Just got my author copies of Moonfall (my banter sequel to Lightfall out next week) and I forgot that for about eight of the first ten chapters the author of the epigraph is the full name of a book friend It looks so silly, I am such a ridiculous author 😂 I have no regrets

I read Tony Blair’s new essay for my sins He ends it with policy prescriptions & hilariously every single one is just ‘use AI’ I remember the Blair years. Before Iraq, he helped many poor people. It’s so sad to see him become a ghoulish henchman for the planet’s most dangerous tech terrorists.

@edcrockerbooks.bsky.social You clearly have a wealthy Moonfall fan in Sydney

The legendary Anna Stephens is going hybrid like all the cool cats and delving into the indie book world with a fantasy romance (with dragons). (And my gremlin self gets to edit it, cannot wait)

I’m not really worried about this because by 2052 I’ll be partying in the hidden fae land between dimensions having finally completed the decades-long rituals required for a human to gain access to that strange world of ever-twilight and absinthe But this is fucking terrifying for everyone else

🐺New review! 🐺 Headlights by C J Leede "An utterly stunning novel; one of those books you hand over reverently to a friend who asks why you read horror. Not just one of the best horror books you’ll ever read but one that has the capacity to change you permanently." Best of the year? We'll see..

LISTEN TO MY WORDS 64% chance they won’t drive you mad Questions by the radioactively sensational @esmayrosalyne.bsky.social

🎤 New Interview! 🎤 I chat to the electrically brilliant SFFH author @alethearlyons.bsky.social about: 💤Her new book The Dreamwalker 💤How her series has increasingly mirrored the dystopian real world 💤Bringing romance into her series for the 1st time 💤Whose dreams she'd want to visit & more!

We are turning the interrogation lamp inward for a special in-house chat with @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social !

Calling all #writers! Professional editors AND authors REALLY understand the editor's role! Here are their tips! spotlightindie.co.uk/2026/05/20/w... Thanks @fantasticphil.bsky.social @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social @patricksamphire.bsky.social @timhardieauthor.bsky.social @keithwdickinson.bsky.social

I’m diving into Moonfall by @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social Loving it so far

Honesty a little blown away by this new Grimdark Magazine review of my banter blood sequel Moonfall, sequel to Lightfall, from @esmayrosalyne.bsky.social, SFF reviewing royalty ‘One of my favourite sequels ever’ 🤯🤯🤯 (No bribes were administered, this time)

Thanks to @orbitbooks.bsky.social for one of my most anticipated reads of the summer, @elizachanwrites.bsky.social monster-hunting in Opium War-era Hong Kong epic WHO’S FEELING PECKISH (will never be the official tagline)

A fun, inventive, and witty fantasy murder mystery set in the city of Elbay, where Irody Hasp, a cleric who talks to the dead (a Mortedant), is framed for the murder of his own apprentice.🔎 For fans of The Hexologists and The Tainted Cup. #booksky 🪐📚💙

🏰☠️ New Interview ☠️🏰 @rjbarker.bsky.social We discuss: - His new rather marvelous book Mortedant's Peril - Why his new protagonist's power is a bit useless - His advice on how to achieve powerful character moments - His thoughts on publishing after a 10-year career - Taxidermy and much more!

Lightfall by @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social was one of my top ten books of 2025. I’m incredibly excited to see what Ed has in store for us with the sequel Moonfall. You can find out for yourself on 2nd June.

The Girl With A Thousand Faces, by @sunyidean.com (@torbooks.bsky.social) is a novel I had high hopes for; and it exceeded them. An astounding genre blending novel that fully shows Dean's writing skills, delivering a memorable story of grief and trauma. Full review: jamreads.com/reviews/the-... 💙📚

👨‍👩‍👧‍👧🩸New review 🩸👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 Trad Wife by Sarah Langan from @torbooksuk.bsky.social "Langan’s not here to make fun of trad wives, she’s here to take on the system itself and how women can’t win in it, and to do so she’s given us one of the most original, unhinged finales in a horror you’ll read this year."

New Review - A Dance of Burning Blades, by @mhayinde.bsky.social (pub by @orbitbooks.bsky.social) is the excellent second part of the Invoker trilogy, a remarkable and epic science fantasy story. Full thoughts: jamreads.com/reviews/a-da... 💙📚

What do mermaids, gunpowder, an arcane plague, and the loss of contact with the afterlife, have in common? The diabolical mind of @richardswanauthor.bsky.social is the answer and, in this #BreakdownOfAChapter, he joins me to talk a little more in depth about what went into writing #GraveEmpire 🔥

If you found the instructions of the AI tech bros for their plague machines I’m pretty sure they’d just be: - promote right wing leaders - tell kids to kill themselves - for everyone else, act like the worst people pleaser at a shit party P.s. make non-authors suspicious of em dashes

🥃🎸🔪New review! 🔪🎸🥃 Neon Moon by Grace R Reynolds (Dark Matter Ink) "A truly horrific killer to remember and characters you’ll come to root for in the unique setting of a Texas honky-tonk saloon, this is a whisky-soaked nightmare of Survivor revenge and Texan grit. An exciting new horror voice."

Coming to our in-person event? This is what you can look forward to on May 23rd at the Flaxmills in Shrewsbury! What do you think to the program? Likey likey?

⚰️🔥🏰New review! 🏰🔥⚰️ Mortedant's Peril by @rjbarker.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social "Barker takes that most common of fantasy tropes, a magic city with a conspiracy at it heart and, fittingly for a tale of a man who reads the dead, breathes new life into it. One of the fantasies of the summer."

