I am HAVERING like a CHAMPION despite special decision-making tea. So someone please tell me what to work on next: ☀️Edit solarpunky stories 🌊New dark oxygen/divergent evolution/class short story ✨Edit braided cyclic clifi/storytelling novella (again sob) 🌳Draft new murder trees wip 🍵Moar tea

New Review - happy publication day to All That Is In The Earth by @aknighton.bsky.social a trip to a deadly planet also asks questions about why we do what we do! Strongly recommended thanks to @lunapress.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/2/...

Happiest pub day to @lyndseycroal.bsky.social! Another stunner of a @lunapress.bsky.social novella! 🤩🤩🤩

Hey look! A new book! Some of you may have caught The Packet serialised in ParSec magazine but this is its first outing as physical book. If you like stormy sea voyages and sci-fi, this is the one for you. Out in April, opening for pre-order now. www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

🎉 We're so excited to see SIX Solaris books on @locusmag.bsky.social 's 2025 Recommended Reading list! https://bit.ly/3ZwRhK5 Feat. @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @isabelcanas.bsky.social @pennyvixen.bsky.social and @deuceofgearsmusic.bsky.social Locus Awards Voting closes 1 April.

Bloooooooock 🚫🧨💥

So delighted to see Cat's wild words getting the love here 🥰

In nice Monday news, very grateful to see THE SALT ORACLE on the Locus Recommended Reading List alongside a wealth of brilliant stories. Without a US release, it's nigh impossible to get seen, but everyone can vote in the Locus Awards, so please go celebrate your favs🖤 poll.voting.locusmag.com

What a great project 👇🏽🤩

lmty now is a *miserable* time to be out of contract and writing outwith the very narrow boxes that publishing is investing in 🥴

I've written two short stories in the last fortnight & they're both very gentle* & consciously hopeful ...No idea why I'm looking for that rn... *aka probably unpublishable 😩

I am having to read a (very good) book in *light mode* because of horrible inserted documents-as-images and omg how do you heathens live like this??

Just published an essay on this www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...

Come talk to us tomorrow evening! It'll be a lot of fun!

Just seen this #PublishingForMinnesota auction is being organised. Hundreds of very cool offerings raising money for the people of MN 👇 www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

Missed this coming out & I wrote it a *while* ago, but this was me balancing the shiny debut versus the quieter road into publishing. Even as I'm struggling atm, I do still think there's strength in being a tortoise not a hare

We are DELIGHTED to see many Solaris titles on the BSFA Longlist! Ft @edashtonwriting.bsky.social @voidcricket.bsky.social @taranhunt.bsky.social @caspargeon.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social & covers by Sam Gretton, Veronica Park & Kate Forrester!

Saw this petition to parliament about them. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I read The Everlasting. I did not have a good time. I wrote about why I think it's a deeply, deeply problematic novel here. I'm pretty nervous about posting this because my response is very emotional and quite specifically mine but there it is.

Really important review of The Everlasting here by the ever-thoughtful @stewarthotston.com. I felt too uncomfortable with the opening chapters to read the book but Stew has done an excellent job of exploring why. stewarthotston.com/2026/01/23/r...

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

Was a lovely conversation & catch up with gorgeous Glasgow pals. Many thanks to everyone who braved the miserable weather! 🖤

Grateful & delighted to see The Salt Oracle on the BSFA longlist among so many brilliant friends 🥰🥰🥰 EVEN MORE delighted to see the super talented Sam Gretton @solarisbooks.bsky.social nominated SEVERAL TIMES for his genius covers, including my beauty✨ Congrats all🤩 www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

I am braving the horrors of rail replacement buses to get to this, so please come 😆

I post a lot of very calm sea photos. Just for balance, it also does this

Our 10-year-old journal of creative writing on environmental justice will reopen to submissions, including poetry, creative nonfiction, art, short stories AND novella-length fiction, on February 1st.

#Glasgow Don't forget your tickets for Christopher Caldwell and Elaine Gallagher on Thursday! An Evening of Scottish Speculative Fiction also features Lorraine Wilson and Angie Spoto. Link below. @theelaineg.bsky.social @seraph76.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social

Successfully fake stressed myself out today FOR SCIENCE* * to trick my heart into glitching for the purposes of catching recordings of said glitch I'm quietly impressed with myself/shocked at how gullible I am 😂🙌🏽

Reposting because I got the time wrong. Arghhh Please join us two hours earlier than previously advertised...

It's that magical time of year when private jets descend on a Swiss mountain village to discuss climate change and poverty! Anyway, here's my annual reminder. I'll stop posting this when they stop avoiding the real issue: their own massive tax avoidance 💰

Aberdeen & north-east Scotland folks, I and the fabulous @mkhardywrites.com duo are coming to Waterstones Aberdeen. In LESS THAN TWO WEEKS, so please book tickets and come join us! There may be book origami creatures 🐈‍⬛🐝🐳🐙 tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/conve... @solarisbooks.bsky.social

💙💙💙💙💙 Personally, cannot wait for The Killing Spell!

The teen is making me a swarm of book bees! 🖤🐝🖤🐝🖤

A damn fine rabbit hole right here 👇🏽🐰🕳️

Here's that post sharing some simple & hopefully fun solarpunky climate fic story prompts, if anyone is looking for inspiration or a bit of zero stakes creative catharsis 🖤 www.patreon.com/posts/147887...

A thread neatly summarising the things I am telling myself on the regular atm. Our ability to persevere depends on our ability to nurture ourselves and others. Art is part of that. Write the story, whether it's a howl, a hug or a hope, we need them all.

Oh this looks brilliant 🖤

MOAR woke cannibal erotica? So delighted we're getting more from these fabulously messed up siblings

Welcome to the UK, to this gorgeous book. Please everyone go buy it so we can have book 2??

First attempt at doing something with the damaged books - ORIGAMI ORLANDO 😂 @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Who doesn't love a library event?? Come and join us!

Because everything is a lot, and we need art that comes from hope as much as fury, I've just prepped a post of simple solarpunky climate fiction story prompts to share. I'll be using them to dream, vent and nurture my creativity & I'm hoping that's something that'll be interesting to yous too?

My absolute favourite 'we're not dinosaurs honest' birds. Just such affectionate and permanently slightly bedraggled weirdos

Some good news, amidst the everything 🖤

Fancy winning a copy of @kerstinhall.bsky.social 's dark fantasy ASUNDER? It's perfect for fans of SABRIEL and WITCHKING. UK readers, head over to @thestorygraph.com now! Enter by 18th January 2026 👉 https://bit.ly/49lHITW Preorder: https://geni.us/asunder

I need to read a book asap so I can reference it in an article. Oh no. I will have to spend the day on the sofa under a cat. Calamity.

Hey Glasgow/central belt folks, please do come join us for this next week. Apparently there's tickets left & I can promise to rave about orcas, tell you ghost stories and dance* *one of these might be a lie. Tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

My latest essay for @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is live!! My editor: "I've never published a more important essay." 🥹

I didn't realise I had a zapatista overseeing this panel from the bookshelf, but it is kinda perfect. I think he probably approved of the discussion.

I've chickened out of moderating panels for 6 whole years. But that ends today... So this chicken would much appreciate some good vibes pls 😱🐔