coming back to bsky because someone was being mean to my friend 😠👊💢
julie gourinchas
@literaryfey.bsky.social
literary agent, speculative & literary adult fiction @ Bell Lomax Moreton. mainly on 📷. cheap wine enthusiast, TTRPG nerd, & Tolkien girlie. nd. views mine. 🚫 query DMs; 🚫 AI. 📍 ldn ❗she, they 🔗 https://linktr.ee/literaryfey
I don't want much, tbh. I just want to live in a world free of billionaires and AI. is that too much to ask
started a new BG3 playthrough with my beloved D&D character as a Durge... look at himmmm 🥰
LOOK WHO HATCHED! New books are in my very own paws & they're looking so damn pretty I can't! (Please admire the teensy spine orca whomst I adore) (Also have I shown you my spite dedication? I can't remember) @solarisbooks.bsky.social @literaryfey.bsky.social
ok. y'all know what I want? a series of interconnected romantasies like Lisa Kleypas's Wallflowers series ... but make it speculative. same level of heat and drama and character development, but just add magic. not sequels! interconnected standalones. this is my #1 dream #mswl
sorry I've been so MIA on here, y'all! if I'm honest, all the disparate social media platforms are doing my head in. going to try to be more active, though ♥️
Graham Linehan is literally in court today for harassing, cyberstalking, and assaulting a trans child. He's saying his victim doesn't exist.
I can't focus on anything else like I neeeeeeeed to know if I should run to Lidl and get prosecco
C4 of @criticalrole.bsky.social being set in a land named Aramán, the teaser for it showing snowy mountains, and this little tidbit from the LOTR wiki .... oh Brennan Lee Mulligan!!!! your brain!! I am about to FEAST.
it's almost admirable how hard he commits to the bit of being a Scrooge-y cartoon villain
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 11mo agoPresident Trump is not only working to stop a transition away from fossil fuels in the U.S., he is pressuring other countries to relax their pledges to fight climate change and instead burn more oil, gas and coal.
Moonflow is on the shelf at my local Barnes and noble!!!!!!!
yearning for a historical horror/fantasy/romantasy featuring pirates. please. give me an Elizabeth Swann-coded heroine. give me the Jack x Elizabeth x Will OT3 we all deserved. give me sea battles and flintlocks. I beg for the swashbuckle #mswl
whatever bullshit is up with my lungs has GOT to stop soon, this is getting incredibly annoying
does the person who bought the first edition The Hobbit for £43,000 know that they could just give it to me. I'd be very grateful. thank you in advance
your regularly scheduled cursed LotR fact of the day is that the Beatles nearly made a film adaptation of it, with (among other things) John Lennon as Gollum and George Harrison as Gandalf, and to be directed by Stanley Kubrick. pls imagine John-as-Gollum with the Kubrick stare
you would not see me for DUST if i had access to her resources. i'd be playing the most elaborate dnd campaigns and anonymously building monoliths in remote parts of earth. she's so embarrassing.
A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12mo agoRowling's 24/7 commitment to being an absolute nightmare ghoul is sort of extraordinary. She has every option in the world for how to spend her life and she commits herself entirely to hatred and self-righteous mean-spiritedness; some are more effective at evil but nobody puts in the hours like her.
Tolkien: now we'll know everything about gollum's adventures! Tolkien: all questions will be answered! Barker: hey jirt i got a question for you Barker: why don't you tell us what the blue wizards were doing Tolkien: NO FUCK YOU NEVER
desperately looking for a speculative upmarket circus novel, maybe with some fantasy elements – The Night Circus vibes, pls! I have wanted this for years 😭 #mswl
laptop? closed. OOO? on. suitcase? .............still not packed I'm getting to it
Boundless going into administration and not emailing a single Unbound author (who were promised "goodwill" payments re: their unpaid [stolen] royalties) about it has my jaw on the FLOOR tbh
crazy that y'all are still choosing to give oxygen to this.
The Bookseller@thebookseller.com · last yr.A report into cancellations in publishing has claimed that freedom of expression within the sector has been undermined by attitudes towards those who have gender-critical views 👇
You know when we kept saying this was coming, this was happening, this was never a US-only issue, we were having events cancelled and being left off lists and parents had to sign permission slips when we were coming in to do assemblies? You know? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kent council bans transgender books in children’s library section
KCC says the move came after a
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had a fab night elfing around at the @illumicrate.bsky.social 10 year anniversary last night, surrounded by the glitterati of SFF publishing – huge congratulations to Daphne and the team, and here’s to 10 more years of wonderful stories! #IC10PARTY 🧝♀️ ✨
edit letters are absolutely beating my ass lately but the upside is that I'm reminded that MY 👏 BOOKS 👏 KICK 👏 ASS
Hell yeah! Solidarity to authors! I hope the major publishers (if not all publishers) soon agree, exploitative GenAi has no place in the arts!
Over 50 Bestselling Authors Sign Open Letter, Demanding Publishers Rally Against AI: "Stand With Us"
The tensions surrounding AI are boiling over.
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ICYMI!!! the Penguin Michael Joseph Undiscovered Writers Prize (horror edition) is currently ✨open✨ for submissions. entries close 25 July. I can't wait to read all your horrible stories!
The Bookseller@thebookseller.com · last yr.The Penguin Michael Joseph Undiscovered Writers’ Prize is back for its third year, this time with a focus on horror. The winner will receive agent representation from Bell Lomax Moreton Agency and a publishing contract worth £10,000 👇 #BookSky