Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚

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

💙📚 I just had someone compare one of my books to P.G. Wodehouse and no one can ever take that away from me; my brain banked it and immediately stuck its fingers in its ears to anything else happening in the world “la la la la I can’t hear you”

Looking forward to getting a signed copy of this from @vrling.bsky.social at this year's Novacon Convention @novacon.bsky.social 😁

📚💙Chuffed to share this review of Paradox Lost… being compared to Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams is incredibly humbling but forgive me if I bask with unbridled smugness in the comparison too 😁🐳 #scifi #satire #NewBooks #TBR #animallover #ScienceFiction

‘Great concept executed with wit and wry humour’ GR Review of Paradox Lost by @vrling.bsky.social @elsewhen.press www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

If you’d like to know what the chessboard murder is, or why aliens find cricket amusing, or see corrupt politicians 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 #animalrights #animallover

Hi I’m Simba, My ball toy is my favourite thing but a close second is this brill book by V.R. Ling which includes a strong cat presence. In fact it’s a must for all animal lovers. But this is my copy. You can’t have my copy. I keep it with my ball toy. You can’t have that either. #NailedTheMarketing

#amreading this weekend The dryly funny sci fi satirical take on humans by @vrling.bsky.social and @elsewhen.press If you enjoy Pratchett or Douglas Adams you’ll love this What are you reading? #booksky

Publication day & a big thank you to @elsewhen.press! These Fated Gifts, set in a flooded parallel world, tells the story of estranged twin sisters, Elin and Bryn, fated to defend both old world and new from the man who orphaned them. books2read.com/TheseFatedGi... #booksky #fantasyficton #clifi

As a publisher - no AI ever. As a reader, I will not purchase books made with AI slop. I only want human authors writing books. Feel free to let me know which publisher/organizations are already using the tech so that I can avoid them.

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...

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 💙📚

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

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

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

🔭 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

Why the arts are important:

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

Thank you to Cat Treadwell for the review of Paradox Lost! #booksky #scifi #scifibooks catsbooks.substack.com/p/paradox-lo...

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

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.

⭐️✨ 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

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

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

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

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!

📚💙 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

Happy Book Birthday to @vrling.bsky.social and @elsewhen.press with the glorious scifi adventure 'Paradox Lost' ❤️👏🏻 Check out my review here: catsbooks.substack.com/p/paradox-lo...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

🚨AVAILABLE TO PREORDER 🚨 🌏⚫️🌏⚫️ “A book that doesn’t pull its punches! Paradox Lost is gripping sci-fi with a darkly humorous flip side” - Alan Marshall, bass, Hack Job “It’s brilliant!” - Jake Yapp, comedian “..a thrilling story” - Prof Daniel Whiteson, physicist #Booksky

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

If there's any justice in this life, there'll be a special place in hell for people who paint vintage/antique furniture.