We're delighted to be welcoming author Shuang Xuetao 双雪涛 to Leeds on Wed as part of the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing, in association with @grantamag.bsky.social - the event is free, and all welcome! (Please book at the link below) writingchinese.leeds.ac.uk/events/shuan...

Delighted to be part of this anthology of strange tales!

Honoured to be involved in this year's Sponosored Write, on behalf of Macmillan Cancer Support, along with a whole gaggle of amazing writers!

My British Fantasy Award nominated collection* is available at UK Amazon for £2.90. I’m sure you’ve got a copy, but here’s a perfect chance to buy a cheap present for the archaeological horror fan in your life www.amazon.co.uk/Dirt-Upon-My... *this still hasn’t sunk in.

Over the moon to see The Cautious Traveller's Guide on the @goldsborobooks.bsky.social Glass Bell shortlist, along with some amazing books (including the lovely @jenniegauthor.bsky.social)! Thank you so much to Goldsboro!

Thank you to the brilliant @drrachelknightley.bsky.social for letting me chat about my white noise obsession, creative doubts, and much more! I've found listening to her podcast incredibly helpful when my confidence is wavering, so it was an honour to be on it ❤️📚 open.spotify.com/episode/7En5...

This is an amazing book - I'm still thinking about these characters ✨️

Just finished a proof of this and loved it! It's a fantastic mix of golden age crime and supernatural mystery, with brilliantly atmospheric settings and a great heroine. Out in Oct from @hodderscape.bsky.social!

Looking forward to this tonight!!

What a fabulous night! A brilliant discussion on all things historical science fiction and fantasy, great questions from the audience and a lovely signing afterwards! "Sanguinocrat, to the guillotine with you!" - a fabulous line uttered by @genevievecogman.bsky.social

Really enjoyed this event! Thank you so much to @aknighton.bsky.social for being such a fab moderator, and to @katiebruce.bsky.social and @britfantasysoc.bsky.social for organising!

It's today! Do you have your ticket to the past? Portal location is Waterstones, Leeds. tinyurl.com/Historical-SFF @stephenaryan.bsky.social @genevievecogman.bsky.social @sarahbrooks.bsky.social @aknighton.bsky.social

Really looking forward to talking at Marsden Library tomorrow as part of @newwritingnorth.bsky.social's Northern Bookshelf Live! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-cautio...

It's tomorrow! Do you have your ticket to the past? Portal location is Waterstones, Leeds. tinyurl.com/Historical-SFF @stephenaryan.bsky.social @genevievecogman.bsky.social @sarahbrooks.bsky.social @aknighton.bsky.social

Come and join us in Leeds next week, being nerdy about all things historical SFF!

Come and join us talking about books with long titles! Also circuses, trains, and general strangeness! Caper Books, Oxford, Tues 17th. checkout.square.site/merchant/ML2...

My book is currently No.6 and No.10 on Amazon’s humorous essays chart. Do consider buying it while it is mind-blowingly cheap and help me get to No.1, so I can explain to my dad the point of my writing. Spike Milligan is No.1 but honesty I don’t think he’s feeling the benefit. amzn.eu/d/6mT5juh

Coming soon! Find out how authors twist the past into magical shapes, with a panel on historical fantasy & scifi at Leeds Waterstones. @genevievecogman.bsky.social @sarahbrooks.bsky.social & @stephenaryan.bsky.social talk about their truly excellent books. www.waterstones.com/events/panel...

Obsessed with this gorgeous, complex book - out on June 10th!

An Evening of Historical Fantasy & Science Fiction, Waterstones Leeds 25th June 7pm @stephenaryan.bsky.social @genevievecogman.bsky.social @sarahbrooks.bsky.social & @aknighton.bsky.social moderating Come listen to some fabulous people discussing all things historical SFF! tinyurl.com/Historical-SFF

Get your history in your fantasy, or your fantasy in your history! Catch us at Leeds Waterstones on June 25th. @stephenaryan.bsky.social @sarahbrooks.bsky.social @aknighton.bsky.social

What a brilliant title by @rhi.bsky.social for Green Ink Sponsored Write for Macmillan Cancer Support 2025: Somewhere That’s Green: Paradises, Utopias and Happy Places. Sponsor the writers to receive the exclusive digital anthology, 48 hours after it’s written. (Writer announcements soon…)

Really looking forward to this event (and some sage nodding) on June 25th! Come and join us for all things fantastical and historical!

