Shelley Parker-Chan

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Sunday Times & USA Today bestselling author of SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN and HE WHO DROWNED THE WORLD. Winner of Astounding & British Fantasy Awards. Unhealthily into monks, eunuchs, monsterfuckers
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I deplore the craven cowardice of those implicated in this report. That queer, BIPOC and Chinese diaspora authors were singled out for political examination, and denied a fair chance at SFF’s best-known awards, is reprehensible. Had my first book come out a year later, I’d have been disqualified too

For the last few weeks I've been working with Chris Barkley @cmzhang42.bsky.social of @file770.bsky.social on a report about censorship in the 2023 Hugo Awards. Leaked emails and files indicate authors and works deemed “not eligible” for the awards were removed due to political considerations. 1/3

love this one. One of my favourite calming comfort reads, deeply thoughtful as well as deeply emotional

Guess what’s out in the UK today! www.gollancz.co.uk/titles/karen...

The Best of All Possible Worldswww.gollancz.co.uk A proud and reserved alien society finds its homeland destroyed in an unprovoked act of aggression, and the survivors have no choice but to reach out to th...

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🍓🍓 TODAY'S THE DAY! LET'S GET PETTY! 🍓🍓 My ex’s judgy older bro (39m) told him to dump me (37f). Now I'm broke & stuck in a 10-ft-wide Spite House next door. If I blast monsterfucking audiobooks & tell MLM reps that older bro can host Tupperware parties, AITA? www.harpercollins.com/products/at-...

I fully expect The Saint of Bright Doors and To Shape a Dragon’s Breath to be on every awards list this year (and I’m sure when I read The Mad Sisters of Esi I’ll think the same of it), but I must confess: I never expected to be on a list with Salman Rushdie lol

The shortlisted works in the fantasy category are: - @vajra.me , The Saint of Bright Doors - Salman Rushdie, Victory City - Moniquill Blackgoose, To Shape a Dragon’s Breath - @tashanmehta.bsky.social , The Mad Sisters of Esi - @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social He Who Drowned the World

🐉🧧 (by the very talented—and very human—cover designer Mel Four)

It's the year of the dragon! 🐉 🎨 Quote repost with your dragon art (Mine is from 12 years ago...)

standing ovation inflation: the true problem of our times

Voicemail: Hi Shelley, this is the local library. We were just wondering if— Me: OMG!! My library has finally figured out I’m a local author and are getting in touch! Voicemail: —you could check inside the book you borrowed, the previous patron left a bookmark inside that they want back

anyway, He Who Drowned the World is eligible for Hugo Best Novel, if anyone is so inclined to nominate it (thank you if you do!) I personally like it better than She Who Became the Sun, but I write to my own taste, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

wait, all I had to do was put my preorder reward short story up on my website for it to count as published, and it would make my 240,000+ words series (two books and the short story) eligible for Best Series?? I AM CRYING

A random thought: While the Radiant Emperor duology isn't eligible for a Best Series hugo as it stands, all it would need to qualify is a single short story. I feel this is information that, if they don't know it already, @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social should know.

cried actual tears by page 2, was snort-laughing throughout, and legit SCREAMING by the end

I really loved this book & howled about it separately with both @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social and @everinamaxwell.bsky.social. Sarah Rees Brennan knows how to make you laugh and rip you open at the same time. Don’t miss it.

after months of imaginative labour I have constructed my magnum opus: a world without breasts

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Oh, nothing, just @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social unravelling then reassembling my heart with this beautiful cruel beast of a book

learned a new word: “the croton hues of the Impressionists”, where croton is this colourful tropical plant I never knew the name of! I remember being enraptured the first time I saw them, in Yogyakarta in my early twenties

as a writer I sometimes break out in a cold sweat thinking about my kid and her fellow fifth graders critiquing The Hunger Games as having “kinda a slow start”

“what kind of personality will be the engine to get me between these disparate plot points that I came up with to generate the one (1) scene I’m actually invested in” (it’s like solving a multi-variable equation where the variables are, I guess, the Issues that shape their interaction styles)

Where do you start when building a new character? For me 4 things first: Goals - what do they want? Motivation - why do they want what they want? Conflict - what's stopping them from getting what they want? Secrets - what are they hiding from other characters? Then everything else. What's yours?

