Let’s take our flag back from Reform. It’s everyone’s, not just the property of the right. It should mean unity, not horrible division. Come on book people! Let’s see your book flags 😎

Wolf-whistled today for the first time ever. I’m worried it was ironic, but even so: thank you Man On The Street Literally Half My Age. You gave me a good giggle on my way home from the gym!

One glass of smoothie. One of white spirit. This is living on the edge, people.

Made the massive error of reading some reviews of my book on Goodreads. Conclusion: it is NOT FOR WRITERS. Stay away. We aren’t strong enough. It’s the Hunger Games in there. If you need me, I’m dead behind a hedge.

Today years old when I realised that Emperor Hadrian also thought crocodiles were super cool. Has his own life size statue of one at his villa! The man was clearly a good person.

Heard within an hour of coming home: 1) what do you MEAN, I didn’t tell you he has cancer? Don’t be stupid. He’s ninety, he’s riddled with cancer. 2) there’s a sausage on the floor!

A friend just messaged me to say he couldn’t have a call on Saturday because he had to go to a craft fair and then a sex party, and now I’m worried I haven’t been doing my life right…

Look what I have!!!!!

I give custom endpapers to books that I particularly adore. Suffice to say that The Hymn To Dionysus by @natashapulley.bsky.social is more than deserving.

Tee hee, the UK edition of The Hymn to Dionysus is out today!!

Four Greek myth books in one go! Come and see us at Waterstones Covent Garden, we’d love to say hi 😎

Thank you so much for this lovely revieeeewwww!!!

See, I grew my hair long and dyed it blonde and started wearing eyeliner to disguise myself as a human, but as you can see here, I am actually a Dorkosaurus Rex who learns ancient languages for fun. Raaar *stomps roaring through New York*

Today is my first online event! You can catch us at 8pm UK time/1pm Arizona: www.facebook.com/thepoisonedp... www.youtube.com/channel/UCTb... Come! Barbara is going to destroy me!

Yay, Dionysus is here! If you’re in the US. The UK edition lands on April 3rd…so I get two book birthdays 🎉

UK Dionysus tour dates 😎 Please do come along and say hi!

Woo hoo! Dionysus is an Apple must listen! Sid (the narrator) has done a fabulous job with this one :)

Online US events! They are at strange times because I’m in the UK, and I need to be AWAKE to talk to Maya and Barbara because they are both much smarter than me…

Dressing up as your book is an important part of being a writer.

Just innocently watching A Thousand Blows and then…saw my brother in it!! *loses mind*

Just had a lovely conversation with my German publisher about how to translate “knight” for The Hymn to Dionysus and we fell down a joyful rabbit hole of Greek and The Iliad and languages and anyway, I’ll be wearing my Happy Dork Bunny ears for at least the rest of the week.

You can preorder Dionysus with 25% off at Waterstones this weekend! www.waterstones.com/book/the-hym...

Happy Valentine’s Day! Here is a small romantic scene from The Hymn to Dionysus (coming soooon!) Meet Phaidros and Dionysus.

If you’re a UK writer, musician, actor, or artist of any kind, professionally or not, remember to tell the government what you think about their proposal to suspend copyright of your work so that AI companies can scrape it without paying you! www.gov.uk/government/c...

The Mars House has been (very) longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association awards— if you’re a member you can vote! Please vote for me. January and the mammoths will love you always. www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Today my friend told me that the theme song of Babe (the sheep pig, remember?) which I have been singing my entire life, is actually an organ composition by the very famous Saint Saens. So there. I got my music education from a talking pig.

Only the new Nnedi Okorafor! Thank you EXCEEDINGLY @gollancz.bsky.social you total legends…

Don't miss our epic New Years Sale where you can get 20% off spring's BIGGEST releases, including #TheDevils by @joeabercrombie.com, The Hymn to Dionysus by @natashapulley.bsky.social, and many more. Shop now: shorturl.at/66UEK

You know when you’ve been away for a while but then you come home and feel huge appreciation for all the socks you’d forgotten about? Me too.

Because I’m a huge dork this is my New Year read: Gustave Dore’s illustrated edition of Paradise Lost and it is SO YUMMY

Dionysus has his own trailer and Emma composed the music, which is my favourite part…!

HE’S FINALLY HERE!! You can preorder here to get him first in April: geni.us/THEHYMNTODIO...

If you need some end of year positivity with your historical writing, get yourself an early xmas present of one the last spaces on the Arvon course I'm running with @natashapulley.bsky.social in Devon next week. @catrionaward.bsky.social is our icing on the xmas cake. www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

I have lovely Dionysus graphics and quotes! Tooting own trumpet. HONK!

You know how, as an early Christmas present to yourself, you’ve always wanted to abscond to the moors and write historical fiction with two professional liars for a week? Well… www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Tiny book fair books!

It’s lovely in Miami but bloody hell, I just had to pay £6.50 for a coffee. How is anyone still alive here? I’m on the edge of foraging on the seashore and I haven’t even been here for 48 hours.

Miami is SILLY. It is almost CHRISTMAS. Unacceptable.

Right! I’m off to Miami for the book fair! Prepare for soul destroying pictures of sunshine.

Woo, The Mars House has been longlisted for the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize! This is not a book I ever expected anyone to read, so I am very very happy :) Never mind that one of the other books just won…the Booker. I can still dream!

The Winter Spirits is a Blackwell’s book of the month and it is looking VERY SHINY. I’m so happy to have a story in this collection. I did not sail to a deserted island in the fog and risk being eaten by wild sheep for nought!

Look at this gorgeous art!

So…to what extent should I not delete the sex scenes in the book I’m working on now? There are three. Is that good? Is it garbage? Consideration A: it lightens up a nuclear apocalypse book Consideration B: my grandmother can’t read now but MAKES MY MUM READ TO HER.

Hello Blue Sky! I’m going to try use this platform more. Coming up: cover reveal for the UK edition of The Hymn to Dionysus…!