The Black Library Weekly is here! Jay's got another six-pack with author Josh Reynolds, a look at a new box set, and more!

Folks mentioned in this week's column include... @jonathandbeer.bsky.social @squintywitch.bsky.social Dan Abnett, David Annandale, Steve Lyons, @andyclarkauthor.bsky.social @writervh.bsky.social R. S. Wilt, Robbie MacNiven, @denny-flowers.bsky.social #Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary

@squintywitch.bsky.social Did a great 40K novel that I can’t read again because she made it “heart-rending” 🫣😭😭😭😭😭

Jay "Lorehunter" Kirkman is here with this week's Black Library Weekly.

Ok further realisation that my current collection is just all @squintywitch.bsky.social's work 😅

LIBRARY ACQUISITION 8/6 I’ve wanted this for a long time, and finally executed. Morvenn Vahl: Spear of Faith by @squintywitch.bsky.social It’s…gorgeous. 🥰 #Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary

O god is it August already?

Oh this is sad. Each Peach Pear Plum still brings me enormous joy - when I worked in a bookshop I'd pause to reread it all the time www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

If loving autumn, cats, pastries, cobblestone streets, Scottish Highlands cottages, bookstores, libraries, Agatha Christie, fog-laden forests, and Oxford commas is wrong, why would I ever want to be right?

In case any of my fellow creatives also needed this reminder:

We're delighted to announce the #KelpiesPrize 2025 shortlist! Congratulations to: ✍️@debsca.bsky.social, Ross MacKay, Steve McKenna, @taslinpollock.bsky.social, @temwilder.bsky.social 🎨Jessica Bolevin, Siena Cameron, Joshua Dau, Grace Owens, Laura K Sayers discoverkelpies.co.u...

I need 400 more people to support the first All-Black Women Fantasy graphic novel anthology on Kickstarter #kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/844...

Isopods

Taking a break on the to-do list today as I descend into the mossy, odiferous depths of gremlinhood

Shout out to the gang, the best colleagues anyone could wish for in the word mines :)

I had another awesome week of reading so make sure to check out my latest #WWWWednesday post featuring outstanding novels by #MatthewSpencer, @squintywitch.bsky.social, #CJBox, #AntoniaHodgson and more. unseenlibrary.com/2025/06/19/w...

Had a great deal of fun working on this and screaming LEXMATE at one another with @squintywitch.bsky.social which was a critical part of the creative process 💀

I had another awesome week of reading so make sure to check out my latest #WWWWednesday post featuring outstanding novels by @squintywitch.bsky.social @michaelconnelly.bsky.social @stephenking.bsky.social @decastell.bsky.social and #CJBox. unseenlibrary.com/2025/06/12/w...

Delighted to share the Saturday pre-order stage with Robbie and Denny. If you missed DOMINION GENESIS in hardback and fancy getting your hands on the paperback (which shares its larger format's truly exceptional cover), they head over to warhammer.com next weekend!

Action-packed this week! Folks mentioned include: @justinhillauthor.bsky.social Darren Latham, @shaunalawless.bsky.social @markalatham.bsky.social @sispurrier.bsky.social @mikebrooks668.bsky.social @squintywitch.bsky.social @acrozatarim.bsky.social #Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary

Saturnine lore focus: Who is Jenetia Krole?

Fulgrim by Jude Reid @squintywitch.bsky.social completed. Don't think I've felt sorry for a chaos space marine before but Tamaris what have you done? Hopefully we get more of him in the future. #warhammer40k #blacklibrary 👍👍

I really, REALLY enjoyed this short story by @squintywitch.bsky.social in the latest number of White Dwarf. Action-packed, gritty, thoughtful... and the ending!! I laughed out loud and startled the cats.

#ambient #darkambient #HAARP #phsyics #conspiracytheory Here's my latest piece, a two-and-a-half-hour epic about the legendary H.A.A.R.P. installation in Alaska; I had a lot of fun putting this behemoth together, and I hope you enjoy listening to it :) cziltangbrone.bandcamp.com/album/haarp

Mentioned this week… William King, Dan Abnett, ADB, @robertrath.bsky.social @squintywitch.bsky.social @mikebrooks668.bsky.social @denny-flowers.bsky.social @noahvannguyen.bsky.social @jamesbrogden.bsky.social @cubicle7games.bsky.social Peter Fehervari #Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary

This is a digitally coloured in photo of Grumple, one of the two goblin guards from my kickstarter which is coming soon. Grumple (along with Blombor) guard the lower entrance to the goblin city. Being an underground city, the lower entrance is rarely used, but they enjoy guarding it anyway.

Never put up with anyone who looks down on your little hobbies. Few things are better for the soul than dropping the worry & leaning into whatever you love with full-throated enthusiasm. We don't have to love the same things but the wonder in me can fistbump the wonder in you.

As it would be the birthday of #PeterCushing today, I feel obligated to tell this story of one of the nicest men in horror.

Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple £35 brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this – now they’re planning to backtrack. Sign the petition now to show them the public still backs this nature-friendly fix: 38d.gs/cdpr

As the parent of a type-I diabetic, I would like to invite the ignorant piece of shit currently directing the FDA to kiss my ass.

In case you missed my news the other week - I’m thrilled to be reentering the #Warhammer40k universe with my novella, Paragon of Faith, featuring in the anthology - PARAGON OF FAITH AND OTHER STORIES - coming soon! More below. #AdeptaSororitas #ParagonWarsuit

BRB gang, just working on my latest

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes.

good morning everyone it is TIME! for the GHOST! are you ready to confront the looming spectre of childhood trauma? because DWJ sure is! zencastr.com/z/Z23DWyle

dear mr ryan coogler sir i know you are a very busy man but if you ever have the time i would please like to request a whole movie about the choctaw vampire hunters from sinners please thank you love you bye xx

Y'all like queer monster pirates right?

ICYMI yesterday!

Ok it's really finished now, it's only the third re-upload. Kickstarter coming soon, more details to follow www.patreon.com/posts/goblin...

I risk no hubris to proclaim that the #AegeanRPG #ttrpg is a wonderful suffusion of myth, history and culture to live the glory of your hero and polis. Prosper, and so may your community. Enticingly broad gameplay, but not too deep. Need some actual play... www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Today I'm going to be reading @stoogoff.com beautiful #AegeanRPG, whilst looking at the Aegean. Yesterday's visit to Knossos and the incredible antiquities in Herakleion served as further inspiration for the wonders of the ancient Minoan and Greek world.

Normal Scottish service has resumed

Tha iris ùr de chuairt-litir Ghàidhlig na Pàrlamaid - An Teachdaire Gàidhlig - a-mach le naidheachdan, cothroman com-pàirteachaidh agus le earrann do luchd-ionnsachaidh cuideachd. Leughar i aig: tinyurl.com/e8aw5smb

Listening to casual cannibalism in an Emperors Children book while at work 😅 Ya know. Just a normal Friday. (Ps @squintywitch.bsky.social you uh, really have a way with words when it comes to visera)

I've met people who think telling fellow authors you're a fan is weird or cringe or fanboy-ish or whatever. I give zero fucks. I love books. I'm a fan of great writers. I've reached out to half a dozen just this week to say I loved something they wrote.

OMG this. Authors are a group of people in which imposter syndrome runs rampant, creating work without a performance element so without immediate feedback from the audience, often with no idea how our work is faring, no control over it, often with out of date sales data. Prime brain weasels fodder.

We’re back, baby!