I have a new painting for @darcyburkeauthor.bsky.social 's new Kickstarter for The Forbidden Duke! This depicts a ball scene where Eleanor and Titus have a romantic dance. I love painting candlelit ball scenes, and I even made a batch of Italian lemon ochre acrylic paint for this piece.

Dear authors, using promo posts with AI generated slop will not make me want to read your book

I have a new painting for @darcyburkeauthor.bsky.social 's new Kickstarter for The Forbidden Duke! This depicts a ball scene where Eleanor and Titus have a romantic dance. I love painting candlelit ball scenes, and I even made a batch of Italian lemon ochre acrylic paint for this piece.

Portrait of one Lt John Elphinstone Fleming, a dangerous British operative during the Revolutionary War. (A commission of an OC inspired by Jason Isaac's character in The Patriot, specifically for Harry Turtledove's Atlantis cycle) #art #commission #redcoat #revolutionarywar #americanrevolution

Happy St Patrick's day everyone! I love the Old Irish poem Pangur Ban, written by a 9th century Irish monk at the Richenau Abbey in Germany, for his white cat named Pangur Ban. Here's a drawing I did of the monk and his cat, with pens and fountain pen ink #art #pangurban #monkposting #stpatricksday

Happy St Patrick's day everyone! I love the Old Irish poem Pangur Ban, written by a 9th century Irish monk at the Richenau Abbey in Germany, for his white cat named Pangur Ban. Here's a drawing I did of the monk and his cat, with pens and fountain pen ink #art #pangurban #monkposting #stpatricksday

A commission of a twenty year old Napoleon and my client’s character Margriet van Helmont, a beautiful young refugee from the Austrian Netherlands #illustration #art #napoleon #napoleonbonaparte #painting #frenchrevolution #historicalromance

currently reading Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe, and while the prose dazzles, it leaves me feeling extremely ambivalent. Severian is definitely the guy of all time, and the book is extremely dense, esoteric and horny. #bookofthenewsun #genewolfe

There are a number of romance novelists posting AI generated portraits of themselves on Facebook, and it is sooooooooo off-putting

@nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social Father Alvito 1980 vs Father Alvito 2024

A sketch I did of Actaeon and Maya, the hero and heroine from ACTAEON, my time travel romance novel set in ancient and modern Greece (4th century BCE and 2004 respectively). Maya even has an early 2000s digital camera. #classicstober2025

I love a good juicy fandom scandal, and this one is truly ridiculous. The linked “artwork” is so appallingly bad— there’s a crucifix on the wall on one piece, and in another Cersei is missing a leg. Wtf

Tristan Elwell@tristanelwell.bsky.social · last yr.

Holy shit. Check out the new A Feast For Crows illustrated edition. Way to kill your career in the most high-profile way possible. And I'm talking about EVERYBODY involved, except GRRM, who I have to assume wasn't.

@tkingfisher.com Hi there! I was wondering if it was possible to buy signed copies of The Hollow Places and Paladin's Grace? I love these books very much, and I would be delighted to have signed and inscribed hard copies, if that's a thing that's possible.

My books A QUESTION OF TIME and DOORS are not available at the moment due to the sad closing of Champagne Book Group, but they will find a new home soon, along with the other books in my TIMES BETWEEN series.

May I introduce Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus and Julia Verrucia, characters from the first novel I ever wrote, way back when I was 16, who still live rent-free in my head. (Yes, I was writing ancient Roman historical romance in high school)

A sketch I drew of Kathleen O'Connor and David Thornley, the main characters from Candice Ransom's YA hist rom Kathleen, an exciting story about an Irish immigrant in the 1840s who falls in love with a rich aspiring author in Boston. #sunfireromance #sunfireseries

A sketch I did of the hero and heroine from my latest time travel romance project, HUNT THE WHITE HIND. Father Nicolas is a Franciscan friar in the 1540s SW, and Cathy, the heroine, is from the 1980s (hence the Casio). It's the ultimate forbidden love and I'm there for it #monkposting

I plan on single-handedly bringing back old school romance art with this series!

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽@jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · last yr.

OMG, @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social is doing me the most gorgeous and amazing art for my Greek monster myth retellings. LOOK AT THIS. Isn't it spectacular (and also tentacular)?! I could NOT sit on it. EVERYONE needs to see this, lol. #BringingBackOldSchoolRomanceArt #Romancelandia

Raw scan of an old sketch of Robespierre I did back in 2007 in one of my old sketchbooks. Happy 267th birthday, Mr. Incorruptible! #robespierre #maximilienrobespierre #sketchbook #sketch #drawing #art #artistsoninstagram

And happy birthday to my favourite Arthurian character, who got dumped into a 2D villain role after the introduction of Lancelot took away his main role as Gwenhwyfar's lover… @lauraashe.bsky.social @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social

it just occurred to me that Claude Frollo in the original NDdP novel is totally a Faust character

I'm working on a series of sketches featuring (slightly) AU versions of NNdP/HOND characters. It's for a future novel (working title As Above, So Below) I'm outlining. The concept is a modern woman traveling back in time to the 1400s & meeting the historical characters who inspired Hugo's novel

Not sure why, but this Robe a la Polonais makes me think of @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social.

Since I've read Notre Dame de Paris aka Hunchback of Notre Dame, the characters have been dancing in my head like extras in a 1980s music video. So have a book canon Frollo and Esmeralda, in the style of a 1970s/80s romance cover

I finally read Notre Dame de Paris (aka the Hunchback of Notre Dame) and I was inspired to draw a book-accurate Dom Claude Frollo

Here, at long last, is the final illustration for the #ttrpg Dandies & Dandyzettes. Here’s the last backer portrait, depicting Shaun in a greatcoat and hessian boots, ready for a duel. #dandiesanddandyzettes

Hey All: Google is pulling the "automatically on for anyone over 18" bullshit with Gemini that the Dropbox did for its AI, but I can't afford to ditch Google Drive/Docs/Workspace. If you have a personal Google Account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off...

Sooooo all my reviews were deleted on Dear Author. That's interesting

I don't post much here about Dandies & Dandyzettes, my Regency TTRPG, largely because we did the kickstarter but it's not available for sale yet, but you might like to look at the illustrations by @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social available in the updates: www.kickstarter.com/projects/204...

Dandies & Dandyzettes

A Regency Role-Playing Game

kickstarter.com

THERE IT IS!!!

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽@jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 2y ago

Ok, ok, twist my arm! @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social, I guess you can consider this "out in the wild" and shareable now. I don't know when this book will be released, but I'm working on it (and I might work harder/faster if y'all get excited, lol).