Steph 🧶📚
stephweavestales.com
Steph 🧶📚
@stephweavestales.com
she/her/hers. Author, crocheter, teacher. Life is better with dragons. (And yarn.)
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Cover Reveal: A Ring of Secrets

Follow to get updates on my YA sci-fi with an aro-ace protagonist who balances her drive to keep her family safe against her desire to make meaningful friendships

When secrets and stolen memories put her family in danger, Nix takes to the stars to fix her mistakes.
On my first night in the guest room, I couldn’t sleep. Floorboards creaking, pipes knocking, windows rattling with the wind—all of it would have been more than enough. But the problem was the closet door.

#WebSerial #ParanormalFantasy #YAFantasy #Podcast #Wattpad #SerialFiction
August 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The demon fell.

And so did I.

Exhausted. Floating. Free from the weight I’d been carrying my whole life.

#WebSerial #ParanormalFantasy #YAFantasy #Podcast #Wattpad #SerialFiction
August 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Paxwood Book 1: The Haunting of Paxwood House exists as a whole complete thing. Inside, you will find:

🌟 Chosen Ones
✒️ A narrator on the hunt for a good story
🪄 A nonbinary wizard who teaches shop
🗡 A demon slayer who outlived her destiny
👻 Ghosts
🐱 A Glass Cat

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN3U...
The Haunting of Paxwood House - Complete Compilation
YouTube video by StephWeavesTales
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July 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Now that Paxwood Book 1 is complete, I'm putting together an epub and whole audiobook. It's unedited from the podcast, so it has all the rough around the edges charm. I'll probably only sell these on etsy and ko-fi.

Some day, I'd love to do a dev edit, line edit, get it a pretty print edition, tho.
July 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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June 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Happy gotcha day, Lilly! Will you give Lilly a belly rub for her gotcha day?

After I adopted her from the rescue, it quickly became clear that she makes space for herself because she came from an unsafe situation, but all she wants is to put more love into the world.

Love my chaos gremlin girl 🐾
June 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Maybe my best dragon yet
June 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Ready for #ImaginariumBookFestival and the Tomi Adeyemi Lit Talk
June 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Pride on 4TheWords is one of my favorite annual 4TW events, and this year, it's *punk.*

I will write surrounded by rainbows. I will write remembering the first Pride was a riot. I will write inclusively because all my LGBTQIA+ friends deserve a world that embraces and uplifts their existence.
June 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Be gay do crow stuff

#pridemonth #pridecrows
June 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Could really just use a nice nap right now. Like, almost tempted by a Rip Van Winkle sized nap, as long as the world on the other side of the twenty year nap isn't a dumpster fire.
May 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Outline. Put outline into Aeon Timeline. Sync Aeon Timeline with Scrivener. As I write things out, I add more details to the timeline and adjust what needs adjusting.

I also have Obsidian as a digital notebook. It has fun wiki-esque linking features. Love it.
Question to writer friends: how do YOU plan a book? I'm word doc plus notebooks plus sticky notes on the wall plus big board with plan plus google doc plus...ok just about everything EXCEPT spreadsheet. Spreadsheet allergy.
Are you team spreadsheet, team, Notepad document, or bullet pointed .doc file?
May 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I'm working on a reimagining of my first crochet dragon, a rainbow dragon named Pryde. I tried a few gradient rainbow yarns but decided to color change by hand. Straight lines felt too unnatural, so I added some staggered stitches. Honoring the original heart panel wings, I'm emphasizing the heart.
May 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I am on the starfish book in my animorphs reread.

IYKYK
May 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Walked into the grocery store, and the smell of peaches hit me so hard and so beautifully. Oh, you know spring is curving toward summer when the peaches arrive.
May 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Twisted Cryptids arrived with this cute "Nostalgic Wilderness" board and, aaaaa, the nostalgia. It is strong.
May 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
If you see this, post your green dragon art 🐲 #artshare #dragonart #greendragon
May 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
If you enjoyed A Ring of Secrets and you're wondering about the sequel, the first draft of book 2 is officially at 25% complete. Which means very little in terms of a release schedule. But, have an out of context line:

"It's not a taxidermized Janides III squirrel-bee, is it?" #YASciFi #IndieAuthor
May 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
With Episode 36 of Paxwood up, that means three more episodes and the epilogue remain in Book 1.

Are you curious about Book 2 yet? Any guesses whose story Kerry will tell next?
May 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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May 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Always share Tom Holland
eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same
May 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Sometimes I think about how I was an advanced reader who got assigned Harrison Bergeron to read in, like, the third grade, and then I go, "Oh, that's why I enjoy dystopian fiction."
May 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
My first thought as Ryan Hugh, vampire lawyer, dragged me away from Rowen with one arm around my waist and the other around my throat?

He was cold as a corpse. No, he was a corpse.

Paxwood episode 36 is up! Read at PaxwoodTales.com and Wattpad, listen on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts
May 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I am really loving Karen Hallion's cross stitch patterns.
May 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM