Rosemarie Cawkwell/Everything Is Better With Dragons book review
@betterdragons.bsky.social
Reader and writer of fantasy and sci fi, reviewer of mostly sci-fi and fantasy, some crime, and non-fiction. Butler to a rescue feline called Phoenix. Collector of books, yarn, and dragon stuffies. Neurodivergent and Queer. Based in Lincolnshire.
Review: Silence of the Dead, by Marks Ewington
Publisher Independently publishedPublication date 5 Aug. 2025Language EnglishPrint length 284 pagesISBN-13 979-8284534489 BOOK DESCRIPTION Murder has come to the city of Tronte... Holtar didn’t become a necromancer for the prestige—he did it because…
Publisher Independently publishedPublication date 5 Aug. 2025Language EnglishPrint length 284 pagesISBN-13 979-8284534489 BOOK DESCRIPTION Murder has come to the city of Tronte... Holtar didn’t become a necromancer for the prestige—he did it because…
Review: Silence of the Dead, by Marks Ewington
Publisher Independently publishedPublication date 5 Aug. 2025Language EnglishPrint length 284 pagesISBN-13 979-8284534489 BOOK DESCRIPTION Murder has come to the city of Tronte... Holtar didn’t become a necromancer for the prestige—he did it because talking to the dead is marginally easier than dealing with the living. Unfortunately, his latest case has given him a fresh problem: the corpses aren’t talking.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Review: Silence of the Dead, by Marks Ewington
Publisher Independently publishedPublication date 5 Aug. 2025Language EnglishPrint length 284 pagesISBN-13 979-8284534489 BOOK DESCRIPTION Murder has come to the city of Tronte... Holtar didn’t become a necromancer for the prestige—he did it because…
Publisher Independently publishedPublication date 5 Aug. 2025Language EnglishPrint length 284 pagesISBN-13 979-8284534489 BOOK DESCRIPTION Murder has come to the city of Tronte... Holtar didn’t become a necromancer for the prestige—he did it because…
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“Populism, as I see it, is the 99% versus the 1% — the working majority against a tiny elite that has taken our power and wealth.”
Green Party Leader Zack Polanski speaks to CNN about hope, unity and taking on billionaire-backed politics.
Green Party Leader Zack Polanski speaks to CNN about hope, unity and taking on billionaire-backed politics.
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“Populism, as I see it, is the 99% versus the 1% — the working majority against a tiny elite that has taken our power and wealth.”
Green Party Leader Zack Polanski speaks to CNN about hope, unity and taking on billionaire-backed politics.
Green Party Leader Zack Polanski speaks to CNN about hope, unity and taking on billionaire-backed politics.
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"A small tax on [multimillionaires and billionaires] would make a big difference to the money we have available."
Ahead of next week's Budget, @adrianramsay.bsky.social makes the case for taxing the wealth of the richest in society to fund our public services.
Ahead of next week's Budget, @adrianramsay.bsky.social makes the case for taxing the wealth of the richest in society to fund our public services.
November 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"A small tax on [multimillionaires and billionaires] would make a big difference to the money we have available."
Ahead of next week's Budget, @adrianramsay.bsky.social makes the case for taxing the wealth of the richest in society to fund our public services.
Ahead of next week's Budget, @adrianramsay.bsky.social makes the case for taxing the wealth of the richest in society to fund our public services.
I have spent today typing up multiple chapters of the star dragon investigation novella, and wrote an epilogue. There are 29,670 words in what was supposed to be a short 5000 word story. All the chapters are available here. This is 2nd draft.
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Maria and the Star-Dragons: The Aurox Adventure
I’ve decided that if you’re trying to find all the chapters for this novella, it’ll be easier if they’re all in one place. This is that place. (Yes, the images are WordPress…
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November 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I have spent today typing up multiple chapters of the star dragon investigation novella, and wrote an epilogue. There are 29,670 words in what was supposed to be a short 5000 word story. All the chapters are available here. This is 2nd draft.
