Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.

So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms. And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell... This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

Well done to all these brilliant writers!

Congratulations to the winner @kylieh31.bsky.social - you've created such intrigue in so few words ✨️

Go go go!

#WriteCBC tip from @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social: Deftness and specificity can tell a reader more than reams of description. When you walk into a room or meet a new person, it will often be a small detail that stands out. Learn to hone in on these specifics and use them to your advantage.

I entered #WriteCBC when Greater Sins was in its very early days...delighted to be coming full circle and setting June's task!

#GreaterSins by @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social is a darkly tense and atmospheric novel set during WWI. Lizzie finds a woman's body in the peat bog, creating a catalyst for superstition, rivalry and reflection in an isolated community. Thanks @netgalley.bsky.social and @transworldbooks.bsky.social

In fine company!

The Observer! Bit of a bucket list one, this ✨️

On @tre.radio at 6pm UK time if anyone wants to hear me talking about my book!

This is next on my tbr list! We also have an interview with the author in the mag this month snackmag.co.uk/read-this-mo...

I just finished Greater Sins by @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social and loved every single page. An atmospheric, poignant, and beautifully written debut, set just a few miles down the road from me in The Cabrach.

Gabrielle Griffiths: 'I love testing a reader’s sympathies towards a character' 📚 We caught up with CBC alumna @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social to discuss her debut novel #GreaterSins, out now from @doubledayuk.bsky.social

It is publication day for GREATER SINS ✨️ so very proud of this book and the astonishing team at @doubledayuk.bsky.social who have made it happen. Riding high today!

Open letter in response to Meta's use of pirated material to train its AI. Authors, writers, creatives, please sign & share! forms.gle/1qebKTV6o7Au...

More v nice press for GREATER SINS - "an atmospheric and assured debut" @dailymail.co.uk ✨️ and "compelling and powerful" @pamedia.bsky.social ✨️

You know I hate to do this (just kidding it's my favorite) but I have made a list of upcoming and anticipated Folk Horror books for myself, that I am not sharing with you. Go feral! Full list in the alt ✔️ @manylittlewords.bsky.social @shortwavebooks.bsky.social @timlebbon.bsky.social

GREATER SINS in @thetimes.com. Out 27th March for those who like their fiction "striking and atmospheric" ✨️

Grateful for reviews like this 💛

"waitrose finest Cornish mature vintage cheddar" is an anagram of "rev, the stationer's wife charmed a dancing suitor"

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

Some thoughts while returning on the Eurostar from Paris. 1. It’s a cliché but nonetheless true that the intellectual culture in France reminds us what we are missing in the UK. 🧵

OpenAI are sad someone is using their IP without asking? Maybe they should ask ChatGPT for a definition of irony?

We are obsessed with the paperback cover for SPOILT CREATURES by @aetwigg.bsky.social An Observer top ten best new novelist for 2024🥀 Available to pre-order in paperback: linktr.ee/spoiltcreatures

Don't miss this chance to (literally) meet the editors! Feat. Kirsty Dunseath & Rose Green @doubledayuk.bsky.social, @finncotton.bsky.social & Lara Stevenson at Bantam @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social. Ask your questions over drinks and nibbles. Tickets: www.spreadtheword.org.uk/events/londo...

Hear me out. The Traitors but everyone's a poet. The missions are all tasks from The Artist's Way. Every day someone gets a rejection. John Cooper Clarke is Claudia. The winner gets published in a print only magazine and invited to read on Guernsey. Travel will not be covered.

Grateful for recent press for GREATER SINS in @thescotsmanpaper.bsky.social and @radiotimes.bsky.social ✨️

Huge thanks to @doubledayuk.bsky.social for sending me a copy of Greater Sins by @gabriellegriffiths.bsky.social which is out on 27th March. Pre-order and find out more here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/grea...

It's 2025! Are you a UK based writer with your traditionally-published debut novel out this year? I'm compiling a list of potential guests for the podcast so please give me a wave if this applies to you and you'd like to be a guest! 📚🎉

I’m creating a 2025 debut authors starter pack, let me know who I should be adding! Shares appreciated 💙📚 go.bsky.app/RYHeizd

Brat summer is over, time for bog spring

Many incredible people said nice things about my book and I made a reel! 🌭❤️✨ coming in Feb! Links in bio.

Not to be sanctimonious but haven't used Amazon for years and can reveal it really is okay and everything can be bought elsewhere!!

Once more for the whatever time it is where you are crowd. Sp*nes is an Israeli company with Israeli start-up funding. What it wants to "disrupt" is access to information & Palestinian voices by flooding the print market with hasbara crap. That's the story.

Last five novels: - The Empusium, Olga Tokarczuk - Pity, Andrew McMillan - The Artist, Lucy Steeds (Jan '25) - The Heart in Winter, Kevin Barry - The Echoes, Evie Wyld

these cunts got $16m in seed funding to push out AI slop. Yet, I have to crawl on my bloodied hands and knees begging people to buy books. Yeah, I'm mad, tech bro.

I've made a starter pack with some excellent debut authors you should be following - will update as and when more debuts pop up here! go.bsky.app/4naFHea

Have added some more! 📚 go.bsky.app/Pg9WqaG

Proofs dropped with the first frost. What a thing, to hold my book in my hands for the first time ✨️ GREATER SINS 27.03.25

I wrote a novel called GREATER SINS. It'll be published in March '25 and can be preordered now if you like books about shame, blame, desire, human failings, superstition, peat bogs, Scottish balladry and/or rugged landscapes