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[?]Gretchen K Deahl » 🌐
@gretchenkdeahl@pixelfed.social

GORGEOUS MONSTERS & THEIR PETS
Welcome to my new interview series. I am the official human spokesperson for the Guardian Monster Guild, editor of the Monster Times & Review and author of the glamorous tell-all book, What Monsters Want. These are hard-won credentials that I have worked tirelessly to obtain. As an ordinary human being, entering the realm of Monsterdom requires a rigorous determination, and an ego that can survive all manner of taunts, threats and indignation. I have endured countless nips, pokes and licks from numerous monsters whose intent, it seems, was to provoke me into giving up. I have proved them wrong! NOTE: This latest set of interviews on monster pets is for human eyes only and includes interviews with a select group from the Gorgeous Monsters Society. (This is the name they give themselves.) Here we discuss their feelings of unabashed adoration for their beloved pets as well as their care and feeding. Meet Constance, of the Tellarium tribe & her two pets:
Esmerelda, a Blue Nifted Whistler and Eggelston, a baby Inkbit.
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Read the full interview on: https://www.behance.net/gallery/229560383/Gorgeous-Monster-Constance-and-her-two-pets
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Seated comfortably on an antique chair with one leg swung over the arm, a pale magenta monster, with a long striped trunk, gives singing lessons to her favorite pet and pupil - a blue dragon-like creature with orange highlights. Out of its whistling mouth, leaf-like notes of song flow. On the large monsters lap, being tickled, another favorite pet. This little guy is a teal pattered, eight-legged critter, with an orange and gold face and belly. It is giggling wildly. (partial image)

Alt...Seated comfortably on an antique chair with one leg swung over the arm, a pale magenta monster, with a long striped trunk, gives singing lessons to her favorite pet and pupil - a blue dragon-like creature with orange highlights. Out of its whistling mouth, leaf-like notes of song flow. On the large monsters lap, being tickled, another favorite pet. This little guy is a teal pattered, eight-legged critter, with an orange and gold face and belly. It is giggling wildly. (partial image)

Seated comfortably on an antique chair with one leg swung over the arm, a pale magenta monster, with a long striped trunk, gives singing lessons to her favorite pet and pupil - a blue dragon-like creature with orange highlights. Out of its whistling mouth, leaf-like notes of song flow. On the large monsters lap, being tickled, another favorite pet. This little guy is a teal pattered, eight-legged critter, with an orange and gold face and belly. It is giggling wildly. (FULL image)

Alt...Seated comfortably on an antique chair with one leg swung over the arm, a pale magenta monster, with a long striped trunk, gives singing lessons to her favorite pet and pupil - a blue dragon-like creature with orange highlights. Out of its whistling mouth, leaf-like notes of song flow. On the large monsters lap, being tickled, another favorite pet. This little guy is a teal pattered, eight-legged critter, with an orange and gold face and belly. It is giggling wildly. (FULL image)

Seated comfortably on an antique chair with one leg swung over the arm, a pale magenta monster, with a long striped trunk, gives singing lessons to her favorite pet and pupil - a blue dragon-like creature with orange highlights. Out of its whistling mouth, leaf-like notes of song flow. On the large monsters lap, being tickled, another favorite pet. This little guy is a teal pattered, eight-legged critter, with an orange and gold face and belly. It is giggling wildly. (partial image)

Alt...Seated comfortably on an antique chair with one leg swung over the arm, a pale magenta monster, with a long striped trunk, gives singing lessons to her favorite pet and pupil - a blue dragon-like creature with orange highlights. Out of its whistling mouth, leaf-like notes of song flow. On the large monsters lap, being tickled, another favorite pet. This little guy is a teal pattered, eight-legged critter, with an orange and gold face and belly. It is giggling wildly. (partial image)

Seated comfortably on an antique chair with one leg swung over the arm, a pale magenta monster, with a long striped trunk, gives singing lessons to her favorite pet and pupil - a blue dragon-like creature with orange highlights. Out of its whistling mouth, leaf-like notes of song flow. On the large monsters lap, being tickled, another favorite pet. This little guy is a teal pattered, eight-legged critter, with an orange and gold face and belly. It is giggling wildly. (partial image)

