Jade Wildy Wordsmith

@jadewildy.bsky.social

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Writer of speculative fiction, sci fi, fantasy and horror. www.jadewildywordsmith.com 📚💙

A light coloured text list on a black background providing a series of check boxes with tasks for planning a trip to Melbourne.
A large black dog provides a judgemental side eye towards to camera. In the background is a room with two paintings.
Image is the cover of G.M Hague's Ghost Beyond Earth. It has a solid dark blue background and metallic silver writing. The picture in the middle shows a remote homestead with a picket fence out the front and a figure standing in an eerie, yellow lit window. The night sky behind the house is black and shows a pale glowing moon.
Image is of an open box with a set of white cards in it sitting on a wood table. The mottled black lid sits slightly behind it. On the table behind the card is a glass of white wine and the table number 26. (Sorry it wasn't a cooler horror number) In the background is the bar of the restaurant.
Image is of a list of games. The top two are Ultrakill and Date Everything under a line of text that reads "Due to your recent playtime in other Dating Sim games."
Three white pages sit on a wooden desk covered in cramped handwriting in blue biro. One is divided under headings and has an orange message label attached to it.
Image is of a screen shot of the audio book screen for There is no Antimemetics Division by QNTM. The background is split into dark blue and black with three blue circles sitting over the transition point. Inside the circles is an icon to go back 30 seconds, a play triangle, and a skip forward 30 seconds. Inside the black is a series of vertical lines indicating the time progress with Chapter 3 above it. On the blue at the top is the cover art for the book. The background is a scene that looks like a dusky sunset of turquoise and pink above waves of navy and pale blue. A deer? Stands at the transition point. Bright acid green writing provides the name of the book and the orange penguin logo is on the bottom right.
Image is of two sock-clad feet. One sock is black the other is white. A glass of white wine sits above them (a D'arenberg Fiano if you must know). The carpet beneath these is a mottled blue speckled with seeds. Two almost vertical lines divide the blue carpet, one red, one yellow.
Image is of a greying middle aged woman looking like she's about to start something holding a dark covered book depicting a lonely nighttime road. The book is The Rise by Alan Baxter. In the background is white book cases filled with books.
Image is of the front cover of Fritz Leiber's The Silver Eggheads (1961) stated in a white panel across the top. The image shows a man in an old fashioned captains uniform sitting at a control desk with various dials next to an oddly busty orange robot wearing a white bra. Behind the panel is a vista of blue clouds or sea. To the left of the image is a bulbus orb with legs and what look like power sockets for a face.
Two completely black chickens with red combs and wattles sit in a wireframe cage. A green bowl on water sits on one side and a large white spherical chicken feeder hangs on the other. White paper sits behind them.
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as Tim and Mike from Spaced playing PlayStation.
Image is of a large black dog standing next to a wood table, head tilted back receiving a pat on the head.
Image is of a line of shelves laden with books. A mustard coloured retro chair sits among them on the left hand side. Carts of books waiting to be shelved, and a spinner of music sheets sit at the end of each aisle.
A pencil drawing of various critters including a sinister looking spider with 10 legs, all holding guns.
Typewritten text reads: "No AI has been used in the writing of this thesis! Human only this is my typewriter. hh Hello." There is also random y, v and g dotted about the page.
Text reads "Forgiveness is definitely a two way street, or to put it another way a road to repair. But there are those* that won't/can't meet you half way. Then it's a matter of finding peace within yourself so you can keep travelling. *They can meet a bus, then a truck, then a dog on a unicycle on the road."
Handwritten inscription in book: Top right - Dorothy M Pyatt. August 4th 1938. Middle - To myself, for being a Bloodthirsty Ruffian.
Image is of a huge pan of Bolognese sauce on a stove with a carton of lactose free milk being poured into it.
BLISS BALLS (Snack) - I added details with * Need: 300g pitted dates (soaked for 15 min " *in hot water*) 100g cacao powder *or cocoa* 200g shredded coconut, 2tbsp chia seeds, 100g coconut oil, Extra coconut *or cocoa* to coat. Do: Mill cacao (if nibs), 30 sec Speed 9. Add nuts and chop *coarsely* 20 sec speed 4, Add fruit (all of the ingredients) chia, oil, coconut, cacao powder, *soaked* dates. Blend for 50 sec speed 6 using spatula to push mix down. Leave to sit for 10 min. Spoon out small amount and roll into balls. Roll in extra coconut *or cacao powder* and place in fridge for 1 hour to set.
Inside a plastic tub is a selection of brown balls that look suspiciously like large cooked meatballs but are in fact date, LSA, cocoa bliss balls.
Image is of a hot pink rose covered in droplets of rain. Green foliage provides a backdrop.
Image shows rows of darkened bookcases cast in shadows leading to a creepy backlit figure in the background.
