Christina Kelton
@christinakelton.bsky.social
Author. World builder. Language enthusiast.
Scratch Night at the Durham book festival was lovely this year, and I was given a lovely book reccomedation during my visit to Book Wyrm books in the Durham market. Happy to support independent queer book shops! #writing #reading #creativewriting #fantasy bookwyrm.co.uk
BookWyrm: Home
Welcome to BookWyrm, an indie bookshop owned by a husband/husband duo!
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October 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Scratch Night at the Durham book festival was lovely this year, and I was given a lovely book reccomedation during my visit to Book Wyrm books in the Durham market. Happy to support independent queer book shops! #writing #reading #creativewriting #fantasy bookwyrm.co.uk
Thrilled to be reading R.F. Kuang's Katabasis. I've been waiting for months (after finishing Babel and loving it). It’s finally here!🍷 🌧 📖 #writing #reading #creativewriting #fantasy
August 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Thrilled to be reading R.F. Kuang's Katabasis. I've been waiting for months (after finishing Babel and loving it). It’s finally here!🍷 🌧 📖 #writing #reading #creativewriting #fantasy
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Los Angeles teachers, if you lost your classroom library in the fire, I am a HS English teacher and YA author and I will get you books whenever you're ready for them. The bookish community is here for you. There is no expiration date.
tinyurl.com/LAFireBookDo...
tinyurl.com/LAFireBookDo...
January 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Los Angeles teachers, if you lost your classroom library in the fire, I am a HS English teacher and YA author and I will get you books whenever you're ready for them. The bookish community is here for you. There is no expiration date.
tinyurl.com/LAFireBookDo...
tinyurl.com/LAFireBookDo...
Ready to cozy up with book three of a fantastic series. Pheby is really bringing it to the genre.
Shout out to Books-A-Million for being prepared for the Waterblack release today. ❤️
@alexpheby.bsky.social @booksamillion.bsky.social
#reading #writing #creativewriting #fantasy
Shout out to Books-A-Million for being prepared for the Waterblack release today. ❤️
@alexpheby.bsky.social @booksamillion.bsky.social
#reading #writing #creativewriting #fantasy
January 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Ready to cozy up with book three of a fantastic series. Pheby is really bringing it to the genre.
Shout out to Books-A-Million for being prepared for the Waterblack release today. ❤️
@alexpheby.bsky.social @booksamillion.bsky.social
#reading #writing #creativewriting #fantasy
Shout out to Books-A-Million for being prepared for the Waterblack release today. ❤️
@alexpheby.bsky.social @booksamillion.bsky.social
#reading #writing #creativewriting #fantasy
Day one of my teaching degree and the algorithm is already showing me corded cardigans with apples for buttons. I feel so seen.
#teaching
#teaching
January 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Day one of my teaching degree and the algorithm is already showing me corded cardigans with apples for buttons. I feel so seen.
#teaching
#teaching
If your new year's resolution is to write, I believe in you!
#writing #creativewriting #fantasy #horror
#writing #creativewriting #fantasy #horror
January 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
If your new year's resolution is to write, I believe in you!
#writing #creativewriting #fantasy #horror
#writing #creativewriting #fantasy #horror
"Worldbuild against the grain, and worldbuild to challenge."
-Seth Dickinson
#writing #creativewriting #fantasy
-Seth Dickinson
#writing #creativewriting #fantasy
We…need worldbuilding? | Seth Dickinson
www.sethdickinson.com
December 28, 2024 at 3:03 AM
"Worldbuild against the grain, and worldbuild to challenge."
-Seth Dickinson
#writing #creativewriting #fantasy
-Seth Dickinson
#writing #creativewriting #fantasy
You get a six month residential workshop for your novel.
Pick up to seven authors to tear your manuscript apart. Who is in the dream team?
#writing #creativewriting #fantasy #horror
Pick up to seven authors to tear your manuscript apart. Who is in the dream team?
