Twists and turns in the strange true-or-trick world of cartomancy. The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson was a great read. #Bookreview bookbub.com/reviews/3390... via @bookbub.bsky.social

Autumn Picaresque is out now! 🍁📚🥳 Brunel’s relationship with personal glory, plus book recommendation, news, devil’s dictionary… Read it here: www.heather-child.co.uk/past-newslet... #IsambardKingdomBrunel #BookSky

AI will take our writing jobs, just give it thyme... #AI share.google/2Lo3EPNZrY2t...

If you like the idea of snapping up a private island & setting up your own utopia, you may enjoy my next book... 🌴 secretldn.com/hallsmead-ai... #booksky #PeoplesRepublicOfLove

Kids are... saying 'six' and 'seven'? Oh the horror! 🙈 www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/6-...

Autumn newsletter coming soon - please join now if you haven't already! #booksky 🍁

Here's a statue of two men being impressed by a giant's crotch. Happy Sunday! #Antwerp

Stumbled across Tropismes bookshop in Brussels... and WHAT a bookshop! #booksky

Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde, born 16 October 1854. ‘Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.’ –Oscar Wilde #Readers #Writers #Books

I've got an Itch! Have you? New horror from @manylittlewords.bsky.social 🙌 #booksky

It's Bookshop Day! Get down to your local independent bookshop and buy a book or three. No local bookshop? Snap up a book with us 10-12 October and you could WIN a £250 gift card. EVERY sale supports indie booksellers, not billionaires. uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...

Ooo there's a station on this line called Bat & Ball. That sounds like a fun station.

"Horror writers are the nicest people..." Great to see @timlebbon.bsky.social & @cgolden.bsky.social launching their intriguing new books at @forbiddenplanet.bsky.social this evening with @manylittlewords.bsky.social 📚🌃🤩

What's on our latest eBook sale? THESE BEAUTIES Get the below books, for just £1.99 each on our website for the next TWO WEEKS See it, Buy it, Sorted x #BookSky

No matter how weirdly different our methods, our brains do something AI will never accomplish. Author Kelsey Allagood unravels the awesome weirdness, today at WU.

Welcome to autumn 🍁 #Sumac #Treesky

Congratulations to @voidcricket.bsky.social on the launch of #AnUnbreakableWorld & @garethlpowell.bsky.social with #WhoWillYouSave! 🙌 🚀 📚 @forbiddenplanet.bsky.social

How about a little detour? 🌲🌳🌲 Please join my newsletter, PICARESQUE! Quirky research, giveaways, novel news and a free short story... 👇 JOIN NOW: www.heather-child.co.uk/contact/news... #booksky #amreading #writingcommunity

"I think being a writer is a bit like being a linguistic archaeologist: you have to dig through layers of stories, but also layers of forgettings." ~ Elif Shafak Wonderful and enlarging coversation between @leaypi.bsky.social and Elif Shafak. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Can't remember the last time I looked forward to rain, but here we are ☔

Very excited to read this! ✨

I'd also add The Absent Heart by @AliBacon - great historical fiction & especially for any fans of Robert Louis Stevenson

Another good move from Denmark 🙌

Good.

NEW BOOK KLAXON! My existential acid-western fantasy novella, For the Road, is coming from PS Publishing in August! In hardback and a limited signed, numbered run of 100. You can pre-order here: pspublishing.co.uk/for-the-road...

One part of me watches the euphoria, the other watches Hugh Laurie... youtube.com/shorts/2GXzs... #Weuros2025

What THE UNDOING OF ARLO KNOTT is about and why I wrote it... in under 2 minutes! As broadcast on @cazzamartin.bsky.social's morning show on BBC Radio Somerset @bbcsomerset.bsky.social #booksky 👇 heather-child.co.uk/arlo-knott-i...

Raining on St Swithin's day eh?

Fine day hanging out at Stroud's bookfair with other JustWrite Bristol authors 📚

Hello folks, some big news! The owners of @bookhaus.bsky.social have decided to retire and they would like to sell the bookshop to me! Check out our crowdfunder here www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...

Congratulations to @evilevehall.bsky.social on her beautiful book launch for #ANovelMurder in Bristol last night. 🥳

**Submissions open tomorrow, June 23!** Keep tabs on our guidelines page for when the link goes live: www.matchbooklitmag.com/guidelines

Stumbled across this article from last month about the men-only press Conduit and am impressed by the quality of the discourse - balanced and varied. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

This is research for a novel but it's also making me lol. 🤭

Fancy a day out in Stroud? Combine it with some bookchat, author meets and general literary fun! 📚 I'll be there with @alibacon.bsky.social & other JustWrite Bristol authors #StroudIndieBookFair

On-demand novels, AI that makes AI, and 'Golden Gate' Claude... So many fascinating aspects of #AI discussed at #uobwritersday with Jessica Moor and Jason Gwartz 🙌

Do fans cannibalise celebs? 😋😱 Brilliant to hear Vanessa Kissule talk about #Neverland... Think its themes may harmonise with #PeoplesRepublicOfLove! #uobwritersday.

Just Write Bristol officially launch a new imprint today, home of the DI Crow crime series 🎉 www.malagopress.co.uk/malago-press...

Don't miss Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius ~ The incredible story of a young woman who ripped up the rulebook and reinvented the novel. (BBC2 9pm + iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... @bbciplayer.bsky.social #Austen #WritingCommunity

Great cover too 👌

My 14 June botanical illustration & mental health w'shop's now enrolling I'll teach you: 🌿How to break down plants into simple shapes & add shading 🧠How time spent creatively alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health. Limited spaces,earlybird price: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...

The Government has today announced it is keeping the existing copyright exhaustion regime, after previous suggestions that would have been catastrophic for UK authors. Thank you to everyone who joined the Save Our Books campaign back in 2021 💪 www.alcs.co.uk/news/success...

Will some "re-boot fairy oil the cogs"? Latest writing life thoughts by GJ Swann on the Just Write Bristol blog 👇 justwritebristol.org.uk/2025/05/10/i...

When you think you're going to have a productive day but then discover the fish doorbell visdeurbel.nl/en/

Bizarrely framed article about the people (all women) who ‘refuse to use AI’. And a #philosophy professor who says “The moment to opt out of #AI has already passed”. Oh well. That’s that then. 🤷‍♂️ #AIEthics www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sure we have a dozen duck eggs... Oh wait 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆

Very promising & well done to @societyofauthors.bsky.social & other bodies who have campaignrd for a fair deal for authors 👏

Happy St George and the dragon day! 🐉 THE UNDOING OF ARLO KNOTT is a different spin on being a hero - who would have thought slow worms could be so deadly? #booksky

Hoppy Easter #booksky! 🐇