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Lawrence Schimel

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Reader. Bilingual (Spanish/English) author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈 He/él I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Koleka Putuma, etc.

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · Dec 30

2024 Overview 🧵:

In 2024, I published 42 books:

28 books written by me: 27 children's books, 1 adult book

14 translations: 6 into English, 7 into Spanish & 1 into both English + Spanish (my first translation from French)

#kidlit #amwriting #amtranslating

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A selfie with most of the books I published in 2024, as an author (on left) or translator (the stack on the right).

I am still missing copies of a few titles, both written by me and translated by me.

A photo of most of the children's books written by me that were published this year around the world, including both new titles and translations of older titles. There are books in Changana, Sena, Macua, Urdu, Bulgarian, Italian, Finnish, Turkish, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and English, among others.

The one adult book by me published this year: A BEARD PARADOX, translated by Sandra Kingery (Rebel Satori Press), a collection of 100 erotic flashfiction stories originally written in Spanish.

A photo of many of the books I translated this year: on the left, books I translated into English, on the right, books I translated into Spanish, and in the middle, one book I translated into both English and Spanish (my first published translation from French).

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 10h

Going through old newsletters I came across this one from 2023, which I'd locked to paying subscribers -- a thing I do periodically for a variety of reasons. I decided to make it public today, & hope you enjoy it. It starts with a dream & ends with the world.

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A dream of a wake

A crowded bus that was also a wake. It wasn't when I embarked but somewhere between Glasgow and Cornwall it became so, dark and raucous, and I wasn't sure I was supposed to be there. But there was a j...

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 8h

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 3d

... it was his dream, his lifelong goal to become a successful newspaper cartoonist. Why would he achieve it only to hand it all over to someone else??

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 3d

Charles Schulz was asked why he didn't hire assistants to help out on the Peanuts comic strip — some of his contemporaries had staff who thought up gags, wrote story arcs, drew in backgrounds, inked the pencils, etc. etc. Schulz would point out that ...

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 1d

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 1d

A call to bookshops when setting up banned books displays. Feature alive authors who could be struggling due to this. Yes, Stephen King gets banned but he's doing ok financially. So many others are not.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Ran Ari-Gur @ran-arigur.bsky.social · 23d

Why is everything a video these days? I do not need ten minutes and high production values to absorb one paragraph's worth of information, tyvm

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 3d

Congrats to all his translators, including into English @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social & @georgeszirtes.bsky.social

#booksky #xl8 #literarytranslation

Announcement of this year's Nobel Prize for literature to László Krasznahorkai. With a black and white drawing of the author.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 11h

The latest @irishtimes.com fiction in translation column by Catherine Taylor is now online for subscribers 👇

Fiction in translation: The Midnight Timetable; The Woman Dies; The Ferryman & His Wife; My Name Is Stramer; Wolf Moon’ and The Loft

Books by Bora Chung (Korea), Japan (Aoko Matsuda), Frode Grytten (Norway), Mikołaj Łoziński (Poland), Julio Llamazares (Spain) and Marlen Haushofer (Austria)

www.irishtimes.com

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Gina BOO 👻 #FreeŁink @gina.bzky.team · 12h

Puts the DC Sandwich Thrower 👚 🥖 in a whole new light, eh? That was at least $20 worth of food if no sides were added.

Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 1d

The $5 footlong has become the $6 six inch. I don't even eat Subway and I still think it's time to knock all this shit over

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 15h

"Slashdot: What's the reason OneDrive tells users this setting can only be turned off 3 times a year?

[Microsoft's publicist chose not to answer this question.]"

Microsoft's OneDrive Begins Testing Face-Recognizing AI for Photos (for Some Preview Users) - Slashdot

I uploaded a photo on my phone to Microsoft's "OneDrive" file-hosting app — and there was a surprise waiting under Privacy and Permissions. "OneDrive uses AI to recognize faces in your photos.....

