Actually managed two monthly newsletters in a row. ✌️ 🥴 On screenwriting, short stories and news of my words… 👇 machinesofthinkery.substack.com/p/some-clari... #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

Anyone else? 🥶🥶🥶 #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

open.substack.com/pub/elliotgr... An essential quick read for anyone who is hating the insidious, un-asked for creep of AI into, well. Everything. ✌️

Elf-struck, means to have taken ill having been shot by an elven arrow. In lore, elves got the arrows from faeries, who got them from mermaids more: 'Folklore of the Lake District' bardofcumberland.com/folklore/ #bookwormsat #booksky

GET READY TO RUN! The final trailer for the @runningmanmovie.com is here! Go see THE RUNNING MAN, large and loud only in theatres this FRIDAY! And in the UK and other countries from Wednesday. Check listings and get your tix. Cannot wait for you to see!

This morning’s coffee was very pretty. #Coffee #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

Cat and coffee pic. She is very, very rarely this cute. ❤️ #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat #Cat #CatSky #CatPhoto

London whispers secrets in every corner, and with each page I turn, I feel its pulse. Books transport me, weaving tales of wonder and mystery. Let's get lost in the magic together! ✨ #BookSky 💙📚 #Books

London called ✌️ #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat #London #Battersea

Annemarie Petri, contemporary award-winning Dutch printmaker, known for her steampunk cityscapes #WomensArt

Apologies, this is more TikTok than BlueSky! But I’m so chuffed to have crossed the 25,000 milestone on book 3 after weeks - nay, months - of word drought! Links in bio for books 1&2 #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

So sorry. ‘Regular’ newsletter my a**e. machinesofthinkery.substack.com/p/impeller-s... 💙🤎🧡 #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat #Substack

Thank you kind reader, I hope you enjoy your tailcoat when DPD delivers it and Vlieland when you get there. 😜 (disclaimer - am not on the Dutch tourism board) #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

Quite possibly what the internet never needed- bad jazz improv in Gm on a ukulele. Trying matters though, right?? 😬 #UkuleleSky #Uke #Ukulele #UkeJazz #Jazz #MusicianSky #MusicSky

I don’t really do poetry (through lack of skill rather than desire) but the roundabouts made me so furious I wrote this one. It’s called ‘Crossing’ It’s for all of us who hate hate. (Alt text provided ❤️) #HopeNotHate #AntiRacism #NoMoreRacism #OneLove #Poem #PoetrySky #Poetry

The post storm colours of our cherry tree ❤️💛💚🧡 #StormAmy #CherryTree #Nature #Autumn #AutumnColours

This gorgeous laal zine arrived today! This is wayside.mag - a new Cumbrian publication full of painting, prose, poetry and photography. Three of the photos are mine, shot on film on my Grandad’s Olympus Trip 35mm camera 😁 #Photography #Photo #FilmPhotography #PhotographySky 📸📷

🌿 Taken today on the Lancaster Canal. Nature is so… intricate and beautiful and fragile and just look at those silhouetted leaves… 💚💚💚 #NatureSky #Nature #Trees #Beauty #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction

Taken myself away for a couple of days on the Lancaster Canal. I’m very lucky with the weather ☀️ I almost want it to rain to quash my urge to stay here forever! #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat #CanalLife #CanalBoat

Say what you will about the general quality of goods we have here in the United States but it's undeniable we have the freshest hells on the planet.

I’m not endorsing taping animals to walls. But… I do love this new review of ‘Future’s End’! Thank you! ❤️ Cute dog (not attached to any masonry) and posh brew (not easily achievable with a kettle) pics included. #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Author #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #BookSkyChat

New Bookshop alert! 🔔 The Book Nook in Kirkby Stephen #Cumbria is a little gem (and it’s so lovely to see The Incredible Machines of Thinkery in there!) #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

Excited to be running Irreal, Surreal and Just Plain Weird #FlashFiction at this year’s WordFest, & to be on the open mic panel with the BRILLIANT @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social & Sue Walker! Loads of workshops, talks & performances to choose from. #Sussex #literaryfestival shorehamwordfest.com

✨INDIE/SELF-PUBLISHED SPOTLIGHT✨ Today I am shining a #spotlight on #Outpost9 by @linnheharrison.bsky.social!📚💙 Head over to my blog to learn a little about the book ⬇️ forbookssake.home.blog/2025/09/16/i... #Indie/#SelfPublished authors, to have your book featured, fill out the form in the post😊

Very glad to hear there are "Nuns on the run", quite literally. Has anyone informed Eric Idle?

