Vale Nagle 🏳️‍⚧️

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Creature fantasy novelist. Author of Eyrie, Ashen Weald, Starling, Reevesbane, Crestfall, The Crackling Sea, Opinicus, & Pridelord.

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www.kvalenagle.com
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I really just love to draw creatures running, jumping, or flying with joy! Character belongs to @timegear.ink #artfight #artfight2024 #teamseafoam

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It is scary as fuck right now for trans authors and prospects for us being able to continue telling our stories get bleaker every day. Please, buy & read as many of these folks' books as you can. I'm not exaggerating when I say you may not always be able to.

On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

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If you see this, post something fantasy/DnD from your portfolio. #TTRPG #DnD #KidLitArt

If you see this, post something fantasy/DnD from your portfolio. #TTRPG #DnD #KidLitArt 🎨

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India ink on yupo #art commission from a while ago!

Family member arriving home in the middle of my writing day: "Who's blasting the theme song from The Shadow movie starring Alec Baldwin??" www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXpW...

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Looking for a great summer read? The ebook of 88 NAMES, Matt Ruff's 2020 virtual reality/MMORPG novel (part cyberthriller, part twisted romantic comedy) is on sale now for only $1.99. Publishers Weekly call it a "fun, fast-paced novel… pure geek gold."

Vroom =)

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Yeah I read theory

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My son has been hard at work this month

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I've not drawn enough bird-themed characters!! Character belongs to @/Eexpii on Artfight #artfight #artfight2024 #teamseafoam

When we stopped teach Indi tricks each day, she began trying to teach us. She's got a little set of commands for picking her up, kissing her forehead, chin/head scritches. She's been trying a new one this week, and I think she's trying to figure out "build blanket fort for me."

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“Kenai Fjords Series - Tufted Puffin” is up on Every Day Original! This is an 8x10 inch gouache painting, and is the second in a series of birds of Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska. everydayoriginal.com/product/kena...

Kenai Fjords Series - Tufted Puffin - Every Day Originaleverydayoriginal.com The second a series featuring the birds Kenai Fjords National Park. Tufted Puffins have colorful beaks in the summer and can be seen flying to and from their burrow nests in the grass up in the cliffs...

I don't make enough money as a fantasy author to hire the kind of bodyguards I would need to protect me if I did something mean to poor Lei. All of my fan mail is nice, but much of it signs off with "Don't you dare hurt the trans peacock cinnamon roll."

I agree with him! But at least Lei seems to be doing ok.

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Griffin sketch, she’s a semi bulky female. I have a concept for her in my head (golden eagle-esque.) No reference was used. I will say that Harkthorn has inspired me to start drawing griffins again. :)

Sitting here minding my own business while my husband reads Pridelord on the couch and he just shouted "Nooooooo!" and I think I'll slip away to bed innocently so I don't have to justify my Author Crimes against a certain character. 😽

Today's off to a rough start because I appear to be double-booked on sleepy cats who want to nap on the keyboard while I try to write. (Caliginous art by @klecrone.bsky.social from her "let me draw your black cats" study.)

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There are a handful of absolutely perfect jokes in this world…

Fun fact: the first gryphon book I ever read as a child had space gryphons in it.

what if Space Gryphons

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My velociraptors were a very popular little series. The design is now retired but I want to sculpt another raptor. What would you like to see?

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I've been poking at this for a couple days. I'm really pleased with the light effects and environment, but I may have overworked my character a bit. I wonder if I'd regret going over with gouache to smooth him out a bit?

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If you love a book, tell someone. Recommend it. Loan your copy. Send a link. Ask for it at your library. Word of mouth goes further than you think.

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Last day to pledge! Feather charm reveal: Embra and Eyvindr 🤩😱 Kickstart for the book, and show you are a friend to gryfons by adding one of these beautiful feather charms by @lvadams2. (Better get both, don’t want to separate the princess from her faithful family guardian 👀🫶)

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there are two wolves inside me and both are very tired, please be gentle

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Sketch commission for vic-viper-001 with their fluffy fox turned into into a gryphon =3 Timelapse for this one - https://vk.com/wall-38370503_6586 #art #animalart #furryart #gryphon

Kinda wild all the fan art Pridelord is getting about a month before release. I think some of the characters really struck a chord with Patreon supporters. I can't wait for everyone else to meet them, but seeing the fan art around makes me happy =]

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Hi, it's #portfolioday, here's some of my art. 🎨

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Joining in on #portfolioDay though feeling a bit out of place 😅 I'm Harkthorn, a fantasy/wildlife artist. Mostly I draw and post daily sketches, in traditional media!

You wouldn't last an hour in the (Emerald) Jungle where they raised me. Still proofing the audio for Pridelord. 36 chapters and counting recorded.

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⭐ArtFight revenge on @fellfallow.bsky.social :D #art #digitalart #artfight #art_fight

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So uh, now my new book is up to #45??? Right next to KEANU REEVES' book??? How??? XD Thanks to all buying it, LOL. I hope you enjoy! #Furry #FurryWriting #WritingCommunity #Books www.amazon.com/Hidden-Archi...