Fraudsters are AI-mincing books and republishing them onto Amazon. This was done to The Isle in the Silver Sea - I assume in the hope people would accidentally click on it. It's been removed, but this is a warning of something to look out for, to my fellow authors.

Do i know any SF authors in Derbyshire?

Three more sleeps until #Cymera2026 www.cymerafestival.co.uk

More reviewers like Mrs Dick please.

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UK readers, I've got a surprise for you! For Pride Month, Someone You Can Build A Nest In is just 99p on Kindle! Do you need a lovable flesh-eating monster in your life?

I had a tremendous photoshoot yesterday in collaboration with my favourite photographer, @ingridweel.bsky.social to get new headshots for my forthcoming food themed SFF collection 'Taste' (out April 2027 with @flametree.bsky.social). Here's a behind the scenes look at fun with cake! #Amwriting

People in Edinburgh on Friday, if you want an amazing live gaming experience, try this! www.instagram.com/p/DZDGWQsDdM...

Our cast: @bingewriting.bsky.social as Professor Alastair Vane @ianthegreen.bsky.social as Flora Meiklewood @annabelcwrites.bsky.social as Fiona Murray @davegoodman.bsky.social as Roland Halliwell @benedictanning.bsky.social as Dr. Terrence Tableau And @marcorinaldi.bsky.social as Keeper!

THIS FRIDAY! Come see our first live Actual Play - a specially written Edinburgh-set scenario of Call of Cthulhu (the brilliant rpg from @chaosium.bsky.social) at @cymerafestival.co.uk featuring a fantastic cast of some of your favourite authors! Free to attend - 5pm at The Pleasance, Edinburgh!

Terrence is just a regular type dude with no fingernails don't worry about it

ICYMI, I’m offering a 1-on-1 consult on engaging with archaeological themes in SFFH to help raise funds for @cymerafestival.co.uk I’ve been an archaeologist for the last 18 years & recently curated a repatriation in Mexico. I’ve also done authenticity reads for upcoming SFF novels!

🌈🚀💫 #PrideBookFair Bundle #1 - Pride Hard is NOW LIVE!!! 📢📚 37 queer stories by queer authors for only $40, which saves you $148. 💙📚 itch.io/b/3675/pride...

I now have a pdf of my Author's World Builder available to download for free on my website. I'd prefer to sell the notebooks, but it hasn't moved in a few years, and I don't want it rotting in my docs file. People can get good use out of it, so figured I'd share. chapelorahamm.com/published-ma...

As it happens, I'll have a brand new gay story out for #Pride this year from @starsandsabers.bsky.social "Golgotha" is a place between life and death where a mortal might meet a ghoul. But can love endure in the shadow lands beyond life? www.starsandsabers.com/books/of-dre... 💀🏳️‍🌈📚💙

Where to find me over the next month in the lead-up to the release of THIS IS WHERE THE FUTURE BLEEDS on July 7th, BUT early copies will be available at all these events! (I'm also doing @writeopolis.bsky.social on June 21st, but you can't get books there because it's on Discord)

Hi there, for the writing of my next book I'd really appreciate talking to (and perhaps interviewing) some LGBTQ+ folk of Japanese heritage. Is this you? If so and you're interested let me know. X

Imagine the joy of receiving a full-color Locus Magazine in your mailbox each month—a treasure trove of reviews, interviews, and book news. Collect this month's issue and future editions here: subscribers.locusmag...

So I am going to be recording a live podcast on Sunday evening (UK time) with the Writeopolis lovelies. I expect gentle chaos, seeing as @rjbarker.bsky.social is involved. You can listen along live on Discord and ask questions in the chat :) And yes, I am faintly terrified by the live aspect.

Now that SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL is out in the world, I thought I'd share some of the things readers have been saying. Get your copy: www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh... @starsandsabers.bsky.social

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

Happy #Pride month! For your reading pleasure, check out my latest sapphic historical, The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley! If you like the simmering yearning of Francesca/Michaela from #Bridgerton, you'll love this book. Miseducation is the 2nd book in my *Austentatious* series 🏳️‍🌈

Please use due diligence if you come across any site appearing to be Illumicrate or sell Illumicrate editions, and thoroughly check the credibility of the seller.

✨ Illumicrate Imitation Website PSA We've been made aware of a scam website imitating Illumicrate with the URL: illumicrate.shop. This is NOT our website, and not affiliated with us. Our website URLs are: illumicrate.com and us.illumicrate.com.

