@vrling
Recovering academic (archaeology/evolution). Author of King Street Run, a fantasy-satire set in Cambridge. https://elsewhen.press/index.php/catalogue/author/v-r-ling/ No DMs. Classic ghost story writers, Gothic buildings, Old books, Vegans, Classic Who
“Mr Llewellyn would never have dreamed of employing his leisure peering into the cupboards where the family skeletons were hidden...Mr Payne Llewellyn would have risked large out-of-pocket expenses to furnish them with double, triple, impregnable locks.”
- Arthur Machen "The Terror" (1917)
#Booksky
Vegans!
I'm looking for vegan and/or animal rights newsletters/zines/podcasts/other platforms that do book reviews. Can you suggest any?
#Vegan #AnimalRights #Booksky
This looks to be a #MustRead 4 2026!!! #SciFi #Satire #DarkHumor #Book #Read #WordNerd
Wonderful, thank you both. All suggestions welcome!
That would be great, thank you. I can't use DMs here either because I refuse to go through the ID process. My Instagram is v.r.ling .... I'm still not entirely sure how Instagram works but I'm (slowly) getting there but please forgive any slowness on my part 😂
Thank you!
Thank you and that would be great. I'm sorry, I haven't kept a list. I set up an Instagram account to go through the vegan newsletters and then I unfollow once I've asked as a way of ticking them off. Basically, I've tried all the usual suspects and of course the big name mags like Vegan Society.
Hello, I wonder if I could pick your brain? I have a novel coming out this Spring (I'm vegan, so is my publisher, and the book is largely about speciesism). I'm trying to find vegan newsletters, platforms that might review it. Have you any suggestions? I've tried over 40 so far but none respond.
"At times, when talking to you, she would break off as though words were of no use to her, and her eyes had to seek your soul on their own account."
- Arthur Quiller-Couch "Midsummer Fires" (1901)
#Booksky #Quotes
Fuck Crufts.
WAR won't hide the #EpsteinFiles
#Iran
#Epstein
Spotted over Cranwell in Lincolnshire. Could this be a nacreous cloud?
It is a year since An Orchid in My Belly Button, a magical realism/eco fiction collection of stories, pwas published by @elsewhen.press
Thanks to all who have bought and/or read it.
If anyone else is interested-
elsewhen.press/index.php/ca...
If your middle schooler is into physics he may also enjoy @danielwhiteson.bsky.social 's books "Do Aliens Speak Physics?: And Other Questions about Science and the Nature of Reality", "We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe", and "Frequently Asked Questions about the Universe"
“However crude those ancient beliefs may have been, they were not so crude as belief in coal and petrol and money.”
- Douglas Massie "Mr Ciggers Goes To Heaven" (1931)
#Booksky #Greens #FantasyBooks
"Do you remember Schubert who could not afford to buy the paper on which to score his music? It was people like these who withheld the paper.”
- Douglas Massie "Mr Ciggers Goes To Heaven (1931)
#Booksky
It's the world's smallest woodland but the hedgehogs seems to appreciate it :-)
My front lawn and much of the lower end of the back (where I've planted the hedgehog mini woodland) is nearly all moss and I love it. Such character and the bugs adore it.
If I were a production company I'd bite your hand off!
Any smart reps out there who want to read something brilliant?
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I've not read anything else quite like it, and like you say, even the physicality of this particular copy is full of character. Wonderful story.
But both things can be true
University staff did do their very best, but students didn’t get the full experience they paid for
COVID students paid £9,250 a year for locked campuses & Zoom lectures, the experience was diminished
They deserve a partial rebate -- it’s basic fairness
“And where the peace and rest?”
“In stagnation, where they sought it. They are free to remain stagnant - unchanged. He who is self-satisfied remains the self with which he is satisfied. He who is afraid to change remains unchanged.”
- Douglas Massie “Mr Ciggers Goes To Heaven” (1931)
#Booksky
Are there any plans for another series of “Welcome To Our Village..”?
“Stagnation is absolutely the correct word to use for the peace and rest you desire,” replied the judge with beaming imperturbability. “Can you not see it all around you here? Look upon these people who fear to look upon themselves.”
- Douglas Massie "Mr Ciggers Goes To Heaven" (1931)
Absolutely, it's in the small print. Might even be law.
“I remember - and - you know how memory strays back, though sometimes it’s more like a goat tethered to a peg on a common.”
- "Crew" Walter de la Mare (1927)
#ClassicGhostStories #Booksky
Cover image of the Twisted Road written by Simon Kewin, artwork by Alex Storer. The cover depicts a metallic space station in the shape of a large möbius strip, in orbit around the planet Mars. Various lights are shining through portholes in the station and a docking bay is visible and well-lit. Approaching the station is a small spaceship. At the top of the image are the words THE MÖBIUS SEQUENCE 1 in white. Below that in larger white type is the title THE TWISTED ROAD. Towards the bottom of the page is the author’s name SIMON KEWIN in golden letters.
In conjunction with our friends at The Fantasy Hive, we are delighted to reveal the cover for The Twisted Road, book 1 in The Möbius Sequence, an extraordinary science fiction trilogy by Simon Kewin. Set on the battered, yet operational, Möbius station orbiting Mars, it is a SF mystery story.
Einstein said God doesn’t play dice with the universe but I reckon the Roman ones played D&D.
Below: Crystal die, Roman (1st-2nd century). Image: British Museum.
#Archaeology #DnD
The Peter Mandelson scandal is what happens when a government abandons its moral compass.
Parliament needs to look itself in the mirror — and ask itself how it became embroiled in a web of lies, abuse and corruption.
My piece for The Independent.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/peter...
A match made in slightly dysfunctional heaven. Perfect.
