For anyone who's created a name glossary for a book series before, how did you go at it? How did you determine who to include? If a name is only mentioned in passing once, do they get included? Do unnamed people from previous books get included? #writingcommunity #indiewriters

This is so goddamn sad to read. I genuinely hope the school staff have her back & the parents complain. None of this should ever be happening.

Less future, more spring. (2017)

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Luxcon would not be the same without Peadar Ó Guilín. The author of the Grey Land Duology and the Bone World Trilogy joins us this year to present his new book The Sword Garden. Come say hi and welcome back to him on April 18th & 19th in Luxembourg-City.

Also joining Luxcon this year is Dr. Isabella Hermann. A political scientist, public speaker, and co-host of the SF-focused podcast "Das War Morgen", her work explores the intersections of science-fiction, technology, and global politics. Hear her insights on April 18th & 19th.

We're delighted to welcome Aiki Mira to this year's Luxcon! Author of Denial of Service, Proxi, Neurobiest, and Neongrau, they co-hosted the SF- focused podcast Das War Morgen and write essays exploring science fiction and queer identities. Catch them on April 18th & 19th.

Behold Hidekuni's amazing poster for this year's LuxCon.

I cannot wait to have a multi-storey house so it's even more complicated to find my phone when I randomly put it down while passing through a room

Every time I announce a new release I need a designated adult to remind me of my time blindness and that the deadlines that I've set myself are unrealistic and will lead to me having a stress-induced heart attack

Capybara :3 The midnight gardener

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Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

Being a primary school librarian has really turned me away from the notion of "book smell = good" because you wouldn't believe the kind of smells books can develop after having been read by 50 kids that don't really make sure whether anything will get on that book or not...

Here’s the thing about folks speedrunning the creative process with AI: I could go to the beach every morning and put a grain of sand in a cup. They’d take their cup to the beach and fill it one day; but the point isn’t to have a cup of sand. It’s to fill my life with a thousand trips to the beach.

A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life

I stand before you once again with a very specific request for book recommendations, this time for an M/M romance between a king and knight, ideally where the king is already a bit older (in his 50s or so) 👑 ideally also with a strong plot 🗡 I really hope that exist somewhere 😔

For the first time I get to voice act in someone else's project! If you like dark sci-fi I'd highly recommend Syntax. It's a great show and I had so much fun playing Lysila for them!

A Blazing Bond will be released on April 16th! I am so happy with how the cover turned out, created once again by the wonderful @antlerclad.bsky.social ! I honestly can’t wait to hold a physical copy of it in my hand and put it next to its predecessor! #coverreveal #fantasybooks #indiefantasy

Love Lethal, Death Divine is a dark fantasy love story featuring star-crossed lovers, court intrigue and Slavic folklore. You can request it on NetGalley and add it to your Goodreads want-to-read shelf now.

Cover reveal for book two in the Heart Pyre series, A Blazing Bond, coming soon, probably already tomorrow 👀 The book will be out in April and I'm so excited to finally see this book come to life! I've been working on it for so long and honestly, I can't wait to finally start working on book 3.

I always thought I had a very robust immune system. Got humbled hard once I started working in a primary school ☠️

Completely unrelated to any TV shows that might currently be very popular, if I were to watch hockey during the olympics, which teams are the most interesting to keep up with?

Ever since I learned that the little hat on top of vowels in French used to be an s I keep trying to find the equivalent English word that still has the s, like: Hôtel - Hostel Hôpital - Hospital Forêt - Forest Pâtiserie - Pastry I don't want to look up a wordlist, I just like

New year, new bookshelf 🐱📚 [ #booksky #cuteart #artshop ]

On my endless quest to not include christianity into my fantasy novel I have realised today that I technically can't use "to fall from grace" as an expression... I think I'm gonna let this one slip through the cracks though 😮‍💨 (Except if someone has a good alternative for me)

Last year I read over 60 books (well, listened to the vast majority of them) and I think that's over the maximum I can take emotionally. It just feels like it overfills my brain to constantly be in a new fictional story??? I think I need to reread more old books this year 😔

Sometimes I have to remember that I'm talking to 6 year olds at work and that they do not understand the legal difference between a marriage and a civil partnership and also that they do not remember the lockdown...

With the most recent twitter exodus, this is a reminder for #audiodrama folks to reach out to me to be added to the Audio Drama Feed, with the understanding that no element of your production is touched by genai.

We have Wyll in our party and all I could think about is how fashion has to change when you have such giant horns on your head. Like, you can't really pull any shirt over your head, everything has to be a vest. Also, how does he sleep?? Does he need one of those neck raising wooden 'pillows'?

Spent my second Christmas Day playing probably over 12 hours of Baldur's Gate 3 with my boyfriend, perfect waste of a day

Out of all the places doing a year-in-review thing I really didn't need my banking app to make one to tell me how much money I've spent this year ☠️☠️☠️

I set out a manga recommendation box in the library so the kids could tell me what they want to read and why has more than 1 written down GTO? 😭 Why do these 10yo know about GTO?? It came out 15 years before they were born, is it really still this popular that kids know about it ??

When Mira inherits her late uncle's potion shop in sleepy Emberglen, she decides to follow in his footsteps. Soon, she begins to build a home, forges new relationships, and finds herself on a quest to save this dream from Big Business. Buy OF POTIONS AND HONEY here: books2read.com/potions-and-...

Idk if this is a controversial opinion but the older I get the more I feel like we're babying children just a bit too much, in the sense that we're scrubbing their media of 'bad' stuff too much. Found a picture book version of Red Riding Hood where the grandma doesn't get eaten but flees out the

I've been trying to read as many books as new ones I buy which means I'm on track to read almost 70 books this year (including some manga/comics) which is, I think, the most I've ever read in a year and it makes me realize I could never be one of those reading 100+ books a year ppl cause my head

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I'm getting really, really tired of every ad I see from the government or other big corpo being AI 😮‍💨 can't go anywhere in this country without being bombarded with it

For years I've wanted to do a December Murder Mystery reading month and I think this is finally the year. If you have any murder mystery books you love & would rec, please let me know 👀 I haven't read a lot of the classics so anything is welcome

AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!

OUT TODAY! Join Mira as she takes over her late uncle's potion shop and tries to build a life, friendships, and perhaps more in cosy Emberglen in OF POTIONS AND HONEY! Get it on Amazon, in Kindle Unlimited, and wherever you buy paperbacks! books2read.com/potions-and-... 🌈📚💙 #sapphfic #romantasy

Being an adult is knowing which battles to fight and which battles to give up and the battle I gave up this morning is seeing the snail & worm books classified in the insect category of my primary school library and deciding not to reclassify them into their own categories.

Now imagine 30–50 of them, and feral

Finally got the results from my ADHD assessment. Bad news: it's not ADHD Good news: it's a mysterious different attention deficit problem, you might even want to call it an attention deficit ... disorder

My crowdfund is now LIVE! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

Was looking up some colouring books for an event at the school library and it's really just so sad to see how many of them are AI nowadays 😢

I love reading horror and I love listening to it and watching it but I've always been too chicken shit to play horror games 😬 but today I started Dead Space... on easy of course cause I know how bad I am at aiming guns at stuff that's coming towards me in games 🙈

Sometimes as a writer you take completely random decisions that impact your writing way more than you thought but you've already committed to the decision so now you can't backtrack no matter how much it sucks. I decided that magic doesn't exist in my story so no character ever talks of it

I was reading/listening to scary stuff all October and I like having themed months like this so I need to come up with something for november 🤔 just not sure what