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Juliet E McKenna
@julietemckenna.bsky.social
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Writes epic and contemporary fantasy novels along with varied shorter fiction. She/her. All opinions absolutely my own. For more, see www.julietemckenna.com
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · Jan 3
Hello to new folk. I write epic and contemporary fantasy novels along with varied shorter fiction. For more about the books, see www.julietemckenna.com All opinions I express online are absolutely my own. I boost what looks like good reading and interesting things. I block intolerance and aggression
Juliet E McKenna Publications in 2024 The Green Man’s War Novel – Wizard’s Tower Press Different Times and Other Places Collection – Newcon Press Unseen Hands Novelette – Ampyrium ZNB LLC A Civil War Short story – Fight Like A Girl Volume 2 Wizard’s Tower Press The Green Man’s Guest Short story – Different Times and Other Places Newcon Press A Stitch in Time Saves One Short story – Different Times and Other Places Newcon Press
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Amanda Rutter @alrutter.bsky.social · 35m
The words "guilty pleasure" don't exist with books. No guilt, just pleasure. Books are there to enjoy.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1h
Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.
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Tim Lebbon @timlebbon.bsky.social · 9h
HAPPY PUB DAY to @nuzo.bsky.social #Africanhorror, #Magicalrealism novel, FUTILITY. She's a great writer and a wonderful human, so go get yours now!

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Futility
Crackling with wit, this is a monstrous, gleeful, bitingly funny tale of murder, body-swapping and bloody vengeance from the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award ® for Lifetime Achievement and ‘Queen of...
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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 5h
It's new book day! The Lychford Collection, containing the first three books, is in all good bookstores, physical and digital, now! (And I'll have copies at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social !)
Cover of The Lychford Collection.
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Barry Hill @bishopbarry.bsky.social · 8h
With confirmation in the last few days that extreme weather has meant England has suffered it's second worst harvest on record (so now three of the worst five have been in the last five years) may we hold the farming community in our prayers and care #ADifferentKindOfHarvestFestival
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 6h
"quarter of the typical energy bill in 2024 was profit. That is equivalent to every household paying £416 a year so other people can grow rich. The water industry tells a similar story. Almost a third of the average bill goes towards funding shareholder dividends and interest payments."
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6h
Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence
Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence
A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank
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CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 6h
My retelling of The Tinderbox -- Thief Mage, Beggar Mage -- is on kindle for 99p, if weird lush stuff about queer mages and clockwork magic and dragons is your jam:

www.amazon.co.uk/Thief-Mage-B...
Thief Mage, Beggar Mage (The Beggar Mage Cycle)
Buy Thief Mage, Beggar Mage (The Beggar Mage Cycle) by Hellisen, Cat (ISBN: 9781739685133) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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Ernie @justawriterwriting.bsky.social · 5d
Currently reading The Cracked Mirror by @brookmyre.bsky.social

Basically “what would a joint investigation between Connelly’s Harry Bosch and Christie’s Miss Marple look like.”

And I have to say it’s one of the most fun books I’ve ever read.

It feels like it was written just for me.

10/10
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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 8h
Man of the people, anti-establishment, courageous self sacrifice etc
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d
Claims he's just a regular journalist doing his journalising on behalf of the silent millions... checks out for me..
Tommy Robinson stopped at border driving Bentley with thousands in cash' Far-Right activist insulted police officers after being arrested for refusing to give them pin to his phone, court hears
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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 9h
Well doesn't this look grand.

In the Radio Times and everything.

My mum would have been well chuffed and to some degree making up for the disappointment of not becoming the second English Pope.

We published in 2019.

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BBC One - Leonard and Hungry Paul, Series 1, Episode 1
Leonard begins to open up his world with the help of his best friend, Hungry Paul.
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SJ Groenewegen @sjgroenewegen.co.uk · 8h
Curious about Eastercon Iridescence but not sure your finances can stretch for you to attend? Check out the bursary scheme (details in the quoted post and link) and don’t self-reject.
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Iridescence - The 2026 Eastercon @easterconuk.bsky.social · 8h
Reminder to all Iridescence Bursary Scheme First deadline: 31 October 2025

Need support with attending Iridescence? We’ve got a bursary scheme to help.

The scheme is open to anyone in the UK or Ireland.

Full details and the application form can be found here
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Bursary Scheme Policy | Iridescence
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Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 8h
The 3rd and final part of my piece on constructing childhood in Tolkien’s legendarium is now out, this time focusing on hobbit childhoods and hobbits *as* children.
@uofgfantasy.bsky.social @tolkiensociety.org
#TolkienTuesday
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Constructions of Childhood in Tolkien’s Legendarium (3): The hobbits as children
This is the third part of a longer piece on constructions of childhood in Tolkien’s legendarium.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d
My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 9h
Weird anxiety dreams, and wisp of leftover thought:

If you hear someone ranting about another person, over and over, raging about the things they've done and how evil they are...

...kindly make your own decision.

Sometimes, that ranting says more about the speaker than it does about their subject
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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 9h
We have an early update today because Cheryl will be offline most of the day. She's at the Senedd, so today we are talking about the law code of Hywel Dda. www.kickstarter.com/...
The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd). The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left. Art by Josh Arklin.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 9h
‘96% of healthcare professionals said the model helps to reduce children’s anxiety, and 46% reported a lesser need to use sedation after the children played with the set.‘

‘Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world.’
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 9h
How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...
How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment
Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.
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Katharine Kit Kerr @kitkerr.bsky.social · 11h
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15h
The answer to "how does [author] hold up?" is always "for whom?" Bester holds up fine to me, but I'm a 56-year-old white dude who has a vested interest in the genre. My take on his hold-uppedness will be different than, say, a 15-year-old BIPOC girl approaching science fiction for the first time.
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Publius Maximus @publiusmaximus.bsky.social · 15h
How does Alfred Bester hold up?
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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 21h
For anyone in Bath tomorrow (Tues 14th) come along to Topping Books to hear me & @odavies9.bsky.social talk #Folklore www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/bath/...
Folklore: A Journey Through the Past and Present at Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3d
This week on the blog: More Peasants!

This week, we're modeling the full(ish) structure of women's labor in a pre-industrial peasant household, very roughly assessing the work required for textiles, farming, cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc.

Now with pie chart!

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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVe: The No-Rest Of It
This is the fifth dish of the fourth course of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers, who made up a majority of all of the humans who…
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 1d
As a temporary fix, perhaps.
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 1d
It turns out the one of the two microphones on my mobile phone handset which is required for taking and making phone calls has failed. So I now have a bit of tech which can do all sorts of things but not perform its primary function. This is extremely unhelpful, this week of all weeks.
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Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 1d
It has been a bit quiet today. I know yesterday was very good, but we are not funded yet so I am going to have to keep pestering you until we are. If you have already backed it, why not share it with your friends? www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...
They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd)
An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore
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World Fantasy 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social · 1d
It is currently Black History Month in the United Kingdom. Britain’s past as an empire and slave trader meant that many people of colour came to Brighton, but the earliest we know of were free professionals who made lives for themselves as important members of Brighton Society.
Brighton & Hove Black History | Revealing Brighton and Hove’s hidden past
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Dan Coxon @dancoxon.bsky.social · 1d
Here's a thing I wrote for Writing.ie about our new book WRITING THE MAGIC, and some of our top tips for writing fantasy fiction. A quick two-minute read - although obviously you should read the whole book...

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#fantasy
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 1d
Precisely.
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