February 2026 brings a new standalone novel from the Queen of Speculative Fiction: Arthur C. Clarke award-nominated Aliya Whiteley! Here's what @oliverklangmead.bsky.social @manuscriptgal.bsky.social @timjmajor.bsky.social & @catamaroon.bsky.social thought of it! Preorder geni.us/misheardw

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF and #horror writers! This one features cursed musical instruments, Black horror, toxic romance and Slavic supernatural tales. timjmajor.com/2026/01/04/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity Please share!

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF and #horror writers! This one features eco-gothic stories, pulp SF, South Asian folk tales and sunny yet dark thrillers. timjmajor.com/2025/12/03/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity Please share!

Calling British short science-fiction writers who have had stories published this year - window closing soon for Best of British Science Fiction 2025. Get your story in under the door!

In festive instalment of the series and tribute to classic Golden Age crime novels, the Jekyll & Hyde detective agency must solve a locked-room mystery! JEKYLL & HYDE: WINTER RETREAT by @timjmajor.bsky.social is out now! ❄️ https://tinyurl.com/2jdvnut9

New Review - still need some horror then coming next week is this collection of folk horror I can recommend - Hiding Under The Leaves edited by @wishusdonna.bsky.social is out via @theslabpress.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF, #horror and #mystery writers! This one features fabulism, tarot, terrifying humans and cheerful apocalypses. timjmajor.com/2025/10/24/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity Please share!

Happy book birthday to JEKYLL & HYDE: WINTER RETREAT by @timjmajor.bsky.social! In festive instalment of the series, the Jekyll & Hyde detective agency must solve a locked-room mystery. ❄️ Out now! https://tinyurl.com/2jdvnut9

OUT TODAY! JEKYLL & HYDE: WINTER RETREAT is a country house murder mystery at an artists’ retreat with comedians, actors, magicians, inventors. Plus detectives Muriel Carew & Henry Jekyll… and uninvited guest Edward Hyde. Published by @titanbooks.bsky.social

If you haven't got your hands on a copy of WRITING THE MAGIC already, you can read an excerpt from RJ Barker's essay at The Fantasy Hive today: You Do Not Need to Know How to Write a Book (Or How to Embrace Ignorance and Run with It). fantasy-hive.co.uk/2025/09/writ...

Available on NetGalley now!

I'm so happy to have a story in the upcoming tenth volume in this amazing series!

The Jekyll & Hyde detective agency must solve a locked-room mystery in JEKYLL & HYDE: WINTER RETREAT by @timjmajor.bsky.social! This festive instalment of the series is a tribute to classic Golden Age crime novels, and hits shelves on October 21st! ❄️

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF, #horror and #mystery writers! Featuring criminal cats, atomic science, festive horror and B-movie pulp. timjmajor.com/2025/09/04/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity Please share!

The paperback of Jekyll & Hyde: Consulting Detectives is out in the US! Order your copy today from Barnes & Noble: bit.ly/423NzsG

I've had the honour of being interviewed by the Womble, talking about the inspiration behind The Executioner's Blade, what's coming next for that series, & some other cool books I've been reading lately.

My British Fantasy Award nominated collection* is available at UK Amazon for £2.90. I’m sure you’ve got a copy, but here’s a perfect chance to buy a cheap present for the archaeological horror fan in your life www.amazon.co.uk/Dirt-Upon-My... *this still hasn’t sunk in.

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF, #horror and #mystery writers! Featuring solar SF, nature-fueled magic, the SETI Institute and cliffhanging pulp fiction. timjmajor.com/2025/08/14/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity Please share!

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF & #horror writers! Featuring folklore, memory manipulation, romantic fantasy, neurodiversity, cemetery cats and DNA data storage. timjmajor.com/2025/07/08/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity Please share!

Not sure how I missed this until now, but last week my collection GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY featured in the Financial Times as one of the ‘best SF summer books of 2025’, with this wonderful write-up!

How is it possible that we’ve reached the halfway point of the year? But as that’s the case, here are my favourite albums released in 2025 so far. timjmajor.com/2025/06/27/f...

Delighted that I'll have a story in folk horror anthology 'Hiding Under the Leaves', edited by the excellent @wishusdonna.bsky.social. My story's called 'Rumours Overheard in the School Playground Relating to Miss Angeline Holst', and the book will be released at World FantasyCon in October.

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF & #horror writers! Featuring Dracula and Doctor Who, thrutopias and soilpunk… inc four exciting writing contests. timjmajor.com/2025/06/03/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity Please share!

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF & #horror writers! Featuring monsters of folklore, powerful artefacts, haunted Saturday morning TV and grimdark SF. timjmajor.com/2025/05/07/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity Please share!

Delighted to find my collection GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY reviewed in the Financial Times today! timjmajor.com/great-robots... @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social

GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY has been reviewed on Runalong the Shelves, and it's really positive! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/4/... @runalongwomble.bsky.social @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social 1/2

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF, #mystery & #horror writers! Featuring last girls, weird westerns, sudden transformations and monstrous angels. timjmajor.com/2025/03/31/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity Please share!

GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY is published today! Sixteen weird tales of robots and robot-like figures from history and myth, including ‘The Brazen Head of Westinghouse’, which won the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction 2024. timjmajor.com/great-robots... @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social

This month’s email newsletter will be going out a few hours from now, featuring publication news and 11 open submission calls for #SFF/#horror/#mystery short stories! Sign up here if you want in: mailchi.mp/682a29a81305...

My weird-fiction collection Great Robots of History is out tomorrow! This final author testimonial is from the incomparable @timothyjjarvis.bsky.social, whose own collection Treatises on Dust is staggeringly good. blackshuckbooks.co.uk/great-robots... @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social

The first review of GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY has appeared online! I’m delighted that so many of the stories seem to have landed so well. The collection will be published by @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social on Thursday!

My SF-meets-weird-fiction collection GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY will be published by @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social on 27 March! Thanks so much to BSFA Award-winning author @adamroberts.bsky.social for this terrific quote! You can preorder at blackshuckbooks.co.uk/great-robots...

Here’s a lovely quote from the wonderful malcolmdevlin.bsky.social about my upcoming short story collection GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY! GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY will be published by @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social on 27 March. blackshuckbooks.co.uk/great-robots...

My collection GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY will be published by @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social on 27 March. Some wonderful authors have been very kind about it! First up is Marian Womack, whose collection OUT OF THE WINDOW, INTO THE DARK you must read asap. blackshuckbooks.co.uk/great-robots...

Happy #worldbookday from a tiny independent press based in beautiful Norwich. We're somewhat obsessed with chapbooks 😍 Tell us your favourite shorter-length collection/s of poetry / short stories.

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF, #mystery & #horror writers! Featuring food horror, spicy monsters, exploration of other worlds and supernatural parables. timjmajor.com/2025/03/04/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

Hello everybody. Remains is a magazine created by Andy Cox and Richard Wagner. The first issue has just been published and the second is out soon. We are rubbish at social media but look forward to making new friends and talking about stuff.

While I'm on here (taking a break from, you know, the numerous annoyances of IRL), may I get a repost/shoutout for SHELFIES? shelfies.beehiiv.com The latest brainchild Jared Shurin and me, it's a weekly newsletter offering a unique glimpse into people's shelves and the books that matter to them!

Cover reveal! JEKYLL & HYDE: WINTER RETREAT is the second book in my Jekyll & Hyde: Consulting Detectives series. Isn’t it beautiful? And wintry, and theatrical. Published by @titanbooks.bsky.social in October, and available for preorder now. (1/2)

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF, #mystery & #horror writers! Inc cryptids, first contact, mummies and elder things. timjmajor.com/2025/02/04/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

ANNOUNCEMENT! My new story collection contains 16 weird tales of magical and mechanical automatons from history and myth. GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY will be published by @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social in March, and can be preordered now from the website. blackshuckbooks.co.uk/great-robots... (1/2)

Story #3 in the debut issue of Saros SF is "Four Fabrications of Francine Descartes" by @timjmajor.bsky.social. Read the whole story (for free!) at sarossf.com/issue-1/

Saros #1 has arrived! Edited by @meganjkerr.bsky.social, this issue features stories by @lxuwrites.bsky.social, @thelialao.bsky.social, @timjmajor.bsky.social, and @thesuiway.bsky.social, with cover art by Barbara Candiotti. Digital versions are now available for free here: sarossf.com/issue-1/

Gotta love a review that gets deep & really connects w/ the text like @wyatttowns.bsky.social does here for AND ONE DAY WE WILL DIE. Special shout-outs to: @breathinghead.bsky.social @christinogle.bsky.social @timjmajor.bsky.social @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social @johnlangan.bsky.social (cont'd)

OUT TODAY! I have a strange story in this, based on 'Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2', alongside a weirdly conjoined story by @timjmajor.bsky.social. Whether you love Neutral Milk Hotel or just love strange fiction, editor @patrickbarb.bsky.social has produced a holy spectacle. Get your hands on it!

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF, #mystery & #horror writers! Inc witchcraft, cottage crimes, seaside gothic and surviving humanity. timjmajor.com/2025/01/10/o... Please share! #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

Book announcement! The sequel to JEKYLL & HYDE: CONSULTING DETECTIVES is a country house murder mystery with locked-room puzzles, disgruntled servants, disguises (& two detectives who share a body). JEKYLL & HYDE: WINTER RETREAT will be published by @titanbooks.bsky.social in October.

Here's my final blog post of the year – this one lists my favourite books of 2024. timjmajor.com/2024/12/30/f...

Another end-of-year-list blog post, this one featuring my favourite films, TV and videogames of 2024. timjmajor.com/2024/12/28/f...

New blog post: My favourite albums of 2024 timjmajor.com/2024/12/23/f...