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Lee Constable :breadified:

See you soon, Margaret River!!

Kids (young and old), join me on Saturday May 3 for a FREE event at Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival!

12pm in the Storytelling Snug (sounds wholesome!)

Register here:
mrrwfestival.com/tickets/54-ho

Lee Constable
Margaret River Readers And Writers Festival48. How to Save the Whole Blinkin' Planet  with Lee Constable - Margaret River Readers & Writers FestivalSaturday 3 May 2025 12.00pm - 1.00pm Storytelling Snug Join author and host of TV show Scope, Lee Constable, for an electrifying mission exploring the future of energy, inspired by her latest book, How to Save the Whole Blinkin' Planet: A Renewable Energy Adventure! Discover more about everyday energy, our fossil-fuel climate culprits—coal, oil and gas—and the exciting world of renewables. Power up your brains as an imagineer and eco-superhero, level up your energy know-how through quick quizzes and learn shocking facts about the science behind power. You can be a bright spark just like our superhero, Captain Kilowatt. It’s going to be a tonne of blinkin’ fun! Hosted by Lee Constable Suitable for children and family members of all ages. Free, registration required
#author#childrensbooks#climatechange
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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

A3. How about critique groups? Are you a member of a critique group? #Writephant

I have a crippling type of shyness. Until I get to know people (which I can do when the spouse or a friend mediates for me, it changes of course), I don't interact well. I also have a difficulty with criticism, even when it is kind… I kind of lock up. It may take me weeks to read it. Probably has to do with overstimulation as I am #actuallyautistic.

That said, I knew some things are important for one's career. I took the Clarion Writer's Workshop. Baptism by Fire, right? For six weeks, I was a member of a very dedicated critique group, and we learned how to do it right, to be constructive, how to address the work without putting down the writer, etc. We were professionals and we became friends. Best six weeks of my writing life.

Afterwards, I ran a few critique workshops at SF conventions. (Believe it or not, I was a tech support lead for a while. It's wondrous what you can do if you have permission to be forward and chatty. It's masking, however.)

As for casual groups… You know, shy. Can't figure out how to find one and interface with one.

There's also the gender issue. I don't reveal it, so how do I interact physically. At Clarion, I was called Ambiguous Spice.

#BoostingIsSharing

#writer#author#writingCommunity
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Mix Mistress Alice💄

"In early 1964, Jean Ziegler, a young Swiss politician, received a phone call from a man claiming to represent Ernesto Che Guevara, the Cuban revolutionary and minister of industry. Che would be in Geneva in March for a UN conference on trade policy, and some comrades had suggested Jean might be his chauffeur during his stay. Was Ziegler available for the gig?

Today, in his tenth decade of life, Ziegler is Switzerland's most notorious public intellectual. That's because over the course of writing about 30 books, serving for close to three decades in the Swiss parliament, and relentlessly crusading for left-wing causes in his free time, Ziegler has made a career of unsparing criticism of his home country, and its outsize influence on the rest of the world.”—Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

‘Here lives the Monster’s Brain’: the Man who Exposed Switzerland’s Dirty Secrets >

theguardian.com/news/2025/feb/

The Guardian · ‘Here lives the monster’s brain’: the man who exposed Switzerland’s dirty secretsAv Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
#JeanZiegler#history#intellectual
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Author Steaphan Kay

Here is another installment of my regular author temperature gauge survey on the use of AI for the author business.

If there were 5 choices, the first would be "Use for nothing at all". If that is your answer, please reply to the survey with that.

@indieauthors #Author #Authors #Writing #Writers #WritersOfMastodon #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

I currently use or am willing to use AI for:

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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History April 14, 1935: The Black Sunday dust storm swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. This was one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl. 4 years later, on this same date, John Steinbeck published his classic working-class novel, The Grapes of Wrath, about Dust Bowl refugees in California.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #dustbowl #GreatDepression #JohnSteinbeck #GrapesOfWrath #refugees #poverty #fiction #books #author #writer #Oklahoma #texas @bookstadon

The "Black Sunday" dust storm approaches Spearman in northern Texas, April 14, 1935. Looks like a 100-foot tsunami of dust rolling through town. By Monthly Weather Review, Volume 63, April 1935, p. 148. - https://photolib.noaa.gov/Collections/National-Weather-Service/Meteorological-Monsters/Dust/emodule/647/eitem/3025(original upload: http://gimp-savvy.com/cgi-bin/img.cgi?noabU7tT7yk5VKc5780, a no longer working link)., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8017282
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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

#Kabuki masks. I think this is a Kitsune, but I'm not sure. Can anyone identify it? Extra points if you can't also identify the anime.

One of the interesting things about watching media from other countries that have a different culture than your own, is sometimes you miss very important cultural references. If this is a fox not a lion or a dog, it has meaning for the anime.

#BoostingIsSharing

The character from an anime is holding a kabuki mask over her face. The mask has animal ears that could be a fox, a lion, a dog, or a cat. The eyes are slanted, which leads me to think it is a fox. There are red whisker like lines on the cheeks And a three stroke design on the forehead which seems to correspond to Kitsuné foxes, But I haven't seen this exact design in images.
#Anime#Japanese#Author
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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

#ScribesAndMakers 2504.12 — Shameless self-promotion day. Show us what you're proud of. Let's boost away.

Mars Need Women is a hopeful yet deeply dystopian feminist SF web-novel that leans heavily into Women's right's issues thanks to a set of writing prompts on the subject. It is a woman-centric adventure story of overcoming adversity while being female, with all the warts and frustrations, not as a man in disguise.

Our wannabe engineer heroine May Ri escapes a disheartening life, faced with becoming little more than a housewife because she lacks "blessings," to help colonize Mars—if you can call being shanghaied escaping and being contracted to have children a benefit. (She does get to choose the gorgeous supportive guy, though, so that's a positive.) As she learns to make martian machines, she keeps putting herself at the center of a global martian dust storm with her children as power shifts from being male-dominated. As the daughters of the Martian immigrants increasingly control Mars' future (how is spoilers), May Ri together with her five daughters shape a world (Mars) the way unfettered women might imagine it.

When the men of Earth take affront—of course they do—they learn that women don't fight like men, especially when their children's lives are threatened, and their wellbeing is at stake. #RSMarsNeededWomen

It remains free-to-read on Mastodon for a few more days:

eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/11408894.

If you start reading it now, a comment or a private mention will tell me not to delete the posts until the end of next week. I consider it a beta read. I'm already revising an augmenting the original story, tying up loose ends, and might add more chapters along the path to publishing it as a book. Meanwhile, I'm going to start boosting chapters for a last hurrah.

See #alttext for book cover description.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing and #CommentingIsCool

#gender #fiction #writer #author #photographer #chef #cooking
#sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory

The cover art for Mars Needed Women. The background is of the Mars surface with rover tracks, big rocks, sand, and a greenish sky. There is a triskelion image of Mars, which is a tattoo in the story. Credit NASA and ESA for the photos.
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CBC Canada

Author, gynecologist Jen Gunter says she's moving back to Canada as reproductive rights erode in U.S.
Jen Gunter, a Winnipeg-born gynecologist and bestselling author, says she's had enough with the United States, but she’s also prescribing a stark warning for Canadian voters concerned about the future of their own reproductive health care.
#politics #reproductiverights #healthcare #author #Canada #UnitedStates
cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/je

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