Andi
@andiwrites
SFF writer, disability comms person. Likes: knitting🧶 board games🎲 sea creatures🐙 reading📚 cheese🧀. Lives: Te Awakairangi ki Tai | Lower Hutt. Pronouns: they/them. 🏳🌈🏳️⚧️🩼♾️
It's release day! Like sea magic? Ghostly ships? A queer protag with ADHD? Tides of Time has all this and more. It's available on all the usual platforms at: books2read.com/b/tides3 Or start the series at books2read.com/b/tides1
It's a -feeling- seeing things you were involved in organising on a timeline like you were there in history.
Look at this shiny bookmark-trophy I got as a @tepaetawhitiawards.bsky.social finalist!
Good turnout on a cold day 🏳️⚧️ I didn't manage all the march but did what I could.
And lastly Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White. It's dystopian and harrowing in places - I put off reading it for a while - but it also really sucks you in. Pacey with terrifying worldbuilding.
Power to Yield and Other Stories by Bogi Takács. I finally got to read the "turned into a houseplant" story Bogi hinted at a while back! Enjoyed basically all of these stories, and loved the wide range of ideas underpinning them.
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. One of those books that part breaks you and part heals you. Filled in a lot of gaps from the author's previous book, and acknowledged a lot of messiness. Important reading.
Menewood by Nicola Griffiths - I grew up already feeling points of connection to Hild/a and to be honest this series feels as much like lost lore to me as fiction. It's also just really well researched and crafted. It's long but doesn't feel like a chore to read at all.
This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham. Look, this YA won't change your world but it was a lot of fun. Teenage me who loved Point Horror would have loved this with all the horror, minus the weird misogyny and plus large amounts of gay.
A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard - this series is so rich in its worldbuilding, but here I particularly appreciated the depth, the echos of past wrongs and how the permeate the world.
Lakelore by AnnaMarie McLemore is beautiful magic-realist YA, with two Latino, ND, non-binary teens, their (supportive!) families, and a world beneath a lake (which is one of my favourite story topics).
I know when I went round saying 2026 was going to be my Luddite year most of you thought I was just really sick of AI. The truth is, I'm really sick of generative AI, engaging in political activism in the best ways available to me, _and_ I bought a handloom.
Also really cool to bump into several of the D*List crew and see these resources.
Main drawcard for me was hearing Rebecca Kuang speak and she absolutely did not disappoint. Daniel Hahn's translating Shakespeare discussion, which I picked out almost at random turned out to be another highlight.
Auckland friends, I'm lurking around the Writers' Festival until late afternoon tomorrow. Say hi if you're doing the same.
Made it to Auckland. Had new food experience. Now hanging out in giant hotel room.
Kirikiriroa Hamilton, I am at Ages of Pages tomorrow. Table K05. Come say hi! 🇳🇿📚
Made the first mitten in 2019. Finished the second today. Nice and quick pattern if you don't leave a seven year gap mid project. 🇳🇿🧶
"Spellcasting On" has made the Sir Julius Vogel Award shortlist for 2026. Thank you to everyone who nominated, and congratulations to my fellow shortlistees.