Art & Writing of Katy L. Wood

Agreed!

Right??? It’s such a neat collection!

It’s so fun sometimes too! I reached out about a paper on pre-Smokey Bear fire posters and the author also sent me a PowerPoint of other art that didn’t make it into the paper. One was so old it told people not to throw cigarettes out of their CARRIAGE.

Yikes. Good luck. 🫠

Well that…sure is something to wake up to.

‘The perfect storm’: Trump has left the US less prepared for natural disasters, experts say Emergency managers say the US president has presided over a dangerous erosion in US capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disasters

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Regional FEMA offices slashed by DOGE face further cuts; disaster response may suffer | Cascadia Daily News Federal aid already hampered by Trump administration cuts before NW WA flooding

www.cascadiadaily.com/2026/jan/04/...

Having a long transitional period can alleviate some of the loss. Posting on both with constant reminders of the move, mentions of why you did it, mentions of any benefits the new platform offers, etc.

Holy shit...

I pulled mine two months after their supposed deadline to respond, and no response to my inquiries. Then a month after it was published in another journal the first one finally got back to me saying they did want to publish it. Reminded them I pulled it and I haven’t heard from them since.

The TikTok algorithm knows me well enough to suggest lots of disaster videos, but it does not understand disaster videos well enough not to suggest I save them as places I want to travel. Like, yes, this was posted from a very pretty country, but in this video it is in fact underwater.

A mockup of a sticker featuring a vintage scientific style illustration of key pieces of wildland fire gear including gloves, a drip torch, a pulaski, a hardhat, and a wildland fire pack. Below the illustration are the words "GEAR UP".

A mockup of a sticker featuring topography. A line of the topography extends above the others and forms a path where three silhouetted wildland firefighters hike towards a fire burning on a cliff. Along the top are the words "until the work is done".

I also have a bunch of new wildland fire related stickers in my shop, if you want to check those out too!

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Use code "WINTER25" for free shipping on orders over $25.

A mockup of a sticker design which is an infinity symbol along which you can see the cycle of wildfire in a pine forest.

A mockup of a sticker featuring the word "REGROW". In each letter is a different stage of the natural cycle of wildfires in forests. Below the word "REGROW" and in plain text is the phrase "Beauty changed isn't beauty lost."

A mockup of a sticker featuring a single engine air tanker dropping retardant on a wildfire in a pine forest.

A mockup of a sticker featuring the silhouette of a feminine wildland firefighter talking on a radio and holding a pulaski over her shoulder. The silhouette is done in a double-exposure style showing a mountain landscape at night, with a wildfire burning down the mountainside.

I also have a bunch of new wildland fire related stickers in my shop, if you want to check those out too!

www.aspenandcopper.com/shop

Use code "WINTER25" for free shipping on orders over $25.

A graphic featuring a mockup of the paperback of the novel "Camp Daze" on the left side, and text about the novel on the right side, with three queer pride flags below the text. The first flag is the queer pride flag, the second is half the aromantic flag and half the asexual flag, and the third is the lesbian flag. The text reads as follows: Camp Daze Adult | Survival | Summer Camp A helpful take on the apocalypse. Conifer was raised to survive the end of the world, any end of the world. Except this one. When the bombs drop, she finds herself stranded in the mountains with over a hundred young campers and only a handful of other young counselors to help her.

A graphic featuring a mockup of the paperback of the novel "Lie Down in the Ashes" on the left side, and text about the novel on the right side, with three queer pride flags below the text. The first flag is the queer pride flag, the second is the trans flag, and the third is the lesbian flag. The text reads as follows: Lie Down in the Ashes Young Adult | Survival | Thriller Short Book | Epistolary Five teens go out for one last camping trip before school starts, only for one of them to accidentally start a wildfire that risks all of their lives, and the lives of many others. Their only hope is an old friend who dropped out of school to work at the local mine, in a truck he stole.

A graphic featuring a mockup of the paperback of the novel "Poison in the Blood" on the left side, and text about the novel on the right side, with three queer pride flags below the text. The first flag is the queer pride flag, the second is the asexual flag, and the third is the bisexual flag. The text reads as follows: Poison in the Blood Adult | Fantasy | Adventure Post-Post Apoc. | Characters you love to hate Ten years ago, Dustin Lockwood's little sister Shae went missing as their family fled across the desolate abandoned portions of North America to escape the coven that wanted them dead. He would do anything to find her, even now. Shae Lockwood, living it up as a rare human actress, would do anything not to be found.

A graphic featuring a mockup of the paperback of the novel "The Pits" on the left side, and text about the novel on the right side, with three queer pride flags below the text. The first flag is the queer pride flag, the second is the gender fluid flag, and the third is the lesbian flag. The text reads as follows: The Pits Adult | Adventure | Fantasy Weird Western | Illustrated When Clarabella's girlfriend goes missing, she seeks out the only person who might be able to help: her outlaw older sibling Royal, who she hasn't seen in years. Royal knows more about the strange magic of their world than anyone. More than they should. More than the magic wants them to know.

Pssst! All my books are 15% off in my shop right now, including special editions! And you can get free shipping on orders over $25 with code "WINTER25" too! (Sadly only shipping within the US right now due all the nonsense, but ebooks are available everywhere!)

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Oh do tell?

Washington post: fema head resigns

I’m surprised the IAEM conference hasn’t broken out in cheers.

🎉🎉🎉🎉

Exactly the right reaction.

👇👇

This is very, uh, not great. Just fyi. Especially for those of us in the direct path of a major tsunami from Alaska. 🙃

🧵 on how the dismantling of USAID may affect the US search and rescue teams deployed to Jamaica.

This is actually part of what I want to do my dissertation on! Why do almost all of our fictional portrayals of disaster not show recovery?

Also, have you read “The Titanic Survivors Book Club”? Delightful fictional look at how some people who missed the boat tried to cope.

I think all sub sites are redirecting to the main ones from what I’ve seen.

Uggggh. Stickers are so easy and cheap to get professionally done these days. Yet people still do this.

Or the film on top peels off. 🥲

I am! Perhaps a little too much if you ask my wallet. 😂

Ugh, same. My career is going really well right now, this week specifically,which is WEIRD given I work in fire with the Forest Service.

So many things that could’ve prevented this from happening. It’s infuriating.

I’d be interested in this too. I can understand the pressure of feeling like you HAVE to answer concerned family, and wanting to try and contact family, but there’s obviously issues there. 🤔

What the fuck? Screw this shit.

Same. So much same.