The programme for this year's Bookmark Blairgowrie book festival. A really excellent, high quality book festival in the heart of Perthshire. This year feat. @seanluskauthor.bsky.social @linanderson.bsky.social @billykayscot.bsky.social @florajowriter.bsky.social and many others. Well worth a visit.

After raising £4k for fuel poverty charities from the print anthology, the FUEL flash ebook—with 12 bonus flash stories—is on its way! That’s 87 brilliant, surprising prizewinning flash stories by writers worldwide, exploding the myth that there's a formula for a “winning” story. www.fuelflash.net

I adored this unputdownable novel from #lucysteeds #theartist Very unusual for me to be unable to tear myself away from a book, but this gripped me through sheer luminosity of language and story.

A mini book tour over the weekend took me to three wonderful bookshops - #beinnbooks at Dufftown, where I met the owners of this great new book and coffee shop, Sam and Kelly. Then to @waterstones St Andrews and the amazing Jack and to @waterstones du dee…all in the sunshine, of course!

As a philosophy major who adored symbolic logic courses, this may be my favorite cartoon ever.

Apply! You have until June 4th. Go on…go in

Which will be utterly marvellous, because @vickymackenzie.bsky.social is!

I've done a blog! Get me, all modern & stuff. Chatting about imaginary paintings, finding inspiration at 36,000 feet over the Atlantic, & Flower Power🌹🌸🌹 for my new collection This Is How I Fight, incoming 19th June with @ninearchespress.bsky.social ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/05/in-c...

Great to drop into @waterstones.bsky.social Inverness today to sign copies of #AWomanofOpinion #Marywortleymontagu would have been very pleased to have her own charming table! @doubledaybooks.bsky.social

Such a lovely event at #bookmarkblair yesterday with @vickymackenzie.bsky.social - the best sort of chat about historical fiction, with the best sort of audience. And a big shout out to #indiebookshop #adventureintobooks who made the lovely bookmark. Thank you!

Great BookmarkBlair event with authors @vickymackenzie.bsky.social and @seanluskauthor.bsky.social discussing their protagonists Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. And thanks to Chair Gail Wylie for giving a namecheck to "Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Uncharted Island."

To celebrate Sean Lusk's A Woman of Opinion being out in paperback, here's a feature he wrote for Historia: How Mary Wortley Montagu and other great 18th-century women were forgotten Read it at historiamag.com/how-mary-wor... Happy publication day, Sean! @seanluskauthor.bsky.social

What a book - grab it from your nearest gorgeous independent bookshop! I saw a copy yesterday in the wonderful @serenitybookshop.bsky.social in Stockport, if you're in that neighbourhood. Congrats, @seanluskauthor.bsky.social 🎉

Out TODAY and in all good bookshops. Thank you to the brilliant @shonamaclean.bsky.social for the quote. #awomanofopinion #marywortleymontagu #paperback #historicalfiction @doubledayuk.bsky.social

Out TOMORROW. And the brilliant @vickymackenzie.bsky.social and I will be talking about #awomanofopinion and her superb #forthygreatpain this Saturday at #blairgowrie Would be lovely to see you there! #paperback #history #novels

Out THIS week. Do drop into your local #bookshop and pick up a copy. You will make an author (and yourself, I hope!) ever so happy. #AWomanofOpinion #paperback #marywortleymontagu #penguinbooks #historicalnovel @doubledayuk.bsky.social @dhhlitagency.bsky.social @davidhheadley.bsky.social

A week today! 📚🤩

Novelist @seanluskauthor.bsky.social and I will be reading from our #historicalnovels at #Blairgowrie in 10 days time! As well as discussing the brilliant women featured in our novels there will be home-baking and a raffle! 🍰☕📚 Sat 3rd May 2pm. Tix and details: www.bookmarkblair.com/events/bookm...

Zachary doing a grand job unboxing copies of #AWomanofOpinion - out in paperback on 1st May! @doubledayuk.bsky.social @dhhlitagency.bsky.social #historicalnovels #womeninhistory #inoculation

'Immerse yourself in all that you can find about your chosen time period' Former student and author of #TheSecondSightofZacharyCloudesley @seanluskauthor.bsky.social shares his four tips for writing historical fiction. Read full advice blog:

We’d love to see you at #Blairgowrie on 3rd May when the brilliant @vickymackenzie.bsky.social and I will be talking about amazing women written out of history. @doubledayuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social #awomanofopinion #forthygreatpain

Thrilled to reveal the cover for THIS IS HOW I FIGHT, my new poetry collection!💜 From marvellous @ninearchespress.bsky.social “Poetry of danger and unknowing, wildness and strangeness, and of kindness as a radical act.” Artwork Ali White. Out 19 June! 👇🏼 ninearchespress.com/shop#!/This-...

Out next week...the thoroughly enjoyable #monsterland from the brilliant #nickjubber A journey around the world looking at some of the strange, often disturbing and frequently bonkers traditions of monsters, which have been celebrated in local communities for centuries.

So delighted to be reading with historical novelist @seanluskauthor.bsky.social on Saturday 3rd May at the Bookmark Festival in Blairgowrie! #histfic #booksky #ForThyGreatPain Details and tix: bookmarkblair.com/events/bookm...

