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Steph 🧶📚

@stephweavestales.com
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she/her/hers. Author, crocheter, teacher. Life is better with dragons. (And yarn.)

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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 19/08/2025
On my first night in the guest room, I couldn’t sleep. Floorboards creaking, pipes knocking, windows rattling with the wind—all of it would have been more than enough. But the problem was the closet door. #WebSerial #ParanormalFantasy #YAFantasy #Podcast #Wattpad #SerialFiction
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 12/08/2025
The demon fell. And so did I. Exhausted. Floating. Free from the weight I’d been carrying my whole life. #WebSerial #ParanormalFantasy #YAFantasy #Podcast #Wattpad #SerialFiction
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 20/07/2025
This is why you are a wonderful human being
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Ravenna Tran @ravennatran.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
A good reminder.
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 20/07/2025
I love love LOVE the differences in scale. It feels both whimsical, and it makes me think of the size variations of sea life 🦈
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 10/07/2025
I *love* Ladyhawke. my bestie @rachelballa.bsky.social introduced me to it when we were teens and it was one of those, "Oh, are we best friends now?" kind of experiences
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 02/07/2025
You can also read the thing for free at PaxwoodTales.com Or buy the ebook all together: stephweavestales.etsy.com/listing/4329... Or listen in your favorite podcast app!
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Home - Paxwood
Book 1: The Haunting of Paxwood House Purchase The Haunting of Paxwood House as a complete ebook or audiobook on Ko-Fi Enter a world where there's a Chosen One for every prophecy. Kerry wants to find the truth behind the urban legends in Paxwood--and confess her crush on her best friend. When Kerry digs into
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 02/07/2025
Paxwood Book 1: The Haunting of Paxwood House exists as a whole complete thing. Inside, you will find: 🌟 Chosen Ones ✒️ A narrator on the hunt for a good story 🪄 A nonbinary wizard who teaches shop 🗡 A demon slayer who outlived her destiny 👻 Ghosts 🐱 A Glass Cat www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN3U...
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The Haunting of Paxwood House - Complete Compilation
YouTube video by StephWeavesTales
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 02/07/2025
Now that Paxwood Book 1 is complete, I'm putting together an epub and whole audiobook. It's unedited from the podcast, so it has all the rough around the edges charm. I'll probably only sell these on etsy and ko-fi. Some day, I'd love to do a dev edit, line edit, get it a pretty print edition, tho.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 09/06/2025
Amazing how some stories just stay with us!
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 08/06/2025
Happy gotcha day, Lilly! Will you give Lilly a belly rub for her gotcha day? After I adopted her from the rescue, it quickly became clear that she makes space for herself because she came from an unsafe situation, but all she wants is to put more love into the world. Love my chaos gremlin girl 🐾
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 07/06/2025
Maybe my best dragon yet
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 06/06/2025
Ready for #ImaginariumBookFestival and the Tomi Adeyemi Lit Talk
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 02/06/2025
Pride on 4TheWords is one of my favorite annual 4TW events, and this year, it's *punk.* I will write surrounded by rainbows. I will write remembering the first Pride was a riot. I will write inclusively because all my LGBTQIA+ friends deserve a world that embraces and uplifts their existence.
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TC @tcustodis.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Be gay do crow stuff #pridemonth #pridecrows
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 30/05/2025
Could really just use a nice nap right now. Like, almost tempted by a Rip Van Winkle sized nap, as long as the world on the other side of the twenty year nap isn't a dumpster fire.
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 29/05/2025
Outline. Put outline into Aeon Timeline. Sync Aeon Timeline with Scrivener. As I write things out, I add more details to the timeline and adjust what needs adjusting. I also have Obsidian as a digital notebook. It has fun wiki-esque linking features. Love it.
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 26/05/2025
I'm working on a reimagining of my first crochet dragon, a rainbow dragon named Pryde. I tried a few gradient rainbow yarns but decided to color change by hand. Straight lines felt too unnatural, so I added some staggered stitches. Honoring the original heart panel wings, I'm emphasizing the heart.
the first two crocheted rainbow wing panels
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 24/05/2025
I am on the starfish book in my animorphs reread. IYKYK
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 22/05/2025
Yes, please and thank you!
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 19/05/2025
Walked into the grocery store, and the smell of peaches hit me so hard and so beautifully. Oh, you know spring is curving toward summer when the peaches arrive.
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 17/05/2025
Twisted Cryptids arrived with this cute "Nostalgic Wilderness" board and, aaaaa, the nostalgia. It is strong.
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 17/05/2025
If you see this, post your green dragon art 🐲 #artshare #dragonart #greendragon
Crochet green and white dragonCrochet green and yellow dragon with sunflowersCrochet green and gold dragon with large curving horns like the Marvel character Loki
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 13/05/2025
If you enjoyed A Ring of Secrets and you're wondering about the sequel, the first draft of book 2 is officially at 25% complete. Which means very little in terms of a release schedule. But, have an out of context line: "It's not a taxidermized Janides III squirrel-bee, is it?" #YASciFi #IndieAuthor
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 12/05/2025
I'll do you one worse: My right leg goes numb when I lay in bed and gets better when I walk on it??? What is this weirdness, and if I go to the doctor will they just take one cursory glance and tell me to lose weight???
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 12/05/2025
With Episode 36 of Paxwood up, that means three more episodes and the epilogue remain in Book 1. Are you curious about Book 2 yet? Any guesses whose story Kerry will tell next?
Book cover image  with the silhouettes of two girls holding hands in a green-tinted forest. The text in the image reads:

Paxwood
Stephanie Gildart

The Haunting of Paxwood House
follows storyteller Kerry as she discovers that magic is real. 

