Check out the latest gorgeous monograph to grace my @edinburghup.bsky.social #Gender and the #Body book series! Its by @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social and it's absolutely marvellous! #drinkingstudies @drinkingstudies.bsky.social

Talking herbs and #13CornishGhostStories at our #CreativeWriting workshop for West Cornwall Women's Aid and National Literacy Trust

Thanks to @joparsons.bsky.social and the brilliant organisers of the love and loss workshop for inviting me last week and bringing together such interesting people. It's always a treat to go to the @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social but it was looking particularly lovely in the sunshine on Friday!

#CFP: The Inaugural International #WomensWriting Association Conference 17- 19th June Falmouth University womenswritingassociation.com The IWWA will elevate & analyse women’s voices & creative practices across a wide range of disciplines, time periods, and texts. @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social

Online Talk: #LastTuesdaySociety, '#Melodrama: Forerunner of the #Bonkbuster? by Rebecca Lloyd Tuesday 14th April 2026 - 8.00pm - 9:30 pm All welcome! thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/melodr...

We are delighted to have partnered with @womenshistnet.bsky.social to offer this award. Please do spread the word

#CFP: The Inaugural International #WomensWriting Association Conference 17- 19th June Falmouth University womenswritingassociation.com The IWWA will elevate & analyse women’s voices & creative practices across a wide range of disciplines, time periods, and texts. @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social

#CFP: The Inaugural International #WomensWriting Association Conference 17- 19th June Falmouth University womenswritingassociation.com The IWWA will elevate & analyse women’s voices & creative practices across a wide range of disciplines, time periods, and texts. @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social

CFP: The Inaugural International Women’s Writing Association Conference 17- 19th June Falmouth University womenswritingassociation.com The IWWA will elevate & analyse women’s voices & creative practices across a wide range of disciplines, time periods, and texts. @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social

CFP: The Inaugural International Women’s Writing Association Conference 17- 19th June Falmouth University womenswritingassociation.com The IWWA will elevate & analyse women’s voices & creative practices across a wide range of disciplines, time periods, and texts. @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social

Thanks so much to @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social for inviting me to speak about my research on spontaneous human combustion and alcohol medicine last night. It was so much fun and the cemetery was as beautiful as ever. Photo credit: @joparsons.bsky.social

Lovely piece on my upcoming talk in @bristol247.bsky.social by a recently graduated student from ELCE. Please share - we have seats and all proceed go to the brilliant @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social www.bristol247.com/student/news...

The long 2010s are finally over

Registration is now live for my VPFA Study Day on 'Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities'. It's free to attend, thanks to funding from the VPFA and the Health Humanities Hub at Loughborough University. The programme and the link to register here: victorianpopularfiction.org/sensation-fi...

A version of this is now up — will post expanded versions in the future. sarahbull.me/mapping-nine...

Last summer, I got super into plotting addresses of nineteenth-century British pornographers that I'd collected as part of a project using the National Library of Scotland's Georeferenced Maps. Collecting the data was a painstaking process, as was plotting it as many of these addresses no longer +

Love.

OUT TODAY @titanbooks.bsky.social ! So grateful to tell the stories those who came before me couldn’t or were not permitted to. I do believe we are here for ourselves and for our ancestors. Writing is more than a book for me. THANK YOU READERS! Grab a copy www.barnesandnoble.com/w/maria-the-...

#Bonktastic #Bonkbusters!: Sexing Up Late Twentieth-Century #WomensWriting Join me on Tues 13 Jan for a saucy and fun introduction to the #Bonkbuster and the ways in which it spiced up both women’s writing and their bedrooms in the late twentieth century thelasttuesdaysociety.org/digital-even...

#Bonktastic #Bonkbusters!: Sexing Up Late Twentieth-Century #WomensWriting Join me on Tues 13 Jan for a saucy and fun introduction to the #Bonkbuster and the ways in which it spiced up both women’s writing and their bedrooms in the late twentieth century thelasttuesdaysociety.org/digital-even...

#Bonktastic #Bonkbusters!: Sexing Up Late Twentieth-Century #WomensWriting Join me on Tues 13 Jan for a saucy and fun introduction to the #Bonkbuster and the ways in which it spiced up both women’s writing and their bedrooms in the late twentieth century thelasttuesdaysociety.org/digital-even...

ICYMI: MeetCute Book Festival is set to host a Regency-themed event for debut authors, hosted by author and comedian Rachel Parris 👇 #BookSky

A new publication by Katie Deane, on dark romance, is the first work of romance scholarship of 2026. And it's open access!

