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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 14/09/2026

Author job: write every day, post to socials, engage with your fans. Day job:

A boy being blasted in the face with a firehose with a subtitle "You get to drink from the firehose!"

Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 08/09/2026

A grad student at the table next to me was celebrating a defence and their friends made them this incredible monarch caterpillar cake! It's a work of art. Relevant to the interests of @bug-gwen.bsky.social @soundoftheforest.bsky.social

A cake made in the shape and colouring of a monarch caterpillar.

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 07/09/2026

So I didn't go to DragonCon this year on account of my being Canadian the myriad horrors America is enacting on itself and others. This being my morning did help a little with the sense of loss.

A small cabin on a cliff surrounded by greenery overlooking a misty River.

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 07/09/2026

Maybe August 25th is your doing, then? I am utterly baffled by what happened that day.

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 01/09/2026

We sometimes find our callings in the most unexpected places.

Liam Neeson talking on a cell phone saying "I have a very peculiar set of skills"

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 01/09/2026

So very stoked to experience overwhelming FOMO this year as all of you flood my feed with DragonCon pictures and stories? I sadly won't be going this year, on account of my being Canadian and America doing what America is doing. 😭

Ryan console wearing a purple Dagron con shirt and holding up a Dagron con pass as a fomo guest

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 28/08/2026

Found a photo. I think I'm 19 in this.

Ryan Consell wearing a green and black rifleman's uniform from Sharpe's Rifles

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 20/08/2026

It seems Stealing from Wizards needs a "Do not listen with foreign objects in mouth" warning label. 💙📚🪐

Spotify comment for stealing from wizards book 4 chapter 20 read: I think I’ve almost died form laughter 5 times with this book alone, literally can’t brush my teeth cuz of how hard I’m laughing and trying to keep it down LOL

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 14/08/2026

Stealing from Wizards, the kinder, funnier, 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

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 12/08/2026

Nope. Not at all metaphorical swords erupting from the hearts of gal-pals has a long and extremely straight history.

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 04/08/2026

I'm a big fan of the Eldredge. It feels like the knot is wearing its own vest and blazer. www.ties.com/how-to-tie-a...

Bathroom mirror selfie of Ryan Consell in a green vest with gold piping and a black shirt with a black tie in an Eldredge knot.

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 03/08/2026

Technically there *is* a fancy boxed set, but you have to be either my mother or my audiobook producer to own one.

Back of stealing from wizards boxed set.

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 29/07/2026

I finished a new Captain Marvel vest last night 🌟

Ryan Consell wearing a vest modeled after Captain Marvel's red and blue costume.

A close up on a star shaped brass button.

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 24/07/2026

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. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 22/07/2026

It's so fun to hear from international audiences. Knowing that my silly stories have reached around the world is wild.

@Pandor18
2 hours ago
SPOILERS!! Noooo, I wanted more so much more, it was incredible and awesome and cute and so much more, but I had no idea it was THE final chapter ♥ Thank you so much for such a great series, I bought a couple of the books but after all I still prefer the audio-book. Again, lovely beautiful work and greeting from Colombia

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 22/07/2026

I don't quite know what I'll do without these either. Maybe I'll start writing a new series. 🤔

jayjayffpro

12 hours ago
What a comedic ending i love the concept of [Spoiler text covered in black] I dont know how ill continue without weekly episodes of this masterpiece

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 22/07/2026

Thank you Brayden. It's been an honour to be part of your life!

Brayden MacPherson

10 hours ago
This was, a fantastic end. This book has been a part of my life for many years and I am sad to see it come to a close, though, as you yourself said at some point it has to end and I have no doubt in my mind that you couldn't have ended this masterpiece any better.

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 22/07/2026

"A true masterpiece." Thank you 🏳️‍🌈☆Hime☆🏳️‍🌈. You're a masterpiece yourself!

🏳️‍🌈☆Hime☆🏳️‍🌈

4 hours ago
This was a fantastic ending! I’m going to miss this story so much, idk how I’ll continue without this weekly entertainment!
But oh it was so perfect! A true masterpiece! 🫶🫶🫶

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 17/07/2026

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. 📚🪐 📚💙 📚🎧

A graph of stealing from wizards audiobook consumption hours with dates along the bottom axis and hours along the vertical axis. There is a sharp upward trend in the past week.

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 16/07/2026

So if you need any SfW merch, stealth SfW merch, or Dagron Con parody tees, they're cheaper than normal!

