Link: Floridian Mythos Oracle Deck by the amazing artist Amber Rae Malott (who is also on Instagram). ✨

Also, another question for the Floridoracle: Was my plan to publish “racy” comics behind a paywall a good idea? Because they have not yet been a huge success, financially or within my home.

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Hm, okay. So maybe I’ll keep going, but I’ll put some other stuff behind the paywall instead/as well. Thank you. Never try, never know.

Related: The Edith Oracle.

A couple others published directly to the site:

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Thanks to Evan Goldfine for the heads up and for advice on further listening.

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Also, here a few novels I enjoyed recently:

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (perfect), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (thrilling), The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (moving), and Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash (extremely fun).

I’m currently reading Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (amazing) and The King of Flesh and Bone by Liv Zander (sexy dark romance for, uh, research…). I also rejoined Goodreads in case anyone wants to connect with me there.

Actually I just remembered I made a whole comic about Lost Lambs but never posted it.

I have also since graduated to pre-cropped tops (thanks, Bandit).

Okay, so maybe not a “full newsletter,” but I’m just gonna go with it!

Links:

• Colson’s Critters: website, Instagram, YouTube

• Also here’s that chapter in the American Art Review, if anyone is interested.

Thanks for reading!

Bookstores visited in this post:

• Writer’s Block, Winter Park, FL

• The New Romantics, Orlando, FL

• BrightLight Books, Fern Park, FL

Also:

• The 831 Stories website (and my book announcement again; it never gets old [to me!])!

• And I highly recommend both Emma Straub’s American Fantasy (which is also becoming a movie!) and Lily King’s Heart the Lover.

Welcome to The Edith Oracle (inspired by The Flower Oracle and The Fairy Tale Oracle).

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Link: The Sun Egg, by Elsa Beskow.

Sorry, I know this one is on the cheesier side!

I also have a new card for sale in my Etsy shop. I’d like to say it’s inspired by the waves near our new home in Florida, but we’re inland (Orlando). I love Orlando, though, as it turns out!

And I wanted to announce that in addition to the romance novella for 831 Stories, I’m also working on an illustrated book about mermaids (!!). Many thanks to the wonderful Makenna Goodman at Timber Press for, among other things, asking if I wanted to expand on that print in my Etsy shop. (Go read her new novel!) Stay tuned!

There’s also a day I cut, where I was petty about a children’s art studio:

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Thanks for reading!