Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer

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World Fantasy Award finalist. She. No AI

In Brian Froud's Green Women: bit.ly/4cOoxUT

The Gyrford series: tinyurl.com/nvvetupj

Horror reviews: https://tinyurl.com/5cyf7x5v

Patreon posts (free): https://www.patreon.com/cw/kitwhitfield

Rep: Sophie Hicks

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Cover reveal! Featuring:

- A self-taught palaeontologist and accidental witch

- A heroic young girl with ferret-training skills and raging ADHD

- A cat that can animate hand-shadows

- A daring rescuer with asexual motives

- A beloved pet that DOES NOT DIE

Pre-orders: tinyurl.com/nddx4d5p

Book cover with publication date 3rd June 2027. Book title: The Snakestone Girls by Kit Whitfield. Watercolour images of ammonite fossils and please source skeletons nestling amid kelp and henbane flowers. Quote on cover: ‘An absolute triumph’, AK Benedict.
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I mean, I probably don’t NEED to bring ammonite cookies to FantasyCon, but darn it, I am doing the Snakestone Girl thing. There is a lot of Snakestone Shortbread chilling in my fridge right now, is what I’m saying. Now I can just manage not to burn them when I bake tomorrow…

Photo: unbaked cookies in the shape of ammonites.
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Life moves in mystical cycles. Specifically, the season of I Forgot Marmite Even Exists and the season of A Day Without Marmite Is A Day Without Meaning. That’s how Marmite works, right?

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Out today, and to my unending and astonished pride, including a small piece from me! Don’t miss out - the list of fellow-contributors is amazing and the art is … well, fantasy art doesn’t get better than this.

Photograph of book: Brian Froud’s Green Women. Featuring a finally detailed image of a feminine “green man” laughing in mischief. Caption: words and stories of fantasy and myth from acclaimed women writers around the world, with provocative portraits from the “grandfather of faerie art” Brian Froud.
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Ghuls are djinni or djinn-adjacent monsters of Arabia and the Muslim world, evil spirits that dwell in cemeteries and eat the flesh of the dead: they often disguise themselves as the living and engineer mass feats of death for feasts of their own. #FairytaleTuesday

"Amine discovers the Ghoul" from a version of the Thousand and One Nights, showing the servant Amine seeing a full-blown ghoul uncovering a dead body and revealing it to the woman courting his master, who is also herself a ghoul.
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What better way to spend your October than to curl up with several dozen horror books by your favorite and new-to-you indie authors!

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Graphic for the Chills, Thrills & Kills October Itchio Sale. 93 books for $69. A VERY BIG AND SPOOKY BUNDLE of creepy and cosy reads perfect for this year’s Hallowe’en Season! Hosted by Indie Book Spotlight.
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Though in each of these situations there is actually a way he has to be active: knightly courtesy. It takes verbal skill to stop Arthur going for the Knight without dishonouring someone. It takes tact to deflect your seductive hostess. It’s all about talk, but Gawain treats that as a real skill.

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While at the same time Gawain was so alienating - in such a frustrating way to watch, because it’s all about selfishness and passivity, which are anti-story - that I didn’t feel intellectually simulated, just narratively disengaged.

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