Ian Robert Ross
@ianrobertross.com
Writer and artist from the Maritimes, now living in Ottawa, Canada.
Author of the epic fantasy 'Crown of Caphedra'.
Author Website: https://www.ianrobertross.com/
Author of the epic fantasy 'Crown of Caphedra'.
Author Website: https://www.ianrobertross.com/
Well, we're into it now.
Supposed to be 10 to 15cm of snow today and it's just starting. Time of winter: 11:05am, November 9th. It has begun.
#ONStorm
Supposed to be 10 to 15cm of snow today and it's just starting. Time of winter: 11:05am, November 9th. It has begun.
#ONStorm
November 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Well, we're into it now.
Supposed to be 10 to 15cm of snow today and it's just starting. Time of winter: 11:05am, November 9th. It has begun.
#ONStorm
Supposed to be 10 to 15cm of snow today and it's just starting. Time of winter: 11:05am, November 9th. It has begun.
#ONStorm
It's a little early for Caturday, but Theia dressed up for Hallowe'en and I had to post. #catsofbsky
October 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
It's a little early for Caturday, but Theia dressed up for Hallowe'en and I had to post. #catsofbsky
Happy Hallowe'en!
Hope you all have a frightful and fun evening.
Rain in Ottawa has kept our trick-or-treaters down in numbers this year, but props to the kid who dressed up like a payphone with a working keypad. That's the best one of the night so far.
Hope you all have a frightful and fun evening.
Rain in Ottawa has kept our trick-or-treaters down in numbers this year, but props to the kid who dressed up like a payphone with a working keypad. That's the best one of the night so far.
October 31, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Happy Hallowe'en!
Hope you all have a frightful and fun evening.
Rain in Ottawa has kept our trick-or-treaters down in numbers this year, but props to the kid who dressed up like a payphone with a working keypad. That's the best one of the night so far.
Hope you all have a frightful and fun evening.
Rain in Ottawa has kept our trick-or-treaters down in numbers this year, but props to the kid who dressed up like a payphone with a working keypad. That's the best one of the night so far.
Here was the result. Picked some Niagara and Nova Scotia red wines to go with it.
October 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Here was the result. Picked some Niagara and Nova Scotia red wines to go with it.
Firing with both barrels tonight... well both grills, anyway. Bulwinkle's on the menu. Moose steaks, burgers, and meatballs. Red wine juniper berry sauce on stand-by.
October 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Firing with both barrels tonight... well both grills, anyway. Bulwinkle's on the menu. Moose steaks, burgers, and meatballs. Red wine juniper berry sauce on stand-by.
This is why people fear AI. I saw this on my Facebook feed this morning. It's a comic page where Lex Luthor is empowering Bruce Wayne to make the world a better place, and the first question Meta's AI asks:
"Can Lex Luthor be stopped?"
"Can Lex Luthor be stopped?"
October 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
This is why people fear AI. I saw this on my Facebook feed this morning. It's a comic page where Lex Luthor is empowering Bruce Wayne to make the world a better place, and the first question Meta's AI asks:
"Can Lex Luthor be stopped?"
"Can Lex Luthor be stopped?"
It pays to be local. Attending Can*Con today, in my own backyard.
October 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It pays to be local. Attending Can*Con today, in my own backyard.
One of the most brazen scam emails I've ever gotten.
Danielle Steel, you say? These and the fake book club pitches seem to be the main ones clogging up my inbox these days.
Danielle Steel, you say? These and the fake book club pitches seem to be the main ones clogging up my inbox these days.
October 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
One of the most brazen scam emails I've ever gotten.
Danielle Steel, you say? These and the fake book club pitches seem to be the main ones clogging up my inbox these days.
Danielle Steel, you say? These and the fake book club pitches seem to be the main ones clogging up my inbox these days.
