#SomethingBeautiful a still life from my aunt Mary Lace blue vase with lemons

I have a through draft of the book I am writing. I still need to do a consistency read through before I show it to anyone, but this feels like a good stage of being done. I have written two whole novels in two years, and they're really different from each other. I can still do this!

#SomethingBeautiful a still life from my aunt, Mary Lace, called "Letterboxes"

#OTD in 1466 Elizabeth of York was born at Westminster Palace in Middlesex. She was born to Elizabeth Woodville and Edward IV. Her brothers were the Princes in the Tower. 1/4

#SomethingBeautiful Still Life with Vermeer, another painting from my aunt Mary Lace.

Cached US #KindleBookGiveaway: 10 copies of Farthing: A Story of a World that Could Have Been (Small Change Book 1), by @bluejo.bsky.social, which was promo'd by the author so I of course HAVE to reward that. Well, I don't *have* to, but I *like* to. Pour encourager les autres, comme on dit.

Do you need at least ten more books added to your TBR? Do you need to be inspired to reread the entire Vorkosigan saga? This book is for you, and is also an excellent read in and of itself!

This book is a master class in critical analysis of SFF by the best working critic in the field. Walton loves SF, and is a magnificent writer, and _What Makes This Book so Great_ takes apart real great works and lets you see why and how to read them.

In time to read it before Trace Elements comes out next month, the ebook of What Makes This Book So Great is on sale as an ebook for $2.99. (Probably US only.) www.amazon.com/What-Makes-T...

#SomethingBeautiful another still life from my aunt Mary Lace

BEST BOOK? BEST BOOK.

If you liked Bridgerton, and you like dragons, this will be your new favorite book!

I used to sell this mini-hardback and it is indeed super-cute! But this ebook is a steal at three bucks and highly recommended 👍🏼

Today only, and I think US only, my World Fantasy Award winning Victorian sentimental novel about dragons who eat each other is on sale for $2.99 as an ebook There's also a super-cute mini-hardback www.amazon.com/Tooth-Claw-J...

Heads up: Tooth & Claw by @bluejo.bsky.social is on US Kindle sale for $3; I got some for random giveaway.

Still can't get over how magnificent this 15th century medieval hammer-beam roof is at St Colleen's in Llangollen. It's glorious!!! #Wales #Church #medieval #History

Another in my series of libraries Biblioteca Statale Oratoriana dei Girolamini, Naples #SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky

Stop scrolling! We are as far from Punk as Punk was from the 1920s. ...continue scrolling.

#SomethingBeautiful a cat portrait by my aunt, Mary Lace, called Morgan the Cardiff Cat.

New sonnet on my Patreon: a dream of angels www.patreon.com/posts/dream-...

Jo Walton ( @bluejo.bsky.social ) kicks off a new year of reading recs with some fascinating memoirs and letters, some light romance, and a sneak peek at Ada Palmer's upcoming series about Norse myth and Viking culture!

New sonnet on my Patreon: a dream of angels www.patreon.com/posts/dream-...

white and azure lac’d With blue of heaven’s own tinct.

Superb Owl! Superb Owl!

Raise a glass! It's Superb Owl Sunday. 🦉 🏺 This owl-fully cute terracotta drinking vessel is over 2,300 years old. In Ancient Greece, owls represented Athena, goddess of wisdom, an association many still have with owls today. 💡 ℹ️ https://gty.pulse.ly/n56nx9g7r0

Yeah, being told I'm someone's favorite author, or that one of my books was what turned them into a reader... that's worth more than selling a few hundred ebooks.

Book Cover of the Day:

A perfect excuse to have a glass of champagne! ~ J & L Lobmeyr art nouveau champagne glass, with enamelling on stem (c 1900, Vienna)

Hello Monday. Book of Hours, c.1460. #OwlishMonday

#SomethingBeautiful another still life from my aunt, Mary Lace. I own this one, so this is a photo of it hanging on the wall in my guest room

I love that book! reactormag.com/hamblystrang...

Every time I walk past this bit of fallen tree I can't help imagining it scuttling around, crablike, after sundown, and getting up to no good.

More gorgeous views in today's journey to Aberystwyth, despite the rain! And another beautiful display of Wooing the Witch Queen copies at @waterstones.bsky.social Aberystwyth, where they've now all been signed. :)

A wine delivery departs from Ambrogio Gonnella’s wine shop, “La Vigna,” on Via Larga in Milan, Italy, circa 1910.

Slowly the bear climbs... Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek, Ministerialbibliothek, Min. 99; Breviarium OFM (pars aestivalis); 1460; Constance; f.8v (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

#SomethingBeautiful a still life by my aunt Mary Lace, this one called Resting with Lowry

In the unlikely event that you follow me and have never read this, fix that right away.

One of my favourite moments in a museum was the label underneath a neolithic pot: 'c.4000-2500 BCE. Artist unknown.'

I just finished "Inventing the Renaissance" by @adapalmer.bsky.social and I really love this book. It's erudite and wise, but also geeky, welcoming, funny & sooo playful. I love how it's packed with the coolest memorable details ever, but also conveys something vital & optimistic on the large scale.

Anything the Met Museum can do, we can do.... (and we're going to be honest here)... ...broken-er. 😬

Love this book!

In praise of Aldus Manutius, who died OTD in 1515. I did not know or had forgotten that he was tutor to two nephews of Pico della Mirandola before he set up shop as a Venetian printer: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... #MedievalSky #BookHistory

A few months ago, I FINALLY read this short fiction from our local SF&F author (among other things) Naomi Kritzer (@naomikritzer.bsky.social). It's a post-disaster story, but in the vein of Hope Punk & Solar Punk. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-... 1/2

For the deep lore on Proto-Blueskexian, also known as Twitteric, may I suggest Because Internet? gretchenmcculloch.com/book

#SomethingBeautiful another still life from my aunt, Mary Lace, this one called Roses for Jenny

Finished #InventingTheRenaissance just in time, as it’s due today. (I have renewed it several times)

Snatch this up! Unless you already have one... The snatch it up for a friend!

My Hugo and Nebula award winning novel Among Others about a science fiction reading girl with fantasy problems is on sale as an ebook for $2.99 www.amazon.com/Among-Others...

🖼️ Rosie Dore