Karen Bayly

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Genre blending fantasy, sci-fi, horror author. Lives in Sydney with two cats, a guitar and a ukulele. Member of SFWA and HWA. She / her
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Websitehttps://karenbayly.com
My first children’s story, “The Wimbledon Witches Fete”, is included in this #childrensbook from Black Hare Press. Dark tales for brave and clever children. Not recommended for scaredy cat adults.
Pleasant #bushwalk at Plough and Harrow in Western Sydney Parklands. I was hoping to see #australianbirds other than the usual suspects, but no such luck. Oh well, here’s a Currawong.
Ways to help a writer:
-buy their book
-review their book
-tell them their book is good
-gift them a cursed mug
-blow up the moon while reciting your favorite passage from their book
-construct a giant papier-mâché quokka demon out of pages from their book and bring her to life

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I’m hoping #mastodon improves. Finding overseas friends from this server is proving impossible, even when using their full handle. Several I’ve tried don’t even appear.
@ed_hawkins Some have been pushing for the changes to prevent this since the 70s. They were regarded as whack job hippies. My lecturers at university taught us about climate change in the 90s. They were regarded as whack job greenies. It’s not like we didn’t know until now. But humans and economic systems seem to need to be on the brink of disaster to change.
@ajsadauskas One of the biggest roadblocks to effective public transport is the expectation that everyone has a car. I don’t, and there are many places I can’t get to in my own area without hiring a taxi or Uber. Other places take three to five times longer to get to with as many charges of bus and train.