Theia's becoming a pro-traveller. Back the road this long weekend for a Canadian Thanksgiving road trip. #CatsofBluesky #Caturday
October 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Theia's becoming a pro-traveller. Back the road this long weekend for a Canadian Thanksgiving road trip. #CatsofBluesky #Caturday
It's been a while since I hit the grill and after a long week at work I decided to get edgy by breaking out one of the bottles of mead I made during the pandemic. #YOLO It packed a punch then, and tasted how honey would, if bees ran on JP-5. Let's see if it's mellowed out a bit since then. #homebrew
September 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
It's been a while since I hit the grill and after a long week at work I decided to get edgy by breaking out one of the bottles of mead I made during the pandemic. #YOLO It packed a punch then, and tasted how honey would, if bees ran on JP-5. Let's see if it's mellowed out a bit since then. #homebrew
It's been a few years since I was on the Halifax Harbourfront, standing by the old HMCS Sackville. Why did I get older while the Sackville seems to look newer?
August 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
It's been a few years since I was on the Halifax Harbourfront, standing by the old HMCS Sackville. Why did I get older while the Sackville seems to look newer?
Stopped to watch the water bombers tackling the Oldfield Road forest fires between Miramichi and Bathurst. #nbfires #newbrunswick
August 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Stopped to watch the water bombers tackling the Oldfield Road forest fires between Miramichi and Bathurst. #nbfires #newbrunswick
Here's the stats for 'Kings of Kramwen'.
By comparison, 'Crown of Caphedra' is around 220k words, (still a decent value for your money, especially since it's $0.99 in the US Kindle Store right now.) www.amazon.com/dp/B09M7V62SS
If you've not picked it up yet, do it now before the sequel arrives. 📚🧙♂️⚔️
By comparison, 'Crown of Caphedra' is around 220k words, (still a decent value for your money, especially since it's $0.99 in the US Kindle Store right now.) www.amazon.com/dp/B09M7V62SS
If you've not picked it up yet, do it now before the sequel arrives. 📚🧙♂️⚔️
August 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Here's the stats for 'Kings of Kramwen'.
By comparison, 'Crown of Caphedra' is around 220k words, (still a decent value for your money, especially since it's $0.99 in the US Kindle Store right now.) www.amazon.com/dp/B09M7V62SS
If you've not picked it up yet, do it now before the sequel arrives. 📚🧙♂️⚔️
By comparison, 'Crown of Caphedra' is around 220k words, (still a decent value for your money, especially since it's $0.99 in the US Kindle Store right now.) www.amazon.com/dp/B09M7V62SS
If you've not picked it up yet, do it now before the sequel arrives. 📚🧙♂️⚔️
#SummerReads
Now's the chance to pick up a copy before the sequel drops this fall. The epic fantasy, Crown of Caphedra, on sale for a limited time for 0.99 in the Kindle US and UK stores. www.amazon.com/dp/B09M7V62SS
Now's the chance to pick up a copy before the sequel drops this fall. The epic fantasy, Crown of Caphedra, on sale for a limited time for 0.99 in the Kindle US and UK stores. www.amazon.com/dp/B09M7V62SS
August 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
#SummerReads
Now's the chance to pick up a copy before the sequel drops this fall. The epic fantasy, Crown of Caphedra, on sale for a limited time for 0.99 in the Kindle US and UK stores. www.amazon.com/dp/B09M7V62SS
Now's the chance to pick up a copy before the sequel drops this fall. The epic fantasy, Crown of Caphedra, on sale for a limited time for 0.99 in the Kindle US and UK stores. www.amazon.com/dp/B09M7V62SS
'The death of a king and the schemes of the power-hungry lure three steadfast friends into a war of succession and the fight for a crumbling capital.' #booksky
Crown of Caphedra
An epic fantasy (615pp), by Ian Robert Ross.
Available in ebook, paperback, and audio.
www.amazon.com/Crown-Caphed...
Crown of Caphedra
An epic fantasy (615pp), by Ian Robert Ross.
Available in ebook, paperback, and audio.
www.amazon.com/Crown-Caphed...
