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I'd like my reading list for next year to include more indie authors (instead of just reading the whole Discworld series on a loop like I usually do), and my fave genre is sci-fi.

So, I'm betting Fedi has quite the treasure trove of indie sci-fi authors, please say hello and tell me where I can find your books! Or if you're not an author, recommendations of people to check out obviously very welcome too.

Thanks!

(Boosts welcome & appreciated ♥️)

#SciFi #Bookstodon #IndieAuthors
#bookstodon #scifi #indieAuthors

Many people have told me how they like to read the opening few paragraphs of books before buying.

So, here is the opening to mine, 'Drystone - A Life Rebuilt' which will be available for pre-order early 2025 and then released in August.

I'm a first time author, so shares mean a lot and I'd genuinely love to hear your thoughts.

#Writing #NatureWriting #Books #Bookstodon #Scotland #Caithness #Bookworm #Reading
I was eight years old when our mum moved us from one end of Scotland to the other. From Jedburgh, where you cross the border to England, to Thurso, where you catch the boat to Orkney. I don’t know what mum saw in Caithness, but I suspect it was just as far as she could go without leaving the country. Caithness is flat and vast and lies prostrate to a wind pushed inland by the thuggish North Sea. A wind that reminds anything attempting to grow that it should perhaps reconsider. On the heaths and moors, plants have no choice but to stay close to the ground and each other. Even in July, when the rest of Scotland is dressed by the full flair of summer, the Flow Country is understated. Thriving in the nutrient-poor soil, bog asphodel, myrtle and bean hide among heather and peat. In the skies above these rare blanket bogs, golden plover and greenshank float silently on warm air and mottled wings. On the coast, the sandstone shark fins of Duncansby Stacks ward off all but the most determined travellers. The Borders are Scotland at its most pastoral, but Caithness akin to a moonscape. I had never seen anything like it. On either side of a road, cutting long and straight through an expansive moorland, people stood in smoke and flames, soft-edged silhouettes as they beat the ground around them with huge paddles. Muirburn, the controlled burning of heather. It felt ancient, apocalyptic. Last paragraph missing as no room for all the text.
#writing #books #reading #bookstodon #scotland #bookworm #naturewriting #caithness

Very enjoyable book thanks to @Beedazzled for the recommendation #bookstodon
The image shows the cover of a book titled "Guilty by Definition," the debut novel from Susie Dent. The background features bookshelves, and there are quotes from Philip Pullman and Janice Hallett on the cover.
#bookstodon @BeeDazzledCymru

I submitted the manuscript for my next book!

It's a collection of folktales about misunderstood / underappreciated animals. Bats, sharks, wolves, rats, spiders, etc. I managed to find cool stories for each, and in every one of them the animal is portrayed in a positive light.

It was one heck of a research project, and I really enjoyed it 😄

#nature #animals #bookstodon #books #AmWriting
#Nature #animals #books #bookstodon #amwriting

"Our earliest history is lost in mist, but one might well ask: weren't we able to survive, when survival was all but impossible, because we learned to share our food and band together for defence, and would today's me-first, do-your-own-thing civilisation have lasted more than a moment?"

from 'Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone', by Eduardo Galeano

#SundaySentence #SolidarityIsBeautiful #Bookstodon #EndCapitalism
A sketch of a old-style beehive with plants and flowers growing out of each side and at the top. Text reads ALL WE HAVE IS EACH OTHER MUTUAL AID
#bookstodon #sundaysentence #solidarityisbeautiful #endcapitalism

Another day another book - the third in the trilogy - not bad and managed to keep up the momentum more or less #bookstodon
The image features the book cover for "Obsidio," the third installment in "The Illuminae Files" series by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. The cover has a dark, starry background
#bookstodon

@handmade_ghost It's been a minute since I recommended a book, so here's the one I just bought, which I think you're going to be putting on your next birthday wish list 🥰 😉

#Bookstodon #Poetry
Cover of The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals To Wonder Through Science and Poetry by Maria Popova. A black background with a large stylised design of a poppy in the centre. The roots, leaves and stem are swirling around the flower in a kind of spiral
#bookstodon #Poetry @handmade ghost

This also is a good read #bookstodon
The image features the cover of the book "Gemina," part of "The Illuminae Files" series by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. It includes design elements with blue and black
#bookstodon

