Shouting out a recent favourite: Home Sick by @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social is a brilliant, twisty, hilarious horror about a woman who moves to a remote cottage in the Scottish Highlands but her cottagecore dreams quickly turn into cottagecore nightmares. Absolutely loved it.

The Needfire by M.K. Hardy. Excellent book of creepy gothic stuff and sapphic longing set in the very north of Scotland in the Nineteenth Century. Damn good.

Our next event will be a celebration of Scottish fantasy, sci fi and horror in August so keep an eye out for that one!

Sometimes I trawl through r/PubTips and realise there are a lot of writers with very weird ideas of publishing timelines and agent work load. No, your book is not dead after 3 months on sub, and no your agent isn't ghosting you because they missed responding to an email. Take a deep breath.

Back from holiday to Durham and York and I have multiple pots of creative endeavours on the boil. -A finished novel with my agent awaiting comments. -A second novel waiting in the wings. -A finished action-horror historical werewolf feature screenplay I need to try and figure out what to do with.

I've been working closely with my fellow editors @munchkinstein.bsky.social and @hexthervvv.bsky.social for months now and we can't wait to share the wonders that the GSFWC have delivered to celebrate the group's 40th anniversary. October 2026. #GSFWC40 #HAVERIN

I'm banging on about this, but using LLMs and genAI at ANY STAGE of your work makes you not a writer. A writer plays with ideas, fits things together until they click, they test their imagination, they learn how to edit and refine their prose. They don't outsource their brain to a machine.

you all should know that @emfaulds.com is one of the best short story writers I know, and I just read another banger that better sell in five minutes.

This week, we chat with the brilliant Chiara Bullen, who tells us about cosy fantasy, her love of D&D, and discusses her debut novel, The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance Watch: youtu.be/lO1fsqPZNHo Listen: linktr.ee/ukpageone

Did a brilliant event last night with RJ Barker, Sarah Rees Brennan, Ruth Frances Long and Thomas D Lee! Lots of fun, lots of chaos, there was a dog walking around the whole time and I had some amazing chats with our local SFF community!! ♥️

After Gallus comes Haverin. Can't wait.

Hey, look what someone left for me... Well, it was the postman, but he's always good to me. And in today's book post it's my honest to god brand new short story collection. Hand Me Downs is a real book! Thank you everyone at PS Publishing. And cover artist Vince Haig. It's a work of heart.

Did mine as soon as I saw the Wired article. I also switched off the ability of users to download my posts, including audio. How this is even legal escapes me.

Just a reminder that Pictcon2 is in October - a friendly one day Scottish genre festival in Perth - and this year the Guest of Honour is all round excellent human @neilwilliamson.bsky.social Grab a ticket and come join us pictcon.com

Happy publication day to SHADOW OF MADNESS, my new historical thriller set in Renaissance Italy. Think Shutter Island X And Then There Were None as a blizzard traps Cesare Aldo in a remote asylum for the criminally insane. It's a Sunday Times historical novel of the month! @panmacmillan.bsky.social

Today!!! Come join us for pure chaos and a lot of storytelling! Also cake, there is cake. And air conditioning. Just saying. Tinyurl.com/ChaosLeeds

Unimportant, unlikely, but heartfelt request: does anyone have access to, or a link to, this wildlife documentary 'Crocodiles: Here Be Dragons', but the UK Survival version, narrated by Ian Holm? www.youtube.com/watch?v=n97V...

On today's Page One Extra, we are joined by the brilliant Bob Bookman to get an update on all things Hollywood - what the book-to-screen pipeline is looking like, why Obsession has been such a hit, the impact of AI and more! Watch: youtu.be/amFYoTzZHLQ Listen: linktr.ee/ukpageone

WATCH HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CURE'S HEADLINE SET OPEN'ER FESTIVAL 2026 NOW AT youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I have 992 subs on my newsletter. This is driving crazy. Subscriber 1000 gets a free copy of the Broken Binding edition of Sisters of the Lizard. Hand signed, hand numbered, posted anywhere in the world. www.jacksonfordauthor.com/newsletter

Only someone with a heart of stone wouldn't laugh at the demise of Jenrick's political gambit... playing out here in real time

Also, huge thank you to Buzz Magazine for interviewing me about HOME SICK www.buzzmag.co.uk/rhiannon-gri...

