October Frights - Day Six - Horror and Depression
Horror is my comfort blanket. Horror is supposed to make people uncomfortable. Claiming the genre is my comfort blanket is...
Carmilla Voiez
Horror, Fantasy and Dystopia - Dark Reads and Intersectional Feminism.
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- Sep 19
- 1 min
40% off books and services
Between September 19th and October 18th, Carmilla Voiez is running a 40% off sale to build her client base. 40% off all editing services...
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carmillavoiez
- Sep 16
- 2 min
Uneasy life
(or challenges of relating to the modern world) Once upon a time there was a fractious baby who cried and wailed until her desperate...
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carmillavoiez
- Jul 4
- 2 min
Death of the working-class writer?
Working-class writers, will they exist in ten years? In a recent phone call with my parents, my mum, who knows I am hoping to qualify to...
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carmillavoiez
- Jun 28
- 1 min
Death, my dearest friend
I have been aware of my mortality for a long time. Before I went to school, lost pets or grandparents, I would sit up at night,...
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carmillavoiez
- May 10
- 3 min
The Curse of Self-Doubt
I have had a very challenging weekend, mental health wise, so I thought it might be interesting and useful to write about it. Self-doubt...
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carmillavoiez
- Jan 8, 2021
- 1 min
My journey down the photography rabbit hole.
I received an exciting gift this Christmas. A second-hand digital SLR. My plan is to learn and experiment with one of the manual...
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carmillavoiez
- Nov 26, 2020
- 1 min
Signed paperbacks on Ebay
This "starving" (well not quite) artist is selling signed paperback copies of her books on Ebay. You can browse them here. Including...
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carmillavoiez
- Aug 27, 2020
- 6 min
Ribbons, book 4 in the Starblood series
The rum bar seems a cosy setting to wait out the apocalypse.
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carmillavoiez
- Jul 21, 2020
- 2 min
Isolation, day 115
If the world does return to normal, I think this will be a very strange period of time that we look back on and scratch our heads over...
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carmillavoiez
- Jul 6, 2020
- 2 min
Isolation, day 102
I am old enough to know that there is no perfect town or city, and this will remain my home until my younger daughter is an adult...
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carmillavoiez
- Jun 24, 2020
- 1 min
Isolation, day 90
The world seems to have moved on from lock down and social distancing, but Covid19 is still a clear and present danger...
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carmillavoiez
- Jun 23, 2020
- 2 min
Not in My Name!
Protecting women as an excuse for racism and denying rights to trans women has a long, problematic and bloody history...
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carmillavoiez
- Jun 10, 2020
- 5 min
White Privilege and How to Use it, part 3
In this blog post I’d like to offer a brief (and ridiculously simplified) history about why racism exists...
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carmillavoiez
- Jun 8, 2020
- 6 min
White Privilege and How To Use it, part 2
We live in a world full of media that centres whiteness as the default and everything else as other...
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carmillavoiez
- Jun 7, 2020
- 3 min
White Privilege and How You Can Use it, part 1
Accepting that you experience white privilege on a daily basis isn’t about admitting you’re bad person...
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carmillavoiez
- May 27, 2020
- 1 min
The books are the Life
I'm sure I'm not the only bibliophile who loves a few shelfies...
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carmillavoiez
- May 21, 2020
- 1 min
Isolation, day 56
I'm celebrating my birthday in Lockdown, while discussing whether or not Lovecraft was a misogynist as well as a racist, spoiler alert-...
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