Angela M Cowan
@angelamcowan.bsky.social
Writer, editor & hedge witch on the West Coast 🇨🇦 Easily distracted by pretty stones and moss. Obsessed with creepy fairy tales. Writes @moon-eyed-fox.bsky.social
Rep: Brent Taylor at Triada US
www.angelamcowan.com
Rep: Brent Taylor at Triada US
www.angelamcowan.com
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Angela M Cowan
@angelamcowan.bsky.social
· Feb 19
I am so unbelievably thrilled to announce that I’m now represented by @btaylorbooks.bsky.social !!!
I am overjoyed and so so fortunate to have found someone who is as passionate about my stories as I am, and is such an incredible business and creative partner! 💚💚💚
I am overjoyed and so so fortunate to have found someone who is as passionate about my stories as I am, and is such an incredible business and creative partner! 💚💚💚
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The copper kettle shrieks, and you wrap the handle with a thick dishrag to pour a thin stream of boiling water into the teapot. It takes a few moments, but soon the glaze on the pot shifts to a cheerful green. So it's to be mint tea today, then.
November 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The copper kettle shrieks, and you wrap the handle with a thick dishrag to pour a thin stream of boiling water into the teapot. It takes a few moments, but soon the glaze on the pot shifts to a cheerful green. So it's to be mint tea today, then.
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It's never too late to try something new.
It's never too late to let your antlers & talons grow wild.
It's never too late to cover yourself in moss & wildflowers and shamble about the old forest, spreading fear and wonder in equal measure.
It's never too late to let your antlers & talons grow wild.
It's never too late to cover yourself in moss & wildflowers and shamble about the old forest, spreading fear and wonder in equal measure.
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
It's never too late to try something new.
It's never too late to let your antlers & talons grow wild.
It's never too late to cover yourself in moss & wildflowers and shamble about the old forest, spreading fear and wonder in equal measure.
It's never too late to let your antlers & talons grow wild.
It's never too late to cover yourself in moss & wildflowers and shamble about the old forest, spreading fear and wonder in equal measure.
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Do you like getting quill-written snail mail, possibly with a wax seal?
If you follow my fox account below and comment “creepy” or “cozy,” I’ll choose someone and write you a bespoke Drabble in this card, and mail it to you! Open worldwide. Repost if you’re feeling kind ❤️
If you follow my fox account below and comment “creepy” or “cozy,” I’ll choose someone and write you a bespoke Drabble in this card, and mail it to you! Open worldwide. Repost if you’re feeling kind ❤️
November 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Do you like getting quill-written snail mail, possibly with a wax seal?
If you follow my fox account below and comment “creepy” or “cozy,” I’ll choose someone and write you a bespoke Drabble in this card, and mail it to you! Open worldwide. Repost if you’re feeling kind ❤️
If you follow my fox account below and comment “creepy” or “cozy,” I’ll choose someone and write you a bespoke Drabble in this card, and mail it to you! Open worldwide. Repost if you’re feeling kind ❤️
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Yes, the forest is haunted.
But that's not a bad thing.
The creatures of moss & gloom, twigs & talons, and howls & horror are only trying to make connections.
To be seen and heard.
Just like all of us.
But that's not a bad thing.
The creatures of moss & gloom, twigs & talons, and howls & horror are only trying to make connections.
To be seen and heard.
Just like all of us.
November 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Yes, the forest is haunted.
But that's not a bad thing.
The creatures of moss & gloom, twigs & talons, and howls & horror are only trying to make connections.
To be seen and heard.
Just like all of us.
But that's not a bad thing.
The creatures of moss & gloom, twigs & talons, and howls & horror are only trying to make connections.
To be seen and heard.
Just like all of us.
Do you like getting quill-written snail mail, possibly with a wax seal?
If you follow my fox account below and comment “creepy” or “cozy,” I’ll choose someone and write you a bespoke Drabble in this card, and mail it to you! Open worldwide. Repost if you’re feeling kind ❤️
If you follow my fox account below and comment “creepy” or “cozy,” I’ll choose someone and write you a bespoke Drabble in this card, and mail it to you! Open worldwide. Repost if you’re feeling kind ❤️
November 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Do you like getting quill-written snail mail, possibly with a wax seal?
