If you’re in the UK & are so inclined, from Dec 25 to Jan 5 you can get the Kindle edition of THE RIVER HAS ROOTS for 99p as part of their 12 Days of Kindle event! This means in the UK you can also get that price matched at other etailers, like Kobo! Merry Christmas! www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

🚨ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 For the longest night of the year, here's something dark & spooky: NORDIC NIGHTMARES: The Best of Nordic Horror ed. by Margrét Helgadóttir! This spooky older sister to NORDIC VISIONS, showcases nightmarish horror tales from 20 electrifying voices! https://bit.ly/4agCxFE

Hey it's that time of year! Where everything is on fire and satire is my only coping mechanism! I'm feeling bitey so it's time for THE TECH BILLIONAIRE'S WISHLIST FOR THE OFFICE SECRET SANTA 1/

Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why. Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.

Yesterday I had an “office party” with some of the best colleagues and friends imaginable. Thanks @elizachanwrites.bsky.social , @franceswrites.bsky.social , and @sarahbrooks.bsky.social for touring York with me. (Mainly through drinking mulled wine and having a publishing chat in a pub!)

I'm finalizing my Best YA science fiction, fantasy, and horror of 2025 this weekend. What were your top picks? (Authors, you can rec yourselves lol)

I am very pleased to announce that I am supporting the wonderful Goldsboro Writing Academy to provide funded places on their courses for writers from low-income and under-represented backgrounds in 2026 and in 2027. For more details contact Phil Vinter or visit the @goldsborowritingacademy website!

The Dark has reprinted my short story "Lustre Mining", originally published in ParSec Mag in 2023. Inspired by the 1980s UK miners' strike, Mother Shipton's Cave & my parents' generation. Go read it and the other excellent short stories in the Dec issue! www.thedarkmagazine.com/lustre-mining/

"Save what can be saved. Let go of what cannot. Love, love, love, love, *love*. Live. The future is the only apology you can offer the past, and the only forgiveness you can grant the present." An astounding review. Thank you for letting me know I'm not just shouting into the void.

I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers. "Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."

@elizachanwrites.bsky.social immediately referencing the old “If you don’t do politics, what *do* you do?” advert from the 90s which is something that’s always stuck with me in that *everything* is political in some way, from the price of beer to roadworks.

Second panel: Politics in Fantasy with @annasmithspark.bsky.social @hollyrace.bsky.social @thomasdlee.bsky.social @elizachanwrites.bsky.social and Jean Burlesk

I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...

If only OpenAI could have foreseen the entirely predictable hazards of irresponsibly releasing this tech. I guess the estate of every dead person will have to individually request a special dispensation to no longer have disgusting videos made by OpenAI’s tools.

Lovely to be invited back by Womble to share some insights on TIDEBORN, book 2 of the Drowned World duology!

🐇 💀 COVER REVEAL 💀 🐇 I’m SO excited to reveal the UK cover of my next novel, The Bone Door! A fantasy/horror escape room novel, coming 7 May 2026

WATERSTONES PREORDER CAMPAIGN! Eager readers, I have a special surprise for you! If you preorder FIRSTBORN OF THE SUN through @waterstones, we’ll send you some gifts☀️ Head to the form in my bio to share your proof of purchase🧡

I am delighted to announce my first picture book will be published in 2026 by Hachette Children's as part of their Little Myths series. Please enjoy my take on the Moon Goddess Chang'e herself, with beautiful illustrations by Yingzhu Xue

Currently at: — only buy tech too old to have AI built in — painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well — if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool — if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts — patiently wait for the crash

Now we're into October and we're all looking for spooky reads, I've got a couple of things due for release later in the month which I'm gonna be promoting. (Sorry in advance!)

The official database of works eligible for the Anthropic AI settlement has been released and, as I suspected, many authors are screwed. Basically, if your books weren't officially registered with the US Copyright Office you're out of luck. 1/ secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/results

www.kickstarter.com/projects/191... We're hopefully doing a Welsh folklore anthology - gyffrous iawn! Please back and/or share widely!

somehow completely missed TIDEBORN, the sequel to FATHOMFOLK by @elizachanwrites.bsky.social and was quite put out. not anymore, as I had it for last night's bedtime story and it was everything I wanted and more (okay maybe I want more because the world's so great, but I would also like a pony)

As well as accepting submissions, don't forget that Translunar Travelers Lounge published Issue 13 in August - have you read it yet? translunartravelerslounge.com

We are delighted to reveal the cover for First Mage on The Moon by @cameronjohnston.bsky.social! Ella is on a mission to reach the moon–even if that incurs a little blasphemy (and Unity interference). Look for it April 14, 2026 from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social! reactormag.com/cover-reveal...

