Your reminder that I welcome Dublin pub ghost tales!

Wallace and Gromit creator talks clay and creativity - as he returns home to reopen museum news.sky.com/story/wallac...

This week from @centreplacewriting.bsky.social PGR for @sensing-climate.bsky.social event with @sarahbell85.bsky.social - online free event Thursday at 2pm. #PlaceWriting #DisabilitySky #EnvironmentSky #AcademicSky sensing-climate.com/events/louis...

New to/intimidated by networking in the writing world? Elizabeth Bear has kindly written up an excellent guide.

The witches of the Enchanted Emporium have posted their first review on substack, The Almanac - a seasonal guide for 2026 by Lia Leendertz open.substack.com/pub/theencha...

🎉 Book 4 out this October 🎉 As summer fades & autumn draws near, take a trip to the small village with big secrets, & prepare to get cosy with the Elderwick Mysteries series 🫖 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A Super New Cosy Crime Series!" ⚡📚 #booksky

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...

Our awards aren't just a pat on the back. Jasbinder Bilan @jasinbath, 2025's winner of one of our Travelling Scholarships, told us why these awards are so important to authors. Submissions for our awards opens on Monday (1 September) so stand by. Video: Lilly Brend-Fish and Theo Jones

Rachel's Random Resources is always on the look out for more #bookbloggers & #bookstagrammers to join our #blogtour hosting family. Tours are organised across a whole range of genres for wonderful #publishers & #authors and would love to hear from you docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Five on Friday with Jenni Keer @JenniKeer @BoldwoodBooks #FiveonFriday jillsbookcafe.blog/2025/08/22/f... via @jillsbookcafe.bsky.social

Ta-dah!!! Here's the GLORIOUS cover of my next book... a spooky tale of eroding cliffs and spirit possessions. If you enjoyed #TheGreatestShowman 🎪 and like sexy, fake spiritualists strutting about in long coats and top hats, you might want to preorder: mybook.to/ThistlewickHouse

Yes, I know it's time to write but I made the mistake of opening a book and now with two terriers snoozing next to me, all I want to do is read. Currently reading The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder by @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social What are you reading this coming weekend?

Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.

Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 65: Freelance? Respect other freelancers. Editors, illustrators, designers - all the people who help make your book the best it can be - deserve to be acknowledged and paid. This community works on symbiosis, not exploitation. Without it, we all go under.

Spectacular publicly accessible resource run by a brilliant organizer. I talked about Gothic tourism & local history as it relates the Exorcist, Mothman, & Blair Witch earlier this year for the annual Goths for Breakfast fundraiser to fun free meals for kids & it was a great time all-around.

just updating the list of future books uk.bookshop.org/lists/upcomi...?

☕ over-40 millennials 💞 colleagues to lovers 🌼 slow burn romance ⚱️ archaeology 🏕️ camping 💙 mental health ⚡ chronic pain 🧸 fat rep 🗣️ own voice 💗 bisexual FMC 🌈 diverse cast 🥹 all the feels ℹ️ amweald.com/broken 💸 promo.amweald.com/hcu998mzq8 GR tinyurl.com/BROKENGR SG tinyurl.com/BROKENSG 🌈💜♿♾️📚💙🌈📚

This was so interesting (Katherine Rundell is a great speaker) on children, books & more. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

On my TBR list

💫 INTERNATIONAL GIVEAWAY - OPEN TO ALL 💫 To enter 1. Follow me 2. Share this giveaway 3. Comment with the last book you read Bonus Entry: If you're Caribbean, let me know in your comment, and I will, again, give you an extra entry! I'll choose a winner on Tuesday, August 12, 2025~

One for my overlarge TBR list

It's #internationalcatday and in A Blend of Magic two cats rule in the shop, The Enchanted Emporium - Vincent a meddling Maine Coon and Black Cat a centuries old ghost familiar. Together chaos looms...

