Kate Orman

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I think this is my very favourite story in the collection. Deliciously strange!

I'm having a lovely time at my blog, posting quotes about writing, and wittering on about my novel in progress and the craft in general. Come and have a sticky, especially if you have any questions about your own writing! kateorman.wordpress.com #writing

This is happening! “Who Am I?” officially releases on October 30 in ebook and paperback on our website and from online retailers globally. #sapphicbooks #smallpress

TN librarian Luanne James, fired for refusing to move children's queer books into the adult section, is bringing a federal suit against the censors. I hope she kicks their collective ass from here to next Wednesday. www.gofundme.com/f/fsg98-help...

COVER REVEAL! The amazing @annalisejensen.bsky.social worked on this, along with @ellatholmes.bsky.social, and the result is astounding. It truly captures the essence of the book we and all the contributors created. Here is 'Who Am I? Sapphic Speculative Fiction of Identity & Purpose! So proud. 📚🪐

For years my Wordpress has just been for announcements, but I've started properly blogging there about writing -- what I'm writing, the craft itself, etc. Fer yer interest: kateorman.wordpress.com

I'm in this! 😁 Put my rusty biology degree to good use, or rather, bad use. ellatholmes.com/why-arent-yo...

Meet Lia - she’s a succubus in a symbiotic relationship with the city she prowls in, trying to save the woman she loves from a desperate bargain with a demon. Meet her in the @scyllapublishing.bsky.social anthology “Who Am I?”. Thanks @kholbatar.bsky.social for the pic straight from my brain!

Popping in to commend to you this thoroughly interesting read: rimonhadassah.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...

The cruel punchline. Australia's usual solution: go and die somewhere else.

The dogpile is increasingly distressing. Too many times, *I've* been the fan whose unwise words have loosed the dogs. *I've* been the person about whom it is permissible to say anything you like. In the dogpile, you show everyone your ugliest face. Blocking isn't helping. Time for a Bluesky break.

When the guvmint brought in a law forcing ISPs to retain a record of what Web sites we visit, I installed a VPN, purely to give them the finger. Recently I've been using NordVPN. Now that I've switched it off, my laptop has stopped constantly crashing. 🤦‍♀️

Another day, another YouTuber unsubscribed from for pimping AI *if there was a middle finger emoji it would be here*

No national ban on "conversion therapy", no protection for intersex kids against unnecessary surgery, amongst other failures.

It's Disability Pride Month? yay *falls over*

I'm intrigued by the idea that women's categories were added to sports not to encourage women to participate, but to avoid any risk of men sometimes being beaten by women.

Just saw someone use a metaphor to make a point, and someone else contest the metaphor instead of the point, and now I'm going crazy trying to remember a quote like "all right, so most metaphors don't stand up to close examination". The Young Ones? TNG?

As a target for bullies, whose big mouth has sometimes outraged people, I want to post a word of caution. When you react with shock, hurt, anger -- those are natural human feelings. When you egg each other on, sitting in judgement on the worth of someone you know nothing about -- -- I see you.

BREAKING: Pride Month Extended Indefinitely

I'm hijacking Ian's post to show you the state I was in when I wrote most of my Doctor Who novels.

What I'm enjoying are landscapes of my childhood -- all those long driving holidays on dodgy, narrow country roads, past reflector posts and yellow fields.

Watching Mad Max (1979). It would suck being Mrs Max, waiting to get fridged or have a line of dialogue, whichever comes first.

Dr West described a rash guess as "temerarious"! What a word! "Marked by temerity"!

"... the text presents so many oddities that the reader is reduced to the conclusion that the writer was simply baffled by much of the text which he was supposed to be translating." -- Classical scholar Stephanie West, in 1969, about Richard Reitzenstein's 1923 translation of the legend of Tefnut

EOFY looms and the charity begging emails are coming thick and fast

Thanks, God

I thought this was funny for one and a half seconds.

Oh good heavens!

A strange cosmic power has descended upon me. I can reorder the videos in a YouTube playlist on my phone.

Well -- thank you very much, Penelope. 💐

This is so well-put! I thought of our ancestors, the weak little monkeys who had to work together or die, had to understand each others' minds and hearts. Cooperation was a virtue, cheating was a profound crime. I think they'd recognise these "no empathy!" individuals as the cheats they are.

I'm starting to feel sorry for all those poor women whose self-introductions everyone skips as they Jump To Recipe. "Hi! I'm -- oh well, enjoy the soup."

"Intelligent Design"

Can you guys believe we are now 2/3 of the way through the submission window for @scyllapublishing.bsky.social's The Monstrous and the Divine? Neither can we! If you've been keeping track of what we have so far and what we still want, look no further because the next round up is right over here:

Ella's intro to Why Aren't You Dead Yet? is great. COVID made me bolshie about chronic illness; now here's the politics of disability as portrayed on page and screen. (Surely someone's done a cracker of an essay about this and Doctor Who!) Next on the reading pile: a couple of pieces by mates.

What's it like inside your head? (I just can't find a GIF from Vibes of Jeff Goldblum saying "Great! First I'm stabbed, now I'm bleeding!")

I’m building a team.

I chortled at this