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#internationalwomensday #womeninsff ❤️
Another busy day at Exeter #ComicCon with #bloodgiftchronicles #returnofthemantra #thewarder #magic #animism #dragons
Making friends at #exeter #ComicCon
A busy weekend coming up at Exeter Comic Con. ❤️💫
#bloodgiftchronicles #returnofthemantra #thewarder #magic #animism #dragons
Text reads: Juliet E McKenna Publications in 2025 The Green Man’s Holiday Novel – Wizard’s Tower Press What can Tolkien’s creative process teach a writer today? Contribution to Writing the Magic – Essays on Crafting Fantasy Fiction Dead Ink Books The Boggart Had Seen It Before Short story – Lincolnshire Folktales Reimagined Five Leaves Publications To the left, the cover of Writing the Magic lists the editors and contributors and has the letters for the word 'magic' in black outlined with gold, and floating on a background which shades from green to purple. The cover of Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined has the title in black with ‘reimagined’ in red above a sketch of a rural landscape with trees in the foreground and fields behind reaching to the horizon. The cream background has a texture like woven cloth and the sketch looks as if the artist used charcoal. To the right, The Green Man's Holiday cover art by Ben Baldwin shows a creature crouching in a low tunnel entrance lined with grey stones and partly hidden by green undergrowth and white flowers. The creature has pale skin covered in sparse black hair and it looks a bit like an ape, a bit like a bear, and completely unlike either of those.
Hello to new folk. I write epic and contemporary fantasy novels along with varied shorter fiction. For more about the books, see www.julietemckenna.com All opinions I express online are absolutely my own. I boost what looks like good reading and interesting things. I block intolerance and aggression
Spring is tapping at the door... 🍃
57TH NAACP IMAGE AWARDS® DEATH OF THE AUTHOR A NOVEL Nnedi Okorafor NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR WINNER OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK - FICTION
Photo taken by Nollywood director Tchidi Chikere, 😏
My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR has won the 2026 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction!!
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Sigh…wow. 🥹
It was a lovely conversation, mutually inspiring, and a delightful way to forge connection.
Last week I was at Plymouth Lit Fest & a reader struck up a conversation about magic and what we think of as magic, including the simplest meanings like the magic of a smile. Although in my case magic does include #dragons. 🐉 #bloodgiftchronicles #magic #dragons
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A bunny. It is brown and white, and has one floppy ear over one eye. It looks serious, but mostly because it's been reading the entire Dune serious and suspects it should have stopped at book three. A sign reading #Eastercon2026 is also in the picture. It is an open-source, free to use bunny picture, and is appropiate for Eastercon.
Eastercon is the UK's annual science fiction convention for book lovers & writers
Iridescence, 2026's Eastercon will be at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel, 3-6 April 2026. Tickets on sale now
Guests of Honour include @rjbarker.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social & @drkarenlord.bsky.social
Hugo Award nominations now open.
Nominations are now open for the 2026 Hugo Awards!
Emails are going out to eligible nominators (those who became a member of LAcon V by January 31, 2026, or were a member of the Seattle Worldcon 2025) about how to set up their LAcon V virtual convention account.
This design centers on a montage of the Locus Magazine online header image for the article to which this post is linked. Below that are the three book covers for the “She Who Knows,” Trilogy: “She Who Knows,” (book 1), “One Way Witch,” (book 2), and the February 2026 release, “The Daughter Who Remains,” (book 3). Book covers courtesy of Amazon.
