Juliet E McKenna

Man of the people, anti-establishment, courageous self sacrifice etc

BBC One - Leonard and Hungry Paul, Series 1, Episode 1 Leonard begins to open up his world with the help of his best friend, Hungry Paul.

Well doesn't this look grand.

In the Radio Times and everything.

My mum would have been well chuffed and to some degree making up for the disappointment of not becoming the second English Pope.

We published in 2019.

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Curious about Eastercon Iridescence but not sure your finances can stretch for you to attend? Check out the bursary scheme (details in the quoted post and link) and don’t self-reject.

Constructions of Childhood in Tolkien’s Legendarium (3): The hobbits as children This is the third part of a longer piece on constructions of childhood in Tolkien’s legendarium.

The 3rd and final part of my piece on constructing childhood in Tolkien’s legendarium is now out, this time focusing on hobbit childhoods and hobbits *as* children.
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My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Weird anxiety dreams, and wisp of leftover thought:

If you hear someone ranting about another person, over and over, raging about the things they've done and how evil they are...

...kindly make your own decision.

Sometimes, that ranting says more about the speaker than it does about their subject

The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd). The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left. Art by Josh Arklin.

We have an early update today because Cheryl will be offline most of the day. She's at the Senedd, so today we are talking about the law code of Hywel Dda. www.kickstarter.com/...

‘96% of healthcare professionals said the model helps to reduce children’s anxiety, and 46% reported a lesser need to use sedation after the children played with the set.‘

‘Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world.’

The answer to "how does [author] hold up?" is always "for whom?" Bester holds up fine to me, but I'm a 56-year-old white dude who has a vested interest in the genre. My take on his hold-uppedness will be different than, say, a 15-year-old BIPOC girl approaching science fiction for the first time.

Folklore: A Journey Through the Past and Present at Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath

For anyone in Bath tomorrow (Tues 14th) come along to Topping Books to hear me & @odavies9.bsky.social talk #Folklore www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/bath/...

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVe: The No-Rest Of It This is the fifth dish of the fourth course of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers, who made up a majority of all of the humans who…

This week on the blog: More Peasants!

This week, we're modeling the full(ish) structure of women's labor in a pre-industrial peasant household, very roughly assessing the work required for textiles, farming, cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc.

Now with pie chart!

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As a temporary fix, perhaps.

It turns out the one of the two microphones on my mobile phone handset which is required for taking and making phone calls has failed. So I now have a bit of tech which can do all sorts of things but not perform its primary function. This is extremely unhelpful, this week of all weeks.

They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd) An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore

It has been a bit quiet today. I know yesterday was very good, but we are not funded yet so I am going to have to keep pestering you until we are. If you have already backed it, why not share it with your friends? www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

It is currently Black History Month in the United Kingdom. Britain’s past as an empire and slave trader meant that many people of colour came to Brighton, but the earliest we know of were free professionals who made lives for themselves as important members of Brighton Society.

Writing.ie The award winning online writing magazine

Here's a thing I wrote for Writing.ie about our new book WRITING THE MAGIC, and some of our top tips for writing fantasy fiction. A quick two-minute read - although obviously you should read the whole book...

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Precisely.

These are the utterly heaven-sent people who publish the historical A-Zs of London, so if you write London-set historicals, you want to follow!

In her new book 'Courting Disaster', @thezhm.bsky.social reveals how Jane Austen, Frances Burney and their contemporaries used their stories to share their ideas about sexual consent.

Because every novel about marriage is a novel about consent.
Publishing next month, pre-order now! #booksky

From the long ago...

Returns from a chain bookshop have reduced our sales to a minus figure in the most important sales month of the year.

Please support independent bookshops this Christmas.

Absolutely agreed.

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

Picture of a white raven

It's #IndigenousPeoplesDay

In a mythology from the indigenous peoples of the americas, ravens were once only white. They helped humans master fire, and were turned black by the flames

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd) An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore

Kickstarter for a great new anthology of fantasy stories using Welsh folklore in the present day

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Heads up, people of the internet: This isn't me. I don't have a TikTok account. This person is apparently messaging people over there, but this person, again: not me. Feel free to report the account, or whatever TikTok's version of that might be.
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Thank you kindly, and happy reading 😊

“Breathtaking in scope; an intricate science fiction masterpiece” – Adrian Tchaikovsky

He's talking about this book: www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...