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It's 106 miles to chicago. we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing mitres. hit it.

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Leo XIV (Prevost): 69 (pretty young for Pope), American, born in Chicago, naturalised citizen of Peru, pretty centrist, progressive on some issues, but not on ordaining women, murky record on abuse, very much an heir to Francis. That's my potted summary. Not as good or as bad as it could have been.

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Have I just misremembered previous pope votes, or was this one unfathomably quick?

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Sincerely hoping we all bow down to Papa V Perpetua shortly!

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Acquired this absolute beauty for Solaris! It's weird and beautiful and rage-filled and love-filled and will break your brain in the best way ❤

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I'm starting to feel like a collector of beautiful and weird prose, of narrative brilliance and characters that step off the page. I love that I have snagged Simon Jimenez, Vajra Chandrasekera, august clarke, and a secret other to sit on the same list alongside each other - it feels so appropriate ❤️

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Acquired this absolute beauty for Solaris! It's weird and beautiful and rage-filled and love-filled and will break your brain in the best way ❤

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🚨AWARD WINNER!🚨 @vajra.me's RAKESFALL is an Otherwise Award-winner! The Otherwise Awards honour stories that expose the many ways we experience gender in this world and others. Congratulations to all the other winners and the longlist! Learn more bit.ly/44XybQU Buy geni.us/rakesfall

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I am fully immersed in the cult of Ghost, and one of the most beautiful things about it is that it is inspiring young girls to make little bracelets that feature lyrics or things that the various Papa iterations have said, and they are sending them to each other to collect, with handwritten notes ❤️

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🎂🎉Happy US Book Birthday to THE VENGEANCE, @emmanewman.bsky.social 's 1st book in the world of THE VAMPIRES OF DUMAS - welcome aboard! This swashbuckling adventure tale launches out into North America today and the UK on Thursday. Buy now from all good bookshops! geni.us/thevengeance

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Currently on a recent hat-trick of authors loving their book covers, and since this is always (I've felt) a weakness of my skill set (in terms of offering direction to artists/designers), I am feeling very warm and fuzzy.

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This cover was HARD to direct, but the cover was NAILED by the artist, and beautifully represents this stunning novel. I am super proud of my small involvement ❤️🔥

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All roads lead to Rom.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

After Tommy Freeman's hat-trick today, he is surely on the plane for the Lions tour this summer.

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This cover was HARD to direct, but the cover was NAILED by the artist, and beautifully represents this stunning novel. I am super proud of my small involvement ❤️🔥

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Apart from the fact that that is why the reboot exists in the first place, in an attempt to delete the three main stars of the movie franchise who have spoken out against those beliefs.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

I saw the croissant skeleton so now all of you have to see it too

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

My personal faves @kerstinhall.bsky.social’s ASUNDER and @vajra.me’s RAKESFALL once again, recognised amongst worthy company. Get in!

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Pedro Pascal Calls For Boycott of HBO's Upcoming $2 Billion ‘Harry Potter' Series www.worldofreel.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Nab yourself a bargain!

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Minimum wage is now £12.21 per hour. Calculating based on a 37.5 hour week, that equates to £23,810 per year. So all the companies proudly advertising publishing jobs in London starting at £26,000 are now barely paying above minimum wage. In London, the 8th most expensive city in the world.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City as #DoctorWho: a thread. Carrie Bradshaw as the First Doctor

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

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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This is such a fun, swash-buckling novel, with a helluva female lead in the form of Morgane. Perfect spring reading, perfect holiday reading, perfect reading to combat the hellscape of everything and immerse yourself in a France not quite like the Dumas novels but definitely inspired by them!

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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.

submitted 6 days ago • 240 comments

I have two books to announce soon, which I am can't-sit-still-in-my-chair excited about - and I think a lot of people will share that excitement 😁

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Will you just LOOK at the amazing novels we have out now and which are coming across the rest of this year! You are in for such treats ❤️

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Um. Surely if you want to learn AC's technique, you'd do better to consume media that cribs from her writing - and, y'know, her books? Like, if you've watched Knives Out, congratulations, you now have a working knowledge of AC's writing technique for whodunnits. (And bonus! You paid a creator!)

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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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In case you missed it: The new #SPFBO champion! #SPFBOX It has the fewest Goodreads ratings of any champion in our 10 years. Just over 100... So it's a true discovery. Let's do what this contest was designed to do and go change its fortunes. Buy a copy. Do now, before you forget!

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COMING IN MAY! My empire deconstructing, swords-and-super-science Savage Rebellion series continues as @solarisbooks.bsky.social releases SAVAGE BOUNTY! Please share this! Get book one: geni.us/savagecompany Preorder book two: geni.us/savagebounty

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If you've ever supported a book from Unbound you probably have an email in your inbox from Boundless Publishing, their new incarnation, touting for pledges. Do not give them your money – they owe authors and supporters thousands. In fact, unsubscribe, and let's make them pariahs.

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Time, by one million percent. Lyrics that only get poignant with every year that passes. "And you are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun"

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Yeah, Boundless can fuck off, really. Unbound took my money for two books. I haven't received books or money back. Boundless are never getting my support.

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The worst thing about the discourse du jour is that I, with my own eyes, have seen a male SFF author complaining about how hard it is for male SFF authors to be published in this sea of SFF female authors. So this dickhead featured in the Bookseller is only saying the quiet bit out loud 🙄

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TODAY ONLY, U.K. readers can grab the ebook of @vajra.me Chandrasekera‘s multi award-winning THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS for only 99p! Buy now: www.amazon.co.uk/Saint-Bright...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Of course I respect Tadej Pogacar, but man, is he making cycling boring right now, especially with these long-range attacks. Just so dull.

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