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wendypalmer

@wendypalmer@mastodon.au

I write fantasy ebooks & family-friendly puzzle walk trails while enjoying farm life with goats, alpacas & bees in the South West Boojarah region of Western Australia.

I follow & boost writing, reading, books, knitting, science, history, linguistics, environment, art & Stoicism.

She/her. Avatar AltText: silhouette of a woman in profile, with glasses & bobbed hair; header is my book covers (alt texts on website).

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wendypalmer, to random
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May 16: What's your target audience? Why?

Ok, hmmm…

People who like cosy fantasy with Happy Ever Afters, but want Plot as well as Just Vibes, who enjoy or at least don’t mind open-door sex scenes, who are open-minded about queer characters, and who are a bit over massively long and overdramatic series about teenagers and their love triangles and just want a quick and fun stand-alone read.

So, you know, me and six people 😃

A gif from Futurama, Leila saying “so what does this mean for us and our many fans” — there are many fans (you know, the blowy sort) in the background.

wendypalmer, to random
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My timeline at the moment 😂

wendypalmer,
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Though to be fair, Murderbot bot could have been talking to the Pliny clickbait bot instead (or as well)

wendypalmer, to books
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For fans of AJ Demas, she has a new book on preorder! It has felt so long since the last one, I was beginning to get worried about her 😊

https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/the-house-of-the-red-balconies

#romance #gayRomance #NewBooks #books @bookstodon

KathyReid, to random
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In the most glorious "fuck you" I have seen in a while, you know the book that Cumberland City Council banned because they're homophobic bigots - Holly Duhig's "A focus on Same Sex Parents"? Well, the publisher, BookLife Publishing, have made a PDF version of the book available for free.

Sure be a shame if it was shared far and wide now, wouldn't it?

Every time you ban a book filled with hope and kindness, and care and love, we will resist.

https://www.booklifepublishing.co.uk/a-focus-on/same-sex-parents/

#CumberlandCityCouncil #SameSexParents #BookBans #Bookstodon

wendypalmer,
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@KathyReid how apt are these screengrabs from the book (pdf provided free from the publisher, everyone, share it wide)

#BookBans #Cumberland #ThisIsNotOK

The heading says “Building a Community”. The body says “It takes many different types of families to make a community. Treating everybody equally is the best way of building a community.”

Firlefanz, (edited ) to random
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EDIT: It's closed. Almost 600 entries. 300 will be randomly picked.

Today is SPFBO day.

Doesn't mean a thing to you?

It's the biggest indie fantasy award, and you can submit your book today. Only today. It's open for 24h, starting at 1pm GMT.

And yes, maybe it is foolish to up the competition and invite even more authors, but I believe in sharing. I believe we're all in it together.

So check it out here:
https://mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-official-self-published-fantasy.html


wendypalmer,
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@Firlefanz full already 😊 did you get in?

wendypalmer,
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@Firlefanz oh sorry, I was seeing last year’s (where it filled in 41 minutes)

(“1pm today” was a different time for me than you 😊)

wendypalmer,
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@Firlefanz yes I saw that (thank you, a lot of people don’t) but I’m terrible at translating times so it was quicker for me to just click on the link to read about it (I’m not entering, just curious), and on my little phone, the only paragraph visible was “filled in 41 minutes” 😂

wendypalmer,
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@Firlefanz it’s good they adjusted their system — good luck with it!

wendypalmer,
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@crcollins @Firlefanz I read that too (once I went back and actually scrolled down 🤦‍♀️). I assumed it was wording from previous years. Surely this year where only a random selection of the entrants will go into the actual contest, they’d allow resubmission if yours missed out — but hopefully they update the wording to make it clear one way or the other.

(Though I see the page has been updated and you both made it past that first hurdle — congratulations and best wishes for the next stages 😃)

golgaloth, to writing
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Have you ever felt the need to tone down your story for publication?

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #writing

wendypalmer,
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@golgaloth I have, because it was a YA story and got a little too dark (this was before the advent of the current crop of spicy YA).

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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Have reached the stage of going sentence-by-sentence, changing many three times before deciding to leave them as they originally stood and muttering curses at Past Me for the sheer number of notes in brackets I left for the revision pass.

In other words, progress, but argh.

wendypalmer,
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@lilithsaintcrow I have been known to exclaim out loud “what the fuck, Past Me” at some of the things she’s left me to do on revision.

wendypalmer, to fantasy
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May the Fourth is also my latest book's birthday 🎉

Domesticated Magic is a romantic fantasy towards the cosy end of the spectrum, with The Feels, and a grumpy-sunshine-type m/m pairing.

Mateo and his family fled when their people turned to sorcery. Mateo’s own magic is tame but it’s still banned in their new home...yet they use it every day. But the sorcery seems to have followed them. They already lost their world once. Mateo can’t let them lose again.

Read more plus find buy links here (also on and Everand):
https://wendypalmer.au/books/#domestic

@lgbtqbookstodon

Animated version of the cover of Domesticated Magic. The cover, blue border (half Greek-style tiles, half Viking-style runes), title and author name are split in two by a black lightning bolt. On one side is the outline of a bull's face made of curly floral-like lines. It glides in from the left, wearing a rather insouciant expression as it stares at the viewer. A green butterfly perches on one horn, gently pulses. It stands out against the cream background, black lines, and blue border and text. On the other side of the cataclysmic split is the helm of awe, a snake-like dragon biting its own tail to form a circle around magic runes. The dragon rolls in from the right to stare at the bull, and does not look impressed.

willaful, to bookstodon
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#WhatchaReading ? I haven't been posting about books much, been kind of in a meh mood. Still slowly reading Demon Copperhead, which is amazing but a LOT. Listened to Carrie Soto is Back, which was a bit of a hard sell because of the unlikable narrator but very enjoyable in the end. And just finished The Prisoner's Throne which I enjoyed but kind of forgot about as soon as I'd finished it.