Image is from the Coober Pedy Drive In website listing what is playing this month. Two red arrows point to the movie I Know What You Did Last Summer playing on 31st October 2025.
Image is of a passage of text from The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones. It describes the existence of "six or eight or ten drive-in screens all in this big-ass Stonehenge circle, each with their own parking lot."
Image is of a wood, slatted outdoors table. On it is a bottle of ginger beer, a mosaic candle, two clear glasses, a bottle of Christmas gin in a dark pink bottle, and a copy of the book "Don't Fear the Reaper" by Stephan Graham Jones with a bright red cover.
Image is of a black Minky blanket with distinct hand prints walking over it.
An aluminium foil wrapped rectangular dish sits in a open, black Webber Q.
Image is of the front cover of The Bugalugs Bum Thief by Tim Winton. It has bright yellow at the top and bottom and in the middle is a cartoon of two people standing on a beach. One is inspecting the posterior of the other where there is a noticeable divot where their backside should be.
A photo of a tv screen showing a scene from the computer game Death Stranding. A man with a yellow package on his back stands on an elevated road. A rusted truck is caught by its back wheels, teetering off the end of the road. A back drop of a rocky mountainous vista sits in the background.
A slope of green grass with several dark blackwood trees sits in front of the shadow of rolling hills. Dark blue clouds partially obscure the bright glowing orb of the setting sun.
Image is of a dirt track curving through green grass, moving between sheoak and gum trees. A pale blue, clear sky is behind them.
The top of a small laptop displaying white text on a black background sits in the bottom left. The background is of several bookcases full of general, science fiction, and fantasy books.
Image is a screen grab of two consecutive posts on BlueSky. One is from Daniel Abraham's providing a quote, reading: "He lived weird, he died weird, and id he left any message for posterity, any fragment of wisdom to hand down through the ages of humanity, it was this: That was fuckin' weird." The other is from Jeff VanderMeer staring "it wholesome" in response to a comment from Toast Conger saying "I'm really afraid to drill down on this thread".
Image is of a stack of books laying on their side by Australian authors.
Image is of the cover of Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes and shows a maze built of blue circuitry on a slant. In front of the opening of the maze is a white laboratory mouse.
Image is of a stylised, horned bug on a blue hued background. At the bottom of the bug is a flash of white lightning radiating out to the sides.
A very large black dog sits on a mottled grey carpet in between several full bookcases. A white cart with even more books sits behind her.
Image is of a screenshot of the audio book of Buffalo Hunter Hunter. The grey cover shows a buffalo and sits on a black background.
Image is of the head and shoulders of a large black dog, fast asleep with her head pushed into the side of her fluffy bed.
Image is of the cover of Blade of Dream by Daniel Abraham (Book 2 of Kithamar series)
Image is of my black dog licking the froth out of a small espresso cup.
Image is of a series of wooden bookcases on either side of a central walkway full to the brim with books.
Image shows a white wireframe spinner loaded with colourful children's chap books in front of a pile of cardboard boxes that have yet to be unpacked.
Cardboard box of 7 (rather than the 6 we ordered) donuts. The top two are cacao, the middle three are dusted cinnamon, the bottom two are lemon.
Image is of a young boy in an orange jacket with the label 'writer' above his head asking "Why have thoust taketh away my em dashes???" A woman in a pink blouse and white skirt with the label 'editor' above her head holds a small puppet with the label '—' (an em dash) replies "Because you have no self-control and most were used incorrectly."
Image is of a spread of Magic The Gathering cards from the Fallout set on a purple couch. (A bright milk carton is sitting to the right.)
Image shows a large pile of books in open boxes.
Picture is of a black Great Dane Cross breed with a red collar sitting on a grey Turkish floor runner over floorboards, in my secondhand bookstore. She is surrounded by shelves full of books: Folio Society volumes at the back, and 4 shelves of science fiction to the sides.
Image is of a red book cover with white writing slicing diagonally across it. The writing states "Silver Nitrate" and between the words is a pair of eyes that look horrified.
Image is of piles on books on a mottled grey floor in front of shelving full of books stacked horizontally.
Image is of a line of science function books on the floor in front of a bookshelf full of mixed science fiction and fantasy books.
Image is of a shallow wine glass with raspberry vodka next to a book of large spires reaching up into a yellow sky. Both rest of a mauve coloured couch. The book is 'The Mercy of Gods' by James SA Corey.
The book is a red cover with a stylised quill and ink pot. Book is "The Ode Less Travelled" by Stephen Fry
Book cover is two aqua-coloured faces with brains visible looking inwards, on a black background. The book is "Mr Humble & Dr Butcher" by Brandy Schillage