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Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through

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https://buymeacoffee.com/franmoldaschl Kelpies Prize for Writing Winner Former #archaeology student Children's book reviewer Neurodivergent inquisitivenewt.com @northodoxpress.bsky.social (Any pronouns)🏳️‍🌈

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Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through @franmoldaschl.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Like what you hear? You can pre-order my book from this link:
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It's got:

🍲Wild food
🐕A happy dog
🏳️‍🌈mlm romance
⚔️proto-vikings
💪awesomely loud girls
🐴Kelpies-ish
🐪Deserts

I can't wait to share more with you!!

Kelpies Prize for Writing 2022: Fran Moldaschl's winning entry, read by Janis Mackay

YouTube video by FlorisBooks

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 16h

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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jamiejackson @jacksonjamie.bsky.social · 19h

ACE WRITER ACE PUBLISHER

Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 1d

🚨2 DAYS TO GO🚨

To Fetch a Pail of Water by the amazing John Storey is out this Thursday. A literary noir romance novel dripping with poetry and atmosphere, fans of his previous novel, A Drowning Man, will not be disappointed!

Order here:
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Corey Brotherson - ready for my close up--NOOO TOO CLOSE! @coreybrotherson.bsky.social · 20h

Hey kids!

Remember when the pandemic struck and eventually the (Tory) government told everyone to stay at home, and the arts and entertainment industries were one of the few things keeping everyone from pulling our own eyes out of our skulls from abject fear and boredom?

Remember that?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 21h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through @franmoldaschl.bsky.social · 1d

Just managed to sneak this in before Eldest took it back to the library - what an absolute stonker of a graphic novel. The music references are *gold* as are the feelings of being a teenage outcast. 100/10, no notes.

The front cover of 'Everything Amplified' by Sarah Lippett and Ziggy Hanaor. It shows a large guitar amp with with two young people sat on top.

Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through @franmoldaschl.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic books. Seems bonkers not to have a look.

Sally Doherty @sallywrites.bsky.social · 4d

Does anyone want a FREE signed copy of one of my books (you only pay £2.70 postage) ?

Seems bonkers but it’s totally legit!

Sign up at the link in next post & you get £10 free credit to buy it

Not sure how long offer will last.It’s while Whatnot are building their platform

#kidlituk #booksky

Images of the three books in the Toby Bean trilogy

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Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through @franmoldaschl.bsky.social · 1d

While I'm sure this is true, I'm also sure that the world we live in has a lot to do with it.

Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through @franmoldaschl.bsky.social · 1d

YAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!

Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through @franmoldaschl.bsky.social · 1d

I'm about a third of the way through Green Laughing and am absolutely loving it so far. It's really unexpected, and the flashbacks are integrated into the prose in such a fluid way 😍

The Darkest Tide is up next and I'm super excited about that too!

Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 1d

We do have a couple of revjew copies going spare if you're interested. One epic fantasy and one sort of character driven, cosy-scifi 👀

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Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 1d

🚨NEW EVENT🚨

This Saturday, we will be celebrating Bookshop Day at Dark Peak Books in Glossop with some of our fantastic writers! Please do come down and say hello if you're in the area, and be sure to support your favourite bookshops!

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Ted Northodox @tednorthodox.bsky.social · 2d

We haven't mentioned The Witch Boy for a while. Well, it is spooky season... AND LOOK AT THIS COVER!!! 😍

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Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through @franmoldaschl.bsky.social · 2d

Right. Enough time online now. I have too many books to read and more inbound (I didn't buy them, I swear! It's just library books!)

Enjoy your evening, friends. 🥰

Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through @franmoldaschl.bsky.social · 2d

*Squealing*

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Amitha Jagannath Knight @amitha.bsky.social · 2d

I encourage you to read banned books and read them with your kids. (Age appropriate ones--yes they have even banned picture books.) Talk about book banning with your kids. Ask them what they think about someone else's parents telling their teachers what your kids are mature enough to read.

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Android Press @press-android.bsky.social · 3d

We open for novel and novella query submissions on November 1.

