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Welcome to Gilded Snail

Co-publishing the occasional picture book to voice the deeply neglected through the beauty of fable and tale.

This is a bright & calm space

where we take the time required to gently transform some of life’s deepest anguish into universal stories that anyone can relate to.
It’s where your story grows wings to fly into the hearts of others whose own stories are too heavy to tell, but who long for their story to be heard.
This is where we lift the stone from your heart through the magic of narrative.

🏡 surprised and delighted (possibly also a little gobsmacked) to have been granted a residential fellowship in 2026 at Varuna, The National Writers House in Katoomba, Blue Mountains. Now to find the prefect 3 weeks for this retreat … I think

The gorgeous that is @criss.canning

#chriscanning #banksia #natureart

Sometimes we focus on what we THINK we should do instead of focusing on what our heart wants us to do.

We rationalise like crazy and convince ourselves that what we’re doing is what the world wants. And that we’re doing what WE want.

I

Found this gorgeous image by @twoinatree in my saved items and thought it deserved another airing 🤗

@twoinatree #brightcolour #lyracolourspencils #colourpencildrawing

I found this inspiring but also confronting thought today in a carousel of similar insights from @darby_hudson

It made me hyper-aware of how easy it is, and how often it happens, to put off the creative moment until tomorrow. And then suddenly anot

A Simon Palmer landscape to entrance you. Because it’s titled “The Composers” I’ve paired it with Ralph Vaughn Williams’ “Pastoral”. They may even have been vaguely contemporaneous at some point (anyone?)

#s

Until we try it for ourselves, we never realise the power of a creative start to influence the quality of our day.

Creative play is the most effective, and exploratory unstructured play is the most magic of all.

No matter how fleeting, such a momen

Just saying …

#subvert #subvertthedominantparadigm #getmessy #berealnotperfect #bereal

CREATE DANGEROUSLY. I think it’s my IKIGAI. I’m a nice lady on the outside but a boiling cauldron on the inside. Can’t be healthy.

But how effing apt are Camus’ words right now, despite having been first said over half a cen

🎶Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens 🎶

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein intuited a thing or two. Such as what stirs our hearts and makes us feel warm and fuzzy on the inside. This is what I’m researching for my doctorate, and the

This is a stolen meme. Can memes be stolen or are they free-for-all? Some days this is a thing for me, and those days are becoming more frequent. I’m planting more and more trees in readiness for the final moment. If I disappear, you can find m

What’s that saying about expectations? I can’t find it in my brain mush … but it’s a thing for these three visitors to my hotel this morning. That is, they expected much and received nothing. Sorry guys!
#expectationsvsrealit