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That's the future home of "Vedritsa of The River". Gorgeous!

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Thank you, @mlclark.bsky.social!!!

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Introducing "Beyond the Hills They Passed": To protect the people from droughts and floods, The Diviners read the auspices each season. One day, the High Diviner takes Urti’s little sister. No auspice bearer has ever left the Augrium alive. Read my story in @lucentdreaming.bsky.social in March.

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Here is me going 😊 a lot!

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I'm so happy to announce that a favorite story of mine will be published in March in Trollbreath Magazine. A creature of myth and legend defies her predatory urges for the sake of love. An ordinary woman braves her phobia to save her love's soul.

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Grim tidings... writerbeware.blog/2025/01/31/t...

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Luckily, TikTok doesn't sell my books, and neither does Facebook. Twitter did for a little while but then stopped. Instagram is a tight echo chamber. BlueSky is a lost case. When you're an indie writer, all social media is mostly useless to you.

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Perhaps, perhaps, I'm a binge writer. A useful perspective by @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social. janefriedman.com/dont-write-e...

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A really lovely piece on the benefits of Milford from @catchingwords.com. And I can greatly confirm that the story in question really is that good.

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Fantasy Magazine is back! psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

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Two weeks now into the New Year. It's time I shared some thoughts on what I hope will have happened (writing-wise) by the end of it. catchingwords.com/2025/01/13/l...

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One can hope it will be a good day when it starts like this.

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There are still places left for both the @milfordsff.bsky.social Retreat in May and the Milford conference in September. Apply while there is still time! milfordsf.co.uk

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The Cosmic Background magazine could use some support: www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

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New post - free to read until 25 February 2025. It's about the UK government's consultation on copyright and generative AI. Includes quite a few links, including to the consultation. If you find this interesting, please repost. ko-fi.com/post/UK-Gove...

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Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring. Samuel Vimes!

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Whoops, forgot to signal boost ... Erin Garcia on the Autism Support and Knowledge podcast interviews me and co-editor Liza Olmsted about our work on neurodivergent representation in the #neurodiversiverse anthology: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhlk...

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Milford SF Writers ring-fences five places for published SF/F writers who have never attended a Milford critique week before. Only one story sale to qualify. Held at Gladstone's Library in North Wales in September each year. Apply now. www.milfordsf.co.uk

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For those that don't know, I've been hospitalized for nearly 3 weeks after being rushed to the ER in Nov. with pulmonary edema. I am on the mend, thankfully, but my finances have been devastated. So I've done the American thing and set up a gofundme. Every donation makes a real difference in my life

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For your short story awards consideration: I had one original story published this year. "Raindrops" in Short Édition. A sweet flash tale about friendship. ☔ Thanks for reading! short-edition.com/en/story/sho...

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"I had to pause several times as the consequences grew, but found the payoff worth the delay." Gordon Linzner, founder of Space and Time Magazine 'The Last Days of Good People' available now for pre-order: https://buff.ly/3DosLTy #speclit

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Now that the year is nearing an end, I've written a short retrospective about writerly matters. Did it feel to you like the year slipped by too fast. Or did it trickle too slowly to an end? catchingwords.com/2024/12/16/2...

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Deceptively simple advice on craft: janefriedman.com/create-compe...

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Best ever!

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In the spirit of Terry Pratchett's numerous small gods of annoying things, I believe our household is a supplicant to the god of Items-Hiding-in-the-Fridge-Until-a-Second-Same-Kind-Item-Is-Opened. Grrrr, ours is not even a very big fridge!

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From @janefriedman.bsky.social's Electric Speed newsletter: "Writers are often guilty of assuming their excellence will be recognized [...]. But to get what we want, we have to ask and put ourselves out there. You need to nudge providence in your direction [...]." So, true. #writingcommunity

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I've taken the plunge and started a newsletter. Concise. To the point. 1-2 times a month. (Who am I kidding? Less than that). Because we're all busy. And I'm offering a free story to all who join me in this new venture. #newsletter #writingcommunity #readingcommunity sendfox.com/catchingwords

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I suspect I went through more drafts than necessary in my current WIP and am hoping to prevent that in my soon-to-be-started WIP. @nkjemisin.bsky.social provides as always solid advice. #amwriting #onwriting nkjemisin.com/2022/02/book...

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If you're part of the writing community, could you please holla and RT so we can find each other? I want to build up what we once had on Twitter (but better) #writers #writing

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Random search result while I was looking up something else: www.pinterest.com/pin/42214216... 👀

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Pre-ordered because I know it will be good!

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We love to write, but it is a business. Tade Thompson (an amazing SFF writer!) has some really good advice on how to treat it as such.

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“I feel helpless and an outsider. The firmness, however, which the most insignificant writing brings about in me is beyond doubt and wonderful.” - Kafka @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy’s summary and commentary on Kafka’s artistic struggles was …familiar? www.themarginalian.org/2024/10/20/k...

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Happy Halloween to those who enjoy this holiday (I do). 🎃🎃🎃 Trick-or-treat is mostly about sweets today, but I think this conundrum has a wider application. catchingwords.com/2024/10/31/o...

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I like to #exercise before I get on with #writing. In my day job, I’m a flight attendant, but I don’t like to lug a huge trunk on my layovers. It’s amazing what great #yoga props a towel, a lunch box, and a couple of water bottles can turn into. Now I’m ready to hit the keyboard. #amwriting

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I don’t know how others feel about that, but I feel utter betrayal when a book doesn’t resolve a major thread and leaves it for the next in the series. It turns me off so much that I would not read the next book even if I’m dying to know how things resolve.

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Support like this means so much. I've been going to conferences and workshops before, but during the Milford week, it hit me like never before how important it is for us writers to connect, support each other, and talk.

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