Davinia Evans (Dee)

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Author and avid reader of fantasy fiction. NOTORIOUS SORCERER ⚗⚔ and SHADOW BARON 🎴🗡️ out now; REBEL BLADE💥🐉 coming Dec 2024 from Orbit! (she/her - Australian - cupiscent on just about everything - website & newsletter at viscerate.com)

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We have new towels (for the first time in approximately 15 years) and they are legit so fluffy that every time I wrap one around myself I freak out that I somehow have accidentally grabbed the blanket or my dressing gown or... what? This can't be a towel! Error, error!

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📣Friends! Enemies! Vague acquaintances! 📣 Who has a queer adult sff book coming out in the latter half of this year?? 🏳️‍🌈📚

Just had an absolutely WONDERFUL video chat with a delightful group (of splendid people with exquisite taste) that had read Notorious Sorcerer. More Wednesdays should start with me getting to blab on about my writing to an enthusiastic audience. It's going to be a lovely day! 🌞

I hit 80% in the book I'm reading and the big twist into the finale is so aggravatingly avoidable if the main characters had had one fucking grown-up conversation that I'm seriously considering DNFing

The downside of all that wattling...

Just so egregiously wattlesome...

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We're open to hearing your idea for an essay! Do you have something intriguing to say about Breq, or The Final Architecture? A comparison between Alastair Reynolds and Adrian Tchaikovsky? Modern retellings of Greek mythology? Pitch it! www.speculativeinsight.com/pitches-open

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Cartoon: According to breaking news from Worldcon2024, Dave McCarty was confronted by a "woman in an elaborate hat". (artist's rendering.) The woman resumed her fine dining before being able to be identified. Further reports recommended the haggis wontons. Byline credit to @tkingfisher.com

I hear NOTORIOUS SORCERER is a Kindle daily deal today at $2.99. (Get your friends and family on board before book 3 drops in December!) www.amazon.com/Notorious-So...

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What if the teachers at a magical school were actually doing their jobs? THE INCANDESCENT is a book about risk assessments, lesson planning, predicted grades, and how to prevent teenage magicians from enthusiastically feeding themselves to demons; also about privilege, power, and pedagogy.

We're going to a friend's for dinner tonight, and Mr Dee has put his hand up "to be responsible for a frankly irresponsible amount of cheese". I'm not sure our buddy realises what she's signed up for...

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Glasgow is less than 48 hours away (@glasgow2024.bsky.social) and we are going to be there! We are running a table in the fan-tables section, plus holding a party Thursday night. Come along and get a badge ribbon, learn what a Tim Tam Slam is, and possibly discover the truth about drop bears.

Just so egregiously wattlesome...

Such a dismal grey day in Melbourne, but our wattle is looking extremely wattlesome!

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it's incredibly silly but I heard someone say "Trump always looks like he's playing an invisible accordion" and I can't unsee it

The places that presumably pay for advertising on google maps sometimes really perplex me...

List five things you wanted to be growing up: - writer (always) - journalist (writer, but gets paid?) (hah) - historian (writing, reading, maybe also travel?) (lol) - foreign affairs person (paid to travel??) (rofl) - bookseller / publishing (I just really like books ok?)

List five things you wanted to be growing up: - hairdresser (only job for women that I knew of) - secretary (same) - photojournalist (extremely bad photographer) - children's book author - archaeologist (too arthritic) AS IT HAPPENS I'm a secretary with a kids MS in progress.

Told there were 3 cats in this cubicle, but only seeing 2, I climbed up to check the top of the sleeping cage. Zizou came straight to me, chirped, headbutted, purred all over me. "She's so shy," the shelter crew said as we adopted her. We scoffed. She's spent 11 years now hiding from guests...

I want the story of how you got your pets. Why that pet? Did it find you? Did you pick? Tell me everything! Pictures appreciated but not required.

Art class day. Tried blocking in shapes first in drawing, and on this one it helped, but then I tried two more where it absolutely didn't (and then I gave up in a sulk 😭)

Blearily putting my coffee into the microwave this morning, the handle caught on the door and I tipped the entire damn thing into the microwave. I seriously considered just closing the door and chucking the whole thing out. But then I'd have to go out and buy a new one without having had coffee

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Do you have kids age 6-17? Do they like LEGOs? I am doing a survey of kids' opinions about LEGOs for an article I'm writing. I would be most appreciative if you gave it to your kids. And please share with other parents! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Kids' Opinions about LEGOdocs.google.com

Today's day of grown-up frivolity was interrupted (fortunately at the start of the boozy lunch) by a call from the school's sick-bay... 😿

ahahahahaha so I have a faux-google-alert for "Notorious Sorcerer" (for obvious reasons) and guess what phrase was apparently used in the (a?) press release for the Doctor Doom casting? 🤣

Sometimes, when I'm laptop-working on the spacious dining table, with the kid on the couch with her ipad and the Mister working in the study, I think of how hard our builders campaigned for a "computer nook" back in 2010, and I wonder how that has worked out for anyone who just gave in to them

I can't help feeling it's optimistic to suppose that toggling a digital switch is going to stop Musk from doing whatever the hell he wants. Don't get me wrong; I went and switched this off. But even as I did, I wondered if it even mattered

If anyone's wondering how things are going on the hellsite: This setting was just turned on by default for everyone. if you still have an account with content, go log in and disable this so Grok can't use your tweets as training data. Direct link: twitter.com/settings/gro...

So Mr Dee is making me watch Rings of Power (which is his fourth time) and I have been thinking a whole heap about this essay while Galadriel is running around in her battlemaiden get-up

In which @jolantru.bsky.social looks at how Joan of Arc is portrayed by medieval authors, and the similarity to representations of fictional lady knights. www.speculativeinsight.com (Essay available to subscribers - AUD30! USD20! GBP15! - gets you 12 extra essays a year AND two ebooks!)

It is a lovely day in the village, and you are a quite pleasant and misunderstood cassowary

Sometimes you only remember that you tossed some cardboard packaging down the laundry chute (for putting in the recycling box later) AFTER you open the washing machine and say "what's all this crap?" 😭

Such a dismal grey day in Melbourne, but our wattle is looking extremely wattlesome!

I'm having some Glasgow wistfulness, so I'm making half-hearted eyes at Seattle next year... but of course that rather relies upon things going well in November and thereafter... 🫤

My apparently controversial breakfast opinion is that I shouldn't need a steak knife to eat scrambled eggs and mushrooms. (Who first decided sourdough was the breakfast bread? Come on, own up. I just want to talk. With a steak knife.)

Art class day! I really am terrible at drawing, I just cannot get shapes and lines to relate to each other. This took me an hour and three attempts...