SFF writer, chiefest and greatest of calamities, also sings a bit. She/her. (Mostly posting at the cloudy place.)
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Harper Lee’s friends gifted her a year’s financial support for Christmas so she could write whatever she wanted without worrying about money and she used it to write To Kill a Mockingbird in case you're wondering what to get your creative friends this year
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It's almost that time of year when all the tax-dodging celebs appear on our televisions telling poor people to 'give what you can' so that the government can shirk its responsibility towards the most vulnerable in our society. #ChildrenInNeed #pudsey
I swear to the old gods, UK voters, if you even THINK about ruining my Christmas...
🚨 NEW: Rishi Sunak is planning to hold the next election on Halloween next year - 31st October 2024
[@thetimes]
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One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.
I've recommended this book (and its sequel) to so many people - it's pacy, gripping and terrifying, and may very well haunt your dreams.
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Old people don’t evacuate. At some point you’d rather take your chances at home than try to escape. I think this is an international human truth. Every time I went into a place getting bombed, it was full of old people, disabled people, confused people. That’s who gets bombed.
'They weren't rich - they just value education'
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🧵As we're talking about the best opening lines in literature, here is a thread of my top ten by Terry Pratchett, who was a master at them ...
I am off to a Les Misérables singalong party tonight for my friend's birthday. There will be red flags to wave and tricolore dips for the halloumi fries and I am quite unreasonably excited.
I suspect the phrase 'written in collaboration with' is currently stirring up feelings of long-suppressed rage in the kind of people who ended up doing 90% of the work in school group projects
I genuinely don't know which demographic this is aimed at. Is there likely to be much crossover between Stranger Things/Enola Holmes fans and readers of WW2 romance?
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OK, I am now at the azure firmament place under the same name - give me a follow if I haven't spent the last few years getting on your nerves on here