Julie Le Blanc

Paper Lanterns Issue 10, Autumn 2022. A close-up image of a white dandelion head in green, with hot pink font on a white background at the top.

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⛈️ Part 5

"Cloud Cover", published in Paper Lanterns Literary Journal (Nov 2022)

When something goes wrong in the whimsical Cloud Store, Jamilla and an unlikely friend must save themselves from certain destruction.

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Cover of The Wolf's Secret. Flowers and leaves in reds, oranges and greys tangle on a speckled black background. Two set of yellow eyes, one canine, one human, stare out from behind the petals.

The Wolf's Secret by Myriam Dahman and Nicolas Digard, incredibly illustrated by Júlia Sardà Portabella, is a gorgeous romantic fairy tale.

I got it from my local library. You should too.

Thanks Scifi Reader! Part of my inspiration came from reading Diana Wynne Jones' character Sophie in Howls' Moving Castle and realizing that older ladies never get to have adventures. I wanted Bell to have one! And why not a robot, in a post-organic civilization, with a bit of a twist at the end? :)

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2022 issue. Heroes make their way across a perilous rope bridge strung between skyscrapers.

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🤖 Part 4

"The Mechanic", published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (May 2022)

An elderly android must trek into dangerous territory to retrieve the parts she needs... or die trying.

My first SFWA pub! 🥳

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Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered.

And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.

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Help @wck.org feed folks in Gaza and get 14 books by @marthawells.com, one of the best Science Fiction and Fantasy authors currently writing.

Remember to click on Adjust Donation so you can maximize World Central Kitchen's share.

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Once again reminding folks that calling these child murderers "vaccine skeptics" is journalistic malpractice.

"Vaccine science deniers" is a perfectly accurate alternative.

As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.

And let me be clear -- I wish on JK Rowling everything that she wishes upon trans people.

#AvianAugust day 5, the Pueo! 🦉🌅

This is an uninterrupted minute of Maruay the rescued tiger with his beloved ball..🥰😇 #bluesky

Haunted Waters Press (artfully typed and displayed with inky coffee mug rings)

Should I just rename this ThrowbackFriday? Maybe 😅 #ThrowbackThursday

🌲 Part 3

"They Took the Trees", a penny fiction of just 21 words

😢 Where do you put your sorrow when the trees all die?

Published in Haunted Waters Press, Dec 2021

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A four panel comic titled Bird Sounds. In panel 1, labeled thrush, a wood thrush sings its beautiful eeohlay song against a forest background. In panel 2, labeled wren, a winter wren delicately sings tweedly tweedly tweedly. In panel 3, labeled warbler, a yellow warbler delicately sings sweet sweet. In panel 4, labeled heron in a death metal font, a heron screams KRAAGH against a background of fire.

Bird sounds.

Baby donkeys are so underrated... 😍

Support African Translation Project African Translation Project; Current Goal: $2500 - to announce and begin the first book; End Goal: $7500 by the end of August; For: To start translating books written in Shona, isZulu, and kiSwahili; ...

Human translation 💿🐴?

👇🏻👇🏻 👇🏻

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Uncanny Magazine Year 11 Covers: The Duet by Nilah Magruder, Barbershops of the Floating City by Grace P. Fong, and Blessed Universe by Galen Dara.

PLEASE REPOST AND SHARE WIDELY!!! We need your help once again, you magnificent Space Unicorns! Behold the Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter!!!
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Issue 4 of Paper Lanterns, March 2021: watercolour painting of clouds in blue and white

It's #ThrowbackThursday! a day late because #parenting

🧶Part 2

"Craft Your Own Adventure"

"While Marya was usually excellent at imagining the worst, opening a portal to another world while crocheting had never really crossed her mind."

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Floral snapshot, July, in case your brain is noisy and overloaded:

I emailed a letter to my local TD and Minister of State for Nature and Biodiversity, Christopher O'Sullivan on the government's plans to abandon Marine Protected Areas.

Please write to your local government TDs asking them not to shaft our marine ecosystems and coastal communities like this!!!

this is important work I believe white Christians need to be doing in their faith spaces. right wing Christians are perfectly comfortable ruining your Sunday over abortion. left wing Christians need to start doing the same thing about voting for the torture and death of immigrants. call it by name.

My house is a big fan of his work in Míp and Fox and Son Tailers -- must see about adding this one to the shelf 👀📚

Anyway it's pride and there are lots of queer writers who put out work that isn't best selling! Buy a gay book by an unpopular irrelevant queer today!!!

A gift for Pride 🏳️‍🌈 A collection of poems by Irish revolutionary, humanitarian, essayist and sometime poet, Roger Casement. Originally published in 1918, this beautiful new hardback edition includes both the original introduction as well as a specially commissioned introduction by Seán Hewitt.

Issue 2 of Channel Magazine, published in Spring 2020. An all-black cover with white lettering, and an image of a tunnel showing light and clouds.

It's #ThrowbackThursday! Speculative fiction style

🚀Part 1

"Tended" was my first published flash fic 🥲
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"[She paddled] down the great, bloated river towards the sea, following the remaining birds. They would know where the last seeds grew."

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that is some pretty exceptional bean wizardry right there

Good morning! :D nice to see a friendly face!

Well hello there! I'm a spec-fic writer living in Ireland 🤗

🐊Do you think alligators make good pets?
🤖Robots should grow old together?
🧶Crochet might unlock a hole in the universe?

Then check out my stories at www.julieleblancwrites.com !

Also, trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️🌈

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