"The moment you allow AI to write a sentence for you, you lose your voice." Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social. #pictcon

Day 4(?) of uncomfortable tummy issues. Not sure if Brighton's directly to blame or if something else disagreed with me this week. Either way, I am a bag of owies.

Growing up were there any moments in movies that traumatized you? 😬

Toebean, the Rounded One. 🙌

✨It's Double Publication Day!✨ If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go? geni.us/weallghostsPB geni.us/saltorac @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Hey, UK FRIENDS, looks like GODS OF THE WYRDWOOD, is only 99p on Kindle and probably KOBO too so if DEEPLY WEIRD slowburn forest adventures are your thing jump on that. www.amazon.co.uk/Gods-Wyrdwoo...

Me and my lil WFC treasures are home. The crocheted critter is Too Cute. @rainewilson.bsky.social @amalelmohtar.com @aptshadow.bsky.social

@foxesandroses.bsky.social!!!!!

Flying the @thedeadlands.com flag at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social! 💀

I'm in Brighton! Will be around the con bar from tomorrow; say hi! ❤️

Lovely!

If you ignore the obvious differences in 70s/90s fashion, me and my mum are indistinguishable from each other in childhood photos. I also have the same mole on my chin as her and her mum. Three generations of witchy chins!

Authors who insist they don't write fantasy and only use fantastical elements to address real things—what do they think the rest of us are doing? That's basically every SFF book??

I have been informed that THE WORKS OF VERMIN has infested the USA Today bestseller list! Someone get me one of those foam #1 fingers but it's a hideous deformity of a glove with 124 fingers instead

One of my favourite recent reads! 🍒

Congratulations, @vajra.me!

OUT TODAY! JEKYLL & HYDE: WINTER RETREAT is a country house murder mystery at an artists’ retreat with comedians, actors, magicians, inventors. Plus detectives Muriel Carew & Henry Jekyll… and uninvited guest Edward Hyde. Published by @titanbooks.bsky.social

Telling Soysauce how many likes his picture got on Bsky overnight. Think it's gone to his head.

He's not impressed that I woke him up.

I've got your Halloween seasonal reading right here.

We are working to make your crossing effortless! You don't want to be stuck without your coin for Charon when the time comes. We still have signed books from @alixeharrow.bsky.social @mariahaskins.com @acwise.bsky.social, and goodies from @katelechler.bsky.social and @premeemohamed.com.

Look what just arrived in the mail! The House of Illusionists, a short story collection ​by @vanessafogg.bsky.social - lovely human, dear friend, and one of my favorite short fiction writers. Find out more at www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...

Not sure what I did to deserve him tbh.

Happy book week to Hiron Ennis for the excellent The Works of Vermin, out yesterday. Queer inventive lyrical anticapitalist biopunk for fans of The Fifth Season, Absolution, or The Iron Dragon's Daughter. torpublishinggroup.com/the-works-of...

Happy book birthday to THE WORKS OF VERMIN by @hironennes.bsky.social! I've been waiting for this day ever since I read LEECH. Actually buzzing, haaaah. 🪲

I'd buy a plot of land that somehow encompasses a forest, a river, a beach, a quarry, an island, and a desert (??) and establish Pelican Town for real.

I had a creamy mushroom rigatoni and a giant pistachio cannolo at Da Mario Kensington last year that I still have dreams about.

did you know that right now, we're only a partial skeleton? we're not fully funded, and so we're missing some critical bones. this is truth and sadly not sustainable help us be a full skeleton? patreon 🖤 www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla... our coin fundraiser 💀 psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

Reminder that Tuesday, Oct 14th, I will be at Skylight Books in LA for the release of THE WORKS OF VERMIN!! Bring your friends, bring your lovers, bring your haters, your hangups, your personal baggage, I don't judge www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylig...

When I first listened to the Matilda soundtrack and thought, this is a cool song about school. Then I realised it's sneakily spelling the alphabet.

A rare evening home alone. It was going to be a writing night, but this week has drained me in various ways, and there's still more to come tomorrow/Saturday. So it's a 'curl up on the sofa with a cat and a book' night instead. 😔

Page proofs are in 👀

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀 buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon! please like + RT this to help spread the word psychopomp.com/the-deadland... behold!

UK readers! Sour Cherry is 99p on Kindle this spooky season 👻🍒 amzn.eu/d/buvcraN

Happy Mid Autumn Festival! 🥮 I’m thrilled to share the cover of #TheGirlWithAThousandFaces, coming 5 May 2026 from @torbooks.bsky.social! ⭐⁣The Girl with a Thousand Faces is a Chinese-Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong. Cover art by Lindsey Carr, Cover design by Shreya Gupta

Your lifestyle and commitments get pretty set around now. If you want to *do* things—make art, read more books, take lessons, travel—you need to make space for them and protect that space fiercely, or they just won't happen.

Out next month (with a beautiful new paperback cover by our very own Sam Gretton!): @rainewilson.bsky.social 's BSFA Longlisted WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST! "Haunting, heartwarming, and brimming with hope" @lavanya.bsky.social Preorder: geni.us/weallghostsPB

Heads up UK Readers! Ahead of us bringing @kerstinhall.bsky.social 's ASUNDER to the UK in January 2025, did you know that you can dip into the first two chapters over at Reactor? First Chapter bit.ly/4pR7rtu Second Chapter bit.ly/4pR7rcY Preorder: geni.us/asunder

What Sundays are made for.

FIVE DAYS UNTIL ITCH! RELEASES IN THE UK! In hardback, ebook and I think audiobook too (narrated by me). US folks have to wait until Jan, but you'll be able to get the ebook next week! I AM SO NERVOUS I want to crawl into a vent on the bottom of the ocean floor ahhhhhhhhhhh 🐜🐜 bio.to/Pre-orderITCH

The Apex Magazine 2026 Kickstarter is LIVE! Our initial goal is $20K to fund four issues for next year, with the opportunity to unlock issues five and six through stretch goals. I really, really want to go back to six issues a year! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

I am really trying to like Instagram. I've been lurking on there a while. The visual medium is relaxing. But the bulk of content seems to happen in stories that only last a day? You can't post stories on browser so it's a useless platform without your phone?? It's like 80% adverts???

A haunting story. 🖤

I fear Critical Role Campaign 4 is going to be my entire personality.

Look at this Halloween ass book You want it

Somehow, my new story is 3k words long. That's fine—I'm aiming for 8k—but when did that happen, though? *scratches head*

Moar book post! Read the blurb, had to have it. The Midnight King by @tariqashkanani.bsky.social—winner of the McIlvanney Prize at Bloody Scotland last month. Death. Deeeaaaath.

Book poooost! Excited to have an advance copy of @felipeazucares.bsky.social's debut, The Lighthouse at the End of the World, in my hands today. Will be diving in this weekend!

This makes me want to replay Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker.

The database of eligible books for the Anthropic lawsuit settlement is now live: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/ If you're an author and any of your books are in the database, this site lists your options and lets you file a claim if you wish. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com