Splinister
Maura McHughA weekly newsletter by Irish author Maura McHugh, musing on how the mythologies of the past and the obsessions of the present collide, interact, and affect our realities.
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Maura McHugh and Lisa Laughy chat about the alchemy of book covers
Thank you to everyone who tuned into our live video!
Artist and I livestreamed a video conversation earlier today which you can watch in its entirety here. We talked about our careers, how we connected, and Lisa’s fabulous cover for my n...
going live
Dear word explorer,
With mercurial swiftness the signing sheets for my novella, House of Wyrd, arrived at PS Publishing on Friday — chalk one up for the Irish/English postal service acting in tandem (and not in tantrum)!
Sadly, since the...
signing
Dear word explorer,
Is your handwriting legible or does it look like the scratchings of a drunken spider dipped in ink? Where you of a generation that learned handwriting in school, both the basic shapes and the fancy cursive ‘joined-up’ h...
mapping
Dear word explorer,
Last week’s cannibal CME did not produce much of an effect, sadly. It’s not a good time of the year for aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere, with longer days and the axial tilt of the Earth nodding towards the su...
aurora alert
Dear word explorer,
Older subscribers might remember a post I made back in May 2024 alerting people to a cannibal CME approaching the Earth, and that evening we had the most extraordinary northern lights, which were observed across the glo...
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Maura lives in Ireland, writes fiction and nonfiction across media, and is fascinated by the current intersection of art and technology and its effects on our experiences of reality. It's a weird world she loves to explore.
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