Our International women's writing online conference will be held on the 15th and 16th of January 2026. In a chance to explore the global role and impact of women's writing, we are so excited to welcome all discussions about any woman's writing from any time period, any place and any genre!

Sounds fabulous!

Do join us for the Inaugural International Women's Writing Association conference in Falmouth www.cfplist.com/CFP/46601 #iwwa @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social

New #CFP International #WomensWriting online conference

Please do consider applying for my doctoral brief: Glitching #Gender: Creative/Critical Interrogations of #Technology and Identity at #FalmouthUniversity More info here: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd... #sextech #phd #pgr #Falmouth

This call may be of interest to our readers!

Hello @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social, I hear our 'lovely' friend @pwcraddock.bsky.social has been grassing me up!

Come and study with me! Call for doctoral proposals in the field of Romance and/or Erotica at Falmouth University: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd...

#13CornishGhostStories at #Truro @waterstones.bsky.social last #Halloween - such good fun! Loved hearing about the audience's spooky encounters! @emmacowellauthor.bsky.social @lizfenwick.bsky.social

Please do consider applying for my doctoral brief: Glitching #Gender: Creative/Critical Interrogations of #Technology and Identity at #FalmouthUniversity More info here: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd... #sextech #phd #pgr #Falmouth

Book of the day: SENSATION by Robin St. Thomas; Published in November, 1990 by Zebra; Robin St. Thomas is a pen name for Robin Stevenson and Tom Blade (1946-2005).

Listen to me paying tribute to the great goddess of sauce, #JillyCooper, on @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social #Bonkbuster www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Ghosts and the Gothic (MUP) is out now - manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181916/ Very pleased to have my chapter on nautical hauntings included as part of this exciting edited collection. Many thanks to @ruthheholt.bsky.social and @joparsons.bsky.social

Yes,it’s a lusty book but at its heart it’s about perseverance in the face of colonial oppression AND the lingering mindset.This is no slave and master romance. It’s I won’t be a slave or mastered by anything or anyone. We determine our worth even in the midst of erasure. Malinalli deserved to live

Kicking off our YA Contributor Spotlights is the wonderful Andrew Searle, back with moon drunk, a stunning new poem! Read it in full in Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales now! 💙

Just paid tribute to goddess of sauce #JillyCooper with new generation #QueenoftheBonkbusters #MelanieBlake on @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social #bonkbuster

So sorry to hear of #JillyCooper's passing #Bonkbuster

Strange and exciting spot by my lovely @jendeavour.bsky.social - @britishlibrary.bsky.social have made a t-shirt of the front cover of my Tales of the Weird collection, Dead Drunk. And they've done the same for @joparsons.bsky.social and @joanpassey.bsky.social! shop.bl.uk/products/dea...

Peek under the sheet of "Ghosts & the Gothic" (Eds. @ruthheholt.bsky.social @joparsons.bsky.social) w/chapters by Katarzyna Ancuta on Asian spirits + Ardel Haefele-Thomas on specters of Black oppression in MASTER & DESCENDENT. @manchesterup.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181923/

Come to this! @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social is a fabulous speaker and who doesn't want a bit of spontaneous combustion on a gloomy Thursday night?!!!

Publishing today! Ghosts and the Gothic, edited by @ruthheholt.bsky.social and @joparsons.bsky.social The first book to examine ghostly presences (and absences) in #Gothic texts bit.ly/3I59Uzy #Ghosts #GothicStudies Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181923/

Had a spare five minutes, so taking the chance to boost mine and @medhistoryman.bsky.social's open access article on a sexual scandal from the 1820s! If you are teaching 19c sexuality, politics, masculinity, or religion why not add it to your reading list! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Well the trailer for #EmeraldFennell’s new #WutheringHeights is quite something… www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID0r...

My back to teaching journey soundtrack ##GuiltyWomen by #MelanieBlake #Bonktastic #Bonkbuster

Mine and @ruthheholt.bsky.social new book, #Ghosts and the #Gothic (published by @manchesterup.bsky.social) is available for pre-orders for its 16th September release. www.amazon.co.uk/Ghosts-Gothi...

Visited the UK’s official book town Hay-on-Wye and was pleasantly surprised to find this excellent selection of @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesoftheWeird! Thanks to the bookseller at Addyman Books for my 5 minutes of fame with my collection, Summoned to the Seance: shop.bl.uk/products/sum...

‘It’s not just pleasure – it’s resistance’: portraits of people with their sex toys around the world #sextech #sexstudies #sexuality #pleasure www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...