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Farah Mendlesohn@effjayem.bsky.social |
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SF fan, writer etc etc. 🏴🌈🏳️⚧️ Organising a science fiction convention in Scotland, October 18th 2025. See PictCon1 at Eventbrite
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Zig Zag Claybourne
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Saw a news item about a family setting up a fund for necessities. Item made no mention of systemic failures that constantly bring people to this point. So you're damn right I'm sharing this. Too many have to claw for rest. Or joy. Until the systems bring healing, there's zero shame healing others.
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Tiffani Angus, PhD
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Happy book birthday to me and @vallescurarule.bsky.social and @lunapress.bsky.social! SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 2 is alive!! And you can get a special bundle deal on volumes 1&2 directly from the publisher!
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Farah Mendlesohn
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Yay!
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Farah Mendlesohn
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If they lived in London the weather would have been seriously off putting. We were wading.
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Farah Mendlesohn
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The Brexit turnout was 72%, higher than any election since 1992. But in London and the South that day it was raining like God was planning another flood. We canvassers were in wellies, ponchos, and any gear we could find. I've rarely seen that much rain. www.statista.com/statistics/1...
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Farah Mendlesohn
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The other badly overdue book in my life is the one on Geoffrey Trease. I have just re-opened my file and I have three chapters left to draft. Aim: by the end of September, when I will return to re-draft my Russ book.
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Farah Mendlesohn
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waves. We are now DM'ing on Facebook.
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Farah Mendlesohn
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that has to be a family joke!
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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺
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So, you must have wondering what Fire Heart is. #kidlit #yalit
closetfulofbooks.com/products/fir...
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Farah Mendlesohn
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I think the fuel crisis has really brought this home, because it's affecting everyone but the actually rich. You can earn as much as you like but if it's a pay check, chances are you will run into trouble if you lose it.
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Farah Mendlesohn
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It's beautiful.
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Farah Mendlesohn
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I wrote most of one book by writing on my bus route. I was so upset when they cancelled it.
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Mary Branscombe
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You can still use the colours if you know how to specify them on the colour palette but Pantone regularly retires colours that current printing technology doesn’t support well and their licence with Adobe means those come off the Pantone list inside Adobe apps. It’s about 3 years since the last time
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Denali
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A very wealthy man who is really into reducing govt spending just donated almost a million dollars to "Illinois’ only statewide advocacy organization that solely focuses on promoting charter public schools." AND HOW ARE YOU THIS MORNING?
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Farah Mendlesohn
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I started painting last September, determined to spend time every day for a year, drawing and painting. On the left is one of my first paintings. The middle one is from May and the one on the right this week, and even though I can see the improvement in brush control and eye, I still love the first.
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Farah Mendlesohn
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PictCon 1 is solvent! Enough tickets have been sold to pay for the venue and the guest.
A few more tickets and we can have [gasp] badges!
But I will now restrict reminders to monthly updates. Thank you all!
Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pictcon1-t...
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Farah Mendlesohn
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In these circs I decline with recommendations.
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Farah Mendlesohn
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Yay!
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Farah Mendlesohn
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Just three tickets now short of break even.
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Farah Mendlesohn
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The advantage of being a lark is that I will definitely be up for Sunak.
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Farah Mendlesohn
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Pls share: PictCon1 will be in Perth 🏴, at the Salutation Hotel, on 18th October 2025. GoH Francesca Barbini of Luna Press. I'm keen to hit break even so I can just relax, and tickets are only £30 (£20 concession). I'm half way there. Just 23 tickets to go! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pictcon1-t...
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Nicole Holliday
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Happy Juneteenth! Did you know that the U.S. government actually gave 1200 formerly enslaved people land, and then took it back when slavers complained enough? 12 years of Reconstruction with real change, before Jim
Crow. I can’t recommend this podcast more highly: revealnews.org/article/40-a...
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Farah Mendlesohn
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noon train out of Kings Cross, no changes.
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Andrew Knighton
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What's that you say, a new fantasy series from Orbit, all about a fake chosen one? That sounds exciting. I wonder who wrote it?
ME IT'S ME I WROTE THIS AND IT'S REAL AND I CAN FINALLY SHOUT ABOUT IT!
www.hachettebookgroup.com/orbit-books/...
