Marie van Mil
@marievanmil.bsky.social
✒️ Speculative Fiction Writer
🎨 Freelance Marketing & Design
📍 Leeds, UK
https://linktr.ee/marieke.vanmil
🎨 Freelance Marketing & Design
📍 Leeds, UK
https://linktr.ee/marieke.vanmil
Reposted by Marie van Mil
Thank you everyone for a wonderful World Fantasy 2025. A convention takes the committee, volunteers, artists, authors, editors, jurors and many others. Our special thanks of course goes to our guests: Suniti Namjoshi, Vincent Chong, Nick Landau, Vivian Cheung, Joanne Harris and Ramsay Campbell.
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Thank you everyone for a wonderful World Fantasy 2025. A convention takes the committee, volunteers, artists, authors, editors, jurors and many others. Our special thanks of course goes to our guests: Suniti Namjoshi, Vincent Chong, Nick Landau, Vivian Cheung, Joanne Harris and Ramsay Campbell.
This probably encapsulates my WFC the most! Great conversations at Barcon! I need a Dry November after this 😂
November 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
This probably encapsulates my WFC the most! Great conversations at Barcon! I need a Dry November after this 😂
Waking up with a full heart after World Fantasycon 🥰
November 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Waking up with a full heart after World Fantasycon 🥰
Reposted by Marie van Mil
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 4: There’s nothing wrong with writing fluff. Fluff insulates. It protects. It cocoons us from a world filled with sharp edges and sudden fires. It makes a warm bed to sleep on; builds soft ramparts; saves lives.
November 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 4: There’s nothing wrong with writing fluff. Fluff insulates. It protects. It cocoons us from a world filled with sharp edges and sudden fires. It makes a warm bed to sleep on; builds soft ramparts; saves lives.
What a whirlwind of a week! I'm so grateful for the many very open and friendly authors I have gotten to meet and catch-up with this week! There's too many to name, but you know who you are. You are all gems!
November 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
What a whirlwind of a week! I'm so grateful for the many very open and friendly authors I have gotten to meet and catch-up with this week! There's too many to name, but you know who you are. You are all gems!
Brighton @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social here I come!!
October 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Brighton @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social here I come!!
Who else is excited for @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social 👋 Less than a month away now 👏
October 1, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Who else is excited for @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social 👋 Less than a month away now 👏
I've just been introduced to the My Immortal goth Harry Potter fanfic.. What on earth? It must be satire surely. 🤔 (TW though if you're looking it up)
September 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I've just been introduced to the My Immortal goth Harry Potter fanfic.. What on earth? It must be satire surely. 🤔 (TW though if you're looking it up)
The Wuthering Heights trailer... Is it just me or... does it not seem like Wuthering Heights at all?
September 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The Wuthering Heights trailer... Is it just me or... does it not seem like Wuthering Heights at all?
Reminder for those looking to be in the programme 😊
If you are planning to come to World Fantasy Convention 2025 and would like to be on programme items, you need to fill out the form before 8th August.
worldfantasy2025.co.uk/participation/
worldfantasy2025.co.uk/participation/
Participation – World Fantasy Convention 2025
worldfantasy2025.co.uk
August 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Reminder for those looking to be in the programme 😊
Animals pee and poo to mark their territory
I scatter books, notepads and hairties around to assert my dominance
I scatter books, notepads and hairties around to assert my dominance
August 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Animals pee and poo to mark their territory
I scatter books, notepads and hairties around to assert my dominance
I scatter books, notepads and hairties around to assert my dominance
OK. Sunday. Cafe time = writing time. Brain, work with me today please 🧠
August 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
OK. Sunday. Cafe time = writing time. Brain, work with me today please 🧠
Reposted by Marie van Mil
Wednesday is with us again, so grab your family and friends and drag them out to buy a book! - Michael
July 23, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Wednesday is with us again, so grab your family and friends and drag them out to buy a book! - Michael
Hear, hear!
Happy Monday, #booksky!
Shoutout to all the non problematic authors out there who stay out of readers' spaces, avoid genAI like the plague, and still keep their heads up despite the above getting most of the success.🥂
Shoutout to all the non problematic authors out there who stay out of readers' spaces, avoid genAI like the plague, and still keep their heads up despite the above getting most of the success.🥂
July 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Hear, hear!
Now I see Superman reviews like this and I feel tempted! But tempted enough to make my way to the cinema...? Not as hot and bothered about Superman these days. Though I will say Lois and Clark should have tipped me off I was gonna be waving the bi flag
Been thinking about Superman A LOT!