Today is #internationaldayofthecat! So, it’s the perfect day to remind you of @rainewilson.bsky.social’s WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST which, according to @naomikritzer.bsky.social, has “a really excellent ghost cat”! Can you spot Orlando on the paperback cover? PB Nov 25 geni.us/weallghostsPB

“No-one writes true-to-life people and emotions like Miranda Dickinson. Unmissable!” Chuffed to bits about this gorgeous review of #AndThenThereWasYou from the always wonderful @lindasbookbag.bsky.social in The People’s Friend magazine, out on 6th Aug. Thank you! 💕 @hqstories.bsky.social 💙📚

Bluesky esoteric book challenge. A book per day (it's okay to skip days if you're really busy), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best occult books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #Esoteric #OccultSky #esotericbookchallenge

Hey. Hey. Please don’t wait for an indie book series to be finished before you pick up the books. Just buy them. Don’t wait. So MANY indie series never get finished because the author gets zero sales on the opening volumes and gives up. Give them a reason to keep going. Buy the books.

This looks like a book needed on the Enchanted Emporium's Bookshelf

🩸 Exciting news for crime & thriller lovers! I’m running a series of virtual book tours celebrating authors appearing at this year’s @bloodyscotland.bsky.social Festival. If you’ve got a bookish Instagram and love reviewing, I’d love to hear from you! 📩 Email: [email protected]

Unsolicted writing advice, no. 1161: CONTRACTS. If you're a with a trad publisher, you should receive a publishing contract. You should have the chance to look at this with the help of an agent or other professional, to make sure that it's in your best interests to sign it. Don't sign if it isn't.

Books I never thought I'd read: The history of smuggling. Ever since childhood I've had a fear of pirates and smugglers but my fictional witches won't listen. They're insistent I need these for a future book. Who knows what horrifying adventures they're planning - I don't 😂 #amresearching #writing

I feel so lucky to have an arc for Old Crones Club by Jennifer Taylor-Gray It promises to be everything I love in #witchlit and since I've now entered another decade and hair going silver I'm embracing old cronedom. #timetoread

Time to breathe! My favourite place and sound to relax #yorkshirecoast #seasideescape

EMDR but it's just daylight in the leaves

Just seen a barn owl in the garden 🦉. A wonderful surprise especially when I first thought it was a pigeon late to nest. Good job I get new glasses on Fri 😂

One for my TBR wishlist ❤️

With the recent success of Andor, I'm getting more questions than usual about how to land a job writing Star Wars books, so let's do the yearly How to Write IP thread, shall we? Firstly, IP means Intellectual Property-- that's shows, movies, plays, even books, any world owned by someone else. 1/

‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’

For all authors, scriptwriters, and writers, for all creatives whatever the medium, copyright protections are vital. Meta has used the works of countless creatives, without consent, to train AI. #DoTheWriteThing and #MakeItFair @writersguildgb.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social @alcs.co.uk

This is what happens when you mess with writers. They write angry poetry. Also, they galvanise, protest, and sign petitions. Sign here. chng.it/6C6xhs6Gjq #MetaBookthieves @societyofauthors.bsky.social

We’ll be protesting at the Meta offices today, at 13:30, against the unlicenced use of authors works to train AI. If you can’t make it, make some noise online! Downloadable assets can be found here 👇#DoTheWriteThing #MetaBookThieves societyofauthors.org/2025/04/01/s...

Just read the book 2025 needs - Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance by Jane Harrington. Despite my love of fairy tales and studying children's literature for a while, I never knew the true origins of fairy tales in 17th century and the conteuses/female storytellers behind them. .

Isn't the banner beautiful? @ardenpowell.bsky.social is such a talented writer and artist!

Available to listen to for FREE on the podcast Patreon page: THE WILD SWANS (Part 1) by Hans Christian Andersen Read by @tommurr.bsky.social To listen, please visit www.patreon.com/thefolklorepodcast

- the yellow and purple collection -

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...

Have you got your free ticket to the online talk Dracula as Survival Cannibal: Shipwrecks, starvation and drinking blood at sea Tomorrow, Saturday 22nd March, at 10am and 7pm British time! 10 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1016610047... 7 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1016618893...

Authors, have you recently discovered your work was used without permission to train AI? This might not make a difference but has to be worth a try. actionnetwork.org/letters/auth... #authors #AI #bookpiracy #booksky #writers

It's World Book Day! What are you reading? And author's share your books so we can increase our TBR pile 😍📚

As someone who was lucky enough to get a sneak peek I promise you won't be sorry if you add this to your TBR