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Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · Sep 3

I have a story in this! Hope you'll give edwardian lesbian ghost-hunters solve a short spooky mystery a try!

Luna Station Quarterly @lunastation.bsky.social · Sep 2

The new issue is out! We are storytelling animals, always have been, always will be. This issue is proof that stories still mean something in our world.

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#ShortStories #WomenWriters #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Books #Reading #Writing #Magazines

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Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · May 10

Inspired by trying to get most people to read Mariana Enriquez' Dangers of Smoking In Bed (and A Sunny Place for Shady People, which I'm halfway through)

Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · May 10

Tried to describe "they came back wrong" trope to someone who not v literary and they were like "wrong how?" and I was like "well...just wrong...they were them but not them" and we went round like this while I felt increasingly crazy, which I feel like is the plot of a "they came back wrong" story

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · Apr 3

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

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Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · Apr 8

I think it really gives a sense of expansiveness and wonder. I also think I’ve read a lot of fantasy recently where the whole world is Worked Out In Great Detail and it was fun to read something where it feels the characters are exploring alongside you! (And the characters are great)

Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · Apr 8

The books aptly get a lot of praise for the world building, but I don't think that quite captures it. The world is HUGE and extremely full, so it truly feels the characters also don't know what's around the next corner

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Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · Apr 8

I finished Habours of the Sun today after SPEEDING through the Raksura books in under a week, and wow what a great ride, I love a series so rich and full you truly don't feel you surface from the world, even when you're not actively reading

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Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · Apr 2

Had a long flight yesterday and picked up the Books of the Raksure from my long list of "having been meaning to read" and am only annoyed I didn't pick these up earlier because i am obsessed and enjoying it so much!! What a great world and Moon is such a great main character

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Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · Apr 1

Friends, please allow me to be the person who bullies you into reading Hild so I have more people to TALK TO ABOUT IT

Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · Apr 1

Yesss brilliant news and so well deserved

Nicola Griffith @nicolaz.bsky.social · Apr 1

So. Well. This is news so enormous it's ungraspable: I am SFWA's 41st Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master. I don't know what to say. In lieu of brains-match-mouth coherence, here's a press release. I am overwhelmed.

Shock. Joy. And O. MY. GOD.

Sometimes news is so enormous I just don't know what to do with it, even—especially—when it's fabulous. I am overwhelmed.

nicolagriffith.com

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Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · Mar 30

Big thanks to everyone from @spectrumwriters.com that helped me improve this earlier this year ⚔️⚔️

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Swords & Sorcery Magazine @curtissandsm.bsky.social · Mar 30

"Shield of the Glasslaw" by Isobel Mackenzie
swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/shield-of-th...

Shield of the Glasslaw – Swords & Sorcery Magazine

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Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · Mar 30

Very excited to have a story in this edition of Swords & Sorcery!

Swords & Sorcery Magazine @curtissandsm.bsky.social · Mar 30

"Shield of the Glasslaw" by Isobel Mackenzie
swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/shield-of-th...

Shield of the Glasslaw – Swords & Sorcery Magazine

swordsandsorcerymagazine.com

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Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · Mar 7

Not my usual writing stuff but I play ice hockey in North London and help run our team and england ice hockey just annouced a ban on trans players out of nowhere with no consultation with teams. Please help us fight it by commenting your opposition here! www.instagram.com/p/DG5pOpDqNR...

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Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · Mar 7

Not my usual writing stuff but I play ice hockey in North London and help run our team and england ice hockey just annouced a ban on trans players out of nowhere with no consultation with teams. Please help us fight it by commenting your opposition here! www.instagram.com/p/DG5pOpDqNR...

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Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · Mar 1

sent out another story to a market today! My goal is to have 5 out at once, which means I am in a secret race with every editor I sub whoops

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Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · Feb 24

A good writing weekend all in all. Made progress on the novel, not in tons of wordcount but a mental breakthrough on this scene I'm editing, sent a story away to a market, have a second story ready for a market that opens march 1st, and working on a third! 💪💪

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Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · Feb 22

We simply do not make fantasy covers like this anymore and we need to.

Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · Feb 22

My Formative Epic Fantasy Series has always been Janny Wurts & Raymond Feists' mistress of the empire books, which are definitely problematic faves in retrospect but nonetheless very formative. I've had the first and third in paperback for ages & have finally managed to get my hands on the second!

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Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · Feb 21

Editing marathon FINISHED I am FREE (until the next piece...)

Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · Feb 21

Editing and this is the soundtrack. Save me from this torture goth pop. open.spotify.com/album/3YmHgq...

Girl With No Face (Deluxe)

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Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · Feb 19

Anyone really keen for
- sword and sorcery but mostly swords "single person of honour in the halls of power" vibe, lots of action scenes and oaths! Honour! Personal quests!
- lesbian edwardian ghost hunting?

Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · Feb 19

Goal this week is finish editing TWO stories and get them subbed somewhere 💪💪both of these stories have been close to finished for ages and I need to just them over the line

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Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · Feb 18

Second favourite part is when they go to investigate a normal crime and Scully is doing like, real police work, and Mulder is interviewing sasquatch or something. Perfect every time.

Izzy M @isobelwords.bsky.social · Feb 18

I have been steadily working my way through X-Files and I am fascinated by a procedural where (at least in season 1) the investigators rarely, if ever, solve ANYTHING.

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