#writing #creativewriting #fantasy #horror
December 19, 2024 at 4:15 PM
You get a six month residential workshop for your novel.
Pick up to seven authors to tear your manuscript apart. Who is in the dream team?
#writing #creativewriting #fantasy #horror
Pick up to seven authors to tear your manuscript apart. Who is in the dream team?
#writing #creativewriting #fantasy #horror
I was found reading The Last Slaughter, and my partner rushed me to open an early gift. "So you don't go buying more Ford before Christmas." I'm so excited! @douglasford.bsky.social
December 16, 2024 at 1:42 PM
I was found reading The Last Slaughter, and my partner rushed me to open an early gift. "So you don't go buying more Ford before Christmas." I'm so excited! @douglasford.bsky.social
I've always enjoyed Terry's sense of humour, and his work was so influential for me as a young writer. This interview was a good bit of fun.
Terry Brooks: Father of Plagiarism | Between Two Perns Author Interview
YouTube video by Daniel Greene
youtu.be
December 16, 2024 at 4:37 AM
I've always enjoyed Terry's sense of humour, and his work was so influential for me as a young writer. This interview was a good bit of fun.
Eventually, you will have exhausted all the "how to write" books. There will be nothing left but to write. It will be terrifying & freeing. You'll e-mail that submission feeling like you've released a mess into the world. They will publish it, & that print copy will feel like treasure. Write it.
December 15, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Eventually, you will have exhausted all the "how to write" books. There will be nothing left but to write. It will be terrifying & freeing. You'll e-mail that submission feeling like you've released a mess into the world. They will publish it, & that print copy will feel like treasure. Write it.
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If you read one thing today, make it this: briankeene.substack.com/p/letters-fr...
December 15, 2024 at 11:18 AM
If you read one thing today, make it this: briankeene.substack.com/p/letters-fr...
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I cannot even tell you how much it means to me when I hear that my book helped someone feel better for a little while when they were stressed or sick or hurting. For me, this is one of the highest and most powerful magics stories posess, and one of my own greatest aims as a writer. ❤️
December 14, 2024 at 4:48 PM
I cannot even tell you how much it means to me when I hear that my book helped someone feel better for a little while when they were stressed or sick or hurting. For me, this is one of the highest and most powerful magics stories posess, and one of my own greatest aims as a writer. ❤️
Joy is clocking out from your day job and writing that part of your novel that has been creating fireworks in your brain all day.
#writing #creativewriting #fantasy
#writing #creativewriting #fantasy
December 14, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Joy is clocking out from your day job and writing that part of your novel that has been creating fireworks in your brain all day.
#writing #creativewriting #fantasy
#writing #creativewriting #fantasy
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Stop worrying that the pages aren't good enough.
If they aren't good enough, you'll make them good enough when you edit. Sometimes, you have to see a thing on the page before you know exactly what it is supposed to be.
The rights words often only come after the wrong ones.
If they aren't good enough, you'll make them good enough when you edit. Sometimes, you have to see a thing on the page before you know exactly what it is supposed to be.
The rights words often only come after the wrong ones.
December 11, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Stop worrying that the pages aren't good enough.
If they aren't good enough, you'll make them good enough when you edit. Sometimes, you have to see a thing on the page before you know exactly what it is supposed to be.
The rights words often only come after the wrong ones.
If they aren't good enough, you'll make them good enough when you edit. Sometimes, you have to see a thing on the page before you know exactly what it is supposed to be.
The rights words often only come after the wrong ones.
In my 20s, I stood outside of Mircea Tomus' classroom. He asked me what I was writing for. I told him I wanted to take the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and it would be the hardest thing I'd ever do. "It is not some insurmountable olympus," he said, and told me we are all closer to success than we think.
