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BBCRadio4, (edited )
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📖 According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, the world will end on a Saturday. A Saturday quite soon, in fact.

The whole of our six-part adapation of @neilhimself and Terry Pratchett's wonderful 1990 fantasy Good Omens is on BBC Sounds now - and you can listen from anywhere in the world. Tell your friends, good or evil.


https://bbc.in/3qgSXt7

garretble,
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@BBCRadio4 I’m going on a road trip soon, and I might just have to put this on.

Cc @neilhimself

BBCRadio4,
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🏝️ Did you listen to @neilhimself's Desert Island Discs? His eight favourite records, from Bowie to Nyman to Tori Amos to, er, Gilbert & Sullivan? It's a real treat.

Listen on BBC Sounds.

https://bbc.in/3rWwS3h

antabaku,

One problem with leaving the birdsite is that I had built up a reasonable list of illustrators to follow there, and I really haven't here. But I bet they're around. If you're a or or , especially if you're interested in commissions from an author, give this post a like so I can check out your work. Or recommend me someone in the comments. Or boost this so more people see it. Or just tell me what good hashtags I should be following.

n69n,
FlorieMaurin, French

Bonjour à toutes et tous ! Je rejoins finalement Mastodon en raison de l’exode actuel… Ce compte vient donc doubler, pour l’instant, celui que j’ai sur Twitter.
Docteure en littérature, mes recherches portent sur les œuvres de et la jeunesse. Je m’intéresse plus spécifiquement aux figures féminines de ce genre, sans m’y limiter strictement toutefois.
Au plaisir d’échanger sur ces sujets et d’autres !

olwe,
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@FlorieMaurin Bienvenue ! 😄

mibwright,
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"Yes…fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the knownothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

beto,
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@mibwright my favorite fact about Brazil: if you get caught trying to escape from prison there's no extra punishment, because the law understands that wishing for freedom is not a crime; it's just part of being human.

demofox,
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@mibwright also, the joker, I think!
And I agree.

courtcan,
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Y'ALL.
FINALLY.

MY NEWEST BOOK IS OUT. 😃🥳🎶💃😁

THE ACCURSED is my first ever solidly YA fantasy novel & I am SO excited to share this adventure with you!

Teen heroine Elfled is the only "unBlessed" member of her family--never a problem until they flee political persecution. Without magical skills to see her through, Elfled has only wits & hopes in her fight to resist the forces driving her squarely into Evil's lair.

https://www.amazon.com/Accursed-Courtney-Cantrell-ebook/dp/B0CVSKRTP2/





StillIRise1963,
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@courtcan Congrats!❤️

grickle,
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SJHoodlet,
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Today is the day! The Way of the Wielder is officially out! 🎉

If you like darker shades of fantasy with strong romantic subplots ❤️, elemental magic 💦, and espionage 🗡️, this novel is for you!

For more info (including a sneak peak at chapter one), you can check out my recent newsletter: https://sarahjhoodlet.beehiiv.com/p/the-way-of-the-wielder-preorder

Or, if you’re already hooked, you can buy it on Amazon now: https://a.co/d/eQVT7Io

Firlefanz,
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@SJHoodlet

Congratulations!

Happy Release Day, and happy book birthday!

Wishing you all the best, most of all lots of readers, of course!

🍾

Chuck_Carcosa, French
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Je viens d'apprendre que JH Brennan est décédé le 1er janvier...

C'était l'auteur de la série de livre dont vous êtes le héros "Quête du Graal", une heroic un peu barrée pleine d'humour british absurde, entre Pratchett et les Monty Python

RIP sir, l'enfant de 10 ans qui est en moi se sent tristoune aujourd'hui.

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/9-la-serie-quete-du-graal-3515116

FlorieMaurin, French

En ce mois d'octobre, mois de l'imaginaire, je vous propose de découvrir chaque jour une recommandation de jeunesse française !

C'est parti 👇

FlorieMaurin,

1er octobre : L'Arpenteuse de rêves d'Estelle Faye

Dans le royaume pollué de Claren, la jeune Arpenteuse Myri est capable de pénétrer dans les rêves des autres et d’en rapporter des objets.
C’est dans un monde moite, suintant, que nous plonge Estelle Faye, entre tensions sociales et cauchemar écologique.
Le style est très dynamique, il happe les lecteur·rices à tel point qu’il est difficile de décrocher du texte avant la fin.

Immersion garantie !

FlorieMaurin,

2 octobre : Violette Hurlevent

Protectrice du Jardin Sauvage : tel est le rôle qui échoit à l’impétueuse Violette lorsqu’elle pénètre avec son chien dans le monde merveilleux du Jardin.
Les animaux parlent, les roches s’animent, des babioles deviennent de puissants artefacts…

Une ode touchante à la nature et aux pouvoirs de l’imagination des enfants.

À se procurer de préférence en grand format pour profiter pleinement des illustrations et de la belle fabrication du roman.

courtcan,
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ChrisMayLA6,
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Right where it should be....

Wen,
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@ChrisMayLA6 self help (didn’t work) section?

KarenKasparArt,
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BlackOakBindery,
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“The real story isn't half as pretty as the one you've heard.”
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

I loved the folktale quality to this book and sought to reflect that in the design by using a lot of pattern. The story also has motifs of silver turning into gold and ice & fire.

A blue leatherbound book.
A book standing upright with both covers open.

BlackOakBindery,
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@luis_in_brief I wish it was! This was a personal project to build up my portfolio of rebindings.

luis_in_brief,
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@BlackOakBindery it is definitely lovely. Best of luck with the portfolio!

suswatibasu, (edited )
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@neilhimself in conversation with Roz Kaveney at the British Library: the power of fantasy and making metaphors real

"I'm never quite sure what the boundary is in fantasy."

https://howtobe247.com/neil-gaiman-the-power-of-fantasy-and-making-metaphors-real/

grickle,
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