⭐️ New Episode! ⭐️ Sci-fi writer, Adam Marek, joins us to chat some classic Greek mythology and some similarly classic Ray Harryhausen creature effects in CLASH OF THE TITANS from 1981! Find our episode through the link below or wherever you get your podcasts!

Catch @adammarek.bsky.social on the latest episode of @frankenpodcast.bsky.social chatting Harryhausen & Adam's new collection: The Universe Delivers the Enemy You Need 👇 📻: www.frankensteinspodcast.com/116-greek-go...

Happy (belated) ‘Oswald Mosley coming to Manchester & getting his head kicked in’ day to all who celebrate 🥳 From MCR to Cable Street & the Spanish Republicans before them, there’s only one thing to do when Fascists march. ¡No Pasarán! 📗 commapress.co.uk/books/resist

Visited the National Gallery over the weekend. Loved this Eva Gonzalez painting but my rotten gen-z brain just sees that one scene in First Reformed 🫠

Interview with George Forster from Comma Press: we cover short stories, northern publishing, breaking into the industry, challenges facing the publishing industry, and much more. Make sure to check it out! @commapress.bsky.social @gforsterwrites.bsky.social

Read Comma press officer @gforsterwrites.bsky.social's interview with @northernbooksblog.bsky.social where they talk current reads, favourite Comma books and the Northern publishing scene! 👇

This guy would have Holmes’ top 5 antagonists behind bars without so much as blinking

I will never financially recover from this 🫠

SOLOLAND by Hassan Blasim publishes tomorrow! 📚🥳 This 3-novella collection from 'the most important writer of Arabic fiction alive' journeys from Isis-occupied Mosul to Scandinavia as it explores the devastating dislocation of exile. 📕Order now commapress.co.uk/books/sololand

#OnThisDay in 1958 The Havana Hilton opened to the public, shortly after the imposition of harsh US sanctions. The hotel quickly became a HQ for the revolutionary govt... 📙For more on Havana commapress.co.uk/books/the-bo... 📕For more on US intervention commapress.co.uk/books/the-am...

@mjohnharrison.bsky.social's 'Settling the World' now available in Spanish via the fine people at Interzona 👽 But #WhoWoreItBetter 🤔 From the winner of the '20 Goldsmiths Prize. NOM'D Best Single-Author Collection at the @sjacksonawards.bsky.social '20 📘 UK Ed. commapress.co.uk/books/settli...

DISSECTING MANCTOPIA 🐝 📍 Feel Good Club 🗓️Mar 20, 7:30-9pm 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/dissecting... The Book of Manchester explores, celebrates & critiques the city Manchester was & the one it's becoming... 🍻 Join us from 7 to grab a drink & settle in for an evening of all things Manchester!

Not Adrianna going on the right-wing grifter cruise 🫠

DISSECTING MANCTOPIA 🐝 Readings & Ramblings from Book of Manchester Authors 📍 Feel Good Club, MCR 📅 Mar 20, 7-9pm 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/dissecting... What does Manchester mean to you? Join as we explore, celebrate & critiques the city Manchester was, and the one it has become...

🌹 WRITING THE GOTHIC Writing Course w/ @bronteschiltz.bsky.social 📅 Starts 27 March 📍 Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies From haunted mansions to modern terrors of the screen age, learn the craft of gothic fiction & get published in a Comma eBook 👇 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-th...

Manchester book people we’re launching 2 cracking new collections tonight @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social be there or be square 👇📚

COMMA BLOG✍️ Dark Underbellies: w/ Ross Raisin Award Wins, what-the-bloody-hell-is-this? moments, and an ill-fated 2-piece kop band... The 2024 BBC NSSA winner chats about the win, his story in The Book of Bradford & memories of the city. 🔗 commapress.co.uk/blog/dark-un...

Very excited to be arranging this with @hangsawoman.bsky.social 👇

Freshly minted 3rd edition of Jane Rogers’ award-winning Hitting Trees with Sticks, alongside its brilliant cli-fi follow-up Fire-Ready: commapress.co.uk/books/hittin...

A mega resource for anyone interested in supporting great indie publishing here in the North 👇

Writing the City: Bradford Short Story Course 📅Starts Feb 11 📍City Library Bradford Learn the craft of place writing with author @davidmbarnett.bsky.social and have your work published in a Comma Press eBook! ✍️ 🎟️Tickets just £65 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-th...