"In some corner of the sunless sea, passing through waters cold and dark enough to keep us at bay, there moves a beauty and a strangeness that rivals the unicorn."

from 'Narwhal', a chapter of 'The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasure', by Katherine Rundell

#Bookstodon #Nature #Oceans
A stylised painting of a narwhal diving into the sea. A wooden boat is sinking at the bottom of the image.
#Nature #bookstodon #oceans

@kathimmel Thought this might interest you. I was only vaguely aware of her - I've not read anything by her either.
As she's mentioned in the piece, I'll also recommend Vivian Gornick's Fierce Attachments.

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/lore-segal-obit-essay/

#Bookstodon #WomenWriters

Lore Segal’s Stubborn Optimism | The Nation

In her life and work, she moved through the world with a disarming blend of youthful curiosity and daring intelligence.
The Nation
#bookstodon #womenwriters @it's kat! 🍉

Good grief. Audiobook narrator: "Persophone".

#Bookstodon #Audio #PronunciationFail
#Audio #bookstodon #pronunciationfail

Hey #bookstodon folks I have a question!

I read a lot of pulp-y shit, but mostly 60s and earlier (and really, mostly 50s and earlier.)

I've never read any Michael Morcock or Roger Zelazny, for example.

Should I? Who else am I missing because I've focused on the first half of the 20th century?
#bookstodon

Dear everyone alienated by the news spin cycle, I have a suggestion: read more books. No, not long form Atlantic and New Yorker pieces, actual books that explain things. My reading pace--and sanity--went up considerably in late 2016. #bookstodon #politics #media
#politics #bookstodon #media

"We don't wish to shout
or be brilliant or climb up walls
or hang from walls

but to sit in the grass
in our clean best frills and listen,
shyly nodding our heads
or shyly shaking our heads
because we understand, yes truly we do."

'Daisies', by Katherine Towers

#Poetry #Bloomscrolling #Florespondence #Bookstodon
Close up of several daisies on a lawn
#bookstodon #Poetry #bloomscrolling #florespondence

The brilliant and super-ethically minded Xigxag have been added to my Ethical Bookseller Search Tool.

The tool scours more ethical booksellers than #Amazon in one click and the cheapest result is as cheap or cheaper than Amazon for the majority of searches?! 🤯

Give it a whirl when searching for your next online #book order. 📖 👇

https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/amazon-alternatives/?ebs-path=%2Fbooks%2Fm%2Fis%3A9781835189870-is%3A9781835189924%2Fa-single-act-of-kindness-samantha-tonge&ebs-authors=Samantha+Tonge&ebs-cover=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.ethicalbooksearch.com%2Fimg%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fblackwells.co.uk%252Fjacket%252Fs%252F9781835189870.jpg%26sig%3Dc92504ecddf40771036e43399a20b33a8781fad18a9c938cb5267757f1d99ee8%26width%3D150&ebs-title=A+Single+Act+of+Kindness

#AmazonAlternatives #BoycottAmazon #bookstodon #books

Amazon Alternatives - Ethical Revolution

Join me in taking step A, “Amazon Alternatives”, in the A-Z of simple steps to a better world! Includes an Ethical Book Search tool!
Ethical Revolution
#book #Amazon #books #bookstodon #boycottamazon #amazonalternatives

"Le dijeron que no había nada, que la estepa, si no era infinita, por lo menos era lo bastante grande como para no ser abarcada por una persona ni aún viviendo 100 vidas, pero él estaba desesperado...".

Un micro relato sobre el Doomscrolling, les invito a leerlo y a reflexionar si entienden a lo que me refiero.

#relatos #microrelato #literatura #literaverso #bookstodon #escritura #escritores #blog #DoomScrolling #reflexion #absurdo

https://dc-none.blogspot.com/2024/11/tras-aquella-cortina-de-niebla.html

Tras Aquella Cortina de Niebla

Blog de historias, poemas y demás cosas que se ocultan en lo más profundo de mis pensamientos.
dc-none.blogspot.com
#bookstodon #blog #reflexion #literaverso #escritura #literatura #relatos #microrelato #escritores #doomscrolling #absurdo

Anyone planning on doing any fun reading challenges next year?