Even if it weren’t #BlackHistoryMonth, I think this @locusmag.bsky.social interview with top-tier #Africnfuturist #author @nnedi.bsky.social would be well worth #reading! She finishes the “She Who Knows” Trilogy this month! #amreading #sciencefiction #BookSky📚💙
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Obligatory selfie on a cold & frosty morning at Plymouth Lit. Festival, at least the icy weather is on the outside, inside is warmth & a wealth of stories shared. Love fantasy’s imaginative lens to explore human truth, emotion & ethical dilemmas, to consider themes of resilience in a complex world.❤️
Meanwhile, over on Book DNA, my top reads of 2025… ❤️ 📚 #bookrecommendations #bookreviews #sff
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Cover art shows four women gathered around a sword and looking outwards; a queen, a wise woman a sorceress and a beauty. A castle looms in the background. Book extract reads: Five bold knights had claimed the benches closest to the steps leading up to the king’s table. Mouse-Nimue crept to the edge of the dais. She made herself as small as she possibly could as the hall became impossibly large and terrifying. Every instinct of the form she wore urged her to flee for some crevice and safety. Fighting those impulses, she crouched to listen to this conversation and to commit the men’s voices to memory. A mouse’s eyesight was lamentably poor, and her magic could only improve it a little. Everything beyond the closest table was a blur where any number of predators might lurk. Mouse-Nimue trembled. ”It has to be poison,” a lord with a shaved head insisted. His yellow surcote bore an armoured gauntlet embroidered in black. He had never come to Tintagel. Nimue would have remembered him. Another unknown knight agreed. “It must be, to strike down Brastias, Jordan and Baudwin in the same night.” His blazon was a sheaf of wheat on a dark green weave. “Poison is a woman’s weapon,” the first lord said emphatically.
Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'yellow' #BookQW #Booksky
To try my writing without potentially committing to a series, take a look at The Cleaving, my standalone retelling of King Arthur's story from the perspective of the women involved.
Published by @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social
Two great fantasy reads featured in this month's blog - The Green Man's Heir by Juliet McKenna, & Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon. 📚
#bookrecommendations #bookreviews #fantasy #fantasybooks #thegreenmansheir #julietmckenna #sorrowland #riverssolomon #SFF
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Almost twenty and reliving her youth, too fast to snap while leaf-chasing on a windy day, before trotting over for second breakfast. 😻
Catching a break in the rains for the winter sculpture trail at Rosemoor Gardens. 🫶 #rosemoor #rosemoorgardens
Always a pleasure to see #returnofthemantra out in the wild, this time gracing the bookshop shelves of #liznojan 🥰 📚 #bloodgiftchronicles #magic #animism #fantasy 🍃
Highlights, reflections, colour & creations, walking into the new year with optimism & inspiration. 💫 Wishing everyone a joyful, peaceful, gift-filled and Happy New Year 2026! #bloodgiftchronicles #returnofthemantra #thewarder #magic #animism #dragons #fantasy
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The to-read pile is not quite leaning, and stories are a writer’s best friend. Not to mention super-posh notebooks too smart to write in, although maybe, just maybe, 2026 will be the year. ✍️ #sff
Wishing everyone a magical festive season filled with joy and wonder. And books. And for those looking for some reading inspiration, click the link for my #SFF Book Advent 2025.
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Day 24 of Book Advent 📚
Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social
Zelu's mother was a Yoruba princess, her father is Igbo with a PhD. She is paraplegic, flawed, sassy, hard-working, & an author, writing robots into a complex world of death, circuits, energy & what it means to be human.
@george23-smith.bsky.social
Praise indeed, George, and I don’t disagree. I wonder if you’ve read anything by Gareth Wood. At Night White Bracken is a great cosmic horror.
Day 23 of Book Advent 📚
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
A 17th century woman accused of witchcraft in the days of puritanical colonies, chained, eyes & mouth sewn shut, haunts the town of Black Spring. The townsfolk's responses are fascinating & chilling. Brilliant & horrifying read.
Day 22 of Book Advent 📚
Nine Bar Blues by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
Golden mermaids, curse-bound sisterhoods, poisoned landscapes & an otherworldly earth. Evocative, inventive & contemporary tales that haunt, uplift, & ascend, while moving with the rhythm of cultural change.
#WinterSolstice ❤️
You’re welcome, Gabriela. It’s a wonderful read, along with others of your work. 💫
