Happy New Year to those who celebrate it, and to everyone else, good morning.

Very honoured to see the Blood Scouts on the Read Indie Fantasy list for 2025!

Truly honoured for the Blood Scouts to be included in such find company for this list!

It's the second and LAST day of the r/Fantasy Megasale! Find HUNDREDS of #indie #books at $0.99 or Free! Try out Space Wizard books like The Ardulum series, Crying Out For Magic, Isaac, Waves Take Your Bones, and A New Beginning! #fantasy #scifi megasale.yrliu.com

I want to wish #Booksky a Merry Booksmas. It's time for the /r/Fantasy 2025 MEGASALE! That means Over 650+ books from over 300+ authors for 0.99 USD (or similar prices) or FREE. Snag TDSoS / TBK ebooks for 0.99 USD. Purchases drive donations to benefit The Mary Cariola Center! megasale.yrliu.com

The r/Fantasy megasale is GO! I almost never do sales anymore but this is always a wonderful big one, packed with books and with a portion of earnings going to charity. From myself, Under Ordshaw, Kept From Cages and Oksy, Come Home are all mad cheap until New Year. Look now: megasale.yrliu.com

It's time for the r/Fantasy Charity MegaSale! megasale.yrliu.com Iron Truth is .99 worldwide, along with 600+ other books. I grabbed Oksy, Come Home by @fantasticphil.bsky.social - and highly recommend the books by @akmbeach.bsky.social, @helynalc.bsky.social, and @stevewestenra.bsky.social!

Some amazing books here! ('Cthulu: PI' anyone?) 🥰

The r/Fantasy megasale is GO! I almost never do sales anymore but this is always a wonderful big one, packed with books and with a portion of earnings going to charity. From myself, Under Ordshaw, Kept From Cages and Oksy, Come Home are all mad cheap until New Year. Look now: megasale.yrliu.com

Merry Christmas everyone, may your day burst with resplendent delights matched only by the cheer in your hearts.🎄And also I hope you have some nice food.

Home For Christmas is a wonderful show, perfect for the holidays and of a really consistent quality - so glad it came back for a third season.

Overheard when The Little Drummer Boy comes on: "Oh, I like this song. Well, except for the rumpa pum pums." I mean...

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

My end of year update and seasonal greeting fest is now up on my blog, getting in there early so I can go to sleep until mid-January. Learn all about my successes, favourite reads of 2025, plans for new books next year and so much more! phil-williams.co.uk/seasons-gree...

In other news, all my flyer-type-things have gone from my local coffee shop which means either people have happily taken an interest or someone decided illustrations bearing the messages However Many Must Die and Drown Deep were perhaps not appropriate alongside yoga classes and life coaches.

My end of year update and seasonal greeting fest is now up on my blog, getting in there early so I can go to sleep until mid-January. Learn all about my successes, favourite reads of 2025, plans for new books next year and so much more! phil-williams.co.uk/seasons-gree...

So, we moved house. It turned out to be way more expensive than we'd hoped. So it goes. Anyway, now would be a really good time to buy our books! Or if you're after editing services, I've got you covered there too. 1/

A fun bit of Christmas weirdness is that most of my life associated a particular smell from my childhood with Christmas decorations. I never encountered it in adulthood but remembered it well and somehow daftly thought it to be from having so much tinsel around as a kid. Until...

It's that time of the year where I get to share this jaunty video again. Seasons Greetings from the dark, terrible world of the Blood Scouts!

Well deserved - one of my top reads of the year for sure!

Honestly struggling to accept that we've ended up in a situation where it's no longer affordable for everyday people to send each other Christmas cards (or even just a basic letter) in the post.

Had a dream that a woman on a train got scared by a spider so the government passed a law that everyone had to remain seated on trains and all times and it seems way too plausible right now.

Oh the self-destructive editing urge to turn every instance of "desert" to "dessert".

I'm giving away my writing skills book on my ELT site this month as the last in my series of free books. I have written about it on my blog. phil-williams.co.uk/my-advanced-...

Who wants a long-winded and ultimately pointless but also thrilling and mysterious tale of books? Then you're in luck. So, this year I've been blazing through the Judge Dredd back catalogue, as I discovered I can get access to them through my various library services. But Book 34 is cursed.

Thanks very much to Nils for this thoughtful review! And I don't know, isn't it Christmasy in its way?!

