Please could you help me to spread the word about my swashbuckling adventure story with a pirate protagonist, sapphic romance, with a dash of werewolves and vampires? My latest novel THE VENGEANCE is available in all formats geni.us/thevengeance Perfect for escaping the horrors of our time.

The Planetfall series is among my Top Five, Ever books! So amazing.

I just finished Planetfall by @emmanewman.bsky.social and really enjoyed it. Terrific book, I recommend it!! Now, on to the second in the Planetfall series www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

Just finished @scalzi.com's The Independency Sequence and it's terrific. Even better than the Old Man's War series. Really enjoyed these books.

50 hostages. 680 days. How many more Shabbats must pass without them? The media may stay silent, but we never will. Don’t let the world forget.

This episode was a lot of fun. Really enjoyed the short story collection. Like Adrian, I listened to it as is my current habit.

I'm watching the extended version of The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug. Still thrilling, excellent over a decade later.

Word of mouth, either in person or wherever you hang out online, is priceless. The most recent novel is THE VENGEANCE, the lightest adventure story I've ever written, with sapphic romance, swashbuckling, pirates, vampires, and werewolves. geni.us/thevengeance It's perfect for summer read escapism.

I'm super proud of that series too, because it is... just weird! It has elements of portal fantasy, politics, lashings of feminism and characters that I love and miss spending time with, like the Gargoyle. And the fae are proper scary. None of that disney-esque nonsense in these books!

If fantasy is more your thing, I have an unusual urban fantasy series (5 books, need to be read in order, series is complete) called The Split Worlds. It has fae, mad sorcerers, feuding dynastic families and three levels of reality set in Bath, London and Oxford. The 1st novel is BETWEEN TWO THORNS

Okay, deep breath. I need your help. My friend set this up for me because financial stress is making the whole cancer stress a lot worse. www.paypal.com/pools/c/9gAG... If, like me, you don't have money atm, if you have read and enjoyed any of my books, please can you tell people about them?

I'm enjoying "Old Man's War" by @scalzi.com . I started reading it after I saw a recommendation from @jamietoddrubin.bsky.social on Goodreads. Enjoying this book so far.

Good morning, folks. The sky says trans rights are human rights.

A sign you are getting older: The actors you watched in the past, and who played unattached characters in their 20s, 30s are now playing characters who are parents of characters in their 20s, 30s …

Version control is your friend! arstechnica.com/information-...

Lesson from the movies: If your dire, ancient punishment for the main villain risks unleashing them as an all-powerful supernatural force of they are dug up in the future, maybe skip it and just cut their head off. www.imdb.com/title/tt0120...

I've been trying the app out and I like it. Really handy to be able to use @signal.org on my tablet, too. Disclosure: I work for Automattic that owns @beeper.com

@aptshadow.bsky.social I read The Bee Speaker last week and enjoyed it! I especially appreciated the twists and turns between the Factory inhabitants and how the protagonists related to the main "gang" (trying to avoid spoilers). It started a little slow but quickly picked up!

@julietemckenna.bsky.social I finished "The Tales of Einarinn" recently and enjoyed the rest of the series as much as the first book. I appreciate the lack of cliche in the characters, their depth. At one point I lost track of which book I was on. I was totally absorbed.

This is a great discussion about the process of enriching uranium and working towards a nuclear weapon with an actual nuclear physicist and weapons specialist youtu.be/Pg6SoRPYWsQ?...

@julietemckenna.bsky.social I just finished The Thief's Gamble. Wow! This one kept me on the edge throughout. Really enjoyed this. I have Swordsman's Oath downloaded and ready to start when I finish work today.

About to land in Tel Aviv and already the apartheid myth is falling apart. I’m literally surrounded by women in hijabs — and just watched Jewish and Arab moms sharing snacks for their kids throughout the flight. Funny how loud the lies are from people who’ve never even been here.

'Galaxy Rise' 777 images captured by Don Pettit are processed, graded & interpolated to create a video from ISS Expedition 72 with music by Chris Zabriskie. Cropped and edited from 6m04s 4k original. Credit: Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran

I read "Made Things" over the weekend, and really enjoyed this book too, @aptshadow.bsky.social . When I read your fantasy books, part of my brain is already in a hypothetical D&D campaign while I'm reading. ☺️

@aptshadow.bsky.social I just finished Spiderlight. It is excellent, really good. Definitely one of my (growing list of) favorites. I really enjoyed this one. The twist was terrific, well, each of them.

Why is it that when fictional magic users cast spells in movies or TV, they use Latin? Shouldn't they use something like Hebrew or Aramaic? 🤔

Episode 2 of Starship Alexandria is live wherever you get your podcasts! I’ll put up the patreon episode shortly but this month we’re discussing The Etched City by KJ Bishop, and for patrons, the film Aliens.

Guns of the Dawn is excellent, @aptshadow.bsky.social . I enjoyed that. Now I need another book!

@aptshadow.bsky.social Not necessarily saying you were prescient with "Human Resources" but not saying you weren't either ... www.theverge.com/news/657594/...

@aptshadow.bsky.social just curious: did the Vermin in Cage of Souls influence the direction you took with the rats in The Doors of Eden. I'm reading Cage of Souls now and when I read about the Vermin, that reminded me of the rats.

Set before Adrian Tchaikovsky's SERVICE MODEL, the newly-promoted head of Human Resources for a multinational conglomerate navigates their new role in a world where humans are increasingly redundant. "Human Resources" by @aptshadow.bsky.social is out at Reactor now! reactormag.com/human-resour...

Just finished reading The Doors of Eden by @aptshadow.bsky.social . I think this is my favorite of his books (so far). Narrowly beating Alien Clay. adriantchaikovsky.com/stand-alone-...

I just read Saturation Point by @aptshadow.bsky.social and it was terrific. Almost as good as Alien Clay and Shroud. I'm currently reading The Doors of Eden.

The 2025 #Formula1 season has just started and I feel like the stars of this season are going to be Piastri, Norris, Antonelli (and Verstappen, of course). It's going to be quite a season!

Really enjoying this interview with @signal.org CEO, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social at #SXSW recently. I've been a donor for a while now. Totally worth it. youtube.com/live/AyH7zoP...

This is a remarkable interview with former Defence Minister #YoavGallant by #DanSenor. It's the first part of a podcast interview series. youtube.com/watch?v=aPEP...

I learned new Hebrew today, while watching #Fauda: תעשה בעצמך. 💡 Importantly, not "תעשה עצמך", as my sons pointed out after they recovered from the initial shock of me proudly sharing that one.

Thank goodness they are home. The release earlier was horrifying. 🇮🇱🎗️

I especially enjoyed (and was horrified by) the librarians and how they decided to archive knowledge.

So happy to finally see these mothers smile 🫶.

Watching #StarTrek #Section31. It's on a par with the #Nemesis movie. Make of that what you will. 🤔

Four Israeli hostages released to Red Cross at Hamas-staged event in Gaza City square www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-jan...

Hostages Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy and Liri Albag handed over to the Red Cross www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Hamas gets its own ass delivered to it on its home turf. These are not defeated women. These are Wonder Women.

Stay with us for the latest from Hostage Square: www.youtube.com/live/-U5CQ6w...

I really like Bluesky's muting options. I added the new US president's name and muted his name for 7 days as an experiment. Drastically improved my feed!!

The last few weeks have really highlighted just how fragile corporate social media is, and just how beholden to political power it is. To build any sort of ground-up power we must continue to invest in decentralized alternatives that are resistant to intervention www.404media.co/decentralize...

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