Author of VERVAIN HOLLOW (June 2026), LOVE AND OTHER PARADOXES, MEET ME IN ANOTHER LIFE. Not here. Newsletter: https://teapaw.org/t.co/Pwr4APxX6b
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined July 2011
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Also, I'll be at @eastercon2023 this weekend! Hope to see you if you're there. Here's what I'll be up to: catrionasilvey.com/news
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On the subject of things Ted Chiang said that are NOT being twisted into strange reductive arguments, I really love the idea of sci-fi being tied to a feeling of awe. When I read sci-fi, I usually do crave a sense of wonder. Leave me humbled by nature, the stars, the universe!
Six games I love, six tags.
1. Life Is Strange
2. Heaven's Vault
3. Oxenfree
4. Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!?
5. Portal 2
6. Lemmings 2: The Tribes
@hanachronism @elliotpage @Jade_Pickering @_ajohnstone @willdwebster1 @rebeccafrausel
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Sleep when the baby sleeps!
Do the laundry when the baby does the laundry!
Wash the dishes when the baby washes dishes!
Finish your book when your baby finishes their book!
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Couple of signed paperback copies of Meet Me in Another Life now available at @ToppingsEdin!
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I love @BookcaseTiny - 3 new stories, written to the same prompt, always different, but often with a surprising common thread. For 'Grievances', they all had at least a touch of comedy...
Fear the machines!
Episode 92- in which we are joined by E.M. Faulds (@BethKesh) with three stories written for the prompt "Grievances", listen here: buzzsprout.com/1129067/11241…
#podcasts #podernfamily #shortstory #writingcommunity #storytelling #writing #writingprompt
And if you liked @BethKesh's story in this episode, check out Under the Moon, a collection of SFF & horror that shows off her incredible range: ghostmothpress.com/product/u…
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Release Day! Episode 92- in which we are joined by E.M. Faulds (@BethKesh) to perform three new stories written for the prompt "Grievances", listen here: buzzsprout.com/1129067/11241…
#podcasts #podernfamily #shortstory #writingcommunity #storytelling #writing #writingprompt
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New in this week! Fiction you may have missed 📚 Highlights include:
📘 Foster, a moving novella from Claire Keegan
📓 Masterful fantasy and dark academia in R.F. Kuang's Babel
📙 Out of this world: oddities abound in Sayaka Murata's new short story collection, Life Ceremony
ALT Photo of a stack of books in a bookshop. They are: Meet me in another life, Magic steeped in poison, Life ceremony, Haven, Eden, Bad Fruit, Babel, Carrie soto is back, The marriage portrait, and Act of Oblivion
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GPT-3 lists some common human quirks. RT if this is you.
ALT -Saying that the black cat in the tree is Lenny, or at least what might be left of him -Telling themselves over and over again that it is Sunday, October 6th and there is no reason to watch monster shows -Stripping down to their underwear in front of a group and hoping that no one else has a terrible idea -Wishing for a pet raincloud that never comes
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I learn languages the old-fashioned way: by making an endless series of blunders, gaffs and faux pas in my target language that, when corrected, are so personally mortifying that embarrassment burns the knowledge into my brain, never to be forgotten.
Went to Dublin and I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't W. B. Yeats-branded water
ALT A white carton with a picture of poet W. B. Yeats and a blue stream of water. Text reads "W. B. Yeats water/ Still Irish Water"
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Shake paws, count your claws.
#89 in which we chat with Catriona Silvey (@silveycat) and find out everything we can about her approach to writing, listen here: buzzsprout.com/1129067/11112…
#podcasts #PodernFamily #writingcommunity #storytelling #writing #redwall #interview
Happy UK book birthday @tashadrinkstea! Of course I got the cat to coordinate her eye colour with the cover 💚
ALT A paperback copy of The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri. Behind it sits a black-and-white cat with eyes the same yellowish green as the background of the cover.
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In which I characteristically go off on one about my love for @robinhobb's characters.
He is Beloved.
#89 in which we chat with Catriona Silvey (@silveycat) and find out everything we can about her approach to writing, listen here: buzzsprout.com/1129067/11112…
#podcasts #podernfamily #shortstory #writingcommunity #storytelling #writing #RobinHobb #interview
Had a blast chatting to Ben & Nico about how I used to make my Sylvanian Families cosplay as characters from Redwall
Release Day! Episode 89- in which we chat with Catriona Silvey (@silveycat) and find out everything we can about her approach to writing, listen here: buzzsprout.com/1129067/11112…
#podcasts #podernfamily #shortstory #writingcommunity #storytelling #writing #interview
Also features my niche but strongly held opinion that This Is How You Lose the Time War by @tithenai & @maxgladstone should be adapted as a concept album by @JanelleMonae & Joanna Newsom ❤️💙
And in case you missed it, here's last week's episode where the hosts & I tell stories on the theme of 'Say the Word': buzzsprout.com/1129067/11095…
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The Rule of Two
#88 in which we are joined by Catriona Silvey (@silveycat) to perform three new stories written for the prompt "Say The Word", listen here: buzzsprout.com/1129067/11095…
#podcasts #podernfamily #shortstory #writingcommunity #storytelling #writing #writingprompt
