Congrats to all the Hugo Finalists today and shoutout to the Hugo voters who took the time to vote on poems! It’s a special Hugo this year but the poetry community deserves having it be a permanent Hugo!
Deal announcement: Ferry-Loupers by Molly Tanzer (me!), "a speculative reimagining of the real-life historical destruction of the ancient Odin Stone on 19th-century Orkney, Scotland, in which an outsider detective must find a way to deliver justice to a communist on the brink of violence, while learning the true purpose of the nearby Standing Stones of Stenness and discovering some residents may be more than they seem.
New historical fantasy/horror novella by me, out next year from @ruadanbooks.bsky.social!
Confession: I did do a true crime bit once. Because there was a pulp connection.
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I'm making one last push to let people know about this online talk -- sponsored by the British Library in conjunction with their current exhibition on fairy tales. The live stream starts at 7:30 tonight, but if you buy a ticket *before* the event you can watch it any time over the next 7 days.
Huge thanks to @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social for the fantastic review of "Play of Shadows"! 🙌 Thrilled to see Damelas' journey resonate with readers. Check out the full review here: www.grimdarkmagazine.com/review-play-...
#PlayOfShadows #GrimdarkFantasy #BookReview
💙New member coming from Twitter! 💚
I got by Starkun or Star. My current main interests are the Cosmere and Hunter x Hunter. I’m a nerd who loves to explore novels, anime, manga, video games, horror and sci-fi.
#Cosmere #HunterxHunter
Finally got back to writing!
Cover to the The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth by Veeraporn Nitiprapha. A young woman with long, black hair in a white dress stand with her back to us, touching the top and sides of her head. Around her are a human heart, plants, a guitar with a worm climbing up it, and a record player disk.
5 out of 5 stars to The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth by Veeraporn Nitiprapha
A beautifully-written book that just tugs at your heartstrings and makes you realize how important love is. I hope Chalika and Chareeya are sisters in the next life too.
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Haven't written in about a week or so. Need my mojo back.
A pale woman with long wavy platinum blonde hair. She has a periwinkle flower crown, purplish eyeshadow and a blue metallic lipstick. She is wearing a dark blue dress with a lighter blue corset and semi-transparent sleeves. Her neck is decorated with a bright blue brooch.
Her wife gave her a new ring too. 💙
A woman raising her hand and looking at the shining ring on her finger. She has light brown skin, vibrant blue eyes and black hair with gray streaks. She is wearing a dark blue gown with puff sleeves and vibrant blurple elements.
Her wife gave her a new ring. 💙
A blue-skinned elf wearing blue top and skirt with golden starry embroidery. Her hair is a blue bob with two longer strands at the front. She is holding a dark blue bag and her starry shawl is floating behind her.
Elladyr ✨ colored sketch commission for bunblebee.
An anthropomorphic lizard with light blue skin and four arms. She is wearing a thick dark veil decorated with flowers, a dark blue dress with a silver corset, and blue tights with constellation embroidery.
Never-fading. 🌌 #lightensnared
A paperback book. The cover art is an image of a digitized hand.
Anyway! Enough doom and gloom. I got this advance copy on Tuesday and didn't have the chance to post it and YOU GUYS
It's "Public Access Afterword" by Jane Schoenbrun. You know, the writer/director of "I Saw the TV Glow"?
jane schoenbrun releasing a book you best BET i’m preordering immediately
Hmm, picking my next read.
Jane Schoenbrun, director of I Saw the TV Glow, has a horror book coming out this October called Public Access Afterworld!
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
There's going to be entire fields surrounding the study of ACOTAR, I know it.
Generally, no. Hand copied manuscripts were often assembled by copying as many texts as would fit and seemed interesting.
Here's how the manuscript of the Alliterative Morte Arthure starts when it's transcribed ...
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Did the poems not have titles originally?
J. H. Markert signing my copy of Dig in a Barnes and Noble. He's surrounded by other copies of his books.
J. H. Markert's message and signature to me in my copy of Dig: "To Nick, Hope you dig it! And bring a big shovel. Best wishes"
I met local horror author J. H. Markert!
Some guy was trying to convince him to use AI and Markert told him that his and other authors' books had been fed to AI to write like them without their consent, he mentioned that lawsuit from awhile ago.
So glad I said hi to J. H.
Good to know.
Haven't read it yet so genuinely asking, but does it feel it could've done more?
Rosalina drawing
I hate the way Bluesky is cropping this
But here's my Rosalina art anyway
#art #artist #fanart #rendering #rosalina #mario #rosalinafanart
Books on a carpeted floor, left to right: The Children of Lyr by Evangeline Walton, Island of Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell, Spear by Nicola Griffith, Tales from the Flat Earth: The Lords of Darkness by Tanith lee, and Guardians: Forbidden Mountain by Brandon Mull.
Books on a carpeted floor: Dig by J. H. Marker, Boy with Accidental Dinosaur by Ian McDonald, and Kalevala by Elias Lonnrot
Went to Half-Price Books and then Barnes & Noble. Finally got a copy of Spear and J. H. Markert was at B&N and he signed my copy of Dig (pics to come)
UPDATE!
I know have a copy of Spear :D
There's so much of it. I just wish some of the works didn't have similar names because it gets confusing.
I forgot they had shuttered :(
mecha fans sound like widowers when they speak about their beautiful dead wife named RightStuf
