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Sunday 10th May, 2015

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Not a lot to mention this week. I attended the third York Social this weekend – but won’t be making it to the next Sheffield one at the end of June. I saw Big Game today, and that was actually, dare I say it, more fun than Age of Ultron. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Avengers stuff but Big Game was a nice 90 minutes (ish) of PG-13 action-adventure and the tone was exactly right for my entertainment needs this evening.

Of course, I need to mention my first post for The Finishing School (direct link to post here: [External Link]) went up on Wednesday. It’s about time that someone pointed out that martial arts don’t have to be the centre of your world to be enjoyable, and that it’s okay to have other interests, don’t you think? So, I did. I’m due to do another post for them soon, too, and hope to get it sorted for the first week in June, so expect me to bang on about The Finishing School in about three weeks!

Sunday 3rd May, 2015

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First of all, a reminder about my #BADD2015 post: Is It Time To Retrain… As A Fish?. If you follow the #BADD2015 link [External Link]), you should also be able to find posts by a bunch of other people about disablism and disability. There’s plenty of interesting blogs linked in there!

Blogging Against Disablism Day, May 1st 2015

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This week seems to be a good time to do a recap of online presence, so I’ll now come out and admit to having presence on four more social media platforms, not all of which can be added to the list in the top corner or to the batch to the right. So the full list for hunting me down on general platforms looks like this:

  • I’m on the rather quiet Ello as Jo Thomas / Journeymouse [External Link]. I don’t post that much on Ello but I do put up annoncements of the site diary updates. Not much interacting going on as things stand.
  • I’m on Facebook quite a lot as Jo Thomas [External Link]. I’m unlikely to accept friend requests unless I’ve met you in person some time and have the brain power to recognise you. However, this doesn’t stop you following me or being able to respond to posts and such if you want to interact with me.
  • I’m on Google+ as Jo Thomas [External Link], although this is another one I don’t really do much on. I follow some people, +1 a few posts but rarely make comments or post anything of my own aside from the site diary posts.
  • I’m on Pinterest as Jo Thomas [External Link], although I don’t do a massive amount of pinning, you can find out about the things I covet and a few things that I own (I don’t generally admit to which is which on Pinterest, though).
  • I’m on Tsu as Jo Thomas / Journeymouse [External Link]. I’m new to this one, so haven’t really worked out how much attention I shall actually be paying – but please do say “hello”.
  • I’m on Twitter as Jo Thomas / Journeymouse [External Link] and I tweet fairly often. I’m not quite an every minute of the day tweeter but I can go through a few flurries of activity a day.

I’m also on three book / reading specific sites:

  • I’m on BookLikes as [External Link]. I try to post a quote from whatever I’ve been reading, writing, or editing (where it’s my work – I don’t have the right to do this for other people’s work) but this sometimes slips.
  • BookVibes [External Link] is done through my Twitter account, so I’m on as Jo Thomas / Journeymouse. There isn’t much interaction, as things stand.
  • I’m on Goodreads as Jo Thomas [External Link]. Questions are open if you feel a burning desire to ask me anything about being an author.

Final thing to mention is that my first post for The Finishing School [External Link] should be up on Wednesday, so expect me to be making some noise online about it during the week.

Sunday 26th April, 2015

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This one’s a week of heads ups, again. Let’s start with the one I mentioned last week:

Blogging Against Disablism Day, May 1st 2015

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You may remember Blogging Against Disablism Day from previous years (#BADD2013, #BADD2014). It’ll be rolling around again (#BADD2015 [External Link]) on May 1st – which is never an auspicious day according to folklore and legend, but so far it hasn’t mattered! My post will go live shortly after midnight (and this is the link in advance). It’s automated because I can’t guarantee that I’ll have time to organise stuff before toddling off to work in the morning. Expect the tweets, Facebook & Google plus plugs to turn up after work (5pm BST).

If you follow the BADD link, you should also be able to find posts by a bunch of other people about disablism and disability. I will also be mentioning it again next weekend – after the fact – in order to make sure everyone gets a full round of attention. You can find my previous posts for #BADD2013 and #BADD2014 under my “Living Life” section along with (at the moment) a couple of other posts.

Next thing up is two lots of Fur-Skins related news, specifically, Elkie-based.

Firstly, 25 Ways To Kill A Werewolf is the sponsor of Werewolf News, as of Monday 20th April. You can find Werewolf New’s post about it here: [External Link] They’re very pro werewolf but have kindly agreed to overlook that there’s a lycanthropic body count in my book!

Second piece of news is that the second Elkie book, A Pack Of Lies, is on course to be released at Edge Lit in July. My publisher, Fox Spirit Books [External Link], has a joint session with Boo Books [External Link] for launches and readings – so guess who will (probably) be reading at Edge Lit.

The next heads up is regarding another pet project of Adele Wearing, or Auntie Fox of Fox Spirit Books. She’s launched a great new blog / resource called The Finishing School [External Link] that is all about Martial Arts, written by various women in martial arts. I’ve been invited to write some blog posts on HEMA and, once I’ve actually sat down and written them, they should be appearing in the near future.

Finally, you may remember me announcing my short story An Invisible Tide being published in The Future Fire [External Link]. Well, TFF did a run of mini-interviews with contributors and you can find mine on Facebook, here: [External Link]. There’s also one with the illustrator here (also on Facebook): [External Link]. And don’t forget I have some more background posted here.