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Bidding to open at the low low price of £72,000.

Sure, it needs some work. But it comes with all the books, and sits below a three bedroom apartment, also included in the sale. It’s also, according to the listing, very close to the Blaenafon Cheddar Co, which “matures cheeses in an old mining pit.”

About 20 years ago, there was a push to turn Blaenavon into a “book town” like Hay-on-Wye, but the project failed, so I suspect this isn’t the only bookstore in the area in need of a new owner and a little rehab. Start with one, and soon you’ll have everything you need to become the book baron you’ve always wanted to be. What could go wrong?

All illustrations for my L-space fic Lost In A Good Book.

112 years ago today (28 Nov) the Terra Nova Expedition was treated to a farewell ball in Dundein, NZ. It was fun imagining what that was like, and throwing in one last burst of ladies and plant life!

People who preordered are starting to get their copies, and it's very exciting to see it out in the wild! Just in time for the anniversary of the Expedition taking the plunge.

Get your order (no longer pre-) from Ink@84 Books! Broader options coming soon; e-options coming eventually, or else sign up to my Patreon and read it all there.

Illustration and teaser for chapter 4 of Lost In A Good Book. The chaper will be posted tomorrow.

The chapter is up now:

Illustration and teaser for chapter 4 of Lost In A Good Book. The chaper will be posted tomorrow.

Lineart of the illustration for chapter 4 of my fic Lost In A Good Book. The chapter is about two thirds written. I hope to make some more progress on my long train journey back to Germany today.

What's up Amazon haters! Bookshop.org is doing free shipping to combat Prime Day. Purchases on Bookshop help support the indie bookstores in your location!

if you dont have a local bookstore to support, consider the bookstore I share my shop space with!

Happy Good Omens TV second anniversary!

I made a bookshop. Sort of. Well, as much as you can when you don't know how to make miniatures and only used stuff you had in the house.

The problem is, I don't have room for my book nook on either of my bookcases.......

Ofcourse I had to include a copy of The Nice and Accurate Prophecies and the Good Omens book!

The books were made individually and took a painstakingly long time as I had to measure and paint the cardboard before gluing the paper covers on 😭

Wow!

It looks so pretty!!!

The DETAIL!! It’s stunning, and the craftsmanship on the books is beautiful, and so delicate, well done

https://bookshop.org/

They are making audio and digital books available now too!!

Just a thought that I have to get off my chest before I implode: besides the utterly beautiful display of love, grief and despair that the burning bookshop scene is already, how much more poignant does it get if you consider what it means exactly that Aziraphale’s books have all (except for Agnes Nutter’s Prophecies) burned down to ashes? Like, these books:

THESE BOOKS

I mean, THESE BOOKS

The four or five books that Crowley took so much bother to protect because he loves Aziraphale and knew how important they were for him, the books that changed everything, the books that ultimately spelled out that love in no uncertain terms. A moment so defining that Crowley kept the dove from the church, and has it in plain sight at his place.

THOSE are the books that burned in the fire, and several hundreds more. Not any random books.

Now think of Crowley running in there after having begged Aziraphale to go off with him, so as to put both of them out of harm’s way, twice; imagine him running in there with every intention of doing one of his last-second rescues as he’s been doing for centuries, and finding out instead that not only Aziraphale is gone as he dreaded would happen (because there’s no way Aziraphale wouldn’t have stopped the fire himself otherwise), but the bookshop, the books, THEIR BOOKS, all they had together is no more, cancelled, erased from existence. This is what Crowley is facing in the fire.

That is why it is so UTTERLY DEVASTATING that in the bar scene Crowley has to tell Aziraphale that the bookshop burned down. Since he’s wasted drunk, a part of Crowley still thinks he has lost Aziraphale and, in addition to that, this time he has also failed to save the books, the books that he knows are an integral part to what they have become, that carry their history together.

AND that is why the very next sequence is the most heartrending, gut-wrenching thing I have ever seen EVER, when Aziraphale asks for the prophecies and Crowley points at the book with that overexcited shaky voice yelling “Souvenir!”, because yes now there’s still a chance to stop the end of the world, but this is just as much Crowley telling Aziraphale “Yes yes yes I saved a book from all that mess. Does it have even a little of importance, does it? DOES IT? If it has even the smallest shred of meaning for you then not everything is lost, I saved your books once again, for you, LOOK, remember? We can survive this and live to rebuild on the foundations” and I just jfshbcsbcdjaksaudhofhs

I didn’t need my heart anyway

me neither.

Here are all the backgrounds I drew for The Rest Of Our Lives, a short animation series collab with @gemennair.

Trying out Ko-fi~

I created a 3D model and floor plan of Aziraphale’s bookshop in Good Omens!

I really wanted one for reference and it seemed like many others did too, so I put together my best approximation of where everything is. Beneath the color version, you’ll see I’ve included two simplified, labeled versions of the plan. The verbal labels are so you know what the object is. The numerical labels are there to make it easy to find more information about the object. I’ve put a numbered index below the cut that features the relevant reference images I used for each object and some more information about why I put it where I did/why it’s relevant/etc. I want to be very clear that I did not add anything to this from my own imagination; every single item and feature represents something I actually saw in the shop.

If you have any questions or want more information about this, PLEASE do not hesitate to ask! I put so much time into figuring it out and I would be more than happy to be a resource for anyone who needs it. Also, if you notice any errors, let me know and I’ll update the post. I hope this is helpful!

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WHOA! 👀👀👀 That’s amazing! Thank you, you’re a star ❤!

@neil-gaiman​ 

wow, cool!

Look me in the eye, and tell me this isn’t the exact sign Aziraphale would have on his shop door.