Emily Inkpen
@emilyinkpen.bsky.social
Sci-fi and fantasy author, writer of The Dex Legacy BSFA Award-winning audio drama, Social Media Officer @BSFA, gamer, bi, proud epileptic and aspiring grown-up 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
PastPast me: this chapter is boring… this whole POV is boring! Cut it out. Past me: this is missing something - wait - what was that thing I cut? Huh, it’s pretty good! Present me: so I guess we’re back to plan A? Conclusion: keep your deletes in a separate file. Just in case past you is a dick 😄
A mosquito dined-out on my right foot last night. This is going to be an itchy few days and I am most displeased. I’m one of those people mosquitos gravitate to 😭
Ran into this one in London today (on purpose) 😄 It was very warm but perfect weather for Eat Tokyo and a natter! Great to see you Ben Unsworth! ♥️
My favourite tree caught the light today and I had to capture it. It is mighty and glorious ♥️
Creative burnout is weird… I’m currently repairing my brain by writing another book… 😆
I stopped posting as many selfies because I stopped wearing make-up every day. It’s hot and I wfh and there’s no need. But what’s that saying about my ability to just be me? So - in an effort to show you my true look, here’s my no-make-up face 😅 hope you’re having a good day! ♥️
Today on Writing Worlds @emilyinkpen.bsky.social and I are chatting about the ethics of #worldbuilding with the wonderful Claire North! Listen/subscribe pod.link/1812994751
Learn the joys and challenges of writing fantasy races, with prolific fantasy and crime novelist, Stephen Aryan. 🎧 search Writing Worlds Podcast in your favourite podcast app!
A lovely milestone and a lovely comment to match! The novelisation is currently with a publisher 🤞, but the market for grimdark sci-fi is tough right now so if they don’t pick it up I’ll be self-pubbing. You heard it here first! 🔥
On my way to the Red Valley wrap party yesterday, and what a great event. Fab seeing friends in real life, many for the first time! And such a great show, well deserving of their HUGE audience. If you haven’t listened yet, definitely do, it’s quality gold spec fic through and through ♥️🔥🎉
I just want to say that racism really really upsets me. It makes no sense. And I don’t understand how people can say certain things without making themselves sick.
Listen to Chris Gregory and @emilyinkpen.bsky.social of Alternative Stories talking about the making of our award-winning scifi #audiodrama The Dex Legacy on Chris Smith's Audio Alchemy podcast via the link below. open.spotify.com/episode/02tl...
Audio Alchemy EP40- Emily Inkpen & Chris Gregory of Dex Legacy
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Okay, so I only buy a notebook after I’ve finished the last one. I kinda look forward to going and finding the next when I can see room running out in the current. But everyone else I know buys notebooks compulsively and hoards them 😄 so am I a genuine anomaly?
I’m now negotiating the perils of being both a woman and writing high fantasy with a whiff of romantic subplot… 🫣
Melting on the train to get a cold pint (or two) with my partner-in-crime in Dex 😅 it’s what we do for art 😆🔥🍻
Milestone for Wasteland! This plucky little show keeps getting the downloads - and I’ll be showing it come writing love with a second season real soon ♥️
When you’re trying to *mood* and not melt at the same time 😅🔥
In the latest episode of Writing Worlds we chat with the brilliant Stephen Aryan about races in fantasy worlds. Diverse, nuanced and defined by much more than skin colour or geography is the key for writers. Join me and @emilyinkpen.bsky.social alongside Stephen for our chat pod.link/1812994751
When you find out there’s going to be a whole panel dedicated to your work at a live event… and you can’t even 🫣🥲😭
I was thinking of getting rid of the wisteria on the front of my house. It’s a pain in the ass i thought I was only keeping for cosmetic reasons… then I read that it’s also great for temperature control, cooling the bricks and shading the windows 🍃🌳 Plants really are the answer.
On my way to Alanis Morissette at Crystal Palace - and it’s the maiden voyage of these sunglasses 😆 let’s party!
Great. Just been served with a cervical screening.
Kristen Bell's Annoyed Eye Roll
ALT: Kristen Bell's Annoyed Eye Roll
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British stoicism means still having my morning cup of tea while my entire body melts.
As we all struggle with this heatwave, I’m just going to say… it’s June.
An absolutely phenomenal book and essential reading for everybody - especially now. Buy it. Consume it. It is highly unlikely that you’ll regret it. Blurb: Thirty years ago, Vanessa Springora was the teenage muse of one of France’s most celebrated writers, a footnote in the narrative of an👇
ICYMI Charlie and I had an awesome pirate adventure with @emilyinkpen.bsky.social and @aaronccross.bsky.social. Catch the full RPG episode here: www.youtube.com/live/jgrO8aB...
Captain Crumb's Treasure - A Bookpocalypse RPG
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Am I the only one who thinks it’s kind of stupid that modern car windows don’t even have the option for manual operation? Being able to wind a window in an emergency is surely a basic safety feature..?
