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Kiera Lesley
@kieralesley.bsky.social
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SFFH writer, reader, tea drinker. Aurealis award winner. AHWA. Codex. Words in: Nightmare, Andromeda Spaceways, Factor Four etc.
Naarm/Melbourne
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Sunday pub write in with violet crumble stout ❤️
A half drunk pot of stout on a wooden table
September 28, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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I do not know why more people aren’t talking about this YA series by Caroline O’Donoghue. It’s contemporary Irish witchy fantasy with lots of tarot, queer as all get out and the main antagonists are terfy religious assholes getting their due. Audio narration is delicious, too.
A screenshot of the Libby audiobook player displaying the cover for The Gifts That Bind Us by Caroline O’Donoghue
September 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Writing scifi at the pub. In this instance scifi is defined by: has lots of spaceships
The back of a closed MacBook with various stickers on a brown wooden table next to a pint of beer
August 31, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Home and happy-tired from our road trip, with good news in my inbox and only the heel turned on that sock
The head of a greying black greyhound resting on his front left foot, all poking out from the folds of a knitted rainbow blanket.
July 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Timeline cleanse. Hound got a new jumper yesterday.
A black greyhound with a greying face lying on a white blanket and a pale green oodie on a couch, wearing a red and black dog jumper with a lightning bolt pattern
June 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Writing retreat is going well
Two open laptops on a table near an assortment of cheese, dips, beverages and a notebook
May 31, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Me being hideously on brand ahead of this weekend’s writing retreat
Screen grab from a chat: I have definitely bought too much cheese, laughing emoji
May 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Partner made me the best air plant holder of all time
A small guardian replica from Breath of the wild on a white windowsill. A spiky air plant is positioned in its head and some of its articulated legs are dangling off the sill.
May 6, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Did a democracy
A white hand holding a democracy sausage: bbq sausage in a piece of sliced white bread, fried onions on the bottom sauce on the top for “safety”
May 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Exhaling
View across a bay on a sunny day under a partial roof. The view is two thirds blue sky with fluffy clouds, one third pale blue-grey sea. Foreground is a few cafe tables and blue-white striped outdoor bean bags, trunks of two palm trees.
May 2, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Cowrite still life
An open MacBook on a white table next to a tall black mug, a black moleskine journal and a clear Lamy pen. The laptop has two stickers: “write it anyway” to the right of the trackpad and “*sips tea*” above the keyboard on the left. The whole image is on a rakish angle.
April 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Finally doing a first watch through of this…
A wonky zoomed in photo of the opening scroll text of episode 1 of Star Trek Voyager on a flatscreen TV reading: unhappy with a new treaty, Federation Colonists along the Cardassian border have banded together. Calling themselves “The Marquis” they continue to fight the Cardassians. Some consider them heroes, but to the governments of the Federation and Cardassia…”
April 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Recovery still life
A thick copy of the graphic novel Space Boy omnibus 1, its front cover slightly lifted, on top of a half-obscured plugged in Kobo and a rumpled, slightly textured and grubby white blanket.
January 31, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Did not see the comet but the view sure was pretty
A vista from a high lookout point looking west towards Melbourne. In the foreground trees, transitioning to flat paddocks and into industrial/built up areas. The horizon is hazy transitioning to pale orange sunset
January 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Slipped and this fell into my basket at the art shop. Going to be so good for ink sampling!
A glass dip pen with a blue flower encased in the nib end of the handle in a maroon display box. Silver writing on the box lid reads: glass dip pen. Calligraphy. Drawing. Writing. Milini
January 3, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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✨Home team crafting day ✨
(Star wars double knit scarf and plague marines respectively)
A table laid with Warhammer 40k miniatures and painting supplies in the foreground with two balls of yarn and an open case of interchangeable knitting needles in front of the opposite chair
January 2, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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“Hey baby, do you want to help with a weird new year’s craft the internet convinced me was a good idea?”
A “lucky lemon pig” made of a lemon with toothpick legs, clove eyes, cut out triangle ears and a coin in its mouth intended to desiccate into a horror across the year
January 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Wrapping up 2024 with a bang
A packet of buldak 2x hot chicken flavor ramen on a black countertop
December 31, 2024 at 1:07 AM
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It begins.
Send help.
Balatro main screen on a steam deck
December 26, 2024 at 11:19 AM
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And Her Smile Will Untether The Universe by Gwendolyn Kiste. Not enough horror in this list! A phenomenal collection showing great range and darkness. If you read nothing else please go check out The Man In The Ambry - freaked me right out.
Cover of And Her Smile Will Untether The Universe: white block text on the right hand side over a black background. A pale woman lies face up with her eyes closed off to the left
November 24, 2024 at 7:25 AM
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. Original and extremely clever, North is a master of structures. Go in blind if you can.
Cover art for The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August: a boy in jeans and a pinstriped jacket holds a frame that holds repeated images of himself holding the frame to vanishing point
November 24, 2024 at 7:16 AM
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The Diviners by Libra Bray. This series has everything and does all of it right: historical, multiple POV, original urban fantasy that isn’t afraid to get very dark. Great intersectionality, glorious in audio and stays consistently good across the four books
The cover for the audio edition of The Diviners. A black keyhole shape with gold filigree and an eye peering through on top of a view of New York City in navy blue and white
November 24, 2024 at 7:09 AM
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A Fire Upon the Deep. A classic for a reason. Still stuffed to the brim with strangeness and intersecting concepts in a space opera package.
Cover art for A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernon Vinge showing ships made of curving triangular pieces across a backdrop of space
November 23, 2024 at 7:47 AM
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Walter Moers does not get enough love from English readers. His books are fantastical, funny and *illustrated* adventures. Start with The City of Dreaming Books: an ode to books, stories and writing. Did I mention the protagonist is a dinosaur??
The cover art of The City of Dreaming Books featuring multicoloured books stacked on top of each other in different directions, spines out. In the middle a creature with a single yellow eye on a stalk looks out from behind the open book they are reading.
November 23, 2024 at 3:15 AM
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Another banger from this year’s reading: There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
Don’t let the fact it’s an SCP tie-in put you off, I’ve done basically zero SCP and was obsessed with this. Sci-fi horror that reinvents itself every chapter and takes its concept all the way to 11
Cover art for There Is No Antimemetics Division featuring a huge black cube rising out of rolling forest against a bloody orange skyline
November 23, 2024 at 12:38 AM