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David Croyle

I Want to Believe.

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Kristie

@kristiedegaris@mastodon.scot · 2 hours ago

Everywhere, advice on how to write faster. A novel in four months, a blog post a day, Substack longform in an hour.

Write quicker. Publish more. Optimise. Optimise. Optimise.

This essay argues for something else.

Speed doesn’t just change how we write, it changes what can be written at all.

https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-writing-factory

#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Book #Books #Scotland #UK #Publishing #Craft

The Writing Factory

Craft on the Production Line

Kristie

@kristiedegaris@mastodon.scot · 2 hours ago

Everywhere, advice on how to write faster. A novel in four months, a blog post a day, Substack longform in an hour.

Write quicker. Publish more. Optimise. Optimise. Optimise.

This essay argues for something else.

Speed doesn’t just change how we write, it changes what can be written at all.

https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-writing-factory

#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Book #Books #Scotland #UK #Publishing #Craft

The Writing Factory

Craft on the Production Line

David Croyle

@croyle@wandering.shop · 13 hours ago

I Want to Believe.

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George Penney

@georgepenney@sunny.garden · 16 hours ago

Hello lovely people, just in case you need to snatch up a small moment of happiness today, you can find Tiny Moments of Joy here in both print and ebook form.

https://www.swashbucklerpress.com/tiny-moments-of-joy

Link is for direct purchase and the big retail stores. The site is in New Zealand dollars, so much much cheaper in most other currencies, including Narnian Lions😊

#books #bookstodon

Swashbuckler Press

Tiny Moments of Joy | Swashbuckler Press

Delightful moments captured from people watching in a small city in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Hari

@hari@mastodon.art · last year

RELEASE DAY!!

My new graphic novel, a queer regency rom-com with a transmasc MC & an Austen mashup plot, is out in the UK today (about 5 years since I first started researching for the pitch.)

Here's a link to more about the book https://www.hari-illustration.com/-i-shall-never-fall-in-love

And just a big THANK YOU to everyone who's been supporting it 🌈📚

#Books #Bookstodon #Queer #Trans #GraphicNovel

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photo of me (white, glasses, green hair and scrappy facial hair, dressed like a hobbit) in the sun in front of a bookshop, holding up my new book

Photo of the book, I Shall Never Fall in Love, held in front of some autumn leaves in the bright sun.
The bright blue cover has a cartoon drawing of two white people at the end of their teens looking romantically close, both dressed in period clothing but with one in a women's style, the other more gender ambiguous. — Photo of the book, I Shall Never Fall in Love, held in front of some autumn leaves in the bright sun. The bright blue cover has a cartoon drawing of two white people at the end of their teens looking romantically close, both dressed in period clothing but with one in a women's style, the other more gender ambiguous.

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George Penney

@georgepenney@sunny.garden · 16 hours ago

Hello lovely people, just in case you need to snatch up a small moment of happiness today, you can find Tiny Moments of Joy here in both print and ebook form.

https://www.swashbucklerpress.com/tiny-moments-of-joy

Link is for direct purchase and the big retail stores. The site is in New Zealand dollars, so much much cheaper in most other currencies, including Narnian Lions😊

#books #bookstodon

Swashbuckler Press

Tiny Moments of Joy | Swashbuckler Press

Delightful moments captured from people watching in a small city in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Nick East (Indie Writer)

@NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art · 20 hours ago

Completly misunderstanding how society works is what tech bros do best! 😂

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Drawing of a tech bro being interviewed by the standard tech bro sychophant.

Tech bro: “Philip K. Dick. Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors.” — Drawing of a tech bro being interviewed by the standard tech bro sychophant. Tech bro: “Philip K. Dick. Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors.”

Nick East (Indie Writer)

@NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art · 20 hours ago

Completly misunderstanding how society works is what tech bros do best! 😂

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UniversityofGroningenLibrary

@Bibliothecaris@social.edu.nl · 21 hours ago

New in our electronic collection:

➡️ Synthetic Frontiers: Ocean Plastic and the Persistence of Trash Islands

🔗 https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15813.001.0001

"Bringing feminist science and technology studies approaches to materiality together with hydrohumanities critiques of terracentrism, Kim De Wolff shows how ocean plastic pollution is shaped by land/water divides and the fluidities that defy them."

