Yes! We finally have all of these in st the same time!! Behold my staff picks shelf for the next quarter. The northern weird project from @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social looks so pretty together!! And this is @rachelharrison.bsky.social best yet!

My staff picks are up on the website!! The northern weird Project by @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social includes books by @talkscaredpod.bsky.social and @jodierobins.bsky.social was my favorite thing in publishing this year, and @rachelharrison.bsky.social Play Nice is in my top five of the year!

Tonight! Come chat it up with me as a chair a discussion between @jodierobins.bsky.social, Gemma Fairclough and Katherine Clements as part of the @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social Northern Weird Novella Project: houseofbooksandfriends.com/event/author...

One week today! Join me in Manchester as I chair a panel with @jodierobins.bsky.social, Gemma Fairclough and Katherine Clements to discuss their @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social Northern Weird novellas: houseofbooksandfriends.com/event/author...

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Join us in Manchester on 5th November for another super cool panel of The Northern Weird Project. Hear Gemma Fairclough, Katherine Clements and @jodierobins.bsky.social talk all things northern, weird and bookish! Chaired by fellow northern author @robertwelbourn.bsky.social

Had a real blast recording this episode!

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Proof giveaway time!

My latest Substack is all about my love of unhappy endings jodierobins.substack.com/p/the-unhapp...

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Blown away by these early blurbs 💙🖤💙

Oh my gosh, this is so wonderful to read. Thank you! 💙💙

My book in the wild!

Calling all #literaryagents! A northern Literary Festival is looking for agents to present and do author one-to-ones. The all-day event will be at Leeds Trinity University, Sat 6th Sept 2025. It’s partly to fill the gap in the North of England now that #JerichoWriters have relocated to London. 1/

So excited for ARCs to arrive. Bloggers, request now!

You might find me in a melt of edits by the end of all this, but I'm going back in for what we hope is the final time. So excited to take this arctic island gothic/folk horror on submission 🖤

Read-through time. Most edits done, just time to tidy, refine, and check the changes I've made 🖤 I still really love this story @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social out June 26th

I am on the final stretch of writing and editing Into Being: The radical craft of memoir and its power to transform, and I can’t quite believe it. A book that evolved from a doctorate, and then a Tweet, and ten years of teaching memoir. It will be published in Oct; you can preorder it from March.

Ambiguity in horror is such a powerful tool. Enjoyed this piece

Happy publication day, Lucy! Hope it's fabulous for you. I'm reading it now, and it's deliciously dark 🖤

Just finished American Primeval and really loved it. There's been so many great Westerns recently, and this is up there. There's a lot of gore, be warned. And you might fall in love with Isaac a little bit...

It's arrived @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social !! So excited to read it 🖤

It takes a lot for me to read a 433 page book these days but this book is stunning! I'll be reaching for more Sarah Hall, for sure

Apple pie and Du Maurier? I'm in! 🖤

My mum just rang me to tell me she'll call me when she's home 🤷‍♀️

Unexpected new words are flowing for my next novel today, and it's one I am SUPER excited about. A little bit horror, a lot of angry women, and beautiful 60s California 🖤

I watched The Last Waltz tonight. I adore The Band so much. But god, Robbie Robertson had a face you could look at continuously and always see something different. What a show that was!

I saw Nosferatu at an IMAX last night. That made an already intense and claustrophobic movie even more intense and claustrophobic. There were a few times I wanted to leave 😬 I appreciated the aesthetic (especially the scene in the snow!) but not sure it fully landed with me

I'm so excited to share my FIRST EVER COVER! I love it so much 🖤 Pre-orders are so appreciated, and I'll love you forever!

A triumph. Left me with so many feelings. Utterly bleak but completely human. One I will be thinking about for a long time #BookSky

Vampires? Yes, please! 🦇🧛‍♀️ Can't wait to read this

What are you all excited for or hoping for in 2025? I'd love to know!

2025 is incoming! Farewell 2024. Very excited about the release of my novella, The Off-Season, in June. And is this the year I finally go on sub? I feel I have served my apprenticeship and a bit more 😂😂 Oh, and I'm a bit excited about the book I'm plotting, too! 🖤

Thread Please Share! Hey folks as we move on in 2025 Ginger Nuts of Horror film is looking for new reviewers to add to the family. This year was a wipeout for me with the lead up to my surgery and the recovery I'm looking to hit the ground running and reclaim GNoH as the home of horror.

Christmas book haul! 🖤

I found my dissertation from over 20 years ago at my in-laws house, and it honestly feels like a different person must have written this! It sure was fun to study the deposit from the last ice age, which included a Norway Lemming!

This deep dive on Netflix purposely turning movies into barely distinguishable forgettable slop is so insightful, researched & brutally hilarious. A must read if you want to really know what’s happening to the business AND culture of movies.

My ghost family doubled overnight! 😱

I'm so confused by what day it is, I just offered to have my kid's friends for a sleepover on New Year's Eve. Luckily, someone a bit more time-aware spotted my error 😅 phew!

The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize now for the "unputdownable" novel f RT on unpublished women. The winner will receive a £1,500 prize, and all shortlisted authors get a one-on-one consultation with a literary agent. Please share. www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/fictionprize

In bed with my laptop plotting book three, and it's TASTY!

We ventured back to Bluray land for Xmas. And I got one of my favourite films, complete with poster and stills. My teenage self is in heaven somewhere 🥰🥰🥰

You can message me here. I do have big plans x

Thank you @amydelaforce.bsky.social Amazing that this whole thread of work came from one @cbcreative.bsky.social group 🥰🥰

My books of the year, some new, some old, all grabbed me and spoke to me in a new or unusual way. It's been a strange one. I have DNFd many, but actually learnt a lot about what sort of reader I am in the process. My favourite read from all the way back in Jan is The Glutton 🖤

Everyone, give Imogen a follow! She's extremely lovely and talented 🖤

Finished this beauty by Anna Bailey last night. It's a wonderful follow-up to Tall Bones, which I adored. Anna is nailing small-town America, character-led crime, and with stunning prose, too 🐊🖤