Currently Reading: #TheNightStairs by @mserinkelly.bsky.social. Will be published 9th July by @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @vintagebooks.bsky.social, thank you to them & @netgalley.bsky.social for the ARC. #BookSky 📚💙 #books 🩸📚 ⚡️📚

good news, everyone

My most recent novel, The Last Days Of Summer, pitched to my publisher as “a big sexy tearjerker,” is 99p for all of May. The best 99p you spend this month. Get involved! amzn.to/4vZDj2h

My latest Substack: sarramanning.substack.com/p/novels-abo...

Me when anyone says, ‘you don’t need more books.’ #metgala

what's interesting and encouraging about this going viral much as rosalia's brits and even harry styles' performance did is that in an age of ai slop nothing is as watchable as humans working together in performance

The way the outfits here create flashes of blue and white is very mesmerizing.

It's Stephen Lawrence Day. Everyone should familiarise themselves with the way he, Duwayne Brooks and his family were failed by the state. Crooked police, lawyers, press and politician. It's more corrupt than you remember, I promise you that stephenlawrenceday.org

Jonathan Keir Harker Starmer 🤝 Not having enough questions about their good friend, the Prince of Darkness

When you’ve got United in the 21st century at 8pm and vigils in the 14th century at 5am

Knock knock. Who’s there? Hike. Hike who? solitary cow standing atop a mountain longs for home – Dundee

Hardman & co glass at Highbury Hall 1880's #owlishmonday #stainedglass

I'm going to be honest, "The Pope vs. the President" feels like the kind of thing Dan Brown would exclaim as he sits bolt upright, ripped from sleep in the middle of the night.

The Drowning Place (D.S. Joseph Ashe #1) by Sarah Hilary @sarah_hilary @VintageBooks liveanddeadly.net/2026/04/13/t... From @bethsy.bsky.social

Twenty years. One unforgettable debut. The #20thAnniversaryEdition of #Tombstoning by @dougjohnstone.bsky.social has arrived💙 With a brand-new introduction by @brookmyre.bsky.social! Dive back into the tension… Print: 🔗https://geni.us/Mb0bqB
 Ebook: 🔗https://geni.us/c10i

My first draft of The Skeleton Key was set in Dunwich rather than Hampstead, but it was too isolated and the lore didn't serve my plot so I had to make some up from scratch. One day I'll write a book set in that ghost city in the North Sea.

'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 🔎

A heads up on the new Arnold Clover out in ebook, print and audio on May 7 - and the chance to win an advance reading copy. davidhewson.com/the-new-arno...

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)

"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...