#Ocean #OceanPlastic #OpenAccess #OpenScience #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Pollution #FeministScience #Environment

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Project Gutenberg

@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social · 23 hours ago

Inside Switzerland's extraordinary medieval library

By Mike MacEacheran

The Abbey Library of St Gallen is a Baroque hall of globes, manuscripts and curiosities that has survived, improbably, for 1,300 years.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20260202-inside-switzerlands-extraordinary-medieval-library

Medieval library at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=medieval+library

#books #literature #library

PLATE XXV
DUKE HUMFREY’S LIBRARY, OXFORD

The image captures the historic reading room with its magnificent barrel-vaulted wooden ceiling with decorative coffers, tall windows providing natural light at the far end, and rows of bookshelves lining both sides. Reading desks are positioned along the central aisle. Duke Humfrey's Library, the oldest reading room of the Bodleian, dates to the 15th century and was named after Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447), younger brother of Henry V, who donated his collection of manuscripts to Oxford University.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1615/pg1615-images.html — PLATE XXV DUKE HUMFREY’S LIBRARY, OXFORD The image captures the historic reading room with its magnificent barrel-vaulted wooden ceiling with decorative coffers, tall windows providing natural light at the far end, and rows of bookshelves lining both sides. Reading desks are positioned along the central aisle. Duke Humfrey's Library, the oldest reading room of the Bodleian, dates to the 15th century and was named after Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447), younger brother of Henry V, who donated his collection of manuscripts to Oxford University. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1615/pg1615-images.html

Inside Switzerland's extraordinary medieval library

The Abbey Library of St Gallen is a Baroque hall of globes, manuscripts and curiosities that has survived, improbably, for 1,300 years.

Project Gutenberg

@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social · 23 hours ago

Inside Switzerland's extraordinary medieval library

By Mike MacEacheran

The Abbey Library of St Gallen is a Baroque hall of globes, manuscripts and curiosities that has survived, improbably, for 1,300 years.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20260202-inside-switzerlands-extraordinary-medieval-library

Medieval library at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=medieval+library

#books #literature #library

Inside Switzerland's extraordinary medieval library

The Abbey Library of St Gallen is a Baroque hall of globes, manuscripts and curiosities that has survived, improbably, for 1,300 years.

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packetcat

@packetcat@tenforward.social · yesterday

so this month I'm doing a reading mini-challenge where I only read books by Black authors [as part of Black History Month], I did this last year too.

so far I've read:

- Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa [0]
- A Song of Legends Lost by M.H. Ayinde [review will be published tomorrow]

up next in my queue I have:

- Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
- Birth of a Dynasty by Chinaza Bado
- Forged by Blood by Ehigbor Okusun

those three I bought on Kobo ebook store sales in the past couple months so I'll be reading ebook copies of them!

[0]: my review - https://nullrouted.space/2026/02/06/review-lost-ark-dreaming-by-suyi-davies-okungbowa/

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Nullrouted Space

Review: Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

This is my review of the science fiction novella Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa. I read a hardcover copy published in May 2024 by Tordotcom.

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Project Gutenberg

@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social · 2 days ago

A White Historian Claimed That Black People ‘Had No History.’ This Trailblazing Scholar Dedicated His Life to Proving Otherwise

Carter G. Woodson, the “father of Black history,” founded the celebration now known as Black History Month in 1926. A prolific writer and activist, he viewed his efforts to educate the public as a “life-and-death struggle”

by Meilan Solly

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/a-white-historian-claimed-that-black-people-had-no-history-this-trailblazing-scholar-dedicated-his-life-to-proving-otherwise-180988144/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550

Carter G. Woodson at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3835

#books #literature #blackhistorymonth

The formal portrait shows Dr. Carter Woodson in a suit and patterned tie, representing him as a distinguished scholar and educator.

