Ida Keogh

@idakeogh

Neurospicy and queer BSFA and British Fantasy Award winning SFF author and occasional mermaid. Equality and Diversity Officer for the British Science Fiction Association. Foodie SFF collection 'Taste' out April 2027!! she/her

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Ida Keogh@idakeogh· 1d

The next stage is complete! This is A4. The final canvas will be A2 and have a lot more tentacles... #artsky #oceanart #steampunk

An acrylic painting depicting a shallow water scene with coral against which the Nautilus, a steampunk submersible vessel with dark green glass windows, has run aground.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· 8d

Though the cats are quite insistent they booked the yoga mat already...

A green yoga mat laid out on a wooden floor, on which loll a grey kitten and a large black void.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· 13d

Here's the next stage. One size up, one more element (yet to be painted in). This is the joy of art, the levelling up, the feeling you are inching ever closer to the image in your head. It's beautiful, hard work and I wouldn't swap that for 5 seconds of plugging in an AI prompt for anything. #human

A work in progress. A canvas painted in pale turquoise with the beginnings of coral reef, surrounded by a pair of glasses, a wet palette and dry palette, a small previous practice painting, a sketch book, paint brushes and paints.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· 14d

Feeling a little blue this morning so made myself prawn and avocado summer rolls for lunch later with some happy little violas. 🌸🥑🍤 #comfortfood

Three summer roll parcels. Three colourful violas in orange, purple, white or yellow are visible through the rice paper on a bed of spinach, with prawn, avocado and spring onion tucked behind.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· 15d

An experiment! Back to my acrylics and watching all of the youtube videos to work out how to paint shallow water and coral reef, in planning for an idea that's been scratching at my brain... (This one adapted from a great video tutorial by Art by Rinah) #art #oceanart 🧜🏻‍♀️

An acrylic painting by Ida Keogh of shallow turquoise water, the light glinting off the waves and a small shoal of fish swimming through coral reef

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· 16d

What a marvellous day on the 'Spies, Sleuths and Superheroes' film tour at the Old Royal Naval College, followed by an extremely civilised afternoon tea 😋

View to the Upper Grand Square of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich

Detail of illusion painting of shells in a column in the Painted Hall, Old Royal Naval College

An afternoon tea tiered on three plates: An array of sandwiches at the base, a sweet layer of cakes, eclairs and macarons, and scones with clotted cream and jam at the top

Ida holding a glass of bubbles, about to plunge wilfully into a plate of the type of sweet delicacies which her nutritionist warned her about (but which had been pre-booked, so, you know.)

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· 26d

I had a rest day yesterday and finished a lovely piece of art, but it it SekRiT so instead here are my early experiments with alcohol markers. My blending is slowly improving, my weirdness is not 😂 #art #artsky

Alcohol marker drawing by Ida Keogh of a coral garden filled with treasure and a yellow and green angler fish with a glowing lightbulb lure which, to its great surprise, is attracting a cloud of butterflies

An alcohol marker painting by Ida Keogh of a multi-coloured water dragon disco dancing in the light of a giant glitter ball

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· 28d

One of the recipes in my forthcoming collection, to accompany my Rossetti inspired novella 'Thirsty Roots', is a simple mocktail based around foraged fruits and rosemary. So it's lovely to find the local wild plum trees I visit each summer in fruit already! ('Taste' @flametree.bsky.social 2027! 🍈)

The branch of a plum tree laden with golden and blushing red fruit, ripe for the picking.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jul 4

Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child that you have stolen. #Labyrinth #HrossyRaptors

Ida dressed in black in a park holding a fluffy-feathered barn owl

Ida grinning, holding a cream and tawny brown barn owl

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 24

Lovely walk along the canal this morning before it gets too hot. #momentsofbeauty

A British Blue butterfly, pale blue with white and black speckled wings, rests on a sandy path

A tiny black Alder Leaf Beetle larvae munches its way through a green leaf already lacy with holes

Semi-grown ducklings huddle together at the edge of a lake.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 21

I'm hoping very much there will be another Richmond Con next year. Thank you to everyone who made it an amazing day!

Ida Keogh wearing a dark blue dress, wuth dark blue and turquoise curls in her brunette hair and metallic blue lipstick

Georgie, Glyn and Caro sat on a bench opposite Books on the Rise

Ida, Jess and Angela sat on a bench opposite Books on the Rise

Ida, Emma, Glyn, Angela, Jessica and Magnus outside Books on the Rise

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 21

I was sad to have to miss the horror panel in the evening, but did finally meet the very lovely @xuetingni.bsky.social in person at last!

