a substack about me & all my namesakes mserinkelly.substack.com/p/a-legion-o...

My thriller NOTES ON A DROWNING is 99p in ebook this month and also in the audiobook sale. Two determined women unravel a scandal involving misogyny, conspiracy and murder. A Times thriller of 2025. www.amazon.co.uk/Notes-Drowni...

Remember that in the UK, in space year 2026, it is *still* illegal to rip a CD you bought with your own money to play the resulting MP3s (or whatever) on your computer. That is not considered fair use. But AI companies eating all of our creative work for free soon will be. Fuck off, Labour.

Let's keep the good news going. Vote for me and help to banish ALL the creepy men from comedy. You only have til the 1st March!

the brass fuckin neck of this

The Irish alp-luachra - Joint Eater - preys on weary travellers sleeping beside streams or rivers. This newt-like fairy spirit slips down the throat and settles in the stomach, eating any food that enters while the unsuspecting host slowly wastes away. #FolkloreThursday (Image: John Horner)

so will the greens get equal media coverage with reform now...

"An Absolute Joy" - Ayisha Malik. You can preorder a signed copy here: www.waterstones.com/book/the-pin... And please, tell your friends!

I was at the count in Gorton and Denton last night and we all saw Matt Goodwin eat ballot papers. His girlfriend and team begged him to stop but he kept stuffing it into his mouth and making grunting sounds like the Cookie Monster

The Secret Room, one of my all-time favourites, is out in paperback today. 🥰🎉🥳

My debut novel Tombstoning is reborn today! @orendabooks.bsky.social have produced a 20th anniversary edition with a beautiful cover by Mark Swan and fantastic introduction by @brookmyre.bsky.social. Special thanks to Karen Sullivan for making this happen. Print - geni.us/Mb0bqB Ebook - geni.us/c10i

It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.

iambic tetrameter ass stick

New extract on the blog today! A sliver of Catherine by @essiefox.bsky.social (pub'd @orendabooks.bsky.social thx @annerandomthings.bsky.social): "Below the vast expanse of stars shining brightly in black skies we reach a house that stands alone and very high upon the moors..." #BookSky

The Road. I don't know why I watched it given that the book is something I read once and said okay, never again.

Reviews mean so much to authors - and they really do have an impact on how visible our books are online. It's a virtuous cycle!

V interesting and easy-to-grasp explanation of what happens when you're nicked

Write a twisty, suspenseful thriller that readers won’t be able to put down on our six-week online Writing a Psychological Thriller course with bestselling novelist @mserinkelly.bsky.social 🔍 Course starts next Thurs: www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/writi...

So @mserinkelly.bsky.social made me cry...again. Last day to take advantage of the 25% discount on the unsigned hardback at Waterstones using code FEB26. The Pinnacle is coming - Tell your friends! Click on the link to order: bit.ly/4tIKLxm

“He was never a prince. For survivors everywhere, Virginia did this for you.” Statement from Virginia Giuffre’s family on the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, read out on BBC News.

This made me very happy. Still time to take advantage of the 25% discount on the unsigned hardback at Waterstones using code FEB26. The Pinnacle is coming - Tell your friends! Click on the link to order: bit.ly/4tIKLxm

Today in book research I googled 'when did the Just One Cornetto advert first air'

'Nothing is off the table as long as it’s done well' Bestselling novelist and tutor of our six-week online Writing a Psychological Thriller course, @mserinkelly.bsky.social, shares her tips for aspiring psychological thriller writers 🔎

The only app I neglect more than Bluesky is Substack! Have at it open.substack.com/pub/mserinke...

My debut novel, TOMBSTONING, is getting a 20th anniversary reissue with a beautiful new cover and intro by @brookmyre.bsky.social. We'll be chatting at @portybooks.bsky.social on Wed 25th Feb, it will be raucous, I bet. www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/doug-... @orendabooks.bsky.social

The Drowning Place is out 10 weeks today! Huge thanks to the authors who've given me some of the best quotes of my career, including this from the queen of unexpected characters @liznugent.bsky.social Preorder via the links in my bio (please, as it really helps)

You should never let your TBR pile fully deplete before buying more books. That’s like waiting until your kitchen is empty to go to the supermarket. - Michael

I need people to understand that it’s not just Epstein, it’s the entire rape culture that existed before and after him at every socioeconomic level. That’s why Epstein, who I’ve never thought was particularly smart or interesting, was able to pull this all off—he recognized how abuse functions

34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is

My second novel DAUGHTERS OF NIGHT is an absolute steal at 99p on Kindle throughout February...

we're so fucked

If I wasn't already writing a novel about a cursed Venetian palazzo, this would inspire me to write a novel about a cursed Venetian palazzo

Annoyingly Anna seems to be able to write bangers in any genre - this is a proper grippy straight-from-the-headlines thriller, get involved

Book clubs! My legal/political Anna Sharpe thriller NOTES ON A DROWNING is out in paperback next week and I’ve made you a Reading Group Guide including suggested London/Tokyo snacks🍷 🇯🇵 Sign up to my newsletter or click on my website to get the full thing. geni.us/NotesOnADrow... annamazzola.com

Happy birthday Edgar Allan Poe, born on this day 1809. Doom. Plague. Despair. Revenge. Madness. Creeping existential horror. You would have loved 2026.

My #thruple goals More likely reality #TheNightManager

I’ve had the most amazing debut publication year. Now working on book two but please add #DontMakeMeLaugh to your TBR pile if you’re interested in the many trials/investigations of comedians guaranteed to be in the news a lot again this year. #MeToo #BookSky Out now in paperback.

Too posh to push? Fewer men than ever passing kidney stones naturally buff.ly/bhBLE5N

Everything going well.

Half Ma’am Half Brisket

oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003

I SCREAMED www.instagram.com/reel/DSaex-X...

Ah that's a nice worst kept secret in publishing you have there, sure would be a shame if it was revealed just before Christmas

BOX SET DEAL! 😱📖 Get the FIRST SIX books in @dougjohnstone.bsky.social's addictive & darkly funny #TheSkelfs #Series in one GREAT-VALUE Box Set. £2.99 on #Kobo! Catch up before bk 7 #GhostNotes lands next summer! You really don't want to miss this deal! ⚰️ bit.ly/4rZySlZ #BooksSky #CrimeFiction

I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.

Eighteen years after the events of Wuthering Heights, Catherine rises from her grave to tell her story, and seek redemption. #Catherine a retelling of #WutheringHeights by @essiefox.bsky.social publishes 12/02/26 We can't wait for you to revisit the Moors! 🕯️ 🖤 bit.ly/3KlDp11 #Books #Heathcliff

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

I'm currently immersed in The Night Stairs by the always-fabulous @mserinkelly.bsky.social who's pretty keen on The Drowning Place 🧡 #thedrowningplace is out in April from Harvill // preorders via the links in my bio