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@audconnelly.bsky.socialOct 17, 2026, 11:57 PM

For the equivalent of Halloween in #dogwood1, Kenzie was a butterfly and Owen wore her little sister's top hat and Domino mask 😅 she made him buy a shirt with ruffles.

Wesley was dressed up as a waiter because the Donovans put him to work 😭
#Awesomecharacters

C💀🫜 Count Charlie (Chelizabeth) Deltula 🦊🧛‍♂️@charliedeltawrites.bsky.socialOct 17, 2026, 10:04 PM

Tell me about your #AwesomeCharacters Halloween approaches! How would they costume prep? Has your character had their costume planned for months? Are they buying it off the rack? Are they throwing something on last minute and calling it a costume? 🎃 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

@audconnelly.bsky.socialOct 17, 2026, 11:49 AM

a cowry shell necklace would go great with this outfit #Dogwood1 #WIPsnips

“Come with me.” Stephen sighed and took Wesley inside. Owen stood on the front steps wondering if he ought to make his escape while no one else was looking, when Wesley reemerged, scrubbed back to his normal, colorless shine, hair wet but clean, wearing what must have been the nicest clothes Stephen owned. “Suspenders suit you,” said Owen. “I look like a newsboy.” Wesley plucked at the plaid top. “Where are we going?”
W✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.socialOct 17, 2026, 5:11 AM

The #WIPSnips word for October 17th is "suit" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag October 17 - suit Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics Synonyms, variation and vibes are fine. Support others on the #WIPSnips tag! Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social The image behind the text is a border that is dark blue with gold stars with a black background with neon blue border. An illustrated caticorn holding a pencil and writing in a book with a rose behind one ear is in the lower right corner. A different version of the same illustrated caticorn is curled up writing in the lower left corner
@audconnelly.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 12:10 PM

for over six hound fatales.... #WIPsnips #Dogwood1

They had entered the Glade at dawn, but as they neared the mouth of the tunnel, bright, midday sunlight dazzled the eye. Rowan broke into a run. His uncle shouted at his back, but his blood was too loud in his ears to hear. The hunt has taken less than an hour—in and out, just like Ash said—but they’d paid for their bounty in Outerworld time. The sun was at high noon, which meant Legion had been out of the water for over six—
W✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 5:11 AM

The #WIPSnips word for October 16th is "dazzle" Even better if it's "razzle dazzle" haha #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag October 16 - dazzle Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics Synonyms, variation and vibes are fine. Support others on the #WIPSnips tag! Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social The image behind the text is a border that is dark blue with gold stars with a black background with neon blue border. An illustrated caticorn holding a pencil and writing in a book with a rose behind one ear is in the lower right corner. A different version of the same illustrated caticorn is curled up writing in the lower left corner
@audconnelly.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 12:32 AM

Sorry for making you read all that but 🙏 it inspired an all new Juliet Thompson-pov epilogue for #Dogwood1 (her parents were seamsters) literally 4 weeks before the book is coming out 🫪

@audconnelly.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 7:49 PM

kids are gonna wake up soon but im gonna try to plug in all my #Dogwood1 tweaks from my last reading sesh

@audconnelly.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 12:30 PM

which is wild because WINGS IN THE VALLEY and THE CONSORT AND I are *so good*! (more shameless plugs if you like messy people in general: www.amazon.com/stores/Aud-C...)

SO! between #Dogwood1 hype posts I'm going to try and talk about my backlist more, incl making graphics for both. bear with me!🥰

@audconnelly.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 12:02 PM

#WIPsnips #Dogwood1

A well-trod footpath ribboned away through the overgrowth, and the Gatehound was happy to walk the two or three miles in companionable silence, heart drifting back in time to similar strolls with Grady, sometimes on the hunt for child-stealing wolves, often just to get away from the crush of society which oppressed Grady so badly, making him short-tempered and sullen. Unfortunately, they had not gone far before Rowan started talking. “It’s just a regular school. We don’t sit around plotting wolf hunts and dissecting fey, all right? And no one knows about the key—” “One person does.” “Don’t interrupt me. You’re not going to find the key going door-to-door asking for it. So don’t talk to anyone unless it would be weird not to, and then, don’t say anything to give yourself away. I’m going to get you a visitor’s pass for the day, you’re going to point out this ‘Owen Abernathy’ to me when you see him, and that’s it. As far as anyone else is concerned, you’re just some guy, all right?” You would benefit from some oppressive society, thought the Gatehound.
@audconnelly.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 11:58 AM

