25% off Reborn in Ash on Smashwords this week! Use code EBW25 at checkout. Magic abandoned humanity millennia ago. Now it returns, bringing ruin to a wanted thief, and her chance for redemption. www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... #BookSky #Fantasy 💙📚🪐 #ReadSky #Books

Glad to discover that you can now get a @tadethompson.bsky.social SF novel in liquid form at our local supermarket.

Good morning Womble-this weekend is hard. I'm taking hope from reading When There Are Wolves Again, by EJ Swift, a wonderful book that aligns well with my feelings about nature and the world. I've just nominated it for the Ursula Le Guin Prize. Please take hope wherever you may find it these days.

If anyone out there wants to know when ARC copies are available for my historical fantasy Black Doe drop us a follow and message me. #historicalfantasy #fantasyARC #fantasyreviews #reviewers

I have a new support aid, made of foam. It smells of early 1980s mfi, and watching Manimal on the collection room TV.

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As is only right and proper, Welsh Cakes are #RecipeOfTheDay, with thanks to Heulwen Williams who let me play with her granny’s recipe. Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.nigella.com/recipes/wels...

The Song of The Sycamore by Ed Cox

Also out in paperback is this fanatic fantasy debut which was so good and one of my favourite reads last year A Song of Legends Lost by M H Ayinde www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/4/...

Whole mess o' clouds this morning.

If you've still not experienced a reading by Anna Smith Spark @annasmithspark.bsky.social, here is your chance to listen to her read from the opening chapter of A Sword of Gold and Ruin. youtu.be/jDq_hqgwAVo

The Lore of Silver by Ruth Francis Long: Review by Liz Bourke locusmag.com/review/...

@nilsreviewsit.bsky.social adds to my TBR again.

There’s a wrap up for February today’s as nails talks about the month’s faves over on The Fantasy Hive

Unrelated: thinking about setting fire to the shed.

We have a bunch of false widows in the shed, and ngl they look like the juiciest of forbidden blackcurrants.

SATURDAY CLEAROUT! Here are 3 shelves of my books in A-Z order by author. You can have any 2 for £10 (free P+P). Please share (and buy). UK only.

Another trip to Neath Valley by train and bus. 4 Goshawks including a pair displaying. Also 1 Sparrowhawk and 6 Common Buzzards.

In case you missed it yesterday evening…

February Reading Wrap Up! My favourites of the month were The Magician of Tiger Castle by Louis Sachar. I just loved how nostalgic this book made me feel! Mortedant’s Peril by @rjbarker.bsky.social A compelling murder mystery set in a strange & inventive world. I could not put it down! So good!

If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics. But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims

ahem *nudges this at you diffidently while pretending she is only interested in the bottom of this teacup....* Innit pretty?

For the weekenders, the boat riders, the dragon ghost travellers.

Right OK so what can you do? Great news, especially if you're in the US (insert feelings here), both @darkskyintl.bsky.social and @aas.org have handy guides for how to write an FCC comment. This is sort of astronomers' equivalent of "call your elected officials" kind of call to action, for context.

Did a thing!

Cover reveal! In April we are bringing back The Summer Goddess by Joanne Hall. The book was a finalist for Best Fantasy Novel (the Rob Holdstock Award) when it was first published.

I was holding off on mine and Poppy's daily Animal Crossing until some scheduled tasks were done for the morning. I was doing some other stuff to kill time when she took me to her speech buttons and tapped "Now." *pause* "Play Bedtime." Yes ma'am! She's now happily slapping damselflies on the TV 😂

And just like that, February has flown past - but despsite the shortness of the month, our team still managed plenty of fantastic reads they can't wait to tell you about! Read more: tinyurl.com/5x3j95x2 #TopPicks

My book of the month is in here too! 🥰 fantasy-hive.co.uk/2026/02/top-...

First ice cream van of the year heard. Greensleeves. With added Doppler shift. Makes a change from a 99 I guess.

I don't think calling the people who voted for the nice woman who thinks working hard should grant you a decent life unhinged extremists is going to work out brilliantly for Labour.

No reason, just leaving this here.

I have days like this and it usually ends up with "is this hormones, ADHD or both?"

"She would have to regrow herself. Tomorrow she would begin again on the task of her life, her secret life." The time we wrapped up copies of Gogmagog and Ludluda in old maps, tied them with string and sent them out with a bookmark and a stained Jim Brimstone's Navy Rum coaster.

This is amazing. I'm trying to work out if the Tories have ever lost their deposit in England before - they've lost their deposits in elections in Wales and Scotland before, and routinely lose their deposits in Northern Ireland, but I can't find evidence of them ever losing one in England.

OUR QUEEEEEEEEEN

As a film version of a British TV sitcom I demand that the traditional rules for such endeavours are strictly adhered to - the ghosts MUST go on holiday to Torremolinos!

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Fans of genre fiction will be aware of them already, but we also have an outstanding independent publisher here in south-west Wales in the form of @wtpress.bsky.social, publishing some of the most interesting work around.

A (married) couple of top-tier self-pub/small press authors: Some of the snappiest recent fantasy comes in the form of excellent fantasy-noir thrillers from @patricksamphire.bsky.social Meanwhile some of the most charming fantasy romance comes from @stephanieburgis.bsky.social

Oh, I love getting joint recommendations with Patrick! ❤️ (When we first met at the Clarion West writing workshop, I fell for his writing even before I fell for him.)

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Welp. Seems like it's a good day to highlight trans books. I'll do this off and on all day, no idea how long the thread will eventually be. And if you need any trans book recommendations, post in here and I'll point you toward people who might know if I don't since I mostly do romantasy.

If you;re on the Instagram TOR are giving away an ARC of MORTEDANT'S PERIL to a lucky winner. I think ti might be US only. But not sure. www.instagram.com/p/DVOh-t5gYh9/

I don't think I can today.

Our town needs a bank. Please help. c.org/s6tHGbRs4g

I've been to Ammanford. It's a big town - comparable to Aberdare - but it now has no banking facilities. I'm happy to sign this, because Aberdare is losing its last bank in June (leaving two building societies and the PO); Brecon is down to one bank, and that won't last. But at least it has a hub.

I have returned 3 books to the library and taken out 6 more. This is the correct way. And there are nerds in here playing Dungeons and Dragons. It may just be the most perfect place on earth. #libraries

Also, can anyone point me at some good post metal? I really like Amenra and Harikiri for the sky so in the vein. Has to have vocals.