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It's UK paperback day!

Hi all! Briefly breaking my self-imposed social media ban (it's Deadline City, over here :') ) to tell you that the paperback of Our Hideous Progeny is out!* 🥳

* If you're in the UK/Europe/commonwealth! Sorry, rest-of-the-world, you'll have to wait 'til May! 😅

Also, it's time for soooooome:

✨ Giveaways! ✨

(UK only) - My publisher is giving away copies of OHP, plus an ammonite-shaped lamp(?!!) (I want one too, now 😂) on Instagram - ends Feb 4th at midnight!

(UK only) - My lovely publicist Izzie also has 10 copies of OHP to give away - if you're a book reviewer or blogger, DM her about receiving a copy!

Open to everyone: I'll be doing a free online reading Feb 2nd at 12pm EST with six other authors as part of 'Strong Women, Strange Worlds,' a group which highlights the work of authors of marginalized genders in SFF. I'll be doing a giveaway at the end for one copy of OHP, plus a bookmark and sticker!

✨ ...and an eBook sale! ✨

If you're an eBook fan (and based in the UK - sorry again, rest-of-the-world 🥲) you can grab OHP this month on Kindle, Kobo, or Google Play for just £0.99! A steal, I say, a steal!!

That's all for now - happy February!

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#pay 👏 monsters 👏 for 👏 their 👏 labour 👏👏👏 #queue

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vampires always like “i could kill you if I wanted” like? yeah? so could another human being. so could a dog. so could a dedicated duck. you arent special

#nigh on canon conversation in my current WIP #queue

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Title: The Blue Salt Road | Author: Joanne M. Harris | Publisher: Gollancz (2019)

#These are GORGEOUS! #I've seen them in person and they're clothbound with foil - just beautiful #queue

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ok so hear me out

#queue #This is legitimately a huge part of what I studied for my degree and YES you are CORRECT!! #This is also why I'm highly amused seeing which people categorize Our Hideous Progeny as fantasy vs. scifi #because I would probably place it myself both narratively AND aesthetically in scifi! But bc most people understand scifi #as a genre that extrapolates on our CURRENT understanding of science to guess at what COULD be true #rather than (like Frankenstein & Star Trek) something that extrapolates from a past state of scientific understanding #(that we now know would never work) #most readers I've seen view OHP as fantasy instead! #Which‚ to be clear‚ I'm not mad about in the slightest‚ lol - I just find it so interesting!

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MCR + frankenstein

#Oh this is so unbelievably up my alley I cannot believe

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I finished Our Hideous Progeny today (pictured here with one of my wonky gingerbread dinosaurs, I thought it was fitting) by C. E. McGill (@c-e-mcgill) and my review is: aaaaaaa

Think a Frankenstein sequel but with dinosaurs and that's the most important thing you need to know. There's also a TRULY terrible husband (dump your loser husband and run away with his sister, Mary!! Do it!!) and loads of really juicy thoughts on the role society forces you to play when you're not one of the people on top.

I loved this, it was dark but also had such a strong sense of love and purpose and passion. Would highly recommend for fans of gothic sci-fi/fantasy, marvellous commentary on Victorian society that's still (somehow) relevant today, and sprinklings (well, more than sprinklings) of queerness.

Also: I spent the WHOLE of the end on the edge of my seat being TERRIBLY NERVOUS. I was very concerned there would be tears.

Go read it!!

#😭😭 Thank you so much!!! #I LOVE wonky gingerbread dinosaur 🤣

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gay people will romanticize anything. fossilization is an act of love. the earth holds the child that returned to her so tight in hopes that she never has to let go. eventually you'll fall away from her grasp no matter what, but at least you can leave behind an impression that she'll hold onto forever. fuck. hold on bad example. gimme a minute. fuck.

#YES !! #EXACTLY!

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Just wanted to share that after reading (and loving) Our Hideous Progeny, I recommended it to my mom and now she has a copy as well and is excitedly texting me her progress through it. Our tastes in books don't overlap often, but OHP ended up right in the middle of that venn diagram. Thanks for writing an amazing story, I can't wait to share it with more friends/family so I have more people to talk about it with!

Aww, that's so great!! I'm so glad that you're both enjoying it! It's been really cool seeing OHP resonate across such different audiences :) I wish your mom happy reading, haha! 🖤

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My beautiful unhinged daughter, Mary Elizabeth Frankenstein <3 I know this was not at all how the scene actually went, but humour me

(Pssssst everyone please read Our Hideous Progeny, pleaseee 🙏)

#Is it cringe to do fanart of your own book? Maybe so. But I don't care lol #Please excuse the shift in artstyle halfway through it took me literally 2 years to finish this because #*gestures to life* *and also bad wrists* #Our Hideous Progeny #OHP #readblr #bookblr #queer books #book blogging #writers on tumblr #fantasy books #2023 books #books #fantasy #scifi #fantasy fiction #sapphic #speculative fiction #gothic #victorian gothic #gothic literature #gothic fiction #dark academia #victorian #victorian fiction #science fiction #sapphic books

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Computers are very simple you see we take the hearts of dead stars and we flatten them into crystal chips and then we etch tiny pathways using concentrated light into the dead star crystal chips and if we etch the pathways just so we can trick the crystals into doing our thinking for us hope this clears things up.

#I love this an unreasonable amount #queue

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feeling like a hideous creature. #hideouscreature

#^ canonical dialogue from The Creature #OHP #queue

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#This is... quite literally almost exactly my method of writing #I listened to 'Technically Missing' [from the Gone Girl Soundtrack] for 3 hours today and ate toffees until my body begged me to stop #queue

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I have not read your book and probably won’t in the near future (long list to read before sorry) but I do want to say it sounds interesting and it has a very good title and

(Oh, you've left me in such suspense at the end there!! 😂) Thanks very much, I'm glad it's piqued your interest - happy reading, whenever you get the chance to read it! :)

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he’s just like me fr

#relateable............ #queue

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my favorite example of transferable skills in fiction regardless of how realistic it is are people who work with textiles (sewing, tailoring, etc.) being asked to help stitch a wound or perform surgery. oh you can mend a hole in a shirt? mend a hole in this guy then. it's basically the same thing just with more blood and screaming.

#This is... a plot point in OHP 😂 #'Oh yeah‚ I've been sewing clothes for years‚ sewing a plesiosaur from bits of dead reptiles can't be that hard' #queue

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I turned in the book manuscript for INTERMEDIARIES, the forgotten history of the first transgender clinic 1918-1933.

It follows the story of Dora Richter, the first transgender woman to undergo complete MTF surgery (not Lili Elbe; she was third!) It’s taken me two years of blood, sweat, and tears. A lot of tears, actually.

The Nazis raided the Institute for Sexual Science; they burned the library. They banned the books that remained. They attacked, arrested, and ultimately killed trans and homosexual people along with disabled people and 6 million Jews.

The news today, 2023, reads a lot like news in 1923 with the rise of hatred against LGBTQ, attacks on reproductive rights, and increasing racism and antisemitism. The Nazis rose throughout the 1920s, coming into power 1930-1933.

The world said never again; we must now be the ones to stop a slide into hatred and violence. Before it’s too late.

Here is a preview of the book; it will be available for pre-order this winter (I hope), coming out in 2024.

#!! Oh‚ fascinating!! #to read #queer history #queue