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Thistle and Verse hosting a panel featuring 
@Lisa_teabag , @atullerwrites , and @jellybeanrae  to discuss subgenres in sff and sff-ish genres that predate the label. Read through the thread for more info on the panelists! 

Yvette Lisa Ndlovu is a Zimbabwean sarungano (storyteller). She is the co-founder of the 
@voodoonauts
 Summer Workshop for Black SFF writers. Her debut short story collection Drinking from Graveyard Wells is currently available for purchase.
https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813196978/drinking-from-graveyard-wells/

A Jersey native, Celestine Martin writes whimsical and flirty paranormal romance that celebrates the beauty of everyday magic. She’s inspired to write happily ever afters and happy for now endings starring the people and places close to her heart. 
https://linktr.ee/celestinemartin

Abriana Tuller (she/her) is a Vegas native who has just acquired her dream job of becoming a Micro Fiction editor and Fiction co-editor for Solarpunk magazine. Along with having an education background, Abriana is a former journalist.
 

Ringing in the New YEar Book Tag 2023 from Thistle and Verse
mentioned

• Ties that bind from Tia Miles
• Darknesses from Lachelle Seville
• Early Departures from Justin A Reynolds
• Delicious Monsters from Liselle Sambury
• Wakanda Forever from Ryan Coogler , Joe Robert Cole
• Heaven Official's Blessing from Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
• Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self from Pauline Hopkins 
• The Brothers Jetstream: Leviathan from Zig Zag Claybourne
• Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga from D.O. Fagunwa , Wole Soyinka (Translation)
• The Things That Fly in the Night from Giselle Liza Anatol
• A History of Nigeria from Toyin Falola
• The Gatekeeper's Staff: An Old Gods Story from Antoine Bandele
• Flowers for the Sea from Zin E. Rocklyn
• The Infinite from Patience Agbabi
• For the Culture Readathon from TyBooks01
• Drunken Dream of the Past from Sun Yujing performed by Lin Zhixuan

my comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKreFvghrKk&lc=UgxXtsU2FVBC5yJcoOd4AaABAg

Most THistle and Verse interview

with Kel Coleman

2022 end of year review- her award that she earned and books she has bought for 2023

Classic reviews

Hide and Seeker

Ring SHout

A Song of Wraith and Ruin

The Space Between Worlds

The Famished Road

Queen of the Conquered

Thistle and Verse post in my AALBC 

https://aalbc.com/tc/search/?q=thistle and verse&quick=1&type=core_statuses_status

Thistle and Verse, Genre Book Tag

Inheritance Trilogy Readalong Announcement [CC]
Thistle & Verse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCn9MFZ1h1o

If you're free this Saturday at 2PM EDT, Thistle and Verse will be interviewing Brent Lambert live <Please use the video interview link below!!!> Feel free to watch or stop by with questions. They will be talking about 3 of his fantasy short stories
Blood Song - man with magical abilities makes deal to save his terminally ill boyfriend
Faithful Delirium - zealots ravage land in search of cure for their ailing goddess
Vanity Among Worms - lonely man who's new in town visits a mysterious gay bar
Brent Lambert website: https://www.brentclambert.com/
Video Interview Link - Use it to see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15dOHHMAvZ4

Alexis Henderson author of the witching Q&A on Thistle and Verse with Chloe Rose

Initial 
The ghosts in savannah are mostly wraiths.
2:40 
Sequel writing is not for every writer but the financial environment of writers in modernity gears audiences to love getting sequels eternally, ala JAmes Bond or Statian Comic Book characters longevity or Golgo 13 , and industry loves feeding the desire they prompted cause it is easier to gauge profitability or trends than with porviding continuous new stories over a similar time.
4:12
writers at their best always reach their comfortability
5:17 
a great question is offered, are the characters in young adult fiction, the main plot characters , age bounded?
I think the modern readership has been manipulated, especially in the usa, to view genres with many bounds on the characters that film them. The Neverending story isn't a children's only book. 
7:08 
Alexis provides hint to her next work, she says if you like the witching you will like the next work and she is in an anthology
8:05 
Imagine a romance with that angel in hell boy golden army as a main character.
9:04
Yes, Chloe , the common reader is disconnected to desiring short stories. The world of telenovelas/movie series pushes the idea that every story must be this modern epic length. 
12:27
Interesting, I think many females like Margaret Atwood's no nonsense style  , especially in handmaids.  Yes, the south has a very agrarian relationship to spiritual. 
14:50 
Chloe ask Alexis a question never asked before by the writers viewpoint.
17:40 
Chloe asks a question I never think to ask, what edit was the toughest, I will steal that question
The structure of each of the witch's and the writers relationship to their genesis or life is good viewing/listening.
23:50 
tracy chapman shout
30:38 
yes, the bond villain is never alone, sympathy for the devil
I agree, making the financially poorest be the one who must work to improve a larger society is a dysfunction
32:26
She loved Ursula from the little mermaid. Alexis gives her position on witches in media. 
33:53 
Chloe asked Alexis who will she want to play the characters in film world
Timothée Hal Chalamet
Indya Moore for emmanuel
Nicole kidman then Tracy chapman for vera
37:56 
she references her southern baptist upbringing as a potential source to a scene in the book
38:50 
brianna collett is the voice actor for the audio book
42:23
an interesting sheparding fact, on jacob rams
we give rams a bad rap like all hoofed creatures cause of the early christian churches criminalization of the more ancient roman culture where the hoofed fauns and hoofed god pan were considered positive entities and thus criminalized the people of the countryside, the villains, who still worshipped greaco roman deities as christianity grew
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GOOD SHOW