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Hari Conner
@haridraws.bsky.social
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Hopeless forest romantic, Scotland. ♿ 🏳️‍⚧️ (they) Award-winning author/ illustrator: queer historical romance & fantasy, comics & gamebooks.

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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · Jun 30
COVER REVEAL 🍷🩸🫀🌒✨ A new choose-your-own romance for adult readers, out this September.

- Dating sim vs gothic novel energy
- Be & romance any gender
- Multiple endings for the main vampires + lots more romanceable NPCs

Pre-orders & INCREDIBLE guest art previews: hari-illustration.com/natvc #natvc
Cover for 'Night at the vampire castle, a choose-your-own romance' by Hari Conner. A purple, pulpy illustration with three vampires in front of an ominous castle
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vincentisvintage.bsky.social
✨PUBLISHING ANNOUNCEMENT ✨
At long last, my Great Gatsby retelling - a psychological thriller/drama graphic novel filled with vintage glamour - is getting published! #GreatGatsbyIIE
Drawing of Daisy in a white peacock dress in the hands of Gatsby. Publishing synopsis reads “ In which Nick Carraway develops a parasocial codependency with Gatsby—an aspiring couturier with a fabricated identity— until control shifts within New York’s criminal underworld and a deadly, reignited obsession with a former starlet shakes Gatsby’s grip on reality, thus threatening Nick’s ideal American muse”
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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amalelmohtar.com
The 1st instalment of my 1st serialized short story has landed in people's inboxes care of @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social! If you want to read "A Road Less Taken" over the course of this week, sign up! You'll get access to previous instalments too. www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-sc...
Book Week Scotland: Amal El-Mohtar in your inbox
Sign up to receive an exclusive serialised story from Amal El-Mohtar during Book Week Scotland.
www.scottishbooktrust.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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arielries.bsky.social
www.kobo.com/us/en/list/b... Strange Bedfellows also made Kobo's best graphic novel of the year list alongside some heavy hitters, if you needed more reason to check it out 👀
November 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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kjcharleswriter.com
Publishing strategy:

Observe lots of people like romance in fantasy
Label everything romantasy
Observe lots of people like fantasy without romance
Label everything anti-romantasy
Observe lots of people like romance in fantasy
Label everything anti-anti-romantasy...
davidgreenwriter.bsky.social David Green @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social · 4d
This week, I was sent a proof from one of the big publishers. In their pack, they described it as an "anti romantasy".

An anti romantasy.

I have so many thoughts about this, I honestly don't know where to begin.
November 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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anineillustration.com
But wait there's more - pictish medicinal herbs 🌱
A drawing of pictish medicinal herbs laid out on a piece of cloth. The herbs are: white clover, chamomile, dulse, common daisy, fern roots, puffball flesh, henbane, honeysuckle, common poppy, sloke, and greater celandine.
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
haridraws.bsky.social
making plans to boost morale while ill in bed & home alone this weekend, aka hoping i'm well enough to draw new OCs and read comics
little crop of a sketch of a guy. he has kind of tan skin lots of earrings and chin-length black hair and idk how to describe but here he looks kind of big and gentle stack of graphic novels including bex glindining 'on starlit shores' at the top
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
haridraws.bsky.social
extremely sad that I'm not at thought bubble but I'm beaming my love and good thoughts out to all of you: your tables look great, mutuals please imagine me standing in front of you effusively praising everything you're up to or have ever been up to, because that's what I'm doing from afar
November 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
haridraws.bsky.social
I get why a lot of non-disabled people want to pretend respiratory illnesses don’t exist, but as we’re coming up on another event I can’t safely attend, I encourage you to just THINK about wearing a mask at events - or at least on the train/ plane there, where there’s probably no reason not to
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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toadlett.bsky.social
This was such a cool project and I'm really proud to have art in this incredible book with so much amazing art and writing! Was amazed when Brian told me that my pictish byrehouse illustration would be one of less than five detailed depictions in existence!
illustration of a pictish bytehouse, with cutaway areas to show the construction of the frame, walls and thatched roof, as well as the interiors. many children and adults are shown working, relaxing and playing throughout, as well as domestic and wild animals.
November 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
haridraws.bsky.social
oooh even the preview is so interesting - I love the concept of instead of using history to ground fantasy, using "the conventions of a fantasy setting to capture the magic of real people from a forgotten time"

and @anineillustration.com spotted on this lovely header!!
rascal.news Rascal News @rascal.news · 8d
The Picts were always more than their blue-painted, bloodthirsty depictions. Carved in Stone, a new setting guide from @stoutstoat.co.uk and archaeologist Heather Christie, invites players to explore their incomplete but beautiful history.
Carved in Stone is both a history book and an eye-catching RPG
Publisher Brian Tyrrell and archeologist Heather Christie paint a pretty Pict-ure.
www.rascal.news
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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peejalien.bsky.social
Im gonna be real sappy about this bear with me.
When Quindrie press launched it shook my world. I loved Inhibit Eve’s webcomic for a while and getting to follow a project by them that had such a scale was exciting. The fact is Quindrie changed the way cartoonists in Scotland thought about comics. 🧵
quindriepress.com Quindrie Press @quindriepress.com · 10d
I have made the incredibly difficult decision to close down Quindrie Press at the end of 2026. Please read my full statement, along with information about what's next at Quindrie and an FAQ, here: quindriepress.com/closing
Quindrie Press will close at the end of 2026. A full statement with FAQ is available to read on the Quindrie Press website.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
haridraws.bsky.social
Can’t tell you how much I’ve loved editing for Quindrie.

Truly gutting it's so hard out there that an indie enterprise so successful, with such fantastic work and community support can’t continue. But very honoured to have been involved with them & massively 2nd-hand proud of what they’ve achieved-
quindriepress.com Quindrie Press @quindriepress.com · 10d
I have made the incredibly difficult decision to close down Quindrie Press at the end of 2026. Please read my full statement, along with information about what's next at Quindrie and an FAQ, here: quindriepress.com/closing
Quindrie Press will close at the end of 2026. A full statement with FAQ is available to read on the Quindrie Press website.
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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goblinstunts.bsky.social
Thought Bubble is next weekend! Really excited, but please please wear a mask - i see fewer & fewer each year, and COVID is just as serious as it was 5 years ago. TB is an amazing event, but it’s not worth getting disabled or immunocompromised.
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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perplexingly.bsky.social
"Such were the professor's words—rather let me say such the words of fate, enounced to destroy me."
- Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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notquitereal.bsky.social
he’s the best! he’s the best!
November 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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haridraws.bsky.social
oooh I should probably post some of my art from my newest book with the literal word 'night' in the title, huh!!!

quote with your night / dark #art 🌙
A crop of the cover and characters of 'night at the vampire castle' reading 'a choose your own romance, for adult readers,' but the main image is from the back cover - a foreboding stone castle looming up over the trees with the moon behind, coloured in stark pink and moody purple a grayscale drawing from 'night at the vampire castle' where a figure faces away from the reader in a dimly-lit tower room full of books, a squashy armchair and the edge of a dark four-poster bed. You can't see his face but he's wearing a dark suit and has medium-dark skin and long hair. also he looks hot a sketchy drawing from 'night at the vampire castle' of a crumbling archway to a corridor where stones have fallen away and the dark forest beyond can be seen, two bright points of light like eyes staring from the shadowy foliage
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
haridraws.bsky.social
oooh I should probably post some of my art from my newest book with the literal word 'night' in the title, huh!!!

quote with your night / dark #art 🌙
A crop of the cover and characters of 'night at the vampire castle' reading 'a choose your own romance, for adult readers,' but the main image is from the back cover - a foreboding stone castle looming up over the trees with the moon behind, coloured in stark pink and moody purple a grayscale drawing from 'night at the vampire castle' where a figure faces away from the reader in a dimly-lit tower room full of books, a squashy armchair and the edge of a dark four-poster bed. You can't see his face but he's wearing a dark suit and has medium-dark skin and long hair. also he looks hot a sketchy drawing from 'night at the vampire castle' of a crumbling archway to a corridor where stones have fallen away and the dark forest beyond can be seen, two bright points of light like eyes staring from the shadowy foliage
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
haridraws.bsky.social
quote with your night / dark #art 🌙

using this as an opportunity to show you both juicy bits from old comics, but also secret crop from new WIP comics
a painterly, scribbly drawing in blue tones of a character looking up at the moon and pines in a forest overhead. Caption reads: just as the sun began to set, Robin stumbled upon a path that seemed famailiar - though they had never seen it before. half a page from Finding Home, in the background a sort of grand mcmansion vs jaipur palace type building at night with stars overhead. In panels in front, two characters are making out. The lighter skinned character is asking 'what would you like my faery prince, what would saitsfy your decadent tastes?' as the other more drunk and reluctant character (chepi) is like 'I'm not sure i'm convinced by this narrative' but giving in. comic panels of an ominous ruined house in a forest and a branch cracking with a creepy font sound effect 'crack' a little crop of a room with candlelit bookshelves at night, and an open doubledoor with a fan light looking out onto the dark starry sky and landscape
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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alpacascribbles.bsky.social
It's so nice to see this comic series get the love it deserves. Literally a laugh out loud read!
November 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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alexassan.com
In Search of Absent Pigments, part 1 of 4 🩵✨ A short comic by myself and @lindarrow.bsky.social, originally published in the Come Together anthology in 2019.
A cover for the comic In Search of Absent Pigments, depicting a hand reaching for a painting of a young man. In the present, a man is looking through an art market. Many years in the past, that same man is looking up. In the past, the man is standing in his studio, looking up at a life-sized painting he has drawn of a handsome, naked young man.
November 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
haridraws.bsky.social
being 5000km from NYC is not going to stop me from feeling hopeful
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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redgoldsparks.bsky.social
Good things are possible and we don't have to settle!!!!
maggietokudahall.bsky.social Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 15d
Good things are possible and we don't have to settle 😭
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15d
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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alexassan.com
Ivo and Satinder pinups! Plus a more risqué Easton in the reply for those of you who like greasy men in lingerie...
A pinup style illustration of Ivo Keys, a character from the webcomic Shaderunners. She is wearing a 1920s swimsuit and enjoying a drink at the beach, a sly expression on her face. A pinup style illustration of Satinder Hali, a character from the webcomic Shaderunners. She is sitting on a vintage car and smoking a cigarette, wearing a revealing tank-top and an easy smile.
November 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
haridraws.bsky.social
hmm. friends fear they've accidentally been writing another book while too ill to get out of bed again
it's just a scrivener screenshot that reads 60k words. don't worry about it.
November 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
haridraws.bsky.social
a little free (belated) October blog - partly trying to work out if the picture will display here...
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November 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM