I'm grinding through giving detailed feedback on an assignment I know the vast majority of my students will never look at. 🫤
Ryan Consell
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Discount Canadian store brand Green brother, fantasy author, lapsed bicycle scientist, Muppet biologist, waistcoat enthusiast, cosplayer, cat haver, he/him. I contain multitudes, sometimes they leak out. Books: https://stealingfromwizards.com
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@premeemohamed.com A question about representation, if you have time. You're a Canadian Author who appears to have an American agent. Have any thoughts about the relative merits of a 🇨🇦 vs 🇺🇸 agent? Much obliged.
Having listened to the entire* @stealingfromwizards.com series twice as of last week, I've just purchased the four DRM-free epub books from Kobo to see how names are spelled and read in my own voice. I'll buy physical copies when there's a box set with nice art 😁
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Pickpocketing and Burglary were published before the ChatGPT watershed. That makes them precious and valuable, like low-background steel. @scalzi.com says so.
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 5d agoI've written a longer piece on the book that's been pulled due to "AI" use allegations, what that means particularly for newer authors, and what, if anything writers can do in the "AI" era to prove their work is their own: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/31/a...
Stealing from Wizards, the kinder, quirkier, queerer, Canadianer magic school series. Read the complete quadrilogy: Pickpocketing Burglary Kidnapping Arson Wizards, thieves, and misfits engaging in high adventure and petty crime. Stealingfromwizards.com #booksky
I think I biked past @astrokatie.com yesterday, and almost stopped to say "hi." Then I remembered I don't actually know her, I only know internet her, and she definitely doesn't know me. Parasocial relationships are weird.
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I've hit a weird wall as an indie author where I feel like I'm holding my work back. Folks love it, but I've reached the limit of what I have the time and knowledge to promote it. Well, I guess I'll go back to waiting for sempai to notice me.
I started reading this this week, and I love it! A good friend of mine described it as Canadian Harry Potter without the TERF. It is boundless creativity.
Just finished @stealingfromwizards.com's first Stealing From Wizards book and immediately picked up the next one. If you haven't read it or if you have kids who love books about magical kids, you should definitely grab yourself a copy! #BookSky #BookRecs
It appears *someone* is engaging in public villainy again. As an author of fantasy books for young people, I feel I should reiterate that I and my stories support and welcome all of the LGBTQIA2+ folk, and I wish you could live in a world that was much kinder to you. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Just finished listening to a series of audiobooks... a very good series about a young boy attending wizard school. No, of course I'm not talking about THAT one. I'm talking about THIS one:
Ryan Consell@stealingfromwizards.com · 3w agoStealing from Wizards, the kinder, quirkier, queerer, Canadianer magic school series. Read the complete quadrilogy: Pickpocketing Burglary Kidnapping Arson Wizards, thieves, and misfits engaging in high adventure and petty crime. Stealingfromwizards.com #booksky
This right here, this is how you support authors. ❤️ Book recommendations spread like a disease. Gotta get the R₀>1.
Florian Zenker 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈@flo.znkr.io · 2w agoIn that case, let me continue to recommend the series too everyone :)
Okay, some folk are being extremely kind today with the last episode of Stealing from Wizards coming out, and I'm going to bask in it. Mute me if you want.
Just finished listening to the final episode and all I can say is bravo Ryan!
Ryan Consell@stealingfromwizards.com · 2w agoThe very final episode of the Stealing from Wizards audiobook Podcast is out today. Binge all four books. Escape the blandlands. Join the fireflies at Avalon Academy. 📚💙 📚🪐 📚🎧 stealingfromwizards.com/podcast
I teared up (in a good way!) listening to it. Such a wonderful series of books, with marvellous characters. You stuck the ending SO satisfyingly, and didn't drag it out. Thank you, thank you, thank you, for such a wonderful journey! 🦝 🐉
The very final episode of the Stealing from Wizards audiobook Podcast is out today. Binge all four books. Escape the blandlands. Join the fireflies at Avalon Academy. 📚💙 📚🪐 📚🎧 stealingfromwizards.com/podcast
Stealing from Wizards Audiobook Podcast — Stealing from Wizards
A story of magic, mischief, theft, and friendship.
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Editing the last chapter of the Stealing from Wizards audiobook and I'm having so many feelings. This is the end of an almost decade long project. FEEELINGS!!!
I loathe the perverse incentives of social media. I've spent years talking about Stealing from Wizards on its own merits. I make one insta video where I claim it's better than Harry Potter and suddenly it's blowing up. Dear internet, please stop motivating me to be mean for profit.
Is this the left hand of a mountain, or the bottom of a hockey stick? Stealing from Wizards has had a sudden surge on Spotify, and it's bad for my brain. I have to be ready for the spike to drop off precipitously, and for it to continue upward. I'm emotionally prepared for neither. 📚🪐 📚💙 📚🎧
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It is neither foggy nor cloudy. Southern Ontario smoke is thick. 😬
Okay bsky peeps, thirsty post time. Stealing from Wizards is blowing up right now, and anything y'all could do to add fuel to the fire would be incredible. This post kicked it off, and it's been wild. 📚🪐 📚💙 📚🎧
Ryan Consell on Instagram: "I usually avoid talking about Harry Potter or Rowling. I would prefer that Stealing from Wizards stands on its own merits, and I on mine as an author rather than in compari...
19K likes, 312 comments - studentofwhim on July 8, 2026: "I usually avoid talking about Harry Potter or Rowling. I would prefer that Stealing from Wizards stands on its own merits, and I on mine as an...
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The penultimate episode is out today! Listen to the full four book series. Fall in love with Avalon Academy and their students. Drown out the horrors of the real world one chapter at a time. Tell the world. stealingfromwizards.com/podcast #booksky #fantasybooks #podcasts #audiobooks
Stealing from Wizards Audiobook Podcast — Stealing from Wizards
A story of magic, mischief, theft, and friendship.
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Whoo, it's smokey out today. You can taste the air in Southern Ontario. 😶🌫️ Breathe safe everyone.
I'm writing a gay romance about competing woodpeckers. It's called Pileated Rivalry
Ness 🎃🇨🇦@vriccithode.bsky.social · 3w agoi'm writing a gay romance about rival tailors it's called pleated rivalry