Waking up to a song about sea otters and Pride is exactly how the day is meant to be started. This is so joyful! 🩵🌈

In case you, too, needed this today:

Lovely walk along the canal this morning before it gets too hot. #momentsofbeauty

Not now, Dark Dimension...

A great start to the first Richmond Con at @booksontherise.bsky.social - Building Worlds for Children with @rogbapayne.bsky.social @louiestowell.bsky.social @franceshardinge.bsky.social and Emma Farrarons #booksky #writersky #amwriting

This time last week I was heading home from my first @cymerafestival.co.uk. What a fantastic weekend it was! There were so many of my favourite people there and a lovely crowd generally. I made new friends and discovered new (to me) amazing authors. Highlights in the thread! #booksky #amwriting

CAKE. Everyone deserves cake. 🍰

Just discovered this tremendous story which grapples with the conspicuous consumption of rare and endangered species, and features a sassy octopus. If that's a combo that piques your interest too, look out for my story 'Of Spices and Species' in my collection 'Taste' out next year!

If you're at @cymerafestival.co.uk this weekend go check out @fdleeauthor.bsky.social's books in the Creator's Hall - they are AMAZING! Fairy tale tropes ripped up in the funniest way possible, or disaster gay time travel, something for everyone. #Booksky #AmReading

One of those times where I find myself thinking, 'What would I do with 22 tonnes of cheese?!' 😋🧀🧀🧀

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! 🥳🎉🌈 My collection 'Taste' coming out next year is hella queer and full of excellent cake, so I really wanted to include some very tasty rainbow cake in my shoot with wonderful photographer @ingridweel.bsky.social yesterday! #UKPrideMonth #Booksky #Queerjoy

I had a tremendous photoshoot yesterday in collaboration with my favourite photographer, @ingridweel.bsky.social to get new headshots for my forthcoming food themed SFF collection 'Taste' (out April 2027 with @flametree.bsky.social). Here's a behind the scenes look at fun with cake! #Amwriting

'Dandelions,' was painted by the Danish artist Bertha Wegmann around 1910. It wasn't an arbitrary choice of a plant to paint: the dandelion was used to promote the women’s liberation movement in Scandinavia because of its capacity for uncontrolled, strong-willed growth.

I'm on retreat! Enjoying a much needed boost to my dystopian sapphic obsession sci-fi novel with a week at the stunning Gladstone's Library in Wales, with the Milford SF Writers. I crept over 10k yesterday, so feeling pretty proud of myself. #AmWriting #Writersky

Happy birthday @ewacat.bsky.social! Here is my kitten Nyx being... well, quite normal for her actually.

Ooh, this reminds me of a gorgeous story, ‘Stitching Time’ by AnaMaria Curtis, read on the @flametree.bsky.social Myth & Fiction podcast recently (A Breath of Time) www.flametreepress.com/myth-fiction...

Mini thread on how to name your characters. How do you name yours? #Writersky #AmWriting

May the Fourth be with you. Happy Star Wars Day folks. Please enjoy this work of utter genius. #StarWarsDay

100% this! Writing is so much more joyful with a community.

"Another world. Another time. In the age of wonder. A thousand years ago this land was green and good. Until the crystal cracked." My first big screen viewing of Jim Henson's masterpiece The Dark Crystal at the Prince Charles, Leicester Sq 💜 #UrskesesRule

ThunderCats Hoooooo!!! Show me your favourite ThunderCat!

I love this time of year when butterflies start emerging again. 🦋

This is beautiful and speaks to my grief. 🖤

I used the Merlin Bird ID app yesterday for the first time on a lovely hike through Albury Park. The existence of the Common Firecrest must imply the existence of the Legendary Firecrest, right?

FAAAALKOOOOOOOR!!!

Another fabulous @srfantasyclub.bsky.social this week, with @felipeazucares.bsky.social ("It rhymes with face huggers") and @georgiasummers.bsky.social. #Booksky #Writersky

Second submission of the week! Just a lil flash, but still, this is pretty good for me. It used to take me six months to write a short story. I think I may finally be confident in my writing voice - it's only taken 9 years! Now back to the novel! 🥳 #amwriting #writersky

I had a day to myself yesterday so went on a hike in the countryside to a lovely pub to sit, write and enjoy an exceptional pub lunch. My basic novel outline is now complete - time to start drafting! 🥳 #Writersky #Booksky #Momentsofbeauty

Don't you just love it when visiting beetles match your nail varnish?

Doing my story submission dance and feeling all proud and adulty... #amwriting #writersky

This was my first Eastercon art show. I am humbled by the lovely things people have said to me about my art this weekend and delighted that so many works have found their way to loving homes. 🥳🥰 (Watch to see the secret UV layer!) #art #spaceart #octopusart

I am thrilled to announce that my new collection 'Taste' will be published by Flametree Publishing in their Beyond and Within series, and is due to launch at next year's Eastercon! If you're at @easterconuk.bsky.social I'll be having a small celebration in the bar tonight! 🥂🥳

More #momentsofbeauty today! Look at these cute babbies! 🐥🐥🐥

Anxiously watching my postbox for a beautiful signed edition that should have turned up *checks watch* latest 3 hours ago... #amreading

It's finished! I hope this brings you all some #queerjoy this morning.

Who's in the mood for some queer joy?! 🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🌈 Watch this space later, I'll post the finished piece in a reply when it's done. #art #queerart #queerjoy

This is a KAPOW-punch of a story exploring the deep well of frustration which comes from simple accommodations not being met. A well deserved nomination! #Amreading #Superhero

This void was so perfect I had to paint them immediately. #art #catart

Another day of #dragon painting. As at last night there were 25 shiny dragons, and another 41 to go. But they are getting smaller! I hope to finish today. #art #fantasyart

The Dragoning has begun! This video shows over two hours of dragon painting, and there are still over 40 dragons to go... #art #fantasyart

Work in progress - a logarithmic spiral of dragons. It's dragons all the way down! So many dragons! 🐉🐉🐉 #art #fantasyart

This is the kind of news I'm here for today: "It shouldn't be allowed to ride on the coat tails of the finest pudding in the world" - a searing indictment in this two part piece on the Sticky Toffee Pudding Pizza. I love you @stpguy3.bsky.social,you are my new hero. Journalism at its finest.

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I stg if you want to see books like this in your local bookshop, the absolute best way to make it happen is to buy the fuck out of them when they're indie, because publishers only sign what they think will sell and won't take chances without data. Back this project. Provide that data!

The kickstarter for The Fall of the House of Valenziaga has dropped! If you know @trip.bsky.social you know this is going to be ✨fabulous✨ Go take a peek. Go! Go now! #Booksky #Writersky #Amreading www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

This makes me so happy.

Sighing, she retrieves the milkshakes from her yard. Another day, another disappointing haul. A shape appears, ambling without haste. "I hope I'm not too late?" he asks. She studies his pale, wrinkled face, his long grey coat. Not a boy, but a man. "No," she says. "Come on in."

The worst fruit is indubitably the blackcurrant. Tiny little balls of evil just designed to dry the inside of your mouth instead of being all juicy as advertised.

Me trying to get back to sleep at 3am.