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Shelley Parker-Chan

@shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social
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Sunday Times & USA Today bestselling author of SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN and HE WHO DROWNED THE WORLD. Winner of Astounding & British Fantasy Awards. Unhealthily into monks, eunuchs, monsterfuckers shelleyparkerchan.com/learn-more

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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
I deplore the craven cowardice of those implicated in this report. That queer, BIPOC and Chinese diaspora authors were singled out for political examination, and denied a fair chance at SFF’s best-known awards, is reprehensible. Had my first book come out a year later, I’d have been disqualified too
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
love this one. One of my favourite calming comfort reads, deeply thoughtful as well as deeply emotional
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Olivia Dade @oliviawrites.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
🍓🍓 TODAY'S THE DAY! LET'S GET PETTY! 🍓🍓   My ex’s judgy older bro (39m) told him to dump me (37f). Now I'm broke & stuck in a 10-ft-wide Spite House next door. If I blast monsterfucking audiobooks & tell MLM reps that older bro can host Tupperware parties, AITA? www.harpercollins.com/products/at-...
The illustrated cover of AT FIRST SPITE by Olivia Dade, surrounded by the following descriptors: enemies to lovers, forced proximity, sweet and steamy, fat-positive heroine, ex's older brother, small town feels
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
I fully expect The Saint of Bright Doors and To Shape a Dragon’s Breath to be on every awards list this year (and I’m sure when I read The Mad Sisters of Esi I’ll think the same of it), but I must confess: I never expected to be on a list with Salman Rushdie lol
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
🐉🧧 (by the very talented—and very human—cover designer Mel Four)
Illumicrate edition of She Who Became the Sun, featuring a gold dragon in the traditional Chinese illustration style, on a red background. Cover design and illustration by Mel Four
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
standing ovation inflation: the true problem of our times
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
Voicemail: Hi Shelley, this is the local library. We were just wondering if— Me: OMG!! My library has finally figured out I’m a local author and are getting in touch! Voicemail: —you could check inside the book you borrowed, the previous patron left a bookmark inside that they want back
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
anyway, He Who Drowned the World is eligible for Hugo Best Novel, if anyone is so inclined to nominate it (thank you if you do!) I personally like it better than She Who Became the Sun, but I write to my own taste, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
US hardback of He Who Drowned the World, featuring Chinese ink illustration of traditional ships battling against an ominous blue moon and purple sky, propped next to a framed illustration of Zhu Yuanzhang wearing a monk’s traveling hat and holding the Mandate of Heaven, done by Glassbearer
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
wait, all I had to do was put my preorder reward short story up on my website for it to count as published, and it would make my 240,000+ words series (two books and the short story) eligible for Best Series?? I AM CRYING
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
cried actual tears by page 2, was snort-laughing throughout, and legit SCREAMING by the end
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
after months of imaginative labour I have constructed my magnum opus: a world without breasts
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Sam Hawke @samhawkewrites.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
Oh, nothing, just @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social unravelling then reassembling my heart with this beautiful cruel beast of a book
Copy of Shelley Parker-Chan’s He Who Drowned the World on the reader’s lap
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 14/01/2024
learned a new word: “the croton hues of the Impressionists”, where croton is this colourful tropical plant I never knew the name of! I remember being enraptured the first time I saw them, in Yogyakarta in my early twenties
Waxy-leaved tropical shrubs of about 1.5m high, with each plant having leaves of bright green, variegated yellow-green, as well as variegated magenta-dark green
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
as a writer I sometimes break out in a cold sweat thinking about my kid and her fellow fifth graders critiquing The Hunger Games as having “kinda a slow start”
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
“what kind of personality will be the engine to get me between these disparate plot points that I came up with to generate the one (1) scene I’m actually invested in” (it’s like solving a multi-variable equation where the variables are, I guess, the Issues that shape their interaction styles)
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
just when you buckaroos thought 2024 would be a break from book drama, here comes chuck tingle in the mix. recently i was asked to be a featured speaker for the TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION conference. a few days ago they rescinded my invitation. here is what happened. tumblr.com/drchucktingl...