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 12h

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 15h

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Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Raymond Luczak | deafwoof @raymondluczak.com · 3d

Today my new book of poems IRONHOOD is published! Here’s the clip of my poem “How Late the Night”! (The order link is right underneath the video on YouTube.) youtu.be/9wtx3U9pHPQ

IRONHOOD: "How Late the Night"

YouTube video by deafwoof

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Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 15h

An essay I wrote for @thewalrus.ca on facing my fears.

thewalrus.ca/i-spent-my-l...

I Spent My Life Avoiding Thrills. Then My Son Discovered Roller Coasters | The Walrus

What have I missed out on because I’ve mistaken someone else’s fear for my own good sense?

thewalrus.ca

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 15h

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 15h

I want to add that the author was a super cool dude. Born into slavery, became a lawyer and practiced civil rights cases in Raleigh North Carolina. Ran for congress.

The book depicts the integration of the labour union movement being integral to getting workers rights for Black Americans.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 2d

Just got an email telling me it's the last day for 'prime deals.' Fug that crap. Want a real deal? Check out our selection of $2 eBooks for October. Any sale helps keep our indie spirit going. Thank you!

undertowpublications.com/ebooks

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 12d

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

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A Short Fiction Treasures Special: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

Going through the archives of Strange Horizons for this special column has been a bit like exploring a treasure chamber. I’ve picked fifty stories. I could have picked hundreds. Meaning: I left a l…

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · Aug 10

☎️ SH CRITICISM HOTLINE NOW OPEN

In mid-August, thoughts naturally turn to the end of next January: the @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special.

What spec fic essays, roundtables, interviews, song-and-dance routines have you got for us? Go broad!

⚾️ Pitch us: danwhartland at gmail dot com

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 13d

It's SH's 25th birthday! Three reviews as ever this week, with the first from @rachelcordasco.bsky.social: a short fiction collection from KA Teryna, translated Alex Shvartsman for @patrickswenson.bsky.social's Fairwood Press.

"The stories in Black Hole Heart refuse to be labeled," Rachel writes.

Black Hole Heart and Other Stories by K. A. Teryna, translated by Alex Shvartsman

These stories are genre-bending explorations of how protagonists deal with unusual and unexpected situations.

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 3d

On Spec has long deserved recognition for best semiprozine at the Hugo Awards, but has never even made the ballot because it's Canadian and most Hugo voters are U.S.-based.

2026 will be your final opportunity to nominate an institution that has been an incubator for so much talent.

On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · 3d

With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 16h

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 28d

"The Ones Who Walk Away From Hogwarts"

New blog post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

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On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · 3d

With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

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Joshua Justice // Ghost Tropic @ghosttropic.org · 17d

This collection of interconnected short stories by @yarntheory.bsky.social is nominated for the Ursula K. Le Guin prize (for good reason). The final story is easily my favorite. Highly recommended!

Hand holding a book by Ursula Whitcher called North Contient Ribbon. The cover depicts a sprawling green landscape with an elevated railway leading to a tower. There’s a lake next to it and some white birds. In the bottom center is someone in a green cloak with their back turned.

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 16d

One of the coolest examples we added this time is a book from 1902 called "Light Ahead For The Negro" by Edward A. Johnson. It's the earliest SF novel I'm aware of by a Black author.

In it Johnson projects that by 2006, labour unions integrate and help marginalized communities achieve equity.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 14d

Per an earlier discussion with (@runalongwomble.bsky.social), here are two lesser known (but worth reading -- see reviews for various caveats) SF works by British women.

Zoë Fairbairns’ Benefits (1979) and Margo Bennett’s The Long Way Back (1954)

A pattern of identical female faces against a black background.

Cover for The Long Way Back. An man looks from the jungle at a ruin.

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 10d

As I've always had an antagonistic relationship with social media, I'm going to try to take a few steps to be more supportive and kind:

1) Share more stuff I love.
2) Mute more words.
3) Be less grumpy. It's hard. The world sucks. My job also seems caught up in the whirlwind of the suckage.

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