The book that started it all - Outpost 9 - will be living a new life from 2 April. The Extended Edition includes 20 more pages and b+w film photos of Vlieland. Watch this space! ✌️ #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

Here we go folks.. Introducing the book launch that isn't a book launch as I lack the energy to do it "properly". Sat 04 July, 1pm-3pm at The Hub in Appleby... come say hi! 😘 #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Incredible Machines of Thinkery: Northern Sky is set on the Isle of Lismore, and the book is now one step closer thanks to this gorgeous map 😁 Publishing date 28 June. Watch this space! #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

The sun has come out (kind of) for Northern Sky’s final tweaks before it makes it way to a team of very lovely beta readers! publishing info coming soon... 🥴 Energy gone pfft. #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

"It was a dark and stormy nightdress. Size 12. Delighted with it."

Have just typed The End at the end of an 85 page screenplay (1st draft). Eek! #screenwriting #comedy #darkcomedy #filmsky

Smallest of small wins?? #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat #ScreenWriting

The Incredible Machines of Thinkery - Northern Sky book 3/3 Publication date 28/06/26 Now seeking Beta Readers - pls DM me if this is YOU! 🙏🙏🙏 All the luv n peace one indie writer can muster ✌️ #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Dystopia #BookSkyChat

Art deco delights in Stonehaven.

Is it too cheeky to rec my own book?? Written by me (chronically ill), with a disabled female protagonist. This is dystopian darkness, not a cosy coffee shop read! 🫣 It's here 👇 amzn.eu/d/0f46UAO3 Thank you! 🙏 #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #Disability #Bookish #BookSkyChat

Louise Hayward, contemporary UK printmaker who often explores London's brutalist architecture in her work #WomensArt

Me attempting to look all professional. I've even got a tub of dog biscuits. #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

Submissions for our zine call have been a little slow, so I've extended the call to February 14th. Check out our themes and guidelines here: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

January Newsletter out now. Epic fail. open.substack.com/pub/machines... #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

Lovely day! Bold Coffee Shop at Hest Bank are offering a ‘blind date with a book’ - Outpost 9 and Future’s End are now waiting to be wrapped 😁! I took my boat out, saw a heron. Luv n peace✌️ #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

One week to go! First bookish event of 2026 will be at the lovely Book Nook in lovely Kirkby Stephen, from 1pm-3pm on Sat 07 Feb. There will be stroopwafel... #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

Oh. What a place, a view 🥰

Collapsed in a treat of a heap 🧡 #CoffeeCoffeeCoffee #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

Book Event! Come to the gorgeous Book Nook in Kirkby Stephen on Sat 7th Feb from 1pm-3pm. Say hello, maybe buy a book or two, definitely leave filled with stroopwafel powered happiness. Linnhe #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #BookSkyChat

Two days arguing with pixels later, and my new author website is up! I would really appreciate any feedback if anyone has time, thank you! 🙏 linnheharrison.co.uk #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

Just for the giggles. Feeling the zzzzz this morning! #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

Many thanks to @jebookshull.bsky.social for choosing Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession For their book club choice in January 2026. Cracking start to the year.

The silver lining of having a birthday on 30 Dec - you can totally justify a book haul to see in the new year 🎉 😁 Anyone else reading... 📕 I, Robot - Isaak Asimov 📘 The Long War - Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter 📙 Island - Aldous Huxley #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Fiction #SciFi #BookSkyChat

I wish people reacted to unsolicited, opt-in-by-default AI features with the same level of negativity they applied to U2 dropping a free album on their iPhones.

💖 today I hit 29,000 words on my WiP… BOOM! I also wrote what could be the most miserable ending, like. Ever. Oops. #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

Happy Christmas one and all! 🎄 #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #Christmas #HappyChristmas

My December newsletter has hit the internet (sorry internet). open.substack.com/pub/machines... #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat #Substack #Christmas

It was so nice to meet with Opt Indie Books at @theglasshouseicm.bsky.social Festive Fair, and say ‘thank you’ in person to a real life awesome human for supporting #Indieauthors. ✌️ #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

A lovely reader added this super sweet pic to their Amazon review ❤️❤️❤️ (Review is lovely too - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - thank you!) #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

Dino jumpers, yeti cups and winter sun - today me and my best mate christened a couple of my extremely thoughtful leaving gifts from @highlightsrural.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you! 😊 #BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat

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 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.