Curious about editing horror fiction? Join Molly Cernik on Apr. 10 for an introduction to editing in accordance with the mechanics and themes of this exciting genre, which draws on readers' emotions to teach us about ourselves and what it means to live in this world together. Sign up here: https://webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_webinar/peeking-through-your-fingers-an-introduction-to-editing-horror/
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A collection of eight contemporary and emotionally gripping stories told from the point of view of women at different stages in their lives. "In Her Own Words" will move you deeply whatever walks of life you come from.
"In 'What Will Happen Next', you will see the world through young Emma Elicia's eyes, for all its kindness and cruelty. This is a story that acknowledges the misfortunes of life and defies them, calls the reader to the closeness of love, and soothes the soul's loneliness. You will be saddened, surprised, and in the end, uplifted." - Justin Smith, Linguist and Short Story Author
2025 book eighteen: China Miéville: The City & The City 
️️️️ #bookstodon #fiction #ChinaMieville #ebooks #kindle #bookstagram #books2025
Today in Labor History March 22, 1886: Mark Twain, who was a lifelong member of the International Typographical Union, gave a speech entitled, “Knights of Labor: The New Dynasty.” In the speech, he commended the Knights’ commitment to fair treatment of all workers, regardless of race or gender. “When all the bricklayers, and all the machinists, and all the miners, and blacksmiths, and printers, and stevedores, and housepainters, and brakemen, and engineers . . . and factory hands, and all the shop girls, and all the sewing machine women, and all the telegraph operators, in a word, all the myriads of toilers in whom is slumbering the reality of that thing which you call Power, ...when these rise, call the vast spectacle by any deluding name that will please your ear, but the fact remains that a Nation has risen.”
#workingclass #LaborHistory #KnightsOfLabor #solidarity #union #MarkTwain #writer #author #books #fiction #race #gender @bookstadon
I love weird ranked lists, whether it's the BAFTA list of the "most iconic video game characters of all time" (https://www.bafta.org/media-centre/press-releases/lara-croft-crowned-most-iconic-video-games-character-of-all-time-according-to-bafta-poll) that had Sackboy 5 ahead of Pikachu and Pac-Man, and the guy from RDR2 and 2 characters from the just released Baldur's Gate 3 on it, or the IGN list (https://www.ign.com/articles/the-best-100-video-games-of-all-time) that was heavily Nintendo at the top and had FF7 at 97 and it was clear that the people making the list didn't really play sports games or JRPGs because there were so few
So the #QuestionOfTheDay is what's a memorable weird/terrible top X list (from any topic) that you remember and want to share? What's weird/terrible about the choices?
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If only that was the only reason 
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#ReadingMemes #Memes #ReadAllTheBooks #Humor #Humour
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Update about The Haiku Shack Magazine.
If you sent me something, make sure you check your inbox. I spent the whole morning reading and emailing the second batch of selected contributors.
Phenomenal entries overall!
Fictionable arrives on paper with a stylish edition of Diana Evans' story Broth, where three friends go out for dinner. But are they all ready to share?
Get your copy at https://www.fictionable.world/pages/fictionable-edition-broth-by-diana-evans
#books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories #bookstodon @bookstodon
In 1956, the US Congress voted down President Eisenhower’s proposed Federal Highway Act, ending plans for a gigantic system of interstate freeways. Instead, Congress passed measures heavily subsidizing the expansion of public transit, both within and between cities.
Thus, the OPEC oil embargo of 1973-74 had little impact in the United States, although it did embolden Congress to outlaw private vehicles weighing more than 2000 pounds. In response, many more citizens quit their cars in favor of public transit or bicycling.
Over the next few decades, this positive trend continued as almost all countries around the world followed the lead of the US, so that when 2025 rolled around......
Atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide was holding steady at ~365 ppm, and global temperatures had flatlined at 0.5°C above the pre-industrial average. 
« Je ne suis pas un microbe ordinaire. Reconnaissez en moi le bacille d’élite, illustre entre ses congénères, auteur d’une grande œuvre. J’ai fait beaucoup déjà ; je ferai plus encore. Autant que Dieu me prêtera vie, je poursuivrai ma tâche, avec l’aide imbécile des hommes ; et tant qu’un nouveau Pasteur n’aura pas trouvé le moyen de détruire notre race puissante et prospère, la mémoire de mon génie subsistera dans la gratitude de mes arrière-neveux. »
Edmond Haraucourt, Mémoires d'un bacille,
https://laporteouverte.me/2017/02/19/memoires-dun-bacille/
#histsci #microbio #fiction
#QuestionOfTheDay what's your comfort media thing when you're stressed or scared or need distraction? Like a show or episode of a show or book or chapter of a book or movie, music, game, comic, anime, manga, YouTube video, whatever
L'amie @filiaa a mis beaucoup de cœur et de temps dans un article fouillé sur la relation entre humour et interactivité. Article passé un peu inaperçu en raison du concours annuel de fiction interactive.
Lisons-le, commentons-le, partageons-le !
Algernon Blackwood, born OTD in 1869, was a prominent author of #weird #fiction https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/new-york-hp-lovecraft/?s=mb #HPLovecraft #HPL
Je suis tombé sur Prompt, une mini fiction de dix épisodes sur Arte, réalisée par l'artiste Jocelyn Collages. Il utilise des modèles intelligences artificielles pour illustrer les problèmes que pose cette technologie entre les droits d'auteur et la création en elle même.
Certains épisodes sont très drôles !
Anyway, the point is that it's the author's job to make the protagonist likable, or at least someone you want to root for. This "dog-sitter detective" doesn't pass that test, at least not for me. While I'm curious to know whodunit, I'm not sure if I want to wade through the other half of the book to find out.
Book Review #4 for 2025 is Louise Penny's The Long Way Home. The now retired Inspector Gamache is asked to looked for an estrange husband who has not returned home at the agreed to time a year earlier. The journey to find him is not just a geographic journey but a deep journey into the human mind and soul. A 
review. #books #LouisePenny #fiction #mystery #bookreview @books @bookstodonmy
