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Xauri'EL Zwaan @xauriel.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Cover reveal for Longer Worlds dropped today. Of note: I am once again sharing a TOC with major award nominees, this time including David Anaxagoras and P. A. Cornell. I'm finally hitting the big time!

A spaceship made of spherical pods hovering over a watery and mountainous planet with a statue of a large urn in the background. Longer Worlds: Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Kyle Aisteach, featuring David Anaxagoras, Dana Berube, P A Cornell, Rick Danforth, Julie Sandra Decker, E M Denison, Kori El-Koura, Em Harriet, Elese Mathis, Kieran McCaffery, dave ring, K C Shaw, Joseph Sidari, and Xauri'EL Zwaan

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Xauri'EL Zwaan @xauriel.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Back stage at Chaos Encouraged: When Nature Calls. The thorny vines are my concession to the theme.

A long-haired bearded enby in a grey jacket covered in buttons with fuscia lipstick and thorny vines drawn in eyeliner over the cheeks

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Xauri'EL Zwaan @xauriel.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Like, look at this empty lot. Gorgeous. Who wouldn't want a yard as beautiful as this.

An empty lot overgrown with rampant vegetation

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Xauri'EL Zwaan @xauriel.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

My partner and I are officially award-winning tabletop RPG designers, lol

Havoc Engine Jam Certificate of Jubilation, 3rd place award proudly presented to Last Minute Panic for their entry into the 2026 Havoc Engine Jam, Red Star, oficially sealed by Rowan Rook and Decard, Unleashed by Havoc. It has three Seals of Approval on it. They're literal seals, like the animal.

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Xauri'EL Zwaan @xauriel.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Backstage at the StarGayZing pride show. Going for Saturn's rings around the eyes, didn't quite get it

A selfie of a nonbinary person with long dirty-blonde hair and a large forked beard with a prominent white streak wearing a black-and-red dress. Ze is wearing fuscia lipstick and circles of black eyeliner around the eyes.

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Xauri'EL Zwaan @xauriel.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

I must never follow anyone new again

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Xauri'EL Zwaan @xauriel.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

Author copies of my latest publication came in today. I'm going to be reading my flash story "Eye if the Beholder" for the June 3rd virtual launch; stay tuned for further details!

A stained-glass-esque illustration of a red prairie lily on a magazine "Grain: the journal of eclectic writing"

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Xauri'EL Zwaan @xauriel.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025

Another book for the Shelf of Triumph

A book titled "Saskatchewan Screams", edited by Donovan Douglas Thiesson. The cover shows a skeleton reading a book and a table with a tiger lily against a green and yellow backgroung.

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Xauri'EL Zwaan @xauriel.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2025

Economics bros when they realize that literally every city in the developed world is run through democratically-managed central planning

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Xauri'EL Zwaan @xauriel.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2025

So I wrote a first stab at a TOC for The Devil's Chord. It's still like 85% vibes at this point, but there's a hint of a set of plot beats in there if you look hard enough. Such a step might seem premature, but titles are deeply important to my process and I find […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

The Devil's Chord -- Outline
Prologue -- The Stone Age
1-- Number of the Beast
2 -- Satanic Panic
3 -- Her Lips Are Filled With Poison
4 -- Sympathy for the Devil
5 -- Hell's Bells
6 -- Symphony of Destruction
7 -- God Has a Plan For Us All
8 -- The Righteous Side of Hell
9 -- Through the Fire and the Flames
10 -- Holy Diver
11 -- The Four Horsemen
12 -- Hard Rock Hallelujah
13 -- Stairway to Heaven
Epilogue -- Send Me an Angel

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Xauri'EL Zwaan @xauriel.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2025

Author copies of Big Smoke Pulp vol. 1 came today, and I must say it looks pretty good

A book titled "Big Smoke Pulp volume 1", edited by Adriano Ariganello. The cover shows a man in a 50-style suit and hat opening a door in the background and a woman in a red shift lounging on a bed in the foreground

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Xauri'EL Zwaan @xauriel.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2025

I was reading a newsletter from Angus Reid Forum, and came across an illuminating demonstration of the way framing can alter the information that people think they're receiving (especially when they just skim headlines instead of reading full articles)

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Xauri'EL Zwaan @xauriel.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2024

One thing I do love about Saskatoon is the amount of public art. Saw this one on the way to the barber today, new to me. Seems like there's another mural or art wall going up every year

Large wall mural of a masculine and feminine couple holding a baby in blue Plains Cree swaddling

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