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Laura Blackwell (she/her)

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Sure, Story Hour moves to YouTube this week, but we still have awesome writers reading us their stories. Like Effie Seiberg, who’s read for us many times—and Erin Roberts, making her Story Hour debut! Join us Wednesday at 7:00 PDT! The things that matter will always be the same. @effies #StoryHour2020 #ShortStories #ShortFiction #AuthorReading #FantasyFiction #ScienceFiction #SFF #EffieSeiberg #ErinRoberts storyhour2020.com/

Head-and-shoulders color photo of writer Effie Seiberg, a fair-skinned woman with pink cheeks and curly black hair parted on one side and worn at shoulder length. She wears glasses with violet frames, large dangly earrings, and a light blue collarless knit shirt. She sits in what looks like an office chair with a black leather back in front of what might be a glass window in geometric shapes. She smiles broadly at the camera.
Head-and-shoulders color photo studio portrait of writer Erin Roberts, a Black woman with brown skin and black braids worn in a high ponytail that cascades to one side of her face. She wears cat-eye glasses with red frames, slender dangly earrings, and a brown-and-blue print dress or blouse in a simple repeating floral pattern. She stands before an olive-green background and holds a pen to an open notebook, looking directly into the camera and smiling warmly.
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Peter Kisner ≈

@futurebird
c.f. the short story "God's Hooks!" by Howard Waldrop.

Apparently set shortly after the Great Fire of London, it starts as kind of slice of life vignette about a gathering of dudes who just love eating and catching fish. Toward the end takes on themes of faith, obsessive pursuit of The Big One, and apocalypse.

lexal.net/scifi/scifiction/cla

www.lexal.netGOD'S HOOKS!-PAGE 1
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Laura Blackwell (she/her)

I'm reading for the excellent Strong Women, Strange Worlds next Thursday, March 20 at 4:00 PDT/7:00 EDT—with all these fantastic writers of speculative fiction! These online readings are free—and there are prizes! Sign up at eventbrite.com/o/strong-women- to attend. See you there? @Writing_Norse #Bookstodon #FreeBooks #AuthorReading #WomenAuthors #EnbyAuthors #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #FantasyFiction #HorrorFiction

Text: Strong Women, Strange Worlds presents Third Thursday QuickReads of Sci Fi, Fantasy, and Horror by Cassandra O'Sullivan Sachar [with color photo of fair-skinned woman with long, curly dark hair; she wears a black V-neck with embroidery], Nora Peevy [with sepia-toned photo of woman with cat-eye glasses, devil horns, and straight hair worn short; she wears a dark crew-neck T-shirt], Dani Finn [color art portrait of a fair-skinned person with plastic-framed glasses, blond hair worn short and over the ears, and a light blue button-up with a pattern], Angela Acosta [color photo of a woman with medium-brown skin, glasses, and long, straight, dark hair; she wears a pink button-up], Laura Blackwell [color photo of a fair-skinned woman with cat-eye glasses and graying shoulder-length hair; she wears a lavender pointelle cardigan, and Violette L. Meier [color photo of a Black woman with long braids; she wears a black blouse] / March 20, 7pm EDT Free on Zoom / Preregister now at StrongWomenStrangeWorlds.weebly.com
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Christina Anne Hawthorne

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Kovenlore Chronicles is a 7-novel #adventure #romantasy series, Riparia Dellbane the unlikely heroine pulled into helping save dystopian Carrdia. There’s elaborate worldbuilding & a diverse cast.

All 7 novels (plus 2 novellas) are already written.

The 1st book in the series, Trust in the Forgotten, is published, the sequel coming in late spring. Currently on Amazon, it’ll eventually go wide.

The image is a color map of the continent of Tremjara on the world of Ontyre. The continent is roughly oval with notable exceptions, the oval tilted southwest to northeast. In the far north are the Frozen Lands, but otherwise the continent is surrounded by three oceans, the Para-Equa in the west, Terminus in the south, and Titania to the east. A long, slim peninsula, along with multiple islands, exists in the northwest. In the west and south are multiple, large islands. The southeastern peninsula is a barren wasteland with some volcanic islands off its coast. There are scattered islands up the eastern coast, most notably Pannulus, a roughly circular archipelago. The continent is roughly divided in half by mountain chains, some more extensive than others. Mountains also exist in other locations, especially the southwest. The west is heavily forested, the east a mix of forests and grasslands. The south desert. Some notable locations follow. Mythwyll in the southwest was the elfin homeland. In the west, Forstava is still the ora’ean homeland. In the east, Emprensa was once the home province of an empire. In the northeast, Draskrith is the realm of the shadow lords. Below that, and as noted, is Pannulus. At the continent’s center is nation of Carrdia. It’s surrounded by mountains, except in the west along its border with Forstava, and in the northeast. The continent’s biggest lake is located there, as is the mighty Key River.
On the right is the book’s cover, the negative image a golden, hand drawn map showing mountains and rivers. On top of that is the title, Trust in the Forgotten, written in a stylish text that’s turquoise with black outlining. Between the first three words and the last below them are eyes that are the same color. Below that, in the same font and color, but without shadowing, it reads Book 1 of the Kovenlore Chronicles. Near the bottom, and written in a more plain text, the color a dark yellow with a black outline, is the author’s name, Christina Anne Hawthorne. The left, beside the cover, is the following text: On the world of Ontyre… Riparia Dellbane, a reclusive Keeper courier with a fractured past, blends into Carrdia’s dystopian landscape, yet dreams of a better future. It’s about vision. Then, over one grim night, routine becomes ruin as opposing fractions seek to exploit or capture her. To survive, she must discover why. She must also discover why the handsome seer reawakening her heart is aiding her. Is he leading her to safety or to those wanting her life? Is she brave enough to untangle the conspiracy wanting to consume, not just her, but an entire nation? As a child, tragedy stole her trust. Now, her heart is begging her to trust again.
#AmWriting#WritingCommunity#Fantasy
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Wonderdog

