E.V. Caldwell

A decade ago, I found an empty, lit carnival in Vienna, strangely suspended in time. That same quiet strangeness lives in the book I'm writing: an ancient crow, an untrained mage & a soul bond that could save her town or expose her to whatever is ravaging it. 💙📚 Art & lore evcaldwell.com/TheCircle

Comment your top five authors. #BookSky #7SyllableSentence

Forged in FIYAH is an anthology everyone should check out: it features some of the best stories @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social has published over the last 10 years and the work they do in highlighting BIPOC voices is so important. PLUS THEY'RE JUST DAMN GOOD STORIES GO READ THEM #booksky

Currently enjoying the dark mood of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab. It feels perfect for October. What are you reading? #BookSky

Ursula K. Le Guin was born #OTD in 1929. First female author to win both the Nebula & Hugo awards for Best Novel for "The Left Hand of Darkness," 1970. In total, she won 8 Hugo & 6 Nebula awards. Second woman Grand Master of the #ScienceFiction & Fantasy Writers of America. #SciFi #LitSky #BookSky

Rain waits while clouds turn to rust. #BookSky #7SyllableSentence [Photo by Andre Moura]

Shimmering Iris 🌱✨ a new piece in my ongoing series of paintings called ‘A Starry Place’ where I explore spaces meaningful and nostalgic to me.

What frightens you more in a fantasy story? A monster that wants to kill you... Or a seemingly kind person who knows everything about you, can predict your decisions, and insists they're only trying to help? I'd choose the second. At least with the monster, you know where you stand. #booksky

Cut a scene today. It was a sweet early moment with good character building, but it slowed the opening and felt out of place in an otherwise heavy chapter. Do you stash your cut scenes for later, or let them go? #BookSky #AmWriting

At this point I am 100% sure Alex Larkspur cannot write a bad story! This is the perfect cozy horror to read on a cold fall day w/ your favorite drink and a fluffy blanket! #booksky 📚🌈 📚💙 📚🩸

Found a web waving in the breeze above the falls. #Nature #Photography #PNW #Video

Here's one of the endpapers I did for the @wraithmarked.bsky.social special edition of Frankenstein, out now on Kickstarter! This time I was exploring the idea of Frankenstein as the modern Prometheus, I had a lot of fun with the foil on this one ✨

Building a world where magic and ecology are inseparable. I delve into the magic system in this month’s Circle letter: evcaldwell.com/TheCircle #BookSky #DigitalArt [Feather art by @geekycleary.bsky.social]

🍄‍🟫 One fungi to rule them all 👑 #mushroomphotography #southernoregon #nature #pacnorthultra #fungifriday

Leaves rise above stagnant clouds, the vivid red of autumn against the poison-red haze. #7SyllableSentence #BookSky #Abstract [Art by Fachri Himself]

Outlast it. #BookSky

Join Convenant?

Some read, some waiting. Which should be next? #BookSky

Unfinished piece for a current commission. The client has requested a modification that will take this illustration to a different direction, but I wanted to shred this one before moving to the new version. #birds

#7SyllableSentence #Poetry #Nature #BookSky

Do you flip through and count the remaining pages and hours when you are enjoying a book or when you are not enjoying it? #BookSky

Landscapes of Proteus #artsky #ocsky #scifi #cyberpunk #protheus

Reading "Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil," I'm immediately reminded how much I love the intricate, architectural tension in V.E. Schwab's writing. What's your favorite of hers? #BookSky #AmReading

Love this, from my hometown library. Please share! 🗃️ 📚 🗽 #BannedBooksWeek www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned

In the strange limbo between wanting to hold on to that vacation feeling after it ended and the pressure to be productive. #Photography #Nature

Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!

There's something about writing by firelight. The look of every flame is the same, but each has its own rhythm, forging a new path through the air. Stories are like that. We recognize their shape but delight in their unique movements. #BookSky #Photography

Growth and Decay I saw a sapling growing from the stumps of a decaying tree while walking my huskies and imagined the ghost of the dead tree watching over its successor. 1/2 #art #painting #tree

Reveling in the silence before the patter of rain, mourning the silence after. #7SyllableSentence #Photography #BookSky #Nature

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I almost missed that this beautiful new volume of stories inspired by, and in honour of, Ursula K Le Guin is now out! Edited by @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social and featuring tales from a host of excellent authors (see alt txt for the list), this really looks like a fantastic collection. 💙📚🪐 #SFF

Focusing on finishing a chapter today so I can be fully present during a much-needed trip this weekend. Photos from the top of a waterfall to follow. What are you working on before the weekend? #AmWriting #BookSky

What’s a fantasy book where coercion is disguised as choice? #BookSky 💬📚

The soil clings to our stories in seeds, bones, and quaking rocks, always true, often ignored. #7SyllableSentence #BookSky #Poetry #Nature [Photo by Stephane Bidouze]

Still thinking about that crow question from last week? The short answer: her town is next. The long answer, how he chooses her and what it costs her, is what I'm writing now. Pieces of it go to The Circle before anywhere else. evcaldwell.com/TheCircle #Booksky

The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth Trilogy @nkjemisin.bsky.social gives one of the most accurate representations of grief from death I’ve ever read. As someone with a young son, this was especially difficult to process but important to recognize. #AmReading #BookSky #Fantasy

Gladly lured by the siren. #7SyllableSentence #Booksky [Photo by zorotoo’s images]

Started doing this with my current read. #Booksky

What would convince an ancient crow to offer his last soul bond to an untrained mage? He won't let her town be next, but using her magic will leave her visible to whatever is ravaging it. More of this world goes to The Circle first evcaldwell.com/TheCircle #Booksky #Art by @geekycleary.bsky.social

79 Candles 🎂 today for STEPHEN KING

Spear the divide, bleed the wound. #7SyllableSentence #Photography #BookSky [Photo by me]

N.K. Jemisin is the first author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 3 consecutive yrs for her Broken Earth series & first to win for all 3 novels in a trilogy. Recipient MacArthur Genius Grant, 2020. She was born #OTD in 1972. Happy Birthday @nkjemisin.bsky.social 🎈 #SciFi #Fantasy #BookSky

Which fantasy villain’s logic did you understand a little too well? #Booksky

"Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human." - Vicious by V.E. Schwab #BookSky 💙📚 #BookQuote

What would it take to convince an ancient crow to offer his last soul bond to someone with barely any magic training? #Booksky

#7SyllableSentence #BookSky