Welcome to Tair House, a house that remembers in a city that forgets...🏚🖤

Occasionally while walking home from work, I get little moments where I can pretend I'm in Skyrim

✨It's Double Publication Day!✨ If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go? geni.us/weallghostsPB geni.us/saltorac @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Happy book birthday to @rainewilson.bsky.social! The Salt Oracle is a gorgeous, dark, poetic seastorm of a novel and I adored it. Go forth and grab yourself a copy

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

Reminder that I have a new story in this awesome anthology with awesome writers:

Good, although I can see court cases ahead and vested (cough, MoD) interests getting involved. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When you want to eat the rich but you're on a strict budget

I love how this tree looks like it's dropping tongues of flame to the pavement

As much as I enjoyed Brighton WFC, I am seriously considering reinstating my previous 'no cons outwith Scotland' rule.* With two chronic illnesses, it's just too much with the added travel. I still feel like I've been hit by a lorry full of bricks and I can't hold a pen *(and possibly the North)

This was a fabulous read, very much recommended for near future spec that takes a totally different view on the inevitable rise of the machine and death of the human (heartbreaking and tender in its hope in the ash of finality)

It's officially launch day for Blood In The Bricks! It's folk horror, but right here in our towns and cities, written by some of my absolute favourite contemporary writers. Get it now (or They'll pay you a visit). www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

I was looking at everyone else with a milion deals on the go, panicking about not having a new book ready to go, and my agent sat me down for a very gentle Please Calm The Fuck Down chat. They already have two of my novels and a collection on standby. I can chill.

So quite a few people have bought Project Hanuman! And I love you for it. If you have the time and could drop a review somewhere that would be extra awesome :-)

Live your life so that when you die most of humanity doesn't break out the celebratory gifs

Three hours of skating at 6am was not ideal after spending yesterday on actrain back to Scotland from Brighton. I literally do not remember what I did in that time. Edges. I did edges.

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

I had a wonderful time chatting to old friends at World Fantasy Con, and meeting some lovely new people. I'm exhausted but I have many books to read, so, winner :D

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote: "To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace." No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

And an awesome anthology

The BFS Award for best novella went to the excellent The Last To Drown by Lorraine Wilson and you will not forget this story in a hurry www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/2/...

Where this is reported to us we can/will investigate - there will be no tolerance for this kind of bullshit. Trans rights are human rights.

I was wondering if someone was toilet policing because I noticed the gender neutral signs kept being taken down. @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social was running an inclusive con, but apparently some bigots didn't get the message

I have heard more than one report of Toilet Policing at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social , whether by con attendees, hotel guests or staff is unclear. Just wanna say, if you're pro toilet policing fuck off before I block you.

I did not take a big suitcase to World Fantasy Con because I told myself I was Not Going To Buy More Books. Anyway, to no one's surprise, I now have Luggage Problems.

I made two similar spooky illustrations while I was comparing two different brands of watercolor. 😈🎨🦇

New horror story drop to end Halloween weekend - my Edinburgh vampire story told inbetween snippets of a hoover instruction manual 🧹🧛‍♀️ is out now with @horrortree.com's Trembling with Fear! Read it here: horrortree.com/trembling-wi...

One of the loveliest human beings I know and an incredible writer, and seeing her win an award made me feel like I'd won. - the incredible @rainewilson.bsky.social pretending to be only a human ;)

Creep it real tonight y’all 🫡

@esaxey.bsky.social hello nice to meet meet you at the launch 😁

It’s still remarkable that Disney produced - and released - this segment in 1940. A horror short that should rank with its Universal monster movie contemporaries… The animation is lush and experimental, and really shows off the Disney special animated effects team…

I loved this collection - do grab it if you've not read Bennett's work, you're in for a treat

First quote of the con - "horror and romance are pretty much the same" from Laura Ann Gilman - hard agree! #WorldFantasyConvention2025

Seaward @echallewell.bsky.social

Delightfully dark and beautiful reading from @echallewell.bsky.social at #worldfantasyconvention2025

As World Fantasy 2025 approaches, I’m going to give shoutouts to all nominees in every category at this year’s British Fantasy Awards. Why? Well, why not? 😂 Here (in no particular order) are the nominees for BEST SHORT STORY ….

As World Fantasy 2025 approaches, I’m going to give shoutouts to all nominees in every category at this year’s British Fantasy Awards. Why? Well, why not? 😂 Here (in no particular order) are the nominees for BEST NON-FICTION ….

The difference in reddit ads depending where my VPN connects me is depressingly hilarious. USA: buy this truck and max your takeout order Canada: help protect our country and go to this art show. UK: everything is AI live laugh love AI ND: mmmmmm more food I wish I was kidding

-1 in my town right now, but a balmy 8 in Brighton! Going to #wfc2025 will be like going back to Scottish summer

Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement • Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright • OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied

I have a big flash sale coming on Saturday!! I've added lots of art that has been in storage for a while. I will be taking 25-30% off all sale items. Sale will go live at 12pm GMT. Sale Preview: buff.ly/dHsPYlO #flashsale #art #originalart #artforsale #watercolourpainting #watercolour #artsale

For too long, sporting bodies, @cam.ac.uk societies, and those who shrink in the face of hate, have adopted the blanket approach of excluding trans people from sport. Enough. We are suing the England and Wales Cricket Board. goodlaw.social/qvf6

These FREE BOOKS including selections from @davidmbarnett.bsky.social @amydelaforce.bsky.social @stephellis.bsky.social @clhellisen.bsky.social @bethkesh.bsky.social and more!

Thank you to Split Lip and Allison for doing the interview and letting me talk at length about horror and my ideas and influences. I'm happy it's something they are still reading! Also, hey feel free to buy Skin Thief! I am very proud of that book. And I hear its very very good from others. 😜

Trick or treat? 🎃 Grab my three spookiest books half price all this week. Or snap up all three for £2. That’s Their Heart A Hive, Black Velvet, and Fortitude Waters. Come get your fill of the supernatural, spooky, and gothic. 💀 itch.io/s/162639/spo... 🌈🚀💫 #Booksky 💙📚

That's my edits sent in and received for A Million Points of Light! Hopefully just proofing left, then Omari Douglas will go into the studio to record. It's so close i can taste it and it tastes like a glitterbomb made of evil

What beats writers block is not treating your body like a factory. What beats writers block is healthcare. What beats writers block is gardening, & rest, & food, & companionship, & reading, & leisure, & anti-capitalism—but of course that’s not a very profitable thing to write, & won’t sell LLMs.

While backing up family photos of my father in law - who died earlier this month - my husband's @dropbox.com account was disabled. They claim the baby pictures he backed up are 'inappropriate material' aka violation of their tos. 1000s of family pics and all 3 of the novels he's written, gone.

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Pipped the 40k mark on the WiP, all thanks to #gimme100 and the daily 100 words goal, which I have been meeting :D