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Farah Mendlesohn
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I'm going to run a one day convention in Perth, Scotland in 2025.
PictCon1: 18th October, Guest of Honour, Francesca Barbini. Tickets: £30/£20/ dealer tables £10.
If you are fan based in Scotland or anywhere it's easy to get to us from, please do come!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pictcon1-t...
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Farah Mendlesohn
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Eid Mubarak to all observing.
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Lavanya Lakshminarayan
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Out today: My interview with The Times of India 🤓
Thank you for a wonderful conversation, Shruti Sonal and @timesofindia.bsky.social !
Read it here:
bit.ly/3yYBqts
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Greg Pak
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🤡
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Farah Mendlesohn
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Coffee needs earthenware, tea needs porcelain.
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Farah Mendlesohn
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Lol. My Perth is a bit greyer than that. Come visit one day. (The reflections on a still day really are this good).
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The Delicious Legacy Podcast
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📣 📣 📣 Brand new episode alert! 📣 📣 📣 And what a tasty archaeogastronomical adventure this is! The History of rice, through one particular dish! Biryani! Rice itself is a very ancient food…People ate rice perhaps from 12000 BCE, gathered with other seeds and nuts. 1/4
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Farah Mendlesohn
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Tea tastes better out of china and even better in a fine porcelain cup.
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Farah Mendlesohn
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I am definitely getting better. (a reminder that I started drawing in September 2023). This past few weeks has been all about hands.
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Vivienne Dunstan
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RIP William Russell. So glad we got to see him back in Doctor Who one more time as Ian Chesterton, in Jodie Whittaker’s final episode. www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/j...
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E.D.E. Bell
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One more reminder: Publisher's Marketplace will announce books from presses that receive grants, are connected to a source of wealth, or *put their crowdfunding under an imprint*.
Just not tiny presses who have to crowdfund to do bold work. #SupportBoldIndies
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Farah Mendlesohn
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cosy mystery. Corinna is a baker and a retired accountant. Both are relevant. (I don't like the last book but the others are great).
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Farah Mendlesohn
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Do you know Kerry Greenwood's Corinna Chapman books? She is definitely fat.
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Farah Mendlesohn
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And yet the real thing is more gorgeous than that.
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Farah Mendlesohn
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Today's sketch. A friend of mine and posted with her permission, taken from a photo. Pastel on paper. She has the most gorgeous smile which I have failed to quite capture, so I'll give this one another go some time.
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Farah Mendlesohn
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Latest painting. Acryllic on paper.
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Tom Gauld
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My latest cartoon for Guardian Books. #books #ghost
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Farah Mendlesohn
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My most popular paper ever, "how to give a conference paper" is so old that it refers to acetate sheets and OHPs.
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Farah Mendlesohn
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I do have one. But the email approach is a very handy "just in case" when one is travelling to a conference.
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Farah Mendlesohn
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Heads, up. USB ports are disappearing. Got caught out recently on that one. I also tell people to email it to themselves.
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Robin Ince
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www.fourbearsbooks.co.uk/event-detail...
Just in case you need a break from shopping in Reading today - why not splash out £5 and come and see me at the Progress theatre at 2pm
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Lavanya Lakshminarayan
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In VOGUE! 🤓✨
I had a wonderful chat with journalist Kanika Sharma about being shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, THE TEN PERCENT THIEF (née Analog/ Virtual), and more!
Read it now on Vogue India:
www.vogue.in/content/indi...
All gratitude to Kanika and Vogue India!
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Farah Mendlesohn
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This past two months I've been working on likenesses. This is my most recent. My husband and the cat. I think the cat is auditioning for the next Bond movie villain.
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The Globe and Mail
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Alice Munro, Canadian author who won Nobel Prize for Literature, dies at 92: Acclaimed writer and master of the short story, she could pack more insight, nuance and suspense into a few pages than most writers could cram into a novel
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Mark Chadbourn
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Last night the House of Commons somehow passed a Lib Dem amendment that MPs arrested for serious offences should be excluded from the house. Conservative MPs today are furious - for some reason - blaming the Whips office for failing.
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