Sorry to bang on about this but sign-ups are a bit slow so far...🐌. If anyone's interested in doing a stimulating, fun and relaxed 8-week online #ShortStory course with me on Tuesday evenings throughout May and June, do get in touch - and please spread the word! Thank you! ✒️📚 #BookSky #amwriting

Still some spots left on my fairy-tale-crime mash-up Zoom writing workshop next Tues Mar 11! No matter what word-shapes you write, you'll come away with 4 new drafts. Book here, free & pay-what-you-can available & if you can't join live you'll get the recording: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

Always a highlight of a London trip to see my clever, funny and principled agent @davidhheadley who happens to also be excellent company

Delighted that @goldsborobooks.bsky.social has been shortlisted for best Independent Book Shop regional and country finalist London. We are grateful to our brilliant customers and the amazing authors and publishers who continue to support us. We appreciate it. #britishbookawards #Nibbies

Dogstar Theatre's adaptation of James Robertson's Gideon Mack is 5⭐️ Playwright Matthew Zujac plays up a storm in his double role as Gideon's minister father and the Devil, who, it transpires, definitely has an Inverness accent. Go and see it if you can.

I loved this sparkling debut from @emmacowing.bsky.social Coming this May from @hodderbooks.bsky.social A novel that captures the life of the women who performed in Scotland's showgrounds in the early 1900s beautifully, with added intrigue! #TheShowWoman #historicalfiction #Scottishhistory

A joyful evening last night to launch @kateagriffin.bsky.social and Marcia Hutchinson’s (Lila Cain’s) brilliant #blackbirdsofstgiles a Dickensian journey though a fascinating slice of London’s black history. Out now!

It's LAUNCH WEEK for ‘Your Sons And Your Daughters Are Beyond' - my first collection of short fiction! 🎉🎉🎉 There are some launch events coming up... first is Weds 22nd Jan, 7pm at the wonderful Wave of Nostalgia, Haworth in person or Zoom ✨ @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social

And now - a MANCHESTER launch for 'Your Sons And Your Daughters Are Beyond' - my first collection of short fiction! Waterstones Deansgate, Thurs 6th Feb, 6.30pm With fab @neilcampbellwriter.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/events/in-co... @waterstones.bsky.social @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social

PUBLICATION DAY! "Your Sons And Your Daughters Are Beyond' is out in the world! Thank you for the wonderful blurb @nicholasroyle.bsky.social 💜 And yep - the MANCHESTER launch is Waterstones Deansgate, Thur 6 Feb 6.30pm With @neilcampbellwriter.bsky.social www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page...

It's taken me a while but I'm finally able to share my Books of the Year post! hairpastafreckle72.blogspot.com/2025/01/my-l... @ajwestauthor.bsky.social @radiomukhers.bsky.social @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social @engerthomas.bsky.social @seanluskauthor.bsky.social @tommeadauthor.bsky.social

What a difference a day makes. Happy Mr Snowbum the snowman in our garden yesterday, sad Mr Snowbum today. #forres #snow #scotland #highlands

Join me on Zoom next Mon Jan 13 (7-8.30-pm UK) to spot your writing habits/taboos & how you might be getting in your own way! Booking here - free & half price places for those who need - and if you can't make it live, all ticket-holders get the recording after: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

Delighted to have been invited to chat to the brilliant Tim Ridout about #TheBlackbirdsofStGiles in lovely Lincoln next month. Details 👇🏻 Come along to quiz me & co-author @Marciathewriter about our epic tale of Black Georgian London. Thank you Lindum books! 🐦‍⬛💚🐦‍⬛ www.visitlincoln.com/event/an-eve...

All 20 of my #BookChallenge books together. See alt text for titles and authors. #Books #BookSky 💙📚

Just 3 days left to enter this year's €11,000 Moth Poetry Prize, judged by award-winning poet Fiona Benson. 🌟 1st prize €6,000 🌟 3 runner-up prizes of €1,000 🌟 8 commended prizes of €250 Don't miss out – closes midnight (your time) on 31 December: bit.ly/mothpoetry24

Just read A Woman of Opinion by @seanluskauthor.bsky.social. I really enjoyed following Lady Mary’s story. For an intelligent woman, which she undoubtedly was, she could be ridiculously stupid when it came to love, but then can’t we all? 🙂 A fascinating glimpse into Europe in the 1700s. #Booksky

Are there things you *always* or *never* do in your writing, habits & taboos you don't even know about? Join me on Mon Jan 13 (7-8.30pm UK) for a 'Permission' Zoom workshop to kickstart your New Year of Writing! Can't join live? Everyone gets a recording after! www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

Another little push for my online creative non-fiction course starting in February next year. Details ⬇️ Currently reading a ton of personal essays, lyric essays, memoirs, anti-memoirs, and other wonderful nuggets and oddities as I prepare for it! 📚

The annual @societyofauthors.bsky.social Christmas lunch in the Highlands: Thank you for organising, @sjgroenewegen.co.uk, and @seanluskauthor.bsky.social could you tag anyone else who is on Bluesky?

If you need some end of year positivity with your historical writing, get yourself an early xmas present of one the last spaces on the Arvon course I'm running with @natashapulley.bsky.social in Devon next week. @catrionaward.bsky.social is our icing on the xmas cake. www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

We are calling for celebrities, publishers and agents to acknowledge the writers behind celebrity books, and calling for evidence from members with experiences of ghostwriting. Read more and take our short survey here👇 societyofauthors.org/2024/12/09/c...

It's that time of year, dressing the Christmas tree. (And November is NOT that time of year!). Christmas is great, but not before December.

REVIEW ON A POSTCARD The Blackbirds don't fly until January but it's worth an early peek... thebooktrail.com/book-trails/... @simonbooks.bsky.social @kateagriffin.bsky.social #MarciaHutchinson