erionmakuo:

Packaging illustration done for Everything Dice

I gotta get better at remembering to post updates on tumblr BUT I’m working on my second round of revisions for Violet Made of Thorns! And I sent off cover ideas! And it’s coming out a little earlier than expected (Summer 2022)! Publishing is incredibly slow if you’re not aware, so that’s kind of all the updates I have :’D but knowing I’ll have a book out next year continues to be perpetually surreal. If anyone has any questions about publishing or what to look out for, I can do my best to answer!

Also feeling tender about etc. etc. these days, because people still talk to me about it from time to time (and I’ve also seen?? people talk about it in the wild?? wild). I used its character work as a jumping off point for my original stuff, but the sharpest, silliest, most specific parts of it will only ever live on in that fic, because it was written for a fandom audience and really only could have thrived as fic. I’d never try to recreate what etc. etc. allowed me to do, because I’m already satisfied with what it accomplished. Knowing I wrote something that people think about years later is the most fulfilling thing and when I finished it in 2016, I wouldn’t have imagined this legacy <3

In other news, I uh…. watched and read all of Jujutsu Kaisen? Also inexplicably got super back into kpop. \o/ pandemic life

ronbeckdesigns:

Blooms of Insect Wings Created by Photographer Seb Janiak

(via Blooms of Insect Wings Created by Photographer Seb Janiak | ron beck designs)

scifi-fantasy-horror:

by  Dominik Mayer

(Source: scifi-fantasy-horror)

monstress:

“IT WILL BE SO. IT WILL BE SO. IT WILL BE SO.”

@jlc2007: oh my goodness! congrats and it sounds amazing!!!

@quillsandflourishes: congrats!!

thank you!! :’)

@violetephemera: That new title is fantastic! It sounds refreshingly different from most YA titles. Congrats! I’m looking forward to reading the finished books!

thank you Susan!! The new title was a… journey :’D (that is, brainstorming a new one was most of the reason why I couldn’t announce sooner ahaha, we couldn’t agree on a final one!!) but I’m so happy with Violet Made of Thorns, it makes me daydream of potential book covers.

HEY HEY I’M PUBLISHING MY BOOK which is actually a whole FANTASY DUOLOGY!!!!!! The title is now changed from what you may know; it’s now called VIOLET MADE OF THORNS and it’s coming out Fall 2022 from Delacorte Press. You can add it to goodreads here!

I have a long blog post typed out for later that I’ll be posting to my author tumblr @actualgina, but until then, please know I am SO HYPED for this and so thankful for everyone who’s followed me over the years. I hope y’all know by now how much your support has meant to me, because it’s what got me on this path in the first place.

You’ll have to wait two years for this book, but the ultimate chapter update is coming!! I promise. Because I’m contracted for it :’D

actualgina:

The Foreshadow authors will be talking crafts and stories on the virtual tour! There are five stops, each with different authors, plus Emily and Nova - I’ll be at the one at Oblong Books!

“What Doesn’t Kill You”
Thursday, Oct. 29 at 7pm ET
Hosted by: Oblong Books, Rhinebeck, NY (via Zoom)
Emily X.R. Pan & Nova Ren Suma with story contributors Tanya Aydelott, Tanvi Berwah, and Gina Chen
More info & RSVP here
Order a signed copy (signed by Emily and Nova) from Oblong Books.

You can find the full details of the entire tour here.

The FORESHADOW anthology is now out!

Buy from Indiebound / Barnes & Noble / Amazon

and RSVP for the tour stops!

the time has come!!!! for a good reason :)

I will be deleting these fics from hpff, ffnet, ao3 on… let’s say October 15 to give some notice:

• etc. etc. (and life goes on)
• Game
• Play
• Dreamscape
  
• Concupiscence
• Sailing Ship
• Afternoon Dust
• Unraveling

These are a mix of fics I don’t love anymore and some fics that ah, run a little too close to original things I’m writing. Feel free to save and privately share them! I’m not doing an aggressive scrub, but I’d like them to be a little less googleable now, ya know.

remainingso:

plz take this quiz i made where i sort you into a hyper-specific YA prince storyline you’ll enjoy it i promise there are pretty kpop pictures for every result 

carlydraws:

Have just finished the incredible Harrow the Ninth from @tazmuir, it was SO GOOD!

Please brace for more fan art, I cannot resist. :-D Here’s something I did for ‘Gideon the Ninth’.

I have a new author tumblr up at @actualgina! This is the one linked on my website, meant for a wider audience, so it’s primarily for professional updates and longer posts, where I put on my full grammar hat (all my casual posts/reblogs will still be here). Follow if you’re interested!

NEW MAIN CAST POST NEW MAIN CAST POST

I finished my big revision last week (tore out like 25k and wrote 20k of new material rip brain) and now I’m making a lot of nonsense content, that’s where I’m at right now creatively. All you really need to know though is the royal twins say cleavage RIGHTS.

picrew credits:
- https://picrew.me/image_maker/43541/
- https://picrew.me/image_maker/26220
- https://picrew.me/image_maker/437426