Helen Marshall

Like Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita? The Lady, The Tiger, and the Girl Who Loved Death weaves together magic, political spectacle, and the power of storytelling in a world where reality and illusion blur dangerously together. Out from @titanbooks.bsky.social now!

#DarkFantasy #CircusBooks

Dark Imaginings - Brisbane Powerhouse Fairytales and historical myths are often readers’ first encounter with the darkness of human nature. Explore more at Brisbane Writers Festival.

Catch me Thursday at the Brisbane Writers Festival for “Dark Imaginings”!

Fairytales and historical myths are often readers’ first encounter with the darkness of human nature. In these stunning novels, fable and archetype are reworked in dazzling ways.

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#BWF

ICYMI: We're hiring a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in #CreativeWriting at UQ!
-looking for literary fiction, poetry, graphic novels, comics, digital storytelling, new media, or games!
-international applications welcome
Apply: uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo... #HigherEd #AcademicJobs

Fire as cleansing, fire as transformation. The Bulgarian fire festivals—where dancers walk barefoot across burning coals—shaped how I imagined ritual and renewal in THE LADY, THE TIGER, AND THE GIRL WHO LOVED DEATH.

#Fantasy #Folklore #Inspiration #AmWriting

Life is just one tiny fright after another, isn't it?

"Why can't AI just do my research?" Because creative research isn't information retrieval. I'm working on a new academic article showing how research methods produce the distinctive textures of literary prose, looking at Octavia Butler, William Gibson, Kim Stanley Robinson and Andy Weir.

Thinking about Octavia Butler's #writingadvice in Furor Scribendi today: "Forget talent. If you have it, fine. Use it. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter. As habit is more dependable than inspiration, continued learning is more dependable than talent."

While writing The Lady, the Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death, I found myself captivated by haunting photographs of abandoned circuses across Eastern Europe. #WritingInspiration #DarkFantasy #EasternEurope #Circus #AuthorLife #FantasyFiction #WritingProcess

ICYMI: We're hiring a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in #CreativeWriting at UQ!
-looking for literary fiction, poetry, graphic novels, comics, digital storytelling, new media, or games!
-international applications welcome

Apply: uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...
#HigherEd #AcademicJobs

HUGE news! We're hiring in Creative Writing at UQ!

Looking for an amazing writer working in literary fiction, poetry, graphic novels, comics, digital storytelling, new media, or games! International applications welcome.

This is going to be AWESOME

uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...

“Toward the end of a book, the state of composition feels like a complex, chemically altered state that will go away if I don’t give it what it needs. And what it needs is to write all the time.” I feel that, William Gibson — is this universal among writers?

Alexievich's The Unwomanly Face of War inspired my writing by revealing the erased stories of women in conflict. A masterpiece. #TheUnwomanlyFaceOfWar #Alexievich #WritingInspiration #UntoldStories (The Lady, The Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death is out now from @titanbooks.bsky.social !)

The cover of The Lady, the Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death is bright, with many colours and the three titular characters represented in a modern almost pop art style

A beautifully written Slavic fantasy featuring the circus and a tiger from @titanbooks.bsky.social. The Lady, the Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death by Helen Marshall #BFSReview britishfantasysociety.org/review/the-l...

Romanian bear dancers inspired the haunting folklore in my novel THE LADY, THE TIGER AND THE GIRL WHO LOVED DEATH--ancient rituals of rebirth and demons bleeding from bear skins.

Now out from @titanbooks.bsky.social (edited by the brilliant @cathtrechman.bsky.social) #DarkFantasy #FolkHorror

Tech companies are stealing our books, music and films for AI. It’s brazen theft and must be stopped | Anna Funder and Julia Powles If we don’t refuse and resist, not just our culture but our democracy will be irrevocably diminished

Brilliant Guardian piece on how Big Tech is systematically stealing books, music & films to train AI without consent or payment. This isn't innovation. It's digital colonialism threatening our entire creative ecosystem.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Featuring The Death of Stalin, The Prestige, La Strada and Moulin Rouge!

These are some of my favorite films and if you love them too, my novel is absolutely made for you! THE LADY, THE TIGER AND THE GIRL WHO LOVED DEATH has all the magic, drama, and political edge you crave🔥

Out from @titanbooks.bsky.social (and thanks to @cathtrechman.bsky.social for the fab edits!)

The Lady, the Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death by Helen Marshall: Review by Ian Mond The Lady, the Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death, Helen Marshall (Titan 978-1-80336-951-8, $18.99, 368pp, tp) June 2025. I’m a big fan of Helen Marshall’s fiction, both short and long, including he…

ICYMI! Amazing review from Locus: “I rate Marshall...as one of the best fantasists working in the field....At its core, THE LADY, THE TIGER AND THE GIRL WHO LOVED DEATH is a story about stories.” @mondyboy74.bsky.social reviews @titanbooks.bsky.social

locusmag.com/2025/08/the-...

Peggie saw a thylacine as a child. She wouldn't ever want to 'go back and see it' Even after a long life, Peggie Bassett can still remember the guttural growl and striking scent of the last known thylacine as it prowled its concrete enclosure.

Thinking about wildness today and why it matters to us. 🐅

94-year-old Peggie remembers the last thylacine's cries at Hobart Zoo—a loneliness that still haunts her decades later. "We didn't realise it was the last one until it was too late."

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Best birthday ever! 🎂 Friends, Blood on the Clocktower, and live sketching by the talented @tanaudel.bsky.social . Special shoutout to the masterpiece of Leah reading her character notes while tiny Spiderman creeps around. We all survived the night! #BirthdayGames #BloodOnTheClockTower

Words include "Chatgtp", "showcasing" "underscore" "excels" "grappling" "aligning". But not, or not yet, "clench" or "futtock".

Samuel Hume's graph: words that indicate a document is more likely to be written by AI
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Putin and Xi caught on hot mic talking about living to 150 Putin confirms the conversation, saying modern medicine gives hope for longer, healthier lives.

Putin & Xi caught on hot mic discussing immortality & living to 150. Writing my 2067 novel about AI & eternal life and thinking about when power seeks permanence how high the cost can be www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

A reader told me they want more book clubs discussing The Lady, The Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death and debating whether Irenda is a good person in a bad system or should be first against the wall when the revolution comes. This is exactly the kind of moral chaos I live for.

I haven’t! I am on Persepolis Rising so I still have a couple of months of commutes left!

I have just been listening to all The Expanse on audiobook so I am curious about The Mercy of Gods!

I hope you enjoy it!!!

The Lady, the Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death by Helen Marshall: Review by Ian Mond The Lady, the Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death, Helen Marshall (Titan 978-1-80336-951-8, $18.99, 368pp, tp) June 2025. I’m a big fan of Helen Marshall’s fiction, both short and long, including he…

“At its core, THE LADY, THE TIGER AND THE GIRL WHO LOVED DEATH is a story about stories.” @mondyboy74.bsky.social reviews @manuscriptgal.bsky.social

Croquet, Anyone? Making Moscow a Vast Fun Zone to Divert Minds From War.

Life imitating art: Reading about Moscow’s surreal detachment from war while people live in carefully constructed unrealities reminds me why I wrote The Lady, The Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death—a story about power, illusion, and the lies we tell ourselves
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/w...

I wish you did too!

🐅 Join me July 24 at Avid Reader (6:30pm) as Angela Slatter & I dive into The Lady, The Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death - a dark tale of grief, revenge & the dangerous allure of the circus. Can't wait to share this story! avidreader.com.au/pages/11648-... ✨

After today's technical difficulties, this lovely review from Corey Redekop is exactly what I needed to see. Thank you, Corey! 🙏