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We got married, Bluesky! 💖 It was the best of all days 💖

the thing about me is that i am adding 18 sculptures to my etsy in 2 hours etsy.com/shop/yondermen

part of being a millennial so elder I am in kissing distance of gen x is that I am both terminally online and constantly baffled and horrified by the deeply personal shit people will share on social media

MCM Saturday, so far.

pleased to say I have remembered most of the names... ALSO, this little duology is so weird, I love it dearly, hopefully at some point I will actually get to tell you about it properly ALSO ALSO I have seen the cover for the first one and it might legit be one of my faves

hold the phone, there's a new Susanna Clarke??? 😮 Even just a little one is cause for excitement

Jack Lowden's face just too likeable for Bond, surely? He's a sweetie (I have very boring Bond opinions: I want book accurate Bond, where he is a Total Shit, wears incredible suits, spends a lot of time having fancy breakfasts in hotels, drinks insane amounts of booze, set in the 60s)

finally watched The Substance, which was a hoot. I wasn't expecting it to be so weird or to push it that far.

writing the synopsis for book 2 of this new duology and the best thing is I'm also in the middle of writing another book in a different series, so I can't remember anyone's names. Wheeeeee

Oh look my debut novel for 99p! Go get it

I've talked about it often on panels, but one of the reasons The Ninth Rain is the way it is was because I wanted to write the Collector Ship Sequence in a fantasy novel

Ah sad to hear about Bioware. It's very possible that The Copper Promise wouldn't exist without Dragon Age Origins, and it's likely that the Winnowing Flame trilogy would be very different without Mass Effect. Games that will live in my top five forever.

since it's spooky season I should probably remind you that I've written 3 scary books, and as you might expect from a fantasy writer moonlighting as a horror writer, they're pretty weird. Please check them out, I LOVE SCARY THINGS (I think of them as my Pink Trilogy)

hey did you know that youre allowed to make a bunch of sculptures and animate them singing to music you love

We were in Edinburgh this weekend (my first visit!) and just had the best time. Thrilled to say I now own a fridge magnet of the best chess piece guy

Jerry Hall in celeb traitors is very much giving me Moira in Schitt's Creek ...

that special moment in an author's life where she sees the rough sketch for the cover of her upcoming book and it's entirely delicious 🥰

*proud mama moment*

beeeyoootiful

Finished @sennydreadful.bsky.social's The Copper Promise last night, a really fun fantasy, clearly written by someone with a genuine love of the genre.

a neighbour's car has UWU in the number plate and now I must think of it as the ooowooo car

Actually, just made a gif of it so I can keep it forever 🥰

Listen, the most important one of these was James Blunt in a shower cap rigidly scrubbing himself with a loofah on a stick. Genius.

Hope everyone at fantasycon this weekend has an absolutely excellent time! We’re missing it again, alas, but hopefully, 2027…

Much to my delight, we're going to be visiting Edinburgh soon! So, bluesky, the most important question: best places to eat in Edinburgh? (you all had excellent recommendations for Glasgow!)

Mum gifted us a national trust membership as a wedding present and I am very ready to look at big trees 😁

yessssss bring on the jumpers

Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

Now we are post wedding I can go back to removing my mascara with abandon, caring not if I accidentally yank out bunches of eyelashes

Hard agree though I have a great fondness for Tehanu, which isn't subtle in its feminism but which I really needed as a teenager

I fell in love with The Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson, but it is dense and most of my friends don’t like it. Also loved The Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb.

Go back to the source, 18th Baron Dunsany. King of Elfland's Daughter or for a short read, The Kith of the Elf Folk (Not just saying that because I just illustrated it. I pitched the book because I love Lord Dunsany) also From The Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury.

M.A. Carrick's "Rook & Rose" trilogy (The Mask of Mirrors, The Liar's Knot, and Labyrinth's Heart). Adrian Tchaikovsky's Philosopher Kings series (starting with "City of Last Chances," which I felt showed his writing going up another level. Again.)

Patricia McKillip's Kingfisher; C.J. Cherryh's Fortress in the Eye of Time (and its sequels).

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E Harrow - gotta love witchy feminism

Pagans by James Alastair Henry is a banger.

Cinder House by Freya Marske, Once was Willem by M.R. Carey, The Etched City by K.J. Bishop, The Sword Garden by Peadar O' Guilin.

THE EVERLASTING (you knew that would be my answer!).

Slightly depends if super long is a problem for rekindling. But Robin Hobb - maybe Liveships trilogy (though the whole cycle is incredible) Yer man RJ Barker’s Mortedant’s Peril Tasha Suri The Jasmine Throne Earthsea Shannon Chakraborty’s City of Bras

The Year of Our War by Steph Swainston. A bunch of selfish ne'er do wells granted immortality by the emperor bicker and plot amongst themselves while leading mankind's fight for survival against an endless rapacious horde of horse-sized insects covering the land in their chewed-paper hives.