In 90 MINUTES I'll be talking w/ @celialake.bsky.social@house-of-five.bsky.social@patrickburke.bsky.social@thesuiway.bsky.socialflights-of-foundry.org/program-3/
I'm looking forward to Flights of Foundry this weekend! They do their best to host an accessible, varied, online convention about SFFH with great items around the clock. (Donation based, free to suggested $45). flights-of-foundry.org Here's what I'm on. Hour 1 = 1pm EDT today, the 27th.
Enchanted Net is out! It's 1889. Thessaly is betrothed to the golden son of one of the great families. Everything should be wonderful. Vitus wants to make his name as a talisman maker. Together, they discover that not everything is as it seems. (HEA in book 3.) celialake.com/book/enchant...
The program for Flights of Foundry is out! I'm on four program items (and moderating a fifth!) It's September 27th to 29th. flights-of-foundry.org Online, requested donation (but name your price), well-run, and they do their utmost to make things accessible. (Including round-the-clock program).
Today in conversations with @kiyanicoll.bsky.social : Kiya: Had you noticed that [character's] entire vibe is 100% "fey-adjacent sovereignty queen"? Me: Yes, in fact I had. (We are now in discussion about the implications for a conversation.)
I started a Substack, so that I can eventually convert some of my comments on translation from twitter to a different platform. I wrote an initial post about the 4 translations of the beginning of the Odyssey that have been circulated recently. open.substack.com/pub/emily613...
This selection of four translations of the first ten lines of the Odyssey (the "proem", as it's known among Homerists) has done the rounds online.
1. I chose traditional publishing because I didn't have thousands of dollars to gamble on self publishing. are you kidding? I'm also disabled along multiple axes. I'm so anti AI I went on national TV for the chance to say that it sucks. This take from Nanowrimo is bad fiction. 🧵
I have just finished entirely cleaning up my passwords in 1Password (using @rahaeli.bsky.social's approach of just drilling through it in chunks). I have also cleaned out a webmail account and tidied it so the inbox no longer takes forever to load. Apparently that kind of week?
With new @celialake.bsky.social books JUST AROUND THE CORNER I'm again reminded of just how much thought she puts into adding magic to a historical society without actually exploding the history itself.
Today in authorial research: Apple varieties in Sussex in the 1940s and their approximate locations (ideally near the actual plot). For which I cannot actually use the research I did for apples on the north-east edge of Dartmoor in 1927. I have only myself to blame here.