#Jo Fletcher Books

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The Malevolent Seven by Sebastien de Castell

‘Seven powerful mages want to make the world a better place. We’re going to kill them first.’

Picture a wizard. Go ahead, close your eyes. There he is, see? Skinny old guy with a long straggly beard. No doubt he’s wearing iridescent silk robes that couldn’t protect his frail body from a light breeze. The hat’s a must, too, right? Big, floppy thing, covered in esoteric symbols that would instantly show every other mage where this one gets his magic? Wouldn’t want a simple steel helmet or something that might, you know, protect the part of him most needed for conjuring magical forces from being bashed in with a mace (or pretty much any household object). Now open your eyes and let me show you what a real war mage looks like . . . but be warned: you’re probably not going to like it, because we’re violent, angry, dangerously broken people who sell our skills to the highest bidder and be damned to any moral or ethical considerations. At least, until such irritating concepts as friendship and the end of the world get in the way. My name is Cade Ombra, and though I currently make my living as a mercenary wonderist, I used to have a far more noble-sounding job title – until I discovered the people I worked for weren’t quite as noble as I’d believed. Now I’m on the run and my only friend, a homicidal thunder mage, has invited me to join him on a suicide mission against the seven deadliest mages on the continent.

Time to recruit some very bad people to help us on this job . .

My Review: It's the first adult fantasy book I read by Sebastian de Castell and I thoroughly enjoyed as it's gripping and well plotted story with elements of grim dark and epic fantasy and a lot of fun. Cade Ombra and his companion are not the good guy who fight to improve the world, they fight because they want to be paid and when you're involved in a suicide mission may be you need to involve some guys who are very bad if you want to survive or at least try to survive. Because your mission is to kill the seven deadliest mage on the continent. That said it could be the retelling of the Seven Samurai or other stories involving 7 heroes or anti-heroes. But we're on the anti hero side and there's always a lot of humour that keeps the story entartaining even when it could be too gory or grittyl I loved Cade because he's a realist but also a good guy at the heart even if life was harsh and killed a lot of illusions and dreams. A gripping, highly entertaining and well plotted story. Excellent storytelling and character development. Highly recommended. Many thanks to Jo Fletcher for this arc, all opinions are mine

The Author: Sebastien de Castell had just finished a degree in Archaeology when he started work on his first dig. Four hours later he realised how much he actually hated archaeology and left to pursue a very focused career as a musician, ombudsman, interaction designer, fight choreographer, teacher, project manager, actor and product strategist. His only defence against the charge of unbridled dilettantism is that he genuinely likes doing these things and that, in one way or another, each of these fields plays a role in his writing. He sternly resists the accusation of being a Renaissance Man in the hopes that more people will label him that way. Sebastien’s acclaimed swashbuckling fantasy series The Greatcoats was shortlisted for the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fantasy. the Gemmell Morningstar Award for Best Debut, the Prix Imaginales for Best Foreign Work and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His YA fantasy series Spellslinger was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and is published in more than a dozen languages. Sebastien lives in Vancouver, Canada with his lovely wife and two belligerent cats.

http://www.decastell.com https://twitter.com/decastell

Book page: https://www.quercusbooks.co.uk/titles/sebastien-de-castell/the-malevolent-seven/9781529422801/

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Snippet Saturday: Lady of Shadows

I died in good faith.

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Reasons to Attend Global Leadership Summit (GLS) 2024: A recap of GLS 2023 Special and What to Expect This Year

Global Leadership Network: Growing Leaders and Providing Leadership Growth for a Higher Purpose Since 1992, the Global Leadership Network has inspired, challenged, and equipped leaders to become the sort of individuals who will positively impact their respective organizations, communities, and countries. Today, the Global Leadership Network continues to be a readily available resource providing…

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Columbo and Jessica Fletcher patterns by Mrs Peggotty Arts-- she's also got loads of book characters (Ms. Marple, Jo March, Captain Nemo) as both cross-stitch patterns and coloring pages

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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in August 2024 🌈

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Happy reading!

