Don't forget to check out this year's charity auction! ⬇️ The auction will close at 12pm on Friday 5th June. www.32auctions.com/organization...

So proud to publish this amazing new collection @c21literature.bsky.social. Read here for writing on the literary sad girl, technology, wikipedia, time and stuckness, brexlit and much more

The rage at this is hard to contain. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

We have a pre-order campaign for THE INN AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT VENGEANCE ♥️🏔️🦌 Get a signed copy and this beautiful character print by Chay Ruby when you pre-order from Dryad Books! #booksky www.dryad-books.co.uk/product-page...

The Society of Authors in Scotland has signed an open letter calling for steps towards a basic income for artists. 🖊️ Add your voice by signing the letter today.

Go order Chiara’s book - I did! ✨🖤

We have a pre-order campaign for THE INN AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT VENGEANCE ♥️🏔️🦌 Get a signed copy and this beautiful character print by Chay Ruby when you pre-order from Dryad Books! #booksky www.dryad-books.co.uk/product-page...

I’ve been feeling partial to a :D instead of emoji use recently. Not sure what’s happening. Before I know it I’ll be ^_^ing again.

"A fantasy rooted in the Scottish landscape, which explores class and connection and much more - it is a real treat." V. grateful to Mairi Oliver of Lighthouse Books for including this wonderful review of The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance in The Bookseller's Scottish Books highlights!

GLASGOW SOUTHSIDE YES 💚

"A fantasy rooted in the Scottish landscape, which explores class and connection and much more - it is a real treat." V. grateful to Mairi Oliver of Lighthouse Books for including this wonderful review of The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance in The Bookseller's Scottish Books highlights!

What a great time to purchase a little pink book, called "fresh" and "well-researched" and "thorough" and "entertaining" and "diverting" and "invaluable" and "enlightening" and "even definitive." press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Swansea University's motto is apposite: "Gweddw crefft heb ei dawn" ("technical skill is bereft without culture")

The Scottish Book Trade Conference takes place next week, 13 May, Edinburgh, still time to get a ticket! www.publishingscotland.org/event/scotti... Check out the line up of speakers & sponsors: Sponsors: www.publishingscotland.org/what-we-do/s... Speakers: www.publishingscotland.org/what-we-do/s...

Happy book-birthday to my latest baby, THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY! 🥳 🥳 If you want to see a Mean Girl Redemption Arc with open door spice and bitchy quips, this is *the* novel for you. You'll want to shake her (hard) then you'll want to hug her (also hard).

I'm Lead Judge of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction, awarded at University of Edinburgh since 1919 and due to be announced this month. But the university is currently withholding 100% of my pay for participating in a marking and assessment boycott. So, at present, there will be no prize.

Despite trying to paint himself as a "man of the people", Farage has taken over 60 trips in a private jet so far this year leftfootforward.org/2026/05/nige...

Just one month until Cymera! Counting the sleeps yet...? www.cymerafestival.co.uk @cymerafestival.co.uk

Thankfully I made it. Yay for light evenings!!

I've spent this bank holiday immersed in edits. Feels like I blinked and six hours passed. I should probably try and experience the sun in Glasgow before it leaves for an indeterminate amount of time...

The "X of Y and Z" fantasy novel naming convention was going strong in 1528 I see

Come and find us at the Thistles Shopping Centre this Friday, 1st May for Stirling's Culture Night! Come along and clean some 19th Century documents, print your own bookmark, make some badges, meet us and our lovely Art Collection, Macrobert, Pathfoot Press and Arts & Humanities colleagues!

Readers in the UK and mainland Europe have just *2 more days* to snap up the British ebook of my frothy fantasy rom-com Enchanting the Fae Queen for 99p! Grab it now: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/step... #romancelandia

It's happening! I have a launch event for my debut fantasy novel! July 7th, 7pm, Waterstones Sauchiehall Street (Glasgow). Please do join if you can, and any shares are much appreciated! Tickets can be booked here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

It's happening! I have a launch event for my debut fantasy novel! July 7th, 7pm, Waterstones Sauchiehall Street (Glasgow). Please do join if you can, and any shares are much appreciated! Tickets can be booked here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

Anyway, happy 8th birthday to my youngest daughter, Euphie!

