Claire Rousseau

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the cover of REVOLUTION IN THE HEART: STORIES INSPIRED BY URSULA K. LE GUIN. Feat Alaya Dawn Johnson, Charlie Jane Anders, Ai Jiang, Ann Leckie, Molly Gloss, & Many More. Edited by Jonathan Strahan.

It's live on Instagram so I think we're allowed to yell about it here too -- I am SO HONOURED to have been invited to participate in this @ursulakleguin.com -inspired anthology with @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social and @titanbooks.bsky.social ! Out this October! LOOKIT THOSE NAMES!!!

I can never get over the incredible mix of affection & pure *dragging* his arse in Diamonds & Rust.
So much tenderness, but also calling your ex an
"unwashed phenomenon". It's just perfect.

So I will say this as gently as I can: given the current state of the world, cons (especially held in the US) should really keep or enhance their online programming instead of eliminating it. I understand it takes resources to run a hybrid con but the alternative is to exclude the rest of the world

Someone clever did this to a lamppost on Coverdale road and now I am disappointed that every lamppost doesn’t have one

“Don’t trust everything you read on the internet.”

AI search results: what if I did tho

I mean, sheep are famously countable...

Whitby rescue will neuter feral cat and name it after your ex The initiative at Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary is to mark Valentine's Day.

Genius bit of Valentine's Day marketing for a great cause! I did a full witch cackle 🤣

Rescue will neuter a cat and name it after your ex www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hugo nominations are open and I have only two requests:

1. Commit to picking 2 non-Tordotcom novellas for your ballot

2. For the love of all that is holy in this world, do not nominate adult/crossovers or middle grade books for the Lodestar - officially categorized YA only!

Lol don't worry, the balance of the universe has righted itself, I'd forgotten to check in online and had to queue for 20 minutes for an overworked easyjet employee to print me one.

And now for my anti-apocalypse skillz:

- it takes me like an hour to wake up properly & i'm USELESS without coffee
- i hold grudges, like a lot. i will struggle to be civil to arseholes in any situation
- i'm kinda loud, so it better not be zombies
- i get grumpy quick when my back hurts, ie. A LOT

Repost with your apocalypse skill:
- Veggie gardening, preserving & cooking.
- Community organising, will volunteer to help run stuff.
- Woodworking & general handiness, incurable i-bet-i-could-fix-that-edness
- To Jacob's most excellent point, will fight anyone who argues for not saving everyone.

Also you give very good hugs, which feels like it'd be an important skill for warding off despair in the apocalypse.

Is this how organised people feel all the time?

In a turn of events never before exposure by moi, I have made it onto the train I actually planned to take to the airport, not just the backup train that would get me there an hour and a half before my flight, not the full two. And that's without the train running late? I was just... on time?

Ohhh, I adored the one Angela Slatter book I've read, I've been meaning to try more of hers!
I just finished The Butcher of the Forest (you were VERY RIGHT about Premee Mohamed's writing!!) and I'm about to start The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson.

My ebook library hold for Freya Marske's Swordcrossed has just come in early & I'm so excited to get stuck in to another one of her wonderful stories!! I've also got a copy of The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson, because is it even travelling if you don't bring along a paperback?

My next library audiobook, probably for the return trip, is A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alex Rowland, which the blurb says will appeal to fans of my forever fave, The Goblin Emperor, so I have HIGH HOPES.

I'm off to France today to hang out with family for a few days, so obvi, I've got to have a lot of books lined up.
I prefer audiobooks for the plane: a few hours left of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, plus The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty out from the library.

Picturing "I'm batman" from the lego movie lol

Woops, not sure how I missed it!!

@portalbookshop.bsky.social Could you hook me up with a pre-order, pretty please? DM me for payment + shipping details? xxx

Good morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading Grave Empire by Richard Swan for some epic fantasy. What are you reading at the moment?

Happy Sunday everybody! I'm currently reading The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, and making my way through Nghi Vo's gorgeous Singing Hills cycle, with Into The Riverlands next.

Can't wait for @stephanieburgis.bsky.social's latest! Look at this gorgeous UK edition, I'm so excited to have it on my shelves!

Ohhhh those are gorgeous!! I'd only seen the cover with the couple on it (US, presumably?) and I was already excited for the story but now I'm excited for the physical object too!!

Bugs and Daffy standing by a tree, sign reads DUCK SEASON, then RABBIT SEASON then ELMER SEASON, and they both glare ominously off camera

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

I know!! Same here

Okay but Gwendoline Christie as Lady Sybil Ramkin.

That's it, that's the skeet.