Nico Silver | Nik Sylvan
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🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Writer of queer urban fantasy, epic romantic fantasy, and UF romance as Nico Silver. Illustrator, bookbinder, printer, printmaker, folklorist as Nik Sylvan. They/them.🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
I was very pleased with myself for getting my newsletter done after work today. Then I realized I didn’t even mention the anthology I’m in that’s coming out. 😫
February 13, 2026 at 4:22 AM
I was very pleased with myself for getting my newsletter done after work today. Then I realized I didn’t even mention the anthology I’m in that’s coming out. 😫
Applied to two art shows today. I forgot how long it takes to do those things.
February 10, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Applied to two art shows today. I forgot how long it takes to do those things.
I woke up to an anthology acceptance this morning, so that’s pretty cool.
February 8, 2026 at 7:43 PM
I woke up to an anthology acceptance this morning, so that’s pretty cool.
First attempt. The type is smeared because the paper shifted when I put brown paper and a press blanket over it. Now contemplating how to avoid this.
February 4, 2026 at 10:33 PM
First attempt. The type is smeared because the paper shifted when I put brown paper and a press blanket over it. Now contemplating how to avoid this.
Hopefully I will finish this short story tonight. In the meantime, here are some process shots of my latest linocut/letterpress.
January 31, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Hopefully I will finish this short story tonight. In the meantime, here are some process shots of my latest linocut/letterpress.
QRP with your wings art!
January 21, 2026 at 4:29 AM
QRP with your wings art!
Nothing to see here….
(reduction linocut on traditional battleship linoleum, letterpress from hand-set wood and metal type, on Arches Johannot cotton/esparto paper)
(reduction linocut on traditional battleship linoleum, letterpress from hand-set wood and metal type, on Arches Johannot cotton/esparto paper)
January 20, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Nothing to see here….
(reduction linocut on traditional battleship linoleum, letterpress from hand-set wood and metal type, on Arches Johannot cotton/esparto paper)
(reduction linocut on traditional battleship linoleum, letterpress from hand-set wood and metal type, on Arches Johannot cotton/esparto paper)
quote with your horn art!!
January 20, 2026 at 3:43 AM
quote with your horn art!!
Last colour (not counting the type). I mixed the dark red I had leftover into black to get a sooty dark purple.
January 19, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Last colour (not counting the type). I mixed the dark red I had leftover into black to get a sooty dark purple.
Final cutting on this reduction in progress. Maybe I’ll even get it finished today?
January 19, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Final cutting on this reduction in progress. Maybe I’ll even get it finished today?
Anyone want to see the art that Threads just removed for “sexual activity”? (It was the second pic that did it, I’m sure.) (I’d share the uncensored version,too, but I don’t seem to have it on my phone.)
January 17, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Anyone want to see the art that Threads just removed for “sexual activity”? (It was the second pic that did it, I’m sure.) (I’d share the uncensored version,too, but I don’t seem to have it on my phone.)
I’m thinking about adding some type on the mat and popping this thing in an antique frame. Just because.
January 16, 2026 at 12:55 AM
I’m thinking about adding some type on the mat and popping this thing in an antique frame. Just because.
One more colour on this, but two runs (once for the lino and once for the type on a different press).
January 12, 2026 at 4:29 AM
One more colour on this, but two runs (once for the lino and once for the type on a different press).
I got an anthology acceptance today. It’s a small local publisher and pays in copies, but I’m still pretty pleased.
January 9, 2026 at 12:38 AM
I got an anthology acceptance today. It’s a small local publisher and pays in copies, but I’m still pretty pleased.
I didn’t do a print a month, but I somehow ended up with twelve prints for the year. Not a bad year, print-wise (in writing and publishing, on the other hand, I didn’t do so well).
January 1, 2026 at 9:18 PM
I didn’t do a print a month, but I somehow ended up with twelve prints for the year. Not a bad year, print-wise (in writing and publishing, on the other hand, I didn’t do so well).
Colour four today…
December 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Colour four today…
Excuse me while I feel insufferably pleased with myself for a bit. (I cut and printed this all in one afternoon.)
December 31, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Excuse me while I feel insufferably pleased with myself for a bit. (I cut and printed this all in one afternoon.)
Third colour on this phoenix reduction linocut.
December 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Third colour on this phoenix reduction linocut.
Back at work on this reduction linocut that’s going to be the first in a series of little linocut/letterpress posters of mythical beasts.
December 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Back at work on this reduction linocut that’s going to be the first in a series of little linocut/letterpress posters of mythical beasts.
Once I’m done editing Sleeping Faun, I’ll be starting on the seekrit project, which may or may not involve the pictured items.
December 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Once I’m done editing Sleeping Faun, I’ll be starting on the seekrit project, which may or may not involve the pictured items.
Tiny book jewellery in progress.
November 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Tiny book jewellery in progress.
I keep forgetting to post about why I’m not posting much this month. Anyway, this is why:
November 29, 2025 at 6:51 AM
I keep forgetting to post about why I’m not posting much this month. Anyway, this is why:
I started today with a short story acceptance for an anthology and ended it by submitting a couple more stories (not to the same anthology).
November 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I started today with a short story acceptance for an anthology and ended it by submitting a couple more stories (not to the same anthology).
I need to fix the title typography, but this will be the cover of my next horror-adjacent romantic urban fantasy Sleeping Faun (a sort-of-but-not-exactly sequel to Waking Pan).
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I need to fix the title typography, but this will be the cover of my next horror-adjacent romantic urban fantasy Sleeping Faun (a sort-of-but-not-exactly sequel to Waking Pan).
Restocked some cards at the gallery where I work and reached chapter 21 of the WIP. Three chapters to go, probably?
November 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Restocked some cards at the gallery where I work and reached chapter 21 of the WIP. Three chapters to go, probably?