The summer of horror is here to take names and ring up therapy bills Thanks to @torbooksuk.bsky.social for these beauties

Today I was officially diagnosed with haemochromatosis, an incurable genetic condition which means I have too much iron in my blood & I’m not even annoyed because: a) it’s the PERFECT condition for a vampire author b) it’s something Celtic people get so I’m a Celtic vampire - even better

What this means is that Republican states can now redraw their congressional districts so that all black & other minority voters can be fenced off into one district or spread out over loads, thus rendering their votes void America’s turning more racist than your grandma after two sherries

The paperback of my banter blood book is out today! Vampires, werewolves, sorcerers, politics, murder mystery, blood as a poverty & also a drug metaphor, stupid chapter titles Buy it, then buy the sequel hardback in 1 month Now that’s a summer of fun* *we may have different definitions of fun

Having my balcony redone today, here’s my attempts to talk to the builders so far: ‘Good material that. Looks strong’ ‘Lovely. Could stare at that all day’ ‘Good colour that isn’t it. Bet it will look good in the sun’ ‘Bet you fellas get sick of balconies’ ‘I like the…texture?’ It’s unbelievable

🎸🐍 New review! 🐍🎸 I Know a Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours by @natcassidy.bsky.social from @shortwavebooks.bsky.social "Perfect for our uncertain times ... unhinged and frequently genius, and the line between the two, as in all the best zeitgeist-defining horror, is non-existent."

Russell Brand has said he slept with a 16yo when he was 30 because he was immature I felt very immature this week because I cancelled a very important doctor’s appointment as I’d stayed up till 5am the day before playing a video game I think he needs to pick a new word is what I’m trying to say

Trying to describe what clothes people wear in an olde-worlde fantasy setting is so fucking hard, are any publishers interested in a ten book series about a magic nudist colony so i never have to do this again There’s also no architecture or faces in this colony, I should probably mention that too

You know how (Rich) people have panic rooms in their house, well all authors should have non-panic rooms in their house they run to when they hear tales of industry injustice they have no control over, which are full of plasticine and stressballs and calming whale song and zero gravity or something

I’ve started telling strangers who ask what I do that I write books even though I’m not a full time author because I’m tired of trying to explain to non-book people what a freelance editor does, it’s confusing & we both end up wanting to jump off a waterfall I know it’s a lie but it feels SO GOOD

A dark fairytale with peat under its fingernails, @amyjanestewart.bsky.social ‘s debut novel “Hex House,” is an unputdownable folk horror that finds terror within sanctuary. Warm and welcoming and wide-open doors until of course, it’s not… @titanbooks.bsky.social APR 28TH

This had me, obviously, at ‘tender erotic cannibalistic stalemate’, the only stalemate worth the name frankly

I feel like the more words I write in a day & the less I think about what I'm writing, the better writer I am? I've written 5k words today with no thought & it's way better than the careful 1k I wrote yesterday The only flaw in this thesis is that my opinion's not objective truth, so unfair I know

I’ve been invited to a major author event in America! So exciting! And it’s only going to cost me $10k I must be doing something right to get so many invitations like this in my inbox. Maybe I’m just a natural? Am I incredibly desirable? Anyway I just paid the money, can’t wait to go!

Steel Gods, second book in the Great Silence series by @richardswanauthor.bsky.social (pub by @orbitbooks.bsky.social) is all you could have asked for the second instalment in the series blurring the line between fantasy and horror in top of superb characterization. jamreads.com/reviews/stee... 💙📚

👻 🌊NEW REVIEW 🌊👻 The Girl with a Thousand Faces by @sunyidean.com from @torbooks.bsky.social "As multifaceted as its titular avenging spirit, this towering edifice of carefully constructed speculative fiction mastery confirms Dean as one of the genre’s true artisans."

Respect to this latest book scammer, at least they’ve not pretended that they read my book which is not out yet They just ‘looked at it’ Maybe looking at books is the new reading, imagine the progress you could make with your TBR Maybe I could look at my taxes instead of file them?

A millennia ago, Iran was the centre of Earth’s most advanced civilisation for science, sexuality, culture, women’s rights etc; so advanced it would take dark ages Europe 700 years to catch up. Pretty sure it won’t be destroyed now by a dying nonce with last night’s leftover lasagne for a brain

I have this useless power where when something is knocked over I always catch it with lightning fast hand reflexes thus avoiding mild spills/breakages, but every time I question if I’m an X-Man or something. I’m not joking, I start to wonder if I’m special What syndrome do you even call that

Now streaming - a deeply loved episode with @underratedskpod.bsky.social and @booksinthefreezer.bsky.social! I am joined by two of the best and brightest women horror to unpack two of @stephenking.bsky.social most frightening reads (in our opinion), Dolores Claiborne and Gerald’s Game. Links below!

I just found out that plants sleep and can be anaesthetised so I don’t know where we go from here really, you can’t unlearn that

‘Everyone dies’ sounds like a right-wing REM song

So the doctor says I might have haemochromatosis, which means I constantly have too much iron in me, and he kept trying to explain why is this not a good thing but all I could think was that I am incredible because I am literally Iron Man Not easy being my doctor to be honest

🦴🚪 New review! 🚪🦴 The Bone Door by @franceswrites.bsky.social "A contender for my favourite book of the year... this remarkably ambitious fantasy horror is an enema of the emotions that destroys and nourishes in equal measure."

Oh shit we didn’t realise that was an option, thank you gropy dementia uncle at your cousin’s wedding

I’m finding some common ground between left-wingers like me who think gen AI is an existential plague & old school right wingers who hate the loss of traditional classroom teaching methods due to the advent of AI. It’s basically like Ocean’s 13 when Clooney and Andy Garcia team up against Al Pacino