It’s the season of loved jumpers and beautiful light 🍂 #autumn

A photo from a friend who is reading Future’s End despite having strong feelings about me killing off a favourite character in Outpost 9. I think the soup must be resilience fuel. #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

Gorgeous skies on the canal today. Got back to base just before the heavens opened and wrote near enough 600 new words to the drumming of the rain. ❤️❤️❤️ #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

To continue my attempts to balance sales with softness, this week’s review of ‘Future’s End’ is accompanied by Sailor Teddy posing with my boat’s ‘new’ (all from off cuts!) curtains 🍓 #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

About an hour ago I received my first ever request for a full manuscript! A big thank you to @tomshakespeare.bsky.social for the confidence ❤️ and fingers crossed… #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

Today I have mostly been noodling in the key of Dm. #Ukulele #UkuleleSky #Uke #MusicSky So much to learn, but fun is being had on the way! ✌️

Lovely new review of ‘Future’s End’ and interrupted coffee selfie. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

It’s even got lights!! 😍 (aka the perks of getting my latest #Lego build from eBay)

🍂 The wait is (nearly) over... grab a pen and mark your calendars, as a very special offer is on its way! Our jam-packed Autumn 2025 Season launches on Mon 25 August - stay tuned to grab Early Bird tickets! #EarlyBird #TheatreSky #RuralTouring @ruraltouring.bsky.social @rtdi.bsky.social

Trying to speed up my triplets. It’s a killer on the fingers and I currently consistently fall flat on the B flat. Can anyone recognise the song?? 😬 #UkeSky #UkeCover #Ukulele #MusicianSky #AliceCooper

Reykjavík Harbor, 1981 by Icelandic painter Louisa Matthiasdottir #womensart

Reposting to include #DisabilitySky ✌️+ ❤️

Please order The Ends: "exit, pursued by a polar bear" - I've even written the headline for your review. Hope you are enjoying the book: it's a laugh, but also about the climate crisis.

Help, please! 🙏 I’ve written ‘Pineapple’ (Gilliamesque eco-fiction, #disability led, #disabled protagonist). Failing to reach an agent, may self-publish but need kind #BetaReaders to help it into the world… 🥰 #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

Writing battery recharged! 5 seconds of today on the canal and a myriad of greens. 🌳🌳🌳 #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #Canal #Boating #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

Aw! Five more ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for Outpost 9! Love the comment about it being a fab TV series as I’m totally all over that. #Netflix - I’m ready when you are… 😁 #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #ScriptToScreen #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

It’s like he’s in the room. 😬 (Apologies for the po-face, I’m still needing to see the tab! I will crack this fiddly little bugger at some point 🏴‍☠️) #piratesofthecaribbean #Ukecover #Ukulele #MusicianSky #Uke #UkuleleSky #UkeSky

Today on the canal ❤️❤️❤️ Also made a birthday lunch for my dad (who is a superhero) and added about 10 words to my #WiP 💪🤣 #Canal #CanalLife #Swans #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

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Mornin’ all 🍓 let the wordsmithery commence… #CoffeeTime #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

Book Festival alert! 🔔 5-7 September in bonnie Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👇

Spotlight post - new ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review for Future’s End! More here - tinyurl.com/zmhp4zpk - and as self-promotion is a bit icky, I’ve added a #wildgarden pic to balance out the capitalism. #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

Am on the hunt for something new… dark fiction and or a touch of the dystopian - any ideas?? Please and thank you! 🙏

@cadicatlow.bsky.social ❤️

POV When your first book is 🎈ONE TODAY! and you had every intention of making a properly nice reel but ended up raiding your daughter’s toy collection for a cake. Happy Birthday Outpost 9! 🎉 #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat