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Pumpkin Daydreams @pumpkin-daydreams.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Because of that one elevator scene in #SpiderManBrandNewDay. 🍑✨

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Floris Books @florisbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Join our team! We are recruiting for a part-time Junior Designer with an eye for design, page layout, typography and illustration, and a head for project management. Find full information and details on how to apply here - www.florisbooks.co.u... Closing: 9th October 2026 at 5pm. #jobsinpublishing

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Join us Tuesday for a free webinar with authors @laridonwriter.bsky.social and David Isaacson discussion their new books from @florisbooks.bsky.social and #PawPrints respectively, plus a selection of new releases from international and independent presses 1pm EDT/10am PDT September 22

The big Five Save the Lions book cover and David Isaacman portrait

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Lari Don @laridonwriter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I had so much fun sharing #CelticTales in the @edbookfest.bsky.social schools programme a couple of weeks ago. The pupils had splendid ideas for monster-defeating stories, and asked lots of excellent questions! (illustrations and cover art by @elisecillustration.com ) @discoverkelpies.bsky.social

A white woman with silver hair, wearing black vest and trousers, and kimono top with green and blue pattern on white, smiling and holding an open book. The book cover shows a black horse leaping across top of the cover, a seal wearing golden crown at the bottom, a wave of seawater curving between them. Title in green foil, centred between the horse and the seal: Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales, Magical Stories from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany. Two names in yellow at the bottom of the cover: Lari Don and Elise Carmichael. Behind the woman is a tent with the words ‘Courtyard Theatre’ visible.

White woman with silver hair, wearing white facemask, plus black vest and kimono top with green and blue patterns on white. She’s sitting at a table covered in black fabric, with a black banner behind saying Waterstones. There is an open book on the table, with the title Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales in green writing. There are some coloured sharpies on the table, and a messy pile of yellow post-it notes. The woman is signing the book with a blue pen.

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Lari Don @laridonwriter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One week to go! I’m so excited about sharing Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales in @edbookfest.bsky.social schools prog next Tue. I’m looking forward to sharing @elisecillustration.com’s fab illustrations and one of my fave monsters! www.edbookfest.co.uk/schools #CelticTales #storytelling #edbookfest

Two books on wooden table, one closed, showing cover art: black horse leaping across top of cover, seal wearing golden crown at bottom, wave of seawater curving between them. Title in green foil, centred between the horse and the seal: Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales, Magical Stories from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany. Two names in yellow at the bottom of the cover: Lari Don and Elise Carmichael
The other open, showing an illustration of a huge brown hairy monster - with long white fangs, long black tusks, and silver claws - leaping out of water and trying to grab a small boy who is dangling from the branch above the water.
Cover art and illustration by Elise Carmichael

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Faith @faithschaffer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I had the great pleasure of illustrating the hard cover for the @faecrate.bsky.social edition of Allison Saft's new book "Immortal Game"! Such a fun book and project ❤️

Black and white illustration. The two main characters of Immortal Game face each other over a chess board. One is a human, one is a fae princess. They are sitting in a ruin covered in vines.

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Elise Carmichael / she/her @elisecillustration.com · 12/08/2026

The clouds cleared a bit after the peak!!! Still managed to get some picturessss <3 :D

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Sam: So maybe eventually the AI will become a genie and grant wishes. Theo: Whoa. Sam: And if people supported it, it will know that and it will be a fun genie like Robin Williams. Theo: [laughs] Cool. Sam: But if they didn’t, it might be an evil genie like Wishmaster. Theo: Oh shit.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

JK Rowling has used her wealth to stoke the fires of a worldwide pogrom against trans people to where she's silenced a Holocaust scholar after JK engaged in Holocaust denial & now done the same to Amnesty International for their warning about trans eradication, but keep buying your Harry Potter crap

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Elise Carmichael / she/her @elisecillustration.com · 06/07/2026

tv shows used to be so bright. let me SEE. LET ME SEE.

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Lari Don @laridonwriter.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I’m very excited about this! I’m doing a #CelticTales event in @edbookfest.bsky.social's schools prog, on Tue 25 Aug, for P4-7s. Looking forward to sharing a monster myth and showing @elisecillustration.com's fab illustrations! More info: www.edbookfest.co.uk/schools @discoverkelpies.bsky.social

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Schools programme | Edinburgh International Book Festival

Teachers, educators, young readers... welcome to the Schools programme!Picture this: dozens of buses rolling up, thousands of little footsteps entering ven

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DiscoverKelpies @discoverkelpies.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Today is #NationalTellAStoryDay, and we've got an absolute page-turner for you from @laridonwriter.bsky.social! Take ten minutes to enjoy this video of Lari telling the waterhorse story from Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales - illustrations by @elisecillustration.com: youtu.be/wv6NhdtnPVk #CelticTales

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Lari Don tells the story of How to Escape a Waterhorse, from Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales

YouTube video by FlorisBooks

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Lari Don @laridonwriter.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Happy St Yves Day! (Patron saint of #Brittany) To celebrate, here are some #Breton fairies, one of @elisecillustration.com's fantastic illustrations in our Celtic Folk & Fairy Tales collection. #StYvesDay #fairies #fairytales #nevertrustafairy @discoverkelpies.bsky.social @florisbooks.bsky.social

open book on wooden table, with full-page illustration showing a tall woman, dressed in blue and green robes, with long auburn pleats, holding a baby in a blue blanket in her left arm. She is standing in the mouth of a cave, and her right arm is reaching up to hold back a curtain of foliage. She is looking down on girl and a woman at her feet, who are dressed in browns and beiges. The tall woman and baby are glowing, beautiful, magical. The folk at her feet look drab and peely wally by comparison. (It probably won’t surprise you to learn that the tall woman is a fairy… )

Shiny book on wooden table, black horse leaping across top of cover, seal wearing golden crown at bottom, wave of seawater curving between them. Title in green foil, centred between the horse and the seal: Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales, Magical Stories from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany. Two names in yellow at the bottom of the cover: Lari Don and Elise Carmichael

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I see no lies here

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/01/2026

Throwback to some drawings of Starfire I did for fun. I still really like them.

Three drawings of my interpretation of DC comics character, Starfire, a young woman with green eyes, orange-ish skin, and long reddish hair. She’s wearing all lavender.

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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MERUZ @automeruz.itch.io · 07/04/2026

drawing while watching nasa stream LOL

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Elise Carmichael / she/her @elisecillustration.com · 31/03/2026

i will be picking this up but also! i really like the cover on this.

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Keegan the Animator @kiwisburnttoast.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Junior Executive Model

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Placeholder assets in a game should look obnoxiously temporary, so obvious that no one would mistake it for the final asset. In past games we've used the doge dog (rip) as an icon, hot pink versions of characters, our CEO's head, etc. If you use a temp asset that seems passable, it may stay there.

Andreas and Werner next to a spit with upside down Bambi on it

Ex Libris page from Pentiment with a smiling line drawing of a person in the middle image

Andreas and pink Gernot stand-in talking to Gernot with a jester hat on

Andreas performing the lemon juice candle minigame revealing the words "Guy sux"

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Marie Enger @ LBX26 Table 409 @soengery.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Alright yall, my inbox is full from folks privately reaching out (please always feel free to publicly post if your contract allows) about CURRENT COVER RATES in 2026 Strap in

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Elise Carmichael / she/her @elisecillustration.com · 17/03/2026

One of my favorite illustations in this book! Happy St. Patrick's day!

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Elise Carmichael / she/her @elisecillustration.com · 16/03/2026

I did a short course as a part-time student at the Edinburgh Atelier of Fine Art! My whole eight weeks (Fridays from 12-5) was going this copying exercise/bargue. Never done anything like this before and I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would!

Graphite pencil drawing of a lithograph, of the Roman general Agrippa.

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Elise Carmichael / she/her @elisecillustration.com · 16/03/2026

Pre-order a book I did a cover for! Victoria is a wonderful author and working with Tiny Tree is always lovely. And the book is fantastic too!

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Nozomi M waitlist/alert list open! @nozomimats.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

A three part commission done for @lemongrace.bsky.social 💙

Three siblings visit their mother's resting place at different times of the day.

The first image depicts a night elf with long white hair in a bun and a long braid, with pale skin, wearing a long white dress and semi transparent cape, carrying a bouquet of flowers in her arm. She is facing an ornate sarcophagus placed in the middle of the room with a gentle expression on her face. Pale morning light fills the room from the entrance, coming in from the left of the viewer.

The second image depicts a well built night elf with pale skin and white hair, and a blue tattoo around his left eye and cheek. He is wearing dark blue clothes with a dark cape over one of his shoulders. He has a solemn expression on his face as he stands looking down on the sarcophagus in the middle of the room, a single blue rose held in his left hand. A bouquet left by his sister lays on the sarcophagus. Warm light comes in from the entrance at noon.

The third image depicts a night elf with white hair and equally pale skin sitting in front of the sarcophagus on the floor. She is wearing a black cloak over her dark clothes and armor. She sits with her knees pulled up to her chest and head resting on her knees with her arms wrapped around herself, distraught. The offerings from her siblings, a bouquet of flowers and a rose sits on the lid of the tomb. The light is a cold blue coming in from the entrance at night.

The scene is set in an ancient mausoleum with an ornate sarcophagus at its center. The room is old and has cracks running across the floors and walls, and vegetation is starting to creep across the room. There are blue candles around the sarcophagus, and blue glowing lights hanging from the ceiling.