[ Text list below ⤵ ]

❓What was the last queer book you read?

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❤️ Failure to Comply - Sarah Cavar 🧡 I Spit On Your Celluloid - Heidi Honeycutt 💛 You're Embarrassing Yourself - Desiree Akhavan 💚 Death of the Hero - Briona Johnson 💙 Between Dragons and Their Wrath - Devin Madson 💜 The Crimson Crown - Heather Walter ❤️ Sacrificial Animals - Kailee Pedersen 🧡 Oath of Fire - K. Arsenault Rivera 💛 The Palace of Eros - Caro De Robertis 💙 This Ravenous Fate - Hayley Dennings 💜 Mistress of Lies - K.M. Enright 🌈 Wolf Bite - T.J. Nichols

❤️ In the Valley, A Shadow - Samantha Tano 🧡 Follow My Lead - Adrian J. Smith 💛 The Last Woman I Kissed - Venetia Di Pierro 💚 Full Shift - Jennifer Dugan & Kristen Seaton 💙 Hers for the Weekend - Helena Greer 💜 Come Out, Come Out - Natalie C. Parker ❤️ Rules for Ghosting - Shelly Jay Shore 🧡 How to Leave the House - Nathan Newman 💛 Plot Twist - Carmen Sereno 💙 On the Far Side of a Crescendo - Kalyn Hazel 💜 Tiny Oblivions and Mutual Self Destructions - Maxwell I. Gold 🌈 Daylan and the River of Secrets - Edd Tello

❤️ The Italy Letters - Vi Khi Nao 🧡 The Gender Binary Is a Big Lie - Lee Wind 💚 The House Where Death Lives - Alex Brown 💙 Ash's Cabin - Jen Wang 💜 The Avian Hourglass - Lindsey Drager ❤️ The Heart Wants - Krystina Rivers 🧡 A Grand Love - Janna Barkin 💛 You Can't Go Home Again - Jeanette Bears 💜 Libertad - Bessie Flores Zaldivar 🌈 Her Golden Coast - Anat Deracine

❤️ Mighty Millie Novak - Elizabeth Holden 💛 Rise and Divine - Lana Harper 💚 Dying for You - L Flowers 💙 I'll Have What He's Having - Adib Khorram 💜 Changing Her Tune - Amanda Kabak ❤️ Monogamy? In this Economy? - Laura Boyle 🧡 The Rainbow Age of Television - Sayna Maci Warner 💛 Medusa of the Roses - Navid Sinaki 💙 Confounding Oaths - Alexis Hall 💜 Idol Lives - K.T. Salvo 🌈 Brother's Keeper - Quinn Cameron

❤️ Key Lime Sky - Al Hess 🧡 Crushing It - Erin Becker 💛 The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou 💚 Not for the Faint of Heart - Lex Croucher 💙 Tasting Temptation - JJ Arias 💜 Ami - S. Jae-Jones ❤️ You're the Problem, It's You - Emma R. Alban 🧡 Cubs & Campfires - Dylan Drakes 💛 The Dark We Know - Wen-yi Lee 💙 Practical Rules for Cursed Witches - Kayla Cottingham 💜 Riyati Rebirth - Kalani Shimizu 🌈 The Brujos of Borderland High - Gume Laurel III

❤️ A Bánh Mì for Two - Trinity Nguyen 🧡 Dance of the Starlit Sea - Kiana Krystle 💛 Scattered Snows, to the North - Carl Phillips 💚 Beyond a World Apart - Caitlin Myers 💙 Don't Let It Break Your Heart - Maggie Horne 💜 Nothing Heals Me Like You Do - Harper Bliss ❤️ How It All Ends - Emma Hunsinger 🧡 How Do I Sexy? - Mx. Nillin Lore 💛 The Palace of Eros - Caro De Robertis 💙 Prince of the Palisades - Julian Winters 💜 Better Left Buried - Mary E. Roach 🌈 Back to Back - Jo Fletcher

