Hello! I hope all the chocolate things have come your way today and life feels grand in spite of the STUFF going on, if only for one day 🐣

Here it is! HARBOUR OF HUNGRY GHOSTS my new Babel x Buffy the Vampire Slayer historical fantasy novel out 28th July Cover by Toma Nguyen, art director Ella Garrett

BEHOLD! For the first time in my life I have used a Bic pen to completion. I didn’t lose it, I didn’t break it, and from start to finish, savagely, I just kept going until I’d run it inkless. Fear me!

I’m gonna read me some of this next. @jelliottcoleman.bsky.social is a good guy and marvellous writer, so get some FROSTFELD for your face. Check it!

Ok, #KingSorrow by @joe-hill.bsky.social is an epic tome that took me a while to get through, and every page was worth it. Big, bold, scary, intriguing, and bloody masterful myth-making for the modern age. HERE BE DRAGONS! Check it!

Right then, this one should see me through Christmas. #KingSorrow by that there Joe Hill. I’m heading in. Wish me luck!

#worldfantasy2025 where me and @stevenpoore.bsky.social wait for all the folk to finish their puddings so we can watch the grand awards ceremony.

On my way to Brighton #worldfantasy2025 hoorah! Not a guest on any panels, just looking forward to connecting with the community, seeing old friends, meeting new. If you happen to see me around, do say hello. Likewise if you liked my books and want anything signed. See you soon!

THIS is a truly magnificent cover. The fiendish @gavingsmith.bsky.social taking us into the Alien Universe, and you betcha life I’m reading this next. ALIEN CULT … Check it! Many thanks to mighty @titanbooks.bsky.social for the copy!

You have two envelopes. Each contains a letter written to you. One letter will tell you what you want to hear. The other will tell you what you need to know. You can only read one letter. Which do you choose?

Woke up this morning to discover that I’d somehow turned 54. So rude. Anyway, you all know the drill: form an orderly queue while I prepare to receive your gifts and cake. Thank you xx

Trying to decide what my resting mood face is nowadays given the way the world is going, and this is it exactly! Don’t know what kind of fish this is, so let’s say it’s called a Biggish One…

What animal would I like to be? I always thought sloth was the answer, but turns out it’s starfish. I could totally do this all day long…

The Mini-Ed, 16 today and ready for her trip to Alton Towers. Me, not so much, though I hear the Gangsta Granny ride is pretty safe…

Exam results day, always a nervous time. Mini-Ed got her passes for college, and we’re a very proud mummy and daddy ❤️ Good luck to everyone getting their results today.

Just realised that my second novel THE CATHEDRAL OF KNOWN THINGS is over 10 years old now. It’s part of THE RELIC GUILD TRILOGY and is well worth visiting if you haven’t already. Check it! www.edwardcox.net/relic-guild-...

Just been to see the new Derren Brown show and was absolutely blown away. If you get the chance to see it, SEE IT! Magical stuff 🤯

Day 5 of my creative journey 😬 A departure from clay models, here’s an embroidered mat that I made, again around the age of 8, alongside my fifth novel…

Amend with me, for my toaster has died…

This little shithead just stole and ate the sandwich that I made for work, which also included the last of the cheese in the fridge. He’s very pleased with his efforts. Me, not so much 🧐

Just moved house and found a box of stuff I made as a kid. Happy to say I’ve improved since those days, so… All this week I’ll be comparing the beginning of my creative journey with my modern day artistry. Here’s a clay boot I made when I was eight alongside my first novel…1/5

If you happened to visit the awesome library at Mersea Island near Colchester you’ll see that awesome librarian Sam Negus has used my books for the Author of the Month spot. This is a happy thing 😊

Sometimes you just need to breathe…

So happy to have such a nice review from the wonderful Ed Cox 🍺🍺 The Immeasurable Heaven is available July, but if you twitch your manipulators in just the right sequence you can preorder at a bookshop of your choice here geni.us/immeasurable Also available on Netgalley @solarisbooks.bsky.social

The intrigue, character, humour, plot, world building, and sheer breadth of imagination makes The Immeasurable Heaven by Casper Geon a truly exceptional piece of Sci-Fi. The best and most original book I’ve read in years. If you read one sci-fi this year, make it this one. ABSOLUTELY CHECK IT!

This one… been a while since I read some lovely sci-fi, and this one seems like a good place to dive in again. Bring it on!

At the secret place where I work secretly at night, there are signs…

I read Swanfolk by Kristín Ómarsdóttir. Strange and beautiful, I’m gonna be thinking about this one for a long time. Brilliant stuff. Check it!

Features women who are as determined and conniving as they need to be. Will they be telt? Hell no.... Portal library fantasy, and a bargain at that.

Another great read for those on the lookout: #booksky

Ooh, for Easter THE WOOD BEE QUEEN paperback in only £2.66! Glorious stuff, better than a chocolate egg 😬 amzn.eu/d/6TpsXQy

And on that day the spiders won the war, leaving the battlefield strewn with the corpses of their foes…

😳 Just figured out what AI is. The God of Nothing New Under the Sun… FLEE!!

Happy New Year!! May all the groovy things come your way in 2025 ❤️

This was my present from Mini-Ed, and… no, YOU have something in your eye! MERRY CHRISTMAS!! 🤗

Hello! I’m on a mission at the mo to reach out to some special folk who showed me kindness when I needed kindness the most. So if you get a random message from me, I’m not drunk, I’m not being weird, it’s just time to spread the Ed-Shine again 🤗

Please consider voting for Fight Like A Girl 2 or any of the individual stories in it (and @wtpress.bsky.social too!) And if you haven't read it yet, buy it for yourself for #Christmas, maybe?)

Haven’t done this much lately cos I fell off the edge of the world for a while. But here’s November from @aptshadow.bsky.social ‘s hilarious calendar. This month we learn the true dangers of product placement…

Went to the Paradox Museum in London, where the Magic Shadow Machine casts upon a wall the author’s true process for writing a novel…

Oh my…I believe there’s been an influx of lovely folk from that place to this place, and this morning I have over a hundred new followers. Hello there! I’m Ed, author bloke and reader. It’s a pleasure to meet you 😊

FELLOW HUMANS! Join me in wishing The Navigator’s Children and the mighty @tadwilliams a very happy publication day. I’ve got mine and I can’t bloody wait to read it, so if you’ll excuse me, I might be some time… 📖 👀

Uh-oh…be kind to each other, people. There might be stormy weather ahead.

Ooh, I only just realised it’s Halloween time again! And that means it’s time for my yearly joke… *ahem* BEWARE! For here comes… 🎃THE WALKING ED🎃

“Evil isn’t hard to comprehend. It is nothing but unhappiness in its most successful disguise.” - Franz Wright, 1953-2015 I bloody love this guy’s work.

I JUST READ #FallingDark by @tomlloydwrites and it’s five stars from me. Mystery and survivalist terror on the wreck of an ancient spaceship - what’s not to love! CHECK IT! www.amazon.co.uk/Falling-Dark...

seconding this, I loved this trilogy! the audio books are great, too. 💙📚

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY!! Gollancz released the first book in #TheRelicGuild trilogy. I’m proud of this story, it’s a good story, full of magic and mystery, monsters and mayhem. Please follow the link to find out more. It’s worth rediscovering 😊: www.edwardcox.net/gallery

New book alert… CHECK IT!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

At the secret place where I work secretly at night, things weren’t going well for Snowy the Dog after the Tin Tin work dried up…