E.Saxey

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Tallish, bookish Londoner.
Gothic/folk horror novel, set in Victorian London, "Unquiet": https://titanbooks.com/71432-unquiet/
Weird queer short fiction, "Lost in the Archives": http://tinyurl.com/saxey22
They/them.

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Egrets, I've seen a few...

If you see this, post a bird.

Belatedly! It's a rainy day in parts of the UK, why not join the British Fantasy Society online day of writing joy: britishfantasysociety.org/events-calen... I'm up now (talking about writing from experience), more good stuff later.

BFS Online: Writing Your Way – The British Fantasy Societybritishfantasysociety.org For all things fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction

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The BSFA award winning, Best Of British Science Fiction is on sale for the ridiculous price of UNDER A QUID for the 14th and 15th of May. Get on it! www.amazon.co.uk/Best-British...

Best of British Science Fiction 2022 eBook : Scott, Donna, Tidhar, Lavie, Brown, Eric, Whates, Ian, Moore, Fiona, Brooke, Keith, Keogh, Ida, Williamson, Neil, Major, Tim, Oram, Stephen: Amazon.co.uk: ...www.amazon.co.uk Best of British Science Fiction 2022 eBook : Scott, Donna, Tidhar, Lavie, Brown, Eric, Whates, Ian, Moore, Fiona, Brooke, Keith, Keogh, Ida, Williamson, Neil, Major, Tim, Oram, Stephen: Amazon.co.uk: ...

50 hours to back Alone on the Borderland, an Edwardian Anthology crammed with weirdness! My story starts with a nice picnic and wanders off into the shrubbery of impropriety. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bel...

Alone on the Borderlandwww.kickstarter.com An anthology of new, strange and weird fiction, from the dawn of the 20th century through the aftermath of the Great War.

Rural water ritual dating back to 1364 still effective

POV you're to be queen of the May

I'm going to be in a weird anthology! With strange Edwardian collaborators! Why not grab a copy? Good to have it safe on the TBR pile. Otherwise you'll just wonder where it is, what it's planning, if it's getting closer... www.kickstarter.com/projects/bel...

Alone on the Borderlandwww.kickstarter.com An anthology of new, strange and weird fiction, from the dawn of the 20th century through the aftermath of the Great War.

Please pretend I photographed this excellent book of weird shorts, and this actual hunter by the river, in the same shot. Then buy the book, it's a proper brainmelter. @dancarpenter.bsky.social

Thanking @kjcharleswriter.com for using Old English poems in Death in the Spires to tap into the motherload of misery, pining and losing all your mates. And an excellent mystery, also.

@slepkane.bsky.social Thanks for last night's show - just wanted to say how surprisingly moving it was to hear Jerry again, cannoning out of lockdown. It took me back and made me tearful.

It's #BookQW and the word is genius. Our protagonist is considering working for an arcane start-up. Protagonists do stuff like that - read aloud from a dusty tome, try on a ring they found in a cemetery. Just to give you, the reader, the joy of shouting nooooo. www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Archive...

Editing tasks: "Sort out the progression of cowardice in this scene"

If you felt the recent proposed guidance for UK schools around kids and gender was abysmal, you may wish to let the government know your opinion. Consultation closes 12 March. consult.education.gov.uk/equalities-p... Additional help and info: tnb.org.uk/data/files/a...

It's #bookqw and the word is UNABLE. My Uranian Victorian narrator has missed his chance: "I thought, often, whether it would have been different if I’d made my speech on the train. If I'd allowed sincerity to conquer cynicism..." (contd.)

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It's finally here! Downpour is out! Downpour is my tool for making games on your phone in literal minutes. Collage together images & text, link them up, then share online. No coding necessary! 🌐 downpour.games 🤖 play.google.com/store/apps/d... 🍎 apps.apple.com/us/app/downp...

Downpourdownpour.games Downpour is the best app for making games on your phone. Collage together photos, drawings and text, and then connect them into an interactive story. It's genuinely quick and easy to use — you can mak...

Adding to this, a short story about surrounding yourself with objects, and/or finding new homes for them: "Useful and Beautiful Things" magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2023/u... @metaphorosis.bsky.social

2023 awards eligibility! My work under the fantasy/horror umbrella: Unquiet - a Gothic novel of folk rituals and Victorian London titanbooks.com/71432-unquiet/ And a novella about preserving monstrous histories (22500 words) giganotosaurus.org

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Just finished reading a story that was totally made for me in this moment, a glorious @giganotosaurus.bsky.social story by @esaxey.bsky.social. Creepy Elizabethan historiography, academia captured in all its brutality, gorgeous prose: utterly My Kind of Thing. giganotosaurus.org/2023/10/01/o...

