Hello people who listen to Fantasy Book Swap. If you like it, please review and rate on your podcast emporium of choice! alibaker68.podbean.com/e/ep-51-a-sn...

When the people you already respect continue to earn it hard 🤩👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

As always an always a valid answer but let’s hope the thread helps you find something to read and if not there is always www.runalongtheshelves.net

Spotlight on Holly Race · start here: schoolreadinglist.co.uk/tag/holly-ra...

You wouldn't trust JD Vance with a tenner to go to Pret and get your lunch, would you. You wouldn't ask him to watch your kids for a couple of hours either. Just a ghastly, hollow marionette fashioned out of elbow skin and broken toilet seats.

Keeping my fingers crossed for Hungary today, and hoping that this election starts turning the tide against ultranationalist politics in Europe.

Patreon is currenlty a large income source as I try to get this whole "writing regularly" thing off the ground (had mental health crisis in family, now slowly digging myself out. With my fingernails hahhaha sob)

Podpals, I have updated the Fantasy Book Swap reading list, for your interest. alisonrbaker.wordpress.com/fantasy-book...

AIndulgences.

New Fantasy Book Swap episode with @emilytesh.net! I have realised that I left Emily’s social media and Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones from the show notes. Will correct as soon as possible. alibaker68.podbean.com/e/ep-51-a-sn...

Hey, hello, hi!! Are you an SFF book reviewer who doesn't randomly hate urban fantasy? Would you like more queer books in your TBR? Then please feel free to HMU, I'm always happy to provide review copies for press people 😘

"Will he 'in'? Will he 'cel'? No one knows and no one can tell. Look out - here comes the mantasy..."

For those of you not yet in the know… The Alliance of Radical Booksellers runs a sibling award for adult non-fiction: The 🍞Bread & 🌹Roses Award for Radical Publishing! #KidLitUK

Absolutely this. I work very hard to devise assessments that allow students to demonstrate what they know, understand, can analyse and critique. I work very hard to support my students to develop those skills. I’m rewarding them when they succeed based on the module criteria. 1/2

look! an expert!

WHAT EVEN IS WORK? Where are sparkly outfits, anime cosplayers and people making terrible puns about Cthulhu? I miss EasterCon.

Dr Karen Lord, @easterconuk.bsky.social’s GoH, being interviewed by wonderful @megintransition.bsky.social

Alright TTRPG folks we need help. I've been lucky enough to have Mythworks reach out to publish a brand new edition of Breathless. If you have a blog/AP or anything and want to write about the game, contact me and we'll give you a free early access copy of the game for you to check out.

On our way, @easterconuk.bsky.social!

Yes!👇👇👇

I can’t quite believe it’s 26 years since Ian Dury left us. I mourn his decline with some Thunderbird wine and a black handkerchief. youtu.be/BlZ1KLkKh0g?...

And a very good rant it is too.

I always thought my cousin Louise looked a bit like Bonnie Tyler. #totp83

Who is coming to EasterCon @easterconuk.bsky.social? Come to my panels!

Absolutely, a broad liberal arts education was seen as the foundation for illumination and fulfillment of the Enlightenment. The barbarians in charge now don't know what they don't know. They know only what they feel and use every rationale they can dream up to maintain it.

I am 100% behind this. It’s very sad that many post-92 universities are now largely technical schools rather than centres of learning and enrichment for their local communities. My first degree was from a College of Higher Education where I studied a mix of English, sociology, politics & philosophy

In Dragonbone Chair News, Simon has met Binabik the troll and their wolf #nowreading @runalongwomble.bsky.social

For International Women’s Day, why not Fight Like A Girl?

Am I surprised that a man who was able to thrive at a company where women weren't allowed in the same room as the boss, because he'd grope them, appears to have no ethical backbone? Not even a little.

Hey, have you backed this yet? Why the fuck not? GET ON IT! bit.ly/3OIVfNs

Maggie Gyllenhaal: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of the bride! Gyllenhaal: the exclamation point denotes excitement Gyllenhaal: please clap

You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/ada-lo...

Joan Aiken's stories give a voice to unlikely heroines, women who use their words to pass on the wisdom that has ways to save us... #InternationalWomen'sDay joanaiken.wordpress.com/2023/11/10/g...

A by-no-means definitive #IWD composer playlist I made in 2023. You can listen to it on whatever streaming service you like via this link: www.tunemymusic.com/share/GfxCb4...

Everything is terrible. I can’t sleep. Please buy my book.

Offically out on March 12th!

Happy International Women's Day. It's seven years since Jim Davidson couldn't find the apostrophe on his keyboard and didn't know how to spell "international" or "bye".

Happy International Women’s Day!

at the request of the Danish resistance in 1945 the British bombed a Gestapo building and unintentionally also bombed a school and killed 87 children. no AI was involved. this is the kind of thing that happens even in the most just war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...

So @stewarthotston.com I won’t hold it against you but I am only 1/3 through The Dragonbone Chair and Simon has only just left the castle. I am enjoying it but this is definitely a Fantasy Brick

I stg if you want to see books like this in your local bookshop, the absolute best way to make it happen is to buy the fuck out of them when they're indie, because publishers only sign what they think will sell and won't take chances without data. Back this project. Provide that data!

Happy World Book Day!

I don't have kids so I dressed up my book as a child for world book day

I cannot wait for the insights on this! He's going to: 1. Sample some local street food. 2. Ride a train. 3. Visit a temple. 4. Not mention the pogroms that the serving Prime Minister presided over. 5. Smile at some elephants. 6. Top up his kids' private school fees. 7. Say "India is changing".

Oh, you sent another old comedian on holiday? What groundbreaking commissioning! Shall we throw a party? Shall we invite a wry, Blue On Wikipedia dad?

This is amazing. Genuinely thought it was from The Onion when I first glanced at the title.

Take a book and read with deep concentration when wicked or blasphemous thoughts intrude themselves #WorldBookDay

I’ve been obsessed with the “school wars” meme, what it says about London, the very real fears of parents, algorithmic school rumours… and why almost no other news outlets have just sent people to stand and see what happened. Here’s where we’ve ended up. www.londoncentric.media/p/school-war...

@chrismccartney.bsky.social Hello! Can I DM you?

In other news: STUPID BOTANICAL SEXISM MAKING MY ASTHMA WORSE en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botanic...