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I have a story in this! Hope you'll give edwardian lesbian ghost-hunters solve a short spooky mystery a try!
Inspired by trying to get most people to read Mariana Enriquez' Dangers of Smoking In Bed (and A Sunny Place for Shady People, which I'm halfway through)
Tried to describe "they came back wrong" trope to someone who not v literary and they were like "wrong how?" and I was like "well...just wrong...they were them but not them" and we went round like this while I felt increasingly crazy, which I feel like is the plot of a "they came back wrong" story
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
I think it really gives a sense of expansiveness and wonder. I also think I’ve read a lot of fantasy recently where the whole world is Worked Out In Great Detail and it was fun to read something where it feels the characters are exploring alongside you! (And the characters are great)
The books aptly get a lot of praise for the world building, but I don't think that quite captures it. The world is HUGE and extremely full, so it truly feels the characters also don't know what's around the next corner
I finished Habours of the Sun today after SPEEDING through the Raksura books in under a week, and wow what a great ride, I love a series so rich and full you truly don't feel you surface from the world, even when you're not actively reading
Had a long flight yesterday and picked up the Books of the Raksure from my long list of "having been meaning to read" and am only annoyed I didn't pick these up earlier because i am obsessed and enjoying it so much!! What a great world and Moon is such a great main character
Friends, please allow me to be the person who bullies you into reading Hild so I have more people to TALK TO ABOUT IT
Yesss brilliant news and so well deserved
Big thanks to everyone from @spectrumwriters.com that helped me improve this earlier this year ⚔️⚔️
"Shield of the Glasslaw" by Isobel Mackenzie
swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/shield-of-th...
Very excited to have a story in this edition of Swords & Sorcery!
Not my usual writing stuff but I play ice hockey in North London and help run our team and england ice hockey just annouced a ban on trans players out of nowhere with no consultation with teams. Please help us fight it by commenting your opposition here! www.instagram.com/p/DG5pOpDqNR...
Not my usual writing stuff but I play ice hockey in North London and help run our team and england ice hockey just annouced a ban on trans players out of nowhere with no consultation with teams. Please help us fight it by commenting your opposition here! www.instagram.com/p/DG5pOpDqNR...
sent out another story to a market today! My goal is to have 5 out at once, which means I am in a secret race with every editor I sub whoops
A good writing weekend all in all. Made progress on the novel, not in tons of wordcount but a mental breakthrough on this scene I'm editing, sent a story away to a market, have a second story ready for a market that opens march 1st, and working on a third! 💪💪
We simply do not make fantasy covers like this anymore and we need to.
My Formative Epic Fantasy Series has always been Janny Wurts & Raymond Feists' mistress of the empire books, which are definitely problematic faves in retrospect but nonetheless very formative. I've had the first and third in paperback for ages & have finally managed to get my hands on the second!
Editing marathon FINISHED I am FREE (until the next piece...)
Editing and this is the soundtrack. Save me from this torture goth pop. open.spotify.com/album/3YmHgq...
Anyone really keen for
- sword and sorcery but mostly swords "single person of honour in the halls of power" vibe, lots of action scenes and oaths! Honour! Personal quests!
- lesbian edwardian ghost hunting?
Goal this week is finish editing TWO stories and get them subbed somewhere 💪💪both of these stories have been close to finished for ages and I need to just them over the line
Second favourite part is when they go to investigate a normal crime and Scully is doing like, real police work, and Mulder is interviewing sasquatch or something. Perfect every time.
I have been steadily working my way through X-Files and I am fascinated by a procedural where (at least in season 1) the investigators rarely, if ever, solve ANYTHING.
This feeling is honestly why I studied history - one of my fave sources is 9thc Responses to the Questions of the Bulgars. The king of bulgaria is considering becoming christian, and he has some questions! Important highlight: "can we still wear trousers?"
Love when I'm back home and tiktok shows me all the glasgow southside drama. Why is there always new glasgow southside drama? Truly producing impressive levels of drama per square mile
A black and white photo of two “tomboyish” looking women with their arms slung around each other, one of them holding a kitten. They're outside and wearing work clothes.
Two cool ladies (roommates??) and a small pal. Photo from my collection, ca. 1930s.
Thank you so much for all your work and amazing editing and magazines! Hexagon gave me my first every story acceptance 🥰🥰
Hexagon is a wonderful magazine and gave a lot of people theor first story home and I'm sorry to see it go but also glad it's ending when it wants! What an achievement!