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Maria and the Star-Dragons: Epilogue
Epilogue – A month (I.G.A.S.S. Standard) later, on Ascend Maria flopped on to xyr settee, drained from spending all day on a video call giving evidence in the trial of the former human governor of Aurox. For a week xe’d been giving depositions against the…
Epilogue – A month (I.G.A.S.S. Standard) later, on Ascend Maria flopped on to xyr settee, drained from spending all day on a video call giving evidence in the trial of the former human governor of Aurox. For a week xe’d been giving depositions against the…
Maria and the Star-Dragons: Epilogue
Epilogue – A month (I.G.A.S.S. Standard) later, on Ascend Maria flopped on to xyr settee, drained from spending all day on a video call giving evidence in the trial of the former human governor of Aurox. For a week xe’d been giving depositions against the regime on Aurox and their crimes, including the harassment Maria and Sahrai had received from Josh Dalton, the senior security officer.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Maria and the Star-Dragons: Epilogue
Epilogue – A month (I.G.A.S.S. Standard) later, on Ascend Maria flopped on to xyr settee, drained from spending all day on a video call giving evidence in the trial of the former human governor of Aurox. For a week xe’d been giving depositions against the…
Epilogue – A month (I.G.A.S.S. Standard) later, on Ascend Maria flopped on to xyr settee, drained from spending all day on a video call giving evidence in the trial of the former human governor of Aurox. For a week xe’d been giving depositions against the…
Maria and the Star Dragons: Chapter 20
Chapter 20 – Maria still among the Auroxians Maria listened to the conversation around xyr. Xe laughed quietly (for xyr) when Dr Suah Painen repeated the Auroxian saying about the jungle. “That’s one way of describing the vegetation around here.”
Chapter 20 – Maria still among the Auroxians Maria listened to the conversation around xyr. Xe laughed quietly (for xyr) when Dr Suah Painen repeated the Auroxian saying about the jungle. “That’s one way of describing the vegetation around here.”
Maria and the Star Dragons: Chapter 20
Chapter 20 – Maria still among the Auroxians Maria listened to the conversation around xyr. Xe laughed quietly (for xyr) when Dr Suah Painen repeated the Auroxian saying about the jungle. “That’s one way of describing the vegetation around here.”
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November 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Maria and the Star Dragons: Chapter 20
Chapter 20 – Maria still among the Auroxians Maria listened to the conversation around xyr. Xe laughed quietly (for xyr) when Dr Suah Painen repeated the Auroxian saying about the jungle. “That’s one way of describing the vegetation around here.”
Chapter 20 – Maria still among the Auroxians Maria listened to the conversation around xyr. Xe laughed quietly (for xyr) when Dr Suah Painen repeated the Auroxian saying about the jungle. “That’s one way of describing the vegetation around here.”
Maria and the Star-Dragons Chapter 19
Chapter 19: Dr Suah Painen’s adventures on Aurox Although a geologist by trade, Suah had been on enough new planets to have picked up basic skills in cultural analysis. Observing the Auroxians had been a distraction from the horror of events since arriving on…
Chapter 19: Dr Suah Painen’s adventures on Aurox Although a geologist by trade, Suah had been on enough new planets to have picked up basic skills in cultural analysis. Observing the Auroxians had been a distraction from the horror of events since arriving on…
Maria and the Star-Dragons Chapter 19
Chapter 19: Dr Suah Painen’s adventures on Aurox Although a geologist by trade, Suah had been on enough new planets to have picked up basic skills in cultural analysis. Observing the Auroxians had been a distraction from the horror of events since arriving on Aurox. She shuddered, remembering the day the research party had been attacked.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Maria and the Star-Dragons Chapter 19
Chapter 19: Dr Suah Painen’s adventures on Aurox Although a geologist by trade, Suah had been on enough new planets to have picked up basic skills in cultural analysis. Observing the Auroxians had been a distraction from the horror of events since arriving on…
Chapter 19: Dr Suah Painen’s adventures on Aurox Although a geologist by trade, Suah had been on enough new planets to have picked up basic skills in cultural analysis. Observing the Auroxians had been a distraction from the horror of events since arriving on…
Maria and the Star-Dragons: Chapter 18
Chapter 18 – Maria in the PFMs den Maria watched the frantic activity as Lah-Shah and his honour guard arrived at the den. “Come on Mrrh-waa, we’d better go and rescue him from your family.” Xe waited while the tablet translated for Mrrh-waa.