Alt...Seated comfortably on an antique chair with one leg swung over the arm, a pale magenta monster, with a long striped trunk, gives singing lessons to her favorite pet and pupil - a blue dragon-like creature with orange highlights. Out of its whistling mouth, leaf-like notes of song flow. On the large monsters lap, being tickled, another favorite pet. This little guy is a teal pattered, eight-legged critter, with an orange and gold face and belly. It is giggling wildly. (partial image)

    [?]Curt Johnson - Indie Genius » 🌐
    @indiegenius@mastodon.social

    Movie TV Tech Geeks This 2025 Fantasy Epic Sequel Fails to Live Up to the Original's High Standard dlvr.it/TV9nK5

      [?]Skip Scherer - Author » 🌐
      @skipscherer@mastodon.social

      There is no turning back.

      Escape was an illusion, and the only path left is down. Delve returns in 1 week—prepare yourself for what’s waiting in the deep.

      Collected Edition FREE: skipscherer.com/books/
      —
      —

      Delve — The social media fantasy serial story told 300 characters at a time — Returns on Sept 1, 2026!

      Alt...Delve — The social media fantasy serial story told 300 characters at a time — Returns on Sept 1, 2026!

        [?]Owen Tyme » 🌐
        @OwenTyme@mastodon.social

        Ebook (New Release): books2read.com/RowleysRide

        The space pirate, Captain Edwina “Roaring” Rowley wakes in the vacuum of space, in orbit of the old harvest moon, Cakana, despite the fact her body is literally frozen stiff. She’s utterly confused by the fact Nuva, the goddess of death, didn’t come for her soul.

        @bookstodon

        The cover of Rowley's Ride, by Owen Tyme. The central image is a ghostly electric guitar composed mostly of blue and white light, with a metal plate covering a fair bit of the main body. The guitar has a bright and shiny aura, almost like electricity, though the non-metallic portions are transparent. The background is a fractal arrangement of stained-glass panels, in various shades of red.

        Alt...The cover of Rowley's Ride, by Owen Tyme. The central image is a ghostly electric guitar composed mostly of blue and white light, with a metal plate covering a fair bit of the main body. The guitar has a bright and shiny aura, almost like electricity, though the non-metallic portions are transparent. The background is a fractal arrangement of stained-glass panels, in various shades of red.

          [?]InkBreaker » 🌐
          @InkBreaker@mastodon.social

          If you love a fantasy & a good whodunit, these 3 recent reads give you both.

          - The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson: murder into the middle of a deadly imperial tournament.
          - The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett: Holmes-and-Watson detective duo
          - The Silverblood Promise by James Logan: follows a disgraced young noble to uncover who really killed his father.

          3 worlds, 3 cases, no idea who did it until the end. 🔍 🗡️

          Alt...Lupin the cat recommends these three recent fantasy reads built around a mystery you solve alongside the characters. books: The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson, The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett, and The Silverblood Promise by James Logan.

            [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
            @scotlit@mastodon.scot

            @bookstodon

            “The Game of Kings contains the single best duel I have ever read in a novel”

            Writing Epic Fantasy the Historical Fiction Way: Lessons from Dorothy Dunnett’s The Game of Kings

            Marie Brennan’s 5 lessons from Dunnett – how to:

            ⭐️️Use Omniscient Narration
            ⭐️️Write Dynamic Politics
            ⭐️️Write a Fight Scene
            ⭐️️Write a Good Gary Stu
            ⭐️️Include Women

            3/7

            reactormag.com/writing-epic-fa

              [?]TheEdinburghBookshop » 🌐
              @TheEdinburghBookshop@bookish.community

              Spread your wings!

              How fabulous is Jack's new window painting to celebrate Impossible Creatures: the Neverfear, by the fabulous Katherine Rundell?

              Out now from Bloomsbury , signed editions, while they last!

              .

              Jack in the middle of painting the giant bird on the bookshop window, which from this angle makes him look like he has sprouted wings

              Alt...Jack in the middle of painting the giant bird on the bookshop window, which from this angle makes him look like he has sprouted wings

              Huge, painted red bird covering most of the large window in the Edinburgh Bookshop, celebrating the launch of Katherine Rundeel's Neverfear

              Alt...Huge, painted red bird covering most of the large window in the Edinburgh Bookshop, celebrating the launch of Katherine Rundeel's Neverfear

                [?]Ododo Press » 🌐
                @ododopress@bookstodon.com

                So I looked again at the cover, and decided I didn't like the blue. It was so over saturated, and kind of took away focus from the main character, and then tweaked the background a bit, and the overall image. This is perhaps why you need to hire someone else to do such work for your books! Enjoy, and you can read about the cover reveal here, with excerpts from this fantasy novel from the 1920s.
                ododopress.com/blog/cover-reve

                The cover of an ebook. It has a pale blue background, imitative of night, and there's an image of a man with shield and spear walking towards a tree in the distance, which is a little faded into the background. He leaves behind bloody footprints.