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Our Kickstarter is in full swing! Back our campaign and you can receive a reward like a story prompt on a khōréō issue 1.1 cover postcard, plus a year of khōréō magazine! Every little bit helps us publish more incredible immigrant and diaspora authors. www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

Join me for an online workshop, writing ghostly lovers! Tomorrow evening, 14 Feb, from 6pm (UK time) From protective spirits to spectral wrong'uns. www.ticketsource.co.uk/ukghoststory...

A tiny Pan in a huge landscape by Bernard Sleigh, 1918, at the British Library Fantasy exhibition @pjrobichaud.bsky.social

Online informative toys: use the Bank of England inflation calculator to work out how much Mr Darcy was worth! Also to confirm your sense that you're not bad with money, the last few years have been utterly unreasonable. www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-pol...

Inflation calculatorwww.bankofengland.co.uk Use our inflation calculator to check how prices in the UK have changed over time, from 1209 to now.

A left-field heartfelt eligibility post: "Computing and Technology Ethics: Engaging through Science Fiction", Best Related Work, Hugos. Moral dilemmas explored via weird worlds! Includes my story about chasing the shadow of plagiarism. @emanuelleburton.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026204806...

Agreeing and also - my memories of getting expert feedback are less about them saying 'no' and more about 'yes, and...'. I'm sure they said 'no' a lot, but what stuck with me are times they connected a loose end to a central theme, or introduced me to a narratively-useful new concept.

This is super true, and also in my experience, feedback from sensitivity readers has made me a better author and researcher, because I've learned more about my biases, thinking processes, and knowledge gaps. Metacognitive wins in addition to fucking up less and not adding to harmful narratives.

Canny use of 1960s women singers to reinforce the female gaze/perspective in clothes adverts with half-dressed chaps, from the 1992 Levis ad with the swimming pools (Dinah Washington's "Mad About the Boy") through to the recent Calvin Klein (Lesley Gore's "You Don't Own Me").

This will be tasty and fun and thought provoking. Join the Goths for breakfast (or brunch, if you're not an early riser).

It's GOTHS FOR BREAKFAST time! A full day of writing workshops, talks and cooking classes on creepy, Gothic, horror, supernatural and spooky themes! All for CHARITY. We're supporting Magic Breakfasts - free breakfasts for hungry kids www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/goths-for-...

Goths for Breakfastwww.eventbrite.co.uk R omancing the Gothic is running a charity event to support Magic Breakfast, which provides school breakfasts for children who need them. Th

I'm on the @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social recommended reading list for my 2023 novella! (In which Queen Elizabeth I is still alive and history professors are being snobbish about it.) Thank you so much, excellent nerds! 💕 giganotosaurus.org/2023/10/01/o...

Nerds of a Feather 2024 Hugo Award Recommendation List: Part 1 Welcome to the Nerds of a Feather 2024 Hugo Award Recommendation List. It's a bit uncomfortable, this year, given events in Chengdu but here are our major fiction recommendations. www.nerds-feather.com/2024/01/nerd...

Nerds of a Feather 2024 Hugo Award Recommendation List: Part 1www.nerds-feather.com Welcome to the Nerds of a Feather 2024 Hugo Award Recommendation List. As in previous years, this is a 4-part list covering things our write...

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I really loved this novella; people working together, and things aren't easy but there is hope. (I've read a lot of 'found family' fiction since which had a different balance of warmth and substance, but this one was spot on for me.)

throwback: in 2015 I wrote a fantasy historical novella about some magicians doing their best in the aftermath of WW1. It begins on 2 February 1919, so I thought I’d share it with you again on 2 February 2024 giganotosaurus.org/2015/12/01/q...

Quarter Days - GigaNotoSaurusgiganotosaurus.org (i) Candlemas On the Monday, Grace put the advertisement for the new apprentice on the door of their chambers; on the Tuesday, she had a couple of interested, and uninteresting, respondents; and on We...

You can get my queer weird speculative short fiction as an e-book! Smashwords and Kindle, for the price of half a pint (in a London pub). Your dreams are needed by an eldritch startup, your boyfriend is in suspended animation, your wife is a hawk. And more! www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Archive...

Lost in the Archives: Speculative Stories eBook : Saxey, E.: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Storewww.amazon.co.uk Lost in the Archives: Speculative Stories eBook : Saxey, E.: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'argue'. "I don’t want us to argue. I just want us to differ. I still think of you as laid-back, not clingy. But you don’t need to be clingy. Because you don’t exist when you’re not with me." #bookqw www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Archive...

Lost in the Archives: Speculative Stories eBook : Saxey, E.: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Storewww.amazon.co.uk Lost in the Archives: Speculative Stories eBook : Saxey, E.: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store