Do you know LONG LIVE EVIL is a FINALIST? The awards are TOMORROW. Please wish me luck. It is an honour to be @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social slash @britfantasysoc.bsky.social and it’s going to be an honour to lose to one of my fine fellow finalists. Happy Halloween! #worldfantasy2025

So grateful @barnesandnoble.com chose LONG LIVE EVIL as their Hot Coffee Hot Book for Spooky Season! Been away w/health stuff but no better treat than knowing readers get a beverage with my rogue’s gallery. Til Happy Halloween! Maybe a trick or treat for YOU? www.barnesandnoble.com/w/long-live-...

It's a fun book.

The time is so nigh. Tomorrow, Dublin! Chloe Gong and me in a beautiful church www.eventbrite.ie/e/dubray-pre...

@fondalee.bsky.social on the “why fantasy” panel, telling us why she likes fantasy. She also said “it tells the truth by lowering the defenses”

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

*first day of class “Hey, everyone, if you liked K-Pop Demon Hunters, you will LOVE our first text!*” *Milton’s Paradise Lost

Go on the Irish!

It was a delight and the Elliot Bay Book Co has such a great space!

why thank you very much 🥰

I was in Seattle at #worldcon & glad the whole room booed. I am a big ASOIAF fan but also a person & so is George R.R. Martin (and clearly a person who loves Worldcon). Writers are people & that is no way to speak to a person. Before saying that shit, also consider: tomorrow is promised to no man.

Is all chaos with me as usual? I fear YES, but I am so excited to be in Seattle at @seattlein2025.org! So far I found a @seananmcguire.bsky.social & @hollyblack.bsky.social and an octopus drink.

If anyone’s around London today, so am I! @waterstones.bsky.social

We have officially rolled the Beyond Series back out of KU! It will be available on other bookstores digitally again soon, AND available next month (hopefully!) on our direct shop! But before Pride Month is over, you can get 1 million words of the Bisexual Love Army for $19.99! payhip.com/b/sEkS

CAN YOU BELIEVE! (I cannot.)

I’m right between my Holly and my Ally, I feel perfectly placed. 💕

Cat knew I was 100% sending Long Live Evil out in the world going ‘it shan’t be published but if it ever is while I’d love to write a sequel I never shall.’ The horrors I am fully ready to visit on readers… 😈😌

why thank you

congrats @tkingfisher.com & @wiswell.bsky.social & @premeemohamed.com & @isabel.kim & EVERYONE!

I think it works as a standalone ending… others have disagreed 😈😌

jealous of everyone! Come to Ireland @naominovik.bsky.social 🥹

Today is the start of #IndieBookshopWeek and to celebrate you can get yourself a £5 National Book Token! All you have to do is spend £25 on bookson the website or in the shop and we’ll send one with your order. (Excludes subscriptions)

This is a big deal. Stephen Fry is difficult to dismiss as a fringe figure. He's as middle-of-the-road establishment as they come - with the politics and long silence on this issue to match. JKR and her fan club won't just be able to shrug this off. www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/step...

Yes unfortunately Genre Fiction is not taken seriously as Art here. 💙📚

I am so proud of Ireland and its support of artists… but everything @oisinmcgann.bsky.social says is true, & there is also the question of who gets supported. To be perfectly transparent, I just got rejected for a bursary… yet I know I was the only Irish writer on several huge 2024 ‘best of’ lists.

on Ireland's Basic Income for the Arts pilot by @oisinmcgann.bsky.social

Oisín has written an excellent piece about the state of the arts in Ireland, and highlighting how badly we need the BIA scheme to continue. 1/2

"... the more committed an artist is to their career, the greater the risk they take with their financial security"

It's Independent Bookshop Week. Ways you can support them: -Don't browse a little bookshop, make a mental note of titles, then get them on Amazon. Buy the books then and there! Dare you! -Get them to order books in, they almost always can. -Just march in and present them with a huge bag of money.

People are describing I Think I'm in Love with an Alien as "a warm hug" and "a book that feels very gentle". It's not the same book that I've written before, but I do love this one. I hope you take it to your heart too. I don't usually talk about stuff like this, but...

friends. i have heard word that the @kennysbookshop.bsky.social edition of eat the ones you love is very close to sold out. if you would like this beautiful edition of a horrible book, now would be a gorge time to do us a solid and pick it up (for less than the price of an espresso martini)

It’s a sunny day in Dublin and my lucky number 13 is here. 🥳

no i will not "ask chat gpt" i will be scrolling Wikipedia with whimsical abandon like god intended

Information doesn’t want to be free. Information wants to vanish without a trace. Sunya Song’s job is to stop information from vanishing. Life is information. This time, Sunya has crossed a galaxy to save a life. *** THE FOLDED SKY: on sale now. books2read.com/u/mBB0QZ

Seattle folk are you excited to see me & @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social? I’m excited to be there!

Always love to see people talking Diana Wynne Jones. And listen, I’m basic: I like Howl and the Lives of Christopher Chant best. But I love Dogsbody. And I’m prepared to fight @emilytesh.net over the Power of Three.

Poor Ali! I see this happen so often - I received horrors on threads recently as I said a book had a big marketing campaign & it was taken as a slam (it wasn’t one). I’ve seen writers chased around for joking about Vampire Diaries or Star Wars. Nobody deserves to be harassed for an opinion on media.

There are still 2 free US Kindle copies of ANCESTRAL NIGHT, and 5 of MACHINE, free for the claiming! #KindleBookGiveaway

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? The average author income is about seven grand a year.

This news about the arrest of Chinese women writers of “boys love” fiction is chilling. To me it feels like this is what so many right wing book banners want to do here in the US — to books about LGBTQ+ people and to the writers who write them. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

I LOVE this. Thank you for being a joy. And your English is great - but I shall improve my Spanish! 💪 trust me

It’s an even split between the Dutch and the UK cover so far!

Gracias! fue maravilloso 💕 #FLM2025 #booksky

Thanks so much @nadineoregan.bsky.social - very cool to be in the @irishtimes.com & see beloveds @hollyblack.bsky.social & Leigh Bardugo but also having Irish fantasy celebrated like my lovely @rflong.bsky.social & Cat Doyle! We’re here, we’re… very wary around fairy rings…

Madrid so far you are MUY GENIAL

If you've ever felt like a not particularly lovable or important supporting character (and perhaps, in extremis, begun to think that maybe sociopathy as a lifestyle choice might be a good gig if you could manage it), you'll feel seen by this book. Highly recommended. #books #booksky

I just finished @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social's 'Long Live Evil', and it was absolutely brilliant. The publisher blurb calls it a send up of fantasy/romantasy, but to me it reads more as a scathing (and hilarious and heart-wrenching) commentary on society & loneliness. #books #booksky

It's a fun book, about -- as I described it in my notes -- an unusual way for an author to work out plot elements. It deserves to be made into a 10 season musical series. No, it's not a musical, I SAID WHAT I SAID.

Katya was a star, thank you @portybooks.bsky.social for providing same, & brilliantly facilitated @ryherman.bsky.social persuasively arguing for happy ever after & me wickedly arguing against. 😈 & @cymerafestival.co.uk audiences thank you before asking questions. 🥰 we all agreed, Stories Ever After.