There's still time to participate in this month's #WriteCBC 🙂

Hmmm... which book to read next? #booksky #horror #gothic #writers

For the witch, there are times when the river becomes a fluid scrying, a constant flow of omens. It's tutelary spirit whispers wisdom in her ears, its magics ripple across her psychic skin. She becomes one with its shaping song. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

I'm Shona Ray, and I write weird stories inspired by anthropology. My Terrible Truth? Great horror doesn't always need the supernatural. Humanity has plenty of its own. #horrorwriterschat #horror #booksky

Currently DEVOURING The Lamb @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social! Delicious 😋

Tonight! Come chat it up with me as a chair a discussion between @jodierobins.bsky.social, Gemma Fairclough and Katherine Clements as part of the @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social Northern Weird Novella Project: houseofbooksandfriends.com/event/author...

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 430: Read. Read widely. Read what you love, and what you don't. Read what you know, and what you don't yet know. The wider your reading, the better your chance of avoiding the limitations of being influenced by only one author, one genre, one culture, one time.

Watching workplaces during the pandemic quickly adapt to the remote working solutions disabled people have been pleading for for years, and then watching those same workplaces whip those accommodations away now abled people no longer need them has been... suboptimal.

A lot of people are quoting this post and that's good because they should, AI sucks and robs us of something special and only mediocre uncreative piss-babies rely on it to make anything at all, fuck AI, p.s. Emma Thompson is now the president, sorry, that's just how it is

So I'm now reeling from the final scene of this book (all that freaky staring!) when next door's cat appears from nowhere at the window in the dusk and I have NEVER felt so Halloween #booksky #horror #halloween

Julia Armfield's Private Rites feels so realistic to me that I keep looking up expecting the house to be flooded and everyone to be hanging out on roofs and suspended walkways

ADCI and the SoA worked together to create the Access Form (known in some cases as an Access Rider) and designed it to provide a simple, easy to complete form to share with your publishing team to communicate your needs. You can download the form here… bit.ly/3WfXMiM /5

For all who didn't make it through the darkness, and for all who are still in it somewhere. 🖤

Dipping my toe into this melting pot once again! I'm not better by any stretch, but those butterfly wings are starting to show...

@clairerwade.bsky.social, thank you SO much for dedicating such energy to your @jerichowriters.bsky.social webinar on writing in hard times - totally what I need right now! Loads of fantastic tips from hard-won experience. I wish you every success with your current novel.

Sorry for the silence lately. I'm taking a break from socials for a while, due to illness. I am taking my chrysalis form. I'll be back stronger. #writingcommunity #writersky #horrorwriters

#FolkloreThursday #GothicAdvent A German nun named Ursula loved singing but was so awful she disturbed the rest of the choir. Even after death she joined in until she was banished and turned into an owl. She joined the Wild Hunt and now lives her best life hooting with the Hunt in the winter skies.

True luxury is found in the simplest moments.

Taking a break from my novel edits to critique a friend's work. This is the bit I love. Somehow problem-solving and cheerleading is much more fun when it's for someone else 😊 #WritingCommunity #writing

FORGOTTEN SISTERS with an Honorable Mention in The Best Horror Books of 2024 from @pastemagazine.bsky.social Thank you! 🧜‍♀️

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

My Atlantic… The winter solstice is approaching. Bring on the light! #newweek #MondayMood #winter #weather #StormHour #GoodVibesOnly #jefinuist #Scotland #OuterHebrides

This channel is now officially my favourite. I challenge you to decorate a tree to this soundtrack and not feel Christmassy! 🎄🔔 www.youtube.com/live/-qOs1Y9...

An oldie, but a goody. #Poetry #Poems #WritersCommunity #WriteSky

Question for trad published authors: if you want to add an author's note to your novel, do you submit it with your full MS or does it get added later? #WritingCommunity #writers

I love the part where we bring the tree* home and it fills the house with that lovely fir tree smell. Oh OK then, you can play Christmas songs now. *(Sustainably grown, don't panic! Decorations pending.)

My latest THE FOLLY is a twisty possession horror story about an excon and his grown daughter who live in a stone tower overlooking the sea during the pandemic, and the odd things that happen to them there: bsky.app/profile/many...