                Alt...The cover of an ebook. It has a pale blue background, imitative of night, and there's an image of a man with shield and spear walking towards a tree in the distance, which is a little faded into the background. He leaves behind bloody footprints.

                  [?]Kroc Camen » 🌐
                  @Kroc@oldbytes.space

                  1109: What question does your MC long to find an answer for? What answer do they hope for, and which one would they fear?

                  Having trekked to the edge of the world and seen with their own eyes the 60 mile thick, 25'000 mile long glass wall that makes up the -- the hourglass they live within -- our protagonist's conviction of their beliefs is absolute.

                  They resolve there and then to make the one-way journey to the centre of the worldglass to see the 200 mile wide sandfall where it is said all departed souls gather.

                  When they barely survive crossing the impassable desert that has cut off their clan from the rest of civilisation for centuries, what they find is uncertainty.

                  Unlike the oral histories and fables of their clan that have been passed down from generation to generation for centuries, the protagonist discovers that history here is muddy and uncertain; layered and confused. They had come assuming that anybody could point them in the direction of the great sinkhole, that everybody would instinctively know of it; but they don't.

                  People have different views of the world here -- nobody has ever attempted to reach the edge of the world and returned alive, so who knows what is even out there? Many think the world is a bowl that rests on the back of a tortoise. Other crazy theories include the world being a sphere (surely everybody would just fall off the bottom!?)

                  The centre of the world cannot be approached due to sand-quakes and the resulting liquefaction. Ancient legends tell of the Tower of Balal, when all of mankind lived at the centre-point of the world before the tower was sucked under by a sand-quake -- retribution from the divine. Now humanity lives in the habitable ring that surrounds the centre.

                  Our protagonist's views are seen as primitive, outdated, ignorant. Now they fear that everything they were so certain about might not be so certain. What if the centre isn't a sinkhole? What if it's nothing, and they really are in a bowl? A glass one, sure, but were the fables their clan had held so dearly just echoes of a lie two thousand years old?

                  camendesign.com/nomad (ePub, PDF)
                  camendesign.com/writing/nomad/ (browser, HTML)

                    [?]Stars and Sabers Publishing » 🌐
                    @starsandsabers@wandering.shop

                    Looking forward to a new season? We’ve got new books out this autumn! Chilling, daring, and enchanting reads await!

                    Autumn Preview October 13 GUTTERSPACE by Justine Norton-Kertson PREORDER NOW! Cosmic Horror / Comics Themes November 10 THE HYENA by David Quantick Surrealist Alternate History Cover & Preorders Soon! December 8 WHEN THE FOREST CALLS by Cassandra Newbould Dark Woodland Fairytale Cover & Preorders Soon! STARSANDSABERS.COM/BOOKS Stars and Sabers Publishing Logo

                    Alt...Autumn Preview October 13 GUTTERSPACE by Justine Norton-Kertson PREORDER NOW! Cosmic Horror / Comics Themes November 10 THE HYENA by David Quantick Surrealist Alternate History Cover & Preorders Soon! December 8 WHEN THE FOREST CALLS by Cassandra Newbould Dark Woodland Fairytale Cover & Preorders Soon! STARSANDSABERS.COM/BOOKS Stars and Sabers Publishing Logo

                      [?]Stars and Sabers Publishing » 🌐
                      @starsandsabers@wandering.shop

                      When the Forest Calls by Cassandra Newbould - Cover reveal and preorders soon! Learn more: starsandsabers.com/books/when-

                        [?]Chris Jags » 🌐
                        @ChrisJagged@mastodon.social

                        Does your favorite genre change depending on the medium it's in?

                        I ask because, for instance, horror is my fave movie / TV genre, I find it an okay game genre, and I don't like horror books much at all.

                        Fantasy is my fave video game genre, and probably books too, but I don't tend to care for fantasy movies/TV.