❤️ DITCHLAPSE / [REALLY AFRAID] - Tommy Wyatt 🧡 The Love Archives: Bonus Scenes & Excerpts for Palestine - Various 💛 Guardian: Zhen Hun - Ying Priest 💚 The Sunforge - Sascha Stronach 💙 Queering Reproductive Justice - Candace Bond-Theriault 💜 Gender Explained - Diane Ehrensaft & Michelle Jurkiewicz ❤️ The Unlikely Pair - Jax Calder 🧡 In Universes - Emet North 💛 We Love the Nightlife - Rachel Koller Croft 💙 Lessons from Cruising - Martin Goodman 💜 Wild Ginger in the Rhubarb - Eule Grey 🌈 Not My Circus - Delicia Niami

❤️ Asunder - Kerstin Hall 🧡 The Phoenix Keeper - S.A. MacLean 💛 Encounters with James Baldwin - Various 💚 Verity's Game - Jennifer Giacalone 💙 Hunt Me! I Crave the Chase - Fae Quin 💜 The Audacity Omnibus - Carmen Loup ❤️ Haunted to Death - Frank Anthony Polito 🧡 Blood Orange - Paige Grunewald 💛 The Bad Things We Did - Chris Archeske 💙 Dark Restraint - Katee Robert 💜 Worth the Wait - Kenna White 🌈 The Maid and the Crocodile - Jordan Ifueko

❤️ Loving Corrections - Adrienne Maree Brown 🧡 The Last Witch in Edinburgh - Marielle Thompson 💛 The Duchess of Kokora - Nikhil Prabala 💚 The Scales of Seduction - Rien Gray 💙 Survival Is a Promise - Alexis Pauline Gumbs 💜 Loka - S.B. Divya ❤️ The Every Body Book of Consent - Rachel E Simon 🧡 Southern Lights - Liz Arncliffe 💛 Then Things Went Dark - Bea Fitzgerald 💙 Death at Morning House - Maureen Johnson 💜 The Last Doorbell - William Parker 🌈 The Pairing - Casey McQuiston

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The Antonian Reading List

Mark Antony: A Life by Patricia Southern (Highly recommended!)

Mark Antony: A Biography by Eleanor Goltz Huzar (Highly recommended!)

The Life and Times of Marc Antony by Arthur Weigall (Recommended)

Marc Antony: His Life and Times by Allan Roberts (Recommended)

Marc Antony by Mary Kittredge

Antony & Cleopatra by Patricia Southern

Antony & Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy (By far the most negative book on Antony by a modern historian, the Cleopatra portion is better)

Mark Antony: A Plain Blunt Man by Paolo de Ruggiero (Recommended)

Mark Antony and Popular Culture: Masculinity and the Construction of an Icon by Rachael Kelly

Mark Antony's Heroes: How the Third Gallica Legion Saved an Apostle and Created an Emperor by Stephen Dando-Collins

A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War and the Collapse of the Roman Republic by W. Jeffrey Tatum (Highly recommend!)

Mark Antony & Cleopatra: Cleopatra's Proxy War to Conquer Rome & Restore the Empire of the Greeks by Martin Armstrong

Actium and Augustus: The Politics and Emotions of Civil War by Robert Alan Gurval

The Roman Revolution by Ronald Syme (Recommended)

Octavian, Antony and Cleopatra by W. W. Tarn

Fulvia: Playing for Power at the End of the Roman Republic by Celia E. Schultz

Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley (Highly Recommended!)

Cleopatra by Michael Grant (Highly Recommanded!)

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff (Highly Recommended!)

