Caroline Shea

She/her. Freelance writer and editor. Author of Lambflesh. Work with me on your next project:

[Caroline Shea @therealcshea]

In March I’m opening full-time for freelance editorial work. You can read more about my packages and rates here: https://t.co/aOPpWZPng3
I’ll also be relaunching my Patreon (https://t.co/SAjgBhf6tX) featuring free weekly interviews with writers, editors, booksellers & more!

[Caroline Shea @therealcshea]

@tidaltowns i am so sorry. that is so terrible and cruel & makes me furious for you. ❤️

[Kea @jacquemusx]

Easy question. This Jack Bridgland one is one of the best male editorials in years!!!

[Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused]

The problem is that people didn’t really agree about what a hipster was the first time round, and the first time round was the 1950s

[love drops @lovedropx]

me when someone asks what I like

[Caroline Shea @therealcshea]

all over his kitchen cabinets!!! incredible work, no notes

[teen vampire, aged 40 @witchesflight]

I’m in SHAMBLES

[Caroline Shea @therealcshea]

most people implicitly understand this imo which is why you’ll see people complain about “accuracy” in one text and turn around and defend “inaccuracy” in another when what they actually mean is “this author’s structural and stylistic choices didn’t work for me”

[Caroline Shea @therealcshea]

a lot of time when people talk about “realism” or “accuracy” in SFF or hist fic what they actually mean is consistency in world building

[Caroline Shea @therealcshea]

no your fantasy world doesn’t have to be “accurate” in its logic but if it’s inconsistent in that logic, often the immersion falls apart

[Caroline Shea @therealcshea]

@zenyanna [bravely] you’re right and you should say it!! https://t.co/zqW7IiqPw0

[Caroline Shea @therealcshea]

when you draw from real geography & history for world building i think you have to think critically about how you do so. and claiming welsh folklore & medieval lit as influences for your fae-skinned ye olde england while essentially naming your antagonist “Yreland” is..not that

[Caroline Shea @therealcshea]

@zenyanna the expansionist evil empire being named "hybern" still makes me feel so crazy lmao

[Caroline Shea @therealcshea]

when you draw from real geography & history for world building i think you have to think critically about how you do so. and claiming welsh folklore & medieval lit as influences for your fae-skinned ye olde england while essentially naming your antagonist “Yreland” is..not that

[Caroline Shea @therealcshea]

the books while not groundbreaking can be fun. but I will never be over the evil expansionist empire being an island named “Hybern” off the coast of a larger, suspiciously familiar looking landmass

[Crim of Cleves, the Half-Elf 🖤🍁 @CrimCartier]

Not as original as A Court of Thorns and Roses.

[Brent Misael 🖤 @_GooeyGUI_]

i ADORE bill gibb’s work but i’m obsessed with this dress in particular. midcentury medieval revival was one of my favorite fashion and music trends, like, ever.

[emily @memilies]

this makes me genuinely emotional. anne, you would have loved this.

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

Love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena), Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610. (Rijksmuseum)

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

i am a friend to all cats. yes even the mean ones. they have their reasons.

[yomira @_yomiraa]

Widow’s Bay time

[cate @seaofbelIs]

We should all be talking about Patricia from widow’s bay more

[Zach Schonfeld @zzzzaaaacccchhh]

It finally happened. David Marchese asked Nicolas Cage the question that I've wanted to ask Nicolas Cage for seven years.

[tar-minyatur’s court twink ✵ @caranthirs]

the thing where kids will just tell you all their family’s business must have been so funny from historical aristocratic children. you’re some humble retainer and one day apropos of nothing the crown princess is just like btw father has no hair he wears wigs. i saw him he’s bald