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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

102 years ago a young girl, Edna Cornwell, won 2nd prize in a poetry competition. The published piece was cut out and stuck proudly on a wall. At some point the excerpt was placed inside the book she won as a prize & it passed into other hands, perhaps after she died. Hello Edna, and well done 💙📚

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you’d like to know what the furniture massacre is, why aliens find cricket amusing, and see lots of corrupt folk get their comeuppance then my new novel “Paradox Lost” is available as an ebook or paperback: www.amazon.co.uk/Paradox-Lost... #Booksky #satire #scifi #scifibooks

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🔭 If you’d like to acquaint yourself with the furniture massacre, the chessboard murder, and why aliens find cricket amusing, you can purchase my new novel “Paradox Lost” from all the usual places as an ebook or paperback: www.amazon.co.uk/Paradox-Lost... #sciencefiction #satiricalbooks #ufosky

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

@michaelspicer.bsky.social 1/2 Hello Michael, would you have any advice/suggestions for a nobody author with regards to tips for promoting their book? I know, if you had the answer to that you could bottle it, but I figured it was worth asking.

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Thank you to Tony Whatley for the review of Paradox Lost on the Suspect Device blogspot page: suspectdevicehq.blogspot.com/p/reviews_29... #scifi #booksky #speciesism #satire #aliens

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

⭐️✨ PARADOX LOST ✨⭐️ No aliens were harmed in the writing of this book… but an undisclosed number of upper class egos lost their mint condition status. 🧪 🔭 #booksky #sciencefiction #aliens #satire #books

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hough-on-the-Hill church, Lincolnshire: Lovely Saxon tower with exterior stair turret. I can’t be the only person who says “Saxon” and thinks “Rohirrim”. #archaeology #oldbuildings #lincolnshire

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If this were a half civilised universe all bus stops would be paired with an early nineteenth century water pump that doubles as a mile stone. Normanton-on-Cliffe in Lincolnshire leading by example. #archaeology #history #waterpump

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The more I explore Lincolnshire the more obvious it becomes they once had a real problem with dragons back in the day. Here’s St Michael spearing one on lovely Stragglethorpe church. #dragons #archaeology #folklore

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Thank you to Tony Whatley @suspectdevicezine.bsky.social for today’s review of Paradox Lost on the Suspect Device blogspot page: suspectdevicehq.blogspot.com/p/reviews_29... #scifi #booksky #animalrights

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If there’s a piece of local history you’re worried is falling into disrepair it’s worth throwing your concern to the relevant authority. It can result in preservation steps and shows the owner/powers that be that they can’t get away with letting it slide into decay; people DO care and ARE watching!

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

📚💙 The English tradition of floater dodging is all too often overlooked by sci-fi authors but my new novel “Paradox Lost” has it in hand. Figuratively 😬 #scifi #satire #sewage

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

For those who like their sci-fi laced with satire and dark humour, my new novel "Paradox Lost" is out today. #scifi #scifibooks #vegan #animalrights #booksky

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It’s publication day tomorrow so I’m gathering up the merchandise and heading out in the morning to see how many local businesses will let me do a bit of window dressing ☺️ #Booksky #ParadoxLost #SciFi

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Please put a shallow dish of water out for wildlife. They desperately need the help in this heat. #wildlife #heatwave #animals

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I don’t want to crash the internet but I just found three - yes, three - mass dials on a single church porch. This might well make me the coolest kid in (church specific archaeology circles) town. Wigtoft church, Lincolnshire. #archaeology #massdial #history

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Straight out of a fairy tale: Scredington church, Lincolnshire. #archaeology #oldbuildings #history

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

How much wood would a woodnook nook if a woodnook could nook wood?

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

One small tree. A dozen happy sparrows. The best* thing you can do today is plant a tree. *next to overthrowing capitalism #wildlife #birds #trees #nature

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Medieval mass dial on a buttress of Billinghay church, Lincolnshire. A mass dial is a form of sun dial that was used to denote the ‘time’ (roughly speaking) for liturgical services. #archaeology #churches #history #sundials

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Anwick church, Lincolnshire: Daisy wheel carved into the porch. Typically a type of witch’s mark, this one appears alongside a lot of late 17th/18th century graffiti which might link to when the porch served as the village schoolroom. #archaeology #folklore #history

