Bought a miniature knight helmet for my cat because of course I did.

Just a boy and his pom pom 🐈‍⬛

I should be writing. So naturally, I have collected a parcel, done my food shop, bought travel insurance (owie my wallet), put a wash on, vaccuumed, brushed cat hair off the sofa, taken rubbish out, and eaten a banana. I have not written anything.

Renaming him the Poop Goblin, for reasons #Caturday

Me with Lancelot in Merlin versus me with Lancelot in any other media

I found the first 30 pages of Merlin fic I wrote back in 2013 and it's quite funny how it actually ended up being the original starting point for my Arthurian novel 😭

Today I finished reading Local Gods by @melindasalisbury.com (out in August) and it was utterly stunning. An A24 folk horror film in the form of a YA novel, with beautiful, hazy and shimmering prose and a sense of creeping dread. Just amazing!! 🦉 #booksky

Me whenever King Arthur retellings are pitched as the gritty, REAL story behind the legend

Had an idea for a sequel to my Lady of Shalott novel which I can base around Sir Gawain (AKA best knight) and I want to write it nowwwwww but I have to finish my witch book first. Someone hurry up and invent a way I can write multiple books at once

I confess that I haven't read Le Morte d'Arthur in its entirety (only chunks of it) and I am considering attempting it. Thinking that reading it in small bursts will prevent me from going cross-eyed and wishing I could turn back time and throttle Sir Thomas Malory for being so dry

It's me, hi, I'm the problem it's me

Last night I finished The Bright Sword by @levgrossman.com and it was just wonderful!! So much of what I love about Arthurian legend packed into one novel, and it was full of heart and magic. What a read 💫 📚

average workshoping session

I thought writing out a synopsis that I could edit would help me work out the bits of the plot that need untangling, but I am still stuck 😭

Is it sacrilege to say that I think 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is my favourite of the franchise

A small blessing today: got a partial request on my last manuscript, that I thought was dead in the water 🥺 #amquerying

Stopped myself from ordering a milkshake. Instead I microwaved a carton of custard and ate that, and then ordered £30 worth of books. Choices were made.

All Elaine of Astolat wanted was to love and serve Sir Lancelot forever. But when she wakes upon a funeral barge with lilies blooming from her lips, she must pose as her missing brother to find who tried to kill her. 🏰 Camelot but it's a cult 🥀 Flowers grow from flesh #BluePit 📖 #A #F #LGBT #OV #Q

Last night I finished Slayers of Old by @jimchines.com and I absolutely loved it! Found family, supernatural hijinks, chocolate chip muffins and a tentacled cat - a real treat for Buffy fans. I can already see this being in my top reads for 2026 and the year has barely started!

Why, oh why, did I choose to write a dual timeline novel? Trying to restructure it has got me like this

And now my doppelganger, and statistically yours too. He was in a DSA anarchist tendency on Corellia but dropped out when they endorsed the wrong city council candidate: Folks, it's Karis Nemik. (BTW, they got the *names* right for this show. Perfect lucas-grade names).

I've worked out that part of my secret sauce for writing a better draft is to write a chapter-by-chapter synopsis first. Does this make me want to write the synopsis? No.

Particularly love* the part of writing where you start a new draft and realise you have completely forgotten how to write. *This is a lie.

One day, thinking about Arthurian legend won't make me want to chew my own fingers off in the midst of obsession, but today is not that day.

My top reads of 2025! I had a great reading year and it was hard to narrow them down to just 15! I hope everyone is having a lovely holiday and looking forward to 2026 🖤 📚 #books #booksky #readingwrapup

shall we have a celebratory drinkYA revival

(am a complete cinema philistine so genuinely mostly knew Rob Reiner as Jess's dad in New Girl and even in that daft little sitcom he was so funny and so obviously radiated love and joy, what a loss)

Having a break from my current WIP while I get some feedback from betas. Already itching to work on something else 👀

A string of rejections this week. Sigh. Not feeling very festive at all.

I DID IT. It only took me till December to finally pick it up but I read it! And I enjoyed it a lot.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

I don't usually post when I get a full request but I got my first one on my Arthurian novel today after a ton of form rejections and I'm feeling hopeful about it again 😭 #amquerying

THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING x SPEAR All Elaine of Astolat ever wanted was to love and serve Sir Lancelot forever. But when she wakes upon her funeral barge with lilies blooming from between her lips, she must pose as her missing twin brother to find who tried to kill her. #WIPPit #amquerying #F #LGBT

I think I've finished my edits?? Got to do one more read-through but then it's done 😱

Since I've been back on medication I've only experienced the annoying bits of hypomania, like not being able to sleep. Feels like a scam 😭

Cassian doing his best impression of a bunny #Caturday

I'm so close to the end of these edits! Let's do this!!

I write for my day job, but occasionally I do some freelance work and I've just had a piece published under my own name! This was a lot of fun to work on, though it was difficult to narrow it down to just eight characters! #LGBTQ #television www.spotlight.com/news-and-adv...

When someone replies to your post about your special Arthurian interest and they're just Wrong but you don't want to get into an Internet argument

I love social media pages for local cats that are like mini celebrities. There's one called Stella who lives near me and she was in the Pets at Home store today and a picture of her on the cash desk has nearly 300 likes. This is what the internet is for.

I've seen numerous posts about how Taylor Swift possibly confused Ophelia with the Lady of Shalott, and all I want to say about that is, if she really wrote a song about the Lady of Shalott my two special interests would collide in a nuclear fashion and I would simply pass away

I finished This Princess Kills Monsters by @ryherman.bsky.social last night and it was just excellent! Thank you @elvahills.bsky.social for the rec, I really enjoyed this funny and sweet adult spin on fairytales! #BookSky 📚

I want to write but I want to read but I want to draw but I want to sleep but I want to watch movies and TV there's not enough time!!!

You ever unpick a plot thread because you don't want it in the book anymore, and then it just starts to unravel and create 983429 more problems? 😭

Did a last re-read of my Arthurian manuscript after a few months of not looking at it and dare I say it doesn't suck? 😬

I finished How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by @djangowexler.bsky.social last night and absolutely loved it! I had to order the sequel straight away. SO funny and full of heart. I'm going to be recommending it to every fantasy fan I know 🖤

Watching TV with mama 🥰🐈‍⬛ #Caturday

On the last chapter of my rewrites, then I've got to go back and....rewrite the book again...

What's this hibernophobia now