“Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860) #Photography, Elin Wägner standing next to 351,454 signatures demanding women get the right to vote, Sweden 1914.

When I write about that cliche Austrian small town, in my mind it's usually Gmunden. Today I got to visit again and remind myself of how pretty it actually is. Maybe somewhere in the countryside near there is where MEMENTO's Julia gets to visit her parents #writesky #thriller #editing #wip

Travelling via Vienna, very much in the footprints of MEMENTO's Julia. Just in time to refresh my memory for editing. Need to remind myself that I need to cut, not add, words from the manuscript #writesky #thriller #wip #queryingSoon #editing

Just watched Love + War about war photojournalist and mother Lynsey Addario ( @lynseyaddario.bsky.social ) 10/10 Raw. Real. But also -- hopeful in a way. That one brave person can make a difference and that we need to keep looking and need to tell our truths films.nationalgeographic.com/love-war

Love+War

Pulitzer Prize-winning Lynsey Addario has risked her life to capture the stark realities of war — from the Middle East and Afghanistan to Ukraine. From National Geographic Documentary Films and Academ...

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After an insane 6k words written tonight I have just finished the first draft of my upmarked espionage thriller MEMENTO at just under 100k words. Easily the longest book I have written so far. Now revisions, beta readers and hopefully I'll be able to query the book later this year. #writesky #wip

Memento = John LeCarré's the Constant Gardener x Stig Larsson's the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with a sprinkle of David Grossman's More Than I love my Life #unhingedpit #w #cs #a #t #sp (for speculative) #f (for feminist)

Being here, in #Tallinn 🇪🇪 I am thinking much about TCWC's transhuman biohacker, Liv who traveled here to become. Maybe one day I will write her story about transcending the human and being courageous enough to be truly different #writesky #sf #speculative #cyberpunk #querying

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

Do you ever regret destroying places in your #scifi ? Second-guess yourself if you could have described them prospering instead? #dystopic #writesky #querying 📍 #Skellefteå #Norrbotten

It's almost incomprehensible to me how much force can be found in a natural, wild swedish älv (~river). I can just imagine TCWC's Mari sitting on a rock by the river before it all went pear shaped; her daughters finally returning after the end of the book #Norrland #writesky #inspiration #power

Since writing The Currencies We Choose I love visiting #Umeå ; driving the endless roads through the forests of #Norrland Hillevi and Thora would have driven. And today, with late spring warmth getting people out into the streets I can really feel their world around me #writesky #scifi #querying

She just wanted him to be happy. This is not how she imagined that going. #questpit #Q #A #U

EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE x CRITICAL ROLE CAMPAIGN 4 In search of his banished uncle, a fledgling vampire journeys to a realm of eternal night, where he must solve a string of disappearances before the local vampires and monster hunters descend into all-out war. #QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT

As the Stone King's reign crumbles, alliances form in unexpected places. But can they withstand the chaos that follows? 🎭 MultiPOV 👑 Court intrigue 🐉 Mythical beasts 🪄 Magic 🙏 Sinister faith 👁️ gods are real 🇰🇪 Kenyan mythology 💔 Love vs duty #QuestPit #Q #A #F

ADULT COBAB x EAST AFRICAN MYTHOLOGY A young chieftain must choose between her duty to her homeland, and a very inconvenient desire for her husband (and his fearsome inner beast), all while fighting a futile battle against fate. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #BookTrailer

#PosterPit #Q #C #A Eight women, each at a crossroads, whose choices collide into something none of them saw coming: an international movement led by the last person anyone would have picked. Friendships, fractures, reinvention, and the accidental power of women who finally decide to go.

SILENCE OF THE LAMBS x SUPERBAD 😆My mom says it's funny 🤓Adorable FMC 👻Ghosts and Reverse-Exorcisms 😱Thriller 🧐Twisty mystery. A Twystery 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒Found Family 🏳️‍🌈#LGBTQ+ rep The FBI's Reverse-Exorcist must stop serial killer Plaid the Impaler before he catches his next victim: HER. #Posterpit #CO #F #T #Q

#posterpit #spf #t #a #w THE CONSTANT GARDENER X RED WIDOW 🔳 He had them warehoused, their minds broken; killed 🌠 But that did not mean they were neutralized In MEMENTO the discarded women of intelligence fight back

A grief-stricken woman whose world is collapsing. A man who makes a living chasing truth but avoids his own. A love that arrives exactly when it shouldn’t, and isn’t meant to last. #posterpit #Q #A #R #UF

Mission Brief 13/01/1972 TOP SECRET 🕑 Infiltrate time travel seminar 🕵‍♂️ Take out Soviet spies 🔫 Use a gun ❌️ Don't laugh at the agenda 📃 It’s all theoretical 😕 Apart from *that* demo ✅️ Full government endorsement 👍 Nothing can go wrong 🇷🇺 💣 💥 ⬛️ Redacted #PosterPit #A #Q #SF #T

#posterpit #w #spf #t #a If you love the character development and grey morals of LeCarré novels but missed the women's voices and contemporary geopolitics, this book is for you 💪♀️🕵️‍♀️

#posterpit #q #spf #a CYBERPUNK VIKINGS MEET 1984 When forced remigration tore Sweden apart a group had enough and went Viking. A generation later Hillevi must face up to her family's legacy and navigate the politics of a world,where everyone pays a heavy price for survival.

"During long winter nights the two of us sat in the bubble tent in your grandfathers' back yard and told each other stories of the future they were going to build" ❄️🌉 #THECURRENCIESWECHOSE #writesky #arctic #midwinter #Norrbotten

I should let #TheCurrenciesWeChoose go for now - maybe I will write more stories from its world eventually - but I just can't when I am driving through the exact winter landscapes that brought Hillevi alive; Mari's paradise lost; the only place that is true home to Thora. #writesky #Norrland

"I took one last look at the dancing aurora in the skies and held onto them like a shipwrecked sailor holds on to the faint outline of an unreachable shore as I forced my trembling feet to take one step, then another, towards the square." THE CURRENCIES WE CHOOSE #writesky #cyberpunk #querying

While THE CURRENCIES WE CHOOSE is in the trenches, introducing my new project: 🌻 MEMENTO, a psychological espionage thriller in the fine tradition of John Le Carré - but with a feminist perspective. MEMENTO is a novel about female friendship and resistance against a corrupted system. #writesky

"Every year, at Winter Nights, they'd drink at the feet of the old mounds at Gamla Uppsala, where they had buried their dead in anonymous mass Graves after the uprising." THE CURRENCIES WE CHOOSE

Yesterday's #UnhingedPit which was such big, big fun that I prepared one more graphic than I ended up using #TheCurrenciesWeChose #isQuerying #writer #SciFi #cyberpunk #Vikings