Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer

Cover reveal! Featuring: - A self-taught palaeontologist and accidental witch - A heroic young girl with ferret-training skills and raging ADHD - A cat that can animate hand-shadows - A daring rescuer with asexual motives - A beloved pet that DOES NOT DIE Pre-orders: tinyurl.com/nddx4d5p

Another post for Ace Week! Hope all you lovely folks are having a good one. I have to say, of everyone I've asked for feedback and advice on a group I write on but don't belong to, ace people are my favourite. They were so welcoming and friendly! Thanks everyone. Pre-orders: tinyurl.com/nddx4d5p

My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛

Mikhail Vrubel, 'Head of the demon' (circa 1890)

Happy Ace Week! Since I know ace readers are often looking for rep, here’s my favourite fact about my upcoming THE SNAKESTONE GIRLS: The ace sensitivity reader, reading it on a commute, got so into they missed their stop. 😉

Die-well and Lament do sound like names you could get used to saying, to be fair. slate.com/human-intere...

Oaks in Burrator woods February 2024 #Dartmoor #Devon #moss #photography

Lorna Sharkey, contemporary artist, known for her hand painted stained glass artworks #Womensart #Sunday

I have seldom been so bodied by a meme.

If you have kids you'll know this is a classic. "Ghost are coming through the wall That shouldn't happen..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoSW...

POV: describing Earth colours to an eyeless alien. Green is the colour of leaves when it's hot. Brown is the colour of earth. Also leaves when they're dead. Yellow is the colour of flames. Red's the colour of hot ashes. You also get both on leaves when it's colder. Look, we just like leaves, ok?

#booksky #bookqw word: CLEAR Fairy-smith Matthew is trying to reason with a talking bramble bush. It is not impressed. Buy here: tinyurl.com/nvvetupj

I have a headache circling the edges of my skull like a fox circling a chicken coop, looking for a way in.

Here's a direct link to opt out of eBay training AI models on your personal data: accountsettings.ebay.com/ai-preferences

Artist: Atzimba textiles.

Just back from the Brian Froud’s Green Women launch! What a privilege to be included and what extremely lovely people. Left to right: me, Wendy Froud, Brian Froud, @terriwindling.bsky.social and @shvetathakrar.com.

Heading off to Glastonbury for the Green Women launch tomorrow! If you’re there do come have a chat.

And you can pre-order it here! tinyurl.com/nddx4d5p

In Glastonbury this weekend? @shvetathakrar.com and I will be doing a talk at the launch of Brian Froud's Green Women, for which we're both contributors. The whole event is going to be fun, so come say hi if you can. Haven't read the books in my author photo? Do! Here they are: tinyurl.com/nvvetupj

Around Portland...

Saying ‘ok’ in historical fiction. Not before the American 1840s, people! Also: saying ‘hello’ in historical fiction. Before the mid-C19, ‘halloo’ or ‘hollah’ was something you shouted to get attention, like saying ‘Hey!’