December 11, 2024 at 6:58 PM
In my 20s, I stood outside of Mircea Tomus' classroom. He asked me what I was writing for. I told him I wanted to take the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and it would be the hardest thing I'd ever do. "It is not some insurmountable olympus," he said, and told me we are all closer to success than we think.
I knew best how to write before I knew "how to write." Sometimes it's a journey of tapping into one's childhood, before the moments that educated you out of your creativity.
#writing #creativewriting #fantasy
#writing #creativewriting #fantasy
December 11, 2024 at 4:20 PM
I knew best how to write before I knew "how to write." Sometimes it's a journey of tapping into one's childhood, before the moments that educated you out of your creativity.
#writing #creativewriting #fantasy
#writing #creativewriting #fantasy
“As shall be the language, so shall be the man, and so shall be the nation. Good language promotes civilisation, and poor language, or language that is not used well, hinders it.”
-Emrys ap Iwan (Robert Ambrose Jones)
-Emrys ap Iwan (Robert Ambrose Jones)
December 10, 2024 at 1:09 PM
“As shall be the language, so shall be the man, and so shall be the nation. Good language promotes civilisation, and poor language, or language that is not used well, hinders it.”
-Emrys ap Iwan (Robert Ambrose Jones)
-Emrys ap Iwan (Robert Ambrose Jones)
Don't worry about breaking "rules" in your writing. Broken rules are the sum of genre.
#writing #creativewriting #fiction #fantasy
#writing #creativewriting #fiction #fantasy
December 8, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Don't worry about breaking "rules" in your writing. Broken rules are the sum of genre.
#writing #creativewriting #fiction #fantasy
#writing #creativewriting #fiction #fantasy
"To say there is no worth in learning a language that isn’t economically useful is like saying there’s no point in being friends with somebody unless they’re going to help you get a better job. It’s a spectacular, cynical miss of the point."
-Rhona NicDhùghaill
-Rhona NicDhùghaill
Don't neglect the UK's indigenous languages
Why the UK can, and should, make space for our indigenous minority languages
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2024 at 1:52 PM
"To say there is no worth in learning a language that isn’t economically useful is like saying there’s no point in being friends with somebody unless they’re going to help you get a better job. It’s a spectacular, cynical miss of the point."
-Rhona NicDhùghaill
-Rhona NicDhùghaill
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What are you doing with that wonderful story you wrote, the one you're proud of but haven't yet found a home for? Send it to the Bristol Short Story Prize! Full details: bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Bristol Short Story Prize
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December 8, 2024 at 10:07 AM
What are you doing with that wonderful story you wrote, the one you're proud of but haven't yet found a home for? Send it to the Bristol Short Story Prize! Full details: bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
I recently assured a family friend that I am indeed old enough to "remember Pizza Hut," but that I also remember Book It. I shared the delicious details of my childhood racketeering scheme to go infinite on carbs and Terry Brooks novels. @terrybrooks.bsky.social
December 7, 2024 at 1:13 PM
I recently assured a family friend that I am indeed old enough to "remember Pizza Hut," but that I also remember Book It. I shared the delicious details of my childhood racketeering scheme to go infinite on carbs and Terry Brooks novels. @terrybrooks.bsky.social
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Everyone starts off thinking they want writing advice but slowly finds out what they're really looking for is writing _confidence_ to get in the chair and do the work.
December 7, 2024 at 8:59 AM
Everyone starts off thinking they want writing advice but slowly finds out what they're really looking for is writing _confidence_ to get in the chair and do the work.
I'm so excited for Alex Pheby's Waterblack. @alexpheby.bsky.social January can't come soon enough for this reader. If you like dark fantasy and haven't read the Cities of the Weft trilogy, start with Mordew and thank me later.
December 6, 2024 at 1:16 PM
I'm so excited for Alex Pheby's Waterblack. @alexpheby.bsky.social January can't come soon enough for this reader. If you like dark fantasy and haven't read the Cities of the Weft trilogy, start with Mordew and thank me later.