Julie E. Czerneda

Also, time to put forth your nominations for the Aurora Award (Canada's Hugo ish)!!!
Loved something? NOMINATE!!!

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Thing I have just learned...
It's much MUCH easier to trim your ebook collection than the real print ones.
WHEE!!! Look at me delete!

Black-background WHN graphic with white and pink text. At the top is the logo text “whn.global” with a pink dot. Large central headline: “COVID isn’t ‘just a cold.’” Below that: “It can affect the brain, heart, and immune system, even months later.” In bright pink near the lower middle: “Prevention matters.” At the bottom: “World Health Network - Science for a safer, healthier world.”

COVID is not “just a cold.” Even mild or asymptomatic infections can cause lasting health effects, damaging blood vessels and organs, affecting the brain, and weakening the immune system.

#bookqw and Esen is never a #pain to revisit. (See what I did there?) My Dear Little Blob comes in myriad alien forms but the one on her first, cover by Luis Royo, is based on the first instar walking stick on my hand. #biologyrules! @dawbooks.bsky.social

Pick Me! Pick Me!
(What, 30 plus years at this and yes, one still worries about the empty table.)

It will blow up your brain, flood your heart, and make you so glad you read it.

The Public Lending Right (PLR) Program It pays to have your books in Canada’s libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program

My annual reminder to creatives in Canada that it's Public Lending Rights time! publiclendingright.ca
Tip? For tax records: keep a copy of your bank statement showing this was deposited with your PLR statement. Trust me, you may one day need it handy--just to show the flow, as they say.

Coming up SOON in Montreal - Can*Con Co*Chairs @mariebilodeau.bsky.social and @brandoncrilly.bsky.social IN CONCERT at Livre and Let Livre!

Come on out for a night filled with THINGS!

THIS!!!!!

cover of tarzan of the apes plus photo of the last page where I, being ten and furious at the ending, fixed it.

Thought I'd share my Friday Book Recommendation with folks here as well, since this is a special look back.
(I stand by my passion.)

I can't have both?

YouTube video by NFL Bad Bunny's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show

ICYMI, the full Half Time show with Bad Bunny, aka the Benito Bowl.

youtu.be/G6FuWd4wNd8?...

Well, I like your face. Do I get to have it too?

Brilliant!

I concur! Mine have run from dialogue repetition, to locations, to plain numbers...this time, it's apparently "upcoming phrase to notice". Yours?

And on sale here in Canada as well. Bought and looking forward to this! (I'd missed it.) Thanks for the headsup.

It's going to be such fun!!!

The thing with #sciencefiction? Every number you use will leap from the page and shout at your readers.
It's true.
Be wary.

(Explaining why I just spent [ ] minutes with Roger, noodling [ ] after [ ] days of my own calculations and weird sketches.)

As if THAT'S going to work.

Yup yup! (We're driving/making it a holiday)

Love the name!

SHENANIGANS!!!
(It bore repeating.)

Oh, the treasure!!!! (If you bring him, we'll have to fight off the store folks and customers--might not sell a book, but...)

::innocentlook::

@cclim.bsky.social (Forgot to tag you, I was so excited!)

What could we possibly have to talk about?
Pretty much everything, from puppies to publishing!
See you there!
@dawbooks.bsky.social @canconsffh.bsky.social

Let it snow?? We'll be there! (Well, unless it SNOWSNOWS, but you'll knowknow)

WILD APPLAUSE!!!

Cover art by Ben Baldwin. A trireme with a green and white striped sail is on fire in a tropical island sea. An astrolabe dominates the background, like a rising sun. Book extract reads: Kheda walked rapidly down the dim, familiar stairs, winding down around the tower’s central core of successive rooms packed with records and interpretations and all the materials necessary to work the different divinations that he used to serve his people. Lamplight showed beneath the closed door of the lowest chamber. ‘Sirket?’ Kheda entered and smiled affectionate reproof at his elder son. ‘Telouet’s gut’s growling louder than a jungle cat, so it must be time for us to eat. Join us.’ Seated at a reading slope, the youth looked up from the weighty book he’d been studying, eyes still distant in thought. There was no doubting he was the warlord’s son; both had eyes as green as the newest leaves of the rainy season, unusual in these southernmost isles of the sprawling Aldabreshin Archipelago. They had other features in common: high foreheads, faces more oval than round with more sharply defined cheekbones and noses than Telouet. Telouet’s nose would have been broad and flat even before the fight that had left it squashed crooked on his cheerful face. But Sirket’s mother had brought him fuller lips and darker skin than his father, as well as tightly curled black hair that he kept cropped short. Kheda’s hair and beard were a coarse and wiry brown, tamed only by close clipping. ‘My mother Janne said we might be visiting the Ulla domain before the rains arrive.’ Sirket scratched at whiskers shadowing his jaw. Not yet full grown, he was already easily the height of his father. ‘I don’t want to be shown up like Ritsem Zorat was last time.’ ‘That won’t happen. I won’t permit it.’ Kheda crossed the room and closed the heavy tome.

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'room' #BookQW
After the Tales of Einarinn, I wanted to explore other places in the world I had sketched in. First, the Aldabreshin Archipelago, where magic is banned on pain of death - which is a problem when magic attacks.
www.julietemckenna.com/books/the-al...

This is the way.
(with warm chuckles and all the yupyups)