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Cedar McCloud

@cedarmccloud.bsky.social

Indie fantasy author and artist 🌈 Trans, queer, disabled, AuDHD 🌈 ace & aro-spec 💜 Creator of the Eternal Library Series, the Numinous Tarot, and more 💜 They/them ✨

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Emery 🏳️‍⚧️@mishiiarts.bsky.social · yesterday

I was about to be like "I don't have one" 'cause I have the short-term memory of a peanut, but I literally have one out in February. Trans teen who walks with the dead to help them find peace has to walk with his ex (that he's still in love with 😭) www.tinyghostpress.com/maybe-this-i...

MAYBE THIS IS MOVING ON by Emery Lee cover. Shows a teen boy walking in the opposite direction of another boy while he peers over his shoulder to eye him sadly. The boy is in yellow while the rest of the world--including his love interest--is in gray.
David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 2d ago

You should welcome all the new people to Bluesky by TELLING US ALL ABOUT YOUR BOOK AND DONT FORGET A LINK SO WE CAN BUY IT. Bluesky, the app for books.

Cedar McCloud@cedarmccloud.bsky.social · yesterday

My mom's bf: Did you know gullible isn't in the dictionary? 10yo me, GENUINELY excited, wanting to share a fun fact I'd just learned: No, but did you know "butthead" is, now? Adults: lose their fucking SHIT cracking up bc they think i just clapped back hard Me: ?????????????

Steven Perkins@stevenperkins.bsky.social · last wk.

please delight me with your most on-brand story from your childhood mine is that I quit Cubs after two weeks because it clashed with Coronation Street

Claudie@clh2oars.bsky.social · 2d ago

What if: a whole series of them. I wrote 9 episodic (ish) novellas that build into one big epic adventure. A love letters to JRPG full of awesome characters, a mix of high stakes adventures and cozy game moments, all very very queer. books.bookfunnel.com/nerezia-disc...

The Chronicles of Nerezia. Displays nine covers in a row that form a continuous canva with text below. An ever-failing apprentice, an anxious artificer lizard, and an amnesiac elf with strange powers travel within a sentient self-propelling wagon, seeking the forest haunting the elf’s dreams. In their quest for answers, they will need to traverse a world haunted by Fragments, dangerous shards that can possess travellers--and will slowly unravel the mystery behind those, too.
David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 2d ago

You should welcome all the new people to Bluesky by TELLING US ALL ABOUT YOUR BOOK AND DONT FORGET A LINK SO WE CAN BUY IT. Bluesky, the app for books.

Cedar McCloud@cedarmccloud.bsky.social · yesterday

#Novmemeber 6: I make whole playlists for my books and share them when they come out so 😂🎶 I have lots to choose from already! "Blood Red Sky" by Rose Betts is basically Aeronwy's story in an absolutely perfect nutshell. I wish I could literally stick this in the book. youtu.be/KHELOO0Sy0E?...

Blood Red Sky (Swan Dive Session)

YouTube video by Rose Betts - Topic

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Sage T. Greene, Author@sagetgreene.bsky.social · 2d ago

#Novmemeber 6 Share a song that reminds you of your WIP. It could relate to the plot, your inspiration, or just vibes 🎶

6. A song that reminds you of your WIP A prompt game for the month of November, titled #Novmemeber (as in meme). Hosted by @sagetgreene.bsky.social . The bottom says "Have fun, interact, and remember alt text!" There is a silly emoji face with wild eyes and tongue sticking out, and some fall-style leaves in the corners.
Cedar McCloud@cedarmccloud.bsky.social · yesterday

The Thread That Binds is about an intergenerational found family of magic bookbinders and librarians healing from trauma through their craft! Queernorm world, neopronouns, aro & ace mains, polyamory, a QPR, and a Ghibli-esque world you'll want to live in. numinousspiritpress.com/thethreadtha...

The cover for The Thread That Binds (Eternal Library Book 1) by Cedar McCloud. A wooden frame on a light teal background, divided into various shelves and windows. The top part of the frame holds shelves of rainbow books and bookbinding supplies, as well as the title in gold. The middle three frames contain watercolor illustrations of the three narrators: Rhiannon, an agender indigenous person with purple hair and glasses, holding a magic ink bottle; Tabby, a fat white agender person with blond hair holding a storybook; and Amane, a fat Black woman with an afro-poof and colorful dress, holding an array of oracle cards. The bottom frame contains thread spools and the author's name in gold.
David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 2d ago

You should welcome all the new people to Bluesky by TELLING US ALL ABOUT YOUR BOOK AND DONT FORGET A LINK SO WE CAN BUY IT. Bluesky, the app for books.