Xueting C Ni standing outside Books on the Rise wearing black with violet hair clipped back with skeleton hands

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 21

Shout out to the @booksontherise.bsky.social Richmond Con moderators I saw, Patrick, John and Magnus!

Patrick Jones, hosting the Worldbuilding for Children panel

John hosting the Worldbuilding in Science Fiction and Fantasy panel

Magnus Andersen hosting the Spaceships vs Dragons panel

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 21

The last panel I made it to at @booksontherise.bsky.social was the utterly bonkers 'Spaceships vs Dragons' with @lavietidhar.bsky.social @starkholborn.bsky.social and @catamaroon.bsky.social. Unfortunately nobody seemed to want to argue for the dragons! 😂

Lavie Tidhar talking at Richmond Con on my question, would you prefer to eat science fiction food or fantasy food?: "I was obsessed with the fact that sausages were invented a really, really long time ago so I just had everyone eating sausages."

Stark Holborn talking at Richmond Con on my question, would you prefer to eat science fiction food or fantasy food?: "The replicator rations always freak me out. What is that made of? Where is that protein coming from?!"

EJ Swift talking at Richmond Con: "With science fiction or fantasy you have some MacGuffin at your disposal, or magic. But it can pull a reader out of a story if it looks like a parch up or a quick fix."

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 21

I also quite like this one. You look like you're about to destroy a kingdom or something.

A black and white photo of Louie Stowell talking at Richmond Con, looking very serious with her hands raised in a power pose

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 20

Back at @booksontherise.bsky.social for the afternoon session, 'World building for fantasy and science fiction' with @sannewman.bsky.social @mhayinde.bsky.social @ianmcdonald.bsky.social and Samantha Shannon (btw, quotes (may not be exactly verbatim) in the alt text for all today's posts!)

Sandra Newman talking at Richmond Con: "The info-dump is both pejorative and a useful tool. If the reader notices you're doing it, it's bad, but you still have to do it... That's what a lot of science fiction is, that game."

M. H. Ayinde talking at Richmond Con: "World building is like an iceberg. There's the top of it the readers need to know, and a load down below they don't need to know."

Ian McDonald talking at Richmond Con: "For me science fiction doesn't have to be science, it has to be 'science-ey'... It is important some element of the science is believable and responds to the way it actually works, and has some involvement in the story."

Samantha Shannon talking at Richmond Con: "[After research] I use the character as the engine from that point. I get the character walking down the street. What are they saying or hearing or smelling? If it's hot, where are they getting water? If there is music, who is allowed to learn to play it?"

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 20

A great start to the first Richmond Con at @booksontherise.bsky.social - Building Worlds for Children with @rogbapayne.bsky.social @louiestowell.bsky.social @franceshardinge.bsky.social and Emma Farrarons #booksky #writersky #amwriting

Rogba Payne talking at Richmond Con: "Sci fi and fantasy allow you to discover the world in a way that feels fresh, with the curiosity of how you first discovered the world."

Louir Stowell talking at Richmond Con: "I find ways to describe things that are very familiar and make them feel strange again."

Francis Hardinge talking at Richmond Con: "I find one or more than one exciting premise, then you ask the boring questions and come up with non-boring answers."

Emma Farrarons talking at Richmond Con: "Listen to children. Pick up all those lovely nuggets... use their dialogue."

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 15

I came home with fabulous memories and SO MANY BOOKS including three with the word 'Salt' in the title. It's like they saw me coming 😂🧜🏻‍♀️

The Tapestry of Fate by Shannon Chakraborty, Paris Celestial by AY Chao, The Misheard World by Aliyah Whiteley

Saltswept by Katalina Watt, The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson, The Salt Bind by Rebecca Ferrier

Wrath of the Never Queen by Storm Lomax, Tide by Fran Morton, You Are Going To Regret This by Tom Byam Shaw, Writing the Magic by various authors

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 15

I didn't leave until Monday morning, which meant there was a little time to explore the beauty of nearby Holyrood Park as well!

