my brother sent me a clip from disney’s the fox and the hound and i had a very normal reaction

Please vote today for “These Marbles Were Never White” in the short non-fiction category if you can! It would mean the world to me to see my essay about the importance of Greek and BIPOC voices in Greek myth adaptations make it to the shortlist 🏛️

oops i’m late to this! nervous reminder that Awakened somehow made it onto the longlist and shocked the life out of me a little while ago, so if you want to give me another pleasant fright please do vote for my horrible gothic baby in the novel category! 🙏🐦‍⬛

I didn't realise it was the last day of the BSFA award short list nominations. If you enjoyed my novelette Shadow Jack or the Tanith Lee tribute anthology Storyteller, I'd be well chuffed if you gave them your vote. But have a look through the longlist as there are so many excellent stories there.

Offer ends 20th February.

I have read this book and it is BRILLIANT. If Carl Hiaasen had been a journalist for the Yorkshire Herald rather than the Miami Herald this is the sort of book he'd have written when he turned to novel writing.

It's finally here! A Million Points of Light, the sequel to The Shape of Monster, is now live. Get more of that woke cannibal erotica you e been craving ;) Or, yanno, mages and monsters and betrayal. Listen to A Million Points of Light by C L Hellisen on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0GMRMJTR...

this is this sunday, btw! i’ve been bad at publicising it because i’m stuck in writing brain rn but i promise i’ll be saying real words about books and everything

i’m beginning to suspect finch would like me to stop writing so she can replace the laptop on my knee

beginning to think that the frequency with which i’m getting unfocused vision from eye strain while working on this book might mean that i need to go for an eye test, lads. the evidence is staring me (blurrily) in the face

Such a side eye 🐈

Looking for a seasonal Scottish gothic horror? Check out In This City, Where it Rains, described as Silent Hill meets Crimson Peak - a house that remembers in a city that forgets, eternal rain and ghosts that appear in the rain, family secrets, occult rituals, weird moths...🖤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 linktr.ee/lyndseycroal

My Feb newsletter is out! It has various writing updates, a few submission calls, reading recommendations, a folklore fact, and more! Read it here: lyndseycroal.beehiiv.com/p/literally-...

I’m blown away to be shortlisted for The Unwin Award by the @publishersassoc.bsky.social. The prize recognises non-fiction authors in the earlier stages of their careers whose work is considered “to have made a significant contribution to the world.” I didn’t even get out of bed.

Good Morning, especially to @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social and every librarian, everywhere. .

Age of Aquarius Collage made from 1960s Vogue and Women’s Realm magazines, Ladybird books, Wills cigarette cards & mid century wallpaper

just discovered that the teddy bear’s picnic is still in copyright to Warner Brothers of all places, and I’ve used it as a load-bearing rhyme in the first half of book two shoot me dead/let me go down the fair use rabbit hole for my afternoon why don’t you 😭

this book is well worth dancing over, just an fyi

blue sky AND i have tulips! the gods of spring are smiling on me

Spotted on socials so...exciting news, Dark Crescent is going International! I'm so delighted that there will be a Ukrainian translation with Yakaboo Publishing, out later this year (and what great company to be in!) This is such a cool author first! ✨️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦 yakaboo.ua @lunapress.bsky.social

there is blue sky above my house for the first time this year I FEEL SO HAPPY

spending an hour on the phone to various NHS departments trying to track down a lost set of blood test results wasn’t how i intended to spend my morning, but finally managed to speak to a nice neurology secretary who thinks she can send them to my GP. all praise to her, may her pillow always be cool

This one came out before the election and…you know. Anyway, it got some amazing nods—Stoker, Locus, glowing NYT review, NPR—but never took off. Seeing it getting love this week for being 100% boricua? Yeah…agradecido. Oh, and it’s on sale! Mil gracias. Much love. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

james: how’d writing go today? did you hit your word count? me: no i deleted 1500 words i decided weren’t working james: … me: … james: … me: … james: …is that… good? me: idk but it’s done now

"She is not the first lighthouse keeper to lose her mind on the shores of Cabo Polonio. But she is determined to be the first to survive it." Another fantastic new voice joins our list. Welcome Valentina Cano Repetto! Loba publishes on November 10th.

