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Writer, lawyer, part-time sapphic, among other things. not Scottish, but it's complicated. (repped by Kurestin Armada; fiction and other work at www.generalist.org.uk/iona) (they/she) newsletter: https://singlecrow.kit.com/f6f21b439b

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Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · Jan 2

Some pins and things: here is my most recent short story collection: bsky.app/profile/sing...

Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · Jan 1

Happy new year! The book is out- You Are Here: Nine More Stories, a new short story collection including a brand-new novella. Dragons, smugglers, witches, Indian mothers, meddling lesbians, telepaths who love to troll you, space! 🌈🚀🏴‍☠️🪔 🐉

available most places, paperbacks at Amazon, links below.

Book cover: text, YOU ARE HERE: NINE MORE STORIES, IONA DATT SHARMA, on illustration of grim South Asian woman with greying hair, orange hair scarf and shoulder tattoo of a violet, holding a floating Earth

Blurb text: It is not a sin, to love a wild thing…

A witch falls out of the sky; a dragon joins the resistance; a smuggler of magical trifles loves a girl she can’t have. A spaceship lights up for Diwali; an arch in the woods leads to wonders; and in a small community in lunar orbit, for no reason understandable by normal people, romance has been abolished.

Here are nine more stories, of hope and passion, grief and bureaucracy, and how you can’t go home again but it doesn’t mean you’ll never be found.

(In a white room, full of ghosts, a woman cries and will never be found.)

You Are Here is a follow-up to the author’s first collection of short fiction, Not For Use In Navigation (2019). This new volume collects eight more stories, plus an exclusive previously unpublished novella, Wish You Were Here. Published 1 January 2025.

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Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 16h

other very good works of SFF I've read in the last few years: Ancillary Justice, Ammonite, The Incandescent, Remember You Will Die, North Continent Ribbon, Metal From Heaven. But Vo really is special.

Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 16h

I completely missed that there's a new Nghi Vo Singing Hills book this week, I'm wondering if it's time to reread the entire series. I honestly think Empress of Salt & Fortune is the best work of SFF I've read this decade.

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Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 22h

I forgot to answer this! A small rainbow just to try doing it again- I think my days of giant A4 Star Trek cross-stitch may be behind me 😂

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Andrew @generalising.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely loving the idea that there are a string of little regional museums with second-hand mannequins in innocuous displays where everyone keeps going "wait, why is that..." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tony Blair waxwork in soldier uniform gives ex-secretary a tickle

The New Labour leader can be found dressed in combat attire, lined up near a Hugh Laurie waxwork.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 1d

I loved this book!

Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 2d

oh wow I love this for you! my favourite modern arrangement of a waulking song is this one from Karen Matheson, chuir mise m'athair dhan taigh charraideach; www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd_t...

Karen Matheson - My Father Sent Me to the House of Sorrow

YouTube video by tomtscotland

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Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 2d

She’s so hot omg

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Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · 3d

All Is Bright, my Christmassy F/F romance novella set in a little village in Wales, is out TODAY!

You can get it in these places and more:

Kobo: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...
AZ: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FS4G5PKX

A promotional graphic for All Is Bright, by Llinos Cathryn Thomas. The book cover, with the title in large text over twinkling lights, is at the centre. Behind the book, there are glowy lights. Text blocks highlight features of the book: "F/F Christmas romance", "advent calendar style - one chapter a day", "Hallmark small-town Christmas movie with a queer twist", "one has elaborate Christmas lights, the other one hates them", "outdoorsy butch and city girl femme", "Wales!".

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Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 3d

I use my work Outlook calendar and to-do list for anything that happens in my working hours, inc personal things, and a physical calendar on the kitchen wall for everything else. I need a better personal to-do list system but I've never hit on a good way to do it.

Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 4d

that would be good wouldn't it! the artist in the moment etc

Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 4d

doing cross-stitch while trying to eat an orange, a wholesome but difficult activity

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Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 4d

I have been out as queer a while and had never come across the term! so now I know what a chapstick lesbian is (it... me?) and I feel very educated, thank you.

Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 5d

1920s Hong Kong 😍😍😍

Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 5d

!!!!

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Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 5d

You Are Here: Nine More Stories—my collection of SF/fantasy shorts, some prev pubbed at Strange Horizons, BCS, etc & also a new novella abt growing up & queer devotion—plus witches, spaceships, romcoms, all you need. KJ Charles called it "absolutely outstanding" www.generalist.org.uk/iona/books-a...