Deborah Beale

@mrstad.bsky.social

BOOKS, BABY, BOOKS. SF, fantasy & @TadWilliams, from publisher/editor/writer/mother of business/mother of 4/yarn freak. Bits of archaeo-anthropology & paleontology sprinkled in. Occasional fibre works.

📚 "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, U wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours & U could call him up on the phone whenever U felt like it. Doesn’t happen much, though.” #CatcherInTheRye pub'd 75 yrs ago today. Hint below 💙

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Honored to be a part of this wonderful collection! Huge thanks to @wordrat.bsky.social and the @flashfictiononline.bsky.social team for including me in this gorgeous anthology of resistance!

Flash Fiction Online@flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today we are so excited to release RESIST, an FFO anthology, guest edited by Jeanna Cammarano (@wordrat.bsky.social ), whose powerful editorial really sets the tone for this collection. Check out her words and grab a copy today! #writingcommunity #flashfiction flashfictiononline.com/issues/resis...

🧝eBook Discount! SHADOWMARCH by Tad Williams is only $1.99 on BookBub and Kindle Daily Deals. This is the first epic fantasy in an “intricate, intriguing” saga set in a conflicted land of humans, elves, and dwarves. buff.ly/QmhLKf1

Ebook sale: Shadowmarch by Tad Williams. Now $1.99. Price drop!

TANGLEWOOD (2016) Oil on Canvas - 10” x 8” Even though this leftover has a Hobbit in it, it’s not related to any story. It’s just what I felt like painting. The oils left on my palette were from a session spent trying to visualize the Witchwood trees for a Tad Williams’ Osten Ard novel. 1/3

Against hazy gray sky, a small figure sits in profile with arms resting on upraised knees. His high perch of smooth curling wood snakes and branches beneath him dividing into thinner tendrils of swampy roots that extend off the bottom of the panel. A pale yellow sun—interrupted by implied clouds in an atmospheric effect—settles to the right of the twisting wooden arch.