This is my Lokifesto #KidsConf #UKkidlit #edusky lokibooks.com/lokifesto/

"One item of subtext that I think people miss in "Dracula" is that he's going to London because people there don't believe in vampires. Because that meant they wouldn't know how to protect themselves from him." #OverheardInABookstore

I can’t wait to read this 🖤

The British Library have just sent me photos of ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE - it has been printed!!! EMINENT ANTHOLOGIST Aww yeah. #FESTIVESHINYSHINY Book out October 16, pre-order your copy from links below:

I AM GOING TO BE VERY BUSYYYYY!! I'm sort of going on book tour?!! And joining @ericlarocca.bsky.social, @timlebbon.bsky.social and @cgolden.bsky.social on theirs, plus a few cons! Come find me! I'd post links but I haven't collected them all yet. Google is your friend.

finally, the September shopping list is live! new books from @almakatsu.bsky.social @brianmcwriter.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social @sarahgailey.bsky.social @claymcleod.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com @brackenmacleod.bsky.social @bitterkarella.bsky.social & MANY more!

you share the same human substance that nazis possess. the thing that separates you from each other is not some capacity for empathy but the fact that they choose to be monsters and you do not

My illustrations for The Woman in Black are now available as signed giclee prints. You can view them on my website nicktankard.co.uk I’ll also be making the original illustrations available here on Bluesky, watch this space…The illustrations are in the hardback edition published by Vintage Classics.

Here are some non-fiction book recs for readers who love horror fiction! (I didn't include books about horror movies)

The weather changed to an autumnal vibe too quickly for me, but at least it’s cosy reading weather. - Michael

I loved this novel!

Well, this is just wonderful

I have a book out in two weeks. So....one repost of this and I'll drop one fact/spoiler/detail about the book. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social www.walker.co.uk/978152951581...

Already said nice things about this on Instagram but it bears repeating here: Good Boy by Neil McRobert @talkscaredpod.bsky.social is a stunning piece of writing, everyone should read it and also everyone should hug their pets immediately. It’s out in October from @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social

was just told by a doctor that I need to "limit and reduce stress" in my life but then he refused to put me in a medically induced coma -- pick a side, man

Day 4362 of trying to write this synopsis. So many subplots 🥲

News! 📢💥 A thing has happened! I’m very, very excited to say that I’m now represented by Silvia Molteni at PFD Agency 🎉📚

Much excitement this week to have the Northern Gravy Fiction Anthology arrive through the letterbox 🥳 first time seeing one of my stories in an actual book!

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

If you could get a place in any 5 cities (5 cribs), which would you choose? Bristol, Edinburgh, Brooklyn, Paris, Cape Town

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Posting again for anyone who can help with a donation, we’ve got to help Amanda and her pooches! Finding a pet friendly place in this country is no joke 🥺

I feel ashamed of myself for even posting this and asking, but I need the help to take some of the stress and pressure away - me and my husband, and our three beautiful dogs, are hoping that you can help raise emergency funds to try and find a new house. gofund.me/061cd1b4

Back to the dark forests for me this August, with this evening workshop looking at WRITING FOLK HORROR! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo...

Reached 20k words on my work in progress tonight 🥳 (trying not to panic that it’s middle grade and I haven’t even reached the midpoint yet. Publishers are loving really really long middle grade novels at the moment, right? 😅🤣)

Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.

Literally the very least we can all do is sign this petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

If I vomit on this bus I’ll be aiming for the guy behind me who’s watching videos without headphones

As someone who has bragged for years about my unflinching ability to read in the car, my apparent delayed development of mid-life motion sickness is quite a devastating blow.

Did a demon write this?

You know you're about to read the most horrifying shit you've ever laid eyes on when the dedication goes "to my partner, light of my life, and to our friends and community, I would be nothing without you, here's to another amazing year of our beautiful found family". You're about to need prayers

@bookhaus.bsky.social’s owners are retiring, and the manager - the brilliant Darran McLaughlin (alongside the equally brilliant Phil Wrigglesworth) are crowdfunding to buy the bookshop - they deserve all your support: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...

One of my manuscripts has made it onto this shortlist and it was a lovely Monday morning surprise! 🥹

Edge-Lit is back at Derby QUAD this September, with a loaded day of horror, fantasy and science-fiction writing activities! And the line-up is already looking great, with loads more talent announcements to come... www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/edgel... #Derby #Derbyshire #horror #fantasy #scifi

I found myself in a completely empty subway carriage for two stops during rush hour in New York. It really freaked me out 😂 the carriages on either side were full! Felt like I’d crossed some blurred line of reality. An experience I know will simmer into a story at some point 😎

About to board a plane to New York! To then go on to attend Stokercon! How did I get this right! 😂😎🥳

Vet bills this week have reached 'ouch' territory. If you'd like to support me and my poorly pooch, I sell signed books direct from my ko-fi. No one's going to want my spare kidney, so... ko-fi.com/verityhollow...

absolutely this.

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “The Day You Lost Your Lunch and Your Grandmother’s Shawl on the Tilt-a-Whirl” by Theresa Boyar is now up! Art by @ejbraithwaite.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2025/05/26/t...

Today I got to work on my novel after three weeks of life being too busy for me to have any headspace for it and I feel very literally like this emoji 💃

Spain, you could do the funniest thing right now...

Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.

Wonderful to see a bunch of people who earn a minimum of £93,904 a year and who are supposed to represent their constituent's interests refusing to enforce the legal rights of UK writers, who on average earn £7000 a year from their writing work. Real heartening stuff

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

Got my copies of The Ghastling today 🥳 My story (Your Eyes Only! Love Jessica) right in the middle with some fantastic artwork by Andrew Robinson (Monografik). My story was inspired by a house I grew up in and the letters my friends and I would write to one another (still got them!) 👻

If you have money, please please donate. If you don't, please share.

I’m trying to make a playlist for my WIP. It’s a spooky, gothic middle grade novel about a 12 year old ghost who has to figure out her unfinished business. These are the songs so far, any suggested additions? 👻 Vibes: spooky, quirky, odd, uncanny, retro. MJ’s Thriller is probs my next addition

Loved this novella, would highly recommend! 👻

📣NEW POST📣 My latest post discusses the art of ghost laying! I've expanded on my previous research to share with you a comprehensive look at the ways in which Shropshire folk dealt with their unquiet spirits. nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2024/09/unqu... #Folklore #Shropshire #ghosts