For my international bookish folks who are tearing their hair out at outrageous shipping costs, I wanted to share the Best international book buying deal I've found since the book depository went down
Check out Blackwells books this International Book Day and may you find the book you're looking for!
My book SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW is at a 30% discount as compared to US retailers AND ITS the same flat price for shipping to the US, Philippines (and I recently learned Germany) check their website to see if your country is included and let me know!
getting pretty sick of fantasy novels introducing character flaws that are just, “they’re fat. they like to eat sweets, isn’t that awful and stupid of them?” talk about lazy writing
I love the romantic quotes from The Priory of the Orange Tree but when Niclays said, “I loathe you. I loathe every lash of your eyes, every finger on your hands, and every tooth in your mouth. I loathe you to the very marrow of your bones...You cannot fathom the depth of the enmity I have felt for you. I have cursed your name with every sunrise”...that went pretty fucking hard
BookTok getting people into reading is good; BookTok is not single-handedly responsible for why people struggle with literacy in the internet age.
BookTok *sometimes* gives indie, self-pub, and lesser-known authors a needed boost.
BookTok turning books into an easy, breezy commodity and frequently promoting a limited number of books based on aesthetics and surface-level premises alone is concerning.
A lot of people are coming away from BookTok recs disappointed by the shallowness of some of the stories they are being rec’d.
A lot of critiques of BookTok are just as shallow (“tropes are bad! mentioning rep is queerbaiting! if I don’t like it then I compare it to fanfiction! give me a full-length summary in every mention of the book or I will assume there is no plot!”)
People often use critique of BookTok shallowness as an excuse to harass small authors (who sometimes aren’t even on BookTok?) for trying to promote or discuss their books at all.
People can and should seek out alternate book rec venues to BookTok, especially if BookTok disappoints them.
Hi Tumblr I'm an Asian fantasy author fleeing the sudden death of all my other social media sites 👋 I've used Tumblr for years as a fandom lurker and rarely posted but in light of all my other communities imploding I guess I'll have to figure out how to be actually active on Tumblr and find bookish and writerly folks here 💜 say hi if that's you 🥺
If you love diverse filipino fantasy with bipoc leads, angry bi women clawing for space in a world that's always rejected them and soft boys who'd do anything for them, awesome elemental magic based on early Filipino shaman/ babaylan/katalonan mythologies and the Tagalog creation story, and the Bakunawa/Laho the 🇵🇭 sea dragon 🐉 and drowning colonizers then I hope you'll keep an eye out for SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW coming in June 2024 from Titan Books