One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

Totally agree! Fiction represents the times we live in (and the catharsis required to survive it) – and lord knows we need the allegory of evil being defeated again and again!

Taylor Grothe@taylorlgrothe.bsky.social · 2y ago

I think we're going to see a HUGE proliferation of #horror over the next four years. We will need the catharsis, and of all sorts: splatterpunk, weird, cosmic/eldritch, folk/cult, Gothic, and bubblegum, to name a few. Horror contains multitudes. Horror can heal. Horror lets us know we aren't alone.

When you ask people about the books that changed their lives, they almost always mention a children's book. They're the books that make us readers, shape us at the deepest levels, and stay with us FOREVER. That's why I think children's books are the most important books of all! #kidlit #books

Good morning, here’s snow on Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa) from my garden, looking over the estuary—third mountain on the right! 🏔️

I cannot believe that TBQ just gave up this formula that novelists and poets have kept secret all these years.

Taco Bell Quarterly@tacobellquarterly.org · 2y ago

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

This is fun! 5 authors we’ve read 5 or more books by: Susan Cooper Philip Pullman Alan Garner Sarah J. Maas Jilly Cooper 😄

Jane Mansour@janem.bsky.social · 2y ago

Ooh I like this! 5 authors we’ve read 5 or more books of: Elena Ferrante Barbara Kingsolver Toni Morrison Curtis Sittenfeld Elizabeth Strout Looking at my bookshelves, it’s unusual for me to have read more than 2 or 3 books by any single author 💙📚

Hello Bluesky, I’m here too! I’m an author living in London and Snowdonia, writing speculative fiction, and the proud owner of two fluffy cats.