It’s time…

Fear, much like beauty, is in the eye of the Beholder. Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone 👻🎃 #samhain #halloween2025

But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Natural Flavor was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a master Flavor, to control all others.

I'm honoured to make it into Nerds of a Feather! I love all the different readings this book has generated. Great review. Thanks @spanishspy.bsky.social.

The Lore of Silver, the sequel to the alt-renaissance fantasy heist The Book of Gold, is up on Netgalley now and I have a few codes to share. If you're interested, DM me and I'll see what I can do.

How about a giveaway? I have two copies of my cosy neurodivergent adventure Magic, Maps, and Mischief to send to two people! All you need to do is follow me and Repost this. Simple! I'll do the draw on Wednesday October 1st - good luck 🤞😁

Working from home is the best... 🐈😻 #purrfectcoworker #amwriting #CatsofBluesky 🐾🐱

It was so nice to hang out and talk about the books 😊 Can't wait for The Lore of Silver 📚

I admit I had *way* more fun drawing this wee guy than I thought I would for drawtober prompt number 2: Toad Astrologer What’s the verdict, should I sell prints at World fantasy Convention this year? #art

Anyone noticing LOTs of acorns this year? It’s looking like 2025 is a mast year, an ecological phenomenon where trees produce bumper crops of seeds and fruits ensuring the next generation of trees and a rich bounty for wildlife! 🌱 Our ancient oak forests are a wonderful sight at the moment 🍁🍂🌿

My short story ‘Fruit of the Earth’ is now available in audiobook format from Sans. PRESS, narrated by Karen Frantz 🎧 More updates on my blog! 🍂📚 www.ctomahony.com/blog/lu4up36... #Audiobook #ShortStory #AmWriting #IrishWriters

Delighted to reveal 'Magic, Maps, and Mischief'. This has had quite the journey to publication. Want stories about neurodivergent people finding one another in a world trying to limit them, writing *by* and autistic person. Pre-order now: mybook.to/magicmapsand... Cover by @lizdelton.bsky.social

We have a Steam page for our game! It's a mahjong-inspired deckbuilder with A LOT OF BIRDS! If you have a Steam account and hit the wishlist button - you will have my eternal gratitude 🙏 store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

I'm so excited to see my favourite film in the cinema! 👽🐣 #alien #movienight @omniplexcinemas.bsky.social

Irish artists/ supporters of the arts, please check out and fill in this short survey. The Gript/ far right dudes are already sharing it on X and I'd be worried it'll get brigaded. If we want it to be retained and expanded we gotta drown them out.

Want to meet the Salt Oracle herself, and my poor researcher, Auli, as she has a Bad Time™️?? The fabulous folk @scifinow.bsky.social have an extract of THE SALT ORACLE ✨and✨a giveaway with @solarisbooks.bsky.social for WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST 🙌🥳👇 www.scifinow.co.uk/books/the-sa...

I'm about to hit 5k followers. So how about a give away? Like and repost this, and I'll enter everyone who does into a draw to win a full set of my British Fantasy Award nominated Empire of Ruin series! Good luck - I'll do the draw this Friday afternoon :)

✨️Dark Crescent Giveaway! ✨️ Two copies 1 here/ 1 on IG - just repost for a chance to win + bonus entry if you comment a favourite Scottish folklore thing! Signed book comes with a real hagstone, art card, kelpie sticker, bookmark & stickers ft. folklore lino designs by me! Ends 1st June! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📚🌙

✨4 weeks until Dark Crescent is out from @lunapress.bsky.social! Pippin is looking out the window wistfully, hoping for lots of pre-orders as maybe then he might get extra fancy treats...(he told me this himself 👀) Internal art sneak peek, Pip knows how to pose! linktr.ee/lyndseycroal ✨

Congratulations to @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social for being a @locusmag.bsky.social award finalist with #LongLiveEvil. Check out the other finalists here: https://locusmag.com/.../2025-locus-awards-top-ten.../ #Fantasy #readingcommunity #FantasyNovels #IrishBooks #IrishFantasy

I've started letting my kitten Toulouse explore outside a little. He's almost 5 months old now and growing so fast 😭 Definitely no fear of heights with this one! #Catsky #Petsky #SiberianCat

Tier 2 pre-sale is now live! 💚 The interest form sale will be going live tomorrow at 12pm BST 😍

MAGIC DANCE. I learned many things about myself from this song.

