East of the Sun

Pictures, inspiration, and writing news from an author of fantasy fiction who loves research, tea, and fairy tales.

[amyaderman]

List of Published Fiction

Better late than never: I have finally created a post containing a list of all my published fantasy fiction.

Novels

The Way to Winter, available via Amazon and Smashwords

Short Fiction

“Three Questions” Daily Science Fiction, 4/16/2015 entry

“Salt and Bone” Ain’t Superstitious, available via Amazon and Smashwords

“The Muse” Mythic Delirium, Issue 2.4

“Pest Control” ‘From the Lockdown’ 2021 Short-Story Contest, March 2021 winner

[oldpaintings]

Sleeping Beauty, 1864 by Bertha Froriep (German, 1833–1920)

[parkchanwoohoo]

This whole series is so goddamn funny

[immediatebreakfast]

I could not enter it, as I had not the key of the door leading to it from the house, but I have taken with my kodak views of it from various points.

These type of details can appear as surprising at first because the Dracula book is set in the late victorian era, giving the expected feeling that everything must be ancient compared to our modern times...

Yet, this is Jonathan's kodak camera:

Once we the readers grab all of these details (starting with this one), and put them all together, it gives the picture of the whole novel being rather futuristic. Considering how one of the elements of the gothic genre is how the past collides with the changes of the present, it's very fitting that Jonathan talks about the ancient english building that the Count wants to move in... With the help of a modern camera.

[top-cheese]

ok so its a pretty good story but you know what would make it better? a liar. a character who lies. maybe two.

[rozzed]

why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? it won't hurt him....

[enchantedbook]

“Sea Creatures”, Pamela Colman Smith, c. 1907

[nyaa]

2008-03-16

[thefandomlifechoseme]

so like. when are we getting that wild west ect TV show where right at the end of the first season. right at the end. last ten minutes right at the end. the main character wanders over from America to England to go propose to this really nice girl we've been hearing about all season. and she opens the door and we finally learn the main character's last name.

and The Public still don't even realise that Quincey Morris just wandered his way into the plot of Dracula because no one ever includes him in the adaptations and no one's actually read the book

when are we getting that.

[vivacias]

What's a book written by a woman that changed your life or that you consider a classic? Any genre, any language.

[helloamhere]

Have created a new novel-writing approach for myself that I am calling Very Gentle Writing. Very Gentle Writing is an approach for people who live nearly every waking second in self-castigation and actually need peaceful slowness to unleash their creativity. 

Very Gentle Writing does not set staggering word count goals and then feel bad about it. No! Very Gentle Writing for me sets an extremely low word count and then feels magnificently productive when the low bar is exceeded (which is easy…it’s a low bar, I mean really low). 

Very Gentle Writing is about saying hey yo maybe I just want to listen to a chill playlist for a while and feel one sentence spill out. Go me! 

Very Gentle Writing is kind of about realizing I have a really limited amount of time to write in between work, and adulting, and taking care of a thousand life responsibilities, and trying to heal&deal from trauma in 2020. So I want that writing time to be….just…..nice. 

Very Gentle Writing means I have a goal of enjoying every single time I sit down to write. Really. I use all the fun words first. 

Very Gentle Writing came to me as an idea when I started to think about how as someone actively trying to recover from a lot of lifelong trauma, the usual word harder!! Work harder!! mantras in the world of “people doing hard things” didn’t motivate me at all, they only hurt me. I truly need a voice saying work less hard, personally.

[catchclaw-deactivated20240629]

I love this so much: “Very Gentle Writing means I have a goal of enjoying every single time I sit down to write. Really. I use all the fun words first.” YES. THIS. 

[britcision]

This

My goal is “write one sentence a day”. I don’t always meet it, but there’s also about a 90% chance that if I write that one sentence, another one will happen

Then another, then another

But so long as I sit down and write one sentence on one of my WIPs, I win

[zero1infinity]

[tsukiyamas]

why does this have 32k notes? it’s just a picture of a knife in a ranch bottle, is there some unspoken joke that 32 thousand people share? what is going on here, i dont get it. it’s just a fucking picture of a knife in a ranch bottle. is there some spiritual connection people have to this picture? is there some ominous and mystical reasoning that this has 32 thousand notes? do people reblog this because it makes them look like some indie blogger? or is there just something funny to this? someone please explain

[diggly]

no one tell him

[rhube]

This is it, lads. The post that started us on this path 9 years ago.

I sure hope no one told him.

[ceaselessbasher]

I was reading up on Ceasar’s last words (as one does) and I came upon this one that has the Biggest Miette Energy

[the-busy-ghost]

#you STAB ceasar???#you STAB him like the SALAD???#oh jail for the conspirators! jail for a thousand years!!!#Julius Caesar#tragedies - @ardenrosegarden

[sailor-v]

kinuko y. craft early 2000s fantasy book covers my beloveds

[nevver]

The Long Goodbye

[polkadotmotmot]

Nom Kinnear King - Onwards, 2025 - Oil on wood

[lizmamont]