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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is great from @christinalamb.bsky.social on how the nuns that stitched the Bayeux Tapestry were able to smuggle in (often in the borders of the Tapestry) the stories of women and especially to illustrate how sexual violence takes place in war www.thetimes.com/article/5c86...

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Each woman smuggled into the Bayeux Tapestry tells a powerful story

Like most wars the tale is centred on men, but nuns wove a compelling subplot into the margins

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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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Amy Orrell @authoramyorrell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm so excited to reveal the cover for my latest novel, featuring my own artwork! These Fated Gifts feels like coming home, in that it combines my love of East Anglia and London with my passion for writing and painting. Coming 16th Oct from @elsewhen.press #booksky #fantasyficton #clifi

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I say, that Paradox Lost looks like a good read 😀

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Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Winchester? I was an undergrad there when it was called King Alfred’s; horrific over-administration by the usual officious sorts but first class academics (especially archaeology).

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Philip Lymbery @philip-ciwf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The #factoryfarming of animals is the greatest abuse of animals on the planet. It also jeopardises the very air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat and the nature we treasure. Yet humankind prefer to turn a blind eye to what goes on behind closed doors It shames us all @ciwf.org.uk

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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 2/2 My publisher is a small press; I'm proud of that and they're wonderful but they don't have the advertising budget of big publishers. I think even folk who have had some success struggle with "getting the word out" but if you have any book-specific tips that'd be great😊

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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 · 27/08/2026

Tolkien’s description of orcs perfectly describes AI: “The shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real things of its own.” - Frodo in The Return of the King, "The Tower of Cirith Ungol" #AISlop #Tolkien

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Gothmog Orc from Lord of the Rings

ALT: Gothmog Orc from Lord of the Rings

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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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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sci-fi, you say? Satire, you say? Dark humour, you say? Yes yes yes please. Strong title as well. Have not read this yet myself, but if any of you want to dive in before I do, please jump ahead of my disorderly queue.

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

Haha! The more queue anarchy the better 😂 And thank you.

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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 · 15/08/2026

Weird how the media didn’t lavish anything near the same attention on this “professor” (I can’t apologise, business studies is not an academic subject). I wonder why. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Suspended University of Greater Manchester boss sacked

The University of Greater Manchester sacks George Holmes who was suspended in May 2025.

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

“Thank you” always seems so inadequate a word after receiving such a lovely review but sincerely, thank you!

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Amy Orrell @authoramyorrell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Happy Publication Day to @vrling.bsky.social and @elsewhen.press 🎉 #booksky #sciencefiction #fermiparadox

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Katy Wimhurst @sylphsea.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Happy publication today - this will be a clever and witty book #booksky

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

Sorry to cold call in your post but where is the hangman’s tree? I’d love to know if that’s a bit of folklore as I’ve not heard of it before.

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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

You’re a star, thank you! I’ll be in touch when I’ve poster strafed Lincolnshire 😁

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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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Jake Yapp @jakeyapp.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Oh It turns out few things are as delightful as being slightly pissed and writing a new episode of Cornershop Showdown Please come and see shows one and two before we retire them... Show 1 is in Camden on August 10th and 11th, Show 2 is August 12th and 14th xxx www.cornershopshowdown.com for tix x

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www.cornershopshowdown.com

Tickets now on sale!

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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

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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

Thanks Cat, and I feel so lucky to have worked with Elsewhen Press.

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