Cedar McCloud@cedarmccloud.bsky.social · yesterday

I'm 95% of the way through The Chosen One Con and IT'S SO GOOD YOU GUYS. It's a page-turner! The worldbuilding is SO COOL, the characters are charming, and the messages about working class solidarity and oligarchy and reality tv 👀👀👀🔥💙💙💙 Highly recommend!!

Tru Skies@trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 2d ago

Behold! My gaslamp fantasy about two working class men who con their way into a televised contest of mages to find the prophesized 'chosen one' in a world of designer enchantments and celebrity-branded potions. books2read.com/thechosenone...

Cedar McCloud@cedarmccloud.bsky.social · 2d ago

#Novmemeber 5. Mairead would say eir green flags are something like: ✅ Serves eir community through volunteer work ✅ Makes friends with people others ignore ✅ Willing to take justice into eir own hands when no one else will ✅ Empathetic, perhaps overly so Whether this is true...is another story 😂🙊

A hand drawn portrait of a nonbinary, androgynous white person with long dark hair, heavily lidded eyes, and small round glasses, wearing a suit blazer and vest. The drawing is done in brown marker on ivory paper.
Sage T. Greene, Author@sagetgreene.bsky.social · 3d ago

#Novmemeber 5 Yeah, your Antagonist has flaws, but what are some green flags of theirs? 🟩 Can't think of any/not applicable to your villain? What would THEY say are their green flags? Not a person, but a construct/idea? What do proponents say?

5. Your Antagonist’s green flags A prompt game for the month of November, titled #Novmemeber (as in meme). Hosted by @sagetgreene.bsky.social . The bottom says "Have fun, interact, and remember alt text!" There is a silly emoji face with wild eyes and tongue sticking out, and some fall-style leaves in the corners.
Cedar McCloud@cedarmccloud.bsky.social · 2d ago

Party of Fools is a comedic fantasy novella with a silly, absurd sense of humor that will make you hungry, and also probably thirsty! It has an entirely queer ensemble cast and the leader of their little party is a trans woman ✨🏳️‍⚧️ numinousspiritpress.com/partyoffools

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Dani Finn 🐙@danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 3d ago

In honor of short books, if you wrote or read a trans novel or novella 300 pages or under, tell us about it and why we should read it! 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚

Arden Powell 11,000/11,900@ardenpowell.bsky.social · 2d ago

THE POTION GARDENER features a nonbinary trans masc magic user in disguise who convinces a butch garden witch to brew them DIY hormone potions. Low stakes, trans joy, gender euphoria. Cozy fantasy romance, 140 pages. Kindle+: books2read.com/u/bo5aPa

Desperate to escape a messy romance, Florian Mulberry flees London: tipsy, panicked, and without a plan. It’s while hiding in a rural garden shed that he meets Kells, a potion witch, who agrees to shelter him in exchange for manual labor until he gets his life together. Leaving his pampered London existence to work on a secluded cottage farm is a shock, but Florian throws himself into it with passionate determination. And it’s not just gardening he's passionate about. In no time, Florian falls head over heels for his skillful, hardworking mentor. There’s just one problem. Florian is only disguised as a boy, and the enchantment hiding his real body is going to wear off. Florian’s main concern is how to explain himself when it happens. He's definitely not a girl, but he's not entirely a boy, either. With all the magic in Kells’ garden, there must be a way to achieve his ideal androgyny. However he looks, Florian will have to face his past if he wants a future with Kells. Even if he avoids London forever, eventually his past is going to come looking for the girl he used to be. The Potion Gardener is a low-stakes, low-angst cozy fantasy novella in the Flos Magicae series, a collection of queer romances set in an alternate 1920s world with magic. Featuring a trans, nonbinary lead, a butch cis lesbian love interest, a scruffy terrier with anxiety, and a great deal of gardening. All the Flos Magicae stories are standalones, and can be read in any order.The Potion Gardener illustrated cover art: a couple sits on a park bench with a terrier, surrounded by flowers, crystals, and insects in a symmetrical pattern against a spring green background.
Dani Finn 🐙@danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 3d ago

In honor of short books, if you wrote or read a trans novel or novella 300 pages or under, tell us about it and why we should read it! 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚

Cedar McCloud@cedarmccloud.bsky.social · 3d ago

I missed yesterday's but today's is practically MADE for my current WIP, since Flamekeeping has song-based magic and the Eternal Library series has a lot of *actual* songs in it, particularly traditional folksongs. Please have a lil snippet of an important Flamekeeper origin song-story 🔥🎶 #WIPSnips

Black text on a lavender background: In the time before time before time, Before your time or mine, and yet, It might have happened yesterday, Tangwystl Sunspark became the Flame of Light. Listen hard and listen well, Dear dreamer, dear child, around the hearthfire To this song I sing and tale I tell, Of the first of Flames, the first of us to know The Mountain’s full glory, whom fate befell. Those times were dark, so dark indeed, People scattered on so many divides, None to draw them together, none to lead, So chaos was sown and tended in field, War what was reaped, peace not the seed. In the night Tangwystl stared at the moon, As it hung over white-covered peak, stars Circled like a crown, like diamonds strewn, Grieving such loss, feeling such fear, Something had to be done, and had to be soon.
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 3d ago

