It’s hard to believe this moment is here, a bit over a year after the first entry in the series made its arrival, but it’s time: The end of the Snakesblood Saga is here.
If you’re not caught up, be warned: there are spoilers below the cover. But if you’re… Read the rest...
Author: Beth
Writer, artist, blogger, doll collector, and owner of Ithilear.com.
How much writing or editing can I do in the span of time it takes me to do this?
As I work on the cover for the last Snakesblood book, and the deadline looms dangerously near with neither the cover art nor the editing completed, that same thought keeps coming… Read the rest...
The morning after Easter, I found myself too groggy to get going. Most mornings, I have an idea of what I want to start my day with. Mellow and spicy? Fruity and bright? Hints of chocolate? Herbal? That morning, all I really wanted was to be awake.
Instead of picking,… Read the rest...
After I shared the process of making Rune’s head, I was ruminating on how I didn’t have any of my various doll photos where people could see them, aside from sharing them on Instagram. That’s fine, and kinda what the platform is for, but sometimes I think back to the… Read the rest...
Either the best or worst thing about being an author is I’m blessed–or doomed–to be the #1 biggest fangirl of the stories I write. Needless to say, when combined with my penchant for crafts, this becomes dangerous.
I like book stuff. Swag. Bookmarks, stickers, decals, notebooks, postcards, jewelry, charms, pins.… Read the rest...
As much as I’ve enjoyed collecting dolls to make into characters from my stories (something I don’t share here quite as often as I should, given how well blog posts are suited to sharing images of what I’m working on) I’ve always found it hard to fit the look of… Read the rest...
It feels like I’m running behind on everything, lately, so it’s not much of a surprise that I haven’t had time to sit and savor a cup of new tea for a while. As a result, I’m still working my way through some I got last year and still haven’t… Read the rest...