Join us @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social on Feb 24 for the launch of Gaia Holmes' He Used to Do Dangerous Things and Jane Rogers' Fire Ready 🦌🔥 Characters in these stories adopt ingenious methods to fight the darkness, from loneliness to the climate crisis. 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gaia-holme...

Who else is making #ReadingResolutions this year?📚🥳 Whether you're trying to beat last year's total or looking to tweak your reading diet, let us know your 2025 reading goals down below 👇

Went to the cinema and they only showed one film trailer

Having a dry NYE so you know what that means

Received moisturiser unprompted from three separate relatives

"I'm driving home for Christmas, I can't wait to see their faces"

Just 4 places left on @mattjwesolowski.bsky.social's short story course beginning in the New Year🎟️🔥 Open to all levels of experience, explore dark fiction old & new, & get published in a Comma eBook! The perfect gift for the writer in your life ✍️🎁 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modern-fol...

RT to spread awareness of the new CEO panic number 🙏🏻

“Marek’s stories are a conjuring trick performed right before your eyes.” @aidenoreilly.bsky.social reviews @adammarek.bsky.social’s latest ✍️ 📕 commapress.co.uk/books/the-un... nothingintherulebook.com/2024/12/10/b...

The UHC shooter wasn’t boycotting McDonalds? Damn, must condemn.

After 149 shows, the #erastour is officially over, and it looks like Taylor was taking inspiration from us all along! 🎤🎵 If you’re #DownBad and not #ReadyForIt to end, pick up #TheManuscript from Comma Press that matches your favourite era 🖊️💕👗 📕 commapress.co.uk/books/the-bb...

The other Quality Streets talking about the Toffee Penny

Trying out the new Call of Duty and my god these 12 year olds are cooking me

New York having an undefeated week when it comes to evil rich fucks getting their comeuppance

Me writing my little stories in the tepid bath of managed decline

Me: *taps in on the Metrolink* Brain: but did you really though?

For #ReadPalestineWeek from @BasmaGhalayini . ‘It's necessary, of course. But above all it's bold, brilliant and inspiring: a sign of boundless imagination and fierce creation even in circumstances of oppression, denial, silencing and constriction’ commapress.co.uk/books/palest...

He's been won! But who by?! All will be revealed... @johnironmonger.bsky.social The Wager and the Bear coming Feb 2025...

Had a lovely time chatting with Opt Indie Books and members of the NFA to wrap up #BooksOnTyne last Saturday - plus pottering around Newcastle Xmas market 📚🎄

‘Farms in the path of fires have to be made ‘fire-ready’… characters [in this collection] are trying to make their lives ‘fire-ready’… they know they will be tested.’ Jane Rogers talks about her new Cli-Fi collection w/ @writersreview.bsky.social ✍️ reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2024/12/spec...

F1 Stewards absolutely ruthless today

It was a pleasure to publish one of Nuzo’s stories in the cracking ‘Book of Coventry’ back in September. 📘 commapress.co.uk/books/the-bo... Listen below for more or her journey to becoming ‘the Queen of African Horror’ 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Racing to Newcastle City Library for a chat with Opt Indie Books at Book on Tyne Festival! I’ll be repping @commapress.bsky.social, talking to @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social, @stairwellbooks.bsky.social & @andotherstories.bsky.social all about diversity and risk-taking in Northern publishing 📚☝️

A must for #ReadPalestineWeek, please read Sondos Sabra's heartbreaking diary of life in Gaza City over the last thirteen months. An incredible testimony in @Mondoweiss published today mondoweiss.net/2024/11/diar...

Today is the first day of #ReadPalestineWeek, so let’s go back to where it all started, for us: The Book of Gaza (2014): commapress.co.uk/books/the-bo...

FIRE-READY by Jane Rogers is OUT NOW!🔥 From bushfires & eco-protests to space travel & VR addiction, Jane Rogers' new Cli-Fi collection shines a light on our planet's health & the prospects for its greediest tenants. AVAILABLE NOW👇 📘 commapress.co.uk/books/fire-r...

Just rearranged the pepperonis on my Tesco big night in Pizza 🤌🏻

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