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Digby church, Lincolnshire: Local folklore says that if you run backwards around the grave of Robert Cooke that you’ll hear crockery rattling from inside the tomb. #folklore #archaeology #history

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Just received my author's copies from @elsewhen.press and look how cute they are: bonny bouncing quintruplets. Look at their little hands, their little eyes, and all the consonants. Available to adopt from all the usual places: books2read.com/ParadoxLost #Booksky #SciFi #Satire #DarkHumour

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Love animals? Hate capitalism? I have just the book for you… #booksky #books #animals #scifi

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

A peaceful thousand year old oasis on the edge of an otherwise heaving Stamford town centre. St Leonard’s priory was founded around 1100. Two eastern bays of the original nave are early 12th century. #archaeology #history #OldBuildings

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My new novel, Paradox Lost, might not smash the patriarchy but it *does* kick it in the nuts. And every kick helps. And I never thought opening with two men being killed would be a unique selling point, but stone me, we live in strange times. #booksky #misogyny #scifi

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Wise old Tetford church (Lincolnshire) has seen it all before.

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Unusual Saxon (11th-ish century) carving of a cat above a window in the beautiful church of Barnetby le Wold, Lincolnshire. #Saxon #Archaeology #Cats

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Found this little chap out in the daylight looking very lethargic. No obvious injuries so probably a high internal parasite burden (like Westminster). 1.5 hour trip to a rescue and he’s now in good hands. I’ll collect him hopefully once he has been treated and is well enough. #hedgehogs #wildlife

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

“A book that doesn’t pull its punches! When the human race is designated too abhorrent for first contact do you study it from a distance or grab a portal hopping device & start making amends. Paradox Lost is gripping sci-fi with a darkly humorous flip side” – Alan Marshall, bass/vocals, Hack Job 📚💙

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

For those who like their sci-fi laced with satire and dark humour, my new novel "Paradox Lost" will be unleashed by @elsewhen.press on 14th August. Please form an orderly queue at your nearest book shop and always remember to heed the crush barriers 😜 #Booksky #SciFi #AnimalRights

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Giving wildlife a helping hand, especially when it’s hot, is easy and inexpensive. Large plastic tray & solar fountain = £15 #wildlife #birds #heatwave #animals

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Large plastic tray and solar fountain. Total cost = £15. The birds love it! And it’s a lifesaver for all kinds of wildlife. #wildlife #heatwave #birds #hedgehogs

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Dragonby dragon in north Lincolnshire. It’s a natural limestone deposit but it really does look otherworldly. Local folklore says a wizard turned the dragon to stone. #folklore #dragons

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Rudston Monolith, East Yorkshire, is the largest single standing stone in England. #archaeology #history

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

My greenhouse mouse, Graeme Souness, would like to ask you to leave a clean bowl of water out for wildlife. Hedgehogs, badgers, birds, and even tiny Graeme would really appreciate it, especially in the hot weather. Thank you from Graeme. #wildlife #heatwave #nature

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Got a “feed me, Seymour” situation with the lavender this year. It’s gone bonkers.

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Please leave a clean, shallow bowl of water out for wildlife, every day and night if possible and especially in the current heat. #wildlife #hedgehogs #heatwave

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Temple Bruer preceptory dates from the 13th century. It’s one of few Knights Templar sites with standing remains… and these remains are well worth a visit. You can even make your way up the extremely tight staircase to the first floor. #KnightsTemplar #archaeology #history #historicsites

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

St. Olave’s church, Ruckland. The smallest church in Lincolnshire.

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Crowland Abbey possesses a green man roof boss. It’s unusual to find a green man in the altar and sanctuary but this one has been in place since the 15th century.

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The stunning Crowland Abbey was founded in the eighth century. The ruins date mainly from the 12th to 15th centuries but the nave of the former church still serves as the parish church of Crowland.

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Trinity Bridge in Crowland, Lincolnshire is a unique triangular stone bridge built in the 14th century. Before they were redirected, it use to span the confluence of the river Welland and a tributary. #Archaeology #History

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Ghost stories/stories of the uncanny from the late Victorian period to 1930s-ish are in a league of their own. This excerpt is from Arthur Machen’s “The Terror” (1917). #Booksky #OldBooks #GhostStories

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Book recommendation: If you like folklore, you’ll love this. I’ve only just started but it’s extremely good. A beautifully written walk through Lincolnshire folklore. #Booksky #Folklore

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