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celialake.bsky.social
Author (cosy historical fantasy romance) : avid devourer of information : librarian by day : knitter : general geek in several directions. https://celialake.com and https://www.celialake.com/links/
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Of course, I now need to quote this now for new reasons! (Elise and I have been discussing Some Excellent Ideas for future items in this category, for the record. Keep your eyes out.)

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Elise, maker of most excellent jewellery, is having another sale! Perhaps you could use a shiny thing? Or someone you know could?

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I'm so glad @speculativeinsight.bsky.social asked if we could make this happen. I had so much fun doing it, and it gave me all sorts of thoughts in the process.

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Me, grateful to past!me for the ridiculous private wiki of people. Because I can look at a party scene and come up with a dozen or so people of the right age range for the heroine, and what might come up, including a couple of fun Easter Eggs for ongoing readers.

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Fantastic thread about the ways location matters.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Today in 'mysteries of the email archives' Why do I have an email to myself in 2006 with the play-within-a-play bit of Midsummer Night's Dream? (I am trying to clean up 20+ years in my Gmail. I may give up on this task at some point.)

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Today in the ongoing historical reading, I comment: "I have now moved from the period where everyone is named Matilda, through the one where everyone is named Eleanor, and we are now in the period in which everyone is named some variant of Isabelle."

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

There is nothing quite like the joy of napping with a supervisory cat.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

This one is obviously for @celialake.bsky.social

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Reposting for the daytime!

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The Cozy The Day Away sale is live! Nearly 100 cozy books, a variety of formats, including my Facets of the Bench. cozyfantasysale.promisepress.org for all the books - you can filter by different genres and focus. Here are a few of the cozy fantasy options!

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Me, innocently minding my own business. My brain: Sudden deluge of explanation of a particular line of magical research theory relevant to both the Great War and 2nd World War, plus - helpfully - why the Germans couldn't get it to work. (This does help an extra I've been trying to write.)

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I have three types of TTRPG characters: (I had to consult @kiyanicoll.bsky.social for help.) - You will be organised OR ELSE. - Earthy stuff is good (organisation, sensuality, reliability, steadiness). - Competence is cool, leadership is way more complicated.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Great news! National Trust Cymru has announced the creation of a National Register of Welsh Apple Varieties that designates 29 varieties of Welsh apples to help safeguard Wales’ rich apple heritage. 🍏

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Me, having just woken up from a 2.5 hour nap: "That felt good." Cat, who has been sleeping next to my head the entire time: "Why stop?" Clearly I needed the nap, though. Can do the things I was going to do tomorrow.

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Two different people linked me to this in the space of five minutes. (I APA at work and no longer hate it with a burning passion, for the record.)

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

This time last year we published @celialake.bsky.social's essay on how she thinks about magic in the Albion books, with a magical society parallel to a historical (non-magical!) one. You can still read it, for free! over here: www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/the-underlying-foundation-of-magic

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This is a fascinating bit of research and learning about people! (And I want to second: as a research librarian, I adore these kinds of questions. Please ask them when relevant to a collection. They are always vastly more interesting than what I was theoretically working on today, too.)

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes Elise gets extra inspired. Also, Henut has Opinions. (She's in the Mysterious Fields trilogy, for the curious.)

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Today in writing fun (no, really): doing a combo of a card-sorting exercise and "what have I said about this?" to figure out the lines of alchemical training in play in Albion. (I have detailed a couple, tonight's chapter really requires me figuring out who the main groups are at that point.)

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Grown Wise is out! celialake.com/book/grown-w... 1947 fantasy romance full of land magic, apples, a secret society, and plans. It's great place to start with my books while exploring some old mysteries. Ursula: Terrifying delight, made of plots. Jim: Figuring out what to do with his life.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

I might be overly ambitious with cooking for things this weekend, but smittenkitchen.com/2009/04/choc... was both as delicious and as easy to make as advertised . (Do heed the warning about double lining the pan: makes the whole thing much easier.)

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments