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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(by the very talented—and very human—cover designer Mel Four)
(by the very talented—and very human—cover designer Mel Four)
February 10, 2024 at 10:34 AM
🐉🧧
(by the very talented—and very human—cover designer Mel Four)
(by the very talented—and very human—cover designer Mel Four)
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
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)_/¯
I wish we had these signs instead of our standard “beware swooping magpies” infographics! the running-in-terror stick figure is hilariously accurate
January 19, 2024 at 3:17 AM
I wish we had these signs instead of our standard “beware swooping magpies” infographics! the running-in-terror stick figure is hilariously accurate
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
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
honestly the cover is up there with the UK b-format of You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty as one of the most unrepresentative, shallowly pandering covers of all time; I feel almost personally offended
December 16, 2023 at 12:27 AM
honestly the cover is up there with the UK b-format of You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty as one of the most unrepresentative, shallowly pandering covers of all time; I feel almost personally offended
the first time I’ve ever succeeded at getting tickets from a waitlist, and it was All of Us Strangers at MQFF!! my standards for timey-wimey tearjerkers are HIGH, let’s fucking goooooo
November 10, 2023 at 7:51 AM
the first time I’ve ever succeeded at getting tickets from a waitlist, and it was All of Us Strangers at MQFF!! my standards for timey-wimey tearjerkers are HIGH, let’s fucking goooooo
I wanted to leave The Bad Place (Goodreads) so I’m gritting my teeth through inputting my digital library into Libib—using perhaps too many tags—but the ability to pull up a list of whatever I’m looking for is SO NICE
(let’s leave the physical library organisation to another day)
(let’s leave the physical library organisation to another day)
October 27, 2023 at 12:28 AM
I wanted to leave The Bad Place (Goodreads) so I’m gritting my teeth through inputting my digital library into Libib—using perhaps too many tags—but the ability to pull up a list of whatever I’m looking for is SO NICE
(let’s leave the physical library organisation to another day)
(let’s leave the physical library organisation to another day)
the way I ran out and bought it LITERALLY immediately
October 26, 2023 at 6:29 AM
the way I ran out and bought it LITERALLY immediately
well the child has what is almost certainly covid, given that her teacher had covid last week, and now I feel an ominous unwellness, so it’s time to bring out the big guns:
October 23, 2023 at 9:07 AM
well the child has what is almost certainly covid, given that her teacher had covid last week, and now I feel an ominous unwellness, so it’s time to bring out the big guns:
I’ll be at the OzAsia Festival in Adelaide from 3-5 November. If you’re Australian and wanted to get a signature or ask anything about He Who Drowned the World, this will be your only chance this year!
October 18, 2023 at 10:54 PM
I’ll be at the OzAsia Festival in Adelaide from 3-5 November. If you’re Australian and wanted to get a signature or ask anything about He Who Drowned the World, this will be your only chance this year!
I’m on page 2 and have already reached the wildest part of Pageboy. Is cure-by-cheese really a thing??
October 14, 2023 at 12:23 AM
I’m on page 2 and have already reached the wildest part of Pageboy. Is cure-by-cheese really a thing??
glad I didn’t manage to buy the spouse a tin whistle in NYC (a friend’s recommendation as a gift, but they’re not as easy to find as they used to be), because in my absence he bought himself a recorder—the only positive outcome of which is I got to finally deploy this classic meme
September 23, 2023 at 11:51 AM
glad I didn’t manage to buy the spouse a tin whistle in NYC (a friend’s recommendation as a gift, but they’re not as easy to find as they used to be), because in my absence he bought himself a recorder—the only positive outcome of which is I got to finally deploy this classic meme
then: you and your buddy @vanessalen.bsky.social writing your books together in a bookstore cafe, wondering if you’d ever see your books on those shelves—
now: top shelf domination at each end of that very same store 😤
now: top shelf domination at each end of that very same store 😤
September 8, 2023 at 3:25 AM
then: you and your buddy @vanessalen.bsky.social writing your books together in a bookstore cafe, wondering if you’d ever see your books on those shelves—
now: top shelf domination at each end of that very same store 😤
now: top shelf domination at each end of that very same store 😤
every author simply trying to exist on social media
September 1, 2023 at 6:37 PM
every author simply trying to exist on social media
I would like to express a hearty what the actual fuck, San Francisco. this is……..two and a half times the price of coffee in Australia
yesterday someone told me a nice-but-not-extravagant house on the street cost TEN MILLION DOLLARS
yesterday someone told me a nice-but-not-extravagant house on the street cost TEN MILLION DOLLARS
August 24, 2023 at 5:11 PM
I would like to express a hearty what the actual fuck, San Francisco. this is……..two and a half times the price of coffee in Australia
yesterday someone told me a nice-but-not-extravagant house on the street cost TEN MILLION DOLLARS
yesterday someone told me a nice-but-not-extravagant house on the street cost TEN MILLION DOLLARS
oh shit, I am now RUINED for tacos in Australia forever 😭 this was out of this world delicious (Tuetano Tacqueria in San Diego)
August 22, 2023 at 9:16 PM
oh shit, I am now RUINED for tacos in Australia forever 😭 this was out of this world delicious (Tuetano Tacqueria in San Diego)
it’s funny the information about America one has squirreled away, as an Australian who is too online
me, perusing cafes nearby: Sqirl? why do I know that name, maybe I should eat there—
me: omg
me: the jam
me, perusing cafes nearby: Sqirl? why do I know that name, maybe I should eat there—
me: omg
me: the jam
August 19, 2023 at 3:34 PM
it’s funny the information about America one has squirreled away, as an Australian who is too online
me, perusing cafes nearby: Sqirl? why do I know that name, maybe I should eat there—
me: omg
me: the jam
me, perusing cafes nearby: Sqirl? why do I know that name, maybe I should eat there—
me: omg
me: the jam
well I did not imagine I would be flying directly into a hurricane, but California, here I come!!
August 18, 2023 at 6:51 AM
well I did not imagine I would be flying directly into a hurricane, but California, here I come!!
I often think about this quote from pop music producer Richard Russell. yeah, we may work in the pop register of fiction, and people think that’s unserious, but it’s not unserious to us. we believe in our fucking hearts that we could be making great works like Picasso! I think we already are!!
August 14, 2023 at 9:54 AM
I often think about this quote from pop music producer Richard Russell. yeah, we may work in the pop register of fiction, and people think that’s unserious, but it’s not unserious to us. we believe in our fucking hearts that we could be making great works like Picasso! I think we already are!!
imagine what it’s like when all your characters are basically you
August 14, 2023 at 1:14 AM
imagine what it’s like when all your characters are basically you
J racing out the door to a gig: “we need another kettle cord!”
which makes me wonder: if kettles aren’t so much of a thing in the US, what do musicians call this ubiquitous piece of equipment? surely it’s not all “buddy hand me the IEC C14 cable”
which makes me wonder: if kettles aren’t so much of a thing in the US, what do musicians call this ubiquitous piece of equipment? surely it’s not all “buddy hand me the IEC C14 cable”
August 11, 2023 at 11:55 PM
J racing out the door to a gig: “we need another kettle cord!”
which makes me wonder: if kettles aren’t so much of a thing in the US, what do musicians call this ubiquitous piece of equipment? surely it’s not all “buddy hand me the IEC C14 cable”
which makes me wonder: if kettles aren’t so much of a thing in the US, what do musicians call this ubiquitous piece of equipment? surely it’s not all “buddy hand me the IEC C14 cable”
*grim look*
I am prepared for w̶a̶r̶ book tour in a country with a very different coffee culture to my own
I am prepared for w̶a̶r̶ book tour in a country with a very different coffee culture to my own
August 9, 2023 at 7:22 AM
*grim look*
I am prepared for w̶a̶r̶ book tour in a country with a very different coffee culture to my own
I am prepared for w̶a̶r̶ book tour in a country with a very different coffee culture to my own
yeah I was never cool
July 29, 2023 at 7:09 AM
yeah I was never cool
for so long I’ve struggled to describe my subgenre, often resorting to “I’m a romance writer who somehow ended up writing epic fantasy”, but the recent New Yorker review of a book about emo music of 1999-2008 has been illuminating! I am an author of: EMOCORE FANTASY
July 29, 2023 at 7:08 AM
for so long I’ve struggled to describe my subgenre, often resorting to “I’m a romance writer who somehow ended up writing epic fantasy”, but the recent New Yorker review of a book about emo music of 1999-2008 has been illuminating! I am an author of: EMOCORE FANTASY