Ida Keogh standing in front of the ruins of St Anthony's Chapel, Holyrood Park, Edinburgh

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 15

There were too many fabulous people there to mention! But have some snaps of @fdleeauthor.bsky.social with @stormlomax.bsky.social, me shmoozing with @aychao.com, my mini Milford reunion with @bernahudson.bsky.social and @tiffaniangus.bsky.social, and the lovely @jjbker.bsky.social 📸

Storm Lomax in a pale pink dress with corset, and FD Lee in a red and turquoise dress with daisies, both making peace signs

Ida Keogh with Tiffani Angus and Berna Hudson

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 15

I got involved too, with a reading in the open mic hosted by the lovely @samkhorton.bsky.social, and made a new friend in Scottish author RM Brown

Ida Keogh wearing a Strawberry Thief dress, reading from her collection Taste

RM Brown reading from her novel Song of the Stag

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 15

@jennicoutts.bsky.social hosted an incredibly useful workshop on writing wounds

Jenni Coutts sat behind a table on which stands a replica human spine and skull

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 15

...and last but not least an amazing folkloric fiction panel from @shonak.bsky.social and Rebecca Ferrier

Beth Cochrane, Shona Kinsella and Rebecca Ferrier sat on a stage behind tables displaying books - Daughters of Nicnevin and The Salt Bind

Beth Cochrane, Shona Kinsella and Rebecca Ferrier standing on stage after the panel

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 15

Panels! Highlights included finally meeting @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social, hearing Aliyah Whiteley and @voidcricket.bsky.social talk unreliable narrators, and being mesmerised by two Clarke Award nominees @catamaroon.bsky.social and @rainewilson.bsky.social

Ida in a long dark blue dress leans on a table next to Shannon Chakraborty,who is signing her books

A black and white photo of Aliyah Whiteley, gazing up to the gigantic visage of virtual attendee Ren Hutchings

A black and white photo of Lorraine Wilson, smiling as she talks about The Salt Oracle

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 15

This time last week I was heading home from my first @cymerafestival.co.uk. What a fantastic weekend it was! There were so many of my favourite people there and a lovely crowd generally. I made new friends and discovered new (to me) amazing authors. Highlights in the thread! #booksky #amwriting

Black and white photo of FD Lee in a giant hat, Ida in 50s style sunglasses and Glyn

Not strictly Cymera yet - but a fun pre-festival hot tub party.

A black and white photo of Shona Kinsella and Rebecca Ferrier signing books

A black and white photo of the Pleasance Bar, featuring Shona Kinsella, David Green and others

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 1

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! 🥳🎉🌈 My collection 'Taste' coming out next year is hella queer and full of excellent cake, so I really wanted to include some very tasty rainbow cake in my shoot with wonderful photographer @ingridweel.bsky.social yesterday! #UKPrideMonth #Booksky #Queerjoy

Ida taking great glee in licking buttercream off her fingers from a six-tiered Pride flag heart-shaped cake

Ida dressed in a green metallic halterneck holding a six-tiered Pride flag heart-shaped cake

Ida holds a heart shaped Pride flag rainbow cake and Ingrid sucks buttercream from her finger. There is a suspicious amount of buttercream on their noses.

Ida opens her jaw as wide as she can to eat Pride flag rainbow cake.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 1

But in case you thought this was all glamorous, remember I am a chaos goblin and was very delayed in my preparation, so literally sewing dresses and decorating cakes mid shoot. Fortunately Ingrid is a wonderfully patient soul! 😂😅

Ida wearing a Strawberry Thief dress, looking terribly glamorous whisking icing sugar into buttercream in a kitchen which looks like an explosion in a cake factory.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 1

This kind of shoot takes planning and coordination. I love @ingridweel.bsky.social's style - discussion both in advance and on the day about what shots we want to achieve together, the mood, lighting, backdrops and outfit changes needed. This shoot was so extra - wait until you see the final shots!

Ida is wearing a Strawberry Thief dress and holding a bitten strawberry. Ingrid is showing her photographs on the back of the camera.

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· Jun 1

I had a tremendous photoshoot yesterday in collaboration with my favourite photographer, @ingridweel.bsky.social to get new headshots for my forthcoming food themed SFF collection 'Taste' (out April 2027 with @flametree.bsky.social). Here's a behind the scenes look at fun with cake! #Amwriting

Ida Keogh@idakeogh· May 11

I'm on retreat! Enjoying a much needed boost to my dystopian sapphic obsession sci-fi novel with a week at the stunning Gladstone's Library in Wales, with the Milford SF Writers. I crept over 10k yesterday, so feeling pretty proud of myself. #AmWriting #Writersky