Thanks @BritFantasySoc.bsky.social for making #WorldFantasyCon accessible by streaming it!👏🐉 Some author panel highlights: ✨British Urban Fantasy ✨Occult Adventures ✨Blending the Genres ✨Playing for Laughs in SFF (incl @Davidwragg.com & BSF winner @Franceswrites.bsky.social) Feeling inspired ✍️🔮

Happy Halloween! 🎃 Here’s some spooky book picks for you…

❤️📚Missing #TheakstoneCrime @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social already! Incredible author panels, lovely writer catch-ups, murder mystery dinner, publisher popups, and tons of fabulous freebies

It’s day 1 of #1000WordsofSummer from @jamiattenberg.bsky.social ! Can’t wait to kick off this 2 week challenge ✍️

A reminder that every small bit of good you do - whether it be putting art into the world, helping a friend or stranger, donating to a good cause, or just listening to someone who needs to vent - offsets all the evil in the world just a little bit. And sometimes that's just what the world needs.

Thanks/ diolch to for an inspiring weekend, Wales International Crime Fiction Festival, aka Gwyl Crime Cymru! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚

Introducing The Killer Twist Pitch Prize for Unagented Crime Writers! Top Prize: 4-Day Pass #TheakstonsCrime + 3-night hotel stay in #Harrogate, Pitch Revision & Coaching. (a $1250 value) 2nd Place: @JerichoWriters Agent 1-on-1! T&Cs apply, See www.alessandraranelli.com/prize for details.🧵1/4

📣 Last call for early bird tickets! Are you joining us for Capital Crime 2025? Our early bird pricing ends THIS WEEK, on Friday 31st January 2025. Save nearly 20% on weekend tickets and 15% on day tickets. ➡️ www.capitalcrime.org #crimefiction #thrillerfiction

How enchanting is this @Illumicrate special edition of #WaterMoon by Samantha Sotto Yambao 🌊💙 ✨ “Would you rewrite your destiny if it meant losing a part of your past?✨ #FantasyBooks #Illumicrate #BookBox

My New Year hopes for you (credit to Positive Present) 🎉 #HappyNewYear

‘Perfect for winter nights’: the best crime novels to read at Christmas according to Ian Rankin, Bella Mackie and more

My word of the day (and personal recommendation) is ‘snerdling’ (18th century): nestling cosily beneath the covers and holding off the day a little longer. Morning.

Hello to my new followers! #writingcommunity 👋

Thank you, Edinburgh Fringe Fest. What a week of comedy, storytelling, new writing, magic and mayhem ❤️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

Voyage of the Damned by Frances White I’m is a spellbinding new murder mystery set on a boat full of magic. 💙🌊 This enchanting read is well worth checking out ✨

A really interesting list, and not the usual click bait. I think. www.standard.co.uk/shopping/esb...

Writers, you NEED to watch #AnatomyOfAFall 👀 A heartbreakingly beautiful film about obsession, jealousy, and the thin line between truth and lies in storytelling ✍️ #AmWriting #WritingCommmunity

Picked up the keys to my first home. A new chapter begins 🏡🔑❤️

‘The writer shares their opinion online’. My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.

New Year’s Eve words of wisdom from Neil Gaiman 🥂 I hope 2024 brings you good stories 🎉

Believe it or not I wrote and scheduled this post three weeks ago. I considered not posting as it feels a little opportunistic but maybe it'll be helpful? Anyway, some thoughts on how to look at the long game beyond the debut year: open.substack.com/pub/lorraine... #authors #books #publishing

Back in 1692, obscure Dutch artist A Boogert produced a one-off, hand-painted, 900 page catalogue of every conceivable colour, complete with handwritten, detailed advice to artists on how to create them. Now available online, see www.openculture.com/2019/10/a-90...

🕯️It’s the perfect spooky night to be scared out of my wits by #TheWinterSpirits - 12 gothic & ghostly tales from mesmerising storytellers 📖

Ian Rankin, Irvine Welsh and Ann Cleeves will be headlining the Capital Crime Festival 2024 thebookseller.com/news/rankin-we… @TheBookseller @CapitalCrime1 Tickets are available here: capitalcrime.org

Can’t wait to dive into this #spooktober book about ghosts of Wales 👻🖤 Manon Steffan Ros says: “This wonderful, fascinating, enchanting book is my book of the year. My book of many years. It's not just about ghosts- It's about heritage, language, and a part of history which gets lost”

What’s your writing procrastination of choice!? 📝 #amwriting #writingcommunity

Writing community, check it out and repost: here's a searchable database of 183,000 books used without permission to train generative-AI systems by Meta, Bloomberg, and others. Authors, search yourselves. ☹️ tinyurl.com/448wr36m Thank you, @theatlantic.bsky.social.

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