During the dawning of the twentieth century, it was widely-presumed that people of African descent had little history besides the subjugation of slavery. Of course, it is obvious today that Africans have significantly impacted the development of the social, political and economic structures of not just the United States but also the world. Credit for the evolving awareness of the true place of blacks in history can, in large part, be bestowed upon one man, Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Dr. Woodson's parents had been enslaved, so he understood the importance of a proper education. Though he didn't begin his formal education until the age of 20, he earned his high school diploma, bachelor's and master's degrees in the span of a few years. Then, in 1912, he became the second African American to earn a PhD from Harvard and was the first person of enslaved parents to earn a PhD in history!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_G._Woodson#/media/File:Dr._Carter_G._Woodson_(1875-1950),_Carter_G._Woodson_Home_National_Historic_Site,_1915._(18f7565bf62142c0ad7fff83701ca5f6).jpg — The formal portrait shows Dr. Carter Woodson in a suit and patterned tie, representing him as a distinguished scholar and educator. During the dawning of the twentieth century, it was widely-presumed that people of African descent had little history besides the subjugation of slavery. Of course, it is obvious today that Africans have significantly impacted the development of the social, political and economic structures of not just the United States but also the world. Credit for the evolving awareness of the true place of blacks in history can, in large part, be bestowed upon one man, Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Dr. Woodson's parents had been enslaved, so he understood the importance of a proper education. Though he didn't begin his formal education until the age of 20, he earned his high school diploma, bachelor's and master's degrees in the span of a few years. Then, in 1912, he became the second African American to earn a PhD from Harvard and was the first person of enslaved parents to earn a PhD in history! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_G._Woodson#/media/File:Dr._Carter_G._Woodson_(1875-1950),_Carter_G._Woodson_Home_National_Historic_Site,_1915._(18f7565bf62142c0ad7fff83701ca5f6).jpg

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Books by Woodson, Carter Godwin

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A White Historian Claimed That Black People 'Had No History.' This Trailblazing Scholar Dedicated His Life to Proving Otherwise

Carter G. Woodson, the "father of Black history," founded the celebration now known as Black History Month in 1926. A prolific writer and activist, he viewed his efforts to educate the public as a "life-and-death struggle"

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Martin Rundkvist

@mrundkvist@archaeo.social · 2 days ago

If you need a metric as to whether someone has an ear for language and reads a lot, ask them if they think automatic translation is good enough for fiction now. Anyone who answers yes has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

#books #llm #ai #language #translation #fiction

Martin Rundkvist

@mrundkvist@archaeo.social · 2 days ago

#books #llm #ai #language #translation #fiction

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Kristie

@kristiedegaris@mastodon.scot · 3 days ago

A recent interview. I really enjoyed answering these questions.

We talk about the realities of neurodivergence, the invisible labour inherent in publishing, my opinions on ‘nature cure’, and why so much writing advice falls flat for so many (it travels well because it sounds confident, not because it’s accurate, and it often asks writers to distrust their own ways of working).

https://neurodivergentnotesonwriting.substack.com/p/my-process-is-simply-adapting-to

#Scotland #Writing #WritingCommunity #Books #Book #Reading #UK #Author #Women #ADHD

My process is simply adapting to whatever conditions my body, mind and life are offering at any given moment.

Kristie de Garis' neurodivergent notes on writing.

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MikeDunnAuthor

@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · 2 days ago

Today in Labor History February 11, 1938: BBC Television produced the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R. Čapek coined the term "robot,” deriving it from the Czech word for forced labor by Serfs. R.U.R. is an archetype for many of the science fiction stories and films that followed, like Bladerunner, West World and Terminator, and others about robots, replicants and hosts that rebel against humans. However, “R.U.R.,” like Čapek’s 1936 novel “War with the Newts,” is also a satirical critique of totalitarianism, which was on the rise in Europe at the time he wrote the play.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #play #playwright #KarelCapek #robot #RUR #totalitarianism #fascism #antifascism #serf #slavery #sciencefiction #scifi #czech #bladerunner #books #fiction #playwright @bookstadon