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Check out Cindy Lynn Speer

Fantasy

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I've been a writer since I was 13, when I decided that I wanted to write fantasy novels set in medieval worlds. I used to spend hours outlining books on heraldry, herbs, needle arts and knighthood...one that continues to stick in my head was called "Life on a Medieval Barony." I've written several stories since, but I never really used the information in a novel.

https://www.limfic.com/mbm-book-author/cindy-lynn-speer/

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#Autistic people, c'est moi, are infamous for startling when interrupted while concentrating. I'm trying this gentle little tinkle bell to see if the spouse can use it to get my attention. An experiment in the cute and hopeful.

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#WordWeavers 2504.08 — MC POV: What are the 3 most important things you always take with you when traveling (besides money, ID and keys if applicable)?

I don't care much for things. Oh, I'll use them, and properly value them, earn them when needs be, but only knowledge and people have real value. I wasn't born into wealth, but upon my parent's death, when I was five, the powerful decided I was somehow special. Wealth, training, and responsibility followed. I don't know exactly when I stopped being a kid who nerded out on magic† with her childhood friend, when I morphed into someone else's sharp tool. When I grew old enough to pass as an adult, with great precision, calculation, and planning, I ran away never to be found. My elite life wasn't what I wanted, what I needed.

Since then nothing, no thing, describes what I want or desire, other than simply my freedom to study and learn. When you don't have a place to return to, or a place to live, they call you homeless. I gave my former life up, and when I find a new situation that sours, I can give everything up again. Snap, like that. Being home-free is a freedom from being made to do what I dislike, or what's wrong. I've traveled across the continent on foot. I've lived in homeless encampments. The three things I take with me are a tarp, a bedroll, and my book of magic.

Those are things, of course. I take my skills, my common sense, and a sharp tongue, also. They keep me safe.

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† Magic is a simplification of a physically quantifiable repeatable phenomenon.

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Today In Labor History April 8, 1935: Oscar Zeta Acosta was born on this day. Acosta was a Chicano lawyer, writer and activist in the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He wrote Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972) and Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973). He was good friends with Hunter S. Thompson, who called him “My Samoan Attorney,” in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Acosta disappeared in Mexico in 1974. He is assumed dead.

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Today In Labor History April 8, 1943: The Nazis executed Otto and Elise Hampel for making anti-Nazi postcards and leaving them in public places. Hans Fallada wrote about them in his 1947 novel, Every Man Dies Alone (Alone in Berlin in the UK). The story was filmed in 2016 as Alone in Berlin.

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I recently finished writing a feminist SF web-novel that I published on Mastodon. Mars Needed Women is a woman-centric adventure story of overcoming adversity while being female, with all the warts and frustrations, not as a man in disguise. It starts with ugliness of today's world having become the dystopian norm a hundred years from now. It takes thinly veiled jabs at a prominent bad actor. Our heroine, May Ri escapes becoming little more than a housewife to help colonize Mars, if you can call being shanghaied escaping, and being required to have children. (She does get to choose the gorgeous supportive guy, though, so that's a positive.) She's there with her children as power slowly shifts from being male-dominated. As the mothers and daughters increasingly control Mars' future (how is spoilers), May Ri with the support of her daughters gets to help create a world (Mars) the way unfettered women would image it. The men of Earth will take affront, of course. They will learn that women don't fight like men, especially when their children's lives are threatened, and their wellbeing is at stake. #RSMarsNeededWomen

I will keep the web-novel available free-to-read at this link at least until April 10th: https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/114088945266387178. I am currently revising and expanding it, and plan to republish as a book later.

Here is posted a revised book jacket.

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Check out R.D. Noland

Fantasy

R.D. Noland was born in the suburbs of Dayton, Ohio. During his last two years of high school, he attended M.C.J.S. studying art, photography, and printing. He took some classes at the Sinclair Community College to continue his education. He was raised by his mother, grandmother and aunt, all of whom shaped the way he viewed the world. Mr. Noland moved to Florida in1989 with his ...

https://www.limfic.com/mbm-book-author/r-d-noland/

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The brilliant Amber Tamblyn – actress, director, author, poet, Substacker, and activist – takes a break from doing, like, *everything* to discuss how she's surviving life as an artist in the 21st century. This artist-on-artist conversation moved and inspired me in so many different ways.

