Emily Inkpen
@emilyinkpen
Sci-fi and fantasy author, writer of The Dex Legacy BSFA Award-winning audio drama, Social Media Officer @BSFA, gamer, bi, proud epileptic and aspiring grown-up 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Ran into this one in London today (on purpose) 😄 It was very warm but perfect weather for Eat Tokyo and a natter! Great to see you Ben Unsworth! ♥️
My favourite tree caught the light today and I had to capture it. It is mighty and glorious ♥️
I stopped posting as many selfies because I stopped wearing make-up every day. It’s hot and I wfh and there’s no need. But what’s that saying about my ability to just be me? So - in an effort to show you my true look, here’s my no-make-up face 😅 hope you’re having a good day! ♥️
Learn the joys and challenges of writing fantasy races, with prolific fantasy and crime novelist, Stephen Aryan. 🎧 search Writing Worlds Podcast in your favourite podcast app!
A lovely milestone and a lovely comment to match! The novelisation is currently with a publisher 🤞, but the market for grimdark sci-fi is tough right now so if they don’t pick it up I’ll be self-pubbing. You heard it here first! 🔥
On my way to the Red Valley wrap party yesterday, and what a great event. Fab seeing friends in real life, many for the first time! And such a great show, well deserving of their HUGE audience. If you haven’t listened yet, definitely do, it’s quality gold spec fic through and through ♥️🔥🎉
Okay, so I only buy a notebook after I’ve finished the last one. I kinda look forward to going and finding the next when I can see room running out in the current. But everyone else I know buys notebooks compulsively and hoards them 😄 so am I a genuine anomaly?
Melting on the train to get a cold pint (or two) with my partner-in-crime in Dex 😅 it’s what we do for art 😆🔥🍻
Milestone for Wasteland! This plucky little show keeps getting the downloads - and I’ll be showing it come writing love with a second season real soon ♥️
On my way to Alanis Morissette at Crystal Palace - and it’s the maiden voyage of these sunglasses 😆 let’s party!
An absolutely phenomenal book and essential reading for everybody - especially now. Buy it. Consume it. It is highly unlikely that you’ll regret it. Blurb: Thirty years ago, Vanessa Springora was the teenage muse of one of France’s most celebrated writers, a footnote in the narrative of an👇
In episode 9 of Writing Worlds we talk Game Worlds with the legendary Peter F. Hamilton 🚀 Listen free on your favourite podcast platform 🎧
Catching up with posts here - catch MJ Kuhn on Belief Systems on the Writing Worlds podcast - free to listen to on all podcast platforms. It was a chat that went well beyond the religious, moving into militaries and… corporate mission statements! Listen now! 🎧
When one is invited to be a sky pirate in a live RPG - one doesn’t dress down 🏴☠️🦾♥️😄 catch it here: www.youtube.com/live/jgrO8aB...
On my way to Spotlight Indie Weekend in Shrewsbury and my eyes were doing a “thing” 😄 anyway - some obligatory train selfies ♥️
All limbs crossed for you David!🤞♥️🫂 the Dex fam is behind you… and that should be pretty intimidating tbh 😆
The Dex Legacy - Season 3 has been nominated for a European Science Fiction Award in the category of Best Dramatic Presentation! I’m so honoured I can’t even. We’re the only audio drama, standing alongside movies, plays, and even a soundtrack. The list is tough and just being on it means the world!
Catch the amazing Jeremy Szal on the podcast, talking about alien species! Just search Writing Worlds Podcast in your favourite podcast app ♥️🎧
An educational time learning about the Battle of Trafalgar, followed by pints and giggles at the most amazing pub in London. If you ever find yourself there, go down to the basement… then the next basement… and then the basement after that 😄
I’m not normally one to defend MET Gala choices, but if we see the - “Fashion as Art” inspired by historic statues and sculptures - as an opportunity for critique, it should be directed at all the female subjects carved with a single boob hanging out, not at a celeb for being on theme and… 👇
Intrusive thought mid-clothes sort: “Solid hero characters have strong redemption arcs… As people go, I’m “alright” so… shit… my own redemption arc’ll be rubbish. Perhaps I should go fuck some shit up…”
