— who are you & what do you write?
🌹Vanessa | Canada | 20's. I write and occasionally can be convinced to draw. I also do professional copyediting and line editing (details over here).🌹
Fantasy is my poison of choice. I favour slow-burn, character-heavy fantasy, where I can build cultures, religions, and plenty of spike-filled pits to shove my characters into.
I write about books, movies, fandom, and feminism on Substack.
You can catch me proofreading for @thewhumpyprintingpress .
— sweet, what can i read right now?
🌹Deep Roots (Realmweaver I), my debut series. It follows Irving, a half-elf who just can’t stay on the right side of Elvish law. They take a risky job to steal from a palace to get out of their current predicament…and wind up getting tied up in the games of the gods instead. [Amazon | Kobo | Itch.io (soon!)]
🌹Other People’s Heartache, a 21k exploration of an arrogant magical medic and his sister, the illegal magic that ties them tightly together, and the cursed royal woman who will tear them apart. [Free on Ko-Fi | Kobo | | Itch.io (soon!)]
🌹Ballad Underfoot, a 9k retelling of Orpheus & Eurydice with the genders swapped, and make Hades the Unseelie King. [Free on Ko-Fi]
🌹I Unlocked the Villainess's Romance Route!!, an F/F serial where a fandom-famous fic writer falls into the otome game she's obsessed with. Instead of flirting with the bachelors or training in magic, she's determined to save the life of the villainess--even when a murder mystery from the game's cutting room floor starts to haunt them. [Tapas Premium; ongoing]
— what anthologies are you in?
🌹In Bloom, a bloody Sleeping Beauty retelling where a prince well-versed in travelling between fairy tales is caught by a monstrous princess, intrigued by his memories and the world beyond her tower that they show her. [In Once Upon a Blade]
🌹A Song for Galatea. In mid-century America, clockwork songstress Galatea makes her business in the old glamour she was literally built to represent. She installs instruments into prospective starlets, changing their fates one string at a time. Until Cassandra, seemingly a patient like any other, asks more of Galatea than anyone has before. [In Whumporatory]