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https://colehaddon.substack.com/p/podcast-q-and-a-amber-tamblyn-is

Famed Photographer, Educator, and Author Bryan F Peterson Has Died https://petapixel.com/2025/04/07/famed-photographer-educator-and-author-bryan-f-peterson-has-died/ #bryanfpeterson #bryanpeterson #education #obituary #author #News

"Whenever the #author and #playwright Samantha Ellis tries to define her heritage to people, she often finds them correcting her. “So many times I’ve said I’m an #Iraqi #Jew and been… told ‘you mean you’re mixed’ or ‘which parent is which?’ or just ‘how weird’,” she writes in her richly detailed #memoir, in which she explores the complex, centuries-old history of the Iraqi-#Jewish community and its vanishing language, #Judeo-Iraqi #Arabic.

The daughter of Iraqi-Jewish #refugees who came separately to #London with their families during periods of persecution for the community in #Baghdad, Ellis is moved to seek out #stories, expressions and objects that will fill some of the gaps in that #history when she realises that she lacks the vocabulary to pass on the language of her childhood to her own young son."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/06/chopping-onions-on-my-heart-by-samantha-ellis-review-an-iraqi-jews-celebration-of-an-endangered-culture

Today In Labor History April 7, 1804: Haitian general, Toussaint Louverture died on this day. He was one of the most prominent members of the Haitian revolution for independence from France. The slave revolt against the French began in 1791 with the call by Dutty Boukman, a vodou priest. Encouraged by the French and American revolutions. Louverture led 100,000 enslaved Haitians in revolt, winning their freedom in 1793. In 1804, Haiti became first free black republic in the world. The U.S. refused to recognize Haiti for the next 70 and France extracted millions in restitution, destroying any hope of ever moving out of deep poverty. Louverture was betrayed in the end and died in prison. For a fantastic history of the Haitian Revolution, read “The Black Jacobins,” by C.L.R.James.

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#PennedPossibilities 637 — Does your MC have a past that haunts them?

May Ri watched from Mars orbit as Herschel Crater got nuked, having failed to knock out all the missiles with her railgun. Her eldest daughter worked in the capital domed city situated in that crater. Had. She has nightmares of the flash and a mushroom cloud rising. Sort of like in the attached vid.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/38985/sarychev-peak-eruption-kuril-islands

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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries creator dies aged 70
By Nicola Heath

Australian author Kerry Greenwood, who died following an illness, was best known for the Phryne Fisher detective series.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-07/kerry-greenwood-author-phryne-fisher-series-dies/105145524

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries creator dies aged 70
By Nicola Heath

Australian author Kerry Greenwood, who died following an illness, was best known for the Phryne Fisher detective series.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-07/kerry-greenwood-author-phryne-fisher-series-dies/105145524

Check out Aron Caer

Fantasy, Horror, Paranormal

Greetings and Salutations.

I am an author of what I would refer to as eccentric erotica and dark romance. I enjoy writing alternative forms of romance and sensuality. From making love to your own shadow, to a love triangle between a she-wolf, the spirit of her mate, and the woman who wishes to be her surrogate womb. I also dabble in erotic horror and fantasy, all ...

https://www.limfic.com/mbm-book-author/aron-caer/

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Today in Labor History April 6, 1919: The Bavarian Soviet Republic was declared. Novelist, B. Traven (Death Ship, Treasure of the Sierra Madre), served on its Central Council of Workers, Soldiers and Farmers. The socialist republic was quashed a month later by the Freikorps, which included Rudolf Hess and other future members of the Nazi party.

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Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight.

Today: For author and textile artist A. Catherine Noon, it’s all about the yarn, both metaphorical and literal – spinning a yarn, knitting with yarn, weaving, sewing, painting, sharing stories and good times over a cup of coffee with dark chocolate. She teaches creative writing, creative expression and textile arts.

https://www.jscottcoatsworth.com/author-spotlight-a-catherine-noon-2/