Where were you when the world stopped turning?
Idrilia wasn't born yet but she still feels the effects. Her home, now a desert wasteland, instigated edicts. She loathes #5- Protect Against Loss of Number as its led to a betrothal she doesn't want to one of her best friends. www.ethereacycle.com #books #bookstodon #fantasybooks #author

What’s better than fresh Fall air, books, and live music? Stop by Quarry Walk, in Oxford, CT September 23rd and say hi and get signed copies of my books.
#books #reading #author #Connecticut #scifi

#art #history:
that old quandary - nature or nurture - has been rankling the human race for as long as we've existed...or from the second generation, at least. if you think you've fixed your ideas on the subject, you may not be familiar with the mitford sisters.
buckle up for this thread about the hellaciously good mitford sister, decca. [a hefty thread]
#deccaMitford #jessicaMitford #illustration #portrait #author #activist #communism #muckraker #journalist

Travel broadens the mind--and sometimes fells the body. My latest poem from Italy. https://medium.com/scrittura/felled-in-amalfi-476770ed3e75 #poetry #poem #writer #poet #author

Assuming we survive climate change, how will the world be fed in 2100?

#Reader #Readers #Discussion #WritersofMastodon #Writers #Authors #Writer #Author #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Future #Food

Catch the latest piece on my #author blog...

https://tykewriter.wordpress.com/2023/09/11/grab-whatever-you-fancy-off-the-shelf/

#literature #books #festivals #authors #readers #Sheffield #Yorkshire

I was talking to a grade school teacher the other day who, in the course of very casually said, “I was reading your #Tarot book (referring to A Guide to Tarot Card Readings) on my break the other day, and it made me think about…”

I'm still on a high from that moment. One of the best things about being an #author is experiencing the unique hospitality involved in having my words be invited into other people's heads.

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting

#ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions with Guy Hale #author of All The World’s a Stage | @HaleWrites @KellyALacey @LoveBooksTours | #LBTCrew #BookTwitter

Guy Hale is joining me today to answer my #ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions about his latest novel, All The World's a Stage. This is the final book in his Comeback Trail trilogy. Tell me THREE things about your latest novel Jimmy Wayne has now become a huge star and the book follows his tour through Europe. Seems pretty…

http://portobellobookblog.com/2023/09/11/threetwoone-quickfire-questions-with-guy-hale-author-of-all-the-worlds-a-stage-halewrites-kellyalacey-lovebookstours-lbtcrew-booktwitter/

So, my battle with Google is ongoing. I self publish the book under my pen name everywhere, so how am I going to provide any of this?

I mean, I can draft a document that says I hold the copyright but that would have zero validity.

I put up a page on my author site showing my real name and they ignored that 🤦‍♂️

#WritingCommunity #author

I'm looking for an #author to kick off a monthly interview series when I get the new site launched.

Someone who is ready to get a little silly or a little geeky while still getting a chance to promote their work.

#WritingCommunity All #SpecFic genre writers welcome

Any takers?

Taken this day, 2022, Maggie O'Farrell in conversation with Sam at @TheEdinburghBookshop https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/52358341308/

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield #books #livres #photography #MaggieOFarrell #SamBaker #author #BookLaunch

Hunted by monsters. Wanted for questioning. Late for class.

Your occasional reminder that COMANCHE is available wherever fine books are sold. Support #IndieWriters and #IndiePublishers.

#writingcommunity #writerslift #Writers #Writer #author #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writersoftwitter #AuthorsOfTwitter #fiction #fictionbooks #fictionwriter #youngadult #horror #superheroes #Arkansas

Today in Writing History September 10, 1960: Alison Bechdel, American author and illustrator was born. She is most famous for her “Dykes to Watch Out For,” comic strip. And for her “Bechdel Test,” originally intended as a joke in one of her comics, but which has since become a routine metric used by critics as an indicator for the active presence of women in a film.

#WorkingClass #lgbtq #lgbtqia #AlisonBechdel #women #feminism #DykesToWatchOutFor #comics #artist #writer #author #books @bookstadon

Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. Today, C.J. Baty stops by the hot seat with her latest queer historical mystery Not Again:

Do you ever base your characters on real people?

C.J. Baty: Oh, yes! I didn’t have any pitfalls. They loved it. The Pinkerton Man book ‘Aces Up’ which is based on an old west poker game takes place in a saloon. All the women who worked in the saloon were based on the...

https://www.jscottcoatsworth.com/author-spotlight-c-j-baty-2/

#AuthorSpotlight #Interview #Author #Writer #Writers #WritersofMastodon

When I’m not writing, I’m swording. Today, I managed 2nd place in my club’s spring sabre tournament. Not too shabby for an old man.
FYI: I have a new sci-fi novel coming out soon.
#hema #sabre #saber #fencing #author #scifi #sciencefiction #Fantasy

For #SciFiSunday let's share your favourite magic systems in science fiction! I thoroughly enjoyed building the subspace manipulation in Reborn, but what else is there? (That isn't the Force in Star Wars).
#WritingCommunity #scifi #author

"What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way."

Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 – August 13, 1934) was a prolific novelist, poet, critic, and playwright, as well as an early feminist, conservationist, and defender of Native American and Spanish-American rights and culture.

https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/books-media/mary-austin-mojave-nature-writer/

#Author #Feminist #activists #Environmentalists

Today in Labor History September 9, 1828: Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright was born. He is most famous for novels like Anna Karina, and War and Peace. He chose the name for the latter after reading French anarchist Proudhon’s publication called War and Peace. Tolstoy also wrote many short stories, an autobiography and many works of nonfiction. After witnessing a public execution in 1857, he wrote: "The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens ... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere." In the 1870s, he experienced a profound spiritual awakening, which led him to become a Christian anarchist and pacifist, and which he wrote about in his non-fiction work Confession (1882). He also wrote about nonviolent resistance in The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894), which influenced Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Wittgenstein. He was repeatedly nominated for Nobel prizes in both literature and peace.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #pacifism #peace #tolstoy #gandhi #MartinLutherKing #NobelPrize #literature #fiction #books #author #writer #russia @bookstadon

I'm trying to name my new character and I like Xenia, but apparently it's pronounced Zee-nya not Zen-ia like I want, because I plan to shorten it to Xen. Maybe if I add an n, so Xennia? Or should I just pronounce Xenia wrong?

#WritingCommunity #author #AmWriting

A couple copies to pass out to local folks. Fun seeing a full stack of the book. Helps solidify that its actually a real thing and that publishing this wasn't just a fever dream!

@bookstodon
#writing #writers #writinglife #writingcommunity #writersofmastodon #amwriting #bookstodon #author