The Rule of Two #88 in which we are joined by Catriona Silvey (Catriona Silvey) to perform three new stories written for the prompt "Say The Word", listen here: buzzsprout.com/1129067/110956… #podcasts #podernfamily #shortstory #writingcommunity #storytelling #writing #writingprompt

In which I characteristically go off on one about my love for Robin Hobb's characters.

Happy UK book birthday Tasha Suri Updates - Not Here! Of course I got the cat to coordinate her eye colour with the cover 💚

Shake paws, count your claws. #89 in which we chat with Catriona Silvey (Catriona Silvey) and find out everything we can about her approach to writing, listen here: buzzsprout.com/1129067/111126… #podcasts #PodernFamily #writingcommunity #storytelling #writing #redwall #interview

I learn languages the old-fashioned way: by making an endless series of blunders, gaffs and faux pas in my target language that, when corrected, are so personally mortifying that embarrassment burns the knowledge into my brain, never to be forgotten.

Went to Dublin and I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't W. B. Yeats-branded water

GPT-3 lists some common human quirks. RT if this is you.

New in this week! Fiction you may have missed 📚 Highlights include: 📘 Foster, a moving novella from Claire Keegan 📓 Masterful fantasy and dark academia in R.F. Kuang's Babel 📙 Out of this world: oddities abound in Sayaka Murata's new short story collection, Life Ceremony

Release Day! Episode 92- in which we are joined by E.M. Faulds (Beth) to perform three new stories written for the prompt "Grievances", listen here: buzzsprout.com/1129067/112414… #podcasts #podernfamily #shortstory #writingcommunity #storytelling #writing #writingprompt

Couple of signed paperback copies of Meet Me in Another Life now available at Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh!

Sleep when the baby sleeps! Do the laundry when the baby does the laundry! Wash the dishes when the baby washes dishes! Finish your book when your baby finishes their book! 😵‍💫

Six games I love, six tags. 1. Life Is Strange 2. Heaven's Vault 3. Oxenfree 4. Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!? 5. Portal 2 6. Lemmings 2: The Tribes Dr Hannah Little Elliot Page 🥐⛵ Dr Jade Pickering @jadepickering.bsky.social Dr Ashleigh Johnstone Will Webster @rebeccafrausel

On the subject of things Ted Chiang said that are NOT being twisted into strange reductive arguments, I really love the idea of sci-fi being tied to a feeling of awe. When I read sci-fi, I usually do crave a sense of wonder. Leave me humbled by nature, the stars, the universe!