Jun 4, 2019
The lovely @tatchianamichaela drew a scene from The Princess and the Dragon and Other Stories About Unlikely Heroes, so I have written a blog post about it.
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The lovely @tatchianamichaela drew a scene from The Princess and the Dragon and Other Stories About Unlikely Heroes, so I have written a blog post about it.
Patrons, the first chapter of dragonnovel 1.0 is available to read!
Did a little bit of chatting about it over on Indifferent Ignorance as well.
Looking for some summer reading? May I suggest a small, sarcastic book… I think I wrote it in 2014, so I should probably do a Volume II feat. 2016, but I don't know if I have the mental energy.
Coconut Candy & Crocodiles: the Mekong Delta
Hi from Vietnam! We’ve been here a couple of weeks already and done a lot, and I’m going to post slightly randomly, because we did a few more museums and – surprise! – they were grim. So to start, here is our day trip from south from Saigon (that’s Ho Chi Minh City to anyone who can be arsed to use the city’s post-war name, which is zero people out here) to the Mekong Delta.
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Reasons to Let Trump into the UK
This post isn’t about South East Asia! Anyway so in case you’ve been living under a rock (great idea, by the way), there’s a petition asking the government to downgrade President Dickhead’s state visit to a regular one. I haven’t signed it, because although a state visit for a US president during their first year in office is unprecedented, and despite the opportunities it gives Katie Hopkins and Nigel Farage to spout more self-aggrandising bile than we thought possible, I think a Trump administration state visit actually holds a wealth of opportunity for us all. No really bear with me...
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Ringing in some changes
Ringing in some changes
I am balancing a pot of tea, a cup, a teeny milk jug and a large slice of cake next to this laptop, on a table designed to hold about a third as many objects. I’ve set everything up now, though, so I feel obligated to do something while the tea steeps. So I’m here! Hi! If you’re new here, welcome. If you’re not new, I feel like I should reintroduce myself. I’m Francesca, I’m a writer and an…
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A quick chat and a cool tree photo
A quick chat and a cool tree photo
Hi hi. Happy palindrome day! Apparently today’s date is also an ambigram, which means it looks the same upside down. This feels fitting. A bloke on the radio this morning* kept referring to Russia invading Ukraine as a bit like the Cuban Missile Crisis and let’s just say that if this was 10 years ago and I was still doing GCSE history, I would appreciate that reference! As it is all I can think…
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Read, If You Like: Non Fiction Edition
Read, If You Like: Non Fiction Edition
Happy new year! I don’t usually gravitate towards non fiction, but there are a handful I’ve read over the last couple of years that I’ve really enjoyed, so I thought I’d share them here. As usual, you can find them on my Bookshop.org recommendations. Read The Importance of Being Interested, by Robin Ince (2021), if you like: A bit of science, but not so much you have to actually be a…
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