Elizabeth Fitzgerald @Elizabeth_Fitz@wandering.shop

Since it has been a few years since I was last here, time for an #introduction.

I am a freelance editor, specialising in SF/F. I review on my own blog (Earl Grey Editing) and for the Hugo-award-winning Nerds of a Feather.

I live in Australia, have two dogs and enjoy natural history. I'm in the middle of two tabletop campaigns: one of Blades in the Dark (smuggling crew) and one of Gloomhaven.

Welcome, July! May those of you looking for a new beginning find it today (or tomorrow, if you're further west. Or maybe today anyway).

Pity I couldn't find a gif of the spiders running away. 😂

Cleaning day always makes me feel a bit like Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle.

Perhaps that's a sad indictment of housekeeping, but the image makes me laugh.

Foz Meadows weaves a tale of healing and self-worth amid a political murder mystery in A Strange and Stubborn Endurance.

Check out my review on Nerds of a Feather.

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2022/06/microreview-strange-and-stubborn.html

#amreading #books #fantasy

Season report: bloody cold. 🥶

Maybe this will put me ahead on Hugos reading for next year.

Also, I really must manage my library holds better 🌊 📚

Library haul: sequels edition.

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I miss Spring, but I have these beauties to tide me over and the bulbs in the garden are starting to sprout green.

#florespondence

And now I'm off to finish writing my review of This All Come Back Now, an anthology of Indigenous Australian speculative fiction edited by Mykaela Saunders.

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I've had to concede defeat and return two unread books to the library today.

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake is popular and will take a while to work its way back to me. I'd hoped to see if it lived up to the hype.

League of Liars is by Astrid Scholte, who is a local author. I like to keep tabs on the local SFF scene.

They'll both make their way back to me eventually. In the meantime, I've started Chaos on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer, a contender for this year's Lodestar Award.

#amreading #books

Editing day.

Articles, Conjunctions and Prepositions, Oh My!: or the joys of title case.

Happy Solstice to all those celebrating it today. As usual, I'm marking the occasion with a manicure. Just ignore the ink stains 😅

The shortest day of the year started out with a peasoup fog and has settled into overcast weather. It makes me look forward to the return of the light all the more.