Sophie Burnham
@sophieburnham.bsky.social
sff novels & weird seagull noises 👽 🌈
rep: maria napolitano // kt literary
books: sargassa, bloodtide (daw)
https://linktr.ee/sophieburnham
rep: maria napolitano // kt literary
books: sargassa, bloodtide (daw)
https://linktr.ee/sophieburnham
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Bloodtide - Astra Publishing House
The fate of the empire hangs in the balance in the second installment of the genre-bending Ex Romana trilogy Perfect for readers of Saara El-Arifi and C. L. Clark and stories with strong, queer voices...
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BLOODTIDE, the second book and feral middle child of the Ex Romana trilogy, hits shelves today! Read more queer, anti-fascist books!
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Forget a holiday, I insist humans should hybernate during the winter
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Forget a holiday, I insist humans should hybernate during the winter
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Fascism can't win without outlets like the NYT and WaPo continuously doing this.
Please stop sending money to these outlets. The bland, white-friendly recipes and word puzzles aren't worth it.
Fund @theflytrapmedia.com, or @unraveledpress.com, or any number of local independent journalists.
Please stop sending money to these outlets. The bland, white-friendly recipes and word puzzles aren't worth it.
Fund @theflytrapmedia.com, or @unraveledpress.com, or any number of local independent journalists.
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Fascism can't win without outlets like the NYT and WaPo continuously doing this.
Please stop sending money to these outlets. The bland, white-friendly recipes and word puzzles aren't worth it.
Fund @theflytrapmedia.com, or @unraveledpress.com, or any number of local independent journalists.
Please stop sending money to these outlets. The bland, white-friendly recipes and word puzzles aren't worth it.
Fund @theflytrapmedia.com, or @unraveledpress.com, or any number of local independent journalists.
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
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I #justfinished #bloodtide by S. Burnham- it’s a book/series worth reading. If you like mayhem, intricate worlds, deep yearning, messy relationships, unlikely champions and underdogs this one is for you! (Or your brother in law!) #SFF #booksksy 📚🪐 hollysreadingescapades.blogspot.com/2025/11/nook...
Book Review Bloodtide by Sophie Burnham
hollysreadingescapades.blogspot.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I #justfinished #bloodtide by S. Burnham- it’s a book/series worth reading. If you like mayhem, intricate worlds, deep yearning, messy relationships, unlikely champions and underdogs this one is for you! (Or your brother in law!) #SFF #booksksy 📚🪐 hollysreadingescapades.blogspot.com/2025/11/nook...
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A bit of a mixed bag for October but such a good trade off for two 5 star reads:
✨The Land of the Living and the Dead (phenomenal series overall) and ✨Bloodtide by Sophie Burnham (the most underhyped series to exist)
What was your top read in the month of October? #booksky
✨The Land of the Living and the Dead (phenomenal series overall) and ✨Bloodtide by Sophie Burnham (the most underhyped series to exist)
What was your top read in the month of October? #booksky
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
A bit of a mixed bag for October but such a good trade off for two 5 star reads:
✨The Land of the Living and the Dead (phenomenal series overall) and ✨Bloodtide by Sophie Burnham (the most underhyped series to exist)
What was your top read in the month of October? #booksky
✨The Land of the Living and the Dead (phenomenal series overall) and ✨Bloodtide by Sophie Burnham (the most underhyped series to exist)
What was your top read in the month of October? #booksky
in unrelated news, who's ready for a general strike?
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
in unrelated news, who's ready for a general strike?
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In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead
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Sometimes protagonists aren't able to fix the world. Sometimes they're not even able to see the problems with it. Sometimes they're just trying to survive. Sometimes they're even part of the problem.
The writer isn't the society and the writer isn't the protagonist.
The writer isn't the society and the writer isn't the protagonist.
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Sometimes protagonists aren't able to fix the world. Sometimes they're not even able to see the problems with it. Sometimes they're just trying to survive. Sometimes they're even part of the problem.
The writer isn't the society and the writer isn't the protagonist.
The writer isn't the society and the writer isn't the protagonist.
