Naoise's brother is asking Irish people to please contact the government #Speirgorm

I am once again asking for someone to invent a form of packing up all up your belongings that doesn’t suck

feed me your booooooooooks

The news is official! I can finally tell you that my next romcom Reality Check will be out in April next year!

ICYMI: Viking has won an eight-way bidding war for Almost the Whole Truth, the first adult novel from the bestselling and award-winning children’s author, Robin Stevens. It will be published in early 2027 👇 #BookSky

Tag yourself, I’m Borgo review

The Undetectables are back! THE UNFATHOMABLE CURSE by @cswritesbooks.bsky.social is the third book in the series. It’s packed with ancient magic and fiendish puzzles, perfect for fans of supernatural mysteries and cosy crime. Grab yourself a copy here: proud-geek.co.uk/product-page... #booksky

On Friday I’ll be joined in Chapters by a fabulous panel of authors to celebrate the launch of THE UNFATHOMABLE CURSE! I would love to see you there - I will have themed friendship bracelets and I promise a night of Curses & Chaos ✨👻 Tickets: campsite.to/cswritesbooks #speirgorm

Italy has sent a ship, and Spain is sending a ship, to protect the #SumudFlotilla Indonesia has promised 20,000 troops if the UN act to intervene in Palestine. Things are ramping up. Thanks to the Italian dock workers and people around the world who have a conscience and compassion. Union. Fin.

On Friday I’ll be joined in Chapters by a fabulous panel of authors to celebrate the launch of THE UNFATHOMABLE CURSE! I would love to see you there - I will have themed friendship bracelets and I promise a night of Curses & Chaos ✨👻 Tickets: campsite.to/cswritesbooks #speirgorm

The Unfathomable Curse, book three in the Undetectables series, is out now!! The series follows a gang of three queer witch detectives and a ghost in a cat costume who track down magical serial killers - and book 3 takes them to a magical town in the Lake District… campsite.to/cswritesbooks

This is Pink Pony Club if it was about The Undetectables Series (and sped up slightly because there’s a 3 minute video limit) #pinkponyclub 📚🪐💙 #speirgorm #parodysong #blindkaraoke

I couldn’t remember Toby’s name last week so was calling him “gentle ginger moustached Evan Peters” #GBBO

That is NOT a fucking hobnob #GBBO

With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

I was reading aloud a short story I’m working that contained the word ‘ Lepidoptera’, and as I finished the paragraph a small tortoiseshell just materialised in my office!!!! Do I… have magic summoning powers?

There’s a public survey open for the general public to give input as to whether the Basic Income for the Arts scheme should continue. I implore you to take the 2 mins to fill out this survey and call for the BIA scheme to be continued and further developed. ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Every so often my neighbour drops an object outside their driveway, Mario Kart item-style. Last week it was a splayed banana skin. Today it was a cartoonishly perfect radish. I cannot tell if it is intentional. Relatedly, I now have late-night thoughts like ‘I forgot to take a photo of the radish’

Hey, I don't know if it'll have an effect, but if you, YOU, are interested in the continuation and expansion of the BIA, there's a public survey available to gather opinions. ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Minister Patrick O’Donovan has announced a 6-month extension to the Pilot Scheme for Basic Income for the Arts. The NCFA are raising the profile of the sector call to Retain, Extend and Expand Basic Income for the Arts 🔗 ncfa.ie/2025/06/19/j... / email [email protected] link with your local constituency

“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today” #TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie

BE GAY, SOLVE CRIME! From queer murder mysteries to gay detectives, supernatural crime agencies and lesbian private investigators, here are 10 LGBTQ+ books about queer detectives solving crime: Read the full blog at: www.proud-geek.co.uk/post/10-quee... #queerbooks #booksky

Sometimes writing is fixing a problem you were dreading untangling by deleting 97 words

there was some (deserved!) commotion tonight at the @dubraybooks.bsky.social Pages of Pride event for my tshirt, which was designed by @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social – they make lots of cool stuff, check their bio for their website! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💚

Ms. Rachel is incredible, and this video is absolutely heartbreaking.

there was some (deserved!) commotion tonight at the @dubraybooks.bsky.social Pages of Pride event for my tshirt, which was designed by @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social – they make lots of cool stuff, check their bio for their website! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💚

Went to pick up books I’d requested from the library today and forgot what ones I was collecting until the librarian said “ok so you have brain worms… and sky Daddy”

Tl; DR: over and over and over again: read disabled writers, commission disabled writers, support disabled writers, talk about disabled writers, interview disabled writers, pay disabled writers, prize disabled writers, make space for disabled writers, listen to disabled writers.