I've been meaning to read some Robert Jackson Bennett for many years but I'm halfway through The Tainted Cup and feel I wasn't adequately prepared for how very entertaining this is.

I have a hard time thinking of any setting I'd like to visit, or that I'd even survive in for an extended period of time. That said, the Roc, from the Blood Scouts series by @fantasticphil.bsky.social is an amazingly realised setting, and I look forward to exploring it further. #AMoRaR

Dealing with some Kafka-level nonsense trying to repair a cable in my hallway. Too convoluted to explain, but the result so far is that we now have another cable hanging across our bedroom window and our provider no longer has the right to touch the hallway cable.

I wonder if other Phil Williams authors get spam emails about my books the way I do about theirs. Or am I just taking on the spam for all the Phil Williamses out there.

Diving back into The Blood Scouts today. Thanks @fantasticphil.bsky.social - and it was great to meet you in Brighton!

Hello! My name is Johannes T. Evans (he/him), and I am a gay, transgender, disabled author of fantasy, romance, horror, and erotic fiction based in West Yorkshire. I write a huge array of fiction and non-fiction, and lots of it is available to read for FREE on my website: www.johannestevans.co.uk

Had a lovely, tiring past few days at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social - even though the dealer's room was a bit quiet I feel our Syndicate table put on a tremendous display. And we were within a hair's breadth of selling out of However Many Must Die in the end (thanks to Rob!).

Had a fun day running this table, tossing books at strangers, and even got a panel in. You can still come find us at World Fantasy Con tomorrow for all your booky needs.

The Syndicate table is looking very spiffy at World Fantasy Con if I do say so myself. Featuring books from a tremendous range of indie authors including Rob Hayes, JE Hannaford, Alicia Wanstall-Burke, El McInerney, Graham Austin-King, David Green and me. David's books are flying particularly fast!

If you're in Brighton for World Fantasy Con this weekend and want to check out a bookshop, I highly recommend popping into Afrori Books on North Rd.

On my way to Brighton for World Fantasy Con and in the time it's taken for my delayed train to arrive the glorious sunshine has died. Though it was a bit warm for October to be fair, best calm it down.

It's time for the obligatory A Winter's Mercy arrow pic so you know exactly what we're in store for. Expect: 😄 Cheery camaraderie 👍 🌲 Creepy woods and creepier creatures 🐺 ❤️ Heart-warming to heart-breaking 💔 🧙 Battle mages and big artillery 💥 💃 Fun, fun, sorrow, fun 🙍‍♂️

If you're around for World Fantasy Con in Brighton this week and are looking for a genuine Phil Williams novel, here's the price list for all the books I'll have available at our table. I'm about to start experimenting with how many I can fit in a bag to take with me on the train.

I'm watching Hell House Llc and went to the toilet and when I turned back I found the sofa suddenly like this.

A WINTER'S MERCY is OUT TODAY! With all the awfulness in the world, this is the perfect time to dive into a spectacularly bleak war story masquerading as a cheery romp! Go on, you know you want to! phil-williams.co.uk/a-winters-me...

And don't forget to watch this creepy bookshelf animation to get yourself in the wrong mood for the book. youtu.be/_gbZarudBzI

Get this book! It says it's bleak and that's all you need to know!

Looking forward to this bought mine you should get on this too...

Congratulations on your #NewRelease, Phil! #PubDay

A WINTER'S MERCY is OUT TODAY! With all the awfulness in the world, this is the perfect time to dive into a spectacularly bleak war story masquerading as a cheery romp! Go on, you know you want to! phil-williams.co.uk/a-winters-me...

House of Splinters is Apple's audio book of the week, only £4.99 until 2 November 2025

I say A Winter's Mercy is out tomorrow but a series of tricksy circumstances (I forgot to confirm the preorder files) have led to me hitting publish on the paperback on Amazon early so you can actually order the print version there already.

A Winter's Mercy is out tomorrow and it's had some lovely reviews, including this on Fantasy Faction: "a dark, muddy, and deeply human military fantasy that manages to be both brutal and heartwarming... If you have read the first two books, this one is a must." fantasy-faction.com/2025/a-winte...

Spotted a very generous and comprehensive new review of Dyer Street Punk Witches on Beneath a Thousand Skies - I really admire reviewers that put in so much thought, especially when I can see the book's resonated so well! Massive thanks and respect due. beneathathousandskies.co.uk/2025/10/24/b...