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VOTE to help me decide which artist/style I should bring on to Labyrinth next when we hit our next stretch goal (which you can help with)! Over 3000 backers on Kickstarter already, and next up: 🔥✨✍️🐉 a custom Labyrinth bookmark 🔥✨✍️🐉ONLY 5 DAYS LEFT. Back Labyrinth HERE before it's over www.kickstarter.com/projects/wraithmarked/labyrint… Stay nerdy!

~ Tim

ps. I can't guarantee a certain artist (legal/negotiations/scheduling etc), but your votes help me decide who you vibe with!

pps. if there's an artist I definitely need to check out, let me know down below. I'm always looking for new artists to work with.

1 day ago | [YT] | 386

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How BEAUTIFUL is this art? 🔥🔥🔥This is by Aria Fawn, my favourite artist, who is now creating original art for my new book, LABYRINTH, all thanks to YOU hitting our stretch goals. LABYRINTH is already a massive success with 🎉🎉over 3000 backers 🎉🎉 on Kickstarter, but if you want your own copy, there are 💥💥 ONLY 6 DAYS REMAINING 💥💥Plus, with your help we can hit more stretch goals for more stories, a custom bookmark, more art! www.kickstarter.com/projects/wraithmarked/labyrint…

Aria has this wonderful, ethereal, otherworldly creature art AND will be breaking down their process so you can see how beautiful works like this are made. Seriously, go check their work out. I've been supporting them on patreon for years, so it's a real privilege to be able to work with this an artist like this. I remember when I first came across it. It was the sort of thing I looked at once and immediately thought, 'wow, I've never seen any art which makes me feel quite like this'. It's somewhere between uncomfortable and utterly enchanted. A world where humans are of little importance—and perhaps we already are.

2 days ago | [YT] | 2,690

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my face upon seeing we have already hit 2900+ backers on the LABYRINTH kickstarter

thank you <3 I owe all of you so, so much—and I'm never quite sure how to say that.

can we get to 3000? back here www.kickstarter.com/projects/wraithmarked/labyrint…

5 days ago | [YT] | 885

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💥💥💥 2000+ backers on my new book's kickstarter in UNDER A WEEK💥💥💥Way faster and way more people than expected! Can we do 3000? I know we can. It's ambitious, but it's not hubris if we're actually that good—and we are. Join HERE www.kickstarter.com/projects/wraithmarked/labyrint…

ps. This photo is actually of perhaps the best fast food I have ever had. It's from Dublin, a spice-bag: a mix of spiced fries, fried chicken, pork, and a few vegetables, all perfectly crisp and wonderfully seasoned. I was utterly blown away and am heartbroken I will never get to have that spice bag again.

1 week ago | [YT] | 1,077

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Farewell America. Someone asked me a while back what the "most American thing I've done" is. What is America? What is American? I had apple cider doughnuts in Vermont; I drove the endless wilderness of the Pacific Northwest for days; I experienced the turning of the seasons, a real American Halloween and Fall, in New England; I've lived in rural Washington and Brooklyn NYC; I went to Trader Joe's and bought way too many snacks which were surprisingly good; I ate too much pizza; I had to purchase exorbitantly high insurance; I bought a poem from a busking poet in NYC; I went to medieval times and renaissance fairs - perhaps the most American thing: garish and blunt and over the top but completely earnest and involving and liberating.

I was in a supermarket in rural Oregon speaking to a man a month back. I said I was happy to be here, in the "Land of the Free", somewhat jokingly. He said, "Well, it sure as hell used to be." What "America" means has come under strain over the last decade. Who is "American" even more so.

America has a culture of publicly signalling allegiance and causes. American flags, pride flags, local election posters, union membership, state flags. It is... foreign to me. Perhaps that is the most American thing: to wear onself on one's bumper stickers.

I saw thousands of protesters marching of all ages and creed demanding an end to blatant corruption and abuse of power. I saw people fighting for a better tomorrow - often harder than I see in my own country. Perhaps that is the most American thing.

In New York, we took the Staten Island Ferry. The Statue of Liberty, which once represented those now fading values, was smaller than I expected. The image in my head was warped by film and TV, and perhaps there is something symbolic in that.

America is many things, maybe every thing. It has room for all things, good and bad. It is deeply human, warts and all, and it is not afraid to wear its humanity on its sleeve.

America is a crossroads at which at all paths meet and all paths diverge. I am not sure I will ever know it fully, but I am lucky to know the part I do.

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2 weeks ago | [YT] | 5,709

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You hit our funding goal in just 🔥🎆⚔️ 39 MINUTES! 🔥🎆⚔️THANK YOU. $44,000 in a single day. But there is more work to do. We want LABYRINTH to be a place you can submit YOUR stories, your writing one day, paid at professional rates, and to do that—we need to go for stretch goals. Back it HERE www.kickstarter.com/projects/wraithmarked/labyrint… limited time! Let's go for 50K!

Stay nerdy!
~ Tim

2 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 1,667

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Imagine a world where art is magic, where magic comes from a gargantuan jellyfish in the skies—and a painter leads a revolution. This is the world of my epic fantasy story—coming in ✨⚔️🪼 LABYRINTH VOLUME ZERO ✨⚔️🪼Join the other 1500 people who have signed up! >>> www.kickstarter.com/projects/wraithmarked/labyrint… <<< Get us to 2000!

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Aaaaaaaand how STUNNING is this cover design? 🔥🔥🔥 Stoked to finally reveal what Labyrinth is actually going to look like! I said let's aim for 1000 people on the kickstarter early—and we have SCREAMED past in just a couple of days to ✨🎉 1200 ✨🎉Let's go for 1500! 2000! I think we can do it. Sign up early HERE www.kickstarter.com/projects/wraithmarked/labyrint… let's make this even bigger. This will be one of the most beautiful books on your shelf.

This art is done by the amazing Andrew Thompson. I wanted it to be bright, fantastical, almost surreal, and to really capture the vibe of Labyrinth. More details to come!

Stay nerdy!
Tim

4 weeks ago | [YT] | 1,703

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How utterly GORGEOUS is this? 🔥 I commissioned this as part of a secret project called ⚔️🐉✍️✏️ LABYRINTH ⚔️🐉✍️✏️ I cannot reveal everything about it BUT I can show you this incredible cover art and tell you it's going to feature my first epic fantasy story, a ton of amazing fiction, and more incredible art like this.

I want HFM to be a place we don't just learn but create—and Labyrinth is one way for us to do that. There is even more I can't tell you (yet)!

We're launching on Kickstarter soon—and I want YOU to go join up to the kickstarter, click "notify me on launch" so that you can be there. Having people signed up to notifications massively helps projects inside the Kickstarter algorithm.

Sign up and get notified HERE 🔥🔥🔥 www.kickstarter.com/projects/wraithmarked/labyrint… 🔥🔥🔥

It'll only be available for a limited time for those who get in, so being notified is important, and THANK YOU if you do. Stay nerdy!

Tim

1 month ago | [YT] | 3,134

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ANNOUNCING ⭐🔥⚔️🐉 LABYRINTH VOLUME ZERO ⭐🔥⚔️🐉

An original fantasy and sci-fi collection with my new epic fantasy—"The Painter's Revolution"—at the helm. It's themed broadly around the fantastical creatures we all know and love—dragons, direwolves, giant jellyfish in the sky—but it also has a ton of other stuff too.

Not to mention: gorgeous art and breakdowns of the process + other incredible authors (like, maybe, possible, who knows, Christopher Paolini?)

Join the notification squad at the link in the comments for when it launches!

Stay nerdy!
Tim

1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 1,156