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RJ Barker

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Award winning fantasy author. Gad about, tree grower and procrastinationist to the stars. Truly, I am RJ Barker in all departments.

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Less good news, most likely not going to be at Worldcon sadly.

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Barnes and Nobles are doing #saleforthepages right now which means members can get a RIDICULOUS discount on pre orders of WARLORDS OF WYRDWOOD. www.barnesandnoble.com/b/a-sale-for...

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Okay friends, good news and bad news. GOOD NEWS first. GODS OF THE WYRDWOOD is one of Amazon's '2023 releases to remember best' and is only $2.99 right now. TELL EVERYONE. and....

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Adrian Tchaikovsky's avatar Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social
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Excellent series of books.

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Can't help thinking that in among the pomp and circumstance of Parlaiment there must be space for a grandly robed official whose sole job is to ceremonially place Farage in a bin.

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If it helps, Tade, I can't really eat anything at the moment. I dream in Anthony Bourdain shows right now.

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Leads us neatly to Eighty Dead Around the World.

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AHHHHHHHHHH My author copies of The Last Shield have arrived here in Glasgow from Angry Robot Books What lovely, shiny title text and gilded name! And also author copies of my jaw-dropping special edition from The Broken Binding

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That film wrecked me. It's jaw droppingly good.

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These events are brilliant, worth way more than the ticket, like a mini convention day from the comfort of your own home. You don't have to be British to watch or even take part, and the gamut of discussion ranges into the whole spectrum of SFFH. There are catchup recordings too!

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Turns out there's a thin line between salt water to gargle with and salt water that's an emetic. I can now advise you on how to make one of those.

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Well, I may still be annoyingly ill but things look a lot brighter this morning.

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People of England, your attention please. Reminder about the consultation closing 11 July about changes to the relationships, sex & health education statutory guidance. If you're LGBTQIA, or an ally, please check it out & complete with a view to protecting LGBTQIA people.
www.gov.uk/government/c...

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Mine got so demoralised it used to congratulate me for walking to the kitchen and back.

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Poor guy, I promise to cook him with only the most expensive ingredients stolen from his kitchen.

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Birds! I will put pictures up tomorrow. :)

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Five pieces. FIVE. So exciting.

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The bad news is I am caught in a kind of catch 22 of illness right now. But the GREAT news is someone was looking for a home for their unwanted taxidermy collection so guess what we're picking up on Monday...

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I'm reading Adrian's Lords of Uncreation, the last in his Final Architecture series. It's very good.

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Well, I achieved very little but I had a pretty good time. :)

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Total co-incidence. RPGs were something that passed me by as I was spending all my money on being in bands. :)

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Life is a trial like that. :)

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Maddest book I've written to be honest.

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Ooh, didn't know Warlords was out there yet!

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Marie Brennan's avatar Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social
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A conversation on our Discord has prompted me to say again: remember, y'all, what really sells books is not the author talking about their work, but *readers* talking about it. Word of mouth drives far more sales than advertising or any other engine. So if you loved a book, tell your friends!

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Gonna have to read that. I thought you were referencing The King in Yellow!

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One of the few good things about being ill is I'm getting a lot of reading done.

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Writing a novel about a man who goes to live in an isolated community and is slowly enveloped and killed by Victorian textured wallpaper. Yes, I'm jumping on the flock horror bandwagon.

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What works for you is what works.

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I do not like the fact "remarkably" is spelled like that. I do not like it at all.

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Knew* That would never happen if I'd been regularly thoroughly thrashed at boarding school.

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They're all dreaming of the 1920's when art was just for the idle rich and the rest of us new our place.

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Welln @aptshadow.bsky.social has amused me no end with the line "we're not all invulnerable prawn bearers" in EYES OF THE VOID. Which is excellent, obviously.

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It wasn't the bonsai tree that set him on edge - though of course it shouldn't be there. It was the fact that no matter how closely he watched or how many cameras he trained on it, he never saw what was taking such painstaking care of it.

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Oh MrsRJ had that done. Really quick and painless.

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I love the books. The acting is great but storywise it felt confused and very little is tied up. YMMV so worth a try.

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