Amanda Mason
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Writer. THE WAYWARD GIRLS (2019) THE HIDING PLACE (2021)
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I'm so delighted to be included in this anthology
#BeyondandWithinWitchcraft
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about 2 months ago
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Happy New Year, all. Here's to hope, and joy, and persistence.
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Ryan Howe
about 13 hours ago
Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.
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Gargarin
about 15 hours ago
A corker of a thread!
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Richard Wells
1 day ago
I hope tomorrow night you are all blessed by the New Year Good Luck Lemon Piglet â€ïž...
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris
1 day ago
OMG - f*ck AI for ruining the em-dash for writers. I use them all the time. Of course, what a shock that AI uses them since they were trained off my voice and other authors' voices.
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Meg Rowley
1 day ago
My sincere year-end thought isnât an original one, but its importance has been underscored to me repeatedly over the last 12 months: be free with telling the people you love that you love them, casually, and at every chance. Great love, small love, every type of love.
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Rian Johnson
2 days ago
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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Jack Barber
3 days ago
Last night we re-started the Robin Hoods Bay Musical Jamboree, a fundraising gig my brother and I began in 2004. It hadn't run for a few years, but last night was an amazing way to relaunch this much-loved community event.
#music
#gig
#robinhoodsbay
#fujifilm
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Jeff VanderMeer
3 days ago
Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything.
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
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Come and join us as we construct our very own, very haunted house đ»đ»đ»
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3 days ago
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Rich Neville
3 days ago
South Park alumnus Toby Morton saw the rename on the cards months ago and bought the trumpkennedycenter domain (com and org).
https://www.trumpkennedycenter.org
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HOME | Trump Kennedy Center
https://www.trumpkennedycenter.org
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Rachel Hewitt
3 days ago
Would you love to be more physically active, not just for a few weeks after New Year but in the long term? Join me! I'm launching the SPA (Sustainable Physical Activity) Community to share tips, research & accountability, & to find the joy in being active
rachelhewitt.substack.com/p/join-me-in...
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Johnny Mains
4 days ago
Just read that David Pinner, author of RITUAL, died on Christmas Eve. RITUAL famously inspired THE WICKER MAN.
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Well this is excellent stuff, featuring many of my faves with irritatingly excellent work from
@unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social
and Alison Moore in particular, but honestly such a good distinctive collection.
3 days ago
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6 days ago
Goodnight from Connie Bunning, writing out a new list of who to curse after spending several hours too many with her extended family. Goodnight from Steph Wade, still pondering the meaning of getting the Woodwoseâs Staff silver charm in the plum pudding. Goodnight from Hookland.
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7 days ago
Christmas is hard for many. The years roll, the ghosts at the table increase. Weâre haunted by the absence of voices, of laughter engines who drank and ate with us. This can be day of remembrance rituals. For what itâs worth, Hooklanders near and far are in my candles today. Be gentle on yourselves.
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Pharmacist on a Pushbike
7 days ago
Pretty tame by
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
standards, but by the time hubby joins me in this small spare bed/storage room tonight it's going to be cosy. Don't be deceived by all the cupboards & drawers: they're full. At least we have access to all the spare bedding (although there isn't actually a duvet)
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Rhodri Marsden
7 days ago
Unbelievably,
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link:
www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
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Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden
Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig⊠Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025
https://www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know-its-christmas-2025
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Nature is happening outside.
8 days ago
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Rhodri Marsden
8 days ago
Tomorrow evening itâll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the
#duvetknowitschristmas
hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?
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Alex Davis
9 days ago
Setting my reminder for the Ghost Story for Christmas - and if you love all things spooky, then the UK GHOST STORY FESTIVAL ONLINE might speak to you, with three days of talks, interviews and writing workshops incoming!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/ukghoststory...
#ghosts
#ghoststory
#ghoststories
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A Very Theory Xmas
9 days ago
In his essay on the uncanny, Freud discusses Jentsch's argument that uncanniness arises from uncertainty as to whether something is animate or inanimate, such as a doll, automaton, or Michael Buble.
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Angus Main
9 days ago
What did Alan Rickman have against Christmas?
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Alex MacLaren
10 days ago
We re-watched When Harry Met Sally. Itâs a masterpiece of course, but I was struck by the strong flavour of Oscar Hammerstein /1
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Postcard From The Past
11 days ago
I left a rubber sponge behind by mistake. Please will you get someone to post it to me.
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Jessica Valenti
11 days ago
I mean jfc CNN just *sat down and interviewed* a group of Christian nationalist leaders who want to repeal womenâs right to vote!