Here’s some Remedios Varo art to make your Thursday a little better. One of my favorite painters.

My artwork “Wave After Wave” Oil on Panel 45cm x 56cm 🎨👨‍🎨 #art #oilpainting

Finally watched Enys Men. Intriguing and atmospheric, but I can't honestly say I enjoyed it, even as horror. Felt more of an art work than a movie. It needed a little more plot for my taste. Sorry. #moviereview #enysmen #horror

This is lovely, thank you. My fifth historical novel, THE BOOK OF SECRETS, was published this year. Inspired by a real female poisoning ring in Rome in 1659. Sorcery, secrets, survival. A Times pick of the month. I think it’s my best one but it got kind of buried. www.waterstones.com/book/the-boo...

Awesome book haul alert! Huge thanks @dancoxon.bsky.social - really looking forward to reading! #horror #crime #WritingCommunity

I’ve just seen a witch and a lion trying to carry a huge wardrobe into the house next door - I asked what they were up to and they said "Narnia business".

I might not be writing much at the moment (my body has other plans) but there is plenty going on in my head so technically my novel is still getting written... right? #WritingCommunity #pwme

I've updated the #HorrorWritersChat feed to ask people refrain from using the tag for anything else. If you're promoting horror books, I strongly recommend using this string of emojis 💙📚👀📢📚😱 That's all emojis for both general book feeds, and for horror feeds. Fewer characters and greater reach.

GOOD MORNING the 2025 horror list is LIVE! repost to destroy a TBR: readjumpscares.com/2025s-new-ho...

My favourite kennings (Old English / Norse circumlocutions)… 10. Chin-forest (beard) 9. Skull-forest (hair) 8. Dung-bearer (man) 7. Scarf-tree (woman) 6. Valley-trout (serpent) 5. Wave-horse (ship) 4. Shoulder-branches (arms) 3. Thought-chamber (mind) 2. Mouth-rudder (tongue) 1. Tongue-land (mouth)

Well I devoured this one in double-quick time! A pacey thrill-ride through a publishing industry that I sincerely hope has mellowed by the time I get to it. Don't worry, I'm not hoping too much! 😬 #WritingCommunity

You will do readings where no one shows up. You will set up at events and sell no books. Rejection will show up in your inbox again and again. You will say “I wrote a book!” and folks will stay quiet or say “Cool!” and then not buy it. It’s all good. Part of the gig. KEEP AT IT.

If you have to put your writing on hold for life stuff, how do you find your way back into the work and creative flow? #writing

Day 7 #micropoetryadvent24 Prompt: notice something green Life under the concrete shares tendrils through the cracks #poetry #micropoetry

"Receive what cheer you may: The night is long that never finds the day." Macbeth #ShakespeareSunday

My short horror story will appear in this awesome anthology from Red Cape publishing, W Is For Witchcraft, coming this month! Be sure you pre-order now to read these ghastly tales of witchcraft horror from some amazing authors! W is for Witchcraft a.co/d/4Bb5SlH

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014. "One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem" I hope they will return to their poem

Weirdly sinister message from Duolingo. I feel an episide of #blackmirror coming on

Thank you @manylittlewords.bsky.social and @talkscaredpod.bsky.social for this very personal exploration of horror writing, mental health and other pertinent things. This is the conversation I needed to hear as I craft my first novel #WritingCommunity #writers www.buzzsprout.com/1322413/epis...

Words for those who eat the flesh of their own kind, from various languages... 10. Cannibal (English) 9. Cannibale (French) 8. Canibal (Portuguese) 7. Caníbal (Spanish) 6. Kannibaal (Dutch) 5. Kanibal (Malay) 4. Kanibál (Hebrew) 3. Kannibál (Hungarian) 2. Kannibal (Swedish) 1. Yamyam (Turkish)

Last day to order from our bookshop if you want your books dispatched this year. Otherwise we'll send out orders in 2025! (Ebooks always available, of course)

Just a reminder that this isn't just UK and Ireland focused I'd love for bookshops from other countries to be involved