...aanyway. Here's a Fox Bride from Hookland for you.

a friend just found a large bag of cadbury mini eggs being sold for £17.50 in a supermarket and this is my final straw. VIVE LA REVOLUTION we ride at dawn

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Javier Mayoral.

it’s been a while since i’ve had to argue with the NHS but my GP ordering an ultrasound & the hospital cancelling it because they want me to wait 4 months to see the surgeons even tho there’s nothing visible & they’ll just order an ultrasound is now my 2026 villain origin story

Good afternoon part II

Remember when we used to bind criminal trial papers in the skin of the guilty perpetrators? Good times. Anyway—

there’s a kid in the primary school playground next door who keeps throwing half-eaten apples into our garden over the wall at a rate of one a day, & while i appreciate they’ve found an ingenious way to pretend they’ve eaten their fruit snack i feel like i’ve become their unwilling clean-up crew

Our very own Author of the Apocalypse.

wait no i was joking but amazon have given me my first little orange bestseller label 🥺

ok so i know it’s only the kindle edition and these are very niche categories but i feel like since Awakened has hit number one SOMEWHERE i get to call myself a bestseller just for today, alright?!

do you think it’s acceptable to tell my agent i haven’t finished my second book yet because every time i sit down to write this happens and i get yelled at as soon as i stop stroking The Tummy?

"The dust had formed over him, covering him completely, giving him the form and face of Tom Halfpenny. It had carried the likeness here, all the way from Slew Hill ditch. 'Greot likes that kind of thing,' as my sister had said that morning. Watching, learning, recording, remembering."

Two kindle books on sale. £1.72 for the pair. Bargain. Two digital books, meaning that I don’t need to find a spare corner on the floor for.. Awakened by @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social and published by @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social Shroud by @aptshadow.bsky.social 🪐📚💙

I loved this book. You want a clever read full of atmosphere, go here ❤️👏🏻

i am never more hyper-aware of myself than when i, a slow walker, consciously slow down to let a fast walker behind me pass by and then realise they’ve slowed to match my pace from two steps behind instead of overtaking like i planned PASS ME, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. PASS ME.

grab yourselves a disturbingly fabulous bargain!!

Wake up! Today, for one day only, the ebook of Awakened by @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social for less than a pound, less than a dollar. A total bargain for all your gothic dream horrors and chilly science dystopia needs.

horror/dystopia lovers, for one day only my horrible baby is available on kindle for £0.99/$0.99! for less than a buck/quid you can buy something that took me 7 years to write & the New York Times called ‘an impressive debut worth losing sleep over’. what’re you waiting for?!

Of all the easy things you can do to help the environment, conserve water for communities not corporations, not perpetuate scams, support the labor and rights of creators... *not* using generative AI is the fucking easiest. You absolutely deserve to be shamed for using it for image and text creation

it’s important you all know that when hercule purrot decides we’ve stayed up too late he lies in front of the tv like this and chirrups until we go to bed

a raven top to match my cover! 🐦‍⬛

i was saving this to read after surgery but i’ve been too sleepy in recovery to read, i finally started a few nights ago and OH MY GOD i’m trying so hard to only read a little at a time bc i don’t want it to be over & it’s definitely already a mistake that i’ve been reading it alone in the dark

[watching curling] after 1 min: ugh this is dull 10 min: spin on that stone is off 30 mins: three in the house means nothing if your centre guard is ripe for a pick and roll 1 hour: SWEEP BITCH SWEEP

Guysss I need someone to buy my deep sea book (on sub), because I just want to go to panels and talk about weird jellyfish and deep sea strangeness, and have you seen how cool this is 👁🪼

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue