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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I have a new painting for @darcyburkeauthor.bsky.social 's new Kickstarter for The Forbidden Duke! This depicts a ball scene where Eleanor and Titus have a romantic dance. I love painting candlelit ball scenes, and I even made a batch of Italian lemon ochre acrylic paint for this piece.

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Dear authors, using promo posts with AI generated slop will not make me want to read your book

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Portrait of one Lt John Elphinstone Fleming, a dangerous British operative during the Revolutionary War. (A commission of an OC inspired by Jason Isaac's character in The Patriot, specifically for Harry Turtledove's Atlantis cycle) #art #commission #redcoat #revolutionarywar #americanrevolution

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Happy St Patrick's day everyone! I love the Old Irish poem Pangur Ban, written by a 9th century Irish monk at the Richenau Abbey in Germany, for his white cat named Pangur Ban. Here's a drawing I did of the monk and his cat, with pens and fountain pen ink #art #pangurban #monkposting #stpatricksday

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

A commission of a twenty year old Napoleon and my client’s character Margriet van Helmont, a beautiful young refugee from the Austrian Netherlands #illustration #art #napoleon #napoleonbonaparte #painting #frenchrevolution #historicalromance

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

currently reading Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe, and while the prose dazzles, it leaves me feeling extremely ambivalent. Severian is definitely the guy of all time, and the book is extremely dense, esoteric and horny. #bookofthenewsun #genewolfe

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

There are a number of romance novelists posting AI generated portraits of themselves on Facebook, and it is sooooooooo off-putting

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

A sketch I did of Actaeon and Maya, the hero and heroine from ACTAEON, my time travel romance novel set in ancient and modern Greece (4th century BCE and 2004 respectively). Maya even has an early 2000s digital camera. #classicstober2025

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I love a good juicy fandom scandal, and this one is truly ridiculous. The linked “artwork” is so appallingly bad— there’s a crucifix on the wall on one piece, and in another Cersei is missing a leg. Wtf

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

@tkingfisher.com Hi there! I was wondering if it was possible to buy signed copies of The Hollow Places and Paladin's Grace? I love these books very much, and I would be delighted to have signed and inscribed hard copies, if that's a thing that's possible.

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

My books A QUESTION OF TIME and DOORS are not available at the moment due to the sad closing of Champagne Book Group, but they will find a new home soon, along with the other books in my TIMES BETWEEN series.

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

May I introduce Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus and Julia Verrucia, characters from the first novel I ever wrote, way back when I was 16, who still live rent-free in my head. (Yes, I was writing ancient Roman historical romance in high school)

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

A sketch I drew of Kathleen O'Connor and David Thornley, the main characters from Candice Ransom's YA hist rom Kathleen, an exciting story about an Irish immigrant in the 1840s who falls in love with a rich aspiring author in Boston. #sunfireromance #sunfireseries

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

A sketch I did of the hero and heroine from my latest time travel romance project, HUNT THE WHITE HIND. Father Nicolas is a Franciscan friar in the 1540s SW, and Cathy, the heroine, is from the 1980s (hence the Casio). It's the ultimate forbidden love and I'm there for it #monkposting

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I plan on single-handedly bringing back old school romance art with this series!

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Raw scan of an old sketch of Robespierre I did back in 2007 in one of my old sketchbooks. Happy 267th birthday, Mr. Incorruptible! #robespierre #maximilienrobespierre #sketchbook #sketch #drawing #art #artistsoninstagram

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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

And happy birthday to my favourite Arthurian character, who got dumped into a 2D villain role after the introduction of Lancelot took away his main role as Gwenhwyfar's lover… @lauraashe.bsky.social @martinb-archaeo.bsky.social @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social

Ford, 'Sir Mordred': black and white drawing of a knight in armour leaning on his sword. There are dead bodies around him, and crows are circling. In the background, 2 mounted knights approach.

Hatherall, The last fight between Arthur and Mordred, King Arthur's Hall, Tintagel.

David Hemmings as Mordred in 'Camelot' (1967): a young man in black holds a dagger.

Edward Bawden, linocut of the last fight between Arthur and Mordred.

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

it just occurred to me that Claude Frollo in the original NDdP novel is totally a Faust character

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I'm working on a series of sketches featuring (slightly) AU versions of NNdP/HOND characters. It's for a future novel (working title As Above, So Below) I'm outlining. The concept is a modern woman traveling back in time to the 1400s & meeting the historical characters who inspired Hugo's novel

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Not sure why, but this Robe a la Polonais makes me think of @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social.

