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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · Dec 28

Would be a shame if a bunch of authors were to pull out due to having some principles, idk

Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · Dec 28

Well I was going to go to the Oxford Literary Festival. But you know what, I don't think I'll bother.

Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women’s Rights | Oxford Literary Festival

Helen Joyce talks to Julie Bindel - Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women’s Rights

oxfordliteraryfestival.org

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ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · Dec 27

The funniest thing to me - a British person educated in Britain - about the Odyssey nonsense apparently erupting over on Twitter, is that when I needed a classic story to include in my most recent book, I went with the Odyssey because "Everyone knows it."

Everyone but that one guy, it seems.

ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · Dec 24

Every year I write a short story connected to my Vicar Man series of books and post it on my blog as a Winter Holiday gift to everyone.
Here's this year's: weylund.wixsite.com/my-site/post...

#BookSky #ShortStory

A Gift To Keep Out The Cold

As is by now traditional, the story I have for you this year is not the story I had planned to write. That one will have to wait on the shelf, beside all the other stories that I've put aside to wait ...

weylund.wixsite.com

ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · Dec 20

My Youngest Child loved the Ghastly School Shorts.

La Gr@not@ Press (publishing hut) 💜📚🖊️📖📘🤔 @lagranota.bsky.social · Dec 4

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FREE [digital] book offer (expires at midnight, New Year's Eve, 2024)

1) la-granota.com/list.htm (info & reviews) can help you choose which book to order.

2) Send an e-mail (minimal content: we don't read them) to [email protected]

3) Follow the instructions in the automatic reply

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ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · Dec 20

For anyone who's missed me, aim better next time; but if you're wondering where I've been, the answer is mostly in bed.
And for those of you who *I've* missed (hi Jimmy!) I can't promise you I'll be around all that regularly yet, but it is very good to be back.

ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · Dec 20

Hello Bluesky!

I am back and...wow, it's got *significantly* more crowded around here, hasn't it?
Can't think why.

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ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · Sep 17

Where Did I Go?

weylund.wixsite.com/my-site/post...

#BlogPost #Author'sGonnaAuth

Where Did I Go?

Every time I resolve to write on this blog more often, I end up not writing on it for at least a month.Or, in this case, several months.At this point I should probably accept the inevitable and stop m...

weylund.wixsite.com

ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · Jun 30

And today the hard-working writer is…

Looking up the etymology of the word “mook” and not getting very far.

ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · Jun 26

Me: "Does that thing measure the actual temperature of the room?"

He *proudly* "Yes! So -"

Me: "So it's twenty degrees *in this room* with the curtains drawn."

He: "..."

Me: "Touch 'em and die."

ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · Jun 26

Beloved Husband: "Why are the curtains drawn? Let's get some light in here!"

Me: "Because it's *Twenty seven degrees celsius* out there."

He: "No, it's sixteen, look!"
*Waves shiny new phone*

Me: "Look again."

He: "Ok, now it's twenty." *Moves toward window"

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ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · Jun 26

Alas, I saw it too late!

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ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · Jun 20

*One* of them is an ancient witch who collects antiques and who has been looking for this precise creamer for a very long time.

The other is a small child who has an unfortunate accident with a tennis ball and now needs to replace a valued family heirloom before anyone notices.

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ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · Jun 7

Youngest child, glaring at my tea store: "Why do you like this? It's hot leaf juice!"

Me: "I think you'll find it's hot *root* juice. And that one's hot flower juice."

YC: "..."

Me: "And today's lesson: why you should come up with your own insults instead of just borrowing other people's."

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · Jun 3

Libraries are one of the most radical social institutions we have, because they’re based on the idea that *everyone* has the right to information, for free. It’s also what makes them crucial to democracy. I will never stop yelling about this!

N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · Jun 3

Poor people use libraries. Rich people shut them down because they don't *want* poor people to read.

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ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · Jun 4

www.ameliacrowley.com/post/it-s-here

It's Here!

If you read that title in Jack Nicholson's voice I am so sorry. Just assume I was making another horror-film reference* and move on.Whatever all work and no play makes or does not make Jack, a lot of ...

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ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · Jun 3

Hold on...
If The Wolf-Finder General is out tomorrow...
There's only one day left to get The Vicar Man for ninety nine pence!
Run! Run! (
Figuratively speaking, that is)

amazon.co.uk/Vicar-Man-Am...
#book #cheapbook

The Vicar Man eBook : Crowley, Amelia, Willis-Crowley, Kate: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

https://amazon.co.uk/Vicar-Man-Amelia-Crowley-ebook/dp/B09D9ZDFQS/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2ODP5M3GHMDES&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.cD7vbldueDFdm7bL0x2-0LWutrdl5GXLGtu9ESSpwMgQ5Lv34qra3gOCzmSeKPhjfbjsj9TTYsIQZHWlVRI4GxT7WnbjAK6pF0uJjjWZkvLRhlnwN9linWbiMiif4Kl9Hima1epSeED6_f8DblUENyOe6hc5RdKN7KnzqYdUOFRngApAmQp43Mfxs-YRDvJMnFiyOIUxV9dLIT1o2oKEQrJT8FItSaqK5loIr_Gt__8.ZNwULrICUkOog6X4_JkzcHv-yEX1PJVnOxjIjE2g0qw&dib_tag=se&keywords=The+vicar+man&qid=1717412430&sprefix=the+vicar+man%2Caps%2C182&sr=8-1…

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ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · May 15

New blog post!

A werewolf-finder is a silly idea.
That could never happen in real life.
Right?

#TheWolfFinderGeneral

www.ameliacrowley.com/post/why-a-w...

Why a Wolf-Finder?

Witch hunts make sense The kind of sense, admittedly, that starts from people being generally awful, then passes through several layers of spite, xenophobia, human greed and othering before it ends up...

www.ameliacrowley.com

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ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · May 6

Bank Holiday got you down?
Can’t set fire to your local clergy because of pointless council bye-laws?
Bemoaning the death of *proper* ancient traditions?

Live vicariously through fiction!

The Vicar Man is available in paperback, kindle, and audiobook!
www.amazon.co.uk/Vicar-Man-Am...

The Vicar Man eBook : Crowley, Amelia, Willis-Crowley, Kate: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

www.amazon.co.uk

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ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · Apr 18

And then there's the terrifying allure of the Teasmade.

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ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · Apr 2

Eldest Daughter just clapped her hand to her brow in an expression of tragedy.
But things were apparently *so very tragic* that she felt the need to use both hands.

She ended up with woeful bunny-ears.

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ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · Mar 31

Oh very much so.

I meant more that yes, they're *there*, but they aren't the point.

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ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · Mar 31

There are gay themes and characters in Le Guin’s novels in the same way, and probably for the same reason, as there are in Neil Gaiman’s: to match real life.

So naturally, in both cases, people kick up a fuss and say they’re overdoing it.

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ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · Mar 31

Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it.

Cheap chocolate/a total lack of temptation (and cheap chocolate after sunset) to everyone else.

ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · Mar 21

The Wolf-Finder General has a cover.
And it is *beautiful*.

www.ameliacrowley.com/post/the-wol...

#book
#writing

ameliacrowley.bsky.social @ameliacrowley.bsky.social · Mar 15

A resin printed bust of Julius Caesar.
Various writing and stationary implements have been stabbed into holes in his back.
These include pens, pencils, highlighter pens, and a black pencil with a topper in the shape of a vampire bat.

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