Voting for the Hugos, BSFA's and Locus Awards all close soon so can I just gesticulate at THE SALT ORACLE once more? This book has ghost orcas, what more could do you possibly need? ALSO & MORE IMPORTANTLY, please go vote for the AMAZING cover designer, Sam Gretton and editor Amanda Raybould? 🖤🌊🖤

Idk who this woman is but she has my sword* *60 tiny knives** **3 cats

Okay so maybe I am maligning large portions of North America who have the grace to pronounce it 'neesh' But for those of you gambolling around out there calling it 'nitch'? I am watching you...

Never not personally offended by how North Americans pronounce 'niche'. It's a nice word! You make it sound like an ectoparasite!

Dundee/Fife folkses - This feels *a ways* off, but it will creep up on us so get it in your diaries nooowww!!

A truly delightful cover for a fabulous, eerie, characterful book. Get this gem on your tbrs, friends 🤩

I have very mixed feelings about content warnings but another facet of why this 'holding authors accountable' take is absurd, is that it's often not our call! I wanted CWs on Mother Sea & the publisher wouldn't let me include them. But let's shout at authors I guess 🫠

Hey folks! If you're in the mood for a bit of Scottish sea going sci-fi adventure, you can pre-order The Packet now. (You don't even need to read it, just enjoy Vincent Sammy's outstanding cover art!)

Here it is! HARBOUR OF HUNGRY GHOSTS my new Babel x Buffy the Vampire Slayer historical fantasy novel out 28th July Cover by Toma Nguyen, art director Ella Garrett

🎉ACQUISITION ANNOUCEMENT🎉 We've snapped up THE TRAVELLING MUSEUM OF WITCHCRAFT by @gen-dimova.bsky.social for the UK! 👉 https://bit.ly/4sg10Rn THE SPELLSHOP meets NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM in this cosy fantasy! @alrutter.bsky.social acquired UK/BC English language rights from @benglishhh.bsky.social.

To the starling sitting directly above me screaming, you are screaming for all of us. Solidarity. And yet. Having (mimicked) children's screams overhead is not relaxing, friend. Please revert to pretending to quack

Quietly proud that three of my 2025 novels that I commissioned and edited have been bothering awards: The Serpent Called Mercy by @roannelau.bsky.social winning the Aurealis Award for Best YA Novel; The Salt Oracle by @rainewilson.bsky.social being shortlisted for Best Novel on the BSFA shortlist...

This is out in August! Writers and reviewers, my dearies, if you fancy an ARC drop me a line- they are heading out shortly! Preorder it if you like cool books about swords and ships and monsters and guilt and arcane archipelagos and betrayal and hope and disaster and fate amzn.eu/d/08ibViSi

NORTH AMERICA, SUBNAUTICAL INSANITY IS EN ROUTE ⚠️

Joy of menopause no. 5,380: You need to lift weights but doing so dislocates your fingers 🤨

Always a delight to see the stories that get highlighted by this gorgeous prize 🤩

Every time anyone says 'it's impossible to avoid using genAI' a fairy loses its wings Please stop. You're wrong, and fairies are endangered

Some interesting additional context in this interview on the Human Authored logo from the SoA - particlarly around their verification process and the hint of future legal action youtu.be/4oXdVrov7hk @stetpodcasts.bsky.social

Guess what today was? 🙌🏽FIRST MAMA BEE DAY!🙌🏽 Welcome back beeb 🐝

One day publishing will call a book tour 'UK' and it will indeed include not just one (1) but ALL FOUR countries that make up the actual UK. And I will keel over in shock. Today is not that day.

INTERGALACTIC FEAST is out today in the UK from @solarisbooks.bsky.social ! 🇬🇧✨ More Serenity Ko shenanigans, more secrets creeping up on Saras… and all the food in the galaxy! 🧵

This is gonna be SO DAMN FUN 🔥🔥🔥

It's GIANT POSTER season 🙌

The publishing industry's lack of confidence in authors and its own ability to create careers for them is pathetic and, in the end, self-defeating.

The wonky loaf of a catten who *teleported* out of my bedroom earlier after knocking a plant pot off the windowsill. I was watching him jump up and he fully *vanished* without noise or movement the moment the pot fell. Clearly a space cat occupying multiple extra dimensions

I'd love to see a repeat of that study into the language used around male & female authors writing in the same genre, and the study into advance sizes offered within genres. Is the gap closing at all? Because outwith romantasy, it doesn't feel like it

Today is an Evil Endo day, so it's a winter paralympics and tinkering with this short story from the safety of a heated blanket kind of day Aside, but it's fun writing futures that I actually WANT to see come true, not the futures I fear are coming true 😆

If you've read THE SALT ORACLE and wondered about that fleeting mention of the Estonia Witch...wellll 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Tried to work on new book, felt crushed by expectations of failure, ran back to short fic

Tfw a review is so lovely & thoughtful you start to doubt whether you really wrote the book or whether someone cleverer sneakily did it for you 😂🥰

If you're looking for dark fantasy with *warring Mage Houses *monstrous god-kings from another realm *queer disasters not exactly eating each other alive *traumatised siblings and dysfunctional family *bringing back the dead *people making terrible life choices then son I have you covered

🐑🏡This house isn't haunted. She is.🏡🐑 Thank you to @cj-dotson.bsky.social @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social Johanna Van Veen, @rainewilson.bsky.social and @mkhardywrites.com for these wonderful endorsements of HOME SICK by @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social! Available to preorder now: https://geni.us/homesick

I love these old net wynds so much. They speak so strongly to the interweaving of community & sea

Hey @wendychambld.bsky.social I really hope you're fighting against this wholesale theft of Scottish creative labour in obesiance to American tech companies?

It's publisher shiny graphic official 🙌🏽🖤🐙

There is only one party in Scotland which is seriously in the fight to tax the rich, defend immigration as a public good, and fight for trans rights. There's been a membership surge this week, be a part of it - members.greens.scot/join/standar...

🔥 Might be a good time to drive this over 100,000. Link —> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

So THE SALT ORACLE is a finalist for the BSFA awards! And my amazing designer, Sam Gretton is a finalist for the cover too! 🙌🏽 Truly delighted for Sam & very, very grateful to everyone who voted for my strange, briny why-pick-one-genre-when-you-can-pick-four book 🤗 @solarisbooks.bsky.social 🖤

Thought-provoking article here. I don't strictly agree with the definition of lit fic, or the lines drawn between that and spec fic. But the conversation about interrogating change and choices and power is great (and timely)

TIL: Cheshire is a real place not just a cat

Me: has teetering stack of ARCs and beta reading to do. Also me: buys more books

The original (and superior) kindle

I CANNOT WAIT for this, it's gonna be so damn good

I love what this prize is doing & am VERY SAD my book isn't eligible as I crave the buzz of tenuous proximity to le Guin. BUT go nominate the things! 📚📚📚

Finished another short story draft today, a reverse cyclic story of evolving folklores and divergent evolution. No idea who'll want it but I've had fun & now I get to reward myself with chocolate so WIN! 🙌🏽

And now, for fans of STATION ELEVEN, if you dig quiet but beautifully written tales of ordinary people surviving after societal collapse you need @rainewilson.bsky.social 's WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST. Even if you run away to the forest, the world can still need saving.

It's a privilege to have friends who will give you their time and careful thought too. Whose crit will both boost your wavering confidence and give you those precious 'ah dammit yeah you're right' moments. 🥰

Fantastic piece here on context and its importance. Plus, you know, people aren’t all the fucking same.

Book 2 is ALIIIIIIIIIVE! Go get these glorious words in your ears!

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