I got my permanent job at a university in 2008 (after 8 years hourly-paid) and now face redundancy. My salary has declined in real terms for my entire career. The graph for senior management pay in a broken sector looks very, very different. This is not an accident.

"I was offered teaching jobs on three courses, each consisting of an hour’s seminar per week, plus two hours’ paid preparation [...] I simply could not afford to accept the work." Reading this is like an all too familiar gut punch. www.telegraph.co.uk/money/jobs/c...

Call for participants If you speak Scottish Gaelic, Scots, and/or Shaetlan, you are invited to share your experiences, knowledge, and perspectives. This research will contribute to reversing language decline and strengthening linguistic diversity across Europe www.uhi.ac.uk/en/media/202...

This is fantastic news, especially in the current climate where funding news seems to be overwhelmingly negative and cut-focused.

Wouldst thou like HOME SICK in thine ear holes? Narrated by Mhairi Morrison (who also narrated David Sodergren's THE HAAR 😱) Coming 14 July 2026 from @solarisbooks.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/AUDIBLE-Home...

I'm so sick of supermarkets in the UK making you jump through hoops to get extremely pathetic discounts. Get the loyalty card! get the app! New discounts every week—but don't get greedy! You can only pick a few and the rest burn! Get 40p off a specific vegetable! Oh you're buying 2 of them??? 2 BAD!

Query: If you (or someone you watch/listen to) had a NON-TTRPG/Actual Play podcast, YouTube channel, etc. AND Played a tabletop roleplaying game on that feed/channel/etc BEFORE 12/31/2018 could you let me know? (I have some examples but trying to see if I missed anything)

Genre fans klaxon! Cymera's 2026 programme is out now! Behold events with your GSFWC pals for your perusal, from workshopping realistic injuries to weird'n'wise capering about. Feat. Jenni Coutts, Robin C.M. Duncan, Cameron Johnston, Shona Kinsella & Neil Williamson. @cymerafestival.co.uk (1/6)

Happy Neil Banging Out The Tunes Day!

NEW EVENT ALARM I will be at @cymerafestival.co.uk this year alongside the amazing India-Rose Bower and @benedictanning.bsky.social to chat all things creepy and scary! This also means attendees have the chance to grab EARLY COPIES OF HOME SICK 👀 Deets: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26...

I'm speaking at Cymera Festival this year! Can't quite believe I'm part of this incredible line up! More info about the weekend, panels and tickets here: www.cymerafestival.co.uk

Just nabbed my ticket for this, can't wait! 🚀🌕

If this is the future of going on submission, I only want to sell on proposal 💀

If you missed it earlier, here's the cover reveal from The Shape of Monsters, Tor UK. The gothic vibes are perfect I love it all.

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

I've fallen for about three April Fool's headlines today. I have a PhD????? apparently???

"Bullen cleverly transposes academia’s publish-or-perish atmosphere to a fantasy setting." SO chuffed with this review of The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance from Publishers Weekly!! 🏔️🦌 #academicsky #booksky www.publishersweekly.com/9780593982693

"Bullen cleverly transposes academia’s publish-or-perish atmosphere to a fantasy setting." SO chuffed with this review of The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance from Publishers Weekly!! 🏔️🦌 #academicsky #booksky www.publishersweekly.com/9780593982693

Because signing stuff can make a difference and numbers count

Barbecues and fires are set to be banned this week in the Cairngorms under a new bylaw which comes into force this week

I saw a question on Discord about non-Actual Play TTRPG podcasts, and my response got a little out of hand so I’ve posted it. (As always, free to read) I’m hoping that folks will see this list & recommend podcasts I might not already know.

THE FRUMPKIN IS OUT OF THE BAG! I wrote a @criticalrole.bsky.social book, you guys!! It has fistfights and smooching and disaster gays and dark academia and spooky archeology and political intrigue, and I am terrified and excited for you all to read it!! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760755...