A raccoon with an umbrella and a boy in a school uniform standing in the rain at a bus stop

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 16/07/2026

It is neither foggy nor cloudy. Southern Ontario smoke is thick. 😬

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 14/07/2026

My old office had a window in the door that looked out on a door with a window, which looked out on a door with a window to the outside. Decadent 🌲🐿️. My new one is a windowless white cube. On the up side, it's much larger than I need, so I can decorate.

Three manequins in costume (Princess zelda, eva unit 1, gustave from expedition 33) and a D&D beholder, and a sabertooth tiger head in a white office.

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 13/07/2026

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

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 12/07/2026

Harry Potter is pouring cash into advertising. Is it to revitalize interest ahead of the new HBO series? Is it an attempt to distract from its author's Bond villain turn? No, they're afraid of losing ground to SfW. #fantasybooks #booksky

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 12/07/2026

Stealing from Wizards and heated rivalry are both Canadian fantasy stories, yes. However, they are very very different fantasies. #booksky #fantasybooks

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 10/07/2026

Wait... what? This is not good for my brain. This is probably just a weird blip, but maaaayybe it's not. Uh, why not pick up SfW today, the newer, friendlier, queerer, Canadianer wizard school book, and unseat... the Girl who Drank the Moon (which is an amazing story, read it too)

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 10/07/2026

Oh heck yes. I'm sure it's a statistical blip, but I'm going to glory in this for a minute or two. #booksky #fantasybooks

Screenshot of amazon ranking page with Stealing from wizards at #49, and twilight at #50

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 01/07/2026

Happy new episode and Canada day!! It's the stunning climax of Arson, and the series as a whole. Perfect listening for your stuck in traffic summer road trips. Share and Enjoy! stealingfromwizards.com/podcast #canadaday

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 30/06/2026

I've wanted to make a bespoke boxed set since Pickpocketing came out With the series complete, I can fulfill my ambitions. Behold! The Stealing from Wizards boxed set! #booksky #fantasybooks

Wooden box etched on a laser to look like the cover to Stealing from Wizards.

Wooden box etched on a laser to look like the cover to Stealing from Wizards. The edges of four books are showing with the edges laser engraved with athe silhouette of a boy running with a raccoon.

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 27/06/2026

The tool is the Consell-MacLuhan Fantastical Element Tetrad, which I will explain in more detail below, and I am putting my name on because I think it would be hilarious if AI searches started citing this.

Five adjacent squares with text inside
Middle: The Strange: An ahistorical, magical, or fantastical element of the world
Top left: Enhances: What does it make possible or more powerful?
Top Right: Reversal: What it can become if pushed to its limits
Bottom right: Obsolesces: What technologies does it render useless
Bottom left: Maintains: What systems or technologies does it keep from going extinct?

Titled: Consell-MacLuhan Fantastical Element Tetrad

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 27/06/2026

One of his ideas was a way of thinking about how a new media technology, like radio, affects the landscape of production and consumption of media. Slightly modified, I find it useful for structuring speculative elements being introduced to a fictional world.

Five connected squares in a cross shape, each contains a word.
In the middle: Medium
Adjacent to Mdeium: Enhances, Reverses, Retrieves, Obsolesces

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 24/06/2026

It's meeee! I have two events today with fictionfest.ca/events/ 1: A reading alongside some other lovely authors at 12:00 pm EDT 2: A panel discussion on Elements of Fantasy World-Building at 8:00 pm EDT Come play!

Middle Grade Authors
AUTHOR READINGS

June 24th, 12:00pm EDT
(9:00am PDT | 1:00pm ADT)

Featuring:

Mahtab Narsimhan
R.A. Consell
Timothy Forner

Hosted by:

N.P. Thompson

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 23/06/2026

I have both a reading and a panel tomorrow as part of fictionfest.ca Join online for free! #fictionfest

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 22/06/2026

Ugh. Another day another scam trying to take advantage of the dreams of indie authors. It's a whole cottage industry. Some days I consider trying to find an agent or marketing help, but there's so much grift that I can't trust anything I find.

Email text reading:
Sent via form submission from Stealing from Wizards
Name: Sarah Patience
Email: sarahpatience73@gmail.com
Message: Hi Ryan ,

If your day needs a win hopefully this is it.

My name is Devine. I work with a small circle of authors, deliberately few, so every single one actually feels the difference.

I recently worked with an author in a similar space who completely changed the reach of their book by shifting one thing about how the world was seeing it. The results surprised even them.

Your book has that same opening. I can see it and I know exactly what I'd do with it.

