Steven Poore

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I feel this is one everybody should read.

"oh, but it can't happen here."
And yet...

And here's the bloody police calling Palestine Action terrorists.

If you don’t need convincing that women can fight, this collection is for you.

And if you do need some persuasion, this collection is also for you — though you might end up a little more paranoid than before, as not all fights are direct confrontations or fairly fought.

Please don't give them free ideas...
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It me. :)

A diagonally split graphic. Text reads "Two sisters, separated by a whole world." The book title, larger, "Bring Me Home." Smaller text right, "a novella by" and Scottish author "E.M. Faulds", beneath reads, "and no one is coming to save them". Left-top side is a photgraph of a woman dressed in black standing in profile at sunset. She's high up at a viewpoint over an urban, hilly landscap with some water visible far below. Right-bottom is a photgraph of a woman in profile and upside down in the desert daytime with a white sky and sand visible behind. She wears a white baseball cap and flannel shirt over white tee shirt. Both women look serious. In the bottom left corner is a thumbnail of the Wiz Duos 2 book cover and tiny text "search Wiz Duos book 2 in online book stores and wizardstowerpress.com"

"BRING ME HOME" is near future, earth-based science fiction novella about women making unwise decisions that could affect the entire world, and beyond.

Buying links for the UK and Internationally here:
wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/nove... or search "Wiz Duos book 2".

#sciencefiction #book

oh, and bring it here - britishfantasysociety.org/get-in-touch...

less than an hour to join the party! The @britfantasysoc.bsky.social Short Story Competition will soon be closed to entries!
bring me liminal dragons! bring me trans-stellar awe!

4 hours! Not 5 hours, 4 hours!

Reboot of True Detective with John Nettles.
Make it happen, please, someone!

Literally, got out of bed.

Portraits of Patriarchs edited by Shona Kinsella — Runalong The Shelves Publisher – British Fantasy Society Published – Out Now Price – If you join the British Fantasy Society members bet a free copy. At a later date this will be available for purchase for a charit...

Joining the British Fantasy Society offers many benefits including this inventive anthology for free Portraits of Patriarchs edited by Shona Kinsella www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2023/9/...

I have three types of TTRPG character:
1. Comedy routine straight guy
2. Welsh disaster
3. Pelicos the Indefatigable!

Once again, not the picture that the media wants you to see

Northodox have a discount for #IndiePressDay - 25% off every order and preorder using code INDIE at checkout - so now's a great day to try some of their sff. There's my epic fantasy murder mystery The Executioner's Blade, set in a city where monsters go to die...
www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...

Cover of The Green Man's Heir by Juliet E McKenna. Image is a golden Green Man face against a dark green wooded background. Art by Ben Baldwin.

It is May Day and #IndiePressDay. What better time to try our best-selling title: The Green Man's Heir by Juliet McKenna:
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I guess you haven't read into the subject of AI encoding discrimination into all algorithmic patterns. An Artificial Revolution by Ivana Bartoletti is a good place to start. Now: go clean up, you shat yerself in public again.

United, undeterred and unafraid, trans people rally over court ruling Thousands gather in London’s Parliament Square to protest at judges’ decision The Observer20 Apr 2025James Tapper Stephen Chung/ LNP LEFT Crowds gather outside Parliament in a huge show of unity and solidarity. After last week’s supreme court decision, activists had been worried trans people might become fearful of going out in public in case they were abused. They weren’t afraid in London yesterday. Thousands of trans and nonbinary people thronged Parliament Square, alongside families and supporters waving baby blue, white and pink flags to demonstrate their anger at the judges’ ruling. The numbers seemed to take the organisers and police by surprise. Protesters from a hastily assembled coalition of 24 groups gathered in a ring against the barriers surrounding the grass and began speeches. But after the roads became clogged with people, a woman wearing a “Nobody knows I’m a lesbian” top ran across with her dog and soon the square was full. “It’s one hell of a turnout and there is a really strong sense of unity and solidarity,” said Jamie Strudwick, one of the organisers. “I think it’s impossible to compare it – it’s like nothing I’ve ever seen before.”

Unexpected full page in today's Observer on yesterday's protests and it doesn't interview a single GC for 'balance'

Hola Tempter! Amongst other things, I have started Too Like The Lightning, by Ada Palmer.

Done.
Because if you tolerate this...

I was hoping to be spending my birthday enjoying an Eastercon in the company of a few hundred friends. Instead I am spending it doing necessary trans activism work. Please read: www.cheryl-morgan.co...

After yesterday's heartbreaking and dangerous decision by the High Court, I have been thinking of ways we can help.

And I've come up with two ideas.

1. "adverts" on the website. If you are a trans author, we will feature your book free of charge on every page of the website for a month....

Ginger Nuts Of Horror - Contact Us The contact page for Ginger Nuts of horror Review Website, find out how to appear on the sdte here

If you are a trans author and want to do any of this, please send me an email, which can be found here

gnofhorror.com/ginger-nuts-...

Normally, this would be only open to horror authors, but this is open to all genres.

And so say we all.

A young woman in a tweed suit and light blue shirt sits on a set of old wooden stocks. She is wearing bright orange boots with black laces and one foot is resting on the stocks. One arm is resting on her leg. She has long brown very curly hair with feathers around her ear. She is looking away from the camera and wears glasses. Around her is a bright countryside garden with lots of flowers and plants.

The Tyne Bridge is pictured in the centre of the frame over a still, reflective River Tyne in Newcastle, UK. Either side of the bridge are buildings with a warmer glow as the sun rises. The words Northern Voices in white lettering feature in the bottom centre of the image.

'Art should be done by people. If it isn't, then we've lost the point of it and a bit of our humanity.'

Debut novelist Ella Ruby Self @local-sea-wytch.bsky.social on fairytales, mindful reading and why AI should be kept out of creative industries. @northodoxpress.bsky.social

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What a horrific, hollow, and truly pathetic person she is.

Yeah, he went on the nope list. Turns out I'm fucktose-intolerant.

'Get the Zuck off our books': Authors call for inquiry into Meta over 'pirated books being used to train AI' The Society of Authors (SoA) gathered outside Meta’s London HQ on Thursday (3rd April) to protest Meta’s alleged use of pirated books to train AI models.

A report on the protest at Meta HQ in London yesterday.

#DoTheWriteThing

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Graphic for the Society of Authors' day of action against Meta. Stop Thief! Meta must #DoTheRightThing

If the UK government agrees to a wholesale undoing of copyright, to excuse Meta's massive theft of books, art, movies etc as 'data', then the creative industries and all of us working in them are finished. All viewers and readers will get in future is unoriginal, derivative slop. #MetaBookThieves