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Ammonite Groan

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#AmWriting an adult dark fantasy novel. Lover of speculative fiction, rich, thoughtful writing, learning new things and all things old and spooky.

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Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Feb 18

Hello Bluesky!

I love #writing bizarre, mindbending, stylistically rich speculative fiction.

Think: Gormenghast, Piranesi, Neuromancer, The First Law, Between Two Fires.

Into novel writing? Aiming for #tradpub? I'd love to chat.

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Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Mar 4

When I tried the morning pages exercise, it eventually led me to the novel I'm working on. It's freaky how well it works.

Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Mar 4

Close to hitting 30K words on the (2nd) draft. This is the closest I've got to having a novel-length draft I'd want to show people. I feel giddy - my muscles literally feel looser as I write. #writesky #writing

Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Mar 1

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚

11/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books

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Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Mar 1

Late to the party, but this story by PH Lee is gut-wrenching and gripping.
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The V*mpire - Reactor

The vampires aren't even the worst part about being a teenage trans girl on tumblr.

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Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Mar 1

'Mara Lissa's sisterhood of evil trans hackers' sounds like a cyberpunk reboot of the Bene Gesserit in the best way tbh

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Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Feb 28

Ammonite coded characters

Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Feb 28

Same, to the point it's been a bit of a shock to discover how much others *do* shop.

Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Feb 28

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚

10/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books

Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Feb 28

The thing that gets me about Cosy D&D is that Terry Pratchett already did it! He very famously based his entire career on an expansion of the parameters of D&D land! And his stuff is cosier because he actually acknowledges the messed up stuff about it.

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Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Feb 28

You're so close!! Rooting for you to make it.

Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Feb 28

Congrats!!

I read one of those stories in draft form a few years ago and loved it. (DM if you want to know who I am/where I read it.) I'm so glad to see it's making it out into the world.

Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Feb 28

So happy to hear that you're publishing a second novel! I really enjoyed The Book Eaters, and can't wait to get my hands on this one 😄

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Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Feb 27

And in a STEMlord world, that's something we have less and less room for.

Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Feb 27

But you can't make horror medicinal. The only reason to engage with it is its aesthetic, mind-expanding value.

Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Feb 27

Comforting fiction helps people relax. Aspirational fiction gives people aspirations.

Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Feb 27

And it made me realise that the problem people have with feel-bad fiction is that you can't justify it under a practical paradigm.

Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Feb 27

Read a great thread about the demand for horror to be cosy from @magencubed.bsky.social

Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Feb 27

If people demand that intellectual activity is only practical, they're demanding that all imagination can only be practical.

Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Feb 27

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚

09/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · Feb 24

Today on Eruditorum Press, Last War in Albion returns with a chapter on Sandman and Neil Gaiman. Strap in. This goes hard. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...

The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman)

Previously in The Last War in Albion: Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, which, for complicated reasons involving William S. Burroughs and the weak nuclear force, ended the Cold War and replaced it with a mag...

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Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Feb 26

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 💙📚

08/20
#booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books

Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Feb 26

I mean, it's pretty persuasive.

Ammonite Groan @ammonitegroan.bsky.social · Feb 26

That face! 😍😍

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