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Author of the Iron Druid Chronicles, Ink & Sigil, the Seven Kennings, and more. Into nature photography, metal, and beard maintenance. https://kevinhearne.com Newsletter: https://wordsandbirds.ink
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What I learned from “Oberon's Bathtime Stories” (by @kevinhearne.bsky.social): 1) The real reason men have beards 2) What the Standard Hound Protocol is 3) "We go there, and then: We steal sausages." is a perfect plan 4) Cauliflower is first-degree anti-sausage 1/2 #booksky
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Yeah, they try to minimize trips!
Today’s episode of Extremely Local Birds: a blue jay on my deck railing hoovering up peanuts, and a young heron in a pond about 100 yards from my house 🪶
These strident posts from the government remind me of one of my many favorite bits of Monty Python—the guy trying to pay the plague dude to take away an old man protesting, “I’m not dead!” “He will be soon, he’s very ill.” “I’m getting better!” “No you’re not, you’ll be stone dead in a moment.”
Whooooa dang!
I have missed your kitchen craft sequences!
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
Yes! That’s it
Yay! You can get any of my titles signed and shipped to you from Perfect Books, y’all. They are great peeps.
The new one on Netflix is pretty amusing. Two episodes so far—chef from today transported to court of Korea’s worst historical tyrant. Title escapes me though
If we had corned beef, rye, and sauerkraut we’d have a nice trifecta
A Titan sneezed in Saskatoon* and that’s his moist ejecta *good title for a children’s book
Ah, Kaurians! Gotcha. They practiced sky burial, which takes several forms around the world. They’re into birds. There’s a pretty decent article about sky burial on Atlas Obscura online.
These dudes stole nineteen of my books. And yeah, millions of others. They should absolutely be ruined. Because they took all those novels and built a monstrous series of products that ruined the Internet
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
Heck yeah! Hi lil dude!
Working with Horned Lark for COYOTE RUN was amazing, 11/10, would absolutely recommend to my fellow authors. Please read their submission guidelines, and if you have something which would suit, send it in!
No worries. But I am not sure who you mean.
Sunday & Monday I read Paper & Blood by @kevinhearne.bsky.social today I started Candle & Crow. Very fun series, highly recommend, you will be entering a fun world of magic and hobgoblins and the Irish Fae mythos.
Shoutout to the tree who grew that peach I dared to eat World: [endless screaming] Tree: Here. Have a peach You’re doing great, tree
I’m glad you stopped for coffee! I am on the second carafe.
The carinas? Autocorrect may have changed that word because I am not recognizing it, apologies.
Woohoo! We’re now open for submissions! hornedlarkpress.com/submissions/
Thanks so much!
Hope you enjoy the salsa verde!
Yeah, just two, not a bonus two.
For sure. Lots of folks use jalapeños. I just got lucky at a farmers market on the serranos
Boil a pint of tomatillos, half a chopped onion, two or three de-seeded Serrano peppers, and three garlic cloves for twelve minutes. Pop the strained result in a blender with salt, oregano, and pepper, juice from two limes, plus a good handful of chopped cilantro. Vroom! Salsa verde.
Gonna try that thing where you fold the quesadilla in quarters, then cook it. Chicken, black beans, shredded cotija cheese, that salsa verde I just made fresh, and a sliced golden heirloom tomato from the farmer’s market.
Tweaked the salsa verde recipe: More garlic and oregano, less onion, and added the juice of two limes. It’s amazing. And quesadilla time.
Oh hey, guess what I'm reading this morning?
The little glistening trail of snot in movies and shows when folks get emotional is real and stuff, but I tend to miss what’s being said because all I can think is SOMEONE GET HER A TISSUE, A HANKY, A BAR TOWEL, CAN’T YOU SEE THAT SHE IS LEAKING MUCUS, HOW CAN WE CONCENTRATE ON ANYTHING ELSE
Chippie, I think.
Lil chipmunk fren who lives in our backyard is storing peanuts for later.
I think the bratwurst is finally figuring out that I’m really there for the sauerkraut and mustard
We open for submissions on Monday! So excited! Hope you have a great weekend!
If her hair reminds Axl of a warm safe place where as a child he’d hi-ee-yide, does that or does it not suggest he used to hide in hairy places Is the hair, in other words, reminiscent of warmth and safety, or is it some quality of the hair that he does not specify The song needs more exposition
You can arrange to get signed copies of any of my books shipped anywhere through Perfect Books in Ottawa!
Only the US and Canada, alas! However if you wish to get anything shipped to Germany, you can arrange it through Perfect Books in Ottawa! They will ship you signed copies of any of my books.
Getting some boxes ready to ship to spiffy readers—on the left, THE FIVE OBERONS package & on the right, the four Oberon’s Meaty Mysteries, all signed by yours truly, and which come with an Oberon sticker and a signed Iron Druid bookmark. You can get them on sale at hornedlarkpress.com/our-books/
This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read
Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read
In Ottawa, someone has been taking their loud gas-powered lawnmower to quiet neighbourhoods at 2 a.m. and mowing two strips of someone’s lawn before fleeing the scene. It’s just long enough to wake everyone up but he hasn’t been caught yet. It is a new kind of evil
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This Week in Kevin Got the Heck Outside: a couple of rad great blue herons and what is either a greater or lesser yellowlegs—I’m not sure which! 🪶
Picked up a couple of ordered books from my indie store! IT WAS HER HOUSE FIRST by @cheriepriest.com and RIDE OR DIE by @delilahsdawson.bsky.social! Excited! What are y’all reading?
We can talk options!
