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Oh and after all that signing you need someone who knows the joys and woes of signing AND who knows the best dessert places in Manchester, in short the magnificent @elizachanwrites.bsky.social Who swooped us up and took us to Chinatown for dessert in a place that did a delicious Croffle!

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In the news: In which we learn that our leaders find it easier to believe "AI is the future" than to believe that actual, living human beings who make art for a living have rights and deserve respect. Our consent doesn't matter to them. Only appeasing the tech bros matters.

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15 days!!! Today we're looking at the fabulous The Drowned World Duology by @elizachanwrites.bsky.social And just look at those incredible covers by Kelly Chong!

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Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it! Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.

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THREE WEEKS TO GO!! Three weeks until 15 wonderful sci fi, fantasy and horror authors descend on Leeds to hang out with all you fabulous readers! Have you got your ticket yet? They're selling fast and you don't want to miss out on this amazing event! www.waterstones.com/events/its-s...

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You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

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Here are some actionable suggestions if publishers want to actually help Black and Brown writers (rather than some publicity stunt that helps one or two people, gives a pat on the head to the publisher, and does nothing for anybody else). 1. Actively hire more Black and Brown people in publishing.

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Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

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The word is out and I am absolutely shaken: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN is Barnes & Noble's Fantasy Book of the Month! I can't believe my monster will be grinning in every store around the country. Thank you all for the love you've showed her! www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/our-mon...

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Okay, a lot of people are expressing outrage about this, and I also feel outrage about this, but since everyone else has already expressed my feelings for me, I'm going to put on my Teacher of Analytical Thinking Pants and point out something important.

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Highlighting some criminally undervalued (AKA bargains) on the Genre for Trans Rights auction, like this 90 min consultation with scientist Bea Costa Gomez for science advice on your novel + 30 min follow up vid call + reading 10k words to make sure it's accurate www.32auctions.com/organization....

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It's the first of May, which means it's Day 1 of a Kindle Monthly Deal on #AReluctantSpy, out now from @headlinebooks.bsky.social. You can pick up my debut spy novel for 99p in the UK or 99¢ in the US, for the whole month! Several hours of entertainment for less than a quid/buck.

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If you're based in Manchester or Stockport then do come along to my event with @franceswrites.bsky.social and @elizachanwrites.bsky.social on the 8th of May! www.manchestercityofliterature.com/event/fantas...

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I've had enough of seeing otherwise well written longform posts on newsletters and blogs being illustrated with GenerativeAI. I've written a list of online resources which gives you access to millions of free-to-use images to illustrate your posts, here: www.jordanacosta.co/p/free-to-us...

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I have been on two panels, attended one, signed books in nine bookshops, caught up with many old friends and new, chatted to readers, met a pair of Kelpies and now I'm thoroughly content but exhausted. Thank you Scotland.

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This great auction is underway to support Trans Rights. A fox scarf, a MS critique, out of print editions, so many things. Get bidding

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Who is going to outbid me for this and prevent me from ever finding out how the series ended? Yes, I didn't finish it because I was waiting to get my hands on the Year Four edition. Yes, I silently weep every time it pops up on eBay for £300. Make an author cry, I dare you.

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Hello all! My next book, BRIGHTER THAN SCALE, SWIFTER THAN FLAME, will be out very soon (May 6th)! I call it my 'lesbian dragons novella'. It's gotten a starred Library Journal review and it is a Indie Next AND LibraryReads pick for May. Right now B&N are having a preorder sale, until 25th April!

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Voting is open for the British Fantasy Awards, but only for two weeks so get on it!

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So, B&N is having a preorder sale at the same time as Amazon is having a sale, and both are targeting Independent Bookstore Day, which is one of the biggest in-store shopping days of the year. It feels shitty as an indie bookstore to be targeted by billionaire and venture-backed corporations

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So in the midst of the chaos and joy of Eastercon, @ngjeannette.bsky.social and I have set up a charity auction: Genre Creators for Trans rights in the UK and South Africa as a small personal response to what's happening in the world. You can bid on cool things here www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans

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Edinburgh, I have signed copies of Fathomfolk & Tideborn in Toppings, Blackwells & Argonaut Books. I'm sure there will be copies in Waterstones after the event tonight also. Properly nostalgic walking around avoiding the cobbles & stairs that the map kept trying to send me to. Ha, I know better!

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Tonight!

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🏳️‍🌈Event Announcement🏳️‍🌈 @britfantasysoc.bsky.social is teaming up with Social Refuge and Queer Lit in Manchester to bring you 'Queer & Weird', a panel on Making Fiction Gay. Featuring @emmasternerradley.bsky.social, @lindzmcleod.bsky.social, Frances White, and C. M. Kuhtz (and I'm moderating).

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Meta trained the company's AI on tens of millions of pirated novels and books, including my own stories. Their defense: the books are individually "worthless." 1/ www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

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On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

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Calling my Glasgow peeps - this event NEXT SATURDAY will be fabulous but we need you there to make it fabulouserer! Come hang out & chat folklorish shenanigans with us? www.waterstones.com/events/fanta... @elizachanwrites.bsky.social @annabelcwrites.bsky.social @solarisbooks.bsky.social

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Again, not an expert, but here we go!

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Vote with your heart on your favorite reads from last year, in the Locus Awards! 🌙 Locus Magazine is a nonprofit promoting both big names & small press & indie authors. Voting ends TODAY, April 15. ✨ Cast your vote: poll.voting.locusmag... #LocusAwards #SFF #books #booksky

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Scottish peeps, a reminder I have two events next week! Wed 23rd at Waterstones Edinburgh with @annabelcwrites.bsky.social and @gen-dimova.bsky.social hosted by Cymera's own Ann Landmann. www.waterstones.com/events/outsi...

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A huge part of the political push away from climate action is because the companies and politicians who’ve hung their hat on AI know how destructive it is, and that it’s impossible to coexist with green initiatives.

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Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries. This is just ChatGPT, not even all Gen AI. Using more electricity than >60% of the world.

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Nominations for the World Fantasy Awards 2025 and suggestions for the British Fantasy Awards 2025 are both open! I thought I'd give you a list of the friends of the show who are eligible in the various categories. Some of the categories overlap. BFA has fantasy novel and horror novel separate,

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Brain too fried to write much, but I’m here to say that today my lifelong dream came true. My debut novel is out in the UK and you can now buy it in shops. Here are the 500 Goldsboro Books copies I signed. Ok, g’night.

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It would really mean the world to me if people would share details of my event for THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET, Tuesday 29th April in Glasgow! If you have queer friends, tell them! Or if you think you'd enjoy a book which kills Mr Collins off, come along! www.waterstones.com/events/lindz...

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Sometimes releasing a sequel feels like shouting into a void. Very glad for this great review 🤗 (contains some spoilers for Fathomfolk and the beginning of Tideborn)

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🚨 SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN! 🚨 We are now accepting entries for our emerging writers and artists until June 2. And the best part? We upped our prize money! 1st Place: $1500 2nd Place: $750 3rd Place: $400 Writers: dreamfoundry.org/wri... Artists: dreamfoundry.org/art...

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PSA: If you like a short story, please don't record yourself reading it in full & post it on your youtube channel. You're using that story's audio rights — rights that are being sat on for a reason — and monetarily hurting the author whose work you enjoyed. STOP IT, please and thank you.

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