Yours, Lucy Walter

eternal aesthete, recovering opheliac, pretentious dyke, indie ndn author

[lucillewalterblack]

“Yeah,” Virgo said. “That about sums it up. Want to do something about it?”

BLOOD TIES AND BRICKWAYS, an urban fantasy series coming soon from Lucy Walter.

queer protagonist and majority-queer supporting cast

urban fantasy mystery/adventure

magic school and speculative academia

Charmed meets Buffy meets Modern Tales of Faerie

multigenerational storyline across five books and several prequel novellas

read the first prequel featuring the above-mentioned dead parents FOR FREE here!

[artisimpossible]

I genuinely wonder if people realize how many projects get abandoned because the readership "wasn't there", when in reality, the readership just stayed silent. It's a big thing in trad pub that book series get discontinued because readers pirate the books or wait until the series is finished to buy a copy, leading the publisher to think that nobody actually wants the book enough to continue the series, but it happens with indie creators too.

I've discontinued a lot of free, online series because it's not worth putting 3-5 hours a week into posting a project for no readers. Sometimes I finish the series for me but just never post it again, other times I don't finish it at all because it feels more worthwhile to put my time into other things. Sometimes I hear from readers who are sad or upset that I didn't finish something they were liking, but the *reason* it never got finished is because I didn't know anyone liked it. If you like something, tell the creator, tell your friends, make some noise about it. If you would be sad if a story never finished, make that interest known because one of my biggest considerations before discontinuing a series is "will people miss this? Will I be letting people down" and 9/10 times, I come to the conclusion of "no, it doesn't even seem like anyone's reading this" only to learn after I've moved on that apparently someone was.

[healerqueen]

I've said this before in a different way, and this post said it so well. With real examples. If you like something, tell people.

If you want more content from an artist or author, if you like their stuff, tell them. It will give them creative fuel to keep going. And often it gives them other resources as well. Recommend a work to other people. Leave a comment or a review. It doesn't have to be long, just genuine, a sentence or two. Not many people know that a book's success is judged by book reviews as well as sales. Review the book on Amazon or another site to help it pass the metric of success and be recognized by publishers and retailers.

[dreamyvixen]

dilarafindikoglu

[kitsunetsuki-deactivated2026051]

Steve Horn - ELLE Magazine (Nov. 1964)

[contemptible-scoundrel]

knocking fairies out of the air by blasting iron filings out of a desk fan

[rylandsgrace]

AYO EDEBIRI

Before the academy gala by Morgan Maher (October 2024)

[hound-and-bear]

Dress made by me, end of 2025, photographed by Casey Kerr and Rory Casey, early 2026. Modelled by Jay Katherine Amusan.

(Thanks Jay (o: )

[lucillewalterblack]

neverending nineties 23/?: Foodtown Market, Troy MI + Festival Marketplace

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neverending nineties 21/?: Cypress Club, San Francisco CA + Nouveau Organic

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neverending nineties 22/?: Skywatching: A Nature Company Guide + Utopian Scholastic

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neverending nineties 20/?: Advertisement in October 1991 issue of Designer's West + Whimsicraft

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neverending nineties 19/?: Advertisements in Designer's West (1991) + Shabby Chic

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neverending nineties 18/?: Jared Galleria (Cuyahoga Falls OH), Karat Gold (North Attleboro MA) + Factory PoMo

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neverending nineties 17/?: Sink by Sherle Wagner (photo taken 1991) + Nouveau Organic

[nathanielthecurious]

i love this description. the ability to bring down the moon is literally so basic to thessalian womanhood that even girls can do it

[lucillewalterblack]

neverending nineties 16/?: Tulalip Resort Casino + Nouveau Organic

(This one is kind of an edge case - the construction began in 2001, with design probably finalizing in 1999/2000, but it's such a beautiful example of Nouveau Organic that I can't exclude it. The spiral-backed chairs!! Plus, it's continuing my commitment to finding vintage settings and photographs that don't center whiteness - the casino is owned and operated by the Tulalip Tribes of Washington, incorporating their iconography and preferences and artistic priorities into the design of the structure and the interior. For once, these "global" or "world" aesthetics are serving the communities they're drawing inspiration from.)

[lucillewalterblack]

neverending nineties 15/?: I Spy Spooky Night + Whimsigothic