Haha yesss. Japanese copyright law doesn't fuck around. Since I get challenged on this a lot: U.S. and Japan are both Berne Convention signatories, meaning the copyright is recognized between countries. They CAN go after American companies. And they are. And I love it. variety.com/2025/digital...

The Tartan Supes are back! Kirsti Wishart's serial, The Pocketbook Guide to Scottish Superheroes, continue with Chapter 10 – Brother Trouble – The Phantom Fantoosh – Kannyman Comes A-Love-Bombing – Trouble With The Ex www.sfcaledonia.scot/chapter-10-b... (You can catch-up from Chapter One)

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...

This. Always this.

The BFS Award for best novella went to the excellent The Last To Drown by Lorraine Wilson and you will not forget this story in a hurry www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/2/...

locusmag.com/2025/11/worl... Congratulations winners and nominees!!

One of the loveliest human beings I know and an incredible writer, and seeing her win an award made me feel like I'd won. - the incredible @rainewilson.bsky.social pretending to be only a human ;)

Century Notes: special Naomi Mitchison issue of THE BOTTLE IMP 🧳 travel narrative MUCKING AROUND 🚀 #scifi SOLUTION THREE 🧚 fairy encounters 👻 Mitchison & the supernatural 🚢 Mitchison: traveller & storyteller 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 WE HAVE BEEN WARNED in modern Scotland 3/10 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/06/edit...

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

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Huge thanks to Jake Kerridhe for including Paperboy in his best crime and thriller novels of 2025 list! I'm a huge fan of @nickharkaway.com 's Titanium Noir series, it's a total trip to see my book up there next to Sleeper Beach! www.telegraph.co.uk/books/crime-...

Please remember to put the standing stones of your local Neolithic astronomical observatory back by one hour tonight.

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF, #horror and #mystery writers! This one features fabulism, tarot, terrifying humans and cheerful apocalypses. timjmajor.com/2025/10/24/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity Please share!

Here's this week's link to the new titles at Transreal Fiction: transreal.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/t...

Nearly time to head north for PictCon 1. I'm also still on my journey through #ScottishSFF. Margaret Elphinstone's The Incomer (1987) is a very rich and rewarding account of a post-collapse rural matrilineal society, founded on principles of nonviolence but nonetheless still subject to change.

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

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1687: You don't have to share your writing unless you want to. You don't need to talk to anyone about your writing unless you want to. You don't need to seek publication unless you want to. You can get 99% of the benefits of writing without doing any of those things.

Well it's not every day that you get to stand on the site of a brand new Observatory! This is Clatteringshaws loch, in the Galloway Forest #DarkSky Park, home of the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottish Dark Sky Observatory. Construction starts soon and like a phoenix SDSO will rise from the ashes! Re-opening mid-2027. 🥳🔭🧪

I have a new short story being broadcast on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow at 3.45pm! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#OnThisDay Robert Fergusson died at the age of 24 in Edinburgh. A life-size, street-level statue of the Fergusson can be found outside Canongate Kirkyard, where the poet is buried. His most famous work is “Auld Reekie” which presents a snapshot of life in Edinburgh in his time.

Do you write: • SFF/speculative fiction • Games - digital, RPGs, tabletop, etc • Scripts for film, TV, radio, or podcasts • Comics - print or digital ...and want some inspiration? Then check out this Saturday's workshop on (super)heroic worlds! scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/building-sup...

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I am very excited to be speaking with Rodge Glass on the 5th of November at Strathclyde University. Rodge was the lecturer who encouraged me to write when I was 17, so it's lovely to complete the full revolution and have him mediate this conversation. Free entry! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strathclyd...

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Pun of the day.

Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)

YES you are outsourcing your brain, you are outsourcing your motherfucking SOUL. As soon as you delegate a skill to AI, you condemn future you from EVER being able to learn that skill, all because you’re lazy or afraid at being bad at something. Sad and pathetic.

Not long to wait now. The new Green Man book will be available on October 30th. Pre-order now: wizardstowerpress.co...

It's good to see all the entries coming in for our Flash Fiction competition. www.shorelineofinfinity.com/flash-fictio... The theme is peace and you have just a few hours left to go to the deadline. Can't wait to read them all.

Been thinking about Jeannette Ng's Under the Pendulum Sun and how it's one of the few books that makes the fae as sinister and horrifying as they deserve to be. An under-read dark fantasy gothic masterpiece.

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

This is why I never invite Sam to stay in my house.

If you are reading this, then I have committed website

Happy to announce that I've had a story translated into another language for the first time. 'Frank Peterson Comes Home' first published by @shoreinf.bsky.social can be found in the German anthology 'Ihr Körper, das Schiff: Die besten internationalen Science-Fiction-Geschichten' by A7L Books.

In sentences I never expected to type: my @clarkesworldmagazine.com story ‘Numismatic Archetypes in the Year of Five Regents’ has received an award from the Numismatic Literary Guild at the World’s Fair of Money. Full details here: nlgonline.org/news/numisma...

Only a few days until the third Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival! @EdWomensFicFest The third Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival will be taking place this coming Friday and Saturday, 26th-27th September and I'm delighted to be part of the blogging team once again. If you don't already have your…

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Excited to moderate this at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social on Sat as part of our Real Utopias festivals. Come along if you like weird but brilliant shorts exploring the frontiers of tech, and brilliant-post screening conversations with @karengregory.bsky.social, @foxglovelegal.bsky.social and YOU

Deffo Troughton.

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Well that didn't go where I was expecting! Connections to a very well known vintage sf tale within. Enjoyed that. @amendlocke.bsky.social always does a nice job with his imagined future geopolitics. It's the future, but you couldn't get there from here.

If you too thought Post Coal Prom Queen were stunning at Event Horizon Cymera, here’s your chance to see them in Edinburgh tonight wegottickets.com/event/672506...

On our way to Glasgow for tonight's gig!

Our Neil Williamson is also a band! Disappointed Skeptics Club's new album is My Authentic Shelf, and you can get it now on Bandcamp before it hits your usual streaming services. thedisappointedskepticsclub.bandcamp.com/album/my-aut... @neilwilliamson.bsky.social (1/2)

The news today is horrific. It's easy to look at the world around us and despair. But we also need to remember that our stories and art matter even when the world turns bad. Here's my essay about why you should keep writing, keep fighting, and keep hope alive. www.patreon.com/posts/117228...

My review of @lyndseycroal.bsky.social’s wonderful collection LIMELIGHT AND OTHER STORIES is up! Incredibly fun reading: motivated characters, great pace, plenty of doomsday tech and voyaging through space… Read it on the @shoreinf.bsky.social website: tinyurl.com/3spfzkwp

Ta da! Excited to announce i have a brand new character comedy pilot on BBC R4, recording this November www.comedy.co.uk/radio/news/8...

Neil Williamson's new story 'Cold Case' features in anthology Absolute Zero (Dead Sky Publishing), due out on 7th October. Featuring tales of frozen worlds - both physical and metaphorical - preorders are open now at the link below: deadskypublishing.com/portfolio-it... @neilwilliamson.bsky.social