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Since I've read Notre Dame de Paris aka Hunchback of Notre Dame, the characters have been dancing in my head like extras in a 1980s music video. So have a book canon Frollo and Esmeralda, in the style of a 1970s/80s romance cover

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I finally read Notre Dame de Paris (aka the Hunchback of Notre Dame) and I was inspired to draw a book-accurate Dom Claude Frollo

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Here, at long last, is the final illustration for the #ttrpg Dandies & Dandyzettes. Here’s the last backer portrait, depicting Shaun in a greatcoat and hessian boots, ready for a duel. #dandiesanddandyzettes

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Richard @ R. Rook 🔜 Sleep @rrookstudio.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Hey All: Google is pulling the "automatically on for anyone over 18" bullshit with Gemini that the Dropbox did for its AI, but I can't afford to ditch Google Drive/Docs/Workspace. If you have a personal Google Account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off...

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Sooooo all my reviews were deleted on Dear Author. That's interesting

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 15/12/2024

I don't post much here about Dandies & Dandyzettes, my Regency TTRPG, largely because we did the kickstarter but it's not available for sale yet, but you might like to look at the illustrations by @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social available in the updates: www.kickstarter.com/projects/204...

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Dandies & Dandyzettes

A Regency Role-Playing Game

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Eliza Eaton @elizaeaton.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

omg it’s ME

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Here's the lovely Eliza, in a deep emerald satin gown with Renaissance style slashed sleeves, flanked by her daughter in lilac and son in a tawny waistcoat. It's my fourth backer portrait for the #ttrpg #DANDIESANDDANDYZETTES!

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Happy coup of 18 Brumaire everyone (the 9-10th Nov)! I did this painting in '22 for a pin-up French Republican calendar put together by @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social, which is on hiatus at the moment. But here's sexy young Napoleon emerging through the mists, ready to fuck you up

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

My friend Cara Corder, artist extraordinaire, was seriously injured in a hit and run accident in Milwaukee this weekend. If you can, I hope you'll consider donating to her GoFundMe. I'm praying that she recovers, and the men who mowed her down are arrested. www.gofundme.com/f/help-cara-...

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Donate to Help Cara Corder Recover from a Tragic Hit-and-Run, organized by Asher Gray

Dear Friends and Community, Early on the morning of Saturday, Octobe… Asher Gray needs your support for Help Cara Corder Recover from a Tragic Hit-and-Run

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

The latest illustration for tabletop #RPG #kickstarter #DandiesandDandyzettes! Here's backer Jo in an 18th/ early 19th century style cartoon, in the style of Thomas Rowlandson, defending womens' education. Done with watercolor, ink and gouache.

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

Here's new artwork I’ve done for the tabletop RPG DANDIES & DANDYZETTES! This is my rendition of one of our backers, Sid, in a dramatic gown, to illustrate the world of the theatre #dandiesanddandyzettes #regencyactress #ttrpg #rpg #kickstarter #bridgerton #regencyengland @mimicofmodes.bsky.social

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 09/07/2024

The latest artwork I’ve done for the #ttrpg DANDIES & DANDYZETTES! Here’s the first backer portrait, one Mr. Messman, a scholarly young gentleman #dandiesanddandyzettes #bridgerton #regencydress #regencyman #regecygentleman #rpg #kickstarter #tabletopgames #art #regency #regencyengland

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

This article explains how AI is contributing to climate change. It uses massive amounts of electricity and water which is coming straight from over-tapped reservoirs and aquifers in the US & the Global South. This is disturbing but an important read. www.levernews.com/the-unknown-...

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The Unknown Toll Of The AI Takeover

As artificial intelligence guzzles water supplies and jacks up consumers’ electricity rates, why isn’t anyone tracking the resources being consumed?

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

Happy #BRIDGERTON Day! The Vauxhall final for DANDIES & DANDYZETTES is at last complete. In the famous #Vauxhall pleasure gardens, as musicians play and the whale oil lamps shine, people flirt and dance and fight in a whirl of activity. #dandiesanddandyzettes #ttrpg #kickstarter #regencyengland

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 12/05/2024

The hand written notes in my library copy of Connie Willis’s Blackout are hilarious

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 12/05/2024

One of the things I love most about these facial reconstructions of earlier humans is the sheer amount of human personality the artists put into them Like you just feel an instant kinship, it’s so easy to imagine these people having families and communities and rich inner lives

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

Grrr, bad link. Better link: www.everand.com/audiobook/71...

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

I wanted to announce that I have not only moved, but I have adopted two new kitties— black cat Sunny and dilute calico Angel! They are so sweet and adorable and they love everyone. I’m so happy with them.

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

I’ve been rereading Connie Willis’s Oxford Time Travellers series. To Say Nothing of the Dog is, as always, a masterpiece

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Joanne Renaud @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

My friend Sylvia Baumgarten aka Sylvia Halliday aka Louisa Rawlings died last week. Our friendship began in the 1990s, when I wrote her a fan letter about one of her early Harlequin historicals, Wicked Stranger...

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