July 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
'The death of a king and the schemes of the power-hungry lure three steadfast friends into a war of succession and the fight for a crumbling capital.' #booksky
Crown of Caphedra
An epic fantasy (615pp), by Ian Robert Ross.
Available in ebook, paperback, and audio.
www.amazon.com/Crown-Caphed...
Crown of Caphedra
An epic fantasy (615pp), by Ian Robert Ross.
Available in ebook, paperback, and audio.
www.amazon.com/Crown-Caphed...
Apparently our patio door is now a drive-thru restaurant.
Depicted here, the food chain: with a fledgling robin; it's mama; and our recently acquired (indoor only) apex predator.
Depicted here, the food chain: with a fledgling robin; it's mama; and our recently acquired (indoor only) apex predator.
July 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Apparently our patio door is now a drive-thru restaurant.
Depicted here, the food chain: with a fledgling robin; it's mama; and our recently acquired (indoor only) apex predator.
Depicted here, the food chain: with a fledgling robin; it's mama; and our recently acquired (indoor only) apex predator.
Happy Canada Day from Kanata! 🇨🇦
July 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Happy Canada Day from Kanata! 🇨🇦
Happy Canada Day!
Celebrating by christening my new grill. Missed my old BBQ. Charcoal's great but wanted the added flexibility of propane. Net loss of one burner, but they don't make my old model anymore.
Celebrating by christening my new grill. Missed my old BBQ. Charcoal's great but wanted the added flexibility of propane. Net loss of one burner, but they don't make my old model anymore.
July 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Happy Canada Day!
Celebrating by christening my new grill. Missed my old BBQ. Charcoal's great but wanted the added flexibility of propane. Net loss of one burner, but they don't make my old model anymore.
Celebrating by christening my new grill. Missed my old BBQ. Charcoal's great but wanted the added flexibility of propane. Net loss of one burner, but they don't make my old model anymore.
It's #Caturday...
Here's our little goblin. She's taken to wrapping herself up in the drapes when looking out at the front yard, but all that neighbourhood surveilling seems to tucker her out mightily.
#catsofbsky #kittens #cats #catsofbluesky
Here's our little goblin. She's taken to wrapping herself up in the drapes when looking out at the front yard, but all that neighbourhood surveilling seems to tucker her out mightily.
#catsofbsky #kittens #cats #catsofbluesky
June 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
It's #Caturday...
Here's our little goblin. She's taken to wrapping herself up in the drapes when looking out at the front yard, but all that neighbourhood surveilling seems to tucker her out mightily.
#catsofbsky #kittens #cats #catsofbluesky
Here's our little goblin. She's taken to wrapping herself up in the drapes when looking out at the front yard, but all that neighbourhood surveilling seems to tucker her out mightily.
#catsofbsky #kittens #cats #catsofbluesky
Beautiful afternoon to be grillin' in Kanata.
May 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Beautiful afternoon to be grillin' in Kanata.
Ribs are lookin' good tonight. #BackyardBBQ
May 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Ribs are lookin' good tonight. #BackyardBBQ
Can someone tell me why MS Word thinks I need to use AI to cut and paste my own words? There's no option to dismiss this either, unless I type something random in place as a distraction, then delete the insert. #noAI
May 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Can someone tell me why MS Word thinks I need to use AI to cut and paste my own words? There's no option to dismiss this either, unless I type something random in place as a distraction, then delete the insert. #noAI
I still have 8 chapters out of 57 to proofread before I start farming this out for third-party editing, and I might elaborate a little bit on the last chapter I was working on... but here we are, with 'Kings of Kramwen'!
#amwritingfantasy #writingcommunity #writing #booksky #Caphedra
#amwritingfantasy #writingcommunity #writing #booksky #Caphedra
May 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I still have 8 chapters out of 57 to proofread before I start farming this out for third-party editing, and I might elaborate a little bit on the last chapter I was working on... but here we are, with 'Kings of Kramwen'!
#amwritingfantasy #writingcommunity #writing #booksky #Caphedra
#amwritingfantasy #writingcommunity #writing #booksky #Caphedra