If you follow my fox account below and comment “creepy” or “cozy,” I’ll choose someone and write you a bespoke Drabble in this card, and mail it to you! Open worldwide. Repost if you’re feeling kind ❤️
If you follow my fox account below and comment “creepy” or “cozy,” I’ll choose someone and write you a bespoke Drabble in this card, and mail it to you! Open worldwide. Repost if you’re feeling kind ❤️
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You wake in a nest of blankets, hemmed in on three sides by smooth wooden walls and a low curved ceiling. Nearby are the quiet sighs of a dying fire, the heavy silence of being utterly alone. You run your hand over the wood and find a shallow carving of wings. Then another. Then dozens more.
November 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
You wake in a nest of blankets, hemmed in on three sides by smooth wooden walls and a low curved ceiling. Nearby are the quiet sighs of a dying fire, the heavy silence of being utterly alone. You run your hand over the wood and find a shallow carving of wings. Then another. Then dozens more.
This poor giant tree troll panicked and froze as the photographer snapped this, and now he’s stuck until the next solstice boosts his transmutation abilities. Luckily, he’s only got a few weeks to wait.
November 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
This poor giant tree troll panicked and froze as the photographer snapped this, and now he’s stuck until the next solstice boosts his transmutation abilities. Luckily, he’s only got a few weeks to wait.
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🖼 Anne Pratt, C19th.
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM
🖼 Anne Pratt, C19th.
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You wrap yourself in woollens and leave at dawn to follow a road paved with wide stones, with a bundle of tea in your pocket and a hand-drawn map up your sleeve. The oak-ink has faded over the years, the town names long forgotten, but it’ll still show you safe passage through the Singing Forest.
November 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
You wrap yourself in woollens and leave at dawn to follow a road paved with wide stones, with a bundle of tea in your pocket and a hand-drawn map up your sleeve. The oak-ink has faded over the years, the town names long forgotten, but it’ll still show you safe passage through the Singing Forest.
It took until I was 41 for this milestone and now it’s happened three times in the last month 😐
Slept wrong and now it hurts if I turn my head: the middle-aged story
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 AM
It took until I was 41 for this milestone and now it’s happened three times in the last month 😐
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"Sometimes the secret to seeing the magic is just to look a little closer."
-Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic
#carterhaughschool #folklore
-Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic
#carterhaughschool #folklore
November 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Sometimes the secret to seeing the magic is just to look a little closer."
-Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic
#carterhaughschool #folklore
-Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic
#carterhaughschool #folklore
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It might have been a church, once, but tiny roots and tiny claws wore down the walls and peeled back the ceiling until all that remained were four pillars and a threshold. You stand in their middle, open to the starred sky and wind, and the slant song of the leaves above drifts down like a blessing.
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It might have been a church, once, but tiny roots and tiny claws wore down the walls and peeled back the ceiling until all that remained were four pillars and a threshold. You stand in their middle, open to the starred sky and wind, and the slant song of the leaves above drifts down like a blessing.
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There are lonely churches to be found where old saints live in strange stone boxes. When we say saints, that word has to encompass those spirits of place which were there long before the cross came along. Relics of both Christian and folk faith may be the same bone. – Dr. M. Benn
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
There are lonely churches to be found where old saints live in strange stone boxes. When we say saints, that word has to encompass those spirits of place which were there long before the cross came along. Relics of both Christian and folk faith may be the same bone. – Dr. M. Benn
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This is eugenics and you’re a eugenicist if you agree with Mark… wayne. Markwayne? Is that really his name?
Markwayne Mullin: "Reward people for being healthy. Think about this. Healthcare is the only industry that you're not rewarded for taking care of your responsibility. If you think about homeowners insurance, if you're within 500 feet of a fire hydrant, your insurance goes down."
November 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This is eugenics and you’re a eugenicist if you agree with Mark… wayne. Markwayne? Is that really his name?
I’m third-Gen Canadian, but I’ve still taught my kids to never give a stranger their real name, and also to look carefully at their ears and fingers.
New world fae are unpredictable, y’all.
New world fae are unpredictable, y’all.
We *just* had an entirely sincere conversation about exactly this thing at the retreat last week. @lizbethmyles.bsky.social understood!!!
People: You don't really believe in fairies, do you?
Irish people: Absolutely not, but still, you wouldn't want to anger them.
People: You don't really believe in fairies, do you?
Irish people: Absolutely not, but still, you wouldn't want to anger them.
Oh definitely. Kinda like going to Iceland and having it explained that no, people don’t REALLY believe in elves. Also, don’t fuck with the elves.
November 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I’m third-Gen Canadian, but I’ve still taught my kids to never give a stranger their real name, and also to look carefully at their ears and fingers.
New world fae are unpredictable, y’all.
New world fae are unpredictable, y’all.
