I would love it if you could join me at one my upcoming events to celebrate the release of Daughters of Nicnevin Waterstones events here: www.waterstones.com/events/searc... The Highland Bookshop tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/daughters-...

ICYMI here's a wee reminder: our Cameron Johnston's on BBC Radio Scotland! His new tale's Upload of the Month on The Arts Mix. Check it out, plus a wee interview with Len Pennie and Anna Welander, on the 29th October show -- which you can stream at the link below. @cameronjohnston.bsky.social

I’m so proud/annoyingly happy to be in this book:

Happy Book Birthday to Blood In The Bricks (NewCon Press), the new anthology edited by our own Neil Williamson! Read on for how you can nab the special edition! (1/3) @donredwood.bsky.social @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @dancoxon.bsky.social @angelaslatter.bsky.social

It's officially launch day for Blood In The Bricks! It's folk horror, but right here in our towns and cities, written by some of my absolute favourite contemporary writers. Get it now (or They'll pay you a visit). www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

Really looking forward to this!

Join our Shona Kinsella in launching Daughters of Nicnevin across Scotland's Central Belt! #Glasgow folks can enjoy Jacobite sapphic witches at Waterstones Argyle Street on 20th November (w/ Sam K. Horton). www.waterstones.com/events/sam-k... (1/2) @shonak.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social

Thanks also to everyone who came to the launch of Blood In The Bricks, alongside NewCon Press's other new titles. There were too many of us for the table! And we sold all the books. Calling that a win.

In an airport en route home from the World Fantasy convention in Brighton, which is an event I've enjoyed many times since my first in Minneapolis 20+ years ago. It is, as ever, a convocation of some of the warmest and most creative human beings possible. And I always leave uplifted.

#WorldFantasy day 3 and I've been to the An Author, Editor, and a Publisher Walk into a Bar, and this one, Queer in Horror.

As always, FantasyCon has been a great weekend of chat, occasional panels, more chat, some beer, other chat and occasional chat. Unfortunately my brain has hit the buffers and I must now lie down. Thanks to everyone involved, brilliant bit of fun.

Good luck today to our own Jenni Coutts for the World Fantasy Awards! She's up for Best Artist this afternoon. @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social @jennicoutts.bsky.social #WorldFantasyAwards

#WorldFantasy2025 Fingers crossed for our own Jenni Coutts and Neil Williamson, who are both up for British Fantasy Awards tonight! @britfantasysoc.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @jennicoutts.bsky.social @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social

NewCon book launch(es) looking like a renaissance banquet painting #WorldFantasy

Look at the size of this panel for the NewCon Press launch at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social! So many talented people, including editor @neilwilliamson.bsky.social and writers @lyndseycroal.bsky.social and @joannacorrance.bsky.social

Do We Love Or Do We Wait?, the (midday!) sex scene panel with @abeaumontbooks.bsky.social @annabelcwrites.bsky.social @elianjmorgan.bsky.social and Catriona Silvey

Much fun at this panel. Could’ve chatted for ages. Thanks to my wonderful panellists and to all who attended!

The latest newsletter from the Scottish Book Trust has the exciting news that @amalelmohtar.com is doing a serialised short story for them. So looking forward to this. If you're thinking of signing up, why not throw them a few quid at the same time. #booksky 📚

I really like this book written by a complete stranger’

It's launch day for Blood In The Bricks, and we a super nice review by @runalongwomble.bsky.social to celebrate!

If you're off to #WorldFantasy2025 this week - surprise! So are we! Join your GSFWC pals all weekend at the items listed below. #WorldFantasy @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social

It's set in the dreich dead of winter and features the frozen canal locks at Maryhill. A wild, cold spot in the heart of the city. Cold Case features in Absolute Zero. Out now. deadskypublishing.com/portfolio-it...

I'm not known for historical fiction but a while back I wrote a story set in Glasgow in 1960, a time when there were a number of infamous murder sprees. It's a story about the human cost of working on those criminal cases involving absolutely inexplicable inhumanity.

Our Cam's gonna be on the wireless! Check out the brand new story from Cameron Johnston on The Arts Mix with Len Pennie and Anna Welander this Wednesday 29th October. Listen live on BBC Radio Scotland from 3:30pm online after the broadcast at the link below. @cameronjohnston.bsky.social

If you're off to #WorldFantasy2025 this week - surprise! So are we! Join your GSFWC pals all weekend at the items listed below. #WorldFantasy @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social

Our Cam's gonna be on the wireless! Check out the brand new story from Cameron Johnston on The Arts Mix with Len Pennie and Anna Welander this Wednesday 29th October. Listen live on BBC Radio Scotland from 3:30pm online after the broadcast at the link below. @cameronjohnston.bsky.social

If you're at WFC next week here's where you can find the Glasgow contingent. Well, here and the bar, obviously.

