My friend Anna went through breast cancer around the same time I did, and but now it has metastasised and she has stage 4 in her bones and lungs. Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated. If you can't help with a donation, please consider sharing. gofund.me/18229ba1f

The problem with the whole 'post a woman author you've read 5 books by' is how many women don't get a second book, let alone five. Anyway, carry on.

Advertise your accent with a GIF.

If anyone does this to me, I will haunt them into their next twenty lives. Hope you're listening @cruisergb.bsky.social 👀

Don’t forget the Never Too Late Award from the Bridport Prize which recognises entries from writers over 60 across all categories of prizes. Link below Please share :)

Opportunity here for a low-income South London writer

Today's book mail (this time with the actual picture - what was I even doing?). Keshed, by @stuhennigan.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading!

Which reminds me... We'll meet at the cemetery (aka on Zoom) THIS SATURDAY! Tix still available, and they cover access to the live event as well as recordings of everything you might've missed to, y'know, go on that hot date or something: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-th...

I really enjoy this artist's work. Yes, he's my bonus son. No, I'm not biased. Well maybe a little bit. He still makes excellent art, though.

I keep saying this to them. They never show any interest when the perpetrators are white men. In fact they booed a woman and manhandled her offstage at one of their rallies for trying to talk about it. They don't give a shit about women and girls.

New blog post - Hello Fellow Humans cherylsonnier.com/2026/02/02/h...

every author in the class action, please file the claim.

Lovely review of Best British Short Stories 2025 up at @manchesterreview.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063

It's not out till Feb but tix are available now. I don't do anywhere near as much self-promo on here as i did on Twatter, esp events, cos at least 50% of my followers are overseas. I'll be giving it plenty of Billy Big Bollox about the book after Xmas tho! 🤣 www.waterstones.com/events/book-...

Today's book mail from @confingopublishing.bsky.social came with inclusions. How very @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Looking forward to this latest city-themed collection!

And you can grab it from all these places, including direct from us. Affordable eBook you can be reading in mere minutes! books2read.com/uncertain undertowpublications.com/ebooks/uncer...

Vol. 1 of our graphic novel SWEENEY'S PROGRESS is finished. An ecological fable set in C7th Ireland, from one of the great medieval poems. Script by me, art by @zaraslattery.bsky.social. To read the book online & help with the making of Volume 2, visit our Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/sweeneyspr...

There's a superb anthology here that's very close to funding. www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

Writing help needed. Any fluent Irish speakers able to correct my mistakes in their language? It's for a thing (not much text: just a few phrases). Go raibh maith agat!

Never seen Top Gun.

It’s true. We are publishing a mini-collection by this talented writer. Normally we publish stories singly, in pairs. If that makes sense. Something made us break that pattern.

Not that the studios know who I am (or care) but I will boycott any film made with AI, in any way, whether it's CGI, script, synthetic actors. Any form at all. Even if it was something I would love to see I would not touch it with a ten foot pole and I will encourage everyone I know to do the same.

Good Morning Bluesky peeps, today we bring you the first brand new submission for our new interview series. And oh boy @mxrxdx.bsky.social has knocked it out of the park! gnofhorror.com/matthew-r-da... This is a fascinating read. Please read and share 💙📚 🩸📚

Got my mammogram results today. Four years clear. I'm so grateful to the NHS.

Huge congratulations to Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social for getting her story “Fabrication” into Best British Short Stories 2025 alongside Ian Critchley, Alison Moore, Pippa Goldschmidt and others. Will definitely buy a copy when I’m back in the UK.

Good morning Bluesky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading the final chapters of the excellent delicious fantasy A Sword of Good and Ruin by Ann Smith Spark. What are you reading at the moment?

Wolf's Path was published in March, 6 months ago! But people are seeing it now. There is no algorithm here. Like no matter now much I think I am posting my stuff, people are still not seeing them. www.atthisarts.com/product/wolf...

Happy Monday, friends. Some folks will tell you to do one thing every day that scares you. I'm here to recommend doing (at least) one thing every day that brings you joy. Especially in these times.

It's officially my favourite season. 👻💀🍁🍂🎑

Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading a great fantasy novel A Sword of Gold and Ruin by Anna Smith Spark. What are you reading at the moment?

Paid position, hybrid working 👇

To be a writer, you only have to do one thing: write. Not break into a big magazine. Not publish a bestseller. Not get an extravagant book tour. Struggling with discouragement? Rejection? Bad reviews? These are normal. They don't disqualify us. If you put words to the page, then we are peers.

The link in my pinned post seems to have broken. Here's another link to my story in the Morning Star: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/lett...

Can't wait to see all the defenders of women and girls sharing this message.

And here she is at last! The Mothership. Isn't she pretty? I love her so much. 😍

Tattoo day tomorrow. Can't wait to share a pic and show off my son's artwork. 😍

Remains 3 is at press and will mail out soon. Please order or subscribe now. :) James Sallis, Kailee Pedersen, Gary McMahon, Danny Rhodes, Tori Fredrick, Steve Rasnic Tem, Alison Littlewood, Stephen Hargadon, and pictured here 'Hiroshima Was Another Word For Love Then' by Andrew Hook. remains.uk

And we also talked to Andrew Knighton about their fantasy mystery The Executioner’s Blade www.runalongtheshelves.net/interviews/2...

I enjoyed the London and Manchester volumes. Looking forward to the next one in the set!

This is fun!

I have a sci-fi flash fiction out with @metastellar.bsky.social today! If you have 4 minutes and fancy a fun take on what the future of advertising may hold, please have a read. www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...

I loved @ggaffa.bsky.social's previous @nightjarpress.bsky.social story, and this is as good if not better. A flight path signals something much deeper in the narrator's life, darker and more unsettling nightjarpress.weebly.com

I know some of my mutuals are on there. Just in case you weren't aware of the class lawsuit.

I can't show it now, because I don't want it online as an original jpeg, but my lovely artistic son has designed my first tattoo and given me the drawing as a birthday present. It's so cute and I love it so much. I can't wait to get it done and show everyone a picture once it's on my arm.

Given the overt attempts to erase certain histories from public spaces...well, I hope people are taking steps to preserve their local knowledge. You can write books that are not for public consumption, that chronicle your specific family or village history. You can keep your own archives.

Would you like to read an anthology of brand new horror from some of the most exciting authors in the genre? Help @starsandsabers.bsky.social reach our funding goal and get some cool perks.

Hey everyone! Starting July I’m available to take on new work! Open to both covers and interiors (short stories or longer projects). Some interior samples (in different styles) below, and more in my portfolio page, here: ahmedraafathussein.myportfolio.com Shares appreciated!

Boosty boosty, only 5 people have entered so far so your odds are good - if you're unlucky enough to live on Terf Island reply to my post below with "trans rights'" or a cute animal for a chance to win a copy of the wonderful @sachacoward.bsky.social 's Queer As Folklore ❤️ picking a winner this eve

Hugely enjoyed fantasy mystery The Executioner’s Blade by Andrew Knighton - inventive and a compelling lead character to meet! Review to come!

Forged for Prophecy is out next week! Embracing his role as the fake chosen one, Raul leads his people into rebellion. But with morale low & the odds against them, the promise of a magic dagger offers deperate hope. It's time for a quest into the wild. After all, prophecies are never wrong...