tbh my crowning achievement to date 🚀✨
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Hi! If you’re new around here, I’m Max, and I write books! They go heavy on skeletons, wizards, monsters, dead gods, capitalism-as-necromantic-force, trying to do what we can to take care of folks in a horrifying world, queerness, violence, love…
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Just one day away from all manner of linguistic nerdery with the brilliant minds on this #NEBULAS2023 panel!
Orthographies, trimodal languages, code switching, nonhuman communication systems, neologism in poetry... 🤓
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Happy Monday my doves! Reminder that this Friday I have the honour of speaking about conlanging at the #Nebulas2023 alongside a group of sharp-tongued, clear-minded people (including @MariscaPichette!)
If you're doing the virtual con this year, join in!
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This is my thread of assorted linguistic observations from This Is How You Lose The Time War, by the way:
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I believe the correct name for this thread is THIS IS HOW YOU TWEET THE TIME WAR
(Assorted semi-linguistic thoughts and snippets from THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR, which I LOVED)
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bigolas is officially more effective at selling books than winning a fucking pulitzer prize.
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please buy this book because
1) it is a genuinely stunning prose-poetry novella that is unlike anything you will ever read
2) if it hits #1 because a user named “bigolas dickolas wolfwood” tweeted about it that will be the funniest thing ever & you want to be part of history
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ok it's at 7 now I'm just going to keep posting these if it keeps going up pls forgive my need to document this fever dream
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y'all go be part of a Moment and buy Time War. already have Time War? buy it a second time, gift it to your most sapphic friend, everybody wins
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[faintly] I guess due to ... sales volume ... the paperback is now 50% off on the big river site? Get your copy of This Is How You Lose the Time War for $8 for as long as this lasts?! amazon.com/This-How-You-L
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#TrilliumBookAward, now in its 36th year, has a long tradition of recognizing literary excellence, and promoting the diversity of Ontario writers and their work. Here are the 2023 finalists - congratulations!
ontariocreates.ca/news-releases/
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After many years of behind-the-scenes work, Nimra and I are SO excited to bring you Mannat, an artist residency and exhibition with ! We have two weeks of workshops, artist drop-ins (with paper mache!), an artist talk, and a big splashy finale
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We’re getting a lot of fairy tale submissions.
So take a breath.
Pause.
Ask: what in my fairy tale is new?
What does it bring to the history?
How does it change and grow and interrogate and honour culture and story and myth?
We love fairy tales;
but ones crafted with care.
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Happy Monday my doves! Reminder that this Friday I have the honour of speaking about conlanging at the #Nebulas2023 alongside a group of sharp-tongued, clear-minded people (including !)
If you're doing the virtual con this year, join in!
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ICYMI, we're celebrating our 5th anniversary with a full catalogue giveaway! Go forth and enter for the chance to stock your shelves with 4 immersive fantasy novels here: rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/d ✨
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Oh hey, it's our 5th anniversary! 
To celebrate 5 incredible years of multimedia storytelling and say thanks for your support, we're giving away a FULL, signed physical set of our current catalogue, including 4 books!
Enter here (US/CA): rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/d?
To celebrate 5 incredible years of multimedia storytelling and say thanks for your support, we're giving away a FULL, signed physical set of our current catalogue, including 4 books!
Enter here (US/CA): rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/d?
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THREE more days to get your paws on discounted ebooks from the Shale catalogue 🥰
🦎SÃONI CYCLE🦎
2DM: books2read.com/twodarkmoons
3SS: books2read.com/threeseekingst
❤️🔥HERETIC'S GUIDE❤️🔥
THEORY: books2read.com/hereticsguidet
PRACTICE: books2read.com/b/hereticsguid
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The anniversary fun continues! We’re thrilled to announce a price drop for our ENTIRE eBook catalogue
Until May 5, all of our eBooks are available for $1.99 on your favourite eBook retailer! Fans of queer fantasy books with immersive worldbuilding, this one’s for you 
Until May 5, all of our eBooks are available for $1.99 on your favourite eBook retailer! Fans of queer fantasy books with immersive worldbuilding, this one’s for you 6
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Sneak peek from behind the scenes of our livestream announcement today in our new home @csiTO!
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It's Lineup Announcement Day! 🎉
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What a line up!! 
We can't wait for May 27 & 28.
Tell us, who are you most excited about seeing at @torontoWOTS?
open-book.ca/News/The-Word-
We can't wait for May 27 & 28.
Tell us, who are you most excited about seeing at @torontoWOTS?
open-book.ca/News/The-Word-
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I'm delighted to say that I'll be returning to Toronto as a featured author at at the Across the Universe stage on Sunday, May 28. Come say hello!
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Just a few days left until the festival begins. Get your passes and/or in-person event tickets today! #Fold2023
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Who's ready for #FOLD2023? Join us April 30 - May 7 (April 30 - May 3 on our virtual platform, & May 4 - 7 in-person in Brampton) for the 2023 Festival of Literary Diversity. Sign up for our newsletter and be the first to hear the latest FOLD news!
thefoldcanada.org/festival-event
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The anniversary fun continues! We’re thrilled to announce a price drop for our ENTIRE eBook catalogue 🎉
Until May 5, all of our eBooks are available for $1.99 on your favourite eBook retailer! Fans of queer fantasy books with immersive worldbuilding, this one’s for you 💖
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tomorrow, my last big launch event for THE MARIGOLD hits the City of Hamilton, my home. & I will debut our wrestling duo as The Hexes, while the acclaimed Pasha Malla will read something obscene. will have books.
See you all at the Casbah. 7PM.
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It is absolutely baffling to me that it's been FIVE years since the first volume of Heretic's Guide came out.
Enormous gratitude to everyone who has ever picked it up, liked it, spoken fondly about it - you make all the long solitary hours of writing worth it. <3
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Oh hey, it's our 5th anniversary!
To celebrate 5 incredible years of multimedia storytelling and say thanks for your support, we're giving away a FULL, signed physical set of our current catalogue, including 4 books!
Enter here (US/CA): rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/d?
To celebrate 5 incredible years of multimedia storytelling and say thanks for your support, we're giving away a FULL, signed physical set of our current catalogue, including 4 books!
Enter here (US/CA): rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/d?2
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In the spirit of financial transparency in publishing, I built a little web calculator to help trad pub authors calculate how many copies they need to sell to earn out their advance. Link below ⬇️
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Between conlanging, neologisms, and just Being A Poet About It, I think Marisca and I are going to have oodles of fun with our fellow panelists!
Why don't you join the party? 😍
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Thrilled to be panelling at the Nebulas again this year @sfwa! And, like last year, I'm sharing my panel with the incredible @SiennaTristen!!
Pop by to hear us chatting about making up words (even more than usual) & see how jet-lagged I am after flying all night 
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I SHARE A BIRTHDAY WITH THIS SCARY FUNGUS BOOK GO BUY IT PLEASE 🍄🍄🍄
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Today is the official release day of my polyphonic fungal horror novel THE MARIGOLD.
Imagine J.G. Ballard and David Cronenberg documenting a city eating itself.
If you've read it, heard of it, or just like the cover, please spread word of this book far and wide - like a spore.
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BIRTHDAY TWINS BIRTHDAY TWINS!!!
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Fact: today is my birthday
Fact: today my collection is 2 weeks old 
Fact: ordering a copy and/or leaving a review will make the birthday queer very happy indeed 
So, wish me a spooky, moss-covered birthday by smashing this link 
android-press.com/product-page/r
Fact: today my collection is 2 weeks old
Fact: ordering a copy and/or leaving a review will make the birthday queer very happy indeed
So, wish me a spooky, moss-covered birthday by smashing this link
android-press.com/product-page/r
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Hey it's your local flower fairy's birthday today! 💐🎂 I have achieved the ripe old age of 29!
Affirm my existence on this mortal plane! Tell me about something I've done that's improved your life!
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CANSPEC FRIENDS!!
For a super exciting project launching this summer, and I are compiling a list of ALL scifi-fantasy/spec writers living in Toronto, the GTA, and/or Ontario.
Here's the ask:
- List folks in replies
- RT/share
Help us build a master list!! 📜✨
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OK. No more subtweeting. This is what happened. Full story at the link.
I'm so disappointed and furious and unsurprised. But I also have receipts.
Scholastic wanted to feature my book, but ONLY if I censored the word RACISM from the author's note.
prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2023/4/11
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If you ever wondered what publishers are doing in the face of school book bans, it's not what you'd hope, and it's exactly what you'd think.
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#NationalPoetryMonth recommended reads, featuring incredible collections by , , , , , , Anna Maria Hong, , , & Elizabeth Bishop 📚
Might've snuck mine into the stack too...
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Today is the day. LET FLY THE MURDERBIRDS
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The happiest of book birthdays to Untethered Sky by @FondaJLee, an epic fantasy fable about one girl and her giant murderbird hunting manticores together!
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✨TOMORROW 6-7:30PM EST✨
Join and for a virtual language-building workshop with . We'll run a conlang crash course, offer quick tips and tricks, and just all around nerd out about linguistics 🤓
REGISTER: eventbrite.ca/e/lingua-fanta
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MY BEAUTIFUL BOOOOOOOOOY
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My first book is on the longlist for the Gerald Lampert! So very pleased, and to share this list with such incredible poets!!
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The League of Canadian Poets is thrilled to announce the 2023 Book Awards longlists for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and Raymond Souster Award.
Congratulations to all poets and publishers on the lists! mailchi.mp/poets.ca/longl
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My book and I are longlisted for both the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award 💙 among so many friends and stars! So, so grateful. Congrats, everyone!
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The League of Canadian Poets is thrilled to announce the 2023 Book Awards longlists for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and Raymond Souster Award.
Congratulations to all poets and publishers on the lists! mailchi.mp/poets.ca/longl
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Just finished the Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming duology by @SiennaTristen and I am just in awe of their writing, BEREFT that I don’t get to follow Ronoah and his many-nicknamed companion anymore
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Wow. Thank you to everyone who voted once or twice or whenever you could. And special thank you to my family and friends who took this challenge to heart, setting timers so they could vote every hour for weeks. I’m overwhelmed and grateful. First BIPOC woman but not the last. 🎉
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And the #HCCMarchMadness 2023 CHAMPION is... GUTTER CHILD! Congratulations @JaelRichardson Thank you for participating in this year’s HCC March Madness competition, readers! The winners of each of the 16-book prizes will be contacted via email so keep your eye on your inbox!
Thank you for participating in this year’s HCC March Madness competition, readers! The winners of each of the 16-book prizes will be contacted via email so keep your eye on your inbox!
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Today's a big day! First, it's the UK paperback release day for my novel The Embroidered Book. A Sunday Times bestseller, and on the Locus recommended reading list. Now in a print format you can read in bed without risk of bopping yourself in the nose!
smarturl.it/EmbroideredBoo
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welcome to that benighted time of year known as Festival High Season, where I start working regularly until 8PM 🙃
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Coming in April!
are hosting a Book Fair and you’re invited! Popping up in Hamilton - don’t miss great drinks, great company, and amazing books. 🖤📚🖤📚🖤
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It would be really lovely to see Canadians in the finals - vote for me and to be to the Final Four. If you can spare some time to vote today and this week, that would be awesome. #HCCMarchMadness
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The competitors are narrowing down as we enter round four of #HCCMarchMadness! Which book will win? And in which bracket? It’s up to you! Cast your vote and determine which book will make it to the Top 4 
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