Megan Taylor
@meganjstaylor.bsky.social
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Author of dark novels and short stories
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Giselle Leeb
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#302 of the fab
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avail. soon. I review 8 new intriguing & uncanny
@nightjarpress.bsky.social
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Giselle Leeb
7 months ago
States of Independence, wkend of 22 March 25, celebrating small publishers! I'm there with
@chrisparkerwriter.bsky.social
selling our
@saltpublishing.com
books &
@meganjstaylor.bsky.social
's new
@bloodhoundbooks.bsky.social
novel. I'm taking a workshop on the uncanny. Info:
tinyurl.com/3vr4d7ua
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States of Independence 2025 – Leicester Centre for Creative Writing
States of Independence is an annual one-day festival that celebrates indie publishing. Now in its 15th year, States 24 will be hosted by the Leicester Centre for Creative Writing at DMU and our…
https://tinyurl.com/3vr4d7ua
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Heading off to Derby for this year's Ghost Story Festival!!!
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Fabulous flash from
@barbaraccino.bsky.social
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Alex Davis
8 months ago
The spirits will be haunting Derby this weekend with the latest running of the UK GHOST STORY FESTIVAL, kicking off Friday at the Museum of Making!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/ukghoststory...
#Derby
#Derbyshire
#ghosts
#ghoststory
#ghoststories
#festivals
#events
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Alex Davis
8 months ago
Ten days to go until Derby gets that little bit spookier for three days of the UK Ghost Story Festival! We have a fantastic line-up of talent joining us for three days of talks, panels, interviews, workshops and more...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/ukghoststory...
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Thank you so much,
@justineb.bsky.social
!!!
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Ginger Nuts of Horror
9 months ago
Hey folks we have teamed up with Alex Davis to offer you two complete passes to The UK Ghost Story Festival this February. For a chance to win, just answer the simple question in the article.
gnofhorror.com/competition-...
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Fictive Dream
9 months ago
What are we currently featuring? Among our latest
#shortstories
is Marriage Act by Kerry Hadley-Pryce. If you missed it on Sunday, here's another chance. Please follow the link and enjoy
@kerryhp.bsky.social
#shortstory
#fiction
fictivedream.com/2025/01/19/m...
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Another brilliant story from
@giselleleeb.bsky.social
and the whole magazine looks fabulous!!
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Review by Jonathan Wilkins of "The Therapist's Daughter" by Megan Taylor
My usual thriller and mystery oeuvre is Nordic noir; apart from that I do love a Golden Age mystery thriller I usually ignore British crime...
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Just seen this! Thank you so much
@mattcolbeck.bsky.social
@nightjarpress.bsky.social
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Merry Fluffmas!!! xxxx
10 months ago
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Alex Davis
10 months ago
Christmas is a great time for ghost stories - and if you're a fan of a spooky story, then the UK GHOST STORY FESTIVAL comes to Derby in February!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/ukghoststory...
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Or if you're looking for a gift for the mysterious writer in your life, my evening course with NTU, Thrills and Chills, Writing Crime, Suspense & Horror, kicks off on January 21st at Nottingham Trent's City Campus
10 months ago
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Annual festive plug - If you like your Christmas as dark as your stockings, you might enjoy The Therapist's Daughter (just £1.99 on Kindle!) or if you prefer a thrilling New Year's Eve, you could check out The Dawning...
10 months ago
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An amazing novel!! Everybody get excited...
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Nightjar Press
10 months ago
Nightjar Press publishes limited-edition short stories in chapbook format. Uncanny, dark, strange, weird, experimental. But that’s enough about editor
@nicholasroyle.bsky.social
& designer
@johnoakey.bsky.social
. Where can we buy them, you ask?
nightjarpress.weebly.com
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Nightjar Press
Nightjar Press publish original short stories as signed, limited-edition chapbooks.
https://nightjarpress.weebly.com
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Tom Gauld
10 months ago
A helpful gift shopping algorithm that I made for
@theguardian.com
a couple of years ago.
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Where Chills Meet Thrills: 7 Eerie Crime Novels
I’ve been a crime fiction addict for years, but my very first love was horror. Luckily for me and so many other grateful readers, there are plenty of fabulously frightening authors, like Hjortsberg…
https://crimereads.com/eerie-crime-novels/
11 months ago
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Last weekend, my amazing sister, who knows me SO well, took me to the incredible Serial Killers exhibition in Waterloo's vaults and I can't stop thinking about it
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Thank you tons, Ian!!!!
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Thank you, brilliant Barbara xxxxx
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Celebrating the launch of my latest novel, eerie thriller, The Therapist's Daughter, 12th September at Nottingham's fabulous Five Leaves!! Everybody welcome! (free, but you'll need to book)
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/book-...