What I liked most is that the film remembered that Superman isn’t about hitting people, he’s about saving them.
He’s a firefighter not an enforcer.
He’s about turning in a fight to check that bystanders are okay even as he tries to protect them. (1/3)
What I liked most is that the film remembered that Superman isn’t about hitting people, he’s about saving them.
He’s a firefighter not an enforcer.
He’s about turning in a fight to check that bystanders are okay even as he tries to protect them. (1/3)
a superman logo with the letter s on a blue background
ALT: a superman logo with the letter s on a blue background
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July 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Now I see Superman reviews like this and I feel tempted! But tempted enough to make my way to the cinema...? Not as hot and bothered about Superman these days. Though I will say Lois and Clark should have tipped me off I was gonna be waving the bi flag
Just started watching the Mayfair Witches at random. Anyone gave it a watch? Is it worth continuing?
July 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Just started watching the Mayfair Witches at random. Anyone gave it a watch? Is it worth continuing?
I've started doing daily workouts.
I have one goal.
Be able to do one blimmin' push-up. Just one.
No knee push-up. No wall push-up.
ONE FULL PUSH-UP.
Pray for me
I have one goal.
Be able to do one blimmin' push-up. Just one.
No knee push-up. No wall push-up.
ONE FULL PUSH-UP.
Pray for me
July 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I've started doing daily workouts.
I have one goal.
Be able to do one blimmin' push-up. Just one.
No knee push-up. No wall push-up.
ONE FULL PUSH-UP.
Pray for me
I have one goal.
Be able to do one blimmin' push-up. Just one.
No knee push-up. No wall push-up.
ONE FULL PUSH-UP.
Pray for me
I've become lightly obsessed with BBC's new 'docuseries' Walking with Dinosaurs. Though not proven, the idea of giant eyes on the frills of a Triceratops is just wild. www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/art...
Walking With Dinosaurs: Six prehistoric legends you’ll meet in the series - BBC Bitesize
BBC Bitesize introduces you to some creatures with main character energy
www.bbc.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I've become lightly obsessed with BBC's new 'docuseries' Walking with Dinosaurs. Though not proven, the idea of giant eyes on the frills of a Triceratops is just wild. www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/art...
A great step in the right direction! #abortionrights www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
MPs vote to decriminalise abortion for women in England and Wales
The vote to decriminalise the procedure is the biggest change to abortion laws in England and Wales for nearly 60 years.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A great step in the right direction! #abortionrights www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is a fantastic read from a wonderful author. I met Amal last August and she couldn't have been kinder 🙏
June 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is a fantastic read from a wonderful author. I met Amal last August and she couldn't have been kinder 🙏
AI opinions clogging my feed... Working in marketing, I can see how quickly it is adopted. HOWEVER, I love creative writing and the entire process too much, from researching to nitpicking each word, to let AI get involved with my written works.
June 2, 2025 at 6:56 AM
AI opinions clogging my feed... Working in marketing, I can see how quickly it is adopted. HOWEVER, I love creative writing and the entire process too much, from researching to nitpicking each word, to let AI get involved with my written works.
Who else is joining World Fantasycon this year? Want to make sure I don't miss any of you there, whom I don't get to see regularly!
#WorldFantasycon #WorldFantasycon2025
#WorldFantasycon #WorldFantasycon2025
May 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Who else is joining World Fantasycon this year? Want to make sure I don't miss any of you there, whom I don't get to see regularly!
#WorldFantasycon #WorldFantasycon2025
#WorldFantasycon #WorldFantasycon2025
A little trip down memory lane to my first freelancing stint when I decided to do an impromptu photoshoot at home. Look at this glorious failure 😆
#Freelancing #Photoshoot
#Freelancing #Photoshoot
May 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
A little trip down memory lane to my first freelancing stint when I decided to do an impromptu photoshoot at home. Look at this glorious failure 😆
#Freelancing #Photoshoot
#Freelancing #Photoshoot
Me = sad 🥲 . @hayfestival.bsky.social just sounds like the dream to me . It's clashing with It's Strange Up North this year though and between client work and other commitments that's about the only weekend I could devote to it. A little tiny violin moment. 🎻
#HayFestival #HayonWye #LiteraryEvent
#HayFestival #HayonWye #LiteraryEvent
May 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Me = sad 🥲 . @hayfestival.bsky.social just sounds like the dream to me . It's clashing with It's Strange Up North this year though and between client work and other commitments that's about the only weekend I could devote to it. A little tiny violin moment. 🎻
#HayFestival #HayonWye #LiteraryEvent
#HayFestival #HayonWye #LiteraryEvent