@brentscarcliff
Speculative Fiction SF+F Author : AUSTRONESIA (Alt-Future Geopolitical Thriller, 2025) : THE LAST INTERGLACIAL (Alt-Past Epic Fantasy, 2025) : Archaeologist : Linguist : Mythologist : Tolkienist : Canine Companion : Represented by @joysalvador.bsky.social
MISS AMELIA'S LIST by Mercedes Lackey on a park rail alongside a sprig of pine.
Amelia Stonehold & Serena Meleva navigate property acquisition, marriage proposals, & other ancient horrors in Regency England, with the help of elemental magic in this standalone novel (& perfect entry point!) to Mercedes Lackey's Elemental Masters series.
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Just submitted my guest application for @dragoncon.org 2025! Hope to see you all there again this year.
Remember, you too can be a part of the festivities as a panelist! With *professional* credits you can join this cadre of nerds and fans for a delightful weekend! www.dragoncon.org/participate/...
@danielgreene.bsky.social
I would like those 3 books please! π€£
Yum!
Our Anglo-Fil-Am Thanksgiving dinner menu:
Rice (of course!)
Roasted Herb Butter Turkey
Roasted Root Vegetables
Sweet Potato Casserole
Lumpia
Ube Biko On Banana Leaves
Tossed Green Salad
Wine
Sweet Rolls
Sage, Sausage, And Green Apple Stuffing
Gravy
Cranberry Sauce
#filipino #english #thanksgiving
My latest novel, The Seventh Veil of Salome (one of the best books of the year according to NPR) is $6.99 via ebook retailers today (US only). That includes Amazon, B&N, etc. Historical novel that mashes together 1950s Hollywood & Biblical narrative. Link to Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
What's the collective noun for a passel of dachshunds?
A snuggle of dachshunds?
A daemonium of dachshunds?
A cacophony of dachshunds?
A party pack of dachshunds?
A delirium of dachshunds?
A delightfulness of dachshunds?
A doggedness of dachshunds?
Other ideas?
#dachshunds #doxies #dogsofbluesky
One of your YouTube appearances, the launch of you small press, and our SoCal connections intrigued me.
Ilocano bislΓ‘k "sliver, splinter; piece of split bamboo; the name of a river in Bacarra"
< perhaps a blend of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *biseqak "to split" and Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian *siqelak "split or cleaved"
#eotd #etymology #wotd #austronesian
#Ilokano lΓ‘ngit "sky, heaven"
< #Proto-Austronesian *laΕiC "sky"
Cf. #Hawaiian lani "sky, heaven; heavenly, spiritual; very high chief, majesty; royal, exalted, high born, aristocratic"
#eotd #etymology #wotd
Hello new followers! I mainly write science fiction. I have twice won the BSFA Award for Best Novel and I've been a finalist for the Locus Award, the British Fantasy Award, and others. I'm also an editor for @starsandsabers.bsky.social and I spend a lot of time online encouraging aspiring authors.
Before I log off for the night, let me tell you that my novel Future's Edge (published by @titanbooks.bsky.social in the US and UK) is now available to pre-order from all good booksellers. I think you'll like it.
Links: linktr.ee/garethlpowell
It is almost time for review ARCs for Of Shadows, Stars, and Sabers, our magnificent cross-genre anthology we are publishing in our new imprint, @starsandsabers.bsky.social! Read about the book and see this STELLAR roster of authors: www.starsandsabers.com/of-shadows-s...
#Tongva ryoo'enax "to cut hair"
< Proto-Takic *riΓ³:'-ina "to make bald" < *riΓ³:' "shorn" + ina "causative"
Cf. #Kitanemuk rio'in "to cut" and #LuiseΓ±o riwΓ' "to be bald; for bones to show through at cremation" and #Tongva ryoo(')pe' "bald"
#etymology #linguistics #Takic #PUA
I thought 'barefaced lie' was a variant of 'bald-faced lie', but it seems to be the other way round. You learn something new every day. Love the idea of tandoori salmon.
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 61, βQueen of Seven Kingdomsβ by Julie Dillon: a queen sits on her throne in the center facing the reader with a smile, wearing a crown with a golden crescent and a pink-purple dress. She is surrounded and being cuddled by seven men of a wide variety of skin tones and hair color, all shirtless and with toned bodies. They also wear simple coronet bands, and the quote says, "They said the grove was there before the city. Before people. They said, before the first houses that would, eventually, grow into the city of Ilmar, everything at the foot of the mountains had been forest. But, even when it had all been forest, the grove had been there, just trees amongst trees but different, separate."
Reading 2024 fiction? Try the short story "Woodmask" by Adrian Tchaikovsky! You can read it here! @aptshadow.bsky.social www.uncannymagazine.com/article/wood...
Hey, welcome to new folks! On my good days, I'm a writer.
If you go to nghivo.com/bibliography/ you'll find a bunch of free fiction under short stories, help yourself.
Thank you so much, Janny - you're the best! I love the writing community.
Bria Ragin at Delacorte Press has acquired, in an exclusive submission, Twin Tides by Hien Nguyen, a YA speculative horror thriller inspired by Vietnamese mythology and pitched as The Haunting of Bly Manor meets The Parent Trap, in which long-lost identical twins Aria and Caliste are beckoned to Les Eaux, Minn., where they unravel the mystery behind their mother's death, discover a ghoul haunting the waters of the small town, and wade through the betrayal that ultimately separated them. Publication is set for fall 2025; Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary Management sold world English rights.
I suppose now's the time to post my book announcement here because I've turned in the final version of the manuscript to copy edits π₯ #authors #books
πWe're reopening to unagented manuscripts in January. We really encourage LGBTQ+ folk, marginalised and underrepresented writers, disabled, non-London based authors, authors over 40, and writers from working class backgrounds to submit to us.
Over 40 - hey, that's me!
Meet the mother of all mythologies.
A band of misfits mount a desperate search for the Home of the Gods, pursued from Siberia to Borneo by an evil empire.
But this isnβt a fantasy. This is our world. In THE LAST INTERGLACIAL.
Tolkien + Attenborough + @nghivo.bsky.social
@jannywurts.bsky.social
Love your work! I'll be tagging you in a post about my 2025 epic fantasy debut, which draws upon my work in comparative linguistics and mythology. Hope it intrigues you enough to shine a little of your light upon. Thank you for all the reading pleasure you bring us!
Authors, artists, creators: hit me with your news, releases, events - I repost them.
Be seen.
www.fountainbookstore.com/events/43326
Just another reminder - I'd appreciate a shout out and show up for the last event I have for the year at the lovely Fountain Bookstore in Richmond Virginia tomorrow at 6 pm!
You can sign up/register for the event at the link!
#Tongva waa'aka' "black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax hoactli"
< Proto-Takic *wΓ‘:hanka' "stretch-necked fishing bird"
Cf. #Kitanemuk wahanka'y "gaviota, seagull"
#etymology #linguistics #indigenous #California #Takic
My paper on Toypurina, a leader of the Native Californian resistance to Spanish colonization, showing that her name is a hispanicized version of her Tongva title - Spirit Doctor. The Totoongvetam are the indigenous Uto-Aztecan inhabitants of Greater Los Angeles.
www.academia.edu/123327970/Th...