Cleopatra - A Biography by D. Roller

Cleopatra and Antony by Diana Preston

Cleopatra by Alberto Angela (Recommended)

Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott

Cleopatra the Great by Joann Fletcher

Cleopatra and Egypt by Sally-Ann Ashton

Cleopatra and Rome by Diana E. E. Kleiner

Cleopatra Her History Her Myth by Francine Prose

Cleopatra Histories, Dreams, and Distortions by Lucy Hughes Hallett (Recommended)

Cleopatra’s Daughter Egyptian Princess by Jane Draycott

The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Good for beginners)

The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar by Peter Stothard

Robicon by Tom Holland

Alesia 52 BC: The final struggle for Gaul (Campaign) by Nic Fields

Actium 31 BC: Downfall of Antony and Cleopatra (Campaign) by Si Sheppard

Pharsalus 48 BC: Caesar and Pompey – Clash of the Titans (Campaign) by Si Sheppard

Philippi 42 BC: The death of the Roman Republic (Campaign) by Si Sheppard

Mutina 43 BC: Mark Antony's struggle for survival (Campaign) by Nic Fields

The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry Strauss

The Battle of Actium 31 BC: War for the World by Lee Fratantuono

Rome and Parthia: Empires at War: Ventidius, Antony and the Second Romano-Parthian War, 40–20 BC by Gareth C Sampson

Rivalling Rome: Parthian Coins and Culture by Vesta Curtis

Classical sources:

Plutarch’s Lives

Cicero: Philippics, Ad Brutum, Ad Familiares

Appian, The Civil Wars

Dio Cassius, The Roman History

Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars

Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War

Livy, The Early History of Rome

Tacitus, Annals and Histories

Friction:

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra by Willian Shakespeare

All For Love or The World Well Lost by John Dryden

The Siren and the Roman – A Tragedy by Lucyl

Caesar and Cleopatra by George Berbard Shaw

Cleopatra (play) by Sardou

Antony by Allan Massie

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

I, Cleopatra by William Bostock

Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard

Cleopatra by Georg Ebers

Kleopatra (Vol I & II) by Karen Essex

Last Days with Cleopatra by Jack Lindsay

The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George

When We Were Gods by Colin Falconer

The Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough

Caesar's Soldier: Mark Antony Book I by Alex Gough (Ongoing series)

The Antonius Trilogy by Brook Allen

The Last Pharaoh series by Jay Penner

Throne of Isis by Juith Tarr

Hand of Isis by Jo Graham

Woman of Egypt by Kevin Methews

The Ides of Blood 01-06 (Comics)

Terror - Antonius En Cleopatra (Erotic yet pure love, Dutch comics)

Cleopatra - Geschiedenisstrip (Dutch comics)

Les Grands Personnages de l Histoire en Bandes Dessinees – Marc Antonie (French comics)

Les Grands Personnages de l Histoire en Bandes Dessinees – Cleopatre (French comics)

Les Grands Personnages de l Histoire en Bandes Dessinees – Julius Caesar (French comics)

Cléopâtre (French Manga)

 Ils Ont Fait L'histoire - Cléopâtre (French Graphic Novel)

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Title: Priest of Gallows | Author: Peter McLean | Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books (2021)

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COSY CATASTROPHE: Rating This is How You Lose the Time War

***mild spoilers***

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (2019)

Plot setup:

In the far future, two opposing systems have created time warriors based respectively on machine intelligence and synthetic bio-technologies. Armies of these warriors fight each other across the span of human civilisation and across multiple world versions of human history. Eventually the champion warrior from each side becomes aware of the other and begin a hidden correspondence, initially as enemies, then as lovers.

Genre (according to *me* anyway):

Science fiction / romance / time travel / epistolary.