Arrival of the dragon matriarch Jiang-Li for #Tideborn by @elizachanwrites.bsky.social #illustration #illustrator #fantasy #fantasyart #dragon #magic #YAfantasy

General submission open on Monday 22 September. We are looking for speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Our remit is very broadly fun, but don't self-reject - a truly superb story offers an enjoyment of it's own.

I totally missed that GBBO was back. Huzzah. Let me indulge in a version of Britain where everyone is welcome no matter the age, gender, sexuality, race or country of birth. Where people try their best, help each other and eat delicious cakes.

This crazy sci fi noir crime thriller is out today in the UK and I can't wait for you all to read it! Available in hardback, ebook, and audio from all reputable retailers (and probably some disreputable ones too!) If you can, support your local indie!

Now getting explicit ads for ChatGPT and nothing makes me want to go off grid more than the soulless, scraped BS of genAI.

Want to know more about sff writing & publishing? Join me, @keithwdickinson.bsky.social, @emmasternerradley.bsky.social & @northodoxpress.bsky.social at Urmston Books on 22 October for an evening discussing paths to publication, courtesy of @alethearlyons.bsky.social & @britfantasysoc.bsky.social

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission finds.

Are you a marginalized author (or the editor/agent/publicist of one) who has a trad pub YA or adult SFF/H book coming out Sept 2025 - March 2026? This book critic wants to know about it! Small press strongly encouraged. bookjockeyalex.com/contact/

I can't promise you escapism, but if you want fantasy that face real life issues head on, then do I have a duology for you...

What a time to be writing fantasy about immigrants being treated as scapegoats and the rise of populist politics...

Also roughly 1,000,000 turned out to stop Brexit BBC News - Brexit march: Million joined Brexit protest, organisers say - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47678763 And somewhere between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 turned up to protest the second gulf war, sooooooooo

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

Two weeks from today I'll be at Waterstones in the Trafford Centre with @stephenaryan.bsky.social and @danhanks.bsky.social discussing alternate earths and fantasy fiction. Thanks to the the BFS and @alethearlyons.bsky.social for organising! Tickets below: www.waterstones.com/events/fanta...

Is anyone watching To Be Hero X? It's absolutely brilliant. The action of JJK meets the social commentary of Squid Game & the timeline complexities of The Witcher S1. & the different art styles!!! Every character is fleshed out & I've cried multiple times.

It's finally September! Do you know what that means??? Flights of Foundry is THIS MONTH. Register: flights-of-foundry.o... Let's gooooo! 🪽🪽🪽

are you ready for some big news? WE ARE OPEN for BIPOC subs for issue 100! and we are celebrating with a special theme: Transition, Migration, and Borders: Movement in, and of the Body 💖for those of us who find home in liminal spaces💖 find out more here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

Did you know I have a sporadic newsletter and I'll be doing a giveaway of TIDEBORN in the next issue? Well now you know. 🫡 Might be a good time to sign up... elizas-newsletter-11f829.beehiiv.com

My view for the next two weeks. Let's go.

With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Aaah this is a lovely review, especially when releasing a sequel can feel like I'm just flinging it into the ocean. (FYI spoilers for book 1 in the linked review)

This time last year I sat down with some pretty dark thoughts and a full novella gushed out of me in one giant bleed. Anyway, it's coming out via Tor Nightfire on May 12. You into infinite corridors, ancient hunger, isolation, cannibalism, self-loathing, etc.? Join me in the darkness next May.

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

My witchy story, “The Tallow Feast”, appears in this beautiful book, coming next January, joining a stellar lineup: @murielgray.bsky.social, @chadbourn.bsky.social, @angelaslatter.bsky.social, @genni.bsky.social, @elizachanwrites.bsky.social, @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social and more. #writing #horror

Meet @rainewilson.bsky.social 's THE SALT ORACLE: part Dark Academia, part locked boat mystery, part second chance romance - entirely beautiful. "Haunting and atmospheric, the questions it poses linger long after the final pages.” @elizachanwrites.bsky.social Preorder geni.us/saltorac

There's a humour, rage, pain in this story which is very much @bethkesh.bsky.social voice coming through - though at times the themes made me think of parallels with some @wiswell.bsky.social shorts. @elizachanwrites.bsky.social really brings it to life with her voice podcastle.org/2025/07/29/p...