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Tall Firs Productions @tallfirsproductions.com · 23d

I just updated Hillary Behrman’s website with this book prominently over the artwork! I love my clients so much and it's so exciting when they come back to do book launch updates to their sites!

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Kate Lockwood Harris, PhD @katelockwoodharris.bsky.social · Jun 11

I've got a new website! Check out katelockwoodharris.com Many thanks to @tallfirsproductions.com for the original artwork and design.

A dark blue border surrounds this square image that fades from a deep blue at the top to yellow at the bottom. It evokes sunrise or sunset. The words "Kate Lockwood Harris" appear in the center above an enter button.

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Tall Firs Productions @tallfirsproductions.com · May 31

#Seattle history buffs, this is coming up on Tuesday!

Coll Thrush @collthrush.bsky.social · Apr 21

Hey Seattle friends! Tickets are now on sale for my Wrecked book launch, which will be at Town Hall on June 3 at 7:30. Hope to see you there! You can also find other book events through the summer on my website, collthrush.com.

Coll Thrush with Joshua L. Reid | Town Hall Seattle

A fur-trading schooner beached in 1811. A passenger liner lost in 1906. An almost-empty tanker broken on the shore in 1999. These shipwrecks, and thousands more, are why the northwest coast of North A...

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Eirinie @eirinieee.bsky.social · May 31

I'll be at the Bay Area Book Festival this Sunday at the Marsh Theatre, 2:15, talking with Abby Reyes, Susan Lieu and Dorothy Lazard about memoirs, disclosure and reconciliation. Stop by! #BABF2025 #TheDeadAreGods

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Tall Firs Productions @tallfirsproductions.com · May 7

New site! Author and professor @katelockwoodharris.bsky.social had seen the work I'd done for her UMN colleague, vvganeshananthan.com, and asked for a site of her, original artwork, and organization for her extensive academic publishing. Thrilled with how it turned out.

katelockwoodharris.com

Website thumbnail: a blue painted canvas image floats behind the words 'KATE LOCKWOOD HARRIS' in white text, above a button that says 'ENTER'

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Tami Haaland @tamihaaland.bsky.social · Mar 15

A few years ago I met Sarah Salcedo @tallfirsproductions.com, who designed my website. Sarah continues to work with me whenever it's time for updates. Here's the most recent, updated version. www.tamihaaland.com

Tami Haaland

Tami Haaland is the author of four poetry collections, If I Had Said Beauty, What Does Not Return, When We Wake in the Night, and Breath in Every Room, winner of the Nicholas Roerich First Book Award.

www.tamihaaland.com

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Tall Firs Productions @tallfirsproductions.com · Mar 6

New books and anthology updates are live on @tamihaaland.bsky.social's site! Visit to learn more ⬇️

I designed Tami's site in 2021 and one of the things I love about my job is not just creating sites, but supporting the artists I work with in an ongoing way as they bring out new work into the world.

Tami Haaland

Tami Haaland is the author of three poetry collections. She is a professor and the Interim Dean of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Montana State Billings, and was Montana's Poet Laureate from 2013...

www.tamihaaland.com

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alex @dremenec.com · Oct 28

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs.

However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

An infographic. There are six panels.

1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded.

2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text.

3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky.

4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german.

5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say.

6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.

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Tall Firs Productions @tallfirsproductions.com · Jan 15

In 2023, I was lucky to be able to work with @cphillipspoet.bsky.social on both a site for all his amazing books of poetry, but also on artwork that has become one of my favorite pieces I've done. Visit www.carlphillipspoet.com to learn more about the Pulitzer Prize winning poet and his work.

Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips is an American poet and the author of, most recently, Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 and My Trade is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing. He teaches at Washingt...

www.carlphillipspoet.com

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Tall Firs Productions @tallfirsproductions.com · Dec 12

Next site! Author and craft educator (especially on folklore and fairytale) @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social’s site has an illustrated masthead—icons chosen by her, drawn by me.

Her latest book, #DreamsUnderGlass, from @lfpbooks.bsky.social, is amazing. Learn more about it and her work: ancawrites.com

Illustrations of a keyhole, a bunch of strawberries, and an open book adorn an author’s website.

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Tall Firs Productions @tallfirsproductions.com · Dec 12

Belatedly starting to post a selection of author sites I’ve done as I transfer this account over from X.

First up: This one was designed for professor and historian, @collthrush.bsky.social.

collthrush.com

Coll Thrush

Coll Thrush is a professor of history and associate faculty in critical Indigenous studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, on unceded Musqueam territory. He is also the author of I...

collthrush.com

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Tall Firs Productions @tallfirsproductions.com · Jan 15

Last month, right before the holidays, I got to work on a new website for @readandbreathe.bsky.social. Her latest book, What My Father and I Don't Talk About, is out this May!

Visit her website to learn more: michelefilgate.com

A website landing page with pink dahlias over a blue background. At the top of the page it reads MICHELE FILGATE and at the bottom there are buttons to enter the site, pre-order her new book, and social media links

A website ABOUT page. Under a banner of illustrated dahlias, there is an author photo of a woman in glasses next to text about that woman.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · Jan 14

WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON is now out in the world. It's the first "timely" book I've written--wholly unintentional, I assure you.
If you've been thinking about AI, revolution, altruism, the future, gender, aging, and what care is ... it might be the book for you.