#books #bookstodon #reading #ReadingChallenge #AmReading
#books #reading #bookstodon #amreading #readingchallenge

"On those rare nights, they would leave remembering not the fine old house, or the man with the worried look who owned it, or the strange flock of teenagers, but the woman with the dark brown hair which got looser as the night went on, and her pale hands plucking unlikely stories out of the air like green plums that ripened with the telling at her hearth."

from 'The Forester's Daughter', by Claire Keegan

#SundaySentence #Bookstodon #Stories
A painting of woman in a long white dress, reading a book by firelight.
#bookstodon #stories #sundaysentence

"Between heather and marigold,
Between spaghnum and buttercup,
Between dandelion and broom,
Between forget-me-not and honeysuckle,

As between clear blue and cloud,
Between haystack and sunset sky,
Between oak tree and slated roof,
I had my existence. I was there.
Me in place and the place in me."

from 'A Herbal' by Seamus Heaney

#Poetry #Nature #Bookstodon
Wildflowers in an abandoned cemetary
#Nature #bookstodon #Poetry

"Mountain heaves and sighs, besoils a blue berry
in the palm
of a human hand millions of years in the future,
says I become you
and you
a mountain of matter.

Blueberry plant stretches its roots
smelling the soil for atoms,
hears faint hand outstretched pinching stems pulling berries:
says what do I eat and who do I stain?"

from 'Mountain Blue', by Maya Chowdhry

#Poetry #Nature #Bookstodon
Close up picture of blueberries
#Nature #bookstodon #Poetry

Just finished reading this book - I didn’t like the beginning much but the book is worth persevering with as the author moves deeper into an imagined life of Julian of Norwich #bookstodon
A colourful stained-glass style book cover featuring a tree with intricate branches and leaves. The title "I, Julian" is prominently displayed, along with the author's name, Claire Gilbert.
#bookstodon

When I was putting together my "Forgotten Greek and Roman Myths" manuscript, I was constantly told that it is not a sellable concept for a book - because "people want to read their favorite myths", and not unkown ones.

Now the reviews are trickling in, and every reviewer highlights how exciting it is to find unknown myths about the well-known gods and heroes.

🤷‍♀️

(Still looking for an English language publisher, btw.)

#mythology #books #bookstodon #storytelling #writing #publishing
#publishing #writing #books #bookstodon #storytelling #mythology

It is an incredibly cool feeling to walk into your favorite café and ask for a latte named after your book 🥰 🥰
Pompeii Latte Art Caffe is running a promotion with a custom made Silent Goddess hazelnut-brownie latte ☕️

#coffee #latte #mythology #bookstodon #books #GreekMythology #RomanMythology
Selfie with The Silent Goddess book (in Hungarian) sold at the café, and a to-go cup of latte.
#books #bookstodon #coffee #mythology #greekmythology #latte #romanmythology

Shepherd is a nifty book discovery site that you should check out if you're a reader!

Each year they hold a three fave reads extravaganza, which eventually produces a books of 2024 list.

Here are my three:
https://shepherd.com/bboy/2024/f/mark-a-rayner

#book #books #bookstodon #writing #writingcommunity #reading #readers
Mark A. Rayner's 3 favorite reads in 2024 Showing the cover art for: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

Want to know Mark A. Rayner's Top 3 Books of 2024?

Mark's top 3 reads of 2024 include Kafka on the Shore and two other amazing books. Discover what makes these books unmissable!
Shepherd
#book #writing #writingcommunity #books #reading #bookstodon #readers

Today is looking up :D Shooting promo videos for social media for the mythology book. At the Pompeii Café in Budapest :)

I drank like 5 cups of latte during the shoot.

I can see the gods now.

#mythology #books #bookstodon #storytelling #coffee #image
Me (woman in her thirties, red hair, glasses) sitting in the corner of a café, drinking a cup of latte. The coffee table has a mosaic theme, and there is Horatius quote on the wall behind me. My book, The Silent Goddess: Forgotten Greek and Roman myths, is on the coffee table. The cover is blue, with art featuring a goddess surrounded by stars. I am wearing a white and blue Roman outfit and a blue hairband.
#books #bookstodon #coffee #storytelling #mythology #image

So, I showed up to my book launch at the literary festival today. Telling Greek and Roman myths, appropriately dressed because why not :)

Then I was told 3 minutes before stage time that... my #mythology book is not being sold at the festival.

