With twelve novels under their belt, Hillary has gone from so many words to so many beads, but that's interchangeable at whim. Hillary started The Peculiarity Shop with partner Becky in 2016 and it's been going strong since. Hillary's aesthetic tends to slant classic, cosmic, and spooky.
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Becky is an enby of many hats, including a special ed teacher, a mom, and an artist. From astonishingly pretty hand-wrapped pendants to jingly charm bracelets and chainmail, Becky's been crafting weird and wild jewelry for well over fifteen years and has the bead stock to prove it.
Lauren is a writer, a tabletop RPG developer, a former bookseller, and a giant space nerd. Her bead collection is starting to rival her yarn stash, but neither can hold a candle to her TBR pile.
Meg Frank is a painter, a baker, and a jewelry maker living and working in NYC. They’ve never met a medium they didn’t want to work in, a bookstore they didn’t want to shop in, or a kitten they didn’t want to cuddle.
Vavia (she/her) is a dramaturg/cataloguer who doesn't work in either of those fields! She's also a lifelong magpie with a profound love of sparkles, dragons, and speculative fiction by people of historically marginalized genders.
Nibs is a writer, editor, gamer, and collector of hobbies that have recently expanded to include making jewelry and dice. She aspires to be either a plant witch or a forest gnome, and her jewelry is appropriately botanical and/or spooky in theme.
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Sara Eileen Hames is an artist, parent, and part-time dragon living in Brooklyn. When not chasing after hir two fairy tornados in the forms of human children, ze makes art about monsters, landscapes, bodies, dreams, and other aggressively beautiful things.
Lia is a metadata librarian by day and a crafter by night. They love making jewelry with very tiny beads and crystals. Lia likes sparkly things and thinks they were probably a raccoon in a past life.
Caz is a butch transmasc enby living with their two tiny dragons. Their paracord habit began with wanting to make better harnesses for the dragons, but quickly expanded into a wide variety of useful and decorative things best described as "tacticool, but make it queer." They believe creating things is good for the soul, and that everyone deserves a little treat that feels beautiful and meaningful to them.
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Rachel is an amphibian and reptile steward in Hollywood by way of The Bronx. Game dev, tax law specialist, artist, writer, and mother of the house dragon, Liora, she became a jewelry maker by accident after too many years of being a tax advisor to the video games industry. Rachel's work harkens back to her roots in NYC's punk and goth scenes to her present day as a reptile mom (even working with real reptile skin sheds!)
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Linden has done a lot of things. YA librarian, fiber artist, conrunner, competitive kite flyer; she collects hobbies like some people collect frog figurines. Mostly she knits and spins and plays around with resin. There's a lot of books and gardening stuff at her house. Sometimes feral, always goblin, do not wake her up from a nap. Lives in MA with a wife and three cats, two spinning wheels, and a whole flock of spindles. @emilytheslayer on most platforms.
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