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.

A plea: Don't let us die in Gaza🚨 Today the rains flooded us, & our tent was destroyed. We are freezing & homeless without a tent. My family consists of seven members. We couldn't sleep last night😭 We implore you to donate us so we can buy a tent that costs €100🤲😭 chuffed.org/project/1580...

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...

THE SECRET I HAVE BEEN (BADLY) SITTING ON IS NO LONGER A SECRET Tor UK have bought the print rights for my Audible Originals The Shape of Monsters and A Million Points of Light! www.thebookseller.com/rights/tor-s...

My ‘Lady Gaga as Tom Bombadil’ campaign begins now

Some absolute jewels in Glasgow’s cultural ecosystem face eviction on Friday. T103 houses Photoworks, Transmission Gallery, GMAC, Sharmanka and more. It is also home to Project Ability, a vital visual arts community supporting young people with learning disabilities and mental ill-health.

A researcher at the University of Stirling is recruiting autistic trans people for a PhD project about experiences of support and support services. For more information: email [email protected] or go to app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/stirling/autistic-trans-research-eoi-forms

It is absolutely wild that SPT have been running a ‘modernisation’ programme of the underground for 15 years and there’s step-free access at a grand total of two stops.

Do NOT disturb ✋

My excellent colleague @katiedd.bsky.social has just published this remarkable investigation into rampant book banning in a Greater Manchester secondary school library. 193 books including The Da Vinci Code, Twilight, White Teeth and 1984 Graphic Novel www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

I had a wonderful time dropping off proofs to London booksellers and attending the PRH Debut party earlier this week! Sunny, fizzy, and Jacqueline Wilson-y.

🎉ACQUISITION ANNOUCEMENT🎉 We've snapped up THE TRAVELLING MUSEUM OF WITCHCRAFT by @gen-dimova.bsky.social for the UK! 👉 https://bit.ly/4sg10Rn THE SPELLSHOP meets NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM in this cosy fantasy! @alrutter.bsky.social acquired UK/BC English language rights from @benglishhh.bsky.social.

I accidentally buried a Pokémon alive today in Pokopia. The possibilities in this game are truly endless.

What’s the best (and worst!) canapé you’ve had at a work function? Please share & reply/DM, as part of @bethdriscoll.bsky.social & my research project on ‘the social life of canapes’. We'd love to hear your anecdotes! For more info on the project head here ullapoolism.wordpress.com/2024/11/04/t...

Hannah Spencer nailed it in her maiden speech, you can't have equality without solidarity. This International Women’s Day, we stand shoulder to shoulder with our trans siblings.

I had a lovely time meeting booksellers and dropping off proofs of my book in Glasgow this week. The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance publishes July 7th! 🏔️

Launch night for the PAPERBOY paperback! thebookmongerbearsden.co.uk/products/the...

I need to be put into the machine that heals pokemon at the pokemon center

PLEASE SHARE! 📖 Responding to Lanark 📅 Wednesday 15 April  ⏰ 18:00 - 19:00 The University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre Free but ticketed - link below👇🏽 Rachelle Atalla in conversation with Rodge Glass presented by The Alasdair Gray Archive.

How Burns Suppers Became a Global Phenomenon What if the traditional Burns Night could fuse cultures & challenge traditions? @drcleoocy.bsky.social from @glasgow.ac.uk reveals how this centuries-old tribute to Scotland’s national poet is transforming around the world www.youtube.com/watch?v=owgU...

I just finished my ARC of The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance by Chiara Bullen and it was delightful. A scholar stays at an inn determined to record its history and the adventurers who climb the mountain. You'll like it if you enjoyed The Spellshop series. #cozyfantasy #bookreview #fantasybooks

It's a special week at Spark: to celebrate Ramadan, the space is free all week for workers & students from all over Gaza. Electricity & internet for the community, so people can connect to remote jobs, earn income, and feed their families. Keep it open: chuffed.org/project/spar...

The time is NOW. Valenziaga will fall. Category is: Science-Fantasy EXTRAVAGANZA! Think Drag Race meets a gay Game of Thrones meets Chronicles of Amber. High drama and high CAMP! Spread the word! RT, tell your friends, shout it from the rooftops! BACK THE BOOK TODAY! #booksky bit.ly/3OIVfNs

I received so many ARCs of my most anticipated reads! Are any of these one’s you’re looking forward to too? The Last Contract of Isako by @fondalee.bsky.social - out from @orbitbooks.bsky.social in May! The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance by @chiarab.bsky.social - out from Del Rey UK in July!

Five years ago this week, Sarah Everard was murdered by a serving police officer, sparking protests & promises of change But now, woman officers abused by colleagues tell me reforms have victimised them more instead of protecting them For @theobserveruk.bsky.social: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

So THE SALT ORACLE is a finalist for the BSFA awards! And my amazing designer, Sam Gretton is a finalist for the cover too! 🙌🏽 Truly delighted for Sam & very, very grateful to everyone who voted for my strange, briny why-pick-one-genre-when-you-can-pick-four book 🤗 @solarisbooks.bsky.social 🖤

BREAKING: A wonderful speech from Green Party's Hannah Spencer after winning the Gorton and Denton by-election. Congratulations!

UK reviewers: The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance is now on NetGalley UK! My debut fantasy novel featuring a historian desperate to document a hero — even if he has to push them up a dragon-infested mountain himself... Publishing 7th July with Del Rey ⚔️✍️ www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

UK reviewers: The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance is now on NetGalley UK! My debut fantasy novel featuring a historian desperate to document a hero — even if he has to push them up a dragon-infested mountain himself... Publishing 7th July with Del Rey ⚔️✍️ www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

64 million times. Great factoid. Wish we could calculate the environmental impact of those too.

[bill nye voice] DID YOU KNOW THAT... the audiobook edition of my queer cozy fantasy is currently on sale for just $5.39 at @libro.fm?? David Sweeney-Bear is INCREDIBLE, do yourself a favor and go buy the audio while it's on sale! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

INTERVIEWER: When somebody asks you to describe your book LANARK, what do you say to them? ALASDAIR GRAY: I say it is a Scottish petit bourgeois model of the universe. I: Just like that? AG: Yes, I’ve rehearsed it and honed it down to as few words as possible. A #GrayDay 🧵 frontispiece/ 💙📚

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years. Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

It's a new week and over at BooksfromScotland we have an exclusive pre-publication extract from @shonamaclean.bsky.social's new novel The Cromarty Library Circle, published by @quercusbooks.bsky.social. booksfromscotland.com/2026/02/the-...

It's finally here! A Million Points of Light, the sequel to The Shape of Monster, is now live. Get more of that woke cannibal erotica you e been craving ;) Or, yanno, mages and monsters and betrayal. Listen to A Million Points of Light by C L Hellisen on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0GMRMJTR...

Not to wish away the days, but I need it to be March 5th because I know the new Pokémon game is going to fix me

The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance is included in the Waterstones pre-order sale! 25% off with the code FEB26 Cosy fantasy inspired by my love (and fear…) of Scotland’s mountains, misadventures in academia, and time spent adventuring in Dungeons and Dragons www.waterstones.com/book/the-inn...

The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance is included in the Waterstones pre-order sale! 25% off with the code FEB26 Cosy fantasy inspired by my love (and fear…) of Scotland’s mountains, misadventures in academia, and time spent adventuring in Dungeons and Dragons www.waterstones.com/book/the-inn...

I have wuthered the heights that were on the wily windy moors and which you were probably saving for gothic hauntings Forgive me Cathy's come home so lonely and so cold

pure elite capture - the uk just folded to a hardline anti-trans campaign pushed by a tiny number of people www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...