The #WIPSnips word for November 5th is "song" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag November 5 - song Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics Synonyms, variation and vibes are fine. Support others on the #WIPSnips tag! Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social The image behind the text is a border that is dark blue with gold stars with a black background with neon blue border. An illustrated caticorn holding a pencil and writing in a book with a rose behind one ear is in the lower right corner. A different version of the same illustrated caticorn is curled up writing in the lower left corner
Cedar McCloud@cedarmccloud.bsky.social · 5d ago

Perhaps, if I'm lucky, tunneling under the wall I hit last week on drafting Eternal Library book 4. "This is the hardest book I've ever written" I said about book 3. Well! Here we are again! Lol.

Cedar McCloud@cedarmccloud.bsky.social · 6d ago

A new painting I did recently of Aeronwy, one of the main characters in my Eternal Library series, and the narrator of book 3 and 4! Watercolor and mixed media, 13"x18"ish, my favorite thing I've painted in a long time! Plus a WIP shot for fun ✨🎨🖌️

A watercolor and mixed media painting featuring a brown frame with multiple windows, some tall and thin, some long and thin, and one large circular panel as the focus on the top right. Top left panel: a shelf of ornate red and orange books. Bottom left panel: a narrow view of a bookbinding workshop, featuring an antique nipping press, finishing press, and pegboard of tools. Second left panel: a narrow view of a cabinet full of pigment jars, in rainbow order, behind a table holding flasks of processed red and ochre pigment, a mortar and pestle, and tray of finished paint. Right circular panel: Aeronwy, an androgynous indigenous person with black and gray hair pulled into a bun, wearing a red shirt and drawing at a wooden illustration table. Behind em is a large, old window cut into diamond shapes. In the top left corner above the circle panel is an array of paintbrushes. In the top right corner above the circle is an array of colored pencils. At the bottom of the circle are several large ink bottles and two chunks of amethyst. Bottom right panel: a shelf of ornate books ranging from orange to yellow to green to blue to purple and pink.A photo of the previously described painting in process. Much of the color and detail is still missing, including the frame that surrounds all the panels.
Cedar McCloud@cedarmccloud.bsky.social · last wk.

All of RoAnna's books are AMAZING and Chameleon Moon as a series is so incredibly good and both validating AND hopeful in these dreadful times. Support some indie queer hopepunk art with your dollars! I know I can't wait to read this, and also reread the prior books!!

🎃Still Spooky Sylver🌙🦎@roannasylver.com · last wk.

I know everything is still Happening and chaotic and devastating, but this closes in 48 HOURS and I do have to keep posting about it lol 😭💔 That and I genuinely love it and think it's good so. 💜 Join me in some weird queer art, please. 🌈

Cedar McCloud@cedarmccloud.bsky.social · last wk.

A couple days left on my Ace Week book sale! What if you could write and make magic books all the way from scratch/by hand and also deal with all your trauma and get adult adopted by a cool mentor?? Queer, poly, ace, aro, almost everyone uses e/em pronouns! THE THREAD THAT BINDS is book one!

A graphic sharing information about Cedar's books for the Ace Week book sale. Top text: "ACE WEEK SALE! Found family fantasy about magic bookbinders and librarians." Center left image: the paperback and ebook cover for THE THREAD THAT BINDS, with a "no AI" stamp. Center right: Drawings of the ace characters in the book, with labels. Tabby, gray-ace: a femme white person with short blond hair and a kind expression. Rhiannon, aroace: an androgynous indigenous person with big red glasses and purple hair. Label: "Both are narrators, in a QPR together!" June, demisexual, mentor: an older androgynous white person with gray and red hair and blue glasses. Bottom text: "numinousspiritpress.com"
Cedar McCloud@cedarmccloud.bsky.social · last wk.

This has been a struggle week for writing, lots of deleting and re-outlining, but alas, that's part of the process, especially with the Eternal Library Series, which tackles some complex stuff! I always go in hoping this won't happen but it always does 🙃😂

Candace Harper@foxglovefiction.com · 2w ago

HAPPY ACE WEEK FRIENDS! I, your friendly local internet asexual, would like to take this chance to tell you a little bit about all of my asexual books and where you can get them!

Cedar McCloud@cedarmccloud.bsky.social · 2w ago

Last week I cleared out as much admin/non-writing work as I could, so ostensibly, I can write freely for the next four weeks straight. I'd like to finish part two of my current draft, which is probably like 50k words. Can we do this? MAYBE!! HERE WE GO, just about 2.5k words down for today so far!