of course! :)
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of course! :)
I have access!
Annnnd if you enjoyed it, The Second Death of Locke is also eligible ⚔️
If you're of a nominating sort, some fantastic pieces from last year include:
Fate's Bane by C.L. Clark
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri
Six Wild Crowns by Holly Race
Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame by Neon Yang
The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
there's so much disrespect of romance writers and romance readers baked into the idea that AI-driven production of novels is 'better'. as if writing romance isn't skillful, hard and joyous work. as if romance readers aren't discerning, loyal and savvy.
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…
The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
Well, shit — a killer new horror bookstore in NYC got flooded and damaged by hurricane remnants. Help is needed if you can. Please share!
www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
desperate to see the outfit, SO SAD i will be across the atlantic 😭
Publishers Marketplace deal announcement for The Dying Season by Tori Bovalino
Some news: I have two adult horror romance books coming in 2027 and 2028!
Rosiee (white, with short curly brown hair, octagonal glasses, wearing a flannel shirt) holds a set of purple dice in one hand and a copy of This is How We Roll in the other.
This is How We Roll is OUT NOW!! I may not have my hardcover copies yet, but you can venture forth into the world and buy one for yourself!
These twelve stories are all directly from the heart, and I’m so proud of all the hard work everyone put into this project. I can't wait for y'all to read it!
A graphic with an image of the book The Second Death of Locke on the left side. The rest of the image is scattered with 7 screenshots of Tumblr text posts. Each screenshot is on top of a tan graphic that looks like a torn piece of paper
Have you heard the good word of THE SECOND DEATH OF LOCKE by @toribovalino.bsky.social? If not, have no fear, I am here to convince you to read it/preorder it with these Tumblr text posts hehe 😈⚔️
#BookSky #BookBlogger #QueerAdultSFF 🌈📚🌎📚🪐
Very excited to be joining @gen-dimova.bsky.social and @annabelcwrites.bsky.social in Edinburgh next month! ❤️❤️
Ahhh cannot wait!!! ❤️
just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!
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(but genuinely, delighted you're enjoying it!)
On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting style image depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.
Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it!
Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!)
democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
great news, my trainline wrapped just dropped 💀
drafting: MWAHAHA you can pry my em-dashes out of my cold, dead fingers
pass pages: 💀someone should’ve pried 30-50% of my em-dashes out of my cold, dead fingers💀
image of a suit of armour, with the words 'the isle in the silver sea' in front of it
I wanted to share the title of my next book, out in October 2025: THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA.
sent it to youuuuuu!
i literally always say sofa simply because of a kristin cashore essay on worldbuilding i read as a teenager 💀
As we’re all moving over here let me reintroduce myself! I’m an author of spicy, cosy fantasy romance and a commissioning editor of SFF and horror at Orbit. My debut, Best Hex Ever published this October
i almost threw hands at the singing dudes
a couple of fun facts about me:
✨ I have a PhD in English and I love talking about folklore
✨ I am terrified of birds
✨ My favorite show from this year is My Lady Jane and I think it should be rescued
✨ I've lived in the UK since 2018
✨ I love horror and fantasy books (probably obvious!)
Map of Ao3 tags for The Second Death of Locke. Tags: -weaponizing mythology against the gods -i’m not bitter, the knight says bitterly -i love the kind of woman that’ll just straight-up kill me -i didn’t sacrifice myself for you to die like a dumbass -stabby teenager gets adopted by a band of queer knights -your super bisexual energy will save them! lmao okay -let these two toxic co-dependent assholes kiss
Hi! Quick little intro for everyone joining here: I’m Tori and I write books (YA under Tori, adult under V.L.) 📚 My last release, My Throat an Open Grave, came out in February.
My next book, THE SECOND DEATH OF LOCKE, is forthcoming in Sept 2025 and I can’t wait to share it with you ☺️
Hello! I have a book out next year called The Second Death of Locke, coming in September ☺️ www.waterstones.com/book/the-sec...
oh nooooo is there not a way to bookmark things here? Because that's literally the only way I keep track of upcoming books/movies/fun things
Looking forward to tomorrow - at 3pm we’ll be signing copies of #inthesehallowedhalls at @forbiddenplanet Megastore in London. @paulkane.bsky.social , @helengrantsays.bsky.social , @kateweinberg and @toribovalino.bsky.social will be joining me. See you there?