Before going on, a reminder about the nature of the exercise -

Starting from the concept of a spectrum with cosiness at one end and catastrophe at the other, I ranked some of the books I’ve read through the course of the MFA (and one book I haven’t read and where I’m relying on the assessment of Adam Roberts to guide me…)

I'm working with the (okay, perhaps arbitrary) assumption that for any given selection of somewhat related books, it's possible to plot the events, characters, and moral tone along a cosy-to-catastrophe scale of increasing moral complexity. For me, this means:

At one end of the scale, everyone is noble and there are few moral compromises. At the other end of the scale, everyone is compromised or evil and there’s no sense of a just universe.

Rating This is How You Lose the Time War at 30% (= bloodthirsty setup, genuine jeopardy but mostly lyrical in tone // Confession: actually, I don't think the tone is 'cosy' as such though certainly high-poetical, passionate and pure... I'm bending to fit it in and going in the end by how it makes me *feel* )

Rationale:

Lots of ambivalence in the setting here and implied malevolence in the background from whoever is in charge of the armies for each side. There’s also callous indifference to the human lives being toyed with and destroyed as a result of the time army engagements.

Tonally, the language is highly poetic and, considering the MCs are constructed to fight, they love passionately and don’t really have anything ‘evil’ about them. Love appears to conquer all.

Post-script:

I bounced off this book the first time I tried to read it. I wanted it to 'make sense'. I wanted to know how the thingummies worked. Spoiler - it's not that kind of book. What changed my mind - first - was listening to the audiobook which, in the version I found, had two great narrators, one for each MC. Hearing the language *spoken* - suddenly I got it. Then, read it again and loved it.

Post-post-script:

I'm still active on X-formerly-known-as-Twitter and got a fairly early seat at the Bigolas Dickolas show i.e. when an anime account suddenly turned TIHYLTTW into a best-seller with one tweet <3

This is Amal El-Mohtar's account of that experience:

Genre texts mapped on the cosiness/catastrophe "index":

§El-Mohtar, A. and Gladstone, M. (2019) This is how you lose the time war. London: Jo Fletcher Books.

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I think I found a good option for a publisher to send my manuscript to :0

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ah, would it be too late to ask for your commentary on As Sirens Call the Sailors? :-) it's easily one of my favourite fics of all time!

Wow, I am so touched and delighted that you hold such love for this little story! It's one of those that I feel I just sort of posted into a void (not an exchange fic, not for an active fandom), so it's always a pleasant surprise to know that people are reading and enjoying it.

(The fic in question, As Sirens Call the Sailors, is for A Thousand and One Nights/The Arabian Nights. I wrote it in 2015.)

It's not too late at all, though I don't know that I can do any reasonable line-by-line commentary on this one just because exactly what I was thinking when I wrote each part of it doesn't feel all that accessible anymore. What I can do is share a little commentary about more broadly how I came to write the story and what I intended with it.

The idea of writing a Julnar story was one I'd had for a long time. In probably around 2007 I planned to write a series of four stories about women's silence in fairy tale/folklore, and Julnar was supposed to be one of them. I ended up writing the first, which was about The Wild Swans, but never did the others (I know one was going to be about the Maeterlinck version of Bluebeard, but I don't remember now what the fourth was).

Years later, I was no longer really interested in doing the whole sequence, but I felt like I still had the Julnar story in me, and I had the idea to interweave her story with Scheherazade's to do something about speech vs silence, and different types of survival and resistance.

I think we all have our versions of A Thousand and One Nights that we imprint on early (if the story if going to be something we imprint on, that is); mine were very distinctly - and this is rather going to date me - this tv miniseries version from 2000 and Susan Fletcher's 1998 middle grade novel Shadow Spinner. I loved both of these a lot, and they made big impressions on me, in ways that I find very revealing when I come back to either of them now. Shadow Spinner, which I still think is a really subtle and thoughtful little book, is about an adolescent girl, Marjan, spared from marriage to the king by a disability, who is employed by Scheherazade to collect stories for her to make sure she does not run out. The Julnar story is pretty important in that book, and I am positive it was the first place I heard it.