Not to be all "it's my birthday, buy my books" but it is and you should. THE DEAD WITHHELD: tiny, quick read, queer, paranormal neo-noir, grumpy protag with questionable decision-making YEAR OF THE MER: big, special editions, fantasy, slow burn sapphic tragedy, grumpy protag, worse decisions

Ahhhhh! HOME SICK got a mention in @bloody-disgusting.com's 10 Horror Books We Can't Wait to Read in July! Thank you so much, folks 🖤🪓🐑 @solarisbooks.bsky.social bloody-disgusting.com/books/395839...

@davegoodman.bsky.social took home the Debut Prize last year - can he make it a double and add The McIlvanney Prize this year? He's on our 'Rogue Agents' panel on Saturday 19th September: bloodyscotland.com/event/rogue-...

Over the next few days we're going to highlight our McIlvanney Prize long-listed authors - starting with last year's winner. @tariqashkanani.bsky.social returns with The Hollow Boys and you can hear him talk about it on the 'Across the Pond' panel on Sat 19th Sept: bloodyscotland.com/event/across...

Joining the crew on our venture through time and place/space is the legend of theatre, books, TV and radio that is Robert Shearman! Meet him 🧵⬇️

The season finale is upon us and we're ending strong with @pauladashe.bsky.social Paula is the award winning author of We Are Here To Hurt Each Other, a collection of short stories in a dark and bloody world where nothing is sacred and no one is safe. So, a nice, light end to the season!

RELEASE DAY!! So happy to bring you my tenth (!!!!) book - Charms, Charts, and Conspiracies! Appreciate all the support, and enjoy the book(s) 🧙 mybook.to/magicmapsand... mybook.to/charms

It’s publication day! THIS IS WHERE THE FUTURE BLEEDS is out today!

If only there had been some clues

This is big www.thenational.scot/news/2625708...

Get a copy of this in these reward tiers: - Both Books - £30 - Not/Feeling Better & Not/Coming Out - Everything Bundle - £60 - stickers, bookmarks, art prints, tote bag, Not/Feeling Better ebook & paperback, and Not/Coming Out paperback - Add On - £15 - add to any reward tier Link in comments.

This is gonna be so much fun

Book 2 is out TOMORROW! So why not pick up the Magic, Maps, and Mischief ebook for just 0.99? mybook.to/magicmapsand... Shares appreciated!!

I don’t know why it’s so important to me to overtake Michael Jackson’s ghost in the Blackwell’s bestseller chart but it is and here I find myself publicly requesting assistance in the matter and I suppose that’s just a character flaw in myself I suppose I have to accept.

HOME SICK unboxing goes wrong 🫣 @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Obama won, yet again. 🏆 He threw a concert, people actually showed up, and had a damn good time.

UK people, another consultation has landed. I've not looked at it yet, but it runs to the end of August this year. It's about the media, so important. Please share. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Sky is on the brink of taking over ITV. Could mean big changes further down the line, though there’s an agreement that ITV is free to air for another 8 years. Nobody seems sure what will happen to SKY News and ITN. Sky is owned by the US company Comcast, behind NBC among others.

OUR KICKSTARTER IS NOW LIVE!! We're so excited to launch in Disability Pride Month, as it's all about creating an anthology full of disabled and chronically ill voices. Please help us make this anthology possible, by pledging and/or sharing. #BookSky 💙📚 www.kickstarter.com/projects/naa...

What better way to celebrate the 4th of July than by getting a bunch of my novels, with a big chunk of your purchase price going to World Central Kitchen, my selected charity for this bundle. Pay what you like (the more you pay, the more you get), and help feed people in need all over the world.

Signed. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

First day of the summer holiday, and I wake up at 5am. Not impressed.

Today only, my first novel A RELUCTANT SPY is on a Daily Deal for 99p. Hours of award-winning spy shenanigans and the first book in a series for new readers, all for less than a quid! amzn.to/4p0uXUS (affiliate link) cc @headlinebooks.bsky.social @dhhlitagency.bsky.social

Haven't inked the contract yet, but it looks like I'm getting my first Chinese translation shortly. Milestone. It's modest, but imma dance anyway. "You must totally celebrate the little things, grasshopper." - John Woo (probably)

And the Twisted Dagger 2026 WINNER is… SARAH PINBOROUGH, for ‘We Live Here Now’ (Orion) 🗡#CWADaggers

Happy book birthday!

I really am going to stop banging on about this book soon but I suppose it's only once that the most important novel of your life comes out in paperback and I hear that if we get a few more orders there is just an outside chance we could edge onto the outer reaches of the bestseller list...

Delighted to be taking part in this. I hope we get an influx of submissions.