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Tak@reading.taks.garden

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I like to read

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The Beautiful Decay (EBook, 2023, Witch Key Fiction) 5 stars

Something strange is happening in sleepy subterranean Tombtown. Necromancers are disappearing. The crypt is changing. …

Hi lovely folk,

I am surprised and delighted to say that my novel The Beautiful Decay is up for various awards at the Queer Indie Awards!

If you enjoyed it, it would mean a lot if you'd vote for it. 💙

Discoverability is incredibly difficult as a self-published author and awards can be a big help.

Voting closes 26th Jan!

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Bookshops & Bonedust (EBook, 2023, Tor Books) No rating

Viv's career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam's Ravens isn't going as planned.

Wounded during …

For some reason, the concept of an author being a real person you might bump into on your way down the street seemed impossible to imagine.

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I'm sure lots of people had it with twitter, but I first experienced this feeling when authors whose books I'd read started interacting with me on the fediverse

Wondrous Journeys In Strange Lands (Paperback, 2020, Interlink) 3 stars

Award-winning historical fantasy and literary folktale. Winner of the presigious Etisalat award.

In a tent …

Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands

3 stars

I enjoyed the setting, and some of the substories were compelling, but as a whole it was too rambling and incohesive for me.

I feel like it would have worked better as a series of stories about different people from the same village or whatever instead of repeatedly being like "despite being in the middle of this incredibly urgent life crisis, the main character decides to spend six months teaching an older woman to fold laundry" or "despite having a very bad outcome two chapters ago, the main character decides to engage in exactly the same dangerous behavior with no additional precautions"

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