Nothing quite says I have my life together than trying to cancel utilities, spending hours not understanding why it won't let me cancel on XX/XX/2025, then having to Google 'What year is it?'

Happy New Year! It's been seemingly quiet for me but with lots going on behind the scenes. For one, BETWEEN GHOSTS AND GODS was announced this year, coming out September 2026! Here's hoping 2026 is kind to us all. What are your wishes for 2026?

I need my characters to get in contact with a secretive terrorist organisation. The level of tech is post industrial revolution, pre-internet. Anyone please toss me ideas. I'm resisting googling 'how to contact terrorists' right now

It's never too early for an explainer edit, is it? BETWEEN GHOSTS AND GODS is coming out September 2026 ❤️ Slow burn romance 🔥 Set in the underworld with... 👻 Ghosts! Demons! 🐈‍⬛ Also a very smug demonic cat 💜 Learning forgiveness 🍴 But also 80% of this hell city would like to eat you

The cat's out of the bag now!

Elaine Chiew about whether diasporas, who naturally traverse multiple cultures, are the new heroes in speculative fiction. @annseilin1.bsky.social‬ ‪@molluscdimension.bsky.social‬ (2/3)

I'll be speaking at Imaginarium's Diaspora Heroes on November 30 at 11:00. Come get tickets and let's have a good time! britishfantasysociety.org/events-calen...

How it started Vs How it's going. My tbr list after about 6 months. I know it looks like no progress has been made, but I have read quite a bit, I swear! Is anyone else fighting back their tbr list? Any recommendations for where I should start?

It's Banned Book Week! When I mentioned this my colleague recommended The Librarians documentary about the book bans sweeping the US. Cinema showings are limited (but I believe it's also playing on BBC4 tomorrow) thelibrariansfilm.com

"Those who ban books want to lock away ideas they fear. But in truth, they are trying to steal our freedom." #BannedBooksWeek honorary chair @georgetakei.bsky.social encourages all of us to stand up for the freedom to read! #CensorshipIsSo1984 youtu.be/qwtzX15AKvQ?...

Thanks to Nonsuch school for letting me talk to their Yr8 students about Rebel Skies and being an author! Also congrats to Clive the Capybara who is now the Yr8's shikigami and will be delivering pepsi to all.

Doing a giveaway on Instagram! If anyone is interested in the full Rebel Skies series, please join! www.instagram.com/share/p/BASm...

THE WOLF AND HIS KING comes out in the UK in 3 months today, so I'm giving away one paperback ARC! To enter: follow me and reskeet this. Bonus: add TWAHK on GR/Storygraph & drop a screenshot in the comments. Extra bonus: tell me your favourite medieval story. UK only (sorry). Closes midday 29/08.

I haven't been here much. Going through a bit of a crisis. Wrote two separate sapphic stories. One SF and one Fantasy, and both were shot down by my publisher so I've been scrambling to try and find something else to present to them. The joys of being an author.

Over on @ukyaspotlight.bsky.social we have our next interview trio: Wren James, Ann Sei Lin, and Sue H. Cunningham @annseilin1.bsky.social @suehcunningham.bsky.social @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @scholasticuk.bsky.social #UKYA #UKYASpotlight ukyaspotlight.co.uk/2025/07/16/a...

Today's annual event interviews are with Wren James, Ann Sei Lin, and Sue H. Cunningham @annseilin1.bsky.social @suehcunningham.bsky.social @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social l @scholasticuk.bsky.social #UKYA #UKYASpotlight ukyaspotlight.co.uk/2025/07/16/a...

Reminder I'll be at Waterstones Canterbury in Rose Lane this Saturday! Come one come all for a fun chat about books, origami, anime and anything at all. www.waterstones.com/events/book-...

I'll be at Waterstones Canterbury -Rose Lane on 19th July from 14:00. Come down and chat and get some signed copies! Fun for all the family!

I'll be at Waterstones Canterbury -Rose Lane on 19th July from 14:00. Come down and chat and get some signed copies! Fun for all the family!

Had a dream where people use cat guides in order to travel to different worlds except some cats are really stupid and will take you to instead random world instead because they smell catnip or something and I need this in a book.

Our 2025 Annual Event Schedule is now live! #UKYASpotlight #UKYA ukyaspotlight.co.uk/2025/06/27/u...

I attended the Chatham House talk on Battling Disinformation and Making digital spaces safe for the LGBTQ community. An interesting event which leaves me with much to think about regarding the global nature of disinformation and the internet's role.

I am so excited to reveal my new cover for Exile a dramatic second chance romance coming out next May with @canelo_co You can pre order now amzn.eu/d/aKnkyvW Any shares appreciated! Isn’t it beautiful? ❤️🐝

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? The average author income is about seven grand a year.

Happy Pride Month! This year, LGBTQ Reads is partnering with @bookshop.org for a sale on over 100 books by LGBTQIA+ authors using code PRIDE25! bookshop.org/info/pride

Happy #LibrariesWeek! The theme is #LibrariesChangeLives - something Alex McCormick knows all about. She fundraised to save Spellow Community Hub & Library after the riots and at the #ReadingRights summit, she shared why libraries are vital: www.booktrust.org.uk/resources/fi... @cilip.bsky.social

✨ Our #BookTrustStorytime Prize 2026 longlist is here! ✨ The BookTrust Storytime Prize - part of our BookTrust Storytime programme with libraries - celebrates reads that are great for sharing with 0–5s. Enter to win all 23 longlisted books 👇 www.booktrust.org.uk/about-us/new...

This bank holiday weekend, I recently finished Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi and enjoyed it! If you like dark, contemporary fairy tales, check it out!

I’m so excited to share the cover of 🧠 #InsideYourBrain 🧠 - a lighthearted gallop through the history of neuroscience co-written with @caswell.bsky.social, stunningly illustrated by María Jesús Contreras and published by @thamesandhudson.bsky.social Pre-order links here >> linktr.ee/lucyannunwin

My work has forced us all into a meeting about how to use AI in our work to draft documents and generate images. I asked about the ethics of using generative AI to create images... and was completely ignored.

So if I am getting this right: Thursday the librarian of Congress was fired. Friday the copyright office rushed out a draft report suggesting genAI training on copyrighted works shouldn’t be legal. Saturday the head of the copyright office is fired.

THIS IS NOT MY CAT! #TheAudacityOfItAll

To any aspiring authors and writers out there, Harper North has opened their submissions window (1-10 May 25). Please check guidelines for which genres they accept. www.harpernorth.co.uk

Currently looking after this furry slinky. I'm told this a-liquid-yet-somehow-gets-everywhere creature is a cat, but I have my doubts.

Follow the link or visit TheNextGenLibrarian on Instagram to enter this fabulous Halfway to Halloween Giveaway. You could win won of these amazing spooky books!

Thanks again to @stepintostories.bsky.social for an amazing book festival. We made origami! Everyone was so good at it!

Thrilled to see Rebel Skies on the Books for Topics list of Yr8 (12-13) recommended reads! You can find the full list at www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/re...

I'll be talking about Rebel Skies and doing an origami workshop at the Step Into Stories festival at 11am on Sat 12 April! Tickets are now on sale for the Bewdley Festival. Come one come all! boxoffice.bewdleyfestival.org.uk

You do not want to miss out on this very special event! @annseilin1.bsky.social will be talking us through her incredible world where paper animals - shikigami - come alive and can be controlled by those with special powers. Try being a crafter yourself and make your own origami creature.

Currently playing Split Fiction where the main characters are both authors trying not to die as they navigate through their own story worlds, I can't help but think how different this journey would be if just one of them wrote cosy fic or contemporary romance.

Children and teens roundup – the best new chapter books #kidlituk www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

At the @societyofauthors.bsky.social we are speaking out strongly against this 'opt out' scheme, which places the burden on creators to monitor & notify. It would be like having to put notes on your wallet that say 'Robber, don't steal this'.

Just finished Shadow Thieves by Peterbl Burns. What a treat of a book! This has everything you would want in a great MG - a secret, mysterious school, a fascinating world full of intigue, twisty turny adventure, and a brave but kind protagonist at its heart.

We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems. As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting. But what can authors do? Read here: societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member: Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800 Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 [email protected]

Today I found out that META has used my books to train their AI (without permission of course). Thanks corporations!

Ooh, thank you for the signed copy @annseilin1.bsky.social

Adding to my "must get every Elizabeth Line book!" obsession: this gorgeous proof of A Forgery of Fate. Beauty and the Beast x The Little Mermaid? Sign me up!

Some Irish folklore this St Patrick’s Day: the Sídhe, the Aos sí, the fair folk, the good people, or the people of the shee from Irish folklore, who live underground. You may know the banshee, or Bean sídhe or woman of the sídhe. In fact the very word Sídhe is the term for earthen mounds like 🧵

Just learned that Death Note had a musical adaptation and ... it kinda bangs!? Got "The Corporations! Set the Regulations! And hold no one accountable when everything goes wrong!" on a loop in my head