Happy Festivus from Indycat.

When booksellers pick your novel as one of their favourites of the year, you know you have a great book! The River by Craig A Smith @smicht.bsky.social chosen by @nairnbooks.bsky.social for @booksfromscotland.bsky.social's latest issue... booksfromscotland.com/2025/10/book...

📚 @smicht.bsky.social builds worlds at Into Books. Available at all good bookshops or directly from our website.

🎁📚 'Tis the season... Into Creative are small, unfunded, independent Scottish publishers. Buying books directly from our website maximises the money going to writers and sustains us in an ever-evolving literary environment. 🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlyV...

You and gfpaterson.bsky.social were brilliant, as were the other fantastic writers. What a really well run book festival they have in Auchterarder! Special mention to Alayne and Keith who made all the writers, new and established, feel very welcome.

Thanks to the good folk at the Auchterarder book festival and @intocreative.bsky.social for organising a great day.

Sardinian souvenirs offer generally all good advice.

💥📚 Dates and ticket details for @smicht.bsky.social events can be found on our Linktree page... 👉 linktr.ee/intocreative

There’s yer @colken.bsky.social going cross-platform viral on the Facebook.

Get your tickets now for the first Balfron Book Festival! www.balfronbookfestival.com #books #booksky #BluSkybooks #amreading #amwriting #book #authors

Sophie and Rachel from the Balfron Book Festival team showing off their lovely lupine merch! Check our site for our full collection of hoodies, t shirts, beanies, wine tumblers and more - link in bio 🐺 #scottishbookfest #stirlingshire #bookfestival2025 #books #booksky

We’re incredibly excited that Gill Sims is joining us at Balfron Book Festival. Gill’s best selling Why Mummy book series are VERY sweary, VERY relatable & VERY funny! Join her as she talks about her books, trials of parenting & her hugely successful Peter & Jane blog Tickets via link ⬆️ #booksky

Our hard working volunteers are taking every opportunity to promote the Balfron Book Festival! We’re very excited to see you over the weekend of 5-7 September. To get your tickets, and your very own BBF t-shirt or hoodie as modelled by our team, go to www.balfronbookfestival.com #books #booksky

Join retired hill shepherd & bestselling author Sion Barrington for an afternoon of storytelling rooted in the wilds of Perthshire. Tales rich in Scottish history, folklore and hard-earned wisdom, winner of the SAC Book Award. #books #booksky Booking Essential - www.balfronbookfestival.com

We're delighted to be partnering with award -winning Daydreams Bookshop in Milngavie for Balfron Book Festival. The team will be joining us at a number of our author events so that you can pick up our writers' latest releases on the day! Purchase tickets on our website www.balfronbookfestival.com

We are absolutely thrilled to have Hestor Musson, author of bestselling period novel The Beholders joining us at Balfron Book Festival. Don’t miss your chance to come along. Tickets are £5 and available on our website www.balfronbookfestival.com #books #booksky #bookfestival

Crime queen @Alex Kane is heading to the Balfron Book Festival 📅 Sat 6 Sept, 11.30am 📍 Balfron High School Author of gritty psychological thrillers like The New Friend and The Family Business, Alex brings stories full of secrets, suspense and Glasgow grit. Tickets via the festival website ⬆️

📢📚📽️It's a biggie! And it's all in here... intocreative.co.uk/partnership/

Nothing worse than being on holiday and finishing a book on your Kindle with nowt lined up after it. No worries, The River is now available for your device at a bargain price. #scotland #scottishfiction #indyref tinyurl.com/5n8h7v6u

💥 And the hits keep coming... Perfect for your summer down time. The River by @smicht.bsky.social is now available as an eBook from Amazon Kindle. tinyurl.com/5n8h7v6u

My great uncle’s POW fitba team in Stalag XXa, writing to my granny in Dundee. Their tenement is now a car park I think.

20% off and the living is easy! The River by @smicht.bsky.social is part of our summertime special. Whether you are heading to the beach or the riverbank in the coming weeks, you'll get lost in Lachlan and Morag's story. OFFER HERE: intocreative.co.uk/shop/intoboo...

Wee trip to St Andrews to sign books and get a hole in one on the 8th (putting green). Thanks to Waterstones for having me.

