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Emily Tesh

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Author of Some Desperate Glory & the Greenhollow Duology. Astounding Award and World Fantasy Award winner; Hugo, Clarke, and Locus finalist. I read books and play video games and talk about both of those sometimes.

Emily Tesh's avatar Emily Tesh @emilytesh.bsky.social
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Thank you! I am so grateful to have you as a reader ❤️

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Something that's important to do now is WRITE TO YOUR MP. Particularly if they are new. Not a form letter or autogenerated one. An actual personal one. Not frothy. Just firm and clear. Ask them their views. When they respond, tell them how it aligns (or doesn't) to KEEP your vote.

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Emily Tesh's avatar Emily Tesh @emilytesh.bsky.social
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Happy no more Tories day, everyone!

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Emily Tesh's avatar Emily Tesh @emilytesh.bsky.social
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New house, day 10: three whole rooms unpacked. Twenty unopened boxes of books take up an entire wall of what is supposed to be the study.

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I often see people desperately worried about loud and angry misinterpretation, willful or otherwise, of their work by people with limited experience with fiction, low reading comprehension skills, or malice at their core. And I cannot say this enough: fuck them kids. Do what you want.

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Emily Tesh's avatar Emily Tesh @emilytesh.bsky.social
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diana wynne jones, hexwood. is it epic space opera? is it arthurian portal fantasy? joke's on you it's both.

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I hate making videos so probably not! but maybe i should write it down somewhere.

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by the time it comes out i will have forgotten everything I wanted to say because I will be writing a new book & will only want to talk about that

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the tragic trap of 'absolutely dying to talk about my book' and 'no one else gets to read this book for at least a year'

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Emily Tesh's avatar Emily Tesh @emilytesh.bsky.social
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omg i've loved this one for years but never seen it actually staged

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to be fair: the menus are gorgeous.

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I am sorry to say that actually I love him. Great secondary antagonist, bonkers levels of angst and murder, game gets much more fun for me once he shows up!

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Replaying Persona 5, a game about 1. what if breeding pokémon was EDGY 2. it's soooo romantic when your serial killer friend tries to serial kill you 🥰 3. to exist as a child is to be human and hideously powerless in the face of indifferent injustice every day and the only sane reaction is rage

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I just donated to the Good Law Project to help trans kids and families in the UK right now. You can, too: goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

(And yes, this is extremely personal for me, as I am the proud mother of a trans kid, and I am very scared for her future!)

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Rebecca Fraimow's avatar Rebecca Fraimow @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social
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Lady Eve's Last Con is officially out:
- TODAY (in the US)
- THURSDAY (in the UK)
- SOMETIME IN THE LAST WEEK OR SO (or so friends who order from indie bookstores have told me! a well deserved privilege)

still tbh flabbergasted that this is really happening but no takebacks now! 😎

geni.us/5unVd

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Emily Tesh's avatar Emily Tesh @emilytesh.bsky.social
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uh oh. every book I have ever written started as a little novella because I can only write novels by sidling up to them and pretending I'm not planning more than 20k, honestly I'm not.

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best cure for writer's block I know is 'you HAVE to do something else right now and you do NOT have any time to work on this'

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maybe I can scheme a little novella, as a treat.

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Emily Tesh's avatar Emily Tesh @emilytesh.bsky.social
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nothing like being on an enforced break from writing to make you REALLY want to write things.

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Jay Bullock, Tradwife in Training's avatar Jay Bullock, Tradwife in Training @folkbum.bsky.social
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Y’all. I’m reading Some Desperate Glory by @emilytesh.bsky.social and i just. Goddamn. Get you this book. Barely halfway and it might be the best I’ve read all year.

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Xavier's avatar Xavier @xavierck.com
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Finished reading Some Desperate Glory by @emilytesh.bsky.social last night, and I cackled like a madman through the whole thing

It's a wonderful example of Everything Getting Worse for the main character, up to and including the entire universe changing to make things worse for her

I loved it

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Update: Read a little more and the big cool muscular smart main character is getting absolutely fucked over in the worst way possible. Delightful.

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Clearout discovery: a stack of old poetry magazines, including some with poems I wrote in my teens and early twenties. Baby's first published writing! (It turned out I wasn't actually great at writing poetry. But it was the first time I felt like part of a writing community & I loved it for that.)

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Going through all my bookcases and curating down to books I have read and will definitely read again, books I may yet read someday, and books that are beautiful and delightful to own. Everything else is going to the secondhand bookshop in exchange for store credit. Two large suitcases full.

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Hot damn I finished reading SOME DESPERATE GLORY and what a fabulous book. I'm years behind everyone else, but if you somehow *haven't* read this wild ride of a dystopian-yet-hopeful sci-fi, you really should. It's got - escape from a fascist space cult - second chances - cool aliens - VENGEANCE

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I LOVED Some Desperate Glory (it was part of a run of amazing books I read earlier this year) and it very much deserves its place on this list (as do the other books I've read from said list, Chain-Gang All-Stairs and The Mountain in the Sea)

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I am one again hollerin outside your window at 6 am, banging pots and pans together and proclaiming that you should read Some Desperate Glory

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The Arthur C. Clarke Award's avatar The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social
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✨The shortlist 2024!✨ CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah THE TEN PERCENT THIEF by Lavanya Lakshminarayan IN ASCENSION by Martin MacInnes THE MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA by Ray Nayler SOME DESPERATE GLORY by Emily Tesh COREY FAH DOES SOCIAL MOBILITY by Isabel Waidner

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Boasting time: as well as being a Hugo and Locus finalist, SOME DESPERATE GLORY is now a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award! I guess the book is pretty good? Many congratulations to all the nominees - this is an amazingly strong list and I'm honoured to have my work included.

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Hillary Monahan's avatar Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social
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The adult authors who take potshots at young adult authors are looking down at authors who are visiting schools and working with kids and promoting literacy. That work is essential and good, actually. Don't be twats.

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Absolutely cannot blame you. I will avoid opening Steam today.

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The small people in my house intentionally have as little internet presence as possible till they're old enough to have an informed opinion about it, but just this once I need to show off. Here's a young fellow very pleased with his brand new baby sister.

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oh no why would you alert me to this. I have been resisting Vic 3 so hard!

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Vajra Chandrasekera's avatar Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me
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THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS is a Locus Award finalist in the first novel category! Congrats to all my fellow nominees, and many thanks to everyone who voted! locusmag.com/2024/05/2024...

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SOME DESPERATE GLORY is a Locus Award finalist in the First Novel category! Thank you to everyone who took part in voting, and congratulations to the other nominees. It's an amazing feeling to see a book you wrote honoured with such excellent company.

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I got asked several times 'the Greenhollow books are fantasy, why did you switch to science fiction for Some Desperate Glory' The answer was always '...I don't think I did?' I'm a fantasy writer! They just have spaceships now.

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update on beloved husband playing Dragon Age 2 for the first time (he is now halfway through act one) him: the writing in this is... really good, isn't it? me: I know! him: the character stuff especially - me: I KNOW. him: but the actual gameplay - me: I know 😔

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an ARC of Lady Eve's Last Con by Rebecca Fraimow!

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