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
have reached the “fandom ancient” stage where I can binge The Boys and reminisce about each of these middle-aged men when they were 20 and beautiful. Dark Angel and Gossip Girl are easy, Karl Urban has been in everything, but do YOU remember Antony Starr as a centaur in Xena: Warrior Princess? 😂
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
instead of telling me for the nth time to watch Blue Eye Samurai, petition someone in Hollywood to buy my TV rights lol
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
what’s the last word you looked up in 2023? mine is ‘aspergillium’ (‘implement for sprinkling holy water’) which appears in Dwight Garner’s memoir The Upstairs Delicatessen as a stand-in for a priest’s exposed penis
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
if you, like me, like to ring in the new year by reading a book in the bathtub…why not consider He Who Drowned the World, which is $4.99, this December 31 only, at the US Kindle store? (me, I’ll be re-reading Tana French’s Faithful Place, my second favourite of hers) www.amazon.com/Drowned-Worl...
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Amazon.com: He Who Drowned the World: A Novel (The Radiant Emperor Duology Book 2) eBook : Parker-Ch...
He Who Drowned the World: A Novel (The Radiant Emperor Duology Book 2) - Kindle edition by Parker-Chan, Shelley. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features...
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Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
Very well: 4 UK/IE kindle copies of SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN by @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social, free for the taking. amazon.co.uk/kindle/redee... amazon.co.uk/kindle/redee... amazon.co.uk/kindle/redee... amazon.co.uk/kindle/redee... #KindleBookGiveaway
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Maria the Third @seriuzbiznus.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
Highly recommended to anyone that recently enjoyed Blue Eye Samurai on Netflix!
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
The healthy unhealthy motivation.
Laforge meme
Spite based creativity vs fear of dying based creativity
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
earlier this year I had the half-formed idea to become familiar with all the ‘dried things’ (you know what I mean) in the Chinese grocery store, but only got as far as lily flowers, tea tree mushrooms and dried gluten…perhaps completing this delicious quest can be my new year resolution?
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
She Who Became the Sun is £0.99 on Kindle in the UK until 6 Jan, if you wanted to dip your toe into the Radiant Emperor series for practically nothing: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B08Q...
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She Who Became the Sun: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller (The Radiant Emperor Book 1) eBook : ...
She Who Became the Sun: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller (The Radiant Emperor Book 1) eBook : Parker-Chan, Shelley: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
one of my favourite reads this year was Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld, a mid-life romance scaffolded equally by the fever-dream world of late night comedy TV production, and the dispiriting reality of the pandemic
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
Because nobody ever told me—and the article doesn’t mention it either—this form of hormonal birth control made me weep uncontrollably 24/7, even though I had no history of depression. I thought I’d lost my mind! Would have been nice to know it’s a possible side effect www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/w...
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Teens in Search of Birth Control Have Embraced the Hormonal Implant
The implant is effective, low-maintenance and relatively pain-free to get.
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D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
This is extremely sad for the genre. Small Beer have put out, over its years, a unique and incredible catalogue. I really hope @gavingrant.bsky.social is able to take good care of himself, and finds a way to keep highlighting new work and writers. www.tor.com/2023/12/20/s...
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Small Beer Press Is Halting New Publications
Small Beer Press closed to submissions in March 2023, and it looks likely that they won’t open for more submissions, at least in the near future, due to publisher health complications caused by the�...
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
approximately everyone and their neighbour has recommended this book to me—and if that’s the case for you too, then now’s an excellent time to grab it from your (US) ebook retailer of choice
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
…this seems like something I would love to have in Melbourne? that it might even be possible for someone as socially ungifted as me to organise, given that I know many readers and my spouse is a musician who knows many other musicians and small suitable bars…HMM www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/b...