#BookReview The Great When by Alan Moore.
(Very short review)
The year is 1949, and young Dennis Knuckleyard has got hold of a book that does not belong in his version of London - he needs to get it back to the Great When, where it has come from. I loved the language in this book, the characters, (some are human, some are broader, embodied ideas which live in the Great When) and the pacing. Some violence, mostly implied.
First in a new series.

The cover of the book The Great When by Alan Moore. Mostly blue illustration of the London Tower Bridge, with big rays of light in the sky, a dark thundercloud, swirling pieces of paper, and a small figure in the foreground.
#FantasyFiction#AlanMoore#MagicFiction
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Wonderdog

#BookReview: The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo. Set in Manchuria in 1908, this is a tale of mystery, mythology, magic, romance, and detective fiction. There are moments of violence. The story telling in this is beautiful - the character’s motivations are clear, their stories are believable and all of the characters are well rounded. The scene setting is absolutely transporting. Great pacing. I read this very quickly, and am looking forward to savouring it again. Another very rare 5 stars from me. #AmReading #AsianFiction #AsianAuthor #FantasyFiction #DetectiveFiction #Bookstodon #Manchuria

Book Cover of The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo. A Chinese Woman in a long red jacket and red trousers and with a bamboo hat on her back walks in a snowy landscape. Her reflection isn’t a woman, but a white fox.
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Christina Anne Hawthorne

Trust in the Forgotten, an otherworld historical fantasy is live on Amazon today (paperback tomorrow).

Riparia Dellbane, a rebel courier striving to vanish, overnight becomes evil’s quarry, alive or dead, while a handsome man offers assistance to someone who's no one. To survive, she must find out why.

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Fantasy #Read #Fiction #Readers #FantasyFiction #Bookstodon #WorldOfOntyre #WordWeavers #WritersCoffeeClub #Romance #Adventure #Mystery

amazon.com/dp/B0DMYBTTTR?ref_=

Image is the cover to Trust in the Forgotten, a fantasy novel. The background is a hand-drawn map rendered in negative, the color gold and black. Between the two lines of the title are two turquoise eyes. Beneath the title is the subtitle, Book 1 of the Kovenlore Chronicles. At the bottom is the author's name, Christina Anne Hawthorne.
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Casual Catte

Inspired by @FibroJedi and his fantastic Novelember page on World Anvil, I decided I'd take a whack at putting together one of my own!

worldanvil.com/w/the-writehous

It's pretty rudimentary, but it tracks my progress and stuff pretty nicely! Huge thanks and kudos to Fibro for being such an inspiring presence!

#WorldAnvil | #Novelember | #NovelWritingMonth | #Amwriting | #Writing | #FantasyFiction | #HighFantasy | #EpicFantasy

www.worldanvil.comNovelember in The Writehouse World Anvil is a worldbuilding tools platform and community for writers, RPG storytellers and worldbuilding lovers
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Paracyclops

I can't find the words to praiseThe Winds twelve quarters & the compass rose, which contains the first two major short story collections of Ursula K. Le Guin's career. When I read Le Guin I always feel a combination of striking novelty and absolute familiarity. So beautiful.

app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/

#sf #sciencefiction #fantasy #fantasyfiction #shortstories #books #ursulakleguin #thewindstwelvequarters #thecompassrose #sfmasterworks #gollanczsfmasterworks #bookstodon @bookstodon

The cover of Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘The Wind’s Twelve Quarters & The Compass Rose’ held up by a white hand next to a shelf of other Le Guin books
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Peter Kisner ≈

@Schiraki @jpstories

Not sure if it's your kind of thing or not, but I recently heard a reading of the short story "Black Wine From The Slopes of Dawn" by Rajiv Moté and found it a pretty evocative sketch of a time, situation, and character.

Heavily necromancy-adjacent. So, possibly of interest?

beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/st

Beneath Ceaseless SkiesBeneath Ceaseless Skies - Black Wine From the Slopes of Dawn by Rajiv MotéHe felt something tearing. It started from the crown of his head, working its way down, pulling him away from himself with a snapping of a hundred invisible threads. The Marelio he now saw before him was entering his middle years. Not quite as lean as Marelio had expected. Not quite as sharp. His hair was a bit thin. He saw the mythology he, both of them, had constructed of themselves in their youth, that they’d never revised as they grew older.
#BeneathCeaslessSkies#FantasyFiction#Podcast
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