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just when you buckaroos thought 2024 would be a break from book drama, here comes chuck tingle in the mix. recently i was asked to be a featured speaker for the TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION conference. a few days ago they rescinded my invitation. here is what happened. tumblr.com/drchucktingl...

have reached the “fandom ancient” stage where I can binge The Boys and reminisce about each of these middle-aged men when they were 20 and beautiful. Dark Angel and Gossip Girl are easy, Karl Urban has been in everything, but do YOU remember Antony Starr as a centaur in Xena: Warrior Princess? 😂

instead of telling me for the nth time to watch Blue Eye Samurai, petition someone in Hollywood to buy my TV rights lol

what’s the last word you looked up in 2023? mine is ‘aspergillium’ (‘implement for sprinkling holy water’) which appears in Dwight Garner’s memoir The Upstairs Delicatessen as a stand-in for a priest’s exposed penis

if you, like me, like to ring in the new year by reading a book in the bathtub…why not consider He Who Drowned the World, which is $4.99, this December 31 only, at the US Kindle store? (me, I’ll be re-reading Tana French’s Faithful Place, my second favourite of hers) www.amazon.com/Drowned-Worl...

Amazon.com: He Who Drowned the World: A Novel (The Radiant Emperor Duology Book 2) eBook : Parker-Ch...www.amazon.com He Who Drowned the World: A Novel (The Radiant Emperor Duology Book 2) - Kindle edition by Parker-Chan, Shelley. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features...

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Very well: 4 UK/IE kindle copies of SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN by @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social, free for the taking. amazon.co.uk/kindle/redee... amazon.co.uk/kindle/redee... amazon.co.uk/kindle/redee... amazon.co.uk/kindle/redee... #KindleBookGiveaway

She Who Became the Sun is £0.99 on Kindle in the UK until 6 Jan, if you wanted to dip your toe into the Radiant Emperor series for practically nothing: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B08Q...

She Who Became the Sun: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller (The Radiant Emperor Book 1) eBook : ...www.amazon.co.uk She Who Became the Sun: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller (The Radiant Emperor Book 1) eBook : Parker-Chan, Shelley: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Highly recommended to anyone that recently enjoyed Blue Eye Samurai on Netflix!

She Who Became the Sun is £0.99 on Kindle in the UK until 6 Jan, if you wanted to dip your toe into the Radiant Emperor series for practically nothing: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B08Q...

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The healthy unhealthy motivation.

earlier this year I had the half-formed idea to become familiar with all the ‘dried things’ (you know what I mean) in the Chinese grocery store, but only got as far as lily flowers, tea tree mushrooms and dried gluten…perhaps completing this delicious quest can be my new year resolution?

I love this idea! Next year I want to eat every fruit/vegetable in the fresh food section of H-Mart.

She Who Became the Sun is £0.99 on Kindle in the UK until 6 Jan, if you wanted to dip your toe into the Radiant Emperor series for practically nothing: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B08Q...

one of my favourite reads this year was Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld, a mid-life romance scaffolded equally by the fever-dream world of late night comedy TV production, and the dispiriting reality of the pandemic

Finding it increasingly jarring that so much presumably realistic contemporary fiction these days takes place in an alternative universe in which the pandemic never happened

Because nobody ever told me—and the article doesn’t mention it either—this form of hormonal birth control made me weep uncontrollably 24/7, even though I had no history of depression. I thought I’d lost my mind! Would have been nice to know it’s a possible side effect www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/w...

Teens in Search of Birth Control Have Embraced the Hormonal Implantwww.nytimes.com The implant is effective, low-maintenance and relatively pain-free to get.

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This is extremely sad for the genre. Small Beer have put out, over its years, a unique and incredible catalogue. I really hope @gavingrant.bsky.social is able to take good care of himself, and finds a way to keep highlighting new work and writers. www.tor.com/2023/12/20/s...

Small Beer Press Is Halting New Publicationswww.tor.com Small Beer Press closed to submissions in March 2023, and it looks likely that they won’t open for more submissions, at least in the near future, due to publisher health complications caused by the�...

approximately everyone and their neighbour has recommended this book to me—and if that’s the case for you too, then now’s an excellent time to grab it from your (US) ebook retailer of choice

Hey, so THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS ebook is *hugely* discounted for the day (Dec 21) down to $2.99. If you've been waiting to pick up a copy, or would like to gift copies to people in your life, today is totally the day for it. Amazon: www.amazon.com/Saint-Bright...

…this seems like something I would love to have in Melbourne? that it might even be possible for someone as socially ungifted as me to organise, given that I know many readers and my spouse is a musician who knows many other musicians and small suitable bars…HMM www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/b...

It’s My Party and I’ll Read If I Want Towww.nytimes.com Reading Rhythms bills itself as a series of “reading parties,” where guests read silently for an hour and chat with strangers about the books they brought. (Just don’t call it a book club.)