                          [?]Curt Johnson - Indie Genius » 🌐
                          @indiegenius@mastodon.social

                          Movie TV Tech Geeks 10 Fantasy Books That Are a Masterclass in Worldbuilding dlvr.it/TV8ngP

                            [?]Michael Martinez » 🌐
                            @michael@middle-earth.xenite.org

                            Q: Is It Possible To Construct A Plausible Chronology For The Dwarven Rings Of Power?

                            ANSWER: I received this highly unusual request in January 2026. I was quite ill at the time and unable to even read the message. The request comes from user User Dungeon_206 on Reddit. He has been trying to construct a plausible chronology for the 7 Hoards and 7 Rings of Power of the Dwarf-lords of […]

                            https://middle-earth.xenite.org/is-it-possible-to-construct-a-plausible-chronology-for-the-dwarven-rings-of-power/

                            An old dwarf writes in a book near the entrance of a cave. In the background are scenes out of the history of Middle-earth. In the foreground is a large chronological table under the words 'Is It Possible To Construct A Plausible Chronology For The Dwarven Rings Of Power?'

                            Alt...An old dwarf writes in a book near the entrance of a cave. In the background are scenes out of the history of Middle-earth. In the foreground is a large chronological table under the words 'Is It Possible To Construct A Plausible Chronology For The Dwarven Rings Of Power?'

                            [?]Owen Tyme » 🌐
                            @OwenTyme@mastodon.social

                            Ebook (New Release): books2read.com/RowleysRide

                            The space pirate, Captain Edwina “Roaring” Rowley wakes in the vacuum of space, in orbit of the old harvest moon, Cakana, despite the fact her body is literally frozen stiff. She’s utterly confused by the fact Nuva, the goddess of death, didn’t come for her soul.

                            @bookstodon

                            The cover of Rowley's Ride, by Owen Tyme. The central image is a ghostly electric guitar composed mostly of blue and white light, with a metal plate covering a fair bit of the main body. The guitar has a bright and shiny aura, almost like electricity, though the non-metallic portions are transparent. The background is a fractal arrangement of stained-glass panels., in various shades of red.

                            Alt...The cover of Rowley's Ride, by Owen Tyme. The central image is a ghostly electric guitar composed mostly of blue and white light, with a metal plate covering a fair bit of the main body. The guitar has a bright and shiny aura, almost like electricity, though the non-metallic portions are transparent. The background is a fractal arrangement of stained-glass panels., in various shades of red.

                              [?]Author Krishna Prasanth Guttikonda » 🌐
                              @krishna-author.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

                                [?]My Tolkien Life » 🌐
                                @blog@mytolkienlife.xenite.org

                                Catch Me If You Can

                                For screen readers [ Click to expand ] A six-panel comic in a cute Japanese chibi manga style takes place in a sunny meadow filled with wildflowers. A stone castle rises in the distance beneath a bright blue sky. The story follows Agnarr, a cheerful dwarf, Elara, a thoughtful elf, and Smokey, a playful golden baby dragon.   Panel 1: Agnarr stands smiling broadly in the meadow. With an enthusiastic throwing motion, he tosses something off the right side of the panel. His expression is […] [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                A little bit of love can go a long way.

                                For screen readers

                                Catch Me If You Can

                                Alt...Catch Me If You Can

                                [?]Author Krishna Prasanth Guttikonda » 🌐
                                @krishna-author.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

                                Under the Cherry Blossom Tree is more than a love story; it is a celebration of the human spirit’s ability to heal through art, community, & compassion.

                                 a.co/d/0i2M5y1a

                                  [?]Hel ✨ » 🌐
                                  @helynalc@wandering.shop

                                  RE: wandering.shop/@helynalc/11713

                                  I think I shared this before, but after I published Skylark in the Fog in 2022, I wasn't sure I was going to write/publish another book. Skylark took so long that I wasn't even sure how it happened, and although I loved how it went by the end, I wasn't sure if there would be another story in me 1/🧵

                                  [?]Hel ✨ » 🌐
                                  @helynalc@wandering.shop

                                  RE: wandering.shop/@helynalc/11713

                                  Should you like:

                                  - lush, tropical realms
                                  - lost history, dead gods
                                  - sideplot no-spice slowburn
                                  - weird, violent magic
                                  - fever-dream, spiralling narration
                                  - mental health & gritty, angry hope
                                  - a "passive character" regaining agency

                                  ...read Imbued & Untwined!

