celia winter 🦋

“Why are you banging your head against the wall?” asked Frog.

“I hope that if I bang my head against the wall, it will help me to think of a story,” said Toad.

The book cover for OF LOVE AND DRAGONS: SHORT STORIES, published by Flame Tree Press, on an iridescent yellow background.

I'm absolutely thrilled to share that my dragon riding romantasy story, "On the Wing of a Prayer," will be published by Flame Tree Press next March in the anthology OF LOVE AND DRAGONS! 🥳

You can check out the TOC and preorder here: blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

#WriteSky #BookSky

I love that United tries to sell me internet for $10 when it is providing me what I need (several hours disconnected from reality) for free.

Thank you!! I am very excited!!

🥹🥹🥹🥹 I think it’s pre-orderable in their website already but will hit other platforms soon!

Thank you so much!! I'm so glad it's resonating with people. I feel like titles either burst forth in perfection, or are arduous to land on and this one was definitely the latter paradigm!!

eeee!!! glad it has your attention!!!

a teddy bear is holding its arms out and says `` love you '' . ALT: a teddy bear is holding its arms out and says `` love you '' .

thank you!!

it really really is. huge point of pride :3

thank you!!!! i'm so excited for it and to read the other books in the anthology!!

thank you so much!!!

thank you!! i'm really really excited for it!!

Short Stories: A Breath of Time - Romantic Fantasy Graphic from Flame Tree Press

Delighted to announce that my short story, "Not Yet, Little Witch" will be appearing in Flame Tree Press' first Romantic Fantasy anthology! It, along with 22 other #romantasy short stories, will be available in March of 2026!

—NY Dems flip Onondaga County & Dutchess County legislature, first in decades
—Dem mayors in Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincy...
—Seattle GOP city attorney trails big
—MN Dems defend state Senate
—Dems flip legislative seats in MS
—Dems defend swing legislative seats in NY, WA

—Coloradoans fund free school meals
—JD's half-brother loses
—PA Dems flip Erie County exec, Bucks DA + sheriff
—PA Dems oust all GOPers from Bucks school boards once ground 0 of conservative takeover
—Charlotte approves transit tax
—Dems flip CT towns like New Britain.
(And that's not all!)

What we know, 12:10am
[Now in 2 parts]

—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems flip ≈13 seats in VA House
—Dems defend NJ-Gov + Assembly
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win supreme court
—ME vote-restricting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
—Krasner & Bragg win

according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

My #Writing12in12 update for October is I wrote a short piece and also a flash piece, both of which I am submitting to magazines! I also have the roughest of drafts for another short piece that I hope will get heftier with revisions.

Two by Two by Two by @crossingwinter.bsky.social from Issue 6

bonded witches; devious magics, murder she spelled

www.heartlines-spec.com/two-by-two-b...

And with my own post, I am reminded of my weary decade long desire for someone to do a klezmer cover of the Rains of Castamere

Anyway the new Klezmatics album is out

Not all instruments were made for a genre of music the way the clarinet was made for Klezmer I said what I said

doodle of a cat jumping out of a pumpkin screaming boo!

boo!

I wonder if Lorien Testard knows just how much he’s changed my life.

I hope he is having a good day.

The short term “oh hell yeah not meetings today” is growing increasingly stale as I know that it will condense the timelines on stuff that needs to get done in Q4…

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

HOW COULD I FORGET MY BOYFRIEND PARAGON

I was but I can’t remember the rest of the recipe