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it's frank-en-SCHTEEN 🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 It's launched! you have until midnight on Hallowe'en / Noson Calan Gaeaf / Samhain to pledge! very grateful for any sharing x🎃

Check out Queer Crow Death Magic Tarot by Frank Duffy on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/fra... #tarot #tarotsky

Queer Crow Death Magic Tarot

A 78-card potent jewel-coloured tarot deck created with linoprinting. Artwork is complete & project is ready to print.

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Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through @franmoldaschl.bsky.social · 2d

That is always super disappointing. Though also probably for the best, because according to other people, I already have too many trebuchets.🙄

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Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through @franmoldaschl.bsky.social · 2d

Pro tip: NEVER use a joke character name.
I used Phil McCrackin "temporarily" & it stuck, so I had the other characters make jokes about it etc.
Now I'm writing a synopsis & I don't have enough words for "yes this is intentional, no it's not a comedy book, yes, I do intend to keep it as it is." 😐🫠

Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through @franmoldaschl.bsky.social · 15d

Sometimes, you find something you once wrote and you REALLY like it.

A screenshot from a text document which says:

Like the strange central building had become the False Library, our end destination in the night had earned the moniker Eli’s Necropolis. On those evenings, around the table, I liked to imagine – as Pet did – that we were the explorers of old. I liked to imagine that if we could somehow prove that it was possible to live on Hel, those who came after us would cite our badly drawn charts and speak our makeshift etymologies.

Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through @franmoldaschl.bsky.social · 2d

You get medieval Playmobil and no one thought to inform me?!?!?

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History | PLAYMOBIL

PLAYMOBIL Welcome to PLAYMOBIL®! Discover all products, add-ons and exciting theme pages.

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Books for Keeps, the online children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations again to Sarah Hagger-Holt and to all the shortlisted rebel authors! Great evening celebrating with @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social Their book packs include excellent reading guides www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page...

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Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through @franmoldaschl.bsky.social · 2d

A very basic comic strip with "two" Romans (the same image but flipped sort of basic) where the left Roman says 'Look what I made! It's a...' in reference to one of the mystery dodecahedron's often found on Roman sites. The right Roman says 'Say no more, it's obvious! We don't even have to write it down'.

Beneath is a picture of a shocked looking cat, under the title 'Archaeologists today'. The cat is saying 'What did they use it for??'

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Barrington Stoke @barringtonstoke.bsky.social · 2d

To celebrate #WorldSpaceWeek, we're delighted to announce #NOVA, the new space adventure from #ChrisBradford!
When Max’s life-craft is pulled into a wormhole, he needs a whole galaxy of luck to return to safety …
Watch Chris introduce Nova here: bit.ly/4o1cMNa.
Out 02/26

Chris Bradford introduces Nova

Broadcasting live from the spaceship Helios, bestselling author Chris Bradford has a special announcement! Watch on to hear all about his thrilling new book, NOVA; before disaster strikes ...

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Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through @franmoldaschl.bsky.social · 2d

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Bought this on a whim in the @northodoxpress.bsky.social sale & absolutely loved it. The depiction of grief & two slightly broken people coming together was amazing.
Not my usual genre - so glad I picked it up. Reminded me of Lost For Words by Stephanie Butland.

Review by franmoldaschl - Claire Morris is Completely Lost

I really loved this book, particularly the intergenerational friendship of Claire and Hazel. I...

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Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through @franmoldaschl.bsky.social · 3d

These look great, but are definitely something I wouldn't have considered before reading 'Pride and Prejudices: Queer Lives and the Law' by Keio Yoshida.

If you've not read it yet, definitely give it (and these books!!) a go!

Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · Nov 26

For you queer law nerds, I highly recommend this duo of gems (edited by @claerwen.bsky.social and @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social). These books explore how “queer” transforms arenas of international law alongside how international law recognises and/or rejects disruptive lives, bodies, and intimacies. 🌈🎓

Two colourful books on a brown table. The books are:

Queer Encounters with International Law

Queer Engagements with International Law

Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through @franmoldaschl.bsky.social · 3d

(I'm using 'Anglo-English' to describe the whole of the UK mainland, which isn't really correct - I speak Scots Standard English, for example, but I also know the word. I chose 'Anglo-English' because pretty much all UK English speakers understand that version and I'm limited on characters.)