Chapter 18 – Maria in the PFMs den Maria watched the frantic activity as Lah-Shah and his honour guard arrived at the den. “Come on Mrrh-waa, we’d better go and rescue him from your family.” Xe waited while the tablet translated for Mrrh-waa.
Maria and the Star-Dragons: Chapter 18
Chapter 18 – Maria in the PFMs den Maria watched the frantic activity as Lah-Shah and his honour guard arrived at the den. “Come on Mrrh-waa, we’d better go and rescue him from your family.” Xe waited while the tablet translated for Mrrh-waa.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Maria and the Star-Dragons: Chapter 18
Chapter 18 – Maria in the PFMs den Maria watched the frantic activity as Lah-Shah and his honour guard arrived at the den. “Come on Mrrh-waa, we’d better go and rescue him from your family.” Xe waited while the tablet translated for Mrrh-waa.
Chapter 18 – Maria in the PFMs den Maria watched the frantic activity as Lah-Shah and his honour guard arrived at the den. “Come on Mrrh-waa, we’d better go and rescue him from your family.” Xe waited while the tablet translated for Mrrh-waa.
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White poppies were first produced in 1933 by the Co-operative Women's Guild, made up largely of women who had lost loved ones in World War One. They were worried by the growing militarisation of Remembrance events and what they saw as a detachment between the red poppy and the need to work for peace
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
White poppies were first produced in 1933 by the Co-operative Women's Guild, made up largely of women who had lost loved ones in World War One. They were worried by the growing militarisation of Remembrance events and what they saw as a detachment between the red poppy and the need to work for peace
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This poster appeared at a bus stop near Tesla's flagship London store overnight 👏
November 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This poster appeared at a bus stop near Tesla's flagship London store overnight 👏
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Changes or variants in the many genes that regulate the development of a testis or ovary can result in sex reversal or a non-functioning testis or ovary
Andrew Sinclair:”mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know I discovered the relevant gene in 1990”
Andrew Sinclair:”mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know I discovered the relevant gene in 1990”
Using SRY to establish biological sex is wrong because all it tells you is whether or not the gene is present.
It does not tell you how SRY is functioning, whether a testis has formed, whether T is produced and, if so, whether it can be used by the body
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It does not tell you how SRY is functioning, whether a testis has formed, whether T is produced and, if so, whether it can be used by the body
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Andrew Sinclair: "World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990" - InterAction
Andrew Sinclair, Deputy Director of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, writes on the introduction of mandatory genetic testing of women athletes by World Athletics.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Changes or variants in the many genes that regulate the development of a testis or ovary can result in sex reversal or a non-functioning testis or ovary
Andrew Sinclair:”mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know I discovered the relevant gene in 1990”
Andrew Sinclair:”mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know I discovered the relevant gene in 1990”
I started feeling ill last Saturday late afternoon, properly ill. I thought it was an allergic reaction to something in the room I was in and exhaustion. So I went back to my hotel. I woke up Sunday morning with a thick, wet cough, feeling sick and exhausted.
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I started feeling ill last Saturday late afternoon, properly ill. I thought it was an allergic reaction to something in the room I was in and exhaustion. So I went back to my hotel. I woke up Sunday morning with a thick, wet cough, feeling sick and exhausted.
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I made a graphic that people might understand better.
March 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I made a graphic that people might understand better.
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I've developed this helpful sign for people who haven't done the reading.
December 23, 2024 at 10:27 AM
I've developed this helpful sign for people who haven't done the reading.
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Link was banned for making a seemingly off the cuff joke that was clearly not inciting violence. Really shameful that you didn’t reinstate him @safety.bsky.app @moderation.bsky.app. Embarrassing for you, especially with the amount of accusations of racism you’ve had.
“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?
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Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link
We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.
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November 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Link was banned for making a seemingly off the cuff joke that was clearly not inciting violence. Really shameful that you didn’t reinstate him @safety.bsky.app @moderation.bsky.app. Embarrassing for you, especially with the amount of accusations of racism you’ve had.
I am miffed that on the last day of @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social I'm too ill to attend. I was going to wear my dress! But coughing and vomiting at the banquet and awards my cause upset. Plus, I don't want to give whatever I've got to other people.
