@alexandraalmond.bsky.social
Writer, designer, would-be footballer. she/her. On Bunurong land, voted YES. Debut novel THOROUGHLY DISENCHANTED won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel 2024.
For me it's names. Names are so hard!
22.11.2025 01:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm a grammar nerd and I'm always happy to listen to people talk about words. Except I'm trying to imagine how getting into the nitty gritty of typographical stuff works in an audio format?
08.11.2025 01:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I went to like this but… any good news for the week? 😔
03.11.2025 02:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I accidentally left my watch charging last night when I went to bed, and now I have no way to tell how well I slept.
01.11.2025 21:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It turns out I don't have a copy on my kobo (just paperback and an evil kindle version) so hey, bought the whole series just in case.
01.11.2025 21:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Text reads October reads: October 2025 with pictures of 14 book covers. A mix of romance and fantasy (sometimes both), with Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies standing out genre-wise.
My reading list trended more fantasy in October, not surprising after Conflux at the start of the month. Standouts were Freya Marske's latest Cinder House, and The Rook from Dan O'Malley.
31.10.2025 22:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Goodness! I thought my area was busy, but it's nothing like that
31.10.2025 07:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Happy birthday! Thanks for giving us all a present.
30.10.2025 09:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This was my intro to KJC and remains my favourite. Do yourself a favour!
30.10.2025 09:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Cinder House is terrific and also short, so you can feel like you're making progress on the pile of books if that's a thing for you
30.10.2025 01:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Onya, ACCC.
TL;DR Microsoft tried to force subscribers to pay extra for CoPilot.
I was one of ‘more than 100’ people who complained to the ACCC about this. Knowing how few voices can make a difference, I will be complaining about lots more things in future.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
In Yarraville today... a woman in pyjamas calmly waits for a train. Her hair and makeup is done, she’s carrying a bag as if on her way to work. A new fashion? Or did she just forget the bottom half this morning.
23.10.2025 21:31 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Ah Kim I'm sorry ❤️
23.10.2025 02:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The latest from KJ Charles—All Of Us Murderers—
is a queer tongue in cheek love letter to goth horror.
Such a good question: do we want public transport to BE safe or to FEEL safe? And the comments get into whether the unsafe view is driven by users or non-users, and how putting more security on PT can make it better and worse.
21.10.2025 21:34 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0And the sequel to Waiting for the Flood—Chasing the Light—which is included in the latest release, is even better. I went from Team Edwin to Team Marius in about 2 pages.
20.10.2025 22:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
What a lovely thread! Here's my comfort read shelf. Lots of crossover with other mentions but ones I don't think I've seen include In Other Lands, Swordcrossed, Yield Under Great Persuasion, Waiting for the Flood.
20.10.2025 21:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Inspired by Shohei Ohtani's best baseball game of all time (he’s both a pitcher and a batter, and on Friday nobody hit any of his pitches, and he hit 3 home runs) I'm rereading @catswrites.bsky.social's You Should Be So Lucky and it's heartwarmingly lovely.
www.si.com/mlb/shohei-o...
A painting of Kalkadunga man William Barton with his didgeridoo. He is smiling at the camera, a geniunely happy smile that invites you in. There is a bookcase and a couch in the background, and light coming from the left. It is a hopeful portrait.
Got to see the touring Archibald Prize exhibition at Geelong last night. They were all excellent but this one was my fave.
staging.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/prize_...
Terrific article from Van Badham on AI: "If your business model is theft and slavery, you’re not an industry. You’re a pirate."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Freshly baked bread for Thoroughly Disenchanted.
15.10.2025 23:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy book birthday 🎂📘🎉
15.10.2025 00:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The thing about going in with no expectations is, you can enjoy the small pleasures. The beer is good, and it’s not raining.
12.10.2025 04:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A selfie of a smiling man and woman wearing Collingwood scarves, two beers sit on a railing with a footy ground in the background.
Dad and I snared a balcony seat to watch the saints beat the pies today
12.10.2025 04:28 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My new favourite word
10.10.2025 02:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy (belated) book birthday to @amyhuttonauthor.bsky.social for Ghosted 📘🎉🎂
This is a lovely paranormal romance, a perfect blend of spooky and romantic, and just in time for Halloween 👻❤️
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
On my way home from #conflux19 and what a beautiful way that was to spend a weekend. Met some new friends, got inspired to write, and enlarged the TBR pile (quite a bit, actually). Win-win-win 🏆
06.10.2025 06:34 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There are many excellent consultancies who do great work and won’t use AI. Hit me up, I’ll give you some names (hint, none of the big 4 will be there)
06.10.2025 04:32 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Satin Bowerbird needs your help! Vote now to make sure it stays in the running.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Poster advertising Conflux 19 on 3-6 October 2025 with the panels Alexandra is appearing on: Saturday 11.30 Food Glorious Food and Sunday 12.30 Love Is The Drug
I'm on my way to #conflux19
It's my first sci-fi and fantasy con! Sorry #romancelandia it's not you, it's me—I'm looking to broaden my happy endings. This could work out for both of us, though.
