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Cover of The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott has a purplish/pink background tone (but tasteful!). In the background rise three mysterious towers and a gateway. The path to the gateway is lined by massive statues of warriors with the bodies of humans and the heads of beasts. Two tiny figures stand in a splash of sunlight as they contemplate entering the compound with the towers.

My grimsweet fantasy road trip (on foot) lands today w/ a humble deputy courier forced to guide uppity court officials on a back country route that includes a ravenous fungal ghost plague, court intrigue, & a mysterious haunt.
First of a duology (bk 2 in Nov).

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Enola Holmes and the Clanging Coffin 9781250407580 - Macmillan Enola Holmes—international bestselling and Netflix streaming sensation—returns when rescuing a young woman pits her against her brother Sherlock&#8...

My publisher wants me to share this link with you, so here it is: read.macmillan.com/lp/enola-hol...

Anyone in San Diego wanna come hear me read and talk about my new novella Don't Sleep with the Dead? I'm at the legendary Mysterious Galaxy tonight at 7!!!

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On in 30 with Dahlia de la Vega at Skylight Books!

(Oh my gosh, this place is gorgeous...)

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The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani | Waterstones Buy The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

It’s launch day for THE MIDNIGHT KING!!! Super excited to finally see this book out in the wild.

If you like dark, grizzly, serial killer thrillers, then check it out now 😎

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An exciting day to share the incredible results of our excavations at Farley Moor standing stone last October www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The cover of Gods of the Wyrdwood. white with a weird tree like face on it.

Oh, Canadian and US friends, looks like GODS OF THE WYRDWOOD is cheap at all good ebook retailiers. Why not read about people coming together to stand up to a really unpleasant society? We love to see it.

Grocery store.

I’d guess there’s some German influence at work. In our Anglo Filipino California household, we call any semi-authentic pasta dish “pasta,” but anything non-Italian but with the shape of spaghetti (udon, soba, etc.) “noodles.”

Took the train early this morning to Seattle for Emerald City Comicon, where I'll be at a couple of panels and signing books at the Del Rey both. Tired and melancholic and anxious. Like I've said before, what a time to be both Canadian and Mexican.

Sunday Preview – Get ready for the Black Library Celebration - Warhammer Community Piles of books, and new miniatures for The Horus Heresy.

Preorders for the Black Library celebration kick off next Saturday. Apparently if you buy a BL book there's a freebie collection with stories from me and 3 other sterling authors. My story, Web of Ruin, may contain spiders... www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

This writer has been facing awful challenges, including health issues. They could use a donation, if you have a few dollars to spare.

Uto-Aztecan reconstrution of the day (i.e. I just made it today):

Proto-Corachol-Nahua *pɨ̒tse "to kiss"
Pre-Nahua: *pɨ̒tse-wa

Cognates:
Nahuatl pitsoa
Sta. Teresa Náayeri: pɨ̒itse'e

Probably derived from PUA *putsa "to blow"

(Maybe I should have saved this for Valentine's day...)

MERIDIANO CERO giveaway Win a copy of MERIDIANO CERO Shipped anywhere in the world ​*** Signed copy of the Spanish translation of the novella Prime Meridian/Meridiano Cero. Copia autografiada de la novela corta Meridiano Cer...

Enter a giveaway for the Spanish language translation of my novella Prime Meridian aka Meridiano Cero. Open worldwide.

Pueden ganar una copia de mi novela corta Meridiano Cero, recientemente traducida al español por Estela Peña Molatore y publicada por Minotauro.
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I am having so much fun writing this new book. My characters, less so.

This is the absolutely magnificent map that Katrin produced based on my Echoes of the Fall series. It's an incredible piece of work.

The Anglian York Helmet is composed of four main elements; a composite cap (brown in colour), two hinged cheek-pieces (also brown in colour) and a curtain of ring mail as a neckguard. The brass-coloured nose guard is covered with intricate interlaced animals. The 'eyebrows' have animal-head terminals, and an inscribed copper alloy band that runs over and across the crest of the helmet. The interlacing animals on the nose guard have open lips, comma-shaped eyes and spiral hips. Between the ‘eyebrows' and facing downward, is a larger animal head with a rounded snout and comma-shaped eyes, like those on the nose guard. This animal has ears on either side of its head that merge with the inscribed copper alloy band. An inscription on the band reads: 'IN. NOMINE. DNI. NOSTRI. IHV. SCS. SPS. D. ET. OMNIBUS. DECEMUS. AMEN. OSHERE. XPI.' This abbreviated Latin inscription may be translated as 'In the name of our Lord Jesus, the Holy Spirit, God and with all we pray. Amen. Oshere. Christ.'

The remarkably well-preserved York Helmet is one of only six surviving helmets from Anglo-Saxon Britain. A Latin inscription bears the name of its owner ‘Oshere’. Discovered by a digger operator in Coppergate, York, in 1982. Iron and copper alloy, dated AD 770-775 📷 by me

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My photo shows a museum display with luxury Minoan ceramic cups known as Kamares Ware, from Phaistos, Crete. Produced by palace workshops c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs. Many with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!