Because... by Hungarian law, you can't sell #lgbtq content within 200 meters of a school.

So 8pm, at an adult literary event, I couldn't actually sign. Greek mythology. Because there is a school building nearby.

#books #bookstodon #Hungary
#lgbtq #books #bookstodon #hungary #mythology

We are fast approaching the holidays, probably the most lucrative time in the book publishing business.

The market is about to be flooded with Christmas books with AI generated images.

Don't buy Christmas books with AI generated images.*

*Or any AI gift books for the winter holidays, actually

#AI #books #bookstodon #art
#ai #art #books #bookstodon

Cover reveal!

This is always an exciting time in the life of a book. The title of the collection is one that I’ve always had in mind for one of my projects. It comes from The Odyssey. -->quote below

It's being published by Donovan Street Press, probably mid-to-late November, owned by @ilanderz

And while you're waiting for it, I've got lots of other fiction available:

https://www.amazon.com/Mark-A-Rayner/e/B003ZPDIF6

#writing #writingcommunity #coverart #bookstodon #shortfiction
cover art for The Gates of Polished Horn by mark A. Rayner - a collection of stories Galaxy and nebula in the background as seen through gates made of elk horns
#writing #writingcommunity #bookstodon #coverart #shortfiction @Joe Mahoney

This feeling never gets old 🥰 My new book is out in the world today! The Mute Goddess: Forgotten Greek and Roman Myths. And yes, it has that new book smell!

I am very excited, and very nervous. I put my heart and soul into researching these myths. Maybe because I am an archaeologist, but this one makes me more nervous about what people will think than any of my previous books 😬

#mythology #MythologyMonday #storytelling #archaeology #Classics #bookstodon
Photo of me (white woman, 30s, long red hair, glasses, blue eyes, sparkly makeup, toothy smile), holding a book with a blue cover, decorated with constellations and the stylized image of a Greek goddess with long flowing hair. Title (in Hungarian) reads The Mute Goddess: Forgotten Greek and Roman Myths.
#bookstodon #storytelling #mythologymonday #mythology #classics #archaeology

By the way, said "Forgotten Greek and Roman Myths" book is looking for an English lanuage publisher ;)

It is coming out in Hungary on the 16th from Trend Kiadó.

It contains 25 little known stories from Greek and Roman mythology - including variants of myths not included in most popular collections. Sourced and researched, and re-told by a storyteller.

If anyone has any suggestions, let me know :)

#books #bookstodon #publishing #mythology #Classics
The cover of the book. Translation: Zalka Csenge Virág: The Mute Goddess: Forgotten Greek and Roman myths. The cover is designed in shades of blue, and portrays the stylized image of a goddess with long, flowing hair, surrounded by constellations and catching stars in her palm. Cover art by Khor Fruzsina.
#publishing #books #bookstodon #mythology #classics

This morning on the tram:

A little old lady in a traditional Transylvanian dress (skirts and petticoats, blouse, head scarf, etc.) was sitting on the tram, completely absorbed in a book.

The book was an erotic thriller titled "In the bed of the mafia"

Go little old lady

#reading #books #bookstodon #Budapest
#books #reading #bookstodon #budapest

Re-reading "Talkin' up to the white woman", I can't believe its been more than 20 years since it was first published, it spoke to me when I first read it
“When you stop fighting, you are truly colonised.” - Aileen Moreton-Robinson #bookstodon #POC
A book cover with a traditional Australian dot painting in blue tones with orange touches. It says Talkin' up to the white woman. Indigenous women and feminism. Aileen Moreton-Robinson
#bookstodon #poc

My retail therapy is ordering translations of underappreciated epics online late at night.

#reading #bookstodon #epics #folklore #WomensEpics
#reading #bookstodon #folklore #epics #womensepics

The more research I do for this #WomensEpics reading project, the more epics I find out about that need English translations a.s.a.p. Like. Seriously.

#epics #folklore #translation #translator #AmReading #bookstodon
#bookstodon #folklore #amreading #translation #epics #womensepics #translator

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