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Book launch, The Therapist’s Daughter, with Megan Taylor – Five Leaves Bookshop
https://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/book-launch-the-therapists-daughter-with-megan-taylor/
about 1 year ago
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Tim Major
about 1 year ago
There are some fantastically exciting opportunities for
#SFF
,
#horror
and
#crime
writers this month! Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls, inc ancestral fears, northern crime, paranoia and harbingers.
timjmajor.com/2024/08/03/o...
Please share!
#AmWriting
#WritingCommunity
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Open submission calls for writers: August 2024
There are some fantastically exciting opportunities for writers this month! The first couple end within the next couple of days, though, so you’ll need to work fast if they’re of interest to you… Sign...
https://timjmajor.com/2024/08/03/open-submission-calls-for-writers-august-2024/
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦
about 1 year ago
We have an infrequent newsletter. Please sign up if you'd like to keep updated on our projects. Important update coming tomorrow.
undertowpublications.com/newsletter
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Newsletter — Undertow Publications
https://undertowpublications.com/newsletter
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So excited!!! My next novel, The Therapist's Daughter, is due out from Bloodhound Books in less than a month - and available for pre-order now (currently just £1.99 on Kindle!)
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DBH8MMH...
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The Therapist's Daughter: A brand new totally gripping psychological thriller full of twists eBook : Taylor, Megan: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
The Therapist's Daughter: A brand new totally gripping psychological thriller full of twists eBook : Taylor, Megan: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DBH8MMH5?&linkCode=sl1&tag=bloodbooks02-21&linkId=a87825f4d0cc1a98c358eb3f64af196c&language=en_GB&ref_=as_li_ss_tl
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Raymond Chandler: The Art of Beginning a Crime Story
There are times in life when you need a good opener. Maybe you’re caught in a rut and need the charge of a new world, new characters, something that carries with it the quiet thrill of possib…
https://crimereads.com/raymond-chandler-the-art-of-beginning-a-crime-story/
about 1 year ago
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Happy Pride month! We Wait just 99p on Kindle xx
over 1 year ago
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Bert’s Books
almost 2 years ago
Good morning. We are open.
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Emerging back into the world after COVID finally got me. Such strange dreams - Anthony Hopkin's head was a metal box I was undoing with a screwdriver, a black vortex that wasn't scary because it was softer than I thought, & a woman with a bucket of blood who was a Living Trailer
almost 2 years ago
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦
almost 2 years ago
Congratulations to Undertow author Naben Ruthnum. His novella "Helpmeet" has now sold over 5,000 copies. The little book that could.
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Lauren Beukes
almost 2 years ago
My really quite weird mother-daughter multiverse story, BRIDGE, is up for the first round of the Goodreads Choice 2023 Awards. If you loved the novel (or someone else's) and would love to vote, please do! This kinda thing really makes a difference for writers.
www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...
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Adam Sharp
about 2 years ago
Instead of “once upon a time,” Korean folk and fairy tales often begin with 호랑이 담배 피우던 시절에. It means “back when tigers smoked (pipes)”
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Giselle Leeb
almost 2 years ago
Discount code now direct: 14D8BSR85BNY
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Cats of Yore
almost 2 years ago
Girl with Cat. Ca. 1940 - 1952.
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Well-Adjusted Horror Podcast
almost 2 years ago
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
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A brilliant book...
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almost 2 years ago
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Nearly Halloween! Time to celebrate ghoulies & ghosties & long-leggedy beasties - and my haunted house novel, We Wait (just 99p on KIndle!!)
almost 2 years ago
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Incredibly excited to announce that my next novel, a thriller, will be out with Bloodhound Books next year!
about 2 years ago
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Sardonicus
about 2 years ago
Rudolf Koppitz, Ash tree, 1912
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦
about 2 years ago
I have new story out in 'Come October,' edited by CM Muller, with an amazing ToC. Small teaser from "This Familiar Autumn Hour." Scan the QR Code to get the eBook for just $3. Also available in trade and hardcover.
chthonicmatter.wordpress.com
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Giselle Leeb
about 2 years ago
A slim young girl wakes from cryopreservation to find that she is too fat for her new world. Read an excerpt from 'Thin', #6 in my collection, Mammals, I Think We Are Called (Salt)
tinyurl.com/yc5s9f4w
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Simon Okotie
about 2 years ago
Cõnfingō 20 is guest-edited by the mighty
@nicholasroyle.bsky.social
and includes my 'CHAPTER FROM AN ABANDONED COLLABORATIVE NOVEL'. Pre-order here:
www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page...
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Cõnfingō 20 | confingo
Confingo 20 - Guest Edited by Nicholas Royle fiction1. CHAPTER FROM AN ABANDONED COLLABORATIVE NOVEL Simon Okotie2. THE BLACK SWAN Geeta Roopnarine3. CLEARANCE Josephine Galvin4. ST FRANCIS TREADS THE...
https://www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page/confingo-20
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about 2 years ago
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