@alexandrarowland
Author of 10+ fantasy books, including A TASTE OF GOLD AND IRON, YIELD UNDER GREAT PERSUASION, and RUNNING CLOSE TO THE WIND. They/them. Represented by Britt Siess. Other socials: linktr.ee/alexandrarowland
Love seeing Ellipsus grow! The main obstacle that's keeping me from switching over right now are 1) I don't want to have to add people as collaborators to let them comment (clunky! Inconvenient & non-intuitive for them), and 2) i need a track-changes feature. Hope to see these one day :)
Can't take credit for ebook/interior design on that one! Direct all props to the @tordotcompub.bsky.social team, they did great work :))
Yield Under Great Persuasion! 16th of July in the UK, October 6th in the US :)
This whole thread but this in particular. The rules of the game have not changed and will never change: All you have to do is tell a good story.
Well, and be patient, persistent, and resilient. You gotta earn success honestly if you want to keep it.
I'm going to win.
YES! That's always been the way, and there have never been any shortcuts!
I sent CONSIDERED APOCRYPHAL (the Fantasy Romans book) off to my agent yesterday, so today's Patreon has the last excerpt I'll post from it! If you really can't wait for this one, there's some juicy stuff available to patrons at all tiers of support. :) www.patreon.com/posts/consid...
It's lost on the people who need to hear it, but it sure was nice to see.
high praise <33 thank youuuu yes he is
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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
So there's the frame narrative (in a fun & engaging style of the academic mode), and then there is the framed narrative (translations of a ancient guy's bitchy journals). Two different modes of Extreme Voice Shenanigans, yeah.
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Depends how you define romance.
On one hand, it's def NOT a book of the Romance Genre, and should NOT be recced to people that way.
On the other hand, it's a PhD candidate's dissertation, and getting a PhD is a radical act of *breathtaking*, sometimes world-changing love. bsky.app/profile/gusu...
Footnotes, block quotes, a fake bibliography, a real bibliography, at least two narrators, a Q&A section, and varied typefaces (plain, italics, bold, etc) to indicate how much handwriting-codeswitching one of the narrators is doing
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1. Went to Pompeii for research
2. the Romans (and therefore the Lausans, fantasy romans) are horny freaks with daddy issues, Let Me Tell U About That
(also, fun fact, all my books are set in the same world! :D) bsky.app/profile/lilf...
It's also a support system for folks like me, and authors, and publishers. It's not much, nothing is, but it's there and it's important that it's appreciated, and that people see how it can be used. Maybe they can use it too. Here's the piece.
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Getting VERY close to being finished with the revision pass of CONSIDERED APOCRYPHAL (the Fantasy-Romans Fictional Academia book), so AMA about it before I send it off to my agent and get all secretive and discreet about it 👀
JK Rowling is a proud bigot and literally uses her money to bankroll transphobic groups in the UK. Do you really call this journalism? You call yourselves journalists? This is fucking embarrassing.
Graham Linehan proves the point that trans liberationists have been saying from the start:
If you'll permit dehumanising and stripping the rights of trans people, you will dehumanise and strip the rights of anyone on a long enough timeline.
stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.
I wonder if they will have any tires left on their cars. Or.... cars.
Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment.
Excellent article!
Like, so much of winning or losing legal trials comes down to Who Has Their Ducks In A Row -- this is one duck.
Yes, they're going to do it anyway, but having this establishes a VERY CLEAR paper trail that could help with later prosecution. Now it's outright impossible for their eventual defense attorneys to say, "Your honor, my client was innocently unaware of blah blah blah."
Hell yeah. If this was trench warfare (and it kind of is), we just gained about two yards. Every little bit counts.
You need to understand this and apply it to how you move going forward. Black people have for over 400 yrs.
A cartoon of a news report. The picture shows a government official doing a press conference flanked by goons. The headline reads “A man attacked federal bullets with his body” Underneath the picture is a quote saying “those bullets had families”
US government rn
The anger that makes people fedpost is much less dangerous to power than the anger that makes them silent