#WIPsnips #Dogwood1

“You again!” she said. He popped up, dusty and smelling of horse, even though the showers were on the way to the dorms from the stables. Vitriolic pleasure spiked through Kenzie when she saw he had not yet bothered to unpack his single bag, still sitting by the nightstand. The neglect to do so suggested unease, a hesitancy to make himself at home in enemy territory.
@audconnelly.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 11:51 AM

This is technically a simile because it uses the word "like", but it goes on and on like a metaphor🤣

#lithodgepodge #Dogwood1

She had never seen someone so afraid. Living with their parents, Nessie used to get upset and cry, but that was not the same thing. Owen’s terror filled up the room, like a wild animal loose in the house: even as it hid in the corner, panting and staring, you felt surrounded by it. Its very presence spread over the floor, crawled up the walls, and made the furniture unsafe. It infected her, made her heart race, scattered her thoughts and sent goosebumps down her arms and legs so her hair stood on end.
@audconnelly.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 11:46 AM

See this and other dates end in disaster in #Dogwood1 😅

#WIPSnips

“Hey.” Wesley looked sharp, as though surprised Owen was still there. Grime coated Wesley’s skin, except for where he’d scrubbed around his eyes. His once-blue coveralls were a solid, filthy brown. He knelt on the cottage’s front porch, in the middle of laying out tools to be cleaned and dried. “What do you want?” “Can I take you somewhere?”
@audconnelly.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:22 PM

#Dogwood1 #Wipsnips

Wesley waited till he could no longer see them through the trees before making his way to the horses. He did not have to search. The key drew his hand like a magnet. He and it were the same, forged from iron, bent and beaten under intense heat into the best shape to serve their master. The lock that formed his breastbone ached and pulsed with an urgency that was almost like having a heartbeat.
@audconnelly.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 12:39 PM

things are not very fuzzy in #Dogwood1 i guess because that would imply some level of comfort for the characters....

@audconnelly.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 11:10 PM

Apparently I haven't been talking enough about the fact that #Dogwood1 preorders are open 😅

preorder link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLBF4CP1

Thanks for hosting Steve. Sorry bsky is...like this. 💀 #SFFCHAT #FreeSFFChat 😭✊

This is the announcement flyer for THE DOGWOOD CHRONICLES 1: HOUND FATALE by Aud Connelly. The cover is a starry night sky with silhouettes of trees in the foreground. The title HOUND FATALE is a mix of gothic and cursive lettering with a woodcut of a rabbit from the public domain. Around the cover are the following details: Gratuitous violence, profanity, and laughing at all the wrong shit. Pathetic yearning lovesick “bad guys”. Messy people, trippy magic. Alternate-timeline fantasy. Bad takes on classic literature.As a feral child, Owen was chosen as the Donovan family’s tithe to the otherworld—until a fey rescued him, to raise him in the human world. Twelve years later, the Donovan family’s fortune hinges on the sale of a Stupendous Dogwood, an otherworldly tree with bioluminescent flowers, to be auctioned at the annual Dogwood Gala. The trees are such a closely guarded secret, Kenzie’s parents were killed for researching them, and her sister taken as a ward of the Donovans.. To finish her parents’ research and save her sister, Kenzie steals the key to the mine that holds the secret to the trees’ origins. Her actions reawaken the Hound, the Donovans’ cursed fey servant. Though his original master is dead, the Hound is enslaved to the current heir: Rowan, the disappointing scion of a legacy he cannot begin to understand. But if commanding the Hound to find the key will cement the approval of Rowan’s family, so be it. Owen’s knowledge of the otherworld proves invaluable to Kenzie’s work, while his sweetness entrances the Hound, delaying his search for the key. As the three conspire behind Rowan’s back to undo a string of Donovan crimes against nature, their discoveries force more of their own secrets into the light, casting shadows of doubt on each other and reality itself, and setting off a chain-reaction of consequences for the people and fey who live there.
@audconnelly.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 11:04 PM