Thanks to @waterstones.bsky.social at Fort Kinnaird for the wee promo. 😀👍

Signed copies of @smicht.bsky.social's brilliant new novel, The River are still available to purchase from intocreative.co.uk/shop/intoboo...

Comfy?

🙏 Thanks to the strong support of @waterstones.bsky.social, @smicht.bsky.social new novel, 'The River' is currently available to Click & Collect at these Waterstones branches. If you want your heart broken and your spirits raised within the pages of a single book, this one is for you.

Free haul from the Publishing Scotland event. Always viewed Warlord as the “Rangers” comic. I took the “Bullet” which was far cooler and obvs the option for a hoops fan.

Went for a wee walk today. Bass Rock looking great in the sun. Somebody should put that in a book. intocreative.co.uk/shop/intoboo...

Thank you to Matthew at @Blackwells Edinburgh for being the perfect host at the launch event for The River by @smicht.bsky.social. Brilliant chat from Craig and Doug Johnstone. There was only a few copies of the book left at the end of the night. Lovely to see! Thank you to everyone who came along.

Official launch event is this evening in Blackwell's South Bridge, Edinburgh. If you can't make it, you can always get your copy of @smicht.bsky.social's beautiful book here... intocreative.co.uk/shop/intoboo...

That's The River's blog tour over. The TV has been thrown out the window. Results are here: www.craigasmith.co.uk/blog-tour/

Wow. Ep2 of The Studio on Apple TV is absolute genius telly. 👍👏👏👏👏

Audio only cos the video glitched, which should give it wider appeal. See if you can count the amount of times I say "um" and "kind of". www.scotswhayhae.com/post/everyth...

Another sighting of The River in the wild. In the ever-wonderful Waterstones Byres Road. ❤️ @smicht.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social

Snack magazine is available in 700 hostelries and suchlike across Scotland and contains an interview with this idiot. Best enjoyed with a pint.

First time I’ve spotted it in the wild. Always a wee buzz 👍

Mind when folk just used to say “yes” instead of “a hundred percent”?

Just been notified our ESTAs from trip to NYC a couple of years ago are about to expire and if I plan to visit the USA I’ll need to reapply. Nah yer okay mate thanks.

America, it's time for a...

What better way to read me talking bumph about my new book than with the Fannies Everything Flows belting out in the background? Do both here: snackmag.co.uk/craig-a-smit...

Ach sad news about Clem Burke. Hard to explain how much this music meant to me as a wee 11 year old. He was one of the great drummers. youtu.be/TU3-lS_Gryk?...

The River’s had its first Amazon review and it’s a 👍 so if it sounds like the kind of thing you’d be into you can also buy it direct from intocreative.co.uk/shop/intobooks… and keep the dosh as far away from Bezos as poss.

New stuff on the blog - listen again to the full interview with @daffy1.bsky.social on Sunny G Radio in which we discuss a whole load of stuff including having a mental breakdown in Kelty. There's also a load of great music (plus two of my auld bands). craigasmith.co.uk/sunnyg-radio...

📚📢 The River is now available at these Waterstones stores: Dundee Dunfermline Falkirk Glasgow Argyle street Glasgow Byres Road Glasgow Braehead Glasgow Sauchiehall Street Glasgow Silverburn Glasgow The Fort Livingston Newton Mearns Oban Perth Stirling @smicht.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social

On tomorrow's Daffy's Discs on Sunny G Radio I'm chatting with Scottish author Craig Smith @smicht.bsky.social whose novel 'The River' has just been published by @intocreative.bsky.social. Tunes from The Gracious Losers @lnfg.bsky.social and loads more! 5pm on 103.5fm and online www.sunnyg.org

Just Googled the weight of a Curly Wurly in 1970 and it was 42g. Today, they’re 21.5g. Capitalism ruins everything.

I've knocked up a quick website to keep all the news about The River in one place. Glad I bagged the domain name before the guy who writes about the health benefits of drinking your own piss got his filthy hands on it. craigasmith.co.uk

We are more than excited to announce that the official launch event of @smicht.bsky.social new novel, The River will be hosted at Blackwell's Edinburgh. Craig will be in conversation with the wonderful Doug Johnstone Tickets for this event can be purchased here: tinyurl.com/446f9byw