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Author of the Memoirs of Lady Trent. Also one half of M.A. Carrick. She/her.
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Flash Point SF @flashpointsf.bsky.social · 6 days
NEW FICTION: "In the Paradise of the Pure Land" by Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social #SFF #flashfiction flashpointsf.com?p=5015
In the Paradise of the Pure Landflashpointsf.com In the paradise that is the Pure Land of the Amida Buddha, there is beauty everywhere.
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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 8 days
#TFW you swear you aren't going to do work on vacation but then you go to a museum that is like HI HAVE SOME IDEAS FOR THAT BOOK
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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 8 days
imagine how much great art could have been created if we took a fraction of the money spent on getting computers to make shitty art and gave it to actual artists
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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 8 days
"I won't read thus author's books anymore because I don't like their politics and don't want to support them," reader says on Twitter/Facebook/etc., after having bought earlier books on Amazon. (Granted that it can be harder to avoid megacompanies, but still.)
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DreamForge Magazine @dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social · 9 days
Looking for 1 more Pledge today to take us to 90 supporters! Positive Science and Fantasy Fiction at kck.st/3XupZ6W #Kickstarter #SciFi #Fantasy #SupportIndie #PositiveFiction #Crowdfunding #SupportWriters #Hopepunk #Solarpunk
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Kim, Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @easybakedoven.bsky.social · 11 days
I just read an article that said "Why is it taking so long for your favorite movies and tv series to air? Blame the writers and actor strikes" No I won't. I'm blaming that ✨single✨ motherfucker at the studio who makes $250 million dollars a year who's one job is supposed to make this shit happen.
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 10 days
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE SHARE, SPACE UNICORNS! The Uncanny Magazine Year 11: This One Goes to ELEVEN! Kickstarter is LIVE! Only *you* can make a 11th year of Uncanny Magazine happen! Help us make more magic, Space Unicorns!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lyn...
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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 14 days
Remember: it isn't just that people need to vote for Biden. We need to vote for all the offices below that, too, so as to build the kind of base of support the GOP has cultivated for decades, which has let them drag us down to this point.
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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 16 days
@morningtransport.bsky.social will be making all their July stories free to read, but if you subscribe, you can read June's "The Dinomancers Dance" by Ng Yi-Sheng, which is just delightfully bonkers: www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/the-dinoma...
The Dinomancers Dancewww.sundaymorningtransport.com This week, Ng Yi-Sheng documents the testimonies of Dinomancy practitioners, as that practice evolves before our very eyes. ~ Julian and Fran, June 23, 2024. This month’s stories are by authors Kelly ...
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DreamForge Magazine @dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social · 17 days
74% funded! Can we make that 75% today? ($37 more would do it!) DreamForge Magazine is fighting for our 6th year! PRINT SF & Fantasy featuring color illos and great stories, online & digital ebooks, DreamCasters writing group, Webinars and more! Pledge our Kickstarter at kck.st/3XupZ6W
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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 16 days
@morningtransport.bsky.social will be making all their July stories free to read, but if you subscribe, you can read June's "The Dinomancers Dance" by Ng Yi-Sheng, which is just delightfully bonkers: www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/the-dinoma...
The Dinomancers Dancewww.sundaymorningtransport.com This week, Ng Yi-Sheng documents the testimonies of Dinomancy practitioners, as that practice evolves before our very eyes. ~ Julian and Fran, June 23, 2024. This month’s stories are by authors Kelly ...
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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 20 days
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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Zeno Agency @zenoagency.bsky.social · 17 days
New month, new eBook deals! Six Zeno titles are amongst July's #kindledeals! (Ranging from 99p to £2.29, for Brennan's) - @jrdawson.bsky.social; @jeremyteg.bsky.social; @rrvirdi.bsky.social; @swantower.bsky.social; Charlaine Harris & Brandon Sanderson!
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Kaija Rayne 101625/70000 Hiatus until? @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 18 days
Please tell people if you loved our work. Word of mouth is absolutely the best form of advertising there is.
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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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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 20 days
Someone's probably written a 2-hour long YouTube video about this, but I'm just sitting here thinking about how when Lucas and the team made Star Wars, it was them remixing little bits of everything he was a fan of. But now, when making Star Wars, it's just people remixing Star Wars itself forever.
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WobblyPython: Playing Every Metal Gear @wobblypython.bsky.social · 19 days
I find this is true for a lot of mediums. Games, streamers, movies. It's all driven by the good fun of sharing.
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Noctis (No Promises To Keep) @fuckmelikea.dog · 20 days
literally how "This Is How You Lose A Time War" blew up
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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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Beth Winter @bwinter.bsky.social · 20 days
I generally avoid YA but the Hugo packet brought me two gems: Moniquill Blackgoose To Shape A Dragon's Breath (Native American girl in dragon training academy run by Norse colonizers) and P Djeli Clark's Abeni's Song (West African folklore and a girl's journey to find her stolen people).
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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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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 20 days
Boringness is highly underrated in presidents. I would like an unbroken series of people who will quietly get on with the business of governing, rather than seeing what they can set on fire today.
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JenTheTracy @jenthetracy.bsky.social · 20 days
This sells art, too. Talk about the art you like. Talk about the books you like. Ask your friends what they are reading. Make supporting creative people your small talk.
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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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Jan Murphy @packrat74.bsky.social · 20 days
💙📚 Talk about the books you love. Just posting the book cover and saying the book is significant to you is not enough. The cover alone is just like a pile of promo postcards or bookmarks, sitting unheralded on the bookstore counter (which customers rarely take with them). Your words matter.
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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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Homo-snek-ual Подонок 🔞 @goldeneyesblind.bsky.social · 20 days
an author can talk a book up all day long but folks are well aware its our job to sell our books but when readers talk about it? that usually means they really liked it and want to talk about it which is obviously much more convincing than a sales pitch
Avatar Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 20 days
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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PeterS @paradiddletriplets.bsky.social · 20 days
Also: join a book club! In person, online, Zoom, whatever. Word of mouth multiplier!!!!
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 21 days
We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.
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Andy McGlashen @amcglashen.bsky.social · 21 days
Welp, looks like you’re not getting any work done this morning 🪶 www.audubon.org/magazine/202...
The 2024 Audubon Photo Awards: The Top 100www.audubon.org Each year of the Audubon Photography Awards is exciting, but this one is especially celebratory: 2024 marks the 125th anniversary of Audubon magazine—and the 15th installment of our annual photo...
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wade of mutilation @waderockett.bsky.social · 20 days
This goes for TTRPGs too! Small and mid-tier publishers have very little budget for marketing and advertising, and can’t make game stores promote their books. If nobody you know has heard of your favorite game, tell them about it!
Avatar Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 20 days
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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Mr Dr Bae @dallas-taylor.bsky.social · 20 days
Currently rereading Iain M Banks' Look to Windward and I can't stress enough what a loss it was when he died. SF as litfic, absolute best of both worlds. A giant.
Avatar Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 20 days
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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doc @docseuss.bsky.social · 20 days
Same with indie games!
Avatar Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 20 days
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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Kalum @rolistespod.bsky.social · 20 days
Not only it's the best way to reach more fans, it's also a what fills us with juice. ...no wait that sounds a bit weird.
Avatar Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 20 days
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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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 20 days
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!