Elodie Turquois
@elodiewrites.bsky.social
Recovering academic. ADHD. Apprentice novelist (histfic & fantasy), seasoned philologist with a penchant for late antique Greek and birds. Also ekphrasis, Constantinople, Renaissance Humanism. French in Midlothian.
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Elodie Turquois
@elodiewrites.bsky.social
· Mar 28
In 16th-century Venice, a young woman aspiring to make her mark as a publisher steals a magical manuscript from the library of the French ambassador, ensnaring her in a deadly game of diplomacy, deceit, and forbidden love. #scotwriterpitch2025
Spent my day correcting Theodosius to Theodosios, Agathonicus to Agathonikos, and… Pulcheria to Poulcheria - following the editors’ wishes, even if it makes an empress sound like a hen… Almost ready to submit this monograph!
April 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Spent my day correcting Theodosius to Theodosios, Agathonicus to Agathonikos, and… Pulcheria to Poulcheria - following the editors’ wishes, even if it makes an empress sound like a hen… Almost ready to submit this monograph!
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RFK Jr's move to eliminate the Administration for Community Living, which helps disabled & aging people stay at home instead of being institutionalized, is disastrous.
I'm never done shouting about what my mom's institutionalization took from her & from us (so here's my @teenvogue.com piece again).
I'm never done shouting about what my mom's institutionalization took from her & from us (so here's my @teenvogue.com piece again).
Graduating From Dead Mom University
In this op-ed, Lindsay Lee Wallace explores grief, and how no amount of success in school or work could protect her from it.
www.teenvogue.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
RFK Jr's move to eliminate the Administration for Community Living, which helps disabled & aging people stay at home instead of being institutionalized, is disastrous.
I'm never done shouting about what my mom's institutionalization took from her & from us (so here's my @teenvogue.com piece again).
I'm never done shouting about what my mom's institutionalization took from her & from us (so here's my @teenvogue.com piece again).
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Susanna Horenbout: Forgotten Female Artist at the Tudor Court
by Sylvia Barbara Soberton for DailyArt Magazine
www.dailyartmagazine.com/susanna-hore...
by Sylvia Barbara Soberton for DailyArt Magazine
www.dailyartmagazine.com/susanna-hore...
Susanna Horenbout: Forgotten Female Artist at the Tudor Court
Praised for her skill by such titans of the age as Albrecht Dürer, Susanna Horenbout worked for Henry VIII and his wives. This is her story.
www.dailyartmagazine.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Susanna Horenbout: Forgotten Female Artist at the Tudor Court
by Sylvia Barbara Soberton for DailyArt Magazine
www.dailyartmagazine.com/susanna-hore...
by Sylvia Barbara Soberton for DailyArt Magazine
www.dailyartmagazine.com/susanna-hore...
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Reflecting on publishing post 2020 drive to publish more Black voices - and where we are now:
UK publishing less accessible to Black authors now than before 2020, industry names say
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
UK publishing less accessible to Black authors now than before 2020, industry names say
Ahead of the Black British book festival, literary figures say the number of books being published by Black writers has ‘plummeted’
www.theguardian.com
March 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Reflecting on publishing post 2020 drive to publish more Black voices - and where we are now:
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March 28, 2025 at 4:24 AM
In 16th-century Venice, a young woman aspiring to make her mark as a publisher steals a magical manuscript from the library of the French ambassador, ensnaring her in a deadly game of diplomacy, deceit, and forbidden love. #scotwriterpitch2025
March 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
In 16th-century Venice, a young woman aspiring to make her mark as a publisher steals a magical manuscript from the library of the French ambassador, ensnaring her in a deadly game of diplomacy, deceit, and forbidden love. #scotwriterpitch2025
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Cutting #disability benefits will increase mental health issues, hasten #disabled people's deaths & put huge pressure on the #NHS, social workers, homelessness orgs, @citizensadvice.bsky.social & more. And it won't increase the number of #accessible jobs. Here are some ideas for ethical alternatives
Things that might actually get more chronically ill and disabled people into work *without* increasing the amount of depressed/suicidal/dead disabled people by removing the minimal security they have [thread] www.bigissue.com/news/employm...
DWP reveals new plans to get disabled people into work ahead of benefit cuts
The DWP has announced more of its plans to increase employment support for disabled people – but it comes after reports of benefit cuts.
www.bigissue.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Cutting #disability benefits will increase mental health issues, hasten #disabled people's deaths & put huge pressure on the #NHS, social workers, homelessness orgs, @citizensadvice.bsky.social & more. And it won't increase the number of #accessible jobs. Here are some ideas for ethical alternatives
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The pressure to publish more and faster was one of the most frustrating things about working in publishing. If I could say ONE thing to the publishing industry about how to make things better, it would be this: do not publish anything you are not going to support well with marketing.
I think a simple solution to making the publishing industry better, in lots of ways, would be for the big publishers to just publish fewer books and give more care and attention to the ones they do publish. It’s probably why authors with small publishers often feel better treated (not always).
March 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The pressure to publish more and faster was one of the most frustrating things about working in publishing. If I could say ONE thing to the publishing industry about how to make things better, it would be this: do not publish anything you are not going to support well with marketing.
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Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either. From @jamesdoubek.bsky.social
Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says
Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.
www.npr.org
March 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either. From @jamesdoubek.bsky.social
Today’s work: flip-flopping on some Greek edition decisions because I can’t ever trust my philological skills to go against early 20th century editors, and revising a scene of my novel where my main protagonist kept repeating “what do you mean?” to the Spanish ambassador she’s meant to seduce. 😓
March 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Today’s work: flip-flopping on some Greek edition decisions because I can’t ever trust my philological skills to go against early 20th century editors, and revising a scene of my novel where my main protagonist kept repeating “what do you mean?” to the Spanish ambassador she’s meant to seduce. 😓
This applies for most things in the news these days…
March 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
This applies for most things in the news these days…
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