If you're wondering how our Neil Williamson puts together anthologies like Blood in the Bricks (NewCon Press), he's written about his process for next year's Collective: The Collaborative Art of Anthologies. Check it out at the link below. @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @lunapress.bsky.social

We're revisiting our back catalogue and the ONLY original novel we've published—M. Rickert's "The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie." This exquisite mystery is an amalgam of Frankenstein, and A Confederacy of Dunces. We want you to read it. The eBook is on sale for just $2. undertowpublications.com/ebooks

If you're a writer, I'd go so far as to say it's essential reading to develop your craft, to dig deep into your characters and their emotions (as well as your own), and to go eyeball-close with your line edits!

My favourite too.

Priya Sridhar examines two Kelly Link short stories with many layers to their narratives in this new essay. Subscribe to read: AUD30/year (~GBP15 or USD19) gets you an extra essay each month, plus 6-month compilations with exclusive content! www.speculativeinsight.com/subs

Lovely review of Blood In The Bricks from the especially lovely @sjtownend.bsky.social over on Goodreads this morning.

This morning's writer's mood board.

Up bright and early heading out to @cymerafestival.co.uk Writers' Conference. Travel appropriate soundtrack courtesy of To Kill A King's fantastic new *and final :( album. open.spotify.com/track/7BqOyC...

Darkness In The Fields is always a fantastic dive into the secretive rituals of folk horror. For the upcoming Midwinter edition, I'll be asking a panel of brilliant Blood In The Bricks contributors about their thoughts on the genre and the inspiritation behind their contributions to the anthology.

If you've never discovered Carroll (my favourite writer EVER), this'd be a great way to do it!

Love a @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social event on Thursday night. Tonight @shonak.bsky.social talking about Daughters Of Nicnevin and @samkhorton.bsky.social on Ragwort, interviewed brilliantly by @megintransition.bsky.social.

Gotta say I did not expect a post where i whinged about my inability to promo myself to do some numbers... So I did not promo myself. I write dark fantasy with occasional forays into horror, and you can read many of my shorts online, and novels listed here: clhellisenbooks.carrd.co

Very very happy to have contributed an essay to this excellent book. If you've every considered editing an anthology you have to get this book!

Brilliant

I don't often talk football on here but... Fuck me, that was an amazing football match. It had everything that great sport has - high stakes, mistakes, amaaaaazing goals. And, for once, a happy ending. There's nothing like being a Scotland supporter. #SCODEN

If you missed our E.M. Faulds' excellent ecofiction tale 'Love, Scotland' in 2024's Gallus, here's your chance. 'Love, Scotland' features in ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction (Apex Book Company / Violet Lichen), out now in all good bookshops. @bethkesh.bsky.social @apexmag.bsky.social

🌼🌒🌓🌔 HAPPY ECO EQUINOX 🌖🌗🌘🌼 ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION has been released into the world! We are honored to share these author's stories with you, and look forward to continuing the legacy of ECO for many years to come. 🍄💜 👽🖤 Order ECO24: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...

Pictcon 1 was an fantastic day. I'm looking forward to Pictcon 2 already. See you there?

Another thing today! My story "Love, Scotland" gets a new life in ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction from Apex Books / Violet Lichen, out TODAY 🎉 The anthology received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly! 🥂 More here, including the lush ToC: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...

Hiya, if you're reading for awards / roundups at the end of year, please consider these of mine! Wiz Duos book 2 - Bring Me Home, Wizard's Tower Press (novella) wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/nove... Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike, PodCastle (short story, audio) podcastle.org/2025/07/29/p...

"Who knows what our old bricks were made of or what lies beneath our brightly lit pavements? Who knows what goes on behind locked doors?" Enter to win a copy of the "Blood in the Bricks" anthology, edited by @neilwilliamson.bsky.social, from NewCon Press #💙📚 #Booksky

New Review - let’s start the week with some excellent fantasy Scotland 1745 and two women finally able to share their secrets. I strongly recommend Daughters of Nicnevin by Shona Kinsella out now! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...

I acquired this novel a while ago, and it's a stunning read - it's so clever, and intimate, and downright scary. It was brilliant when I first read it, but with the edits Rhiannon worked through it, it's just amazing. And Katie Klim produced the most perfect cover ❤️

Fricking delight to enjoy BC Camplight at the Classic Grand tonight. Lots of tracks off the new album, A Sober Conversation, but they found room for some deep cuts too. A bug hug of a show on a cold Glasgow night.