                                  See thread for art and short intro of the MCs! ⬇️

                                      [?]Robert Kingett » 🌐
                                      @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social

                                      Link at end. Found it! This series is what landed me in Cozy Fantasy! This series is what started it all for me. Book 1 is Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries bookshop.org/a/77/9780593500149

                                        [?]Curt Johnson - Indie Genius » 🌐
                                        @indiegenius@mastodon.social

                                        Movie TV Tech Geeks 'Interview with the Vampire' Meets Dark Academia in This Fantasy Thriller That Deserves an Adaptation dlvr.it/TV7WNB

                                          [?]Hel ✨ » 🌐
                                          @helynalc@wandering.shop

                                          RE: wandering.shop/@helynalc/11713

                                          Should you like:

                                          - lush, tropical realms
                                          - lost history, dead gods
                                          - sideplot no-spice slowburn
                                          - weird, violent magic
                                          - fever-dream, spiralling narration
                                          - mental health & gritty, angry hope
                                          - a "passive character" regaining agency

                                          ...read Imbued & Untwined!

                                          See thread for art and short intro of the MCs! ⬇️

                                            [?]Author Krishna Prasanth Guttikonda » 🌐
                                            @krishna-author.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

                                            There is no better feeling than knowing your stories are out in the world finding their readers!

                                              [?]Rebecca M. Senese (she/her) » 🌐
                                              @rebeccasenese@wandering.shop

                                              Feast on this fantasy fun! Grab your copy of this bundle of bundles today! storybundle.com/fantasy

                                                [?]The Tanuki Corner » 🌐
                                                @tanukicorner.com@tanukicorner.com

                                                Blog: I Went to Barnes & Noble. Say Hello to Witchcraft.

                                                I haven’t been to Barnes & Noble in a while. Have I wanted to go? Yes. Have I found the time to? No. But that all changed last weekend. For the first time in two years or so, I had the opportunity to pay a visit to my local Barnes & Noble to see what they’re peddling in the Year of Our Lord 2026.

                                                Holy crap, is it bad.

                                                The last time I was at Barnes & Noble, while I wasn’t looking at a lot of stuff except the YA fiction section, I remember seeing quite a few books that were focused on LGBTQ+ outside of just the YA section. But fast forward two years and it seems that while LGBTQ+ is still popular, something else has largely usurped its place on the shelves. That something is witchcraft and New Age.

                                                We are just running at a hundred miles an hour to Armageddon, aren’t we? As a society, we just cannot wait to get there.

                                                Thrown in with the books on psychology, relationships, and philosophy are a ton of books all focused on witchcraft, the New Age, and the occult. Books in this category range from a book by National Geographic explaining what Wicca and the New Age are, the Wicca Bible (which is interesting since Wiccans basically wing everything), the “missing” books of the Bible (i.e. the Gnostic gospels and other apocryphal works), books about numerology, finding your angel name, etc. My mom and I even found a book that was being sold at a New Age expo by some people who were peddling power pyramids. Oh, and they also sold various tarot decks…because of course they did. (I also later found out that you can buy Ouija boards at Barnes & Noble, too.)

                                                But besides the fact that Barnes & Noble is pushing New Age and the occult in the psychology, relationships, and philosophy section, I also need to say something about those sections besides the fact that they pretty much provide you with all the tools you need for a demon-summoning ritual. And that is the fact that, apparently, no one has class anymore. I saw several self-help and relationship books that had the F-word in the title and one book that, I’m not kidding, was called the P-pedia. I’ll leave it to you to figure out the word attached to -pedia. Sure, it does its job at catching your attention, but it just goes to show how we apparently have no class as a society.

                                                This is why we can’t have nice things.

                                                But, of course, you know me. I haven’t yet gotten to the main attraction – the godforsaken YA section and my thoughts on it.

