It seems people are getting their pre-orders for Project Hanuman today :-) Very exciting to see pictures of people with it in their hands!

@aliettedebodard.com happy birthday!

Right UK folks - @justinleeanderson.com and I want to build communities we want to see in the world. We've created a discord whose purpose is to share news with one another, look at who to write to, when to get out and act etc. If you want in, DM me or Justin and we'll sling you an invite

a reminder that you can be emailing the department for culture, media and sport to remind them the loss of right wing partisans at the BBC is good. Suggest they help the BBC refocus on facts, public service and, you know, stop pandering to racists and sexists and people who want to destroy them #BBC

I am enjoying The Witcher season 4. There. I said it.

@loopearplugs.bsky.social I've tried 4 times this morning to buy a pair of loop engage 2 and four times the check out process has simply hung on me. Not an ideal way to sell your product.

Just published, the new Green Man book: wizardstowerpress.co...

Blood over Brighthaven is great. You should get it in your brain. #fantasy #SFF #reviews As always, if you like what I do, please consider subscribing to make sure you see more of it!

Kill the Gods: Epic Fantasy Religion - @abeaumontbooks.bsky.social in conversation with @annasmithspark.bsky.social , @justmarvewrites.bsky.social, @willwiles.bsky.social and me. 6pm, Waterstones Covent Garden, 13th November #SciFi #London @waterstones.bsky.social @britfantasysoc.bsky.social

You really want to get in on this. Delightful world building and thrilling stories.

Coming away from @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social I had some thoughts about what I'm writing at the moment and why:

It's genuinely worth a quick check of the advanced moderation settings as there's plenty I'm sure people would like to tweak but aren't aware that they can.

All the new sf out this month :-)

I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?

I have MANY bookmarks that I'd love to send to booksellers and librarians who are stocking my new space opera, Project Hanuman. Please do let me know if I can send some to you. #SciFi #Libraries

@aptshadow.bsky.social did you already know about this?

fucking hell

So quite a few people have bought Project Hanuman! And I love you for it. If you have the time and could drop a review somewhere that would be extra awesome :-)

ah, that's a formal diagnosis of ME/CFS. At least it's on paper now.

searching for music this morning managed to type 65daysofstatins rather than #65daysofstatic which is a very different experience.

@edfortune.com nice to catch up, if only briefly, at the weekend and I hope you had a nice birthday!

Where this is reported to us we can/will investigate - there will be no tolerance for this kind of bullshit. Trans rights are human rights.

Morning everyone. I am broken after a fantastic @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social. Excellent people, panels and a suitcase groaning with new books. Loved it. Thanks to everyone who was kind and who welcomed others - I felt like we were in a great place.

Future Worlds Prize 2026 is open for entries! We're looking for great works of SFF by unpublished writers of colour. If that's you, check out our website for more information: www.futureworldsprize.co.uk/2026-prize/

If you’re @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social the agm is starting now in buckingham

@shonak.bsky.social!!!

Thank you to everyone at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social who cam to the launch for project Hanuman - it was so much fun :-) We did sell out so now you’ll have to wait until the 11th November. Which feels unreal.

Billie Eilish gets it

yesterday's writing discourse about there being only empire or liberal democracy irritated me intensely. So here's a (limited) guide to types of government for your fantasy (and SF) stories. #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #worldbuilding It's free but if you like it please think of subscribing!

I want to subtweet about white preoccupations with empire as somehow nuanced and interesting but this is all you’re getting.

Look at this beauty #reading

My review of The Raven Scholar

For those of you at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social then this is yet ANOTHER launch you should be thinking of going to. NewCon press, run by the legend Ian Whates will be launching a 3 new books at 6pm on Friday. Come meet @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @singingtotigers.bsky.social and Cécile Cristofari

@kermodemovie.bsky.social thought this would cheer you up

I did not know this. Seems like a good deal to me!

If you're @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social my new novel, Project Hanuman, is launching there two weeks early at 2pm on Friday 31st. I will be joined by the amazing Peter F Hamilton to talk about the novel and there'll be macarons, wine and goodies. #SciFi #SpaceOpera #SFF

Anna’s readings are always fantastic and a new project??? Oooh.

It's @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social this weekend! I'm very, very excited. At 10am on Sunday morning I shall be at the Solaris launch because three very excellent books will be launching there. Come celebrate @mkhardywrites.com @rainewilson.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social

@roguespirit.bsky.social nice to see you here!

I think this is a brilliant and overdue idea.

FIrst 1000 words down on a new project. It's an interesting one because I think the voice/register for this is going to need some time to settle. I expect that first 1000 words will be edited quite a lot before I'm happy but not until I've got about 10k in. #amwriting

Right. Time to start writing something new.

Morning UK peeps - I'll be here in November - the Birmingham SF folks are wonderful and it would be lovely to see you there :-) #sff #sciencefiction

my good friend @shonak.bsky.social is launching this wonderful book on the Friday evening of @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social (7pm, so put it in your diary). So come along and be entranced by this brilliant story.

I am VERY much looking forward to this one.

We Brits have to learn is that you don't respond to every quack racist pronouncement by fascists and wannabe nazis. The best response sometimes is silence. More often than not you have to reframe their nonsense or risk debating on their terms. it's rare that a knee jerk response is the right tactic

HELLOOOO! If you're a bookseller or a librarian and we're not following you and you'd like us to be, please @ us so that we can.

I was left profoundly moved by Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume. #ME/CFS #longcovid #SFF #reviews

spellcheck is getting worse because there's a subtle predictive thing being added to most examples of it that takes it from post hoc correction to in situ changes which are often the worst bullshit. Today's example - I tried to write 'I am in bed for' and it corrected it to 'I am in Bedford'

funny despite being true