 30" x 23"

Over the years, fans have asked why I depicted Fitz wielding a sword on the cover when his weapon of choice throughout the book was an axe. 1/4

I’m terrible at getting pictures at these events.

True story.

Book promo. Background colour is purple, and a teal, purple, and gold dragon flies in the upper right hand corner. Two photo frames on the left display book covers. One if for Hauntings and Hoarfrost, a black cover with icy thorns and roses creeping around the perimeter of the book. The other frame displays Starship Librarians, which shows a librarian in a retro-orange spacesuit shelving books, in front of a window looking out onto space. Additional text reads, "When Words Collide 2025. Join us for an inspiring weekend of stories and storytellers. Meet writers, readers, and industry experts at a literary festival with fun, flair, and friends, old and new." Beneath the book cover images is another text box that says Book Launch. At the top is the date, August 15-17 2025, and the location, Sheraton Cavalier, Calgary NE.

Today at noon in the Cavalier Room! Book launch for Starship Librarians and Hauntings & Hoarfrost! Editors Shannon Allen, JR Campbell, and Rhonda Parrish, plus tons of authors will be there. Also, special summer gothic cookies (because the sanding sugar is gold instead of white, 🤫).

Tyche tables at When Words Collide, with books on shelves & stacked on the table.

Collage art for sale. One features a steampunk seahorse, and one extols the virtues of coffee.

Scrapbook album about Tyche, open to a page about the year 2015.

Final day of When Words Collide. We are under-caffeinated. Let’s gooooo

YouTube video by Q with Tom Power Canadian creator of KPop Demon Hunters didn't expect 'this kind of reaction'

I learnedvtoday the Maggie Kang, writer and co- director of Kpop Demon Hunters is Canadian. This is a lovely interview from CBC radio. ( filmed)
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The #HugoAward for Best Editor, Short Form goes to Neil Clarke.

An oatmeal-colored single-breasted tweed sport coat with notch lapels, jetted pockets, and welted out-breast pocket

This is a beautiful garment.

Let me show you what makes it special. 🧵

Well, a reel of the live action slush panel I was on Friday! (If you’re on instagram) There were lots of boat stories—love the musical choice here.

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Empty book stand in a table. It used to have copies of Starship Librarians.

Sold out of Starship Librarians!

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Table with a book display at When Words Collide. A shelf of books by Krista D. Ball. There are Regency fantasy, high fantasy, urban fantasy, sci-fi, and non-fiction. There is also collage art on display. Behind the table is a banner for Tyche Books.

Book display at a conference. On the table are a few crates displaying books. These volumes are horror and dark fantasy. Many titles are by Skyla Dawn Cameron. There are also a few anthologies, some shapeshifter books, and YA horror.

Book display at When Words Collide. There are three stacks of varying heights of Starship Librarians, an anthology. Behind the anthology, sitting on a crate, are two more titles for younger readers.

Book display at When Words Collide. A shelf of books full of sci-fi novels and anthologies; fantasy detective stories; fantasy anthologies; and paranormal crime books by E. C. Bell and Skyla Dawn Cameron.

Day 2 of When Words Collide and the Merchants' Room is open! We close at 6 tonight. If you're looking for Starship Librarians, visit us sooner rather than later. 👀

A graphic that says "Upcoming Waverly Stuff". There's a corkboard with various images, dates, and red string connecting them all, starting with the short "Bro Code" coming August 15, the short Too Long To Stop Now coming December 30, The Assistants coming April 15 of 2026, the Extended Patreon Preview of A Dark and Distant Home coming May 1 of 2026, and the book out on May 12. There's also a folder that says more shorts in 2026 only at Patreon. The first story cover is in colour with the fifteenth of August circled; the rest are greyed out as if to come.

Today's the first stop on the little Waverly roadmap leading to the next book with a post-SATY short at Patreon (spoilers! do not read unless caught up!): www.patreon.com/posts/vignet...

Thank you!