who gave this gremlin a pen??

blog of oliver ferrie, author of sugar people. www.gallant.no

[gallantindie]

🔥 THE TIME IS NOW 🔥 

Get it here: https://www.gallant.no/links-sugar-people/

[oliverferrie]

my book is out!!!

[profiterole-reads]

The Ghost of Hexes Past by Lou Wilham

The Ghost of Hexes Past by Lou Wilham was a lot of fun! It's the sequel to The Hex Next Door. Rus and Az are now trying to set up their own coven in Moondale.

This tome mixes magic & technology, action, supernatural politics and romance. It also expands the worldbuilding of the Bay of the Dead Verse (which will group the Witches of Moondale, [Vampire] Hunters of Ironport and Fae of Eventide series).

There is major f/f, as well as background f/m/nb. There's a young trans man, whose transness is not mentioned in this tome, but if you've read Book 1, you know.

[oliverferrie]

oh boy.

The #QIAwards are OPEN FOR VOTING

and MY BOOK IS UP THERE :O :O :O

Whoever put it up for these categories, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for nominating me! ESPECIALLY WHOEVER PUT KESTREL & ELIJAH FOR BEST CHARACTERS✨

voting happens here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8oo3bQfCJNdkJHlmlkxDZaBqPJUh2GxlJZ0roDt3r4eEdJA/viewform

vote for my book if you like it, vote for @shea-parfait's awesome cover, vote for the other fantastic indie authors listed there!

[oliverferrie]

it is the final day for voting :O

[oliverferrie]

it in fact, was not the final day for voting

(basically the voting was extended due to support for the Palestine global strike 🍉💪)

[oliverferrie]

oh boy.

The #QIAwards are OPEN FOR VOTING

and MY BOOK IS UP THERE :O :O :O

Whoever put it up for these categories, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for nominating me! ESPECIALLY WHOEVER PUT KESTREL & ELIJAH FOR BEST CHARACTERS✨

voting happens here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8oo3bQfCJNdkJHlmlkxDZaBqPJUh2GxlJZ0roDt3r4eEdJA/viewform

vote for my book if you like it, vote for @shea-parfait's awesome cover, vote for the other fantastic indie authors listed there!

[oliverferrie]

it is the final day for voting :O

[oliverferrie]

I am having Book Grief: an achingly good book made me cry and I want so badly to share it with people but there is one problem—only a stupidly small number of people can actually read it.

I finished reading Fuck, Fuck, Fuck by Linn Strømsborg and there's no English rights for it yet, I'm half tempted to just email the publishers and spill my heart out and hope and hope there will be a deal in future and hey if they need a translator there is a writer right here who is enthusiastic af and oh man I just want to rant to my intl friends about it because more people need to read this thing and I'm angry on behalf of every woman who has sat down last at the dinner table because she has been fixing everyone else's food.

[conarcoin]

fyi things like insulin, hearing aids, wheelchairs, glasses costing money at all is a form of structural ableism

[conarcoin]

disabled people should not have to pay to live their lives like everyone else. and in the case of insulin, disabled people should not have to pay to Not Fucking Die

[sexboobomb]

Seeing a lot of people comparing insulin to food and saying "what, should we just make food completely free too then?"

Yeah?? We should??? That's the logical conclusion, not a gotcha. People in general should not have to pay money to just stay alive

[oliverferrie]

^all the above

Remember that equality/equity cartoon? Where they're standing on the boxes to try see over the fence?

We understand that the best solution is to remove the entire fence, that much is apparent. But please do not condemn us disabled folks to suffer in the weeds while we're working on tearing the fence down.

[rixareth]

As requested, I have examined my fondness for terrible characters, and I have concluded that I like them because they're terrible and I'm not sorry.

[oliverferrie]

oh boy.

The #QIAwards are OPEN FOR VOTING

and MY BOOK IS UP THERE :O :O :O

Whoever put it up for these categories, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for nominating me! ESPECIALLY WHOEVER PUT KESTREL & ELIJAH FOR BEST CHARACTERS✨

voting happens here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8oo3bQfCJNdkJHlmlkxDZaBqPJUh2GxlJZ0roDt3r4eEdJA/viewform

vote for my book if you like it, vote for @shea-parfait's awesome cover, vote for the other fantastic indie authors listed there!

[mswyrr]

What Happens When Young People Actually Read “Disturbing” Books

Something is missing from the debate over educationally suitable literature

[mikkeneko]

[argumate]

does the ending recontexualise the beginning, that’s the question.

[oliverferrie]

Your local gremlin is here to inform you

(2 days left to buy my ebook at 50% discount)

Code: UGF5G74N, use it on gallant.no/shop before 6 Jan (that's Epiphany!)

[oliverferrie]

Christmas book haul!

Very excited to read all of these 🤩

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca, The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones, and The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix are the queer/bipoc/feminist horror picks I've been eyeing up since the autumn.

The Ballad of Septimus Mak is an indie pagan adventure I've been dying to read from Julian M. Miles (go support him, also his indie publisher is called Lizards of the Host, which I love).

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins is a culty horror that I mostly got to satisfy a Gundam brainworm of mine.

Finally, It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover I got because I liked the first chapter and I like stories about escaping abusive relationships. Can't wait to make up my own mind about this one.

[oliverferrie]

Because nothing says 'I escaped the time loop' like a new year celebration...

I can't run discounts on Amazon but I CAN give yall a 50% discount of SUGAR PEOPLE on my own site (ebooks only).

Coupon code: UGF5G74N

Applicable on the following: https://gallant.no/product/sugar-people-ebook/…

(These all get sent out personally by me, and might take a little longer if you asked for a customised message)

[oliverferrie]

PARTAKE OF THE HORRORS NOW

[valarhalla]

My favorite ultra-specific character type is "this fucked up little man clearly just needs a consensual BDSM relationship and some therapy and he'd be fine, but that is very much not what happens in this story."

[oliverferrie]

When I was younger, there was this railway station

It was one stop past the main town, where everyone worked. Nobody ever bothered to stay on the train past that point. Nobody needed to. Everything we wanted everything we needed was in the city, why go to that elusive sequestered stop beyond?

Daily life is monotonous. How can it not be? You have a rhythm you find a rhythm and you use it to survive and it becomes a necessity until the point comes where even changing one beat to the bar would ruin your paycheck your mortgage your grocery budget your insurance. before you know it, you are entrenched. Sure, you could break out. But would it be worth it? You know what hunger feels like.

So nobody ever takes the train on to the sequestered stop. I never even learned what that village looks like, until one night I ended up there drunk, I'd missed my stop after a night out partying in Oxford, I had never expected I'd cross the threshhold to the farplane the underdark the mirrorverse the upside down under such a condition. But there I was. And it was just like any other place, but silent, unresponsive to my state of need.

I think this is my way of explaining why I don't have a year review. It's the year of my debut novel. But I remain the same. Performing an exercise in telling without truly telling. The patterns that bind me, bind me still.

I like to hold on to the idea of the station one stop beyond my own. But it makes me sad to think about it.

[midnightportals]

[oliverferrie]

Because nothing says 'I escaped the time loop' like a new year celebration...

I can't run discounts on Amazon but I CAN give yall a 50% discount of SUGAR PEOPLE on my own site (ebooks only).

Coupon code: UGF5G74N

Applicable on the following: https://gallant.no/product/sugar-people-ebook/…

(These all get sent out personally by me, and might take a little longer if you asked for a customised message)