                                                Overall, I think this section might actually be worse now than it was back in 2024. Sure, two years ago it was mainly LGBTQ+ love stories being peddled to children, and while that influence is still definitely there, the occult and the dark romance genre have also made things worse. Not only did I see multiple books being sold there targeted toward young women where the main characters are actual witches and summon demons (I wish I was making this up), but I also came across a book that illustrates almost everything wrong with the publishing industry. That book is called Kingdom of the Feared – a book that was positioned to get people to buy it – and here’s the book’s description:

                                                Emilia is reeling from the shocking discovery that her twin sister, Vittoria, is alive. But before she faces the demons of her past, Emilia yearns to claim her king, the seductive Prince of Wrath, in the flesh. Emilia doesn’t simply desire his body, she wants his heart and soul—but that’s something the enigmatic demon can’t promise her.

                                                When a high-ranking member of House Greed is assassinated, Emilia and Wrath are drawn to the rival demon court. Damning evidence points to Vittoria as the murderer and she’s quickly declared an enemy of the Seven Circles. Despite her betrayal, Emilia will do anything to solve this new mystery and find out who her sister really is.

                                                Together Emilia and Wrath play a sin-fueled game of deception as they work to stop the unrest that’s brewing between witches, demons, shape-shifters and the most treacherous foes of all: the Feared.

                                                Emilia was warned that when it came to the Wicked nothing was as it seemed. But, have the true villains been much closer all along? When the truth is finally revealed, it just might end up costing Emilia her heart.

                                                Two curses.
                                                One prophecy.
                                                A reckoning all have feared.

                                                And a love more powerful than fate. All hail the king and queen of Hell.

                                                From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stalking the Jack the Ripper series comes the steamy conclusion to Kingdom of the Wicked trilogy.

                                                Already, from the description of the book, you can not only tell that this book is – I’m just gonna say it – demonic, promoting a sexual relationship in Hell between a girl and a literal demon, but you can tell this shouldn’t be in the YA Fiction section or categorized as YA. This should be in the adult fiction section right next to the Playboys since, according to one Goodreads review, this book includes…

                                                Sexual Content-Mentions of groping, intimate touching, trying to take clothes off, two characters go swimming naked (guy and girl), mention of 0rgi3$, passionate kissing, thoughts of sex, innuendos, mentions of prostitution, mention of a threesome, sex, implications of m@$terb@tion, telling someone to m@$terb@te, LOTS of lust, thinking of characters naked, talking about bedding people, mentions of doing someone until they see stars, mentions of using chains during sex, talk about sucking and sucking…(I think you can fill in the blank) and witnessing very public displays of sex in a very derogatory way. (Hence why this was NA.)

                                                Other Goodreads reviews also say that the book starts with smut, the plot also revolves around reincarnation and soulmates, the main character is a witch, and there’s more smut than plot. And according to another reviewer, you can find this book in the YA corner of public libraries. This should be nowhere near there.

                                                As though that wasn’t bad enough, one of the most popular books in the YA section that was on a best-sellers table was a book called Bitten. Like Kingdom of the Feared, this too is a paranormal romance and is described on Goodreads as “Crescent City meets Fourth Wing.” Now, Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yaros has become notorious online for being smutty, so such a comparison does not bode well for this book, and sure enough, according to the 1-star reviews Goodreads, it’s just as smutty.

                                                Remember, both stories are marketed as being for young adults – 12-18 years old. This is stuff that no 12-18-year-old should ever be reading, period. The fact that it’s even targeted at this age range should make everyone want to burn the publishing companies to the ground because here’s the thing. Before a book is published, it has to go through several people who read it, edit it, and ultimately, give it the green light. For these authors to be writing smut in a book aimed at young teens and then for the agents, editors, and publishers to publish and promote it as YA is beyond disturbing. It’s straight up predatory. It is not only an attack on your child’s innocence, but is an attack on their souls, especially as these books continue to glorify the occult more and more.

                                                At this rate, my advice to parents is if your child wants to buy a book, YA or not, check the 1-star Goodreads reviews to make sure you’re not accidentally handing your child a book full of porn.

                                                Until next time,

                                                M.J.

                                                  [?]Lauren McMenemy » 🌐
                                                  @spookygirl@mastodon.scot

                                                  Every Friday, I meet a member of the British Fantasy Society and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). Here comes science fantasy author Ren Hutchings, who also works in editorial at Stelliform Press. They're aiming for publishing something that becomes a cult hit with a "small but feral following".

                                                  britishfantasysociety.org/meet

                                                  ON a black background with flourishes of red dots and lines is the text: Meet the BFS members! Ren Hutchings. Ten is pictured in the centre: they are a white woman with short brown hair, wearing a baker boy cap, red-rimmed glasses, a blue collared shirt with stars on it, and a dark waistcoat.