There were a number of other aspects of Shadow Spinner which impacted me and made their way into my fic later, like the novel's attention to some of the physicalized practicalities of Scheherazade's storytelling (though I'm a little blunter about some of it than Fletcher is for her young audience). Most of all, though, there were these brief moments of conversation in the novel between Marjan and Scheherazade about what Scheherazade is doing with her storytelling; I posted a quote from one of those exchanges here. Scheherazade is not the heroine of that novel, we don't get her interiority, but the little glimpses of the complexities of her choice meant a lot to me, and I wanted to do more with them.

The other influence on the fic was one of the other great YA authors of my childhood, Donna Jo Napoli, whose novel Hush is about an Irish princess who chooses to remain silent as a way of surviving her enslavement as a concubine. This fic is in some ways a love letter to both Fletcher and Napoli.

The title - and this is a little embarrassing - comes from a song in Jane Eyre the musical that I have, for reasons that I have some difficulty explaining even to myself, always associated with Scheherazade and Shahryar.

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[CIS WOMAN  and SHE/HER] Welcome to Aurora Bay, [JOSELLE ‘JO’ FLETCHER  ]! I couldn’t help but notice you look an awful lot like [SUKI WATERHOUSE]. You must be the [30] year old [OWNER OF DRIFTWOOD COFFEE SHOP]. Word is you’re [GOAL ORIENTED] but can also be a bit [STAND OFFISH] and your favorite song is [KILL BILL by SZA]. I also heard you’ll be staying in [SEABROOK QUARTER]. I’m sure you’ll love it!

@aurorabayaesthetic​

Hello there friends, I’m Mads this is my little baby Jo, she’s a new charrie to me so bare with me in figuring her out. I’m working on a bio currently but in the meantime here is a quick little head cannon then some random tid-bits! I’m looking forward to plotting with you all :)

Headcannon:

-Jo grew up here in Aurora Bay

-She is most known for the little scandal that she got caught up in in High School, she was seeing an older guy when we was a senior (18) he was 25 and if you know all too well by Taylor Swift then you know where this is going.. 

-Basically she got screwed over, she was so innocent and gave her all to him yet that wasn’t enough. Just so happens he had a wife on the next town over.

-So she skipped town and went to  NYC stayed there and did a little toxic stint where she experiemented with everything and anything then fell in love with this rockstart whom (you guessed it) did not have good intentions.

-After that Jo came back home and opened up the driftwood something she can put her time and effort into, and here we are.

-She’s pretty much sworn off men and women alike because she’s just not about the heartbreak however she can’t resist a good time.

GENERAL INFORMATION.

Full Name: Joselle Renee Fletcher

Nicknames: Jo, Jojo, Josie,

Age: Thirty

Date of Birth: November 4, 1994

Place of Birth: Cape May, NJ

Zodiac: Scorpio

Gender: Cis Woman

Nationality :American

Religion: Agnostic

Orientation: Bisexual

Relationship Status: Single

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES.

face claim: Suki Waterhouse

height 5'0

weight 125 LBS

hair color: Dirty Blonde

eye color: Green

tattoos: Angel wings (right index finger )  

dominant hand: Right

distinguishing marks : none

outfit/clothing : artsy,boho, street casual

hometown: Aurora Bay

current residence : Seabrook Quarter

spoken languages English.

financial status:  Middle Class

education level Graduated from High School, (did online grad classes never finished them though)

occupation: Owner of Driftwood Coffee Shop

hobbies: traveling, film, going to art exhibits, being creative,  getting tattoos, being a foodie, creating new experiences.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

FAMILIAL INFORMATION.

mother: Renee Fletcher,

father : Luke Fletcher

siblings (OPEN FOR CONNECTIONS)

cousins (OPEN FOR CONNECTION)

children: none (that he knows of as of currently- Ivy Amor’s baby is his lol)

PERSONALITY.

positive traits:  determined, humble, daring, cultured, realist

negative traits: non-commital, dissmissive, self-sabotaging, contradictory

likes: the smell of a good perfume/cologne,  mint gum, astrology,  fireplaces, tennis, stargazing

dislikes:  busses, being too hot,

EXTRAS.