THE SALT ORACLE has been out in the world for one whole week! So here's some nice things some even nicer people said about it! And thank you to everyone who entered the preorder giveaway - I'm contacting winners today & am very grateful to you all x @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Scottish SF and Fantasy microcon Pictcon has just announced their 2026 Guest of Honour -- it's our own Neil Williamson! @pictcon.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social Pictcon 2 takes place on Sat 17th October 2026 in Perth. Get your tickets (£30/£20/under 18s, childcare, dogcare options) below:

A beautifully produced book, featuring magnificent Artwork The Mad Butterfly's Ball edited by Preston Grassman & Chris Kelso is a horror anthology based around creepy-crawlies from PS Publishing #BFSREview britishfantasysociety.org/review/the-m...

Our 2025 award eligibility post! If you've liked anything we've done this year, please consider it in your recommendations. Thank you for your generous consideration.

Has our Ivor K. Hill got a tale for you! Hiding Under the Leaves (Slab Press) features 'The Crow Who Burned', folk horror about the "terrifying certainty of the mob". Get yours below: theslab.press/store/ www.amazon.co.uk/Hiding-Under... @ivorkhillauthor.bsky.social @theslabpress.bsky.social

Yes! Steve's performance of this story was absolutely terrifying.

Introducing: Pictcon. A celebration of the Scottish genre community.

Project Hanuman is here. I hope you'll take a look as I think it's a pretty good space opera - no hero's journey here - this is about community, how we build back better and, of course, mind bending space battles in sentient ships. #spaceopera #scifi #projecthanuman #writing #SFF #sciencefiction

Pictcon is a brand new convention, celebrating the rich and multi-faceted Scottish genre community. This year's event was ace and I heartily recommend signing up for next year.

"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

Pictcon is officially up and running in the lovely city of Perth. Brilliant to see Scottish SF and Fantasy being celebrated by our excellent community.

'A Bram Stoker Award winning novel, The Fisherman is a masterpiece of cosmic horror that contains elements of Lovecraft, Moby Dick and the ghost stories of M.R. James.' #JohnLangan's The Fisherman is No 16 in The Quietus 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st Century so far buff.ly/C4B49ZM

Hello Evening crowd this excellent novel which has digital ghosts, magic and a cat is out now in paperback All The Ghosts In The Forest by Lorraine Wilson www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/12...

Book launch! (Blood launch / brick launch) A fistful of urban horrors! My story's about the hope that art will save us, and says: what if it doesn't? What if you get stuck in a horrible mews, with a horrible muse? Massive thanks to Neil for making it happen, and my co-contributors, who I fear.

A fantastic episode. Francesca and @lunapress.bsky.social are an amazing part of the Scottish book scene and this interview shows why.

Out soon, containing not one but two stories from our book #BeyondandWithinFolkHorror from @flametreepress ‘Blessed Mary’ by Stephen Volk and ‘Summer Bonus’ by Lee Murray.

IT’S HERE! Our first volume of strange and supernatural stories for the darker half of the year. Nine new tales by masters of the genre: Ramsey Campbell, Helen Grant, Reggie Oliver, Ally Wilkes, Steve Toase, Verity Holloway and more. 👉🏼 Get your copy on www.helleborezine.com

You really want to get in on this. Delightful world building and thrilling stories.

Go read it, it's a quality book!

If you're in Central Scotland and fancy a day of scifi and fantasy chat, come and join us at Picton on Saturday!

Happy Book Birthday to Blood In The Bricks (NewCon Press), the new anthology edited by our own Neil Williamson! Read on for how you can nab the special edition! (1/3) @donredwood.bsky.social @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @dancoxon.bsky.social @angelaslatter.bsky.social

Happy Publication Day to Blood in the Bricks, an urban folk horror anthology edited by @neilwilliamson.bsky.social with New Con Press!! Delighted to have my story When the Blood Runs Dry included, in which a true crime podcaster meets a folkloric monster...🩸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

Containing my story Gerädert Fühlen, which features old motorbike factories, tattoos, and horror lurking in the backstreets of a German city.

Happy launch day! So glad to be part of this anthology, with a story about a true crime podcaster taking on more than she'd bargained for when visiting the site of a grisly murder (with some appropriately bloody Scottish folklore influence) 🩸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎤

It's publication day TOMORROW! So last chance to enter this preorder giveaway! 👇🏽

It's officially launch day for Blood In The Bricks! It's folk horror, but right here in our towns and cities, written by some of my absolute favourite contemporary writers. Get it now (or They'll pay you a visit). www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...