                                                  Alt...ON a black background with flourishes of red dots and lines is the text: Meet the BFS members! Ren Hutchings. Ten is pictured in the centre: they are a white woman with short brown hair, wearing a baker boy cap, red-rimmed glasses, a blue collared shirt with stars on it, and a dark waistcoat.

                                                    [?]Michael Martinez » 🌐
                                                    @michael@middle-earth.xenite.org

                                                    Q: Why Did The One Ring Allow Frodo To Hand It To Bombadil?

                                                    ANSWER: I had half-written this article and then had to stop working on it. I left the browser window open but when I came back to it the article vanished. So it’s possible I haven’t reconstructed all my previous ideas and I may miss something in what follows (as I wrote it hastily). I received the following questions in December […]

                                                    https://middle-earth.xenite.org/why-did-the-one-ring-allow-frodo-to-hand-it-to-bombadil/

                                                    An artistic conceptualizing of Frodo staring at Tom Bombadil with the One Ring on a table between them under the words 'Why Did The One Ring Allow Frodo To Hand It To Bombadil?'

                                                    Alt...An artistic conceptualizing of Frodo staring at Tom Bombadil with the One Ring on a table between them under the words 'Why Did The One Ring Allow Frodo To Hand It To Bombadil?'

                                                    [?]Jendia Gammon » 🌐
                                                    @jendiagammon@wandering.shop

                                                    The double chocolate book signing brownies were in full effect at my Godfestation book launch at Through the Fold Books in San Diego this past weekend! None left now. 🥳 You can, however, order signed copies from the shop online!

                                                    Jendia Gammon in a dark purple floral dress holding up a copy of her book Godfestation in front of the yellow table topped with triangle-cut double chocolate brownies that she baked. Also on the table are a battery-powered lantern and another copy of the book. The location is Through the Fold books in San Diego, inside Mission Hills Nursery.

                                                    Alt...Jendia Gammon in a dark purple floral dress holding up a copy of her book Godfestation in front of the yellow table topped with triangle-cut double chocolate brownies that she baked. Also on the table are a battery-powered lantern and another copy of the book. The location is Through the Fold books in San Diego, inside Mission Hills Nursery.

                                                      [?]Author Krishna Prasanth Guttikonda » 🌐
                                                      @krishna-author.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

                                                      I sold a book today!

                                                      Thank you to the person who ordered my book from Amazon.

                                                        [?]Author Krishna Prasanth Guttikonda » 🌐
                                                        @krishna-author.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

                                                          [?]mosspiglet » 🌐
                                                          @arborealgeist@bookwyrm.social

                                                          Spoiler ahead ⚠️ [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                          Essun broke Nassun's hand 😳

                                                          I didn't remember that. Gods, that's so fucked up. Essun was a terrible mother. Yeah, I know: Not entirely her fault—she's been feared and hated by stills her whole life, she was raised by a paramilitary organization that taught with violence and punishment, and she was trying to make her daughter safe in a world that would kill her just for being who she is—but at some point every parent has to take responsibility for their own actions and can't just blame the way they were raised for the awful things they do to their children.

                                                          Intentionally breaking your child's hand to teach a lesson absolutely lands you in the "terrible parent" category.

                                                          Fuck me.

                                                          And then Nassun comes to love Schaffa. Fucking Schaffa! Deer gods, this is all so twisted.

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                                                          N. K. Jemisin: The Obelisk Gate (EBook, 2016, Orbit)

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                                                            [?]Lydia Schoch » 🌐
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                                                              [?]Lauren McMenemy » 🌐
                                                              @spookygirl@mastodon.scot

                                                              Writes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in The Hound of the Baskervilles: "The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer."

                                                              Ponder questions of time and space with us on 5 September at the next edition of Writing the Occult!

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                                                              The quote from the post is laid over an image of a misty forest, pictured in black and white.

                                                              Alt...The quote from the post is laid over an image of a misty forest, pictured in black and white.

                                                                [?]Author Krishna Prasanth Guttikonda » 🌐
                                                                @krishna-author.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

                                                                "A View From Afar" is a heartwarming contemporary romance that explores the unexpected beauty of human connection during extraordinary times.

                                                                A View from Afar a.co/d/0cfmX3zs

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