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You sing into the east - sharp notes of fir needles and snow and thick pelts against your skin - until the rising sun is swollen with your voice. Snatches of song fall as it arcs across the sky, but as the sun sinks, enough music lingers to bleed into the west, for the one who waits for you there.
November 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
You sing into the east - sharp notes of fir needles and snow and thick pelts against your skin - until the rising sun is swollen with your voice. Snatches of song fall as it arcs across the sky, but as the sun sinks, enough music lingers to bleed into the west, for the one who waits for you there.
Go buy this book!! It’s so lovely and heartfelt and there are PLANT PUNS GALORE!!
My heart is so full. My body is so tired.
VIOLET THISTLEWAITE IS NOT A VILLAIN ANYMORE, out now.
VIOLET THISTLEWAITE IS NOT A VILLAIN ANYMORE, out now.
November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Go buy this book!! It’s so lovely and heartfelt and there are PLANT PUNS GALORE!!
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the closest match i find: two pebbles, carved into miniature, near-identical foxes. differences only appear in defects inflected by unskilled hands. two carvers on opposite sides of the world, centuries apart, foxes tucked away in stony caves. i oft dream of attempting to carve them a third sibling.
The thing about stones is you will never find two the same. You try; searching sandy shores, mossy caves, and volcanic peaks, but there is always variation in texture, shape, gradation, and history. What are some of the jewels (literal or not) of your collection?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
the closest match i find: two pebbles, carved into miniature, near-identical foxes. differences only appear in defects inflected by unskilled hands. two carvers on opposite sides of the world, centuries apart, foxes tucked away in stony caves. i oft dream of attempting to carve them a third sibling.
Today’s Fox is loosely inspired by my latest reread of @amalelmohtar.com’s The River Has Roots, which broke me and which you should all go read immediately
You sing into the east - sharp notes of fir needles and snow and thick pelts against your skin - until the rising sun is swollen with your voice. Snatches of song fall as it arcs across the sky, but as the sun sinks, enough music lingers to bleed into the west, for the one who waits for you there.
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Today’s Fox is loosely inspired by my latest reread of @amalelmohtar.com’s The River Has Roots, which broke me and which you should all go read immediately
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#Animals of Translucent #Botanics Center in Molly Devlin’s Ethereal #Portraits #art #acrylics #dreamlike
Link for more info and photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/11/moll...
Link for more info and photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/11/moll...
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
#Animals of Translucent #Botanics Center in Molly Devlin’s Ethereal #Portraits #art #acrylics #dreamlike
Link for more info and photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/11/moll...
Link for more info and photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/11/moll...
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You started collecting small and dull stones last year; everyone goes for the flashy ones, and you fancied they felt left out. But it’s been a few months now, and you’ve been finding new ones in your pockets, nestled in your sock drawer. And the funny thing is, they’ve started sighing contentedly.
The thing about stones is you will never find two the same. You try; searching sandy shores, mossy caves, and volcanic peaks, but there is always variation in texture, shape, gradation, and history. What are some of the jewels (literal or not) of your collection?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
You started collecting small and dull stones last year; everyone goes for the flashy ones, and you fancied they felt left out. But it’s been a few months now, and you’ve been finding new ones in your pockets, nestled in your sock drawer. And the funny thing is, they’ve started sighing contentedly.
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Hoar frost creeps slowly over hard-packed earth in tight spirals, blooming from each of the enormous hoof prints that mark the path. Far in the distance are the rise and fall of singing voices, and a dry clacking echo as the Winter King’s cart vanishes into the wilds.
November 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Hoar frost creeps slowly over hard-packed earth in tight spirals, blooming from each of the enormous hoof prints that mark the path. Far in the distance are the rise and fall of singing voices, and a dry clacking echo as the Winter King’s cart vanishes into the wilds.
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12. Family Of Reclusive Ecclesiastical Bees Find Old Computer Printer And Come Up With Clever Way To Deter Cold Callers.
November 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
12. Family Of Reclusive Ecclesiastical Bees Find Old Computer Printer And Come Up With Clever Way To Deter Cold Callers.
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Also: be kind to each other. Everybody is just hanging on as best they can.
two men are standing next to each other with the words be excellent to each other
ALT: two men are standing next to each other with the words be excellent to each other
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November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Also: be kind to each other. Everybody is just hanging on as best they can.
This could not be a more effective call to preorder Strange Animals
Scripting 65 episodes of a podcast is a pretty good, if inefficient, way to do your prewriting for a novel.
November 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This could not be a more effective call to preorder Strange Animals