Jon Adcock

Fairyland was great and the War of the Maps wasn't quite what I expected, but still good.

We made it to Saturday, friends! Did you do any writing this last week? If you did, share a short line from your recent writing sessions. Are you happy with it? Do you already have plans to improve it?

From my short story, "Homecoming." Happy with it.

#BookSky #WriteSky #SaturdaySnippet 🪐📚💙

One of my favorite parts:

"Death knew that to tinker with the fate of one individual could destroy the whole world. He knew this. The knowledge was built into him.

To Bill Door, he realized, it was so much horse elbows.

OH, DAMN, he said

And walked into the fire."

Book covers to Moorcock’s Elric Saga

I have the same edition. Great book

@tammykomoff.bsky.social mentioned it was her favorite of the series, so I figured I'd start with that one. I'm about 3/4 of the way through and love it. I wasn't a big fantasy fan growing up, so I never considered reading Pratchett, and I regret that now. Very cute and funny.

YouTube video by nzoz1983 Midnight Oil - Short Memory (1983)

Midnight Oil - Short Memory

Peter Garrett and Midnight Oil with a song that's still very relevant

#musicsky #nowplaying #nowlistening #livemusic

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YouTube video by HMKFAN1 Bram Tchaikovsky - Bloodline

Favorite songs/artists

Ex-Motors guitarist, Bram Tchaikovsky, performing my favorite track off his 1979 debut solo album, Strange Man, Changed Man. I love power pop and catchy guitar riffs.

#musicsky #nowplaying #nowlistening #livemusic

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Yeah, yet another episode of "what the fuck am I waking up to this morning?"

Started my first Pratchett book this week: Reaper Man. Regretting not reading him sooner.

The first of his books I read. A really good collection overall

a picture of a milk crate filled with albums: your music library is floating in the cloud. Ours weighed 40 pounds and required a stolen milk crate

#musicsky

Ilium and Olympos are my favorites

the cover to Terry Pratchett's Reaper man

FYI, I'm loving this book. Very cute. I don't know why I never read any of his books before.

Great writer. I've read a few of his Sci-fi books:

Hyperion
The Hall of Hyperion
Ilium
Olympos

The current full catalogue of my #fantasybooks. Genres: epic fantasy, coming-of-age, young adult. I've been a full-time fantasy author for a decade now and typically publish one book a year. I'm thinking of changing it up after this series and publishing a trilogy a year. Me in a nutshell =P

Congrats, Fran.

sounds great

You're welcome. Definitely something to be proud of.

QTP with a cover song that you love 🎶

An absolutely brilliant cover, especially her prose poem at the end of it. Only Patti Smith could make the song darker.

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Happy Friday

YouTube video by SergioSPBR Sinead O' Connor - I'm stretched on your grave - live

Favorite songs/artists

Sinead O' Connor - I'm Stretched on Your Grave

A haunting live performance by the incomparable Sinead O' Connor at her peak.

#musicsky #nowplaying #nowlistening #livemusic

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Pitch for The Refinement: Mercury by Rachel E. Tell, complete 90k word upper YA dark fantasy. "When the insecurities of a powerful but anxious girl make her the prime target for an exploitative cult, she must learn to accept herself before she's consumed." Along with a small tagline for the book, "Till the well runs dry."

Mood board for The Refinement: Mercury by Rachel E. Tell. Includes a picture of Rhodes College, a mushroom circle, bats in a purple night sky, a well hung with lanterns, books and tea, silhouettes of a couple dancing, a silhouette of a girl being pupeteered, and a hand holding a crown. In the corners are gold images of mushrooms and a bee.

Excerpt from The Refinement: Mercury by Rachel E. Tell: The figure dropped to the ground on all fours, its wings falling to either side, limp and useless. And it screamed. It was like the distant roar that sounded while the energies fought inside of [Redacted name], but this was unleashed, enraged, and very much here. The figure’s face was like [Redacted name]'s but twisted into a mask of fury and hatred, mouth too wide, limbs now distorted, too thin, too long. And there were patches of blackened, charred skin, rimmed in red that slowly expanded. Like a fallen angel, a demon summoned from the depths of hell, it started crawling, four limbs moving quick, insect-like, leaving scorch marks on the floor. It rushed straight for [Redacted name], dragging its dead wings behind it.

Comps and Themes for The Refinement: Mercury by Rachel E. Tell. Comps listed are A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid, Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, The Honeys by Ryan La Sala, HBO's The Vow NXIVM documentary, the anime Mob Psycho 100, and Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson. Themes listed are: dark academia psychological horror cult indoctrination (love bombing, unfreezing / changing / refreezing) grief and healing neurodivergent rep found family perfectionist cinnamon roll slow burn grumpy mentor → lovers morally gray allies an egregious amount of Jungian theory

Didn't realize #MupPit was on here too, hi!

The Refinement: Mercury
A Study in Drowning x Ninth House x HBO's The Vow

🕯️ Upper YA dark academia
🐝 Cult indoctrination
🩸 Gilded cages & ritualized ego-death
🎭 Neurodivergence & masking to survive
🚩 Suburban horror w/grooming red flags

#Q #YA #DF #Psy

a man wearing a headband and gloves with the letters ll on them ALT: a man wearing a headband and gloves with the letters ll on them

Gambit was the best part of the movie for me

a classic album and song:

I'm waiting for my man
Twenty-six dollars in my hand
Up to Lexington, 1-2-5
Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive
I'm waiting for my man

love the title

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Great book and I thought the movie did a very good job of adapting it.

Congrats

Page 1 of The Fly Trap by Holly Manno an epic scifi romance for NOW

#datacenters #scifibooks
with 🫦🌶 xo

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good way of putting it.