#SFFchat #Dogwood1

Here was a laboratory, equipped with work tables, appliances, and storage cabinets arranged around a central point: the sole source of light, a Stupendous Dogwood tree growing directly from the concrete floor, cast in the eerie amber glow of emergency lights. Its flowers were dimmer than the ones aboveground, like glow-in-the-dark stars losing their charge.
@audconnelly.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 11:00 AM

#Dogwood1 #wipsnips

“All other characteristics aside, they look like toads.” Without thinking, she touched one wart-like nodule on the head of the nearest creature. Instantly, it and all of its companions leapt backward on their short, muscular legs. The group around Owen retreated likewise. The sudden jolt of movement all over their moonlit campsite spooked Pest, making the pony trumpet and kick. The night dissolved into a mad flurry as every one of the small creatures scrambled and bounced off one another before vanishing down well-hidden tunnels between rocks or leaping gracelessly into the pond. Within seconds, only one remained, careening around their campsite, bouncing off trees and boulders, blinded by the knapsack it had been raiding, now stuck on its head.
@audconnelly.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 11:37 AM

the girls are fightinggggggg #Dogwood1 #WIPsnips

“You spoke to my master?” said Wesley. “When?” “Your master is…Rowan Donovan?” Owen stepped back from him, horrified expression so fixed on Wesley that he did not see Kenzie’s fist coming before it sent him staggering into the rock wall, nose gushing blood over his mouth and chin. The light from Kenzie’s flashlight swung wildly. Owen pushed off the wall and charged at her. “You! Fucking! Lizard person—!” He ran full speed into the heel of Wesley’s palm and the sudden stop took his breath away in a wheeze. “ME?!” said Kenzie. “You’re the one who brought Donovan’s henchman into this! We’re as good as fucking dead because of you!”
@audconnelly.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 11:46 AM

Just one of the scrapes Owen gets into in #Dogwood1 😅

#WIPSnips

Kenzie finished washing her hands, dried them on her thighs before remembering she was wearing her best dress, cursed herself, and turned the walkie back on. It immediately crackled in the middle of a message: “—STUCK IN A WALL!” “What?” she hissed. “KENZIE, I’M STUCK IN A FUCK-ING WALL.”
@audconnelly.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 11:55 AM

Was this week of #wipsnips made especially for #dogwood1?!

Literally "and there's the dent where I met-ugly my boyfriend"

“I had to salvage all the parts. It took like two years… Speaking of which, I need to get a new grille. This one still has the imprint of your ass.”
@audconnelly.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 11:40 AM

#Dogwood1 #Wipwnips because the book is up for preorders 🥰

Owen set Frankenstein aside and tried to rub some feeling back into his ankle. His foot tingled unpleasantly in his shoe. Though he never heard Wesley turn, he could feel those keen eyes on him, could remember the impatience shadowed by something almost like desire. What is the nature of your injury? Freak. “It’s old,” Owen said now, on that narrow strip of grass between the student center and the cornfield. “It happened a long time ago.” “You were a child,” Wesley said, having evidently run the math of an old wound on a young man. “And the wolf who stole you…” “She didn’t steal me. She saved me.” Nervous hands wrapped a bootlace around his ankle and pulled it tight. “Saved you for what?” Owen started. “What do you mean?” “For what purpose is your guardian saving you?”
@audconnelly.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 12:18 PM

Today's #WIPSnips is the very first paragraph of the #Dogwood1 prologue!

I'll be doing HOUND FATALE snips through November to (hopefully not obnoxiously) let people know the book is available for preorder 🥰

When Owen was very small, before he was “Owen” at all, he lived in the old church in the woods with the other orphans, playing in the weeds amongst the crumbling headstones, eating cold tinned stew and peaches in syrup. They were wild things with dirty faces, but never truly without guardians, for the wolves watched them always from the woods encroaching like a rising sea.