Una Verdandi, author & artist

@Una_Verdandi
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Professional editor by day, author and artist by night (and weekends, and whenever the vagaries of freelancing leave me with a gap in my schedule). Viking enthusiast and antifascist bleeding-heart snowflake. Winter is coming.

she/her

#SFF #CanadianAuthor #CanadianArtist

Black Wolf: The Binding of Loki (novel)https://unaverdandi.com/black-wolf/
Author/artist websitehttps://unaverdandi.com/
RedBubble shophttps://www.redbubble.com/people/Una-Verdandi/shop
'Flannery O'Connor said that a good story "resisted paraphrase," by which she meant that a simple summary of a plot or story line would not have the same emotional impact as the whole story. We'll add creative nonfiction to this, too. To understand what she means, think about trying to paraphrase, or describe, a Chopin sonata without actually playing any music. It simply cannot be done. The music stands for itself. Nothing can substitute for it with the same effect -- not the notes on the page, not a verbal description of the melody and harmony, not even a playing of a simplified version of the main theme. This is also true of the kind of fiction and creative nonfiction we are trying to write: simply stating what the piece "is about" should not be able to convey the complexity and subtlety of the piece as a whole. Some essential mystery, or emotional subtlety, will be lost in the paraphrase.'
-- The Making of a Story, by Alice LaPlante

Just a watercolour peony I painted once.

#blooms #flowers #watercolor #painting #tbt #throwbackThursday

Boop all the snoots!

#art #dog #cat #drawing

A favorite of mine. It came around years ago on the Twitter website. I've long lost who to credit.

Thanks to detective work by those more talented than I, it appears to belong to "Ally M Hennessy", used in one of her workshopsโ€ฆ

#networking #career #life #advice #meme

A functioning society would have removed Trump one way or another by this point.

Black Wolf: The Binding of Loki is darkly funny and virtually everyone dies -- the perfect book, if I do say so myself. But don't take my word for it.

Reviews, excerpts, and purchase links available at https://unaverdandi.com/black-wolf/.

#SFF #NorseMythology #Novel #Fantasy #Books #Mythology

This honestly explains a lot.
I'm not a crazy cat lady, I'm just a crazy lady who has cats. The adorably tubby tabby guarding my crochet is Ruby. The waify grey critter holding my sketchbook hostage is Hope, a long-term loaner cat from some friends. (Hope's parents recently moved to Canada, so I'm taking care of their little oddball until their living situation gets settled.) They are both weird and wonderful in very different ways.