Liz Ottosson

The Fraud serialisation, part one: the rise of Labour Together The first installment of the Canary's exclusive serialisation of Paul Holden's book The Fraud looks at the rise of Labour Together

The 1st installment of the Canary's exclusive serialisation of Paul Holden's book The Fraud looks at the rise of Labour Together, & we reveal that what the group publicly said about its creation wasn't strictly true.

You can read our serialisation every day at 9am.
www.thecanary.co/the-fraud/20...

No doubt while also having to counter lots of Israeli propaganda about how these people are "lazy" and "just can't look after themselves", conveniently ignoring who destroyed the infrastructure.

Afternoon! I am treating myself to a reread of Mick Herron's Slow Horses (rereading the entire series before getting to Clown Town, his latest), and am also dipping into Natures Ghosts by @sophieyeo.bsky.social

*deep sigh*

I'm always delighted to see a new novel from you! I'm sorry to hear you've had so much difficulty going on behind the scenes this time. Hope that's over now; please keep running!

A new novel from E. J. Swift is always cause for celebration. This one sounds like it's perfect for the moment in which a lot of us find ourselves.💚

Conscious Writing Month - The Literary Consultancy Welcome to Conscious Writing Month 2025

I'm delighted to be part of #ConsciousWritingMonth with @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social I'll be running a masterclass on Page Presence, 30th October. Grab a ticket to my Masterclass, or buy a Pass to access the entire series (bursaries available). Booking: literaryconsultancy.co.uk/event/consci...

Hoppas at onkelen din kommer trygt hjem snart. 💚 (with apologies for the svensk-norsk språk!)

Of course, as most activists have said when deported, they are not the story - the story is what Israel is doing to Palestinian people every day. You can bet most of these activists were treated much better than most Palestinians who are detained.

V worrying that several activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla are still imprisoned in Israel, including 3 Norwegians, 2 Moroccans and a Spaniard. Those deported have reported having to drink water from the toilet and being given food infested with insects. Meanwhile, other boats now intercepted.

😀 Am bringing my partner, who's finishing up a PhD on rewilding and social policy, and I think your research might be very adjacent, actually.

Please talk about the history of ecofascism!

Am so relieved to hear this. Although, as all the released flotilla members have been quick to point out, they are not the story - the real story is the much worse harm being inflicted on the people of Gaza every day.

Oh, a "militant centrist", I see. 😅 My absolute favourites.

Thanks for this reminder - about to go to the shop, so will remember to look up!

Sending thoughts and prayers. And I hope that's 8 pm Europe time, not UK!

Purple paperback cover of The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

Evening, Womble. I have had the BEST time finishing up The Raven Scholar this weekend. I think you've probably read it, but for anyone who hasn't, it's a wry, often hilarious narrative built on epic tragedy that keeps reverberating through the events of the story. Brilliant!

I read that spokesperson quote and thought, thank god I'm no longer in the Labour Party. Do not miss having to deal with that sleazy kind of double-speak one bit. (I met some great people in Labour, but so many of those in positions of power were... grim.)

I missed this: the winners of the @greenstories.bsky.social Flash Epiphanies competition have been announced: www.greenstories.org.uk/2025/09/21/w... - I was one of the readers for this, and there were some wonderful entries. Congratulations to the winners!

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.

www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

*wanders off to work on thrutopian novel about mushrooms* *set in north-east bloody England*

Yes, I know, Musk and other useful idiots were inspired by SF, whatever - have you noticed what else has been going on in the past 40 years that might have inspired them? Neoliberalism, for one! A lot of the SF trajectories we're now on were written as warnings, ffs.

It feels like the "sci-fi has gone authoritarian/reactionary" conversation has hit the mainstream and I find it so confusing because all the sci-fi I see and read is the *opposite* of that - it's hopeful, boundary-breaking, thrutopian, solarpunk, soilpunk. Like, are these guys still reading Asimov?

UK based SFF reviewers: we need you!

We have a few unclaimed review copies left of both these brand new titles!

If epic fantasy or unusual, character driven scifi is your thing, get in touch for a copy. Strictly first come, first served ⚔️🚀

Also cheap on Kobo, I notice!

Calling this novel Both Sides Now because then I get a Joni Mitchell ear worm for the entire time I spend writing it, y/y?

The Climate Fiction Prize celebrates the most inspiring novels tackling the climate crisis.

I will be one of this judges this year and would love to read your work.

The £10,000 prize is awarded annually to a single novel. Submissions now open.

Link here climatefictionprize.co.uk

Please share :)

Also done. <3

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla 24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

Damnit, I just found the synopsis I wrote for a thrutopian novel a year ago, and I have NO IDEA how I'm going to actually write it, but I really want to.