FAVORITES

TV Show: Parks and Rec

Movie: Step Brothers

Book: 1984

Color: Seafoam

Flower: Orchid

Scent: (vanilla musk)

Food: Indian Food/  A Good Burger

Alcoholic Drink: Chardonnay

Music Artist(s)/Band(s):  Greta Van Fleet, The Black Keys, The Neighborhood

Song: You're The one- Greta Van Fleet

WANTED CONNECTIONS

best friend

childhood friends

drinking buddies

neighbour

exes

new fling

protective friends

cousin

enemies

work friends

roommate

his new muse

tinder hookup?/ sneaky link/ fwb kinda thing?

literally anything <3

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It's just a good news morning today!

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Review: THE NIGHT FIELD by Donna Glee Williams

THE NIGHT FIELD by Donna Glee Williams is a literary eco-dystopia filled with beautiful prose and thought-provoking ideas about what it means to defend nature... MY REVIEW HERE!

Two reviews in two days?! “What is this flurry of activity” I hear you say? Well, I have been delightfully spoiled by Jo Fletcher Books/Quercus Books, and I am very grateful to their team for sending me this title, so let’s get going! Author: Donna Glee WilliamsGenre: Eco-dystopia, FantasySetting: The RealVersion: HardbackPublication date: 20 July 2023 Spoiler-free OverviewWelcome to the Real.…

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Speculative fiction/fantasy/sci-fi: some random titles – pt 1

This year, 2022, has been a book featuring a lot of very interesting new authors and the closure of some series I loved. For every title the link to Goodreads

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (UK & ANZ) is a heart-wrenching, thought provoking and well written book about a world suffering by a deadly pandemia. Something worse than COVID and more ancient. There’s a lot of story of different people and at least one made me cried bucked. A mix of literary and speculative fiction

One Foot in the Fade by Luke Arnold (Orbit) This series never disappointed and I love the atmosphere that mixes noir and fantasy. I always hope there’s going to be more. It was a great series.

The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings (Orbit) I think this was the best debut in 2022: an exciting story set in New Orleans that I couldn’t put down. Can’t wait to read other books by this author

The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah (Orbit) A great story based on Middle East lore. Love it since the beginning and can’t wait for the next one

Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett (Jo Fletcher Books) The last of the Foundryside saga. An epic ending to a great series

Babel by R.F. Kuang (HarperVoyager) Rebecca Kuang can develop complex plot that are both entertaining and thought provoking. Babel is historical fiction, fantasy and a critic view of colonialism.

Stringers by Panatier, Chris (Angry Robot) Silver Queendom by Dan Koboldt (Angry Robot) Demon Hunting with a Southern Sheriff by Lexi George (Kensington Books) I had a lot of fun in reading them. Highly recommended

Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater (Orbit) A lovely series that mixes Regency romance, fairy world, and fantasy. Loved it, highly entertaining

Siren Queen by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom) Nighi Vo does a great job in mixing East and West delivering intriguing story. This one was great as the rest of the series

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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in July 2024 🌈

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats, and happy July! Pride Month may be over, but remember: Read Queer ALL Year. Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Happy reading!