@bookstodon
#bookstodon #AmReading

wendypalmer,
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@willaful @bookstodon I should finish City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky today…I don’t normally read very long books with ensemble casts but he won me over with the set-up and his sense of humour.

I am looking forward to finally finishing though, and this weekend will be Connie Willis’s The Road to Roswell — longtime fan, looking forward to it

anderlandbooks, to random German
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Apr 29: Author's Choice

I'm nowhere near to publishing, but I'm thinking about using this as a cover. Thoughts?


wendypalmer,
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@anderlandbooks I like it overall, I find it quite striking, but the title font is a little hard to read

golgaloth, (edited ) to books
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This ain't no render! The book is a reality, or at least the first proof from @ingramsparkbooks is a reality. You'll have to wait about a month to get your hands on your own copy. I'll post the sales link once I have the Kickstarter fulfilled.

wendypalmer,
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@golgaloth just topped you up to a nice round number 😊

Am I mistaken or is the cover blue on the Kickstarter page but red in your video?

wendypalmer, to books
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(10 authors you’ve read at least 5 books by)

Connie Willis
Natasha Pulley
KJ Charles
Martha Wells
Sarah Rees Brennan
Jane Austen
Seanan McGuire
AJ Demas
T Kingfisher
Dorothy L Sayers

@bookstodon

meshell, to bookstodon
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I finished Olivia Atwater’s The Witchwood Knot this evening and it was just very delightful to be back within her magical human faerie world again. I’m pleased there will be more books in this series.

I’ve been enjoying a lot of faerie / fae / fair folk books lately - another one was heather fawcett’s emily wilde's encyclopaedia of faeries.

I wonder if anyone has any other recommendations in that zone @bookstodon

wendypalmer,
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@meshell @bookstodon I enjoyed both those books, and also enjoyed High Times in the Low Parliament, a novella. It does dump you straight into a fairy-ruled woman-only London without explanation but it’s fun if you just roll with it.

wendypalmer,
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@meshell @bookstodon it does have the lowest rating I’ve ever seen on GoodReads so is obviously not to everyone’s tastes 😊

Have you ever come across Catherynne Valente’s Fairyland series, starting with The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making?

Or Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series? Or maybe Alix E Harrow. Or Zen Cho’s Sorcerer to the Crown…

They’re all sort of adjacent to the books you mentioned — I’m sure I’ve read others that fit them closer but I just can’t think of any right now! (There’s one right on the tip of my tongue, it’s driving me nuts 😊)

wendypalmer,
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@meshell @bookstodon 🤦‍♀️ Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell of course, but you’ve probably read that one

wendypalmer, to writing
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Having a problem with my Calibre-created ebook where its chapters are listed properly in the table of contents, and the pages are counted correctly, in every device including the Kobo app on my iPad…except on my Kobo Clara ereader, where it says 1 of 22 for 3 pages in a row, then 2 of 22 for three pages etc (basically the pages aren’t reflowing with the change of screen and font size).

And I found a reddit thread where someone has the same/similar problem, and asks for a solution, and the only answer is someone informing them that pages are an obsolete concept in Ebooks, and it’s like…have you ever used any ereading device, which will tell you how many pages you have left in a chapter and recalculate that for you if you happen to change screen/font size?

And I’m so annoyed on the question-asker’s behalf. Sorry they didn’t type “pages” in quote marks to prove they know they’re not real in ebooks, or type “number of taps until I reach the end of the chapter” or whatever phrase they needed to use to not trigger a completely irrelevant lecture.

(Maybe it was that technique where you ask a question and log on as a different user to answer it very wrongly to enrage people into giving the correct answer 😂)

#ebooks #calibre #writing

wendypalmer, to fanfiction
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I just read a romance and I kept thinking it felt a little like fan fiction (no shade, I enjoy) but I couldn’t pick the fandom — until I checked GoodReads and ohhhh, it’s Roy Kent.

He’s here! He's there! He's every-f*cking-where!

(I even thought one of the side characters (not a coach) was a bit like Ted Lasso and still didn’t pick the grumpy hairy ex-footballer lead as Roy Kent!)

#romance #FanFic @romancelandia

fraying, to random
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One of my least favorite reply guys on social media is the “you’re just noticing this NOW?!” guy.

Yeah, man! We notice things when we notice them. If you agree, welcome me to the fucking club.

Are you the punch-clock of timely awareness or a builder of solidarity? You want a prize for noticing it first, or do you want to actually change it?

Pointing out that someone is late to the party is not what good hosts do, and just makes people less likely to try and help in the future.

wendypalmer,
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@fraying @jwz oh god the Meh guy 🤦‍♀️

wendypalmer, to random
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oh look, I won myself

wendypalmer, to random
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Latest book all uploaded to the various ebook vendors, just in time to beat the preorder deadline 🎉

And that's it for being in that world... Bye-bye, boys! Bye Mateo, you grouchy sweetheart. Bye Jonas, you presumptuous charmer. But I'll miss Anika and her cosy teahouse most of all 🍵

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