Adrian Tchaikovsky is the science fiction writer you need to read right now And there's a good place to start

Why we need to read @aptshadow.bsky.social now!

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My wife asked me to repost this in case some folks missed it.

She is de-stashing her treasure hoard of yarn. There's a lot of it. It's kinda taken over the house. I'm in the attic of the garage right now. Help?

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toothless from how to train your dragon says blep in front of a forest Alt: toothless from how to train your dragon says blep in front of a forest

Yall are not prepared for @wiswell.bsky.social ‘s “The Dragon has some Complaints”. I’m reading it rn and it’s fucking amazing.

Cover of Wiz Duo Book 2. Art by Roz Clarke. The images are of a shield superimposed on a flying dragon, and a girl with a hole through her belly.

Love novellas? How about two in one book? In Wiz Duo 2, Juliet Kemp sends a reluctant knight on a quest, while E M Faulds gives her heroine a superpower that totally sucks.
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Fnac has some English books, Blackwell does free delivery, otherwise there's a bunch of bookshops for English language books in Paris

💫Still 5 more days to get the fabulous Story Bundle by @lavietidhar.bsky.social with amazing books💫
My eco-horror novel CHLOROPHILIA, published by @apexmag.bsky.social , is one of them so give it some love!

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Donate to Help Lisa MacDonald Fight Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer, organized by Shannon Gourd I want to tell you about my beautiful sister-in-law Lisa MacDonald. I h… Shannon Gourd needs your support for Help Lisa MacDonald Fight Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer

Jon from @wotup.bsky.social was the first person I found in the WoT fandom and the reason I made my way into a new community that has given me so many amazing friends. If you have any dollars to spare, please support him & his wife in this incredibly hard time. 💓

Some data on how people are actually reading more and book sales are up, much as I suspected.

Wow! This is very cool:

Please save us from WebEx

My concern isn't the related stories feature, it's the timestamps on these. That's a heck of a lot of anti immigrant stories in a short time

Me walking to an RATP agent to figure out how to get to the train station
Someone else gets in and starts asking questions in perfect but English inflected French
Me, staring
Turns out it was a friend!
Wow

Dear media: you have a responsibility in how you present facts
Wondering how immigration becomes such a flashpoint? This is how immigration becomes such a flashpoint

"Scotland" by palette knife painter Georgia Hart

Dragons think we are amusing. But they remember Erreth-Akbe. They speak of him as if he were a dragon, not a man.

Call your reps today. Seriously.

Clearing the deck of things to do before leaving on a writing retreat

Back to planetary romance for a project & building my canon; it includes:
* Jaran by @kateelliottsff.bsky.social
* Shards of Honor (Lois McMaster Bujold)
* Foreigner series (CJ Cherryh)
* Ammonite (Nicola Griffith)
* Orthe books (Mary Gentle)
* The Blue Sword (Robin McKinley)

What's in yours?

Behavioral economics: Humans vs. Econs, a history of bringing traditional economics down to earth : Monthly Labor Review : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

it's funny to me when people act like "Economics" is a hard science like physics when the entire field was completely overturned 10 years ago because one guy found that the premise for neoliberal economics— that humans are rational actors—was empirically false. they didn't realize this before!!

Silver linings!

Years ago, a writer friend was passing through on tour. I didn't know him that well, but I liked what I knew of him - and when he suggested that I join him (and the other writer touring with them) to hang and sign stock, I said "Sure, let's do it." So the three of us spent a day doing that. (1)

There's a couple of visibly English native speakers ordering a fougasse with olives in French at the bakery and it brings me joy this morning

Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it's too late | CBC News A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Not actually sure it would work as excommunications are under a bunch of canon law rules but still

Oh nooo

The Sword Garden by Peadar O Guilin — Runalong The Shelves Publisher – Wizard’s Tower Press Published – Out Now Price – £17 paperback £4.98 ebook Never trust the dead. The Empire's richest city is about to revolt and only Jarrod's dying father can...

New Review - a fascinating story that is definitely not quite what it seems - I highly recommend The Sword Garden by @thecallya.bsky.social out now with thanks to @wtpress.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/4/...

DID I LITERALLY PREORDER SO FAST
I DID LITERALLY PREORDER SO FAST

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2026 Tea Advent Calendar preorders are open, and this year we're bringing you a pure/single origin option!

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