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
battling the urge to hurt my own feelings and watch watership down
November 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
battling the urge to hurt my own feelings and watch watership down
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“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman, Introduces Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go
Superhuman Platform delivers proactive, context-aware AI agents that work in the flow of work, wherever people work Grammarly today announced it is changing its company…
www.grammarly.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
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“You’ve been repeating several times that Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe that Israel should pay for the reconstruction of Gaza since they have destroyed almost all its civilian infrastructure?”
A Journalist Asked Why Israel Isn’t Paying to Rebuild Gaza. It Cost Him His Job.
Italy’s Nova news agency confirmed it let reporter Gabriele Nunziati go for asking a European official about Israel at a press conference.
theintercept.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
“You’ve been repeating several times that Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe that Israel should pay for the reconstruction of Gaza since they have destroyed almost all its civilian infrastructure?”
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serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them
really obvious now why trump and the republican party have been working so hard to prevent fair elections lol they know
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them
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This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This person took this when they called the race
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
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Thank you, @podsaveamerica.crooked.com @jonlovett.bsky.social & @crooked.com for speaking with me about the ridiculous and dystopian reality we’re all being forced to exist in.
November 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Thank you, @podsaveamerica.crooked.com @jonlovett.bsky.social & @crooked.com for speaking with me about the ridiculous and dystopian reality we’re all being forced to exist in.
It was great meeting you!
Some authors I've added to my tbr since attending World FantasyCon 2025
@rainewilson.bsky.social
@stewarthotston.com
@mkhardywrites.com
@sophieburnham.bsky.social
@joe-hill.bsky.social
Jackson Ford
@keithrosson.bsky.social
@aliciawanstallb.bsky.social
@aliettedebodard.com
And more besides... 📚
@rainewilson.bsky.social
@stewarthotston.com
@mkhardywrites.com
@sophieburnham.bsky.social
@joe-hill.bsky.social
Jackson Ford
@keithrosson.bsky.social
@aliciawanstallb.bsky.social
@aliettedebodard.com
And more besides... 📚
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
It was great meeting you!
Holy crap. This is definitely the coolest thing to happen to me with these books. You're right, it's *gorgeous*
@sophieburnham.bsky.social Bloodtide was great! I made this image of the powers in Ex Romana's world. All we know about Sargassan Latin is that it is beautiful compared with Ynglotta/Roman letters. Instead of creating a sui generis script, I used Tengwar from LOTR, which I think is very beautiful.
November 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Holy crap. This is definitely the coolest thing to happen to me with these books. You're right, it's *gorgeous*
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This is...not good.
Leaked emails show the “progressive” Chamber for Progress is coordinating with Google to quash copyright suits against tech giants. Its CEO, and several board members, used to work for Google. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/sDcjwJr
‘Progressive’ Tech Group Asks Trump to Block AI Copyright Cases - The American Prospect
The Chamber of Progress’s campaign to promote fair use, which they have created a campaign around called “Generate and Create,” comes as at least three of the nonprofit organization’s past or current backers are being sued over copyright claims.
trib.al
November 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This is...not good.
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Hey US and Canada folks! My Nebula, World Fantasy & Locus award nominated novel SHIGIDI will (finally!) be out in paperback on Nov 4. If you couldn't get the hardcover when it came out (understandably so!) here's your chance.
Its got African gods + a succubus + a heist at the British museum!
Its got African gods + a succubus + a heist at the British museum!
October 31, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Hey US and Canada folks! My Nebula, World Fantasy & Locus award nominated novel SHIGIDI will (finally!) be out in paperback on Nov 4. If you couldn't get the hardcover when it came out (understandably so!) here's your chance.
Its got African gods + a succubus + a heist at the British museum!
Its got African gods + a succubus + a heist at the British museum!
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Between banning books, non-white people, genders, immigrants, comedians, journalism…
And then pushing AI which just regurgitates new ideas…
America is headed into a deep cultural recession. This place is bleak and getting increasingly boring.
And then pushing AI which just regurgitates new ideas…
America is headed into a deep cultural recession. This place is bleak and getting increasingly boring.
October 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Between banning books, non-white people, genders, immigrants, comedians, journalism…
And then pushing AI which just regurgitates new ideas…
America is headed into a deep cultural recession. This place is bleak and getting increasingly boring.
And then pushing AI which just regurgitates new ideas…
America is headed into a deep cultural recession. This place is bleak and getting increasingly boring.