Cover of We Lived on the Horizon pictured on a desert overwritten with junk code. Text reads "Swyler achieves a seemingly impossible amount of sophisticated worldbuilding using an economy of vibrant prose. Singularly stunning and stunningly singular." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · Dec 22

I'm very tired of people questioning the value of libraries and the value of having physical books at libraries.

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Tall Firs Productions @tallfirsproductions.com · Dec 19

Loved working with you, Anya!

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Anya Kirshbaum @anyakirshbaum.bsky.social · Dec 18

Thanks so much to @sarah-salcedo.com for all her extraordinary work on my beautiful new website! It was a great experience collaborating with her!

Tall Firs Productions @tallfirsproductions.com · Dec 16

New site! Last week, I launched a new site and artwork for @anyakirshbaum.bsky.social, a bi/queer poet, somatic psychotherapist, and beekeeper. Check out her work at www.anyakirshbaumpoet.com

Anya Kirshbaum

Anya Kirshbaum (she/her) is a bi/queer poet, somatic psychotherapist and aspiring beekeeper. Her work has appeared in SWWIM, The Comstock Review, Cirque, MER-Mom Egg Review, Crannóg, Solstice Literary...

www.anyakirshbaumpoet.com

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Tall Firs Productions @tallfirsproductions.com · Dec 16

Amazing client alert:

Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · Dec 16

At less than a month to publication, it's time to shamelessly flog my book WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON. (Lies. I have deep shame.)
👇You can keep my bunny in treats by pre-ordering. 👇
tinyurl.com/456y7s33
*fading star of the silver screen voice*
Darlings, the trades loved it!

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Tall Firs Productions @tallfirsproductions.com · Dec 16

New site! Last week, I launched a new site and artwork for @anyakirshbaum.bsky.social, a bi/queer poet, somatic psychotherapist, and beekeeper. Check out her work at www.anyakirshbaumpoet.com

Anya Kirshbaum

Anya Kirshbaum (she/her) is a bi/queer poet, somatic psychotherapist and aspiring beekeeper. Her work has appeared in SWWIM, The Comstock Review, Cirque, MER-Mom Egg Review, Crannóg, Solstice Literary...

www.anyakirshbaumpoet.com

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · Dec 13

Thanks to @lindzmcleod.bsky.social for this great holiday event. Winners, reach out to me here or thru @tallfirsproductions.com to talk art.

*If you didn’t win* but got excited by the idea of an illustration for your stories, poems, or essays, reach out anyway! I’m still taking winter commissions.

Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · Dec 13

There were supposed to be 3 winners of the last giveaway #12DaysofKindness but @sarah-salcedo.com is SO NICE that she's giving away 6!

@karenlykkebo.com
@chronicleflask.katday.com
@megantroup.bsky.social
@vazdimet.com
@sairaholm.bsky.com
@neilwilliamson.bsky.social

Congratulations! Please get

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · Dec 12

It’s the drummers drumming twelfth day of @lindzmcleod.bsky.social’s #12DaysofKindness and I’m up.

See details below for how to enter for an illustration of mine (and enjoy my lovely Christmaskull)!

Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · Dec 12

Day 12—drummers drumming—of #12DaysofKindness! Artist
@sarah-salcedo.com offers 1 illustration for 3 lucky winners! No AI, only artisanally human work for a story, poem, or essay of their choosing.

Remember to like AND repost this skeet to enter! The winners will be chosen at random tomorrow at 5pm

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Tall Firs Productions @tallfirsproductions.com · Dec 12

Thank you, Jill! ❤️

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Tall Firs Productions @tallfirsproductions.com · Dec 12

Thank you, Anca!

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Tall Firs Productions @tallfirsproductions.com · Dec 12

Next site! Author and craft educator (especially on folklore and fairytale) @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social’s site has an illustrated masthead—icons chosen by her, drawn by me.

Her latest book, #DreamsUnderGlass, from @lfpbooks.bsky.social, is amazing. Learn more about it and her work: ancawrites.com

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Tall Firs Productions @tallfirsproductions.com · Dec 12

Long one of my favorite historians, @collthrush.bsky.social has written two amazing books: Indigenous London and Native Seattle and his forthcoming work, Wrecked: Navigating Colonialism in the Graveyard of the Pacific is out next May!

If you haven’t read his work, do yourself a favor and start.

Book cover for Wrecked: Graveyard of the Pacific by Coll Thrush showing an aerial view of a wave engulfing a shipwreck

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Tall Firs Productions @tallfirsproductions.com · Dec 12

Belatedly starting to post a selection of author sites I’ve done as I transfer this account over from X.

First up: This one was designed for professor and historian, @collthrush.bsky.social.

collthrush.com

Coll Thrush

Coll Thrush is a professor of history and associate faculty in critical Indigenous studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, on unceded Musqueam territory. He is also the author of I...

collthrush.com

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