Jane Austen really said ‘I respect the “I can fix him” movement but that’s just not me. He’ll fix himself if knows what’s good for him’ and that’s why her works are still calling the shots today.

Meanwhile Emily Brönte just said “We can make each other worse.” 

Mary Shelley said, "I can make him

i don’t know where i saw it but people on here really do act like reading is a moral action one takes for the sake of itself and not an activity one does because one enjoys it.

some people read books that challenge them because they enjoy that and some people read snappy plot focused books because they enjoy them. when you die you are not going to face Book Anubis who will weigh every book you’ve ever read against the Feather of Literary Value

So this happened and it's just like whatever I guess...

AAAAAA!!! I'm so thrilled to announce Brigids Gate Press will be publishing THREADS OF ASH, my medieval horror fantasy, coming summer 2023.

classic lit hits different than modern lit not because modern lit lacks depth but because there’s something so incredible about reading something and knowing that hundreds of years before you people were living, breathing, loving, the same way you do now. like one hundred years ago someone read these same words and felt them and read them just as you do today, and you’re connected despite the times that separates you

i don’t know where i saw it but people on here really do act like reading is a moral action one takes for the sake of itself and not an activity one does because one enjoys it.

some people read books that challenge them because they enjoy that and some people read snappy plot focused books because they enjoy them. when you die you are not going to face Book Anubis who will weigh every book you’ve ever read against the Feather of Literary Value

I suppose it’s a testament to Tolkien’s economy of language that the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy – interminable preamble and endless appendices and all – has a smaller total page count than the individual books of your average modern doorstopper fantasy series, yet manages to pack in such a high density of worldbuilding detail that reading it feels like it takes about a thousand years.

(For those expressing incredulity at the idea of Tolkien being an economical storyteller, one must understand that the ability to communicate a great deal of information very efficiently is a totally separate skill from the ability to get to the damn point.)

The day I found out the Twilight series has a higher word count (587,246 words across four books) than LotR (481,103 words across three books) was a dark day.

#thanks I wish I didn’t know this#it’s not the word count that matters it’s the Information Density#physically twilight might be longer#but it’s the lettuce of fiction#lotr is like being hit in the face by a produce truck 

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Mirror mirror on the wall, give me books, i want them all

This is what I was talking abt so the white didn’t get double she got more than quadruple

We’re talking abt the same NK Jemisin that one the Hugo awards three years in a row for the broken earth trilogy this is what antiblackness looks like in publishing

I currently work in a library and before that worked in an independent bookstore; as such, I’m pretty familiar with the publishing world and what’s popular, at least to my local community. And I’ve never even heard of the first author. None of her book covers even look familiar to me. But we can barely keep the Broken Earth trilogy on our shelves

Publishing is horrendously racist and antiblack at literally every level. They don’t believe in or support black authors, especially black women, and they definitely don’t pay them what they deserve

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John Scalzi

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My novella, THE FESTERING ONES, will be available for only 99 cents this Friday, April 10th-Sunday, April 12th! So if you're stuck inside and into cults, cosmic horror, and kick ass ladies, go ahead and grab a copy on Amazon!

Old books in Michael Moon’s Bookshop, Whitehaven.

my superpower is going into a bookstore and immediately forgetting the name of every book ive ever wanted to read

Joanna

COVER REVEAL! Designed by

Elderlemon Design (highly recommend). So excited to share the cover for my horror novella, The Festering Ones, about a woman who gets caught up with a cult and otherwordly beings while trying to uncover what killed her father. E-book preorder available soon!