DOOD
So I guess the latest scam email for writers is not to appear on a podcast but to “talk about your publishing journey” and dang, why would I ever wanna do that with a rando bot-generated text vomit
This is great—I was like, it’s not a right to strike if one person says they can’t, and obviously these companies are counting on the government to save them now instead of negotiating in good faith
Ahhhh they have John Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral!!!! I cannot explain my geekout here but Constable is one of my favorites. Also Edvard Munch painted stuff besides The Scream.
They have Van Gogh and a Klimt I’ve never seen before called “Hope.”
A Chagall!
He’s behind me, isn’t he
I’ve found one of those huge pieces at the National Gallery that you can get lost in for a while. This is Tribute to the Water Lilies by Jean Paul Riopelle, lots of paint applied with a palette knife
Haven’t been to the National Gallery yet. I should fix that
Aww! Please give them scritches for me!
Right now for sure—August and September is amazing here
I boil rather than roast; 12 minutes for the tomatillos, garlic, onion, and peppers. Throw in a blender with cilantro and blend!
Yeah, that sounds good!
Finished product that’s all veggies, zero guilt, super tasty. This would not have happened if I didn’t spot the farmer with the Serrano peppers. I took peppers for granted in Colorado, but anything beyond jalapeños are tough to find in Canada. So nice to have this again
Tomatillos ✅ Serrano peppers ✅ Poblano pepper just because ✅ Onion ✅ Garlic ✅ (but off camera) Cilantro ✅ It’s salsa verde time!
Farmers market is so full of goodness right now. I scored some Serrano and Poblano peppers plus some fresh tomatillos, so I’m excited! The earth is rad y’all
Mmmmmaaaaayyybe
Hahaha love it
There was an involuntary gasp when I saw it and I was hyper oxygenated for a second
My kid went to the fair and played a game and won a thing and this is the thing and I think it is a kitty in a takeout food box and help, too cute
Same. We appreciate the word-o-mouth!
Went to Mud Lake today with Mom and we saw stuff. Bee butt! Wood duck! And while the last two pics aren’t stellar they make me happy for reasons: 1) I haven’t seen a rose-breasted grosbeak in five years and 2) American redstarts do NOT stay still and this is my first half decent pic of one 🪶
Yesss, @kevinhearne.bsky.social has given me maps...maps in books!!!! I love book maps,gives a whole new depth. Wonder where they're talking about? Check the map.🤘
I think I took my favorite heron picture today at Mud Lake. Just an extraordinary display here from Hercule Heron. “Witness me, mortals! Are you not entertained?” 🪶
Fortunately, @kevinhearne.bsky.social spotted this Bald Eagle as we were driving by (my eyes were on the road) and made me pull over for some photos. #TalonTuesday Lawrence Station, #NewBrunswick, Canada July 2025 📸 #birds #eagle #BAEA #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
15 years ago, I hadn’t yet sold my 1st story (1 sold that fall); hadn’t met those who’d become my writing community; my kid was in kindergarten, my hair wasn’t this long, nor this silver. 15 years of stories & learning & being part of an amazing conversation. Happy book birthday A CATALOG OF STORMS.
Aw thanks Lindsey! Cheers!
What do you think is the secret to the Bennetts’ excellent boiled potatoes? I would like to experience such an exemplary vegetable
Many thanks! Glad you’re enjoying!
I use Imprimerie Gauvin in Quebec. So the paperwork is in proving your books, if shipped to the U.S., are covered under CUSMA. They ARE, to be clear, but you need a certificate saying so for every shipment! Without that, you get a tariff.
…from me, not Mexico
My books are printed in Quebec, across the river from Mexico
You have to attach certification to every package. So you can get certified once for the goods, but you have to include the extra certification or it gets slapped with tariffs
And this is yet another reason why Canadians are red hot about this trade war. It’s only hurting EVERYONE but the billionaires and we did nothing to deserve it. Again—I know that more dire shit is happening. But I thought the thread might inform like, three people, so why not. The End /7
But for every small business that isn’t covered by CUSMA or doesn’t fill out the paperwork in time, they have to pay this tariff (or their customers do) or go out of business. And what will the tariff money do if collected? Pay for tax cuts for billionaires. To restate my thesis: huge dick 5/
This paperwork burden is such a gigantic pile of horseshit. Will a tariff convince me to move my extremely small business back to the U.S.? Fuck no. And I doubt it will persuade any other small Canadian businesses that they should move to a fascist country with no health care 4/
The good news: soft covered books are covered by CUSMA as exempt, and on top of that, 100% of the paper and labor is North American (hint: it’s Canadian). But because the de minimis exemption is going away, I have to fill out paperwork declaring all this or else I get tariffed anyway. 3/
I am the smallest of businesses. It’s me. Until now, I’ve been exempt from tariffs because of the de minimis exemption, which says that goods under a certain dollar threshold aren’t subject to tariffs. That goes away on August 29 & all goods get a 35% tariff UNLESS covered by CUSMA agreement. 2/
So yeah, for all the other ways in which that fascist lump is a dick, see the news. There are, I know, innumerable more important things. But a wee thread on how the tariffs and removal of the de minimis exemption are hurting small businesses may prove educational for a few folks, so here goes: 1/
Yeah, take some Kaopectate, man, at the bare minimum
Ahahaha!
Shit I only heard futile secondhand, shoulda known it wasn’t canon. Sorry. Keeping up with canon can be boobtile
Are you…gonna make me assimilate into your emotionless Borg nips? Is resistance…futile?
But Chuck if we don’t read Heinlein how will we ever learn that nipples have emotions and there’s an entire language of breasts breasting boobily boobity boobity boobs
She does, thanks!
Couple of photos from Mom: a pair of red deer and a great blue heron.
From the spring: A chickadee finds a snacky bug snack among the maple buds
@premeemohamed.com yay for the Aurora! Congrats!