Voting is open to all members of the British Fantasy Society, attendees of Fantasycon 2024 and ticket holders for World Fantasy Convention 2025

The British Fantasy Society Big Quiz is NEXT WEEK. Are you free on Wednesday evening and fancy a fun online quiz? Come join! britishfantasysociety.org/events-calen...

Most of them are signed too! I particularly love Jeanette Ng's message and @mikebrooks668.bsky.social self-portrait 🎨 #booksky #sff #eastercon

Really enjoying #eastercon day 2! I bought so many books I had to drop some back to the hotel 😆 #sff #sffh #booksky

On my way to #Eastercon 🐈‍⬛️

Check out our #Octocon Presents panel at Eastercon, Reconnect. We are also looking for volunteers to help at our fan table. Fin the details here: https://2025.octocon.com/octocon-presents-at-reconnect-unreliable-narrators-and-other-tricks-and-our-fan-table/ #Eastercon #Belfast #Octocon2025 #Fandom

Some facts about our upcoming gothic horror game, Eyes of Hellfire! ☘️ It's set in #IRELAND 😱 It takes place in the infamous HELLFIRE CLUB 🤝 It's a co-op game! 📅 It's coming to Early Access THIS YEAR! store.steampowered.com/app/1724030/... #gamedev

Hey you! Do you like TTRPGs? What about Irish mythology? Then check out this awesome looking kickstarter by new Irish studio Old Oak Games using the 5e ruleset. A strong No GenAI stance, all human made which is always great to see in this day and age. kck.st/3XMhcg7 #GameDev #IrishGameDev #TTRPG

Congratulations to Ursula Vernon on her 10th Hugo Nomination in one of the five prose fiction categories (novel, novella, novelette, short stories or series). Only 28 authors have reached this milestone. (It's the exact number of nominations that Robert A. Heinlein received in his career.)

Easter weekend is Eastercon weekend! Join me at Reconnect - Eastercon 2025. I promise readings of new stuff and rants about The Substance not making the Hugos shortlist. Schedule on Conclár: guide.easterconbelfast.org/people/R0762 Blog: www.ruthbooth.com/2025/04/reco... @easterconuk.bsky.social

✨ 2025 Hugo, Lodestar, & Astounding Awards Finalists (🧵 1/10) ✨ 🚀 2025 Astounding Award Finalists for Best New Writer 🚀 2025 Lodestar Award Finalists for Best Young Adult Book Congratulations to all of the finalists! #HugoAwards #AstoundingAward #LodestarAward #Worldcon #SeattleWorldcon2025

Octos will be on tour! #Octocon2025 #Octocon #Octo #Fantasy #SciFi #SciFiConvention #Fandom #Crochet

Made Things, my novella about thieves, wizards and a secret community of homunculi, is getting a UK release (though the incredible cover with real puppets from Red Nose Studio remains, to my delight.)

It's this Saturday. Only a few tickets remaining! tinyurl.com/bfsworld Free for BFS members; £5 for non members @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social

Check out this game - so exciting to see students leaping out there, submitting work, and getting featured! 🙌

This course is amazing! I took it earlier this year and the twine game I made for it is now featured in the 2025 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction 😄 #CanvasKeepsakes springthing.net/2025/play.ht...

We would like to recognise all our wonderful #neurodivergent community members today. #WorldAutismAwarenessDay #Octocon #Octocon2025 #scifi #fantasy #Fandom.

Delighted, alongside @robincmduncan.bsky.social, to launch the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social podcast, Long Story Short! We're excited to have @annasmithspark.bsky.social as our first guest - especially today! - and we've got many brilliant creators lined up. britishfantasysociety.org/blog/bfs-pod...

“A.I. makes art accessible.” Art has always been accessible. There was like a six month period where I drew all the sketches for my comics with a lined notebook from the grocery store and a random green marker.

New bluesky account! Hello lovely people👋