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Whether it's solarpunk science fiction, mystical visions of interior space, an exploration of landscape, or another genre, we want our books to provoke wonder & joy.

“Thresholds: a spiritual exploration of the edge” by Nick Hanks“This is a gentle yet provocative and challenging book, ...
08/29/2026

“Thresholds: a spiritual exploration of the edge” by Nick Hanks

“This is a gentle yet provocative and challenging book, encouraging us to see the world through a fresh lens, a work firmly embedded in an embodied and phenomenological approach. ...Nick Hanks is a wonderful guide through the complexities of human engagements with the physical and natural worlds.”
~ Professor Niall Finneran, University of Wi******er

The ebook is available now. The print version will be released on October 2nd.

https://books2read.com/thresholds-nickhanks

Protect the dragons 🐉 There is an account on instagram called “protect clean fiction”. They’re against s**t. And also dr...
08/29/2026

Protect the dragons 🐉

There is an account on instagram called “protect clean fiction”. They’re against s**t. And also dragons (which they claim are “images of sin”).

In ancient European mythology, dragons are earth spirits associated with mountains. In Chinese mythology, dragons are water spirits associated with lakes. Sure, they are associated with sin in some Christian mythology, but not all. In early medieval dragon stories, the knight tames the dragon and puts it on a golden leash. In Jungian terms, this is the superego taming the id.

Also, there’s nothing wrong with spicy romance. Being it on! Spicy romance *and* dragons? Even better.

If you want to read fiction with lovely people protecting dragons and other mythical creatures from fanatical dragon-slayers, I recommend the InCryptid series by Seanan Maguire.

🐉🐲🦎🦖🐊🐍
Image 1: The love of dragons by Anton Channing (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
Images 2 and 3: public domain images from pxhere

Hostas at dusk in my garden.
08/29/2026

Hostas at dusk in my garden.

“From the physical to the metaphysical, Nick parses meaning and possibility with fascinating perspicacity. ... I am goin...
08/27/2026

“From the physical to the metaphysical, Nick parses meaning and possibility with fascinating perspicacity. ... I am going to heed boundaries and edges so much more now.”
~ Lis Jardine,
author of ‘The Detention Detectives’ trilogy.

Thresholds: a spiritual exploration of the edge” by Nick Hanks is now available in ebook. The print version will be released on October 2nd.

https://books2read.com/thresholds-nickhanks

“Thresholds: a spiritual exploration of the edge” by Nick Hanks is now available in ebook. The print version will be released on October 2nd.

https://books2read.com/thresholds-nickhanks

“Thresholds: a spiritual exploration of the edge” by Nick Hanks is now available in ebook. The print version will be rel...
08/26/2026

“Thresholds: a spiritual exploration of the edge” by Nick Hanks is now available in ebook. The print version will be released on October 2nd.

https://books2read.com/thresholds-nickhanks

“Thresholds: a spiritual exploration of the edge”
By Nick Hanks

This book is an antidote to the polarised thinking of our time. It is a journey along the threshold edge of things: thresholds of ideas, body, mind, mindfulness, environment, society, identity, belief, ritual, architecture, theatre, writing, landscape, life, death, and time.

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“Thresholds by Nick Hanks explores the way we intersect with everything, everyone and every idea around us. Nick uses science and philosophy as part of a spiritual exploration of edges. This is a brilliant book, clearly and gently written, that takes the reader on a thought-provoking journey through edgelands, interzones and liminal spaces.
Highly recommended!”

~ Lucya Starza, author of Pagan Portals books “Candle Magic”, “Poppets and Magical Dolls”, “Guided Visualisations”, “Scrying”, “The Wheel of the Year”, and “Dowsing”; and the Gothic novel “Erosion”.

The name of Lake Ontario in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) is Waabishkiigoo-gichigami.The name of Lake Ontario in Kanien’kéha...
08/26/2026

The name of Lake Ontario in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) is Waabishkiigoo-gichigami.

The name of Lake Ontario in Kanien’kéha (Mohawk) is Oniatarí:io (Beautiful Lake), or Kaniatarí:io, or Skaniatarí:io, or Oniarà:ke.

How to detect AI writingThere is no foolproof way to detect generative AI writing. As has been publicised already, Charl...
08/25/2026

How to detect AI writing

There is no foolproof way to detect generative AI writing. As has been publicised already, Charles Dickens and Emily Dickinson have both been flagged as AI writing. That is because their writing was used to train generative AI.

There is no foolproof way to detect generative AI writing. As has been publicised already, Charles Dickens and Emily Dickinson have both been flagged as AI writing. That is because their writing was used to train generative AI.

It is important to distinguish between “assistive AI” (some spell-checkers and grammar checkers) and generative AI (large language models used to generate a new combination of words).

If you are an author, it is a good idea to keep previous drafts of your work in case you are asked for them by publishers. Alternatively, use a word processing tool that keeps a history of your edits. (You need to turn Autosave on to preserve a history in some programs.)

If you’re a publisher who is opposed to generative AI, you should not be uploading a piece of writing to an AI checker — you’re feeding the author’s work to the large language model without their consent.

Looking for em-dashes is not going to tell you if the author used generative AI. Humans use em-dashes sparingly; AI overuses them.
Articles about how to detect AI writing often emphasise its flat and emotionless quality. But I have noticed that a lot of social media posts generated by AI are aimed at provoking emotions. To my mind, AI-generated text often reads like the production of a breathless sophomore because it overuses rhetorical devices.

Other ways to tell involve analysing the rhetorical flourishes in the writing. Most human authors use these rhetorical flourishes sparingly; AI overuses them. The most common examples are:
• “it is not this, not that, but something else”; a list of three points or characteristics (e.g. repetitive, dull, and boring);
• hedging (while X is true, there’s also Y);
overuse of revelatory phrasing (such as “it’s not just A; it’s also B”);
• fake warmth and empathy;
• overuse of signposting words and phrases
(e.g. “here are three reasons why …”).

Increasingly sophisticated tools are being developed

Review by of Ancient Trackways by Yvonne Aburrow “This book is a rucksack full of facts and observations on the ways le...
08/21/2026

Review by of Ancient Trackways by Yvonne Aburrow

“This book is a rucksack full of facts and observations on the ways less travelled. These liminal ways are treated as places in their own right, and not the mere distance between places. It also contains many suggested activities to take you beyond the page, and out to discover the old ways for yourself.”
~ Nick Hanks, author of Thresholds

(Please note that I have switched from Canva to Snappa for making graphics, which is why the style has changed. Canva has too much AI, and Snappa has none.)

Ancient Trackways by Yvonne Aburrow

Have you ever walked along a path and wondered who has walked it before you, or how and why it was made?
Then this book is for you!
Coming soon from
Vox Clamantis Books

Have you ever walked along a path and wondered who has walked it before you, or how and why it was made? Roads, paths, and trackways are a very ancient feature of the landscape.

This book explores ancient trackways from the Neolithic trackways to Roman roads, drove roads, crossroads, holloways, pilgrimage routes, green pathways, ley-lines, and the use of paths and roads for protest and performance.

We went to see the new documentary, “Mary Oliver: Saved by the beauty of the world” on Tuesday at the Princess Cinemas i...
08/21/2026

We went to see the new documentary, “Mary Oliver: Saved by the beauty of the world” on Tuesday at the Princess Cinemas in Waterloo, and it was beautiful and amazing. If you get a chance to see it in a cinema, do. Otherwise catch it on TV. But it’s so lovely that you really do need to see it on a big screen.

(Photo of the sky over Waterloo by Yvonne Aburrow )
(Photo of Mary Oliver by Rachel Giese Brown)

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