We loved The Iron Road!

Best series conclusion? I'll take it 🥰 Thanks very much to the Hive!

As we reach the end of another year of bringing you content featuring incredible books from the world of SFF we round up the team and choose the best of 2025 publishing in the Fantasy Hive's Awards! Discover the nominees and all the winners here: tinyurl.com/ymej7zv5

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Need some epic fantasy in your life? Some no-holds-barred action, big battles, with a couple of mad gods and megalomaniac humans thrown in the mix? Need some book buying ideas for family and friends? Allow me to introduce you to the Godblind trilogy. Definitely #notromantasy

I really enjoyed writing a couple of pieces with @thebooktrail.bsky.social! First up is my Booktrail entry for A Reluctant Spy, featuring many of the locations from the book: www.thebooktrail.com/book-trails/...

Oh these sprayed edges are everything. I recommend this series, it’s one of my favourite authors @davewragg.com @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social

Fantastic to see this, and a great opportunity for writers!

I am very pleased to announce that I am supporting the wonderful Goldsboro Writing Academy to provide funded places on their courses for writers from low-income and under-represented backgrounds in 2026 and in 2027. For more details contact Phil Vinter or visit the @goldsborowritingacademy website!

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Helping customers pick a book for someone else is something I really miss about bookselling, so I had an absolute ball with this post! If you ever need a recommendation, tag me!!

⭐OUT TODAY!⭐ The audiobook for THE IRON ROAD has arrived, read by the magnificent Sara Powell, to close the trilogy with a bang💥 Available on all good audio platforms, including That One - get it today! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Nils goes on one last adventure in David Wragg's Tales of the Plains trilogy in THE IRON ROAD: "Fun banter, heartfelt character growth and action scenes to excite and delight... a showstopper of a finale." Read more: tinyurl.com/y2rwz96p @davewragg.com @nilsreviewsit.bsky.social

Today on @thefantasyhive.bsky.social I’m reviewing the conclusion to the Tales of the Plains trilogy, The Iron Road by @davewragg.com “I was reminded of why I love Wragg’s books so much, they simply bring me joy.” Review link: fantasy-hive.co.uk/2025/11/the-...

🙌🏽 This is the fantasy series I’m recommending to everyone! THE IRON ROAD by @davewragg.com is 5 star - what a finale to Tales of the Plain! 🤩 Perfect for fans who love rebellion, Pratchett style banter & action adventure. I laughed, I cried, I hid behind my hands 🫣 www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

@davewragg.com Oy oy. I'm late saying hi on here - so 1) Hello! o/ 2) Was good to meet you in Leeds the other week! and 3) The Hunters has added 'piss-fingered necrophile' to my vocabulary of insults. Thank you for this, I will use it irresponsibly. o7

I finally finished ‘The Iron Road’ by @davewragg.com ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I recommended the series & photographed it every chance I got at World Fantasycon! Even went to the panel on Writing for Laughs & spoke briefly to Dave, but then avoided him so as not to inadvertently get spoilers to the ending 🤣 very cool 👌🏽

Thanks @BritFantasySoc.bsky.social for making #WorldFantasyCon accessible by streaming it!👏🐉 Some author panel highlights: ✨British Urban Fantasy ✨Occult Adventures ✨Blending the Genres ✨Playing for Laughs in SFF (incl @Davidwragg.com & BSF winner @Franceswrites.bsky.social) Feeling inspired ✍️🔮

Accidentally bought myself some lovely books, innit Featuring books by @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social @davewragg.com and Jackson Ford

Happy Halloween! 🎃 Here’s my October spooky reading wrap up! Favourite of the month was House of Splinters by @spookypurcell.bsky.social Going into November I’ll be finishing off The Iron Road by @davewragg.com and also starting The Keeper of Magical Things by @julieleong.bsky.social

How on earth did this one manage to pass me by? The Iron Road, by @davewragg.com. Discovered it in Waterstones in hardback from HarperVoyager. I love this series so much

good GOD it's been a long time 🫠 No promises on the quality of this episode! We're rusty as anything. Huge thanks to "Drake Scottford" for being our special guest this episode! S2 e45 is live! publishingrodeo.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/s...

My copy of The Iron Road by @davewragg.com arrived today from @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social 🤩 I’m nearly 80% finished on the arc but I can finish it off in style 👌🏽 I’ve really enjoyed it! I don’t want it to end, particularly as I am fearing greatly for the longevity of my fave characters atm!

Currently reading The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by @pfracassi.bsky.social - so brutal! I’m dreading who will be the next victim 🫣 I’m hooked! Also reading The Iron Road by @davewragg.com - final book in The Tales from the Plains trilogy. I’m sad to say goodbye to Ree & Javani 😭

Next up for #drawtober is spellbound princess! This has got several loving references to one of my all time favourite illustrators, Harry Clarke, and also Sergio Toppi. I’ve included some process photos - the final work is in pen and ink on paper, but the planning sketch was digital. See it at WFC!

VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED was a stellar debut, but THE BONE DOOR is something else. Opening in May! 🐰🦴☠️

🐇 💀 COVER REVEAL 💀 🐇 I’m SO excited to reveal the UK cover of my next novel, The Bone Door! A fantasy/horror escape room novel, coming 7 May 2026

A huge thank you to everyone who came to the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social Building Brilliant Worlds event last week! @rjbarker.bsky.social @davewragg.com and @aptshadow.bsky.social were all on top form, managing to be entertaining, informative AND stay on topic for at least 12% of the night!

Broken Binding special editions still available while stocks last, act fast!

TONIGHT! LEEDS! Moderator @katiebruce.bsky.social is joined by SFF writers @aptshadow.bsky.social David Wragg & @rjbarker.bsky.social for Building Brilliant Worlds: A conversation on fantastic landscapes and the creatures that inhabit them at Waterstones, Albion Street. Tix: tinyurl.com/LeedsWorlds

Knox is as mesmerised by these editions as I am :) It’s good that these arrived today because it means I can quickly get into The Iron Road. Tales of the Plains has been a fantastic series so far. @davewragg.com doesn’t miss. #BookSky #amreading #DavidWragg @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social

TOMORROZ!

At 7pm on 9th October, don't miss @aptshadow.bsky.social at Leeds Waterstones for a very special panel event on "Building Brilliant Worlds" alongside @rjbarker.bsky.social and @davewragg.com in association with @britfantasysoc.bsky.social! Tickets only £5! www.waterstones.com/events/panel...

Two days!! Come join the chaos!

Just finished The Iron Road - bloody brilliant! Great story, humour, fights, gore, mad schemes, wonderful characters, what more can you ask for...?

Happy Mid Autumn Festival! 🥮 I’m thrilled to share the cover of #TheGirlWithAThousandFaces, coming 5 May 2026 from @torbooks.bsky.social! ⭐⁣The Girl with a Thousand Faces is a Chinese-Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong. Cover art by Lindsey Carr, Cover design by Shreya Gupta

Next week, 7pm 9th October, don't miss @aptshadow.bsky.social at Leeds Waterstones for a very special panel event on "Building Brilliant Worlds" alongside @rjbarker.bsky.social and @davewragg.com in association with @britfantasysoc.bsky.social! Tickets only £5! www.waterstones.com/events/panel...

A week away! You simply MUST come!

Coming up in Leeds! Building Brilliant Worlds: A conversation on fantastic landscapes and the creatures that inhabit them. Thur 9th Oct, 7pm. Waterstones, Albion Street. Ticket: tinyurl.com/LeedsWorlds @rjbarker.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social ‬ @davewragg.com‬ @katiebruce.bsky.social

Next week! tinyurl.com/LeedsWorlds

The "BUY MY BOOKS SO I CAN AFFORD TO DO STUPID STUFF" sale continues! The first two novels (ebook only) of these completed trilogies are on sale for HALF PRICE!

Attention UK #BookSky - A Tide of Black Steel, Book One of the Age of Wrath, is on sale in ebook today at £0.99. #KindleSale #EbookSale

I'm delighted to share the cover reveal trailer for SOLITARY AGENTS from @headlinebooks.bsky.social! Huge thanks also to @harryillingworth.bsky.social and @dhhlitagency.bsky.social Available to pre-order from all major retailers (and local independents), Solitary Agents is out on June 4th 2026.

You can read the first chapter of my upcoming Empire of the Wolf novella here 👇🏼

You don't want to miss this. Get yourself to Leeds by any means necessary 🫡

So come join @rjbarker.bsky.social, @aptshadow.bsky.social and @davewragg.com with the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social on a quest through the marvellous worlds they have created! Thurs 9th October, 7pm, Leeds Waterstones Tickets available at tinyurl.com/LeedsWorlds

Just two weeks to go until the lords of chaos descend upon Leeds to discuss all things building worlds, fantastical landscapes and the weird and wonderful creatures that inhabit them! There'll be an hour's discussion with time to ask your own questions, followed by a signing.

🍄 THE FUNGALVERSE REVIEW Sept. edition is out TOMORROW 🍄 This month I chat about the release of the @sffaddictspod.bsky.social Worldcon panel, book design, book recs (@michaelrmiller.bsky.social + @davewragg.com) & more. Don’t miss tomorrow’s newsletter! SIGN UP TODAY: adrianmgibson.com/newsletter

Opportunity here for a writer on a low income to get access to a nine week novel writing course taught by the great @silvanhistorian.bsky.social www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/break...

A huge thank you to @davewragg.com for sending me these gorgeous special edition hardbacks of The Tales of the Plains trilogy published by @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social I’ve read The Hunters & The Company of the Wolf & loved both. I can’t wait to read Iron Road & see how it ends! Would recommend!