Before she died, Alice Wong was kind enough to give me an interview for my book, Who Wants Normal? Here’s her wonderful advice to disabled women (from the Guardian extract): www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Ok @shonak.bsky.social I have now discovered the ancient language of Octopian (used by all space-faring octopuses) and have created a font. This is all your fault 😂🐙

Tentacle experiment. #watercolourart

Today's art is a teeny tiny Voyager 1. 6" canvas and acrylics. #spaceart

I'm off work and my brain is scrampled egg right now so can't get stuck into writing... So I have been doing a bit of art. It's messy and it's shiny and it's keeping me sane. Ish. Anyway here is my space octopus.

Walking home along the canal. #Momentsofbeauty

This time last week I was packing to leave @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social. It was a strange con for me as I was deep in bereavement, but the support of so many wonderful friends and loved ones kept me going. Here are a few highlights, and there will be a load more on my Ida Keogh FB page.

This story out today by @worldanvil.bsky.social is incredibly beautiful and spoke to my grief when I needed it most this morning. www.dreamtheory.media/song-of-the-... #Writersky #Booksky

The cake was dressed and boxed on time and thoroughly taste tested, with thanks to my trusty helpers @liwella.bsky.social and @worldanvil.bsky.social! I await nervously to hear any feedback from the audience members who received a piece... #Amwritingrecipes #Foodfiction

I am at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social! I'm moderating this evening's panel on Food, Music and Costume (7pm) and have CAKE - the recipe for which is in my food genre story collection 'Taste', which I'm just putting the finishing touches on. Good audience question = CAKE!

This is the kind of stuff I like to explore in my writing. I am just putting the finishing touches on a collection of genre stories all centred around food. The way sharing it enriches our lives, the impact of food scarcity, the ritual use of food to celebrate or to mourn. #amwriting #foodfiction

It's been a very tough week, but I'm having a little pamper in the salon today to get ready for @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social and finally getting round to reading British Fantasy Award nominee @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social's Long Live Evil. 💜

Mmm, what a beautiful piece of food fiction! Utterly delicious prose.

'I am a mermaid' by Indigenous Australian painter Djakangu Yunupingu, a Yolngu elder based in Yirrkala in the Northern Territory #WomensArt

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@jeremycshipp.bsky.social if you're on the look out for turtles, you may like this post as much as I did... (I think the algorithm is just showing me all your animal seeking posts now 😂)

I bought a copy of Futility after hearing @nuzo.bsky.social read from it at Super Relaxed Fantasy Club on Tuesday. It is... passionate, and hilarious, with just the right amount of extreme female rage. Well worth picking up!

I do love a good bit of inventive cooking. #Writersky #Amwriting

If I followed you before 6am this morning, that's because @claudineliterary.bsky.social sent me skittering gaily down a #flashfiction rabbit hole, and such wonders I did see. 🐈‍⬛✨

Look out for this one - I was lucky enough to beta read and it is AMAZING. #booksky #writersky

Steampunk dragon by US artist Sue Beatrice who creates steampunk sculptures and jewellery by recycling old watch parts #WomensArt

Big news from BFS members (and leaders) @shonak.bsky.social and @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social: A new independent non-profit organisation designed to help creatives thrive in publishing. Here's @divergent-paths.bsky.social britishfantasysociety.org/divergent-pa...

There's queer lit, then there's THIS. An amazing piece @pleomorphic2.bsky.social - congratulations!

Amazing time today at Bridge Command! I got completely into my Comms Officer role. So much fun!

Eastercon is a great event. If things are a bit difficult right now but you would like to come, then please take a look at the bursary scheme.

✨It's official! ✨ I'm so proud to reveal that my first ever attempt at writing audio drama, based on my story The Wheel of Fortune (1st published in Major Arcana, Black Shuck Books) has been awarded Highly Commended in the Pent to Print Audio Play Competition! 🥳🥳🥳

Dexy times! I was lucky enough to be invited to cameo in this episode. It was great fun recording with @emilyinkpen.bsky.social 🎤😃

Here’s a cake you’ll only make once … @idakeogh.bsky.social www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-5-keog...

I'm delighted that my darkly delicious story about making a cake is now out in Issue 5 of @neitherfishnorfoul.com!😁🍰 Thank you @jackmmorris.bsky.social for including it in this issue. #Booksky #Writersky www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/issue-5-keog...

Cake update: The tiny petit four sized cakes turned out even better. So you're all going to want to come to my book launch when this collection is finally done and out because damn these are tasty little bites and I can make a lot of them this size for anyone attending.

For my sins, I am writing recipes to go with each story in WIP food based genre collection. One story features a bergamot infused genoise sponge with lavender Chantilly cream. This is my first attempt at making it a reality - it was SO GOOD! 😋🧁 #Booksky #Writersky #Amwriting

The competing threads on whether the Anthropic settlement is a good thing or not now make a lot more sense.

I'm on my way to Brighton for a lovely day's writing retreat with @writershq.bsky.social! Except I booked it as a day to finish my novella and I've already done that and sent it to beta readers so... tum te tum. What to do instead?!! #Amwriting #Writersky

You all know I love writing about food. But this essay is magnificent.

I am not remotely in the same league as this, but my first ever published story, written in 2017 before I won any awards, which I wasn't paid for at the time (it was shortlisted in a competition), has made me about three or four times more in reprint fees than all my other writing income since then.

Don't mind if I do! Flagging for later 😁

I have finished my third novella! 🥳 The Strawberry Thief is a hopepunk novella about hunger, climate crisis, and the cost of immortality 🍓 Now winging its way to beta readers! #Booksky #Writersky #AmWriting

The thing has been accepted!!! I am so delighted the world will be able to share my very dark slice of cake. Watch this space! 🥹🍰 #AmWriting #Writersky

We all need things to cheer us up in these dark times. So please enjoy these Korean 'Marine Boy' biscuits which are in fact hollow and crispy, and so tiny and intricate, and tangy and tasty. Feel free to post your #tinyjoy below.

Plot is the path the writer chooses to pass through the story. Implications: -Intentionality. The writer makes deliberate decisions. This way, not that. -The plot is not the whole story. Think of an apple after a caterpillar has tunnelled. -Revision can change the plot without changing story.

What a magnificent but of holibobs. I finally got to travel by steam train! This is the line from Swanage to Corfe Castle. Wooo woooooooo!

I have submitted the thing. I apologise. #AmWriting #Writersky

Well, this just made a mermaid's day. 😍🧜🏻‍♀️

I finished a little flash yesterday about making a cake and it winged merrily to beta readers who replied: "Holy shit that was way darker than I expected... Holy hell" "It just makes me want to hold you in my arms and cry... It's pretty devastating." My work here is done 😈🍰 #Amwriting #Writersky

This is me with my new rockery.

Note to self...

This is stunning flash. Proper goosebumps.

Epic solo spotlight number about how 'The Power of Greyskull' was supposed to be his line, and since He-Man stole it their fates have been exchanged. Cue epic tale about the dangers of toxic masculinity and a great redemption arc for them both.

Getting "Books should be a gateway" tattooed inside the ventricles of my heart.