So proud of @catmitchell17.bsky.social and @pennyauthor.bsky.social for making a #Disability focus issue of @thebookseller.com happen after 3 years hiatus. So heartening to see such brilliant books by disabled, D/deaf, neurodivergent writers being published across genres, as in my preview. #BookSky

Woke up thinking about giraffes, as one does, so here is one of my favourite facts ever.

The NCFA is undertaking a national outreach campaign that actively targets government officials, local representatives, and key stakeholders, calling on them to support continued funding and a more permanent commitment to BIA.

Basic Income for the Arts extended to 2026 as NCFA calls for it be made permanent Full details and how to help: nialler9.com/basic-income...

I hate this new game of opening literally any app I’ve used for years to discover that it’s been absolutely fucking destroyed by ‘AI tools’ I do not and will not ever want. I can write my own lists. I can read my own documents. I DO NOT NEED A COPILOT FOR THINKING

A fun little Bi Flag colored Stack of queer books @wordsiren.bsky.social 's So Let Them Burn, @cswritesbooks.bsky.social the Undetectable And @camillaraines.bsky.social the Hollow and the Haunted 🏳️‍🌈💓💜💙 Happy Pride reading

I spend an inordinate amount of time saying ‘I’m trying to help you!!!’ to various insects who don’t seem to understand understand that I am a benevolent giant who needs their hands to not have green weevils or moths or ladybugs or flea beetles on them and that our time together is fleeting

I spend an inordinate amount of time saying ‘I’m trying to help you!!!’ to various insects who don’t seem to understand understand that I am a benevolent giant who needs their hands to not have green weevils or moths or ladybugs or flea beetles on them and that our time together is fleeting

Good Luck Babe! but it’s sung by a hundred boys in bars

🌈Pride guide 2025🌈 The 2025 Read with Pride Guide has arrived! Inside you will find 100 recommended titles and 100 ‘read also’ suggestions. That’s 200 books celebrating LBGTQ+ love, joy, and identity. Find out more and download for free ⬇️ childrensbooksireland.ie/our-recommen... #ReadWithPride

🔔 UPDATE: The deadline to apply for the Poetry Ireland Librarian position has been EXTENDED to Sunday, June 8th at 5pm. Poetry Ireland are seeking a passionate, qualified Librarian to join their team! ✍️Learn more & apply: www.poetryireland.ie/news/poetry-... #JobFairy @libraryjobs.bsky.social

The time is NOW, people! The Kickstarter is LIVE! Time to get WRATHy. 👿 And please spread the word! RT, tell your friends, shout it from the rooftops! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon...

Looking for queer books? How about five feet of queer books. How many have you read? #BookSky

Meta now using the Catholic Church method of counting people who can’t opt out as “active members”

Every time I have to pack a suitcase I think ‘surely by the next time I have to do this, someone will have invented a packing that is not the worst’ but guess what.

US folk – the ‘zon has THE UNDETECTABLES ebook for $1.99 this week! It’s a fantasy mystery about 3 20-year-old witches and a ghost in a cat costume (don’t ask) who start a PI agency to stop a serial killer in their small magical town Get it here 👉🏻 campsite.to/cswritesbooks

Minister for the Arts Patrick O'Donovan has publicly backed the retention of the Basic Income for the Arts scheme today saying that its impact is 'far-ranging and affects all aspects of recipients' lives'

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

"Minister for the Arts Patrick O'Donovan has publicly backed the retention of the Basic Income for the Arts scheme, saying its impact is 'far-ranging and affects all aspects of recipients' lives'." www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

As we approach pride month, let us all remember that pride is a protest and everyone* is welcome (*except those who would uphold the oppression of queer people if the law required it)

I just think that if you’re granted a large platform to voice opinions it makes more sense to use that for things relevant and important to you and not, say, to call for the repeal of a recognition act that has done nothing but support A TINY TINY MINORITY of people who are no threat to you