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Helen Stubbs
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Profile pic is 'pretending to trad climb'. Writer, creative & climber on the Aussie Gold Coast. She, her, they. Staerstone, my fantasy adventure novel (with climbing), coming in 2026 from IFWG Publishing. https://helenstubbs.wordpress.com
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Very exiting news for me…
A totally unique fantasy novel acquisition, by writer H.K. Stubbs: Staerstone!

ifwgpublishing.com/2025/01/28/n...
Awesome weekend of eating, editing & falling off things! Climbed the hardest climbs ever (right where I learned to lead 8 years ago!) and then did my first lot of edits for my novel *Staerstone* (IFWG Publishing). Wonder if I can still be climbing at twice this age? 🤔🤣
Climbing training day tomorrow! It’s a lead comp simulation, so we get to climb the routes and get feedback and then try them again. They’ll be hard cause everyone is climbing them: A, B, u19s & masters. Can’t wait to hang out with friends and get pumped

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They must have been climbing the bolt holes.
Is something funny going on with alt text? I added it but can’t see it.
This was an interesting boulder because most of us found it reachy at some
point. The third last hold is super positive, so I skip
the shitty second last hold.
I use it all the time, it’s like a super power!
Seriously? How…? 🤔 I’ve never experienced that.
Awesome climbing, view, everything!!! Is that a clip-stick hanging? Lol
In case you missed it, here’s my interview with debut fantasy author, Ellen Starsmore.
The amazing Helen Stubbs interviewed me for her blog a short while ago. We're celebrating the launch of Beyond the Humming Downs in paperback!

🌟 High fantasy with a dash of hopepunk, earth magic, forbidden love & all the feels. 🌟

#indiefantasy 📚🪐💙🩷🧙‍♂️⚔️
To celebrate the arrival of the paperback version of Beyond the Humming Downs, I’m delighted to host the fabulous Ellen Starsmore on my blog, to talk about the launch of her debut novel. She talks about process, world building and more!
This was a noice hard climb!
You're the amazing one! I've included that great pic of you and Beyond the Humming Downs at the park, now, too. It was genuinely fascinating to hear about your process and how deep your world building has been, though I think that's one of the things that makes the novel so rich.
@ellenstarsmore.bsky.social <=This is Ellen if you’d like to follow her or find out more about her writing.
Jacarandas don’t suck. Run around like an idiot, it’s fun.
Pretty tired today… we had a storm that fried our subwoofer so it started banging at 2am and then I was awake for hours…
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"To be a good scientist, I have to take emotions out of work. Still, I would say looking at this data, when I allow myself to connect to it emotionally, then I am afraid. This really scares me,” she said."
Wow! Wish I could do something similar… smaller … but my skiing is shite and I don’t like unroped summit climbing… so I’ll just live vicariously through braver, stronger, skillder people
Who looks through their spam folder and says ‘I’ll take a jacuzzi in a remodelled bathroom, three types of insurance, a travel credit card, and some viagra’? And *why* is eharmony spamming me? Whyyyyyyyyyyyy
This is the alt text: I’m climbing an indoor orange boulder. It’s overhung, and the holds are long and flat with smooth worm-like cracks in them. Initially, I put my fingers into those to pull myself up. Then I put my right foot out onto a volume and use jugs, or big holds, to finish the climb.
Commentary 🤣:
Woohoo!
Yewww!
Yeah.
Nicely done.
I’m so high up, fuck.
Nice!
Kyu.
Good stuff, well done.
I’m drunk now. 🤣

This was really hard, the top especially, throwing for holds and having to latch them.

Love the vibe in my boulder gym, climbers are so friendly and supportive.
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
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They are on the toast, not in it. :)
Mmm baked beans in toast for lunch. Does everyone all around the world eat baked beans? I’m pretty sure British do… I think they’re navy beans. 🤔