November 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I am miffed that on the last day of @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social I'm too ill to attend. I was going to wear my dress! But coughing and vomiting at the banquet and awards my cause upset. Plus, I don't want to give whatever I've got to other people.
Despatches from World Fantasy Con 2025: day 2 Friday 31st October 2025
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Despatches from World Fantasy Con 2025: day 2 Friday 31st October 2025
Today I was on my first panel, The Way We’re Wired, about neurodivergence in fantasy. The moderator was David Green, and the other two panellists were Janet Forbes from World Anvil and indie…
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November 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Despatches from World Fantasy Con 2025: day 2 Friday 31st October 2025
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World Fantasy Con 2025: Day 1
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World Fantasy Con 2025: Day 1
I have registered, I have my goodie bag, and I have been to the dealers room. I wasn’t planning to buy anything today, but I gave in and spent lots of pennies visiting the FlameTree Pre…
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October 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
World Fantasy Con 2025: Day 1
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Out now: Magic, Maps, and Mischief 🦉
Read it for:
- strong autistic and ADHD rep 🎉
- queernorm world 😍
- themes of acceptance, kindness and the different kinds of love ☺️
- cozy, feel-good vibes ❤️
Shares greatly appreciated 😁 hope you enjoy the book!
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Read it for:
- strong autistic and ADHD rep 🎉
- queernorm world 😍
- themes of acceptance, kindness and the different kinds of love ☺️
- cozy, feel-good vibes ❤️
Shares greatly appreciated 😁 hope you enjoy the book!
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October 24, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Out now: Magic, Maps, and Mischief 🦉
Read it for:
- strong autistic and ADHD rep 🎉
- queernorm world 😍
- themes of acceptance, kindness and the different kinds of love ☺️
- cozy, feel-good vibes ❤️
Shares greatly appreciated 😁 hope you enjoy the book!
mybook.to/magicmapsand...
Read it for:
- strong autistic and ADHD rep 🎉
- queernorm world 😍
- themes of acceptance, kindness and the different kinds of love ☺️
- cozy, feel-good vibes ❤️
Shares greatly appreciated 😁 hope you enjoy the book!
mybook.to/magicmapsand...
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The next book on my review list is Moojag and the Auticode Secret by N.E. McMorran.
I met Nem, the author, at @autscape.org in August and bought the first two Moojag books for my cousin's kids, and I've got book three on pre-order. She's lovely and autistic. We talked about writing/publishing.
I met Nem, the author, at @autscape.org in August and bought the first two Moojag books for my cousin's kids, and I've got book three on pre-order. She's lovely and autistic. We talked about writing/publishing.
October 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The next book on my review list is Moojag and the Auticode Secret by N.E. McMorran.
I met Nem, the author, at @autscape.org in August and bought the first two Moojag books for my cousin's kids, and I've got book three on pre-order. She's lovely and autistic. We talked about writing/publishing.
I met Nem, the author, at @autscape.org in August and bought the first two Moojag books for my cousin's kids, and I've got book three on pre-order. She's lovely and autistic. We talked about writing/publishing.
New ARC review: Queen of the Dead, by Sarah Broadway, published by @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social 25th November 2025
I liked this one, Lou and her found family need more adventures together.
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I liked this one, Lou and her found family need more adventures together.
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ARC Review: Queen of the Dead, by Sarah Broadway
25th November 2025 | PB | 9781915998927 | £9.99/$18.99 |Also available in ebook | Fiction | Fantasy | Paranormal ABOUT THE BOOK: Conversing with the dead is nothing new for Lou. It’s a curse she’s …
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October 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
New ARC review: Queen of the Dead, by Sarah Broadway, published by @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social 25th November 2025
I liked this one, Lou and her found family need more adventures together.
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I liked this one, Lou and her found family need more adventures together.
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Phoenix had a run in with the interloper that has been coming into the house and eating her food, and messing in her garden. There was some cat-shouting and then they sauntered away from each other when I went out to see what was going on.
October 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Phoenix had a run in with the interloper that has been coming into the house and eating her food, and messing in her garden. There was some cat-shouting and then they sauntered away from each other when I went out to see what was going on.