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❤️ Earth to Alis - Lex Carlow 🧡 Cursed Boys and Broken Hearts - Adam Sass 💛 The Sky on Fire - Jenn Lyons 💚 The Meaning of Liberty - Sage Donnell 💙 Making It - Laura Kay 💜 The Black Bird of Chernobyl - Ann McMan ❤️ A Map of My Want - Faylita Hicks 🧡 The Devil You Know - Ali Vali 💛 The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power - Various 💙 The Second Son - Adrienne Tooley 💜 Cursed Under London - Gabby Hutchinson Crouch 🌈 Forbidden Girl - Kristen Zimmer

❤️ Rise - Freya Finch 🧡 Undercurrent - Patricia Evans 💛 Online Rebellion - Blue Matt Jeff 💚 Wolf Gift - T.J. Nichols 💙 Cash Delgado Is Living the Dream - Tehlor Kay Mejia 💜 Miller: Origin - Starr Z. Davies ❤️ The Shadows Beyond - T.J. Rose 🧡 The Ones Who Come Back Hungry - Amelinda Bérubé 💛 Their Viscountess - Jess Michaels 💙 Fast Holiday - Kerry Lockhart 💜 The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky - Josh Galarza 🌈 The West Passage - Jared Pechaček

❤️ The Hades Calculus - Maria Ying 🧡 Misrecognition - Madison Newbound 💛 One Last Summer - Kristin Keppler 💚 Waypoint Seven - Xan van Rooyen 💙 Hiding Him - Adam Hattan 💜 Thousand Autumns - Meng Xi Shi, Me.Mimo ❤️ The Adventure Zone, Vol. 6: The Suffering Game - Various 🧡 Rowan & Aldred - Lucie Fleury 💛 Yoke of Stars - R.B. Lemberg 💙 Casting Vows - Ariella Talix 💜 Count Felford's Vessel - S. Rodman

❤️ The Actor and His Secret - Ben Alderson, Laura R. Samotin 🧡 How To Die Famous - Benjamin Dean 💛 So Witches We Became - Jill Baguchinsky 💚 The Amazing Alpha Tau Romeo and Juliet Project - Lisa Henry, Sarah Honey 💙 The Noble’s Merman - S.S. Genesee 💜 The Loudest Silence - Sydney Langford ❤️ Life is Strange - Brittney Morris 🧡 Bury Your Gays - Chuck Tingle 💛 I Will Never Leave You - Kara A. Kennedy 💙 The Blonde Dies First - Joelle Wellington 💜 Under the Lupine Moon - A. Knightley

❤️ Benji Zeb is a Ravenous Werewolf - Deke Moulton 🧡 Charlotte Illes Is Not a Teacher - Katie Siegel 💛 The Ghostkeeper - Johanna Taylor 💚 Trespass Against Us - Leon Kemp 💙 Exes & Foes - Amanda Woody 💜 The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl - Bart Yates ❤️ Unbound - J.A. Vodvarka 🧡 StreamLine - Lauren Melissa Ellzey 💛 Time and Time Again - Chatham Greenfield 💙 No Road Home - John Fram 💜 Queen B - Juno Dawson 🌈 A Darker Mischief - Derek Milman

❤️ Beautiful & Terrible Things - S.M. Stevens 🧡 Benvolio & Mercutio Turn Back Time - Elle Beaumont, Lou Wilham 💛 About Last Night - Laura Henry 💚 You Had Me at Happy Hour - Timothy Janovsky 💙 Moonbane - Jamie Jennings 💜 Between Fate & Failure - Amber D. Lewis ❤️ Blessed by the Cupid Distribution System - Robin Jo Margaret 🧡 Between Dragons and Their Wrath - Devin Madson 💛 Twisted Magic - Barbara J. Webb 💙 Rare Birds - L.B. Hazelthorn 💜 At the End of the River Styx - Michelle Kulwicki 🌈 Origin Story - Jendi Reiter

❤️ Eras of Us - Shannon O'Connor 🧡 Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema - Willow Maclay, Caden Gardner 💛 A Wolf in Stone - Jane Fletcher 💚 Toward Eternity - Anton Hur 💙 Portrait of a Shadow - Meriam Metoui 💜 Anyone's Ghost - August Thompson ❤️ Home Ice Advantage - Ari Baran 🧡 Unbelievable You - Chelsea M. Cameron 💛 Incorrect Eyes - Andromeda Ruins