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 10/03/2026

Around 10,000 authors have come together to publish Don’t Steal This Book, an empty book protesting the government’s proposed "commercial research exception" to copyright law 👇 #BookSky

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Around 10k authors protest AI commercial research exception with publication of empty book

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DiscoverKelpies @discoverkelpies.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Last chance to submit your entry for the #KelpiesPrize for Writing and Illustration 2026! You have until midnight tonight - Sunday 8th March - to complete your online form and upload your work. discoverkelpies.co.u... Best of luck to everyone!

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Lari Don @laridonwriter.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

It’s #WorldBookDay and it’s St Piran’s Day, the patron saint of #Cornwall. So it’s the perfect day to share a page of #Cornish #piskies! Beautifully illustrated by @elisecillustration.com, for a Piskie Market tale in our Celtic Folk and Fairytales. #StPiransDay #CelticTales #kidilit #kidlitart

An open book, showing a page with a couple of lines of text visible at the top, and below an illustration of market stalls, filled with flowers and shoes and loaves of bread. The stalls are brightly coloured – blue, yellow, red – and the whole scene is cheerful. As well as people buying and selling at the stalls, there is a grey-haired woman sitting down telling a tale to a group of children gathered at her feet. The flowers and grass towering over the stalls indicate that the stalls and people are tiny: it’s a piskie market.
The text visible at the top reads: “The goods for sale were tiny. The stalls were tiny. The people buying and selling were tiny. Jago was looking at a piskie market. A market for the tiny magical folk who live hidden in the quiet corners of Cornwall.”

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/02/2026

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

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Elise Carmichael / she/her @elisecillustration.com · 21/02/2026

An old study of Tiepolo's Antony and Cleopatra, at the National Gallery here in Edinburgh! I need to post more so I'm going through the backlog. This was a fun little study to do in the museum, although I was not used to people coming right up behind me to look over my shoulder. 😅

A pencil drawing/study of Tiepolo's "Antony and Cleopatra". Mark Antony, in ceremonial dress and a large feather plume on his helmet, bends down to kiss Cleopatra's hand as she arrives off her boat into Rome. They are surrounded by onlookers and sailors.

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Matías Bergara @matiasbergara.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Excalibur.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21/02/2026

"But you can't make all those people US citizens" Why not? It shouldn't be harder to make people safe and secure in this country than it is to commit crimes against humanity.

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Mom @milph.mom · 20/02/2026

IT HASN'T EVEN BEEN A WEEK!

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Elise Carmichael / she/her @elisecillustration.com · 18/02/2026

oh shit! oh my god i already love these so much

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Dude regularly works for Disney, DreamWorks, Netflix and CN so speculate away. But this sucks no matter which studio is doing it, and gross to think some major movie this year is running with a plagiarized image from ChatGPT.

Post from Art Director Bill Robinson on LinkedIn saying:

Welp, it finally happened. I was hired to work on a MAJOR live action Hollywood film (and I mean it’s one of the biggest anticipated films of the year). They needed a small animated sequence and wanted a character designer. I was handed a ChatGPT image and told “make it different”. I did - I spent hours finessing the design into something better and more specific for the character in the film. Waited a week for notes - then was told they got clearance from legal to use the original AI image instead. No need for any further work. This is what the director wanted.

What are we doing as a society? What’s the endgame here? Replace every human until we are all homeless? I just don’t get it. If a major Hollywood film with a huge budget doesn’t see the need to work with real artists, is there any hope left?

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.

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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙🌙🦇 @dungeonlust.com · 11/02/2026

Art by • Petar Meseldžija

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

gosh well :( artwork for a cancelled book cover

YA Fantasy book cover of two character portraits, vertically stacked in the composition. The top portrait is of a young woman with octopus tentacles sprouting from her back, holding an ornate sword above her head.
The bottom portrait is of a young man in a white suit leisurely holding a sword by his side, wearing an ornate crown with wrought iron bars sprouting from said crown, bending downwards and forming a cage.

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Zi Xu @ziqqix.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

>has a canon printer >sees they have a subscription plan deal (3 months of free ink) >subscribed to it and got free ink delivered for 3 months. Cancelled after >today I try to print >”ERROR. canon does not allow you to print with a subscription ink cartridge if your subscription is not active”

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Alt: a close up of a cartoon character with one eye

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

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Lari Don @laridonwriter.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Wishing all story-lovers an inspiring and exciting #NationalStorytellingWeek! Here’s a video of me telling a Manx waterhorse tale, with a bit of extra magic added by @discoverkelpies.bsky.social using Elise Carmichael’s fab illustrations: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv6N... #CelticTales #storytelling

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Lari Don tells the story of How to Escape a Waterhorse, from Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales

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Tiny Tree Books 📕 @tinytreebooks.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

📵 Sammy Versus the Smartphone by Victoria Williamson arrives March 26th! Pre-order now: amzn.to/4qS3YLs Sammy battles a tech-obsessed world when her family and friends fall under the spell of a perfect AI interface. Can she reclaim real life before it’s too late? #kidlit

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