Ellie Blackwood
Bookish Whovian tea fiend, video creator, and sci-fi/fantasy writer-in-progress. ellieblackwood.com
- Reposted by Ellie BlackwoodHi friends, just checking in from Minneapolis. Can we put out a couple asks for your support? 💕 Turns out, it's really hard to run a lit mag in your free time when the federal government has besieged your beloved city.
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- Reposted by Ellie BlackwoodUrgent call to action, Texans: we need to write to our State Board of Education members and tell them NOT to adopt the proposed required reading list they’re considering at the the end of the month. It is BAD. I wrote about why here: franklinstrong.substack.com/p/call-to-ac...
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- Reposted by Ellie BlackwoodBCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
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- Earlier this year, I took a trip to south Wales to see how many Doctor Who filming spots I could find in one day. Watch my new video to learn what I discovered during my adventure through time and space ... and Cardiff! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRA7...
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- Reposted by Ellie BlackwoodIT IS ALIVE!! Behold the cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories, out in April! Preorder while it is still legal to distribute through the mail!
- At the Tachyon 30th Anniversary party, we revealed the cover to @samtasticbooks.com's first collection RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES. Coming only from Tachyon April 2026 #coverreveal
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- My ArmadilloCon 2025 interview with award-winning sci-fi author Samantha Mills is up on my channel! Samantha told me about writing short stories vs novels, how she researches and builds worlds, and how she got her debut novel published 7 years after writing it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQtX...
- Thrilled to share that I will be a guest at @armadillocon.bsky.social in Austin next weekend! I'll be taking part in some amazing panels and interviewing one of the guests of honor 🤩 Here's a list of everything I'll be up to: www.ellieblackwood.com/p/armadilloc...
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- On today's episode of Writing About Spaceships Is Hard: Several months ago, I wrote a scene where a character lies down in a cryo-chamber that fills up with cryo-gel while the lid of the chamber is open, and only today realized that would be a catastrophically bad idea in zero gravity.
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- Reposted by Ellie BlackwoodDear Congress, Libraries are the place we all belong. The place where Mister Rogers’ neighbors collide at the library to help one another. We come together to embrace library joy. What good is the world without libraries and museums? ❤️🩹 Call, email Congress! Help libraries & museums! We need you 💛
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- I fear I have girlbossed too close to the Sun with my sci-fi novel idea, so I'm currently rewriting some of it as regular narrative, rather than an epistolary style made of data files and transcripts and such. I don't like it as much yet, but it will make plotting scenes easier. Let's see ...
- So honored to be included in this alongside many of my favorite creators! #BookSky
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- I love this book dearly and you should all check it out if you like nerdy cozy romance!
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- Reposted by Ellie BlackwoodYa Boi was in Elle Magazine!
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- This weekend, I'm revisiting my favorite short story (Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang) and its movie adaptation (Arrival) in preparation for my next YouTube video about what makes a good book-to-film adaptation, and I continue to be struck by the gobsmacking brilliance of both forms of the story.

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- The uncertainty around the future of BookTok got me thinking, what would BookTok look like if I could rebuild it from scratch? Here are the five books that I would make viral! #BookSky www.youtube.com/shorts/jXLyU...
- Today, I bid farewell to TikTok the best way I know how: a parody of a Doctor Who regeneration speech. #WhoSky www.youtube.com/shorts/MgE1b...
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- What if I just started using Bluesky to complain about how hard it is to write a murder mystery thriller novel set on a spaceship with no knowledge of how spaceships work? What then? (my degree is in astronomy, so I only know how stars work, not spaceships 😭)
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