Also, yay libraries!

Aw, this warms my heart! Not planning a sequel, but I think there's always so much more love to be given and to receive in a person's life, so there's always joy ahead for all the characters

Image shows the book 'Tehanu' by Ursula Le Guin, The Last Book of Earthsea

I came to Tehanu a bit late, but so did Le Guin, and I think I came to it precisely at the perfect time. Her writing always transfixes me, poetic, elegant, and simple, and Tehanu is such a lovely exploration of power and gender.

A reminder that eels are *the* most smuggled animal on earth, and that the global black market for eels is worth an estimated $4-5 billion.

Interpol has called it “Europe’s ivory trade.”

Image shows the book 'Vagabonds' by Eloghosa Osunde

Just finished reading Vagabonds. It was fucking good. 'Freedom will have to be imagined by the shapeshifters, actors, invisibles, ghosts, magicians, vagabonds, outcasts, outsiders. Always the only hope.'

Anyone looking for an editor? I’ve been doing a lot of film teases and trailers lately but have experience in pretty much everything: shorts, features, music videos, corporate, promotional/online context, educational, showreels etc.
Any shares greatly appreciated, trying to keep food on the table 🙏

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My guy @factionman.bsky.social is looking for editing work 😈
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COVER REVEAL!!!

So excited to reveal the cover for @discobooks.bsky.social's THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS - a queer apocalyptic specfic, out everywhere September 16th...

Preorder links below ⬇️

I don't post here much but I couldn't miss sharing the cover reveal of my brother's book 'This is How the World Ends', which is coming out September 16th. Look how GORGEOUS! And the words inside are just as good, preorder now! And follow @discobooks.bsky.social if you haven't already!

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Twice Lived a book by Joma West. Two Worlds. Two Minds. One Life.There are two Earths. Perfectly ordinary and existing in parallel. There are no doorways between them, no way to cross from one world to another. Unless you’re a shifte...

Happy Non-Binary People’s Day!

If you’re an author under the non-binary umbrella comment with a link to a book you wanna promote & I’ll repost!

To get us started I highly recommend this emotional, conceptual sci fi by my awesome sibling @jomawest.bsky.social
📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/twic...

Happy Non-Binary People’s Day to my non-binary pals!

5 BIPOC non-binary books:

Face by @jomawest.bsky.social
In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu
The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang
Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xirin Jay Zhao
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈 #nonbinaryday

Very excited about the publication of this chapter! rdcu.be/euuAe in The Posthuman Condition in 21st Century Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Insights.

Final Destination: Bloodlines is such a fun time, my heart really warmed seeing Tony Todd one more time.

I finished my first play through of Disco Elysium today. And then I watched Possession (1981) for the first time. And it felt like a perfect double bill.

Allow me to bitch about something no one but me & some people watching @netflix.com care about for a second.

I loved THE DEVIL'S PLAN S1. Really difficult gameplay for really smart people & a dog fight of a triumphant finish.

Season 2 is...not that. A fun, smart gameshow has been ruined. How? /1

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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Creatives in the UK deserve strong trade unions that represent their interests and fight for a better creative ecology. We don't have that yet and I know a lot of people have felt let down by the society of authors, but we can change it for the better.

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The SoA must do more for climate justice – but it won’t without you.

Join the Society of Authors by Wed 30 April so you can vote in this year's Management Committee elections. [6]

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Every climate justice writer belongs in their union.

The Society of Authors claims to be committed to sustainability. But climate justice is about more than sustainable sources of paper – it’s about power. In calling for individual authors to hold their publishers to account, the SoA is… [1]

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The SoA will only stand in solidarity with Palestine if you join and get active.

Join the Society of Authors by Wed 30 April so you can vote in this year's Management Committee elections. [6]

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Every writer against genocide belongs in their union.

The Society of Authors does not stand for a free Palestine. Not yet.

Amid Israel’s destruction of libraries, bookshops, printing presses and publishing houses in Gaza, the SoA’s lack of solidarity is driving members to leave the union. [1]

Megathread of pro-trans petitions on Parliament’s petition website. If Labour suddenly gets hit with debates for a bunch of pro-trans petitions, maybe they’ll realise this issue isn’t going away and they’ve fucked up.

I’ll add more as I find them.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

My pal Dr Christina Neuwirth has today released the results of 7 years of research into gender inequality in Scottish literature. I'm so, so proud of them.

www.quinereport.com

Great thread

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office

One by one
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Any UK self published authors in my network? Which printers do you use and why do you like them?

#booksky #ukbooksky

Twice Lived Check out Twice Lived - <p><b>Torn between two families and two lives, a troubled teen must come to terms with losing half their world.<br><br> </b><i>Two Worlds. Two Minds. One Life.<br><br> </i>Ther...

The Trans Rights Readathon starts tomorrow!

I recommend adding Twice Lived to your TBR, by my brilliant non-binary sibling @jomawest.bsky.social

A beautiful, emotional, short sci fi story about two mixed heritage girls sharing one body across parallel worlds 💜
📚💙 📚🏳️‍⚧️ 📚🏳️‍🌈
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'A mélange of accents and languages enables the simultaneity of worlds, offering a way to exist on cultural crossroads. Most of humanity moves along cultural crossroads.'

www.guernicamag.com/joli-petit-a...

A still from the film Monster (2023). Two boys are running through green foliage and sunflowers. They are wet and muddy and look happy.

I love stories where each new perspective unpeels everything you thought you knew and Hirokazu Kore-eda's Monster does that masterfully. Such an achingly beautiful film that treats its characters with immense sensitivity.