Maybe should have become a detective instead. I mean, assuming that also counts as solving problems
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Maybe should have become a detective instead. I mean, assuming that also counts as solving problems
This is the company the UK government has embedded in the nation’s services. Seriously, fuck everyone who is excusing this.
The photo shows the inside of Gladstone's Library in Hawarden, Wales. Downstairs are wooden tables and bookshelves; upstairs is a loft with beautiful carved wooden railings, dark wood book shelves, and cark wood rafters.
Want to run away and write for a week *and not have to cook or clean or do any chores*? And hang out with cool people? The Milford Writers' Retreat has a couple open slots left for May 9-16 at @gladlib.bsky.social! Info and booking form: www.milfordsf.co.uk/retreats.htm
#writing #retreat
Fantasy tales of resistance rooted in Welsh myth from @wtpress.bsky.social
They Are Still Here seeks contemporary stories where communities face modern threats with help from myth and history.
£150 per story
Up to 7k words
Deadline March 21
Details:
horrortree.com/taking-submi...
#Fantasy
Autistic Fiction Bundle (April 1st -14th) Itchio Text: This form is for authors to sign up to the Autistic Fiction Bundle, organised by Elise Carlson, to run on Itchio during the first two weeks of Autism Awareness Month (April 1st-14th). Limit of one book per author. Eligibility & Genre: You, the author are autistic At least one character is autistic (AuDHD is fine, as is autistic coded/ presenting, as opposed to explicitly stated to be autistic) All genres welcome. Preorders: Pre-orders are welcome, if your book releases within 5 weeks of the bundle's end date. Please state the release date in your Itch book description, so readers know when they can download your book. Categories: YA and Adult Fiction, novellas and full length novels.
Autistic Authors,
As next month is Autism Awareness Month (yeah, I know acceptance is more important!), I'll be hosting an Autistic Fiction book bundle on Itchio (yes your book must be on Itch to enter.)
Let me know if you'd like me to DM you a sign up form!
And feel free to comment questions.
A FANTASY NOVEL? FOR £6.99?! IN THIS ECONOMY???
YES!
If you'd like to pre-order my upcoming fantasy adventure novel THIS IS WHERE THE FUTURE BLEEDS then you can do so NOW and you can do it HERE and I will love you forever (or at least be positively disposed): forbiddenplanet.com/486220-this-...
So ICE is at it again as usual, this time in Arizona, pelting Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva with pepper pellets as she attempted to ask questions of the agents who were appeared to be conducting arrests.
Gmail are accessing private messages 🫠 This is how to stop that, screenshot the steps to follow.
Keep Minnesota Housed! Much of the medía has left, but ICE is still in Minnesota and hundreds of families need help with rent in order to avoid eviction. Visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds! #keepMNhoused
Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation.
Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.
THE KINGDOM OF ALMONDS (The finale of THE MIRROR REALM cycle) by Ariel Kaplan HOME SICK by Rhiannon Grist THE AMBER OWL (Book 1 in the Heartwood Duology) by Juliet Marillier THE KILLING SPELL by Shay Kauwe THE ORB OF CAIRADO (a new novella from the world of THE GOBLIN EMPEROR) by Katherine Addison THE NEEDFIRE (Paperback edition) by MK Hardy AFTER THE FALL by Edward Ashton DOLLFACE by Lindy Ryan THE MANY by Sylvain neuvel TERRIBLE WORLDS: DESTINATIONS and PREACHING TO THE CHOIR by Adrian Tchaikovsky ROSE OF JERICHO by @therealalexgrecian
It's time for another Waterstones 25% Off Preorder sale!
Use code FEB26.
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This is a beautiful and moving story:
It's finally here! A Million Points of Light, the sequel to The Shape of Monster, is now live.
Get more of that woke cannibal erotica you e been craving ;)
Or, yanno, mages and monsters and betrayal.
Listen to A Million Points of Light by C L Hellisen on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0GMRMJTR...
forgot to say that there are now 53 images up on my Redbubble account
you see these daily as the featured image of my journal posts
www.redbubble.com/people/BigBe...
Cup of tea, ten minutes to spare; you know what that means: #Storytime. Here's how it starts, as always:
There is a story the bees used to tell, which makes it hard to disbelieve...
Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Also a great time to mention that there is a massive ChatGPT boycott that just launched. @markruffalo.bsky.social
I've never used ChatGPT, and never will. Fuck those fashy fucks. QuitGPT.org
🚨RELEASE WEEK🚨
Paper Sisters is out this Thursday and we couldn't be more excited!
There's a free book launch this Saturday as part of the Illuminate festival in Kirkby Lonsdale. Join us if you can!
Tickets: share.google/AZcGjYoITPcs...
Also, "underage women" isn't a thing. If they're under age, they're not women. That's what under age literally means.
there are two objectively correct choices for classic stories to give the Muppet treatment and they are a) Dracula and b) Pride and Prejudice
Anyone who says, "an intern must have done this" has no idea about how social media management operates at this level. Posting AI slop is a very deliberate choice. Especially for an institution this big.
And, yet, some how it still feels "Is it February already?"
Into werewolved? There's Elkie Bernstein: www.foxspirit.co.uk/.../25-ways-...
For some short reads, try my Buy Me A Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/JoMThomas
For SF novella there's Aurora from Black Shuck Books: blackshuckbooks.co.uk/aurora/
For folktale type fantasy, try The Knight's Daughter www.amazon.co.uk/Knights-Daug...
Rosie dog in a dark blue hoodie and a pink walking harness
Hey. I'm a lapsed sff writer currently avoiding writing but I've done a few things (see next message) but I have a Rosie dog that has a bigger fan club
Rosie and I will probably be in Glasgow for Satellite 9 in May, although she won't be attending because the hotel is not dog friendly
As much as knots are magic, I don't think it was your muttering spells and swearwords over yarn that caused it. If that helps
A sketch of a small pile of books with the words “Meet the Author” superimposed
Let's hear from you writers, tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other
#WritersLiftWednesday #Writers #Authors #WritersLift #BookSky 💙📚
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Waabooz is also doing one raising money for the family of Renee Good: waaboozcosmetics.com/products/cha...
