This week I am the 'featured writer' on the Just Write Porto substack at https://justwriteporto.substack.com/p/featured-writer-judy-backhouse. Just Write Porto is the writer community that I belong to which runs a number of different writing groups. I convene their Monday Morning Writers group which has been a great source of inspiration, encouragement and friendship.
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So excited to see that the library at City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality bought a copy of my short story collection Future Rules and Rituals!
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In a rather lovely cosmic coincidence, degrowth researchers launch a manifesto 'Housing (for) a post-growth world' this week. Their proposals are echoed in my novel Well Housed where housing is a city resource distributed by the Housing Office.
Learn more at https://www.sufficiencywellbeing.com/p/housing-for-a-post-growth-world-a
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Do you think it's possible for a city to provide free and equal housing?
One reviewer, in her 5-star review of my novel Well Housed said: 'The book took me from skepticism (“there’s no way this could ever happen”) to genuine curiosity (“what if something like this could work?”).'
Full review at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8115280746
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My novel, Well Housed will be out this week on Friday the 5th! It is a near-future, optimistic novel about the Housing office in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Read the blurb and find links at https://judybackhouse.com/fiction/well-housed/. It is available for pre-order in ebook and paperback.
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