Some good news, at least!

This gives me some hope. And I am definitely seeing it.

I'm preparing to drive 13 hours to Pennsylvania so that tomorrow I can set up my art booth to vend at a show (a show that I've been deeply looking forward to). And all I can think is, who TF is going to buy tiaras and necklaces and original art when we're in the middle of a coup? I'm panicking.

Last night, I told my partner about the tariffs and said, we need to try to stock up. Of course, for me, stocking up is complicated. I have various food issues that limit my diet. There's very little shelf-stable food I can eat without inflammation.

So we went for a midnight shopping run 1/

While life is very complicated at the moment, I will say that this part of my life never, ever gets old. :)

This is so very much, unfortunately, accurate. I can't survive without rehoming the occasional shiny piece of art or jewelry, unless I can find something part time where I can actually get hired. I've been self employed for 20 years, and applying for jobs is a sh!tshow to begin with.

nother check in the "win" column. The other day I got to to a Zoom session with someone looking to for some assistance with Pagan leadership questions on how to deal with a specific group issue. It felt really good to be able to be of service and help someone with that, and get paid for my time.

I finally had my ADHD assessment today and soon I'll be starting meds to see what works. I'd heard so many horror stories about women trying to get late diagnosed, but it went well, I was listened to, and it's such a relief I'm actually in tears at the moment.

I keep forgetting to post here, and on the sky of blue. Short-form posts hurt my brain (thanks audhd). But, I haven't posted much over on FB either because, depression/fatigue has been really bad lately, and I just get super stuck in my damn head. I've been struggling to get tasks done.

These are the nonfiction books I have available. They are also available as e-books. I shall post the relevant links in comments :)

These books will be of most interest to folks involved in Pagan or similar communities.

Well...I discovered the solution to several of my plot problems for some of my paranormal romance stories is in the Preiddeu Annwfn and related texts. Been grinding on some of these issues for a long while.

But, when isn't the solution the lore around several different Celtic cauldrons? lol

Hilarity: I am writing a holiday paranormal romance taking place in 1943...and I realized I never added in anything like Christmas decorations to the MMC's house. D'oh. To be fair, they are busy fighting an influx of Fae trying to eat people.

Oops.

More of my pen and ink originals

At the moment, these are the only two books I have with paperback versions. However, I will soon be doing print versions of some of my novellas, and I am feverishly working in finishing up a few more books, including the sequel to Truth Upon Her Lips. You can buy signed copies directly from me :)

I'm slooowwwly getting the hand-foiled prints added to my online shop. It's a little excruciating because, horrible executive dysfunction, but it's happening. It will be such a relief to have more of the prints and stickers in the online shop.

Some of my more recent BW art. This is a pen and ink original, with gold foil. I also have prints.

I'm definitely struggling with trying to post multiple places, thing. And, full disclosure, I am kind of terrible at short-form posts. It's why I never really spent a lot of time on Tw!tter. However, given how Meta has been enshittifying its social media, BlueSky seems like the place to be

Greetings! I'm Shauna Aura Knight, and I'm an artist, author, and public speaker. My paintings lean toward mythic fantasy, and I write fiction and nonfiction. My fiction's generally paranormal romance as well as fantasy and sci-fi with romance, and my nonfic is on topics of leadership & facilitation