This time next week, the world(s) of Fantasy descend on Brighton for #WorldFantasycon2025! Your GSFWC pals'll be along to speak on injuries in genre, *not* kicking arse, getting smoochy, Monster on Monster action, and much, much more! (1/4) @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social @hws.bsky.social

Ten stories, so: leather, rum, sea salt, jasmine, woodsmoke, ambergris, nail lacquer, frankincense, filé powder, and funk.

If you're dithering, stop it and go and buy the book. It's excellent. My review: lordofthemoon.com/bookreviews/...

Dithering on whether to pick up our anthology Gallus? How about a sneak preview? You can now read our Sophie C Baumert's 'Set Things Right' on SF Caledonia. Check it out at the link below: www.sfcaledonia.scot/set-things-r... @shoreinf.bsky.social @sophiecbaumert.bsky.social

Tis the season for Glasgow Witches! Luke Belcourt's Vampires in Park Circus, Book 2 in the Glasgow Witches series, is out in ebook and paperback on 31st October, with preorders open now through your favourite retailer. Links at the link below! www.lukebelcourt.com/witches/two.... @lukebelcourt.com

So you think you're a disaster mage? Why not be sure and join our Annabel Campbell on the latest edition of the BFS Long Story Short podcast? Have a listen at the link below! @annabelcwrites.bsky.social

World Fantasy Convention 2025 World Fantasy 2025 is coming. If you're looking for me, this is where I'll be...

My husband is my social media manager 😅 But look! Here I am talking about my favourite subject, those beautiful disastrous wizard mentors. And Dungeon Crawler Carl, apparently, which I completely forgot about 😂 PRINCESS DONUT IS A DISASTER WIZARD. I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL.

Congratulations to @robincmduncan.bsky.social and heartfelt thanks to Pete for all his hard work over the last 3.5 years

Congratulations to our own Robin C.M. Duncan on becoming the new Editor of BFS Horizons magazine! For more details, see the embedded post below. @robincmduncan.bsky.social

I make games and post them on itch with @chrisdeebrown.bsky.social ⭐ maybe next year we'll do one that's not part of a game jam (i.e., attempt a marathon rather than a sprint) meghan0n.itch.io

Just one example of why Hal is one of the most perceptive, and let's face it darned coolest, manuscript doctors in the business.

**New Blog** Thank you, everyone, for your kind Birthday greetings! As thanks (as well as apology for missing World Fantasycon later this month), please accept this wee seasonal gift from me... www.ruthbooth.com/2025/10/hall...

I’ll be at World Fantasy Convention in Brighton this year! Here’s where you can find me: Bleeding, Burns, and Broken Bones: a crash course to writing injuries in fiction, Thursday 18:30 Osbourne Reading room 1 Art show reception, 16:00, main art show British Fantasy Awards & World Fantasy Awards

Next up for #drawtober is spellbound princess! This has got several loving references to one of my all time favourite illustrators, Harry Clarke, and also Sergio Toppi. I’ve included some process photos - the final work is in pen and ink on paper, but the planning sketch was digital. See it at WFC!

I am doing things at World Fantasy! Saturday 3pm-4pm Reading in Gloucester (Reading Room 2) then 6pm - 7pm Monster vs Monster in Buckingham (Panel Room 2) Come say hi there (or in the bar)

Cameron Johnston deals alert - for new novel First Mage on the Moon and The Maleficent Seven! 1) First Mage on the Moon preorders are 25% off at Waterstones until 17/10: www.waterstones.com/book/first-m... (1/2) @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social @cameronjohnston.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social

VAMPIRES releases soon! To celebrate, I'm making the official playlist public! For multiple years, this playlist made my Spotify Wrapped pointless 😂 open.spotify.com/playlist/2cN... For more info on VAMPIRES IN PARK CIRCUS, visit lukebelcourt.com/witches/two....

Keeping up with Drawtober, my latest #art was for the prompt ‘mushroom fairy’, and tbh I’m pretty proud of this one! It’s my first time drawing mushrooms and fungi, and it took absolutely forever…

Calling all Scottish BPOC writers: want to write with us? Don't miss our next write-in hosted on Discord: 📅20th October 1:30pm – 2:00pm: Monday lunchtime write-in BSL is available. Sign up & learn more: scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/community-di...

So proud to have been involved in Close, the Citizens' Young Company show about the legendary Close Theatre. On until Saturday. Close | Citizens Theatre citz.co.uk/whats-on/clo...

well @seraph76.bsky.social’s books got here and they look pretty sweet

Just in time for Halloween, Stephen Cashmore releases his new book of spooky tales for kids, 'As They Grow Older: Spooky Stories To Read Aloud' (Sparsile Books) on 15th October! Preorder now: www.waterstones.com/book/as-we-g... Waterstones Ayr Launch (31/10): www.waterstones.com/events/book-...