Happy paperback publication day @emmasternerradley.bsky.social! Even bickering assassins need to celebrate! ❄️⚔️✨️🎉

Delighted that The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands is a Locus Award finalist, for first novel! Congratulations to all the finalists, and especially to fellow @clarionwest.bsky.social 2012-er @indrapramitdas.bsky.social!

This will be so great! I hope many of you can make it. (Are you looking forward to our usual sibling banter on panels? @franceswrites.bsky.social ? 😂)

SJ is a fab writer and a teacher, and this course sounds perfect for anyone interested in grappling with writing a novel!

So happy that this strange, beautiful story has won the @bsfa.bsky.social Award for best translated short work! @strangehorizons.bsky.social

Can't wait for this event in Oxford on June 17th! Come and chat trains, circuses, and strange other realities with us!

Absolutely loved soaking up the atmosphere of the circus and fairground in The Show Woman, by @emmacowing.bsky.social. There's hardship and excitement and mystery and joy in this novel, and I couldn't stop turning the pages. Thank you to @hodderbooks.bsky.social for the proof. Out in May!

Really looking forward to this @britfantasysoc.bsky.social event in June! Come and join us to chat about historical fantasy and SF!

This looks like a great event, if you're in Leeds next week! With @whyiwrite.bsky.social, @newwritingnorth.bsky.social, and emerging writers from the North! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/draft-nigh...

So happy to see this strange and moving story, by Mónika Rusvai, translated by Vivien Urban, shortlisted for the BSFA Awards!

Happy paperback publication day to the brilliant @annecorlett.bsky.social and The Theatre of Glass and Shadows! Enter a strange, atmospheric, and just slightly alternative version of London, and catch the Neverending Show...

Only one week to go until this amazing event! There'll be a discussion on characterisation, where you can ask questions, followed by a signing, and tickets are only £5! Thanks to the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social and Waterstones Leeds for hosting! www.waterstones.com/events/a-con...

Happy paperback publication day to @chrissugden.bsky.social, @jensugden.bsky.social and this brilliant book! Now everyone can explore Even Greater London and possibly even solve murders in a comfortable and economical way! ✨️✨️

Happy publication day @adamjfarrer.bsky.social!! 🎉🎉 Such a fab, funny, and moving book ❤️

Loved Fathomfolk so much, and can't wait to celebrate the launch of Tideborn next month! ✨️✨️

The first official BFS Yorkshire in-person event will be Tuesday 11th March at Leeds Waterstones! It is A Conversation on Characterisation and will include a talk about all things characterisation, with a chance to ask questions & a signing with the authors after www.waterstones.com/events/a-con...

Really happy to see The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands making this list, in their first novels selection, alongside such fantastic authors!

Our first Bluesky post is to say that our new issue is live! We have stories by Hsin-Hui Lin, translated by Ye Odelia Yu; Mayumi Inaba, translated by Yui Kajita, and a poem by Mu Cao, translated by @queercomrades.bsky.social. Read more here! samovar.strangehorizons.com

Had a gorgeous night last night celebrating The List of Suspicious Things by watching @jenniegauthor.bsky.social and @adamjfarrer.bsky.social in conversation, with beloveds @thereadingpara.bsky.social @karenpowellwrites.bsky.social @sarahbrooks.bsky.social 💜💜💜

Really excited to see this coming soon from my brilliant friend and @clarionwest.bsky.social classmate @henrylienauthor.bsky.social! (Though we have to wait until March for it to come out in the UK...)

Really happy to see The Cautious Traveller's Guide on here, in fabulous company!

2024: The Year in Books, w/ @nisishawl.bsky.social @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @sarahbrooks.bsky.social @gailcarriger.bsky.social @especbooks.bsky.social @kristinerusch.bsky.social @shelleyadinasenft.bsky.social @timakers.bsky.social et al. #steampunk steampunk-explorer.com/articles/202...

These essays are SO GOOD - they'll make you laugh and cry and possibly wince a bit, then want to go back and read them all again ❤️

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All my favorite reads of 2024 (not necessarily written in 2024, mind you), with my usual silly superlatives, like Most Fucked Up Horse, Favorite Book with Sea Monsters, Book I Need Made into a K-Drama IMMEDIATELY, etc.

What an amazing book, by Emily Maguire - the story of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to enter a monastery, every sentence is utterly gorgeous and it's bursting with earthy and visionary life. Thank you @mrfeditor.bsky.social for the proof! Out March 2025 from @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

CAN'T WAIT for the new book by the incredible @manuscriptgal.bsky.social!