CL Hellisen

Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)

@sebdoubinsky.bsky.social aaahi see you are joining the @lunapress.bsky.social family!

Huzzah!

Feel free to enter Godzilla as a Young Man as Named Mike as a write in if you want! 😆

...this actually explains A LOT

If you're looking for dark fantasy with

*warring Mage Houses
*monstrous god-kings from another realm
*queer disasters not exactly eating each other alive
*traumatised siblings and dysfunctional family
*bringing back the dead
*people making terrible life choices

then son I have you covered

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Bames Jennet? Yeah I heard he a real dick

yeyyyyy fun, do you want some cheese and whine at my pity party :D

He's so good at giving each character their own vibe

kill them?

If you're looking for dark fantasy with

*warring Mage Houses
*monstrous god-kings from another realm
*queer disasters not exactly eating each other alive
*traumatised siblings and dysfunctional family
*bringing back the dead
*people making terrible life choices

then son I have you covered

Also, imma be that person and ask if you've listened to A Million Points of Light and can rate and review it, I will love you forever, from afar, not creepily.

Please, my internet blessings upon you etc

I am deep in the struggle zone with the current WiP, and while I know this is how my books happen, I hate feeling like I'm floundering in a giant mess of half-cooked plot-noodles, some of which clearly come from different packs of pasta.

Plus side, I sat down and wrote 2000 words of back story.

oooft yeyyyy

that's three slices of cake, right?

very much agreed!

This book deserves your love

Tru Skies, the orgy files

OH
MY
GOD

i love them so much you have no idea, I would willingly learn to crochet just to make them

*blinks*

fun for everyone!

i too gain great pleasure in watching them fuck up

Social media post with the cover for A Million Points of Light, with the following quote below ‘I want this,’ he heard himself saying, even though he did not want this. He wanted to curl into himself, hold his broken pieces together. He wanted the world to open and swallow him, keep him safe. He didn’t want Ilea’s teeth in him, their tongue lapping at broken skin, at new-spilled blood. He wanted Ilea’s teeth in him. ‘Oh, fuck me,’ Aleks said and the world went warm and black as he obliterated the bed, the room, Ilea.

It's #BookQW and the word is open! A Million Points of Light is the sequel to last year's The Shape of Monsters, and it's full of disaster queers who really should not have access to magic and unbridled power, no sir.

Graphic with blue abstract background and book cover of Wiz Duos 2 next to a quote from novella "Bring Me Home" by E.M. Faulds. The word "open" is highlighted in the text. Text reads: “We’re going to regreen this world, starting here. It’s not going to be without its hardships. Each of Us has made sacrifices. You can walk away; I won’t keep any of you against your will. But right now, you have to make a choice. A commitment. Okay?” And she left the circle, nodding to Harro. He stepped in, something hessian in hand. “Your mobiles, please and thank you very much.” He went to Phoebe first, holding the seed sack open. She pulled her phone out of her pocket. They’ll isolate you. Cut you off from the outside world. Be prepared. That’s what they’d told her. Still, she hesitated for a second. Her lifeline to her family in Alba, splash feeds, all her friends, almost all help. She stretched out her hand and put her phone in. Harro grinned at her. There wasn’t a glimmer of malice, but he was enjoying himself, that was for sure. After he’d been round with the sack, another Us member passed him a small handheld device with a little old school LCD screen. “Now, you all told me you had no implants when you joined the convoy. We’re going to make sure you weren’t telling me a lie.”

It's #BookQW and the word is "open".

Phoebe's stuck in New Australia spying on a cultish terrorist group in the outback.

Near future SF from a BSFA shortlisted author. Paired with a brilliant fantasy novella from @julietk.bsky.social!

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Oh sheeesh, E, sending you all the good thoughts, and I hope the surgery and recovery go well

Absolute loved this book by my fellow @sauutiverse.bsky.social sibling Cheryl S. Ntumy!

#booksky

this is incredible. I can barely cut a straight line on wrapping paper

Now I'm never going to stop calling it microslop

As someone who wasn't in this country to watch children's TV shows of the time, what it reminds me of is British children's books of that era, Alan Gardner, Diana Wynne Jones, Susan Cooper etc, but for an adult audience (and on TV, obviously)

But TBF, [name book] is a work of unparalleled genius so you should be proud of your work on it as an editor.

It really pushes boundaries while still being reminiscent of classics like [famous novel] and appealing to modern audiences of [insert TV series.]

Someone correctly said that one reason why Small Prophets works is, despite being an adult comedy-drama, it has the "feel" of old 70s/80s childrens fantasy dramas of the sort the BBC used to do so well.