Where will the *next* Paxwood tale take us?
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 10/05/2025
Oh my redwall heart
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CNN @cnn.com · 08/05/2025
A new pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church. His identity will be revealed shortly. Follow live updates.
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Live updates: Conclave elects new Pope | CNN
White smoke has risen above the Sistine Chapel, the signal that cardinals have chosen a new pope on the second day of the conclave. Follow here for the latest.
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 07/05/2025
I love that you just have this list on hand. Delightful!
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 07/05/2025
Gen AI stole people's soul work to blend it together into nonsense mush. I am not here for it. The only AI in my books is the fAIries.
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 07/05/2025
Always share Tom Holland
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 07/05/2025
Sometimes I think about how I was an advanced reader who got assigned Harrison Bergeron to read in, like, the third grade, and then I go, "Oh, that's why I enjoy dystopian fiction."
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 07/05/2025
My first thought as Ryan Hugh, vampire lawyer, dragged me away from Rowen with one arm around my waist and the other around my throat? He was cold as a corpse. No, he was a corpse. Paxwood episode 36 is up! Read at PaxwoodTales.com and Wattpad, listen on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts
Chapter title image with the silhouettes of two girls holding hands in a green-tinted forest. The text reads: 36: Trick or Be Tricked
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 04/05/2025
I am really loving Karen Hallion's cross stitch patterns.
a cross stitch of Amidala
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 02/05/2025
There's this kid at my high school who plays the ocarina while they walk to class during passing periods. Their repertoire now includes songs from Epic: The Musical, and I am delighted.
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 29/04/2025
Ayyy did I just get another Paxwood episode up in under a week from the last episode drop? It's almost like I'm finding my rhythm as we move into the finale of Book 1. Read Paxwood here or on Wattpad: paxwoodtales.com/index.php/20... Listen on YouTube or anywhere you get your podcasts
Chapter title image with the silhouettes of two girls holding hands in a green-tinted forest. The text reads: 35: Meanwhile, A Dance in Dream
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 28/04/2025
"There are no pyramid schemes in jazz!" is my line of the episode for Leverage Redemption S2E9. I love these characters so, so much. I love the way the writing team handles world building. I love escaping into these stories.
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 27/04/2025
Are you normal, or do you need the TV volume set at the multiple of a specific number? (Multiples of 5, definitely multiples of five.)
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 27/04/2025
From Nix, who I consider to be the core protagonist of the story, to Jylisa, and everyone in between, big and small. I love this book, I love these characters, I love working on the second book of the series, and I really do hope you love it, too.
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 27/04/2025
Okay, maybe you've noticed by now, all the characters in A Ring of Secrets are my favorite character. I get to have all the favorites because I'm their author and I am rooting for every single one of them. Even the bad guys.
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 27/04/2025
Someone I'm following somewhere made a post about snoods a couple days ago and now I'm crocheting myself a snood and I can't for the life of me remember who to credit But of course it is rainbow
a partially finished crochet snood in rainbow cotton yarn
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 26/04/2025
Today, I realized that I could factor reality into the formula by adding in a percentage of the days between now and the deadline I expect I'll actually be writing. _truly a revelation_ Yes. You can actually factually plan in advance for breaks. Because you're a human being.
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 26/04/2025
I built a super fancy spreadsheet to break stories down into the Save the Cat Beats. I put in my overall vision for the number of words in a book, it tells me how many words should fit into each section of the plot, give or take. I added a side box to set a deadline and give me a words per day goal.
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 26/04/2025
Here Jylisa is, on the precipice of such a joyful proposal, and instead of planning a wedding, she's got to deal with betrayal, mutiny, and life-or-death decisions that are way above her pay grade. And she *does* it. And that's why she's my honorable mention favorite character.
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 26/04/2025
So, what can Jylisa do when she she picks up a message from her former captain who's supposed to be dead, and then her current captain tells her to keep a lid on it? She's a nobody. If Captain Asher Teit wants her silence, he could vent her out an airlock and no pirate on the ship would bat an eye.
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 26/04/2025
Jylisa is not nearly as good of a hacker as Eitwon. She just keeps Eitwon in good repair so he can get the job done. She's, like, the Lower Decks of the pirate crew, a jack of all trades but a master of none.
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 26/04/2025
Okay. Honorable mention favorite character for Jylisa and her amazing hacker fAIry Eitwon. I mean, all she wants is to propose to the love of her life, daughter of the ship's engineer, pilot of the Light Echo, a vicious pirate vessel. She's got no heritage, no wealth to her name.
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 26/04/2025
Fun Historical Fact for No Reason: During the Salem Witch Trials, a four year old was accused of being a witch and jailed. Her name was Dorothy Good. She was in jail for around eight months. She turned five in prison. Fun. Fact. :-|
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Steph 🧶📚 @stephweavestales.com · 26/04/2025
Oh. Yes. I love unicorns. Bruce Coville's Unicorn Chronicles and Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn made sure of it.
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