Anna Tizard

Just reviewed the amazing Cage of Stars by
@frasierarmitage.bsky.social
😊🥳

#WritingCommunity #bookstoread

Thank you! This was great fun to be a part of. Looking forward to reading the other authors' interviews and stories. 🤗

Whoop whoop! 🎉🎈

OUT TOMORROW!
Contributions from @stefmowords.bsky.social @tanweerdar.com @llmacrae.bsky.social @alexsbradshaw.bsky.social @timhardieauthor.bsky.social @annatizard.bsky.social @emilyinkpen.bsky.social
with Guest Editor @frasierarmitage.bsky.social
Empowering #indieauthors everywhere!

Always a pleasure to read your amazing stories, Eric! 🥰🔥

Be sure to check out @annatizard.bsky.social's Brainstoryum #podcast, always a great show! She'll be reading 1, or 2, of my short stories again (I love it when she reads my stories). :)

Excited for tomorrow's Brainstoryum #podcast to drop,featuring:

NEW brainstorming method I learned at FantasyCon (I try it on the show!)

Stories from @quantumfairy.bsky.social @madp03t.bsky.social & others

Crazy #writingprompt game mixing listeners' words incl. @titaniatempest.bsky.social 😘✍️ #vss

I don't know... In the same way the editor missed it, I guess!

😁

I too adore this book, and spent much of my childhood in Narnia.

On re-reading it, one weird thing that struck me was when Mr Tumnus makes his first appearance. The narrative switches back and forth between calling him "it" and "he".

It felt a bit.. species-ist!? 🤨😆

#MPPrompt

They used to dress the trees
Vibrant and green attire
Then the cool winds changed them
To orange, red and gold
Then they fluttered to ground
Baring branches and
Then went separate ways
Tattered and so lonely
Then no longer a bunch

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Thanks, Eric!

The Brainstoryum #podcast is always a great listen! @annatizard.bsky.social often reads my short stories on her show, and I love hearing her bring them to life.

#vss365 Because Enya played with fire, the townsfolk called her Little Fire, though some called her a witch. Whatever her name, she kept the departed souls from illegally leaving their transfer hub of Teach Duinn Island, not with witchcraft, but with Hellfire #Science, because souls fear fire.

Hurray! I've had 90 views of this interview. That's 90 people who've found out about my weird and wacky ways with words and writing prompts.

Can I make it to 100 before Xmas? 🤞

#writingcommunity #podcast #books

YouTube video by Brainstoryum: Short Stories and Writing Prompts #93. Unexpected Insights From Fantasy Con and a Heap of New Short Stories

Your weekend is not weird enough without Brainstoryum!

Have you heard the latest one?

Tune in for insights & odd experiences at Fantasy Con, dark & strange flash fiction &3 new rounds of Exquisite Corpse 👀

Catch it in all the usual places incl Youtube:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=3swx...

#vss

From Care and Feeding of Your Little Banned Bookshop

This week, our Battalion didn’t shout their truth — they spoke it in such a way that others would have to listen closely to understand.

For these finalists, each verse became a reminder that the soul does not speak in thunder, but in quiet knowing.

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Don’t miss @cmcaplanwrites.bsky.social @ajcalvin.bsky.social @adamcbassett.com Will Swardstrom and me TONIGHT on Bald & Balding, as we chat LIVE with @mikemollman.bsky.social and Ro Bushey about THE BOOK OF SPORES anthology 🍄

Join us live on YouTube at 7pm EST: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrM...

Not long now until the Folkestone Book Festival! I’ll be there on Thursday 13th November, and I can’t wait to join such an inspiring line-up of writers and thinkers...

Melody Bowles - fantasy short story writer Melody Bowles - fantasy short story writer

Hi 🦋! I wrote a short story collection called Modern Mythical Creatures 🦄 & my current project is a novel about tiny dragons in a cafe 🐲

I also review books for the BFS & kick gremlins out of computers.

My natural habitats are Heffers (Cambridge) & Dragon Hall (Norwich)

melodybowles.carrd.co

It's Sunday.

State your position with a gif!

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It's Sunday.

State your position with a gif!

We're open for submissions this week, for the last time until January. 🪟

Tune in to today's Brainstoryum #podcast for:

* adventures in #Fantasy Con &unexpected insights

* dark & strange flash fiction from @nickleevee.bsky.social
@quantumfairy.bsky.social& @madp03t.bsky.social

* 3 new rounds of Exquisite Corpse

* a monster in disguise 👀
annatizard.com/brainstoryum

The #language of trees
So different from
Ocean tongue
Speak for the bees
And the little ones.
You see that ripple
There on the back tide
Becomes a hurricane

The oceans spoken
Founder ship
Made mistake
Like not speaking
Tongues, ripples
In the wind
Great Lakes
Whisper
The Edmund Fitzgerald

#vss365

YouTube video by Brainstoryum: Short Stories and Writing Prompts #92. Halloween Special—A Brimming Casket of Creepiness (Short Stories and Poetry)

Excited for the new Brainstoryum show to drop tomorrow!

Got some amazing writers' short stories to share, plus insights from the Fantasy Con event last weekend (though sadly this feels like ages ago now...)

In the meantime, you can still get spooky with this! ⬇️👀🦇

m.youtube.com/watch?v=cnzd...

Happy Friday, good people!

Btw, this offer ends tomorrow as the spooky season comes to a close. Keep the spooks alive a little longer with I For Immortality!

👀⬇️🦇

#books #reading

Interesting that this sentiment came out of surrealism. It's often perceived as a complete departure from reality! 🧐