They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago!

Known as Kamares Ware, these luxury Minoan ceramics were made in palace workshops. From Phaistos, Crete.

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Yr Hobyd: A perfect Christmas stocking filler A Welsh publisher has released a new translation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy novel The Hobbit in Welsh. One of the most popular and most-translated books of the twentieth century and the prelu...

A Welsh publisher has released a new translation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy novel The Hobbit in Welsh wp.me/p8Mk4U-SfE

ANU Press New Release Cover image of Ritual Voices of Revelation The Origin Narratives of the Rotenese of Eastern Indonesia

‘The poetic use of ritual language creates a world of metaphor and imagination.’

The origin narratives in our latest title come from two long-established domains on the island of Rote in eastern Indonesia.

Get your copy and learn more: doi.org/10.22459/RVR...

ANU Press New Release Cover image of 'A Grammar of Warlmanpa'

Our newest title is a grammatical description of the Warlmanpa language, a Pama-Nyungan language of Australia presently spoken in Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory and surrounding country

Purchase a copy or download for free doi.org/10.22459/GW.2024

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Raptores orbis, postquam cuncta vastantibus defuere terrae, iam mare scrutantur: si locuples hostis est, avari, si pauper, ambitiosi, quos non Oriens, non Occidens satiaverit: soli omnium opes atque inopiam pari adfectu concupiscunt. auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominibus imperium, atque ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant. (Tacitus, Agricola 30) Robbers of the world, now that earth fails their all-devastating hands, they probe even the sea: if their enemy have wealth, they have greed; if he be poor, they are ambitious; East nor West has glutted them; alone of mankind they covet with the same passion want as much as wealth. To plunder, butcher, steal, these things they misname empire: they make a desolation and they call it peace. (trans. Hutton & Peterson, revised by Ogilvie, Warmington & Winterbottom, Loeb)

Briton Chieftain Calgacus, Against the Venture Capitalists and Techbros, 83/84 AD

Kuchean Tocharian (Tocharian B) word of the day:
Or ("wood").

From PIE *doru- ("wood". cf. Sanskrit dāru, Hittite tāru- etc.); the disappearing *d is sometimes argued to be a sign of a glottalic element in the "plain voiced" sounds of PIE, i.e, a preglottalized sound turning into a glottal stop.

These are great! I love tumult and katzenjammer, although the latter means “the yammering of cats”. I suppose hundenjammer would be the equivalent. 😆

What's the collective noun for a passel of dachshunds?

A snuggle of dachshunds?
A daemonium of dachshunds?
A cacophony of dachshunds?
A party pack of dachshunds?
A delirium of dachshunds?
A delightfulness of dachshunds?
A doggedness of dachshunds?

Other ideas?

#dachshunds #doxies #dogsofbluesky

A poster depicting a painting of Grey Haven harbor, with three Hobbits standing on top of a hill, looking at it. They stand under a large tree with several bowls and a squirrel perching on it. A sailing ship can be seen sailing away. On top of the painting is Bilbo's Last Song poem. Bilbo's Last Song (At the Grey Havens) Day is ended, dim my eyes, but journey long before me lies. Farewell, friends! I hear the call. The ship's beside the stony wall. Foam is white and waves are grey; beyond the sunset leads my way. Foam is salt, the wind is free; I hear the rising of the Sea. Farewell, friends! The sails are set, the wind is east, the moorings fret. Shadows long before me lie, beneath the ever-bending sky, but islands lie behind the Sun that I shall raise ere all is done; lands there are to west of West, where night is quiet and sleep is rest. Guided by the Lonely Star, beyond the utmost harbour-bar I'll find the havens fair and free, and beaches of the Starlit Sea. Ship, my ship! I seek the West, and fields and mountains ever blest. Farewell to Middle-Earth at last. I see the Star above your mast!

A poster of "Bilbo's Last Song (at the Grey Havens)", printed over artwork by Pauline Baynes, published on 26 November 1974.

Tolkien first composed it in Old Norse as Vestr um haf ("West over sea") in early 1920s. His secretary, Joy Hill, rediscovered it in 1968, and Tolkien gifted it to her.

So, the “Perspectives on Fantasy” book series (Bloomsbury) I’m co-editing with @mjrsangster.bsky.social and Brian Attebery has grown! 6 books out (left) and more due out soon (right)! And even more that don’t have a cover as yet! Will post updates!
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Publications & Presentations Want a copy of something I haven't linked to here? Email me! Dissertation 2014. Windesi Wamesa Morphophonology. Committee: Profs. Claire Bowern, Stephen R. Anderson, Ryan Bennett, and Mary Dalrymple (...

Another successful conference on the books! Feels good to be back at it.

Slides for all three of my talks are up on my website if you're interested in Austronesian vowel harmony, lexical sources of Proto-Yapen, or artificial language learning experiments and unnatural phonological patterns! 🧪 🐦🐦