Carmen Wiigwaas Craig

I finished book 3 which was Septimus Brown's (@septimusbrown.com) , "When the Sky Breaks". I read this before as an ARC, but I bought a signed copy from the author and that is what I read. It is a young adult sci-fi, little fantasy, book with a pretty hefty plot twist. Great book.

😎😍🤩

mybook.to/whentheskybr...

The Hidden Cost of Using AI Our brains are incredibly powerful tools, but they’re like muscles: they only stay strong when we keep using them.

The Hidden Cost of Using AI

Our brains are incredibly powerful tools, but they’re like muscles: they only stay strong when we keep using them.

darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/t...

a street with colorful umbrellas hung overhead

sky, wall, tree -- at night

cartagena from the sea

a fancy lion door knocker

A few snaps from Cartagena ❤️

Flower, last one standing

Autumn Maple

Hobbit door

Rolled ice cream

Vancouver snaps ❤️

Victoria-based author writes book framing Canada-US trade war as satirical fantasy Local Victoria author Septimus Brown’s latest offering frames the ongoing US-Canada trade as a satirical fantasy quest titled We’ve Come for Your Eggs (And Other Reasons to Annex the North).

"Some early reviews of the book have called it “laugh out loud funny,” with one reviewer stating that they spat their drink out of their mouth at one point due to laughter."

Check out the article about my book on Victoria Buzz 🤩

victoriabuzz.com/2025/11/vict...

#booksky

"Juggernaut" comes from the Sanskrit "jagannatha," meaning "lord of the world."

#etymology

A young (adolescent?) seal pup with short brownish-greyish fur is lying on its back on a rocky ledge covered with dark green and brown rockweed (seaweed). If the seal were a human, we would say that it is striking a sultry pose.

Young Harbour Seal: "I want you to draw me like one of your French girls."

(From my #pelagic birding tour in the #BayofFundy.)

Bay of Fundy, #NewBrunswick, Canada
September 2025

#mammals #seal #marinelife #nature #photography

What's your favorite book cover design, and why? (Share an image)

#writingcommunity

Book Cover (dragon flying across a sun and cloud) for We've Come for Your Eggs

🧐 The Surprising Power of Letting Myself Be Silly 😜

I did a guest post on Jennifer L. Gadd's blog about my new book: We've Come for Your Eggs.

Check it out:

jenniferlgadd.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/g...

Thanks @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social 🤩

A girl with balloons running away

The First Page Challenge 2025—2nd place

CLOUDIA WITH A CHANCE OF DARKNESS by Melissa Grant

"It was her 11th birthday, and the sky had the nerve to be blue."

darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/f...

#writingcommunity #writingcontest #booksky

"Damn right," he behemothed hoarsely.

We’ve Come For Your Eggs is a comic fantasy adventure equal parts Dungeons & Dragons romp and razor-sharp satire, lampooning the US-Canada trade war and a few infamous celebrities along the way.

Book launch: Oct 23

Kindle pre-orders are live 🐲
mybook.to/dragoneggs

A mature male Western Bluebird is backlit in profile by winter morning light with his orange vest floofed out against a background of snowy canopy in bokeh. Winter birding Zen.

“There's a bluebird in my heart
that wants to get out..."
~Charles Bukowski 🪶

💙

📸 Sialia mexicana, the Western Blueborb of Happiness 🐦

#MondayVibes
#BlueSkyMonday
#Bluebirds
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#EastCoastKin

Oodenaw: Urban Indigenous Consulting Cooperative aanii, tanisi, ʔəy̓ sweyəl! We are the people who make up the Urban Indigenous Consulting Cooperative known as Oodenaw. We do our heart-centred work together in hopes that we will impact good change i...

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

In addition to my writing and editing work, I'm honoured to be a board member and treasurer for Oodenaw.com, an urban Indigenous consulting cooperative. We support education initiatives, cultural resurgence, and language revitalization.

♥️

Timeline cleanse!

Tragedy and Comedy: The Two Faces of Story Structure If the protagonist is going to succeed, then you want to bring them closer and closer to failure. If they are going to fail, you want to bring them closer and closer to victory.

Tragedy and Comedy: The Two Faces of Story Structure

If the protagonist is going to succeed, then you want to bring them closer and closer to failure. If they are going to fail, you want to bring them closer and closer to victory.

darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/t...

#writingcommunity #booksky

I think this might be Shaggy. It looks like Shaggy anyway. IYKYK. A beautiful blue headed corvid called a Woodhouse's Scrub-jay waits for a reward.

Some days you just need a Bluebirb of Happiness a little more than others. 💙

🕉️ May you have a sweet #ThursJay! 🌿

📸 Aphelocoma woodhouseii 🪶

#Corvids
#BirdLovers
#Photography

I've read this and it's very cute!!

Book cover for WE'VE COME FOR YOUR EGGS, a fantasy satire about the US-Canada trade war

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"This was a fun romp that had me laughing, snorting, and groaning in equal measure."

We've Come for Your Eggs
Launches: October 23 :)

Pre-order: mybook.to/dragoneggs

A sunset on the Sunshine Coast, British Columbia

Did somebody say WRITING RETREAT?!

We have one room left! And it's a good one: the main-floor queen in the carriage house.

Location: Roberts Creek (north of Vancouver)
Dates: Feb 9 to 13, 2026

More info here:
darlingaxe.com/pages/author...

#writingcommunity #booksky

Novel cover: We've Come for Your Eggs (a dragon flying across a yellow sky and clouds)

"Eggs is smart and hilarious and a LOT of fun."
—ARC review

A fantasy parody about the US-Canada trade war
Coming October 23 :)

Pre-order your e-book:
mybook.to/dragoneggs

Everything I Know About Writing I Learned from the Rolling Stones Mick Jagger probably never realized this, but he and his bandmates knew a lot about how to write a good novel.

Everything I Know About Writing I Learned from the Rolling Stones

"Mick Jagger probably never realized this, but he and his bandmates knew a lot about how to write a good novel."

darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/r...

#writingcommunity

"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."

—from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

a little boy is fishing in a small boat Alt: a monkey fishing in a small boat

How to Write a Synopsis: A 🧵for querying authors

A synopsis is more than just a plot summary. It’s another hook in your tacklebox. It should showcase your story’s emotional arc, nuanced characters, and narrative logic. But you can pick and choose what to highlight.

#amquerying

A small bird with white cheeks and upper breast and a black face and head cap, with mostly grey back and tail feathers, is perching on a tree branch and looking up and to the left, in front of a soft green background.

Black-capped Chickadee is very interested in something in the upper branches of its tree.

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
August 2024

📸 #birds #chickadee #BCCH #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

Burning house meme. Little girl: author Burning house: protagonist's stable, functional life

Novel Preview: We've Come for Your Eggs | SeptimusBrown Get a sneak peek at my forthcoming novel: WE'VE COME FOR YOUR EGGS

Every quest needs a hero.

This one gets Glimm: a bonsai frost dragon stuck managing a band of blowhards on a doomed diplomatic mission.

ARC now available 🐉

www.septimusbrown.com/arc

Catching some ASMR with a Cactus Wren floofing up that trademark speckled plumage from a sunny perch on a wire.

Happy #WrensDay Bluesky! 🌿

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📸 Cactus Wren, enfloofenating #birdonawire 🪶

#BlueSky 💙
#BirdLovers
#Birding
#Birds

skeleton on bench meme author: waiting for inspiration to strike

Get back to work!! 😁