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Shelley Parker-Chan
@shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social
Sunday Times & USA Today bestselling author of SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN and HE WHO DROWNED THE WORLD. Winner of Astounding & British Fantasy Awards. Unhealthily into monks, eunuchs, monsterfuckers
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I deplore the craven cowardice of those implicated in this report. That queer, BIPOC and Chinese diaspora authors were singled out for political examination, and denied a fair chance at SFF’s best-known awards, is reprehensible. Had my first book come out a year later, I’d have been disqualified too
For the last few weeks I've been working with Chris Barkley @cmzhang42.bsky.social of @file770.bsky.social on a report about censorship in the 2023 Hugo Awards.

Leaked emails and files indicate authors and works deemed “not eligible” for the awards were removed due to political considerations. 1/3
February 15, 2024 at 11:10 PM
love this one. One of my favourite calming comfort reads, deeply thoughtful as well as deeply emotional
February 15, 2024 at 9:59 PM
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🍓🍓 TODAY'S THE DAY! LET'S GET PETTY! 🍓🍓
 
My ex’s judgy older bro (39m) told him to dump me (37f). Now I'm broke & stuck in a 10-ft-wide Spite House next door. If I blast monsterfucking audiobooks & tell MLM reps that older bro can host Tupperware parties, AITA? www.harpercollins.com/products/at-...
February 13, 2024 at 2:06 PM
I fully expect The Saint of Bright Doors and To Shape a Dragon’s Breath to be on every awards list this year (and I’m sure when I read The Mad Sisters of Esi I’ll think the same of it), but I must confess: I never expected to be on a list with Salman Rushdie lol
The shortlisted works in the fantasy category are:
- @vajra.me , The Saint of Bright Doors
- Salman Rushdie, Victory City
- Moniquill Blackgoose, To Shape a Dragon’s Breath
- @tashanmehta.bsky.social , The Mad Sisters of Esi
- @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social He Who Drowned the World
February 12, 2024 at 2:27 AM
🐉🧧

(by the very talented—and very human—cover designer Mel Four)
February 10, 2024 at 10:34 AM
standing ovation inflation: the true problem of our times
February 2, 2024 at 10:33 AM
Voicemail: Hi Shelley, this is the local library. We were just wondering if—

Me: OMG!! My library has finally figured out I’m a local author and are getting in touch!

Voicemail: —you could check inside the book you borrowed, the previous patron left a bookmark inside that they want back
January 31, 2024 at 8:24 AM
anyway, He Who Drowned the World is eligible for Hugo Best Novel, if anyone is so inclined to nominate it (thank you if you do!) I personally like it better than She Who Became the Sun, but I write to my own taste, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
January 30, 2024 at 8:56 AM
wait, all I had to do was put my preorder reward short story up on my website for it to count as published, and it would make my 240,000+ words series (two books and the short story) eligible for Best Series?? I AM CRYING
A random thought: While the Radiant Emperor duology isn't eligible for a Best Series hugo as it stands, all it would need to qualify is a single short story.

I feel this is information that, if they don't know it already, @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social should know.
January 30, 2024 at 8:14 AM
cried actual tears by page 2, was snort-laughing throughout, and legit SCREAMING by the end
I really loved this book & howled about it separately with both @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social and @everinamaxwell.bsky.social. Sarah Rees Brennan knows how to make you laugh and rip you open at the same time. Don’t miss it.
The cover of LONG LIVE EVIL revealed! I can’t wait for you all to meet this saucy lady and join the villains. Pre-order for extra evil treats: www.sarahreesbrennan.com/long-live-ev...
January 30, 2024 at 8:03 AM
after months of imaginative labour I have constructed my magnum opus: a world without breasts
January 17, 2024 at 7:47 AM
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Oh, nothing, just @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social unravelling then reassembling my heart with this beautiful cruel beast of a book
January 16, 2024 at 9:56 AM
learned a new word: “the croton hues of the Impressionists”, where croton is this colourful tropical plant I never knew the name of! I remember being enraptured the first time I saw them, in Yogyakarta in my early twenties
January 14, 2024 at 2:37 AM
as a writer I sometimes break out in a cold sweat thinking about my kid and her fellow fifth graders critiquing The Hunger Games as having “kinda a slow start”
January 13, 2024 at 6:26 AM
“what kind of personality will be the engine to get me between these disparate plot points that I came up with to generate the one (1) scene I’m actually invested in”

(it’s like solving a multi-variable equation where the variables are, I guess, the Issues that shape their interaction styles)
Where do you start when building a new character?

For me 4 things first:

Goals - what do they want?
Motivation - why do they want what they want?
Conflict - what's stopping them from getting what they want?
Secrets - what are they hiding from other characters?

Then everything else.

What's yours?
January 13, 2024 at 2:13 AM
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just when you buckaroos thought 2024 would be a break from book drama, here comes chuck tingle in the mix. recently i was asked to be a featured speaker for the TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION conference. a few days ago they rescinded my invitation. here is what happened.
tumblr.com/drchucktingl...
January 9, 2024 at 7:17 PM
have reached the “fandom ancient” stage where I can binge The Boys and reminisce about each of these middle-aged men when they were 20 and beautiful. Dark Angel and Gossip Girl are easy, Karl Urban has been in everything, but do YOU remember Antony Starr as a centaur in Xena: Warrior Princess? 😂
January 9, 2024 at 12:59 AM
instead of telling me for the nth time to watch Blue Eye Samurai, petition someone in Hollywood to buy my TV rights lol
January 6, 2024 at 1:01 AM
what’s the last word you looked up in 2023? mine is ‘aspergillium’ (‘implement for sprinkling holy water’) which appears in Dwight Garner’s memoir The Upstairs Delicatessen as a stand-in for a priest’s exposed penis
December 31, 2023 at 8:54 AM
if you, like me, like to ring in the new year by reading a book in the bathtub…why not consider He Who Drowned the World, which is $4.99, this December 31 only, at the US Kindle store? (me, I’ll be re-reading Tana French’s Faithful Place, my second favourite of hers) www.amazon.com/Drowned-Worl...
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He Who Drowned the World: A Novel (The Radiant Emperor Duology Book 2) - Kindle edition by Parker-Chan, Shelley. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features...
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December 31, 2023 at 8:17 AM
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Highly recommended to anyone that recently enjoyed Blue Eye Samurai on Netflix!
December 28, 2023 at 11:34 AM
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The healthy unhealthy motivation.
December 27, 2023 at 11:47 AM
earlier this year I had the half-formed idea to become familiar with all the ‘dried things’ (you know what I mean) in the Chinese grocery store, but only got as far as lily flowers, tea tree mushrooms and dried gluten…perhaps completing this delicious quest can be my new year resolution?
I love this idea!

Next year I want to eat every fruit/vegetable in the fresh food section of H-Mart.
OKAY FUN RESOLUTIONS, GO

mine is that my condo complex has a weekly mahjong group and I want to go regularly enough to get really good at it
December 28, 2023 at 12:44 AM
She Who Became the Sun is £0.99 on Kindle in the UK until 6 Jan, if you wanted to dip your toe into the Radiant Emperor series for practically nothing: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B08Q...
She Who Became the Sun: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller (The Radiant Emperor Book 1) eBook : ...
She Who Became the Sun: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller (The Radiant Emperor Book 1) eBook : Parker-Chan, Shelley: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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December 27, 2023 at 11:43 PM