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Jessica Valenti
11 days ago
Thatâs what these âdebatesâ are really about: framing old fashioned oppression as some kind of high-brow concern for womenâs happiness. You know what makes us happy? Bank accounts. Voting rights. The ability to leave a bad marriage and not have a miscarriage kill us.
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Anna Twigg
11 days ago
open.spotify.com/episode/1cMI...
The completely wonderful
@backlisted.bsky.social
episode of The Dark is Rising...đ€
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The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1cMIZDGJBhb91ufwEiCT8V?si=pjJWPqAyRzOCrpJ1tDEZhQ
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Yes. Caz. Well done everyone.
#Strictly
11 days ago
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Don't Look Grinch
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11 days ago
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Join me and all these other fine people for the UK GHOST STORY FESTIVAL ONLINE. It will be fun, I promise. đ»
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12 days ago
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Andrew Male
12 days ago
To everyone on Bluesky finding out about Walliams and despairing at the fact that "I read those books to my kids" I just want to reassure them that it's OK. He didn't write them.
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Anna Frame
12 days ago
Oh my god. Itâs actually finally happened. Merry Christmas, everyone!
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John Self
13 days ago
Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.
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Exclusive: David Walliams dropped by publisher over inappropriate behaviour towards women
Telegraph investigation into best-selling childrenâs author uncovers claims that he âharassedâ junior female employees at Harper Collins
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9197cdb1761216ba
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Bob Fry
13 days ago
This is essential listening. Enchanting and delightful. When Alan Garner wrote and directed a nativity play.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Bringing Holly from the Bongs - BBC Sounds
Schoolkids of Goostrey recall 1965 - starring in Alan Garner's nativity play.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b06sqkhl?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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Dr Francis Young
13 days ago
For some reason, people struggle to understand that indexing is precisely the sort of task LLMs *canât do*, for the same reason they canât solve complex equations - rather like cold-reading mediums, theyâre good at vibes but fail when exacting precision and accuracy is required
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Manderley Press
14 days ago
Boom. A brand new book for summer 2026 - The Moon is Making by Storm Jameson. This epic novel is set in and inspired by Whitby, Yorkshire. And itâs introduced by fellow northerner Maxine Peake. One to watch! More info here:
manderleypress.com
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Vindication
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13 days ago
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Editing and I am very much enjoying this top note I have left for myself: One more terrible thing in the house.
14 days ago
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Dan Coxon
14 days ago
UNQUIET GUESTS is out now, available from all good bookshops (and next-day delivery via Amazon). Ten haunted house stories from some of the best short stories writers around - perfect for all lovers of ghost stories this Christmas (and a beautiful edition, too).
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This is so, so good. With a very strong M.R. James/Nigel Kneale weird fiction vibe. More, please.
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TomĂĄs Murray
16 days ago
Jane Austen, Novelist,
#BornOnThisDay
in 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire, England
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Alex Davis
16 days ago
This February, you don't need to go out ghost hunting - we'll be more than happy to bring the haunting to you with the latest run of the UK GHOST STORY FESTIVAL ONLINE, running from the 6th-8th February!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/ukghoststory...
#festival
#festivals
#writing
#writers
#authors
#fiction
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Sophie Coulombeau
16 days ago
Outlandishly, I'll be discussing this research (& other things) on Front Row this evening with Samira Ahmed, Tessa Hadley, Kamila Shamsie, Harriet Walter, & John Mullan. Unless I end up on the cutting room floor, which given the company would be entirely understandable.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Joel Morris
16 days ago
âPeople have every right to own property, but we must balance that with the demands of burglars to steal that property and sell it.â Fuck off. And tell your loser tech mates to fuck off while youâre at it. Cheers. Ta.
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Andrew Male
16 days ago
Oh man
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16 days ago
Goodnight from Amanda Frost, starting to feel that being a nanny at a haunted manor house is not only a cliché, but genuinely terrifying. Goodnight from Frank Holden, hoping an extra bottle of herb beer will keep Clapperclaw dreams from scratching him as he sleeps. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Joel Morris
16 days ago
Tond: a ghost story for Christmas.
patreon.com/brokenveil
A new one-off audio drama, from the Broken Veil channel. Support weird content, from as little as ÂŁ2. Available Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts.
#BrokenVeil
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16 days ago
Roger Clarke and I are writing a book about ghosts. We need a publisher.
@tomsbrown.bsky.social
and I are writing a graphic novel about boy mire maids and need a publisher. If you are interested, DM me.
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