Someone asked me how I can continue to write fiction where people find a way to be better when the world now shows it's not the case. And fella, nothing the fash want you to do more than give up on hope but you really must not. If it's getting too dark to see you don't turn out the lights.

Don't forget – the Cymera 2026 Charity Auction is still live! 🤩 Bids will close on Friday 5th June at 12pm BST. All funds raised will go towards supporting Cymera: www.32auctions.com/organization...

Here's my schedule for @cymerafestival.co.uk this coming Saturday 6 June. I'll be giving the first reading of HOME SICK at 1pm, chatting on the horror show panel at 6:30pm, giving out cottagegore stickers, and signing early copies of HOME SICK in the festival bookshop 👀 COME 🪓

Lucky for some! Book 13 in the Inspector McLean series, #ForOurSins is just 99p on that there Kobo reader this month. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

Ok, folks. Who will I see at @cymerafestival.co.uk this weekend? I get in early (Tuesday at 5.30) to run the Masterclass from Wednesday so am available for meals (dinner!) if you live in Edinburgh. As of 4.30 Friday I am 'off the clock' at Cymera and free to be social.

Then at 3.45 on Saturday I'm interviewed on a live broadcast (what could possibly go wrong???) by Page One Podcast. www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26...

My first panel of this year's @cymerafestival.co.uk is at 1.45 on Saturday, talking about ruins and rebuilding and A Sword of Gold and Ruin with @clhellisen.bsky.social @alexpheby.bsky.social and Rafael Torrubia.

This weekend I'll be at @cymerafestival.co.uk - looking forward to a truckload of events and catching up with writer pals. I'll be chairing this Saturday panel with @alexpheby.bsky.social @rtorrubia.com and @annasmithspark.bsky.social www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26...

Look what I get to take home. Last night, DEATH OF THE AUTHOR won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and THE SPACE CAT won for Best Illustrated and Art Book. My daughter Anyaugo was there with me 😊. What an amazing night. ✨

Hand-Me-Downs Absolutely beside myself to announce that my new short story collection, Hand-Me-Downs, will be published very soon. In the past, the contents of my collections have been a mixed bag of genres and styles selected from everything I'd published in the previous decade or so, but…

Congratulations, RJ!

wild. @undertow.bsky.social @carolynmk.bsky.social @megapolisomancy.bsky.social @topferarts.bsky.social @clarkesworldmagazine.com

Thank you Locus and Locus Award voters!

Only 6 days left in the @cymerafestival.co.uk auction! LOADS of fantastic things to bid on - signed books, mentorship calls, special editions, book bundles. Check all the items out here: www.32auctions.com/cymera2026

Back in print at last, Joanne Hall's The Summer Goddess was a finalist for Best Novel in the British Fantasy Awards wizardstowerpress.co...

Good morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading The excellent The Republic of Memory by Mahmud El Sayed. What are you reading at the moment?

Production wrapped this week! Audiobook coming soon!

ESFFer Rhiannon's Edinburgh book launch for Home Sick - get yourselves along there on July 16th!

So moved to wake to the news that THE RIVER HAS ROOTS won the Locus Award for Best Novella! I sent a video in before absconding to France for Les Imaginales, & catching up on the awards ceremony while I pack up my room is making me weepy. You can hear my acceptance speech around the 90 minute mark

And it’s out! Subscribe to get the next issue by email, and/or read the May issue online now: www.davidgoodman.net/the-decrypt-...

Can confirm! These are really awesome books!

We have been busy updating our edinburghsff.com website, take a look! www.instagram.com/reel/DY-Fqws...

Ta-daa! Our beautiful new logo is here! Time to reintroduce ourselves... We're Not/Another Anthology and we published Not/Coming Out. We're so proud of the community we created with our first project that we're going to do it again! Stay tuned 👀

Just FIVE days remaining until my second novel, SOLITARY AGENTS, is released by @headlinebooks.bsky.social! First week sales matter a very great deal in publishing, so if you enjoyed my first book, I'd love for you to pick up my second. www.davidgoodman.net/links/

Join the citizens of Writeopolis! You (probably) won't regret it!

Less than 48 hours left on this deal, folks in the US! Grab my first novel today and you might even finish it in time for the second one coming out on Thursday. Less than a dollar 💵