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Tori Bovalino

@toribovalino.bsky.social

Probably tired. Author. Next up: THE SECOND DEATH OF LOCKE, Autumn 2025.

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Tori Bovalino@toribovalino.bsky.social · 8mo ago

If you're of a nominating sort, some fantastic pieces from last year include: Fate's Bane by C.L. Clark The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri Six Wild Crowns by Holly Race Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame by Neon Yang The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

Los Angeles Worldcon@laworldcon.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Nominations are now open for the 2026 Hugo Awards! Emails are going out to eligible nominators (those who became a member of LAcon V by January 31, 2026, or were a member of the Seattle Worldcon 2025) about how to set up their LAcon V virtual convention account.

Hugo Award nominations now open.
Tasha Suri@tashasuri.bsky.social · 8mo ago

there's so much disrespect of romance writers and romance readers baked into the idea that AI-driven production of novels is 'better'. as if writing romance isn't skillful, hard and joyous work. as if romance readers aren't discerning, loyal and savvy.

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
Rosiee Thor@rosieethor.bsky.social · last yr.

This is How We Roll is OUT NOW!! I may not have my hardcover copies yet, but you can venture forth into the world and buy one for yourself! These twelve stories are all directly from the heart, and I’m so proud of all the hard work everyone put into this project. I can't wait for y'all to read it!

Rosiee (white, with short curly brown hair, octagonal glasses, wearing a flannel shirt) holds a set of purple dice in one hand and a copy of This is How We Roll in the other.
Tori Bovalino@toribovalino.bsky.social · last yr.

Very excited to be joining @gen-dimova.bsky.social and @annabelcwrites.bsky.social in Edinburgh next month! ❤️❤️

Genoveva Dimova@gen-dimova.bsky.social · last yr.

So excited to be participating in this panel on female-led fantasy with the brilliant @annabelcwrites.bsky.social and @toribovalino.bsky.social in Toppings, Edinburgh on the 26th of September! Come see us chat about women with warrior hearts 💜 www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · last yr.

just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!

Caitlin S., PhD@paleophile.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!) democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

Nadia El-Fassi@nadiaelfassi.bsky.social · 2y ago

As we’re all moving over here let me reintroduce myself! I’m an author of spicy, cosy fantasy romance and a commissioning editor of SFF and horror at Orbit. My debut, Best Hex Ever published this October

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Tori Bovalino@toribovalino.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi! Quick little intro for everyone joining here: I’m Tori and I write books (YA under Tori, adult under V.L.) 📚 My last release, My Throat an Open Grave, came out in February. My next book, THE SECOND DEATH OF LOCKE, is forthcoming in Sept 2025 and I can’t wait to share it with you ☺️

Map of Ao3 tags for The Second Death of Locke. Tags: -weaponizing mythology against the gods -i’m not bitter, the knight says bitterly -i love the kind of woman that’ll just straight-up kill me -i didn’t sacrifice myself for you to die like a dumbass -stabby teenager gets adopted by a band of queer knights -your super bisexual energy will save them! lmao okay -let these two toxic co-dependent assholes kiss