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It’s My Party and I’ll Read If I Want To
Reading Rhythms bills itself as a series of “reading parties,” where guests read silently for an hour and chat with strangers about the books they brought. (Just don’t call it a book club.)
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
Fellow Travelers destroying me, week after week
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
I had no idea that Curtis Sittenfeld, who I only knew by reputation as a former prodigy who writes about WASPs and US politicians, would be the author of a contemporary romance that fulfills my reading desires exactly??
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
I don’t feel like writing, so I’m going to maybe catch Past Lives before it leaves cinemas, go for a run, finish John McPhee’s Draft No. 4 (useful ideas about structure!), and start my anticipated read of @laurarsamotin.bsky.social’s The Sins on Their Bones. Not every day has to be a words day 🤷🏻
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
they told us Australians to brace for a wild summer, but I never expected Melbourne to develop a monsoon
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
“I do not like this one so well. all he does is yell, yell, yell. I will not have this one about. When he comes in I put him out,” I say to myself, pressing mute on anyone who annoys me for a flicker of a second on social media
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
I haven’t met an Olivia Atwater book yet that hasn’t instantly become a favourite comfort read. As with T Kingfisher’s fantasy romances, they don’t shy away from the structural shittiness of the world, but the protagonists are courageously moral in a way that wards off despair. Highly recommended!
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 27/11/2023
ICYMI I rounded up my picks for the ten best science fiction/fantasy books of 2023 in the @washingtonpost.com (Paywall-free link below.) I've been meaning to do a thread about them, but (gestures around with flappy hands) life kinda got in the way. Better late than never....
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 27/11/2023
I feel like some really great PhD dissertations are going to be written about queerness and gender subversion in 2020s SFF, and this duology will be at the dead center of that discussion.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 27/11/2023
I really loved She Who Became the Sun by @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social, but I was nervous about how the second book of the duology would pay off that shocking ending of the first book. I needn't have worried. Everyone I know agrees He Who Drowned the World just got better.
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
co-signed!
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
I’m on a book-buying ban, but whoops, finger totally slipped on that preorder button
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Gazan poet Mosab Abu Toha's collection THINGS YOU MAY FIND HIDDEN IN MY EAR, made available to download for free from City Lights Books. He was recently abducted by the Israeli army.
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Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear
Winner of the Palestine Book Award and the American Book Award National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry Finalist Shortlisted for the 2022 Walcott Poetry Prize  “Written from his native
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
reading book 1 of Dunnett’s Lymond series again, and becoming vexingly reacquainted with the feeling of “am I dumb or is this harder than Shakespeare, because I understand fucking nothing”
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Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Books of 2023. The genre is littered with series that don't pay off. Shelley Parker-Chan made sure the Radiant Emperor duology was not one of them, with an incredibly powerful series closer.
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He Who Drowned the World
The sequel and series conclusion to She Who Became the Sun, the accomplished, poetic debut of war and destiny, sweeping across an epic alternate China. Mulan...
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
not only am I not offended, but I actively encourage my friends not to eat their icing so I can have it
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
chuffed to be on this list in the Washington Post, along with some very fine companions. Thanks, @charliejane.bsky.social! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/1...
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The 10 best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2023
These titles feature a cursed film strip, high-flying martial arts, thoughtful reflections on climate change and more.
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
my top three movies on the cry-o-meter in recent memory: 1. Suzume 2. Coco 3. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
the first time I’ve ever succeeded at getting tickets from a waitlist, and it was All of Us Strangers at MQFF!! my standards for timey-wimey tearjerkers are HIGH, let’s fucking goooooo
Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal in some intensely bisexual (purple) nightclub lighting“It was also memorably described by IndieWire’s David Ehrlich as a “nuclear-grade tearjerker”. Bring tissues. Bring a lot of tissues.”
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Tig Notaro
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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
ever since I suggested that my library acquire a copy of this totally obscure book called The Fourth Wing, they now instantly purchase everything I request. stop me before the power goes to my head!!!
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