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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 8h

I’m genuinely not sure. It’s just unfathomable to me.

Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 8h

I’m never really sure why many writers festivals leave out games, zines, comics etc.
The writing, world building, artwork and design work involved is often inspired- and made to be shared.

#writers #writersfestivals #games

Box cover of the Ticket to Ride: Europe board game. Artwork shows. Black steam train, a quaint station, snow peaked mountains in the background and a few Victorian figures in the foreground. A bright 15 million Ticket to Ride Games Sold sticker is placed in the bottom right hand corner.

Cover of A Place for All My Books board game. The artwork is soft and cozy, with a brown haired person seated on the ground in front of a full bookshelf. They’re surrounded by other stacks of books, with a cat sleeping on one stack and a hot drink places on another.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 14h

There’s some dark irony in this.

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 16h

ICYMI: The children’s book market is set for a record year for sales in 2025, thanks to Suzanne Collins’ latest Hunger Games book, Sunrise on the Reaping 👇 #KidsConf

Children's book market 2025 success driven by Suzanne Collins' Sunrise on the Reaping

The children’s book market is set for a record year for sales in 2025, thanks to Suzanne Collins’ latest Hunger Games book, Sunrise on the Reaping.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 1d

‘He plays by a different playbook and it's working.’
I assume she means the Project 2025 playbook?

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Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social · 2d

I've been published by 3 presses on this list and enjoyed books by many more.
If you're interested in commenting on or joining a roundtable on the future of small presses in the UK, link to the form is here: #smallpresspublishing #indiepublishing #ukpublishing
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 2d

Work in progress.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 2d

Colours of spring in Brisbane.

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Stephen Wright @mycommunistcat.bsky.social · 3d

Its true. I can reveal that I was called into Antifa HQ today & taken into the lair of our leader, known only as The Subcomandante (seen here in black to conceal his real identity). Apparently I haven't punched enough Nazis this week. He was not pleased.

The true leader of Antifa dressed in feline black with whiskers.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 5d

Interesting things about the UN launching two global governance bodies on AI. It highlights:

- the utter lack of governance and oversight to-date
- the lack of trusted scientific advice on AI
- the willingness of governments to label AI as an economic must-have, and sell out workers despite this.

Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 6d

I was wondering.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 6d

Enforced labour.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10d

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Submit a Claim

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 7d

If public servants talked about writing the way writers talk about writing:

- Wrote 20,000 words today
- Wrote my billionth foreword
- Used 1st, 2nd & 3rd person in same paragraph
- Another launch 😭
- Had a million edits. Gave editor the original version. She says it’s perfect now
- Need coffee.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 8d

Favourite words read so far today:

‘the Elephant of Revolutionary Oblivion…’

(In Citizens by Simon Schama)

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 8d

This is Momo, my cat.
This is his answer to anything he does not want to do.

Close up of tabby cat paw, where to stripes on the top of the paw appear to spell NO.

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 9d

We can't review what we don't receive! Check out our submission guidelines to consider sending us your work! We love small press authors and are always on the lookout for New & Notable work.

Submission Guidelines

What genres of books and stories does Locus review? We review science fiction, fantasy, horror, speculative, surreal, slipstream, crossed genres, similarly themed YA, art books, and related nonfict…

locusmag.com

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 9d

#OtD 2 Oct 1766 the Nottingham Great Cheese Riot began. Angry at the excessive price of cheese, a mob formed who seized it and began wheeling or carrying the cheeses away, bowling over the mayor with a cheese. The army put down rioting 2 days later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9225...

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 9d

In all seriousness, publishers are going to have to figure out how to market books in the post-social-media landscape. That should be an implicit part of their job. What authors/artists can do on their own is increasingly limited and siloed.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 9d

The - I hadn’t read any of his work as I was in CAIRO at the time blah blah - superiority flex at the beginning does temper the oof a bit though.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 9d

The Climate Fiction Prize celebrates the most inspiring novels tackling the climate crisis.

I will be one of this judges this year and would love to read your work.

The £10,000 prize is awarded annually to a single novel. Submissions now open.

Link here climatefictionprize.co.uk

Please share :)

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 10d

To be fair, Huttese is difficult to translate.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 10d

Hello, yes, I’m the author or editor of fourteen books, some of them prize-winning and some of them bestselling.

I’ve written nonfiction and children’s picture books.

And I can *mentor you* as part of @kydmagazine.bsky.social program.

You have until October 12th to apply.

Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 10d

🔔 Deadline Extended!🔔 Applications for the KYD Mentors Program now close 12 October.

Apply now for the chance to participate in a structured editorial mentorship designed to support early-career writers in the development of a long-form work of fiction or non-fiction.

🔗 bit.ly/3V6fh4q

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 10d

‘… it actually doesn't take much to be considered a difficult woman. That's why there are so many of us.’

Jane Goodall

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 11d

Ach, the wee jazzy scunners.

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Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social · 11d

Tis a Gonagal.

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