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"Your book doesn't sell because of the cover/blurb/writing style/lack of marketing/insert random reason here." No, it's because it's niche. That is all. We can stop with the author shaming.

Penguin’s reaction when her favorite human comes to check up on her... 🥹 #bluesky

Packing my winter woolies for a reportedly chilly Joburg and looking forward to tomorrow night's launch of 'An Act of Murder'. If you're near Sandton, pull through to Exclusive Books at sixish and come and say hello.

Johannesburg! Arnold Prinsloo is coming home as we launch ‘An Act of Murder’ next Thursday in Sandton*, and it would be grand to see you there. I'll be chatting to the excellent Michelle Constant, so both you and I will be in safe hands. * OK technically Arnold lives in Melville but close enough...

Timeline cleanse: do you want to see one of the best fossil animations I have EVER seen? @kiabugboy.bsky.social you are literally a master of the form. BBC or Discovery (whoever pays more) should hire you immediately 🧪🦑⚒️

I absolutely love writing but man sometimes publishing feel like I signed up to get kicked in the head repeatedly by an MMA fighter.

My friend bought me a digital clock to save me from my destructive early morning doom scrolling. It got me thinking about all the moments in my life when I've found myself at a fork in the road: fall into the black mirror or stay in the real world... tanyameeson.substack.com/p/a-fork-in-...

I met an actual flat earther last night. I didn't really believe they existed but they do. Thought they were joking at first and, when I realised they weren't, couldn't stop laughing at them. Felt rude. But what else is there to do?

This news about 4chan is honestly a little beam of light in a really dark time.

Looking forward to interviewing @jonkeevy.bsky.social about his debut novel The Unwoven Warrior. A character-driven Afrofantasy blending magic, action, war, loss, myth and tribe into one very readable story with Amkela and his fellow Inyentu at the helm. #specfic #scifi #scifilit #afrofantasy

Watched this piece of a fantastic 90s Catholic horror again this week. One of my fave genres. Honestly, give me some 90s tack, some satan and demons and Gabriel Byrne-types as the tormented priest and I'm IN. (And Arquette is just perfection as a the 90s rave-grunge girl.)

Steven Kurutz's NYT's piece ‘The Gen X Career Meltdown' was like being validated and getting kicked in the face all at once. It's weird to think it, but my time as a jobbing writer is coming to an end whether I want it to or not... tanyameeson.substack.com/p/the-great-...

'Dandelions,' was painted by the Danish artist Bertha Wegmann around 1910. It wasn't an arbitrary choice of a plant to paint: the dandelion was used to promote the women’s liberation movement in Scandinavia because of its capacity for uncontrolled, strong-willed growth.

A reader told me that my book The Akashic Records is 'solarpunk'. I'd never heard of this before. Basically, it's cyberpunk's opposite. Instead of a gloomy dystopia, solarpunk imagines a future world where humans, greentech and nature live in harmony. We need more of this. #specfic #scifi #scifilit

Found this collection of fantastic scifi pulp at a local market today. Love the smell of the paper and the fantastic illustrated covers. Can't wait to get stuck in. #vintagescifi #scifi #scifilit #sff

LOVE THIS TRILOGY.

Hi everyone, I'm Jack Hillside a French illustrator doing fantasy, horror and sci-fi art. #art #fantasy

And then this novella I published last year. This is more basic sci-fi. 400 years in the future, two moons, hopeful dystopia as told by Neko, unreliable narrator and holder of the keys to the new world. #writingcommunity

Apparently genre-blending speculative fiction is back, so I'd like to introduce The Fulcrum, an epic, slow-burn-big-ending, multi-POV, kinda chosen ones story about why humanity never quite manages to annihilate itself no matter how hard it tries. Available in print and e-book. #writingcommunity

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

'Is it raining where you are?' by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Morgan #WomensArt #AprilShowers

Suggest edit: 'May you live in peaceful, egalitarian, democratic, tolerant, empathetic, compassionate, inclusive, progress for the greater good, humanely prosperous, data-based and ethical times.' Don't think the shorter 'interesting' version is working for this *waves hands around* piece.

Well, if nothing else, Trump's government has ruined Hollywood's depiction of the US Presidency forever. So there's that done at least.

[Alien family passing Earth] *door lock noise*

I'll be chatting with the most excellent @tanyameeson.bsky.social at the Book Lounge on the 15th April. Tanya, I am sorry but my book is much more serious than I am, but there's wine. (After party tba - maybe)

The Matrix but make it French

Some brief thoughts on book launches, and why I'd be delighted if you came to mine. tomeaton.substack.com/p/launching-...

I think a lot about how Crazy Rich Asians made a ton of money, huge hit, beloved movie. Sequel, guaranteed hit. And then the Asian woman cowriting the script asked to be paid the same amount as the white man they paired her with, and the studio completely abandoned the sequel rather than do that

Notice to flat-Earthers all around the globe: Please alert the authorities if tonight’s Total Lunar Eclipse looks like this:

us.macmillan.com/books/978125... No shit post, just a basic request: if you'd be so kind to help promote the book today with a share/reskeet <whatever they're called here. Book one of my Silk Road/South Asian lyrical fantasy.

tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)

The Carlin 🙌🏽

Manatee Mama and her Calf flyover after midnight #manatee #mamatee #calf #manateesofcoralcity #coralcityafterdark #flyover #aftermidnight #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity #glennnevis

Everybody is so touched by this anglerfish coming to see the light and I’m over here like “actually you are deeply misunderstanding the sensorium of deep sea creatures and that girl was blinded way before she got to the surface.”

But 'Hillary's emails', right guys?

"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States" from @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I’m strongly in favor of mushroom thumping Mushroom friends, what do we think

French angelfish approves of the new Cam 🔮🇫🇷👼🐠 #frenchangelfish #angelfish #ouioui #closeup #pomacanthusparu #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity #glennnevis #coralcityfoundation #ccf #kbcf

Idiocracy was a documentary

I think my whole Bluesky timeline might just be reposting Coral City Camera and I'm okay with that.

Holy crap I wish someone had told me this every day when I was a kid.

Headlong into oblivion, headlong into the abyss #jackcrevalle #horseeyejack #jacks #school #headlong #oblivion #abyss #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity #glennnevis #coralcityfoundation #ccf

When did the bad guys start winning? The last few weeks have been kinda rough and it's been difficult to step away from the noise. Writing this post helped somewhat. As did imagining The Fulcrum is real. tanyameeson.substack.com/p/to-the-lig...