Ali Baker Fantasy Book Swap

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BA Primary lecturer at UEL. Children's fantasy literature researcher. Podcast host at Fantasy Book Swap. Cheekbones like geography and eyes like bins.

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This is even worse than Section 28, which I lived through as a young adult and at the beginning of my teaching career. US friends, please be informed and inform your friends. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section...

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

Section 28 - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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Despite many sad (worried, angry, wistful—and, yes, even one or two gleeful 🙄) comments to the contrary, AMMONITE IS NOT OUT OF PRINT. It's available wherever books are sold. Want more specifics (and a look at its covers through time)? Here you go. nicolagriffith.com/2024/07/16/a...

Ammonite—available wherever books are soldnicolagriffith.com Despite many sad (worried, angry, wistful—and, yes, even one or two gleeful) comments to the contrary AMMONITE IS NOT OUT OF PRINT. It's available wherever books are sold Here are some more specifics.

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Less than 3 weeks until A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience is published! Preorder here: books2read.com/UndeadInconvenience

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This summer I will be supporting the Mongolian Olympic team because this is their uniform and it is a thousand times better than anything Nike has ever made.

Life advice: Never try to put on an improv am dram production of Sweeney Todd in a coffee shop, even if Ncuti Gatwa is playing the role of a dashing soldier. It was a relief to wake up, I can tell you.

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Our own bitter karella's weird western horror novella about a gunslinger out for revenge in a demon haunted 1860s California is almost here!

Today we creep; next week we SCREAM. SPLIT SCREAM features: "The Girl With Barnacles for Eyes" by @lyndseycroal.bsky.social (whose collection is out @shortwavebooks.bsky.social 9/3!) "The Ballad of Horse Girl" by @bitterkarella.bsky.social (@midnightpals.bsky.social) 🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com

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We are super excited that accepted programme participants should have received their draft programme by email overnight. This email went to nearly 1000 participants! (1/2)

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Anyway, now for some lighthearted fun. Get ready for WORLD CON GLASGOW BINGO Reposted to correct typo and add stuff to make it harder

It came home, it came home, football came home in 2022

Women's EURO 2022 Top 10 goals | Video | UEFA Women's EUROwww.uefa.com Browse an extensive library of videos from the European Women's Championship 2025 official website. Includes top goals, classic match highlights and much more.

I think I’m finally ready, but my goodness I miss her.

@unamccormack.bsky.social Would you like to be on my podcast?

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For anyone coming in late to the murder husbands, aka Thuan and Asmo: it's this series www.aliettedebodard.com/bibliography... Tags: Murderous husband/diplomatic husband, solving crimes without stabbing anyone, healthy relationship in spite of SO MANY obstacles

It turns out Asmodeus is surprisingly adept with cooking knives and things involving organs lol

Dragons and Blades - Aliette de Bodardwww.aliettedebodard.com The Dragons and Blades Reading Order 1. Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders | 2. Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances murderous husband/diplomatic husband, solving crimes without stabbing anyone, healthy relat...

SCREAM www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

England v Republic of Ireland LIVE - Score, live text and radiowww.bbc.co.uk Follow live text and radio commentary from England v Republic of Ireland in the Uefa European Championships qualifier from Carrow Road.

Me, every time an arm of my glasses gets wobbly: I must get a teeny screwdriver so I don’t need to go to an optician to do this tiny job. Goes to an optician, they tighten the screw. I forget to buy a tiny screwdriver. And now I have a wobbly arm of my glasses. A Tale as Old as Time.

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I've been wanting to do this since I first saw the cover for The Court of Broken Knives and finally here it is. Marith's sword / Lidae's sword courtesy of Grey Lady Tattoo , Quint VonCanon and Stas Borodin.

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Me with @alisonbaker01.bsky.social In which I say 'you know' and 'so' too much, but also discuss two good books and the origins of YA as a category.

Ep 38: Is that Conan in space? With Tade Thompson | Fantasy Book Swapalibaker68.podbean.com Firstly, huge apologies for the delay in this episode, which was recorded live at EasterCon, Levitation 2024. Life got in the way. Tade Thompson’s Bluesky: @tadethompson.bsky.social Tade’s award-winni...

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Before you sign anything, check with professional organisations such as the UK's Society of Authors, who offer a lot of free guidance as well as specific advice for members. www2.societyofauthors.org

Writers: Challenge the agreement/contract that your publishers present you with. They'll start off saying this is our contract, take it or leave it, but it's negotiable. Every contract is. 'Boilerplate' means this is where you start, not where you finish. And learn what 'subsidiary rights' means.

Van Gogh! Canals! Clogs! Tulips! You guys took a hell of a beating #thefootball

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Bala Lake is flat (well, it's a lake) but has Google reviews complaining that it is absolutely miles from a McDonald's

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It's @rozkaveney.bsky.social's birthday today, so by way of celebration, here's an interview she did with Practitioners' Voices in Classical Reception. (I get a brief namecheck in it.) www5.open.ac.uk/arts/researc...

The Open Universitywww5.open.ac.uk

Good evening, pals. Lo, a new podcast episode! This was a lot of fun.

About ruddy time, eh? Unfortunately life has got in the way of podcasting recently, but I’m back with an episode with the brilliant @tadethompson.bsky.social alibaker68.podbean.com/e/ep-38-is-t...

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Spotted on Reddit, someone hoping that Judge Dredd doesn't have any politics. Oh, you sweet summer child.

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Thinking about joining the British Fantasy Society but not sure if it's for you? Here are 10 reasons to help sway you to the speculative side... (in the replies) 🧵⬇️

These books are amazing. I highly recommend them.

A bit of promo as reaching readers becomes increasingly difficult. My current contemporary fantasy series is inspired by British myth and folklore. Dan Mackmain is mostly human, but he is a dryad's son, so the Green Man sends him to solve problems when the mundane and the uncanny collide. #booksky

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Folks, how do we find fellow writers on here? @crstewart.bsky.social and I are new here we'd love to know 🙌 #WritingCommunity #horror

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I’m experiencing a tremendous sense of wellbeing

Honestly the only reason to dismiss the theory that Rishi Sunak is a Labour mole who has gone all out to destroy the Conservative party is that a Labour mole would surely be worried about breaking their cover:

Tories split over timeline to elect leader with Sunak hoping to quit by autumnwww.theguardian.com Some senior figures in party fear appointment of interim replacement for ex-PM could present Nigel Farage with an ‘open goal’

About ruddy time, eh? Unfortunately life has got in the way of podcasting recently, but I’m back with an episode with the brilliant @tadethompson.bsky.social alibaker68.podbean.com/e/ep-38-is-t...

Sigh. I’m clearly going to have to do a load more curating if I’m going to be on any kind of social media without making my crappy mental health even worse.