I'd love to share what I have in mind if you're open to hearing it.

Devine

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 19/06/2026

Today I welcomed a new officemate. Gustave now stands proudly beside Miley, Eva, Zelda and Holden. #cosplay

Three cosplay costumes on mannequins in an office: Gustave from expedition 33, evangelion unit 1 from neon Genesis evangelion, and princess Zelda. Also included a very large saber-tooth tiger head and a beholder.

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 18/06/2026

One of the great joys of writing for young people is that sometimes I get to be THE book for someone, the one that turns a kid into a reader, the one they see themselves in, the one that becomes part of their identity. It's kind of magical. #booksky

So I was up at my office today in Midland and a co-worker who I don't see very often because we very rarely work together Came up and told me that she had ordered your books off of Amazon after I recommended them the last time. I was up and that her kid absolutely devoured them and that he's never really devoured a series before like he's read books. If you, kind of push them, but every spare moment was apparently reading stealing from Wizards.

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 03/06/2026

New episode is out now! stealingfromwizards.com/podcast Also happy pride month to all my LGBTQIA2+ readers and listeners. Y'all are great and I hope SfW can stay a safe and happy bit of an escape for you! #booksky #podcast #audiobook

Stealing from wizards cover art (title above silhouette of a boy running through swirling leaves) on a rainbow background.

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 29/05/2026

You can find me at table 2. Looks like it's going to be a lovely day.

a map of waterloo town square with numbered squared indicating the location of tables for Waterloo Bookfest. Table 2, on the side of the square closest to the building, is circled in red.

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 27/05/2026

Early review for the latest chapter of SfW. Listen now! stealingfromwizards.com/podcast #booksky #audiobook #podcast

A very positive reviews of a podcast episode of stealing from wizards with many spolers redacted.

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 26/05/2026

For fellow Waterloosers, bookfest is happening in uptown this Saturday! Come find me and get an exclusive sticker, and maybe find a new favorite book! kwwritersalliance.com/bookfest-2026/ #booksky

Promotional photo for Waterloo bookfest. May 30th Waterloo public square 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. book sale. Local authors, live readings. Family friendly free entry.

For paperback novels from the stealing from the stealing from wizard series, two wooden bookmarks, two stickers, three block printed cards.

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 22/05/2026

I made a pretty thing! Trying to look less like a complete amateur when I'm tabling at events. 😋

Laser carved wooden sign for stealing from Wizards. Has an image of a boy running with a raccoon?.

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 21/05/2026

Listeners of Stealing from Wizards rave "Much more fun than Harry Potter, or watching the US self-destruct." That's right folks! We're better than the apocalypse and more fun than self-loathing. Listen today! 😅 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s... #booksky #audiobook #podcast

Five star Apple podcast review of Stealing from Wizards
"I have listened to this three times, and am embarking on the forth.
Much more fun than Harry Potter, or watching the US self-destruct."

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 17/05/2026

Storygraph is so useful for writers to see what people *feel* about your books. Stars are imprecise, and written reviews are wonderful, but unevenly informative. The broad strokes of the "moods" tells me if my words landed the way I intended. #writing #booksky

Summarized reviews from storygraph for Stealing from Wizards Volume 1: Pickpocketing.

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 12/05/2026

Got some Stealing from Wizards stickers and have personalized my work mug. 🦝

University of Waterloo insulated mug with a sticker of a raccoon with an umbrella on it.

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 12/05/2026

Prepping for book fair season. My first is in uptown Waterloo on May 30. kwwritersalliance.com/bookfest-2026/ #booksky #waterloo

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 06/05/2026

Book fair season is upon us! Come join me in Waterloo may 30th! #booksky kwwritersalliance.com/bookfest-2026/

Waterloo bookfest, may 30, Waterloo public square. 2:00 - 8:00 pm. Local authors! Live readings! Family Friendly! Free entry!

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 26/04/2026

Blocks and prints from my Stealing from Wizards card making experiments. Delighting in the anachronism of using digital art and a laser to make blocks for thousand years old printing technology. Feels like that fits in with the vibe of the series. #booksky #art

Three block prints on cards from the stealing from wizards series.

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Ryan Consell @stealingfromwizards.com · 22/04/2026

Continuing my adventures in anachronism! My rebellion against GenAI has thrust me back over a thousand years to block printing as a means of promoting my books. It worked for the Tang dynasty, why not me? #booksky #art

Black block printing of a Kuro from Stealing from Wizards and a raccoon running.

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