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Here’s a public service announcement from me about ‘Birch and Jay’ and why you (and your teens) should read it. #booksky #postapocalyptic #youngadult #climatechange

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When you say you want our country to become an ‘energy superpower,’ you mean you want Canada to play a key role in our extinction. Don’t want to be left out of the fun?

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I’m still so moved by everything to do with Midnight Oil and don’t understand how more people don’t get how special they were.

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Have a happy and feisty Pride Month with some of these recent YA books by fine people I was lucky to work on.

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Happy Pride! Queerfolk? Our stories matter. Our voices matter. Our history matters. You matter more. This month is often a long, long one. We’re often at out best when we’re a chorus; lift other voices, breathe when you have to, hold the note while others breathe, and flame on. #PriDEMONth 😈

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I’m here for yet another musical celebrity you inexplicably anointed a moral hero letting you down.

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I made a lyric video for my rather dramatic apocalyptic climate ballad, "Why Did We Do It?" which also crosses over to my recently released novel "Birch and Jay" (a character sings the song in the book). www.youtube.com/watch?v=re79...

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The Elders of Norbay in ‘Birch and Jay’ have lots of wisdom to share with us.

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To each their own, unless it's the people who ACTUALLY are happy when confronted with a wall of beer called "sour" and "juicy IPA," not a non-Guinness stout or porter or red ale for purchase in sight.

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I didn’t expect the first Kayo Dot album I tried would sound like a goth version of Simple Minds, but it’s good.

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Well, a raccoon, an animal I haven’t seen since leaving the big city 10 years ago, just stole half our takeout order from our front step. Guess we’re urban now. How’s your evening going?

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I've been a professional editor for 27 years, but honestly, the idea of "famous editors" (which I just saw on another site) just feels silly to me. It's a good job, but why would you be "famous" for it? It's so glamorous to tell an author to fix the POVs and reverse chapters 1 and 2, ooh, ah.

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Now that the book is out, with its messages about the folly of climate denial and climate minimizing that likely won’t be read by nearly enough people, it’s going to be even harder for me to watch Canada burn every summer.

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If life was an ECM album cover, we wouldn’t have all these frigging problems in the world.

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‘Birch and Jay’ is not just another post apocalyptic adventure novel. It’s also about how we can heal instead of destroy, which is all modern human beings have ever done. We created this situation that will cause so much suffering, but do we have the courage and honesty to learn from our mistakes?

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This new Peter Baumann album is the best Tangerine Dream of the last 25 years! It’s damn good. peterbaumann.bandcamp.com/album/nightf...

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Be sure to take a listen to @allistert.bsky.social interview with Jonathon Pinto on CBC Sudbury Up North talking about BIRCH AND JAY.

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Had a nice time talking to Jonathan Pinto about ‘Birch and Jay’ on CBC Radio’s ‘Up North,’ and it’s up on the site now. It is every Canadian’s dream (well, every Canadian who is not a right-wing crackpot) to be on the CBC, and Ma, I made it! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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It would be nice if white commentators could finally stop referring to ‘our’ Indigenous people.

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I just did interviews with local CBC and CTV, so for a day I feel like a friggin' big shot!

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Headache continues, but at least some wonderful @allistert.bsky.social has arrived! “An exciting adventure with important messages about caring for our world,”—Kirkus. #BookSky

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Instagram appears to have concluded what demographic I’m from and now shows me endless photos of people hanging out with the dude from Pavement. Wrong!

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Why is the single biggest genre of Facebook post I've seen "these actors looked young in 1985 and this is what they look like now"? And why does it appear people actually do want to engage with that?

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Here's a fair, mostly positive, and very smart review of "Birch and Jay" from Earth.org. A very enjoyable review, and I appreciate it! earth.org/book-reviews...

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I just found out what ‘thrutopia’ means. Turns out I’ve written one. But boy do I hate jargon, even if I understand its utility.

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‘Birch and Jay’ EP out now. A few ambient pieces, a few songs. thegatelessgate.bandcamp.com/album/birch-...

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another day, another reminder that I have TWO WHOLE QUEER BOOKS available for FREEEE (or pay-what-you-can~) and I would love for people to READ THEM 🌈✒️ 📚books books BookS📚 kamielke.itch.io #BookSky #LGBTBooks #WritingCommunity

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Had a fun q&a with @randallperry.bsky.social, my book’s editor, at my launch yesterday. Here I am no doubt saying something pompous.

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Happy publication to Birch and Jay by Allister Thompson, published by Latitude 46, May 2025. Birch and Jay is available wherever books are bought or borrowed. store.latitude46publishing.com/products/bir... @latitude46pub.bsky.social @allistert.bsky.social

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Book launch day! The release of your first traditionally published novel is no time for humility, so: if you care deeply about the future for human and other life on this planet and could use a passionate call to arms against today’s horrors, then ‘Birch and Jay’ is a book for you.

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You can tell who the nicest famous authors are because they thank the copy editor and sometimes even the proofreader in the acknowledgements. These unglamorous tasks are what makes your fancy-pants book look professional.

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I only sort of agree with all this. The problem is it comes with the assumption that there was a time before when things were ‘normal,’ when in fact the dystopic aspects of our society were always there if you could see them. Now it’s all just painfully obvious. www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

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2025 is no different than 1895 or 1795. The lives of Black, brown, Asian and Indian people mean literally nothing to the West. We just don’t care.

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