New tea bag bookmarks are available on Ko-fi! 🍂🍄 If you're from outside the US, you can now grab one for your cosy autumnal days 📖 ko-fi.com/cupofmin/shop

New tea bag bookmarks available tomorrow on my Ko-fi! Check the replies of this post to see the whole collection 🍂🫖

Remember all my mad book drama? (If not, buy me a pint and I'll sing you the ballad of the dodgy ex-publisher...) Well, I'm absolutely delighted to say it's over! An enormous thanks to my wonderful new publisher @manchesterup.bsky.social Queer As Folklore will be back in the wild! 🧜🏼‍♂️

I honestly don't know why people are in so much denial about this. I keep seeing variants on "how could POC have possibly been present in Georgian Britain?" like, have these people not heard of ships?

It's #buyastrangerabook day! @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person the book of their choice, up to £15! So, if there's a particular book you're after, get in touch. UK only

The Big Green Books 500 Club. A new idea to try to regularly send £500 of books to schools who need them. I just need £1 a week from you (or you can send a one off donation). OMG, we've reached £411 Gonna contact our first school tomorrow! JOIN HERE www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-bo...

Oh, it's #BiVisibilityDay, is it? Well, here's a Bibot picture I did for someone a few years ago.

Look what's up... Are you ready for this year's #AScareADay challenge? Read a scary story or poem a day for the whole of October. Curated by me! Come see what we've got on the list this year! romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/21/t...

🍂 Fall is here 🍂 And what better way to get into the spirit of the season than by checking out one of Romancing the Gothic's most recent talks? Short Thread🧵 So far this month, there have been Vampires... bsky.app/profile/romg...

🐙PREORDER ALERT!🐙 UNBROKEN (Rath & Rune 4) now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book will release on October 17, 2025, in ebook and paperback, with audio coming next year. Preorder from me: jordanlhawk.com/products/unb... Preorder from a corporation: buy.bookfunnel.com/6pbn12izk1

Yay! I love #AScareADay October 👻🖤

Someone recently comissioned a full-colour version of Wistfulbot so they could order a print, and they've kindly allowed me to sell it to the rest of you! You can buy this as a premium art print on Redbubble right now! www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1740...

We're less than two weeks away from the annual #AScareADay challenge where we have a spooky read every day for October. Want to join us? Keep an eye on the hashtag. I'll be posting the list of stories soon (with links) A sneak peak... a new story goes up romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/19/t...

I'm trying to move ticket 'sales' across to ticket tailor because it is easier to use and less glitchy. All still free (donations welcome)! You can find talks here till the end of November from horror video games to Bengali folklore! www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...

If someone, say me, were to organise a year of guided book groups with creative/critical task on the early Gothic... would anyone be interested in that? With a small fee for 'living' purposes?

COVER REVEAL! UNBROKEN (Rath & Rune 4) now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book will release on October 17, 2025, in ebook and paperback, with audio coming next year. Preorder from me: jordanlhawk.com/products/unb... Preorder from a corporation: buy.bookfunnel.com/6pbn12izk1

A reminder that if you’re in the UK, you can directly support Palestinian farmers and manufacturers by buying @zaytouncic.bsky.social Fairtrade/fairly traded olive oil, freekeh, almonds, maftoul, soap, za’atar, dates - from most Oxfam shops or the Zaytoun website: zaytoun.uk/products/

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

Hey! I have another #buyastrangerabook day offer to tell you about. @humanaqvi.bsky.social has bought a copy of "The Secret of Secrets", the new thriller by Dan Brown for me to give away. If you've not benefitted from #buyastrangerabook before & would like it, get in touch! UK only.

Finally! An essential packing guide that is actually useful 📚

Here's another #buyastrangerabook day offer. If you let @stevenkeevil.bsky.social know what kind of books you enjoy, Steve will make a few suggestions and buy you the one you like the sound of best! So, get in touch. UK only

Over the weekend, the world's richest man appeared on screens in central London to call for a race war and for the UK government to be overthrown. No arrests were made in connection with that communication.

Who wants to hear me talk about the Dance of Death? That’s what I’m going to be doing on Thursday - it’s online, and you can get tickets here: thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/will-y...

HEY! I'm trying to raise money to send as many books as I can to a new Mobile Library being set up to support homeless people. It's being organised by Cee, founder of London based charity "PINT Giving". I'm donating £100, but if you can help too, i'd be really grateful. tinyurl.com/37yn63zu

If you're from the UK, Europe, Canada... and have a cat, then this might be your cup of tea! (pun intended) #art #cats 🐈

Do you fancy learning about Byron with me? This is an in-person course in Liverpool. One whole day of Byron! What a delight! (If you can't do in person but would be up for an online course, let me know and I can pitch it!) www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

I really like this. This is helpful.

Maybe ask any non-white person how free their speech was in London yesterday idk.

*tapping the sign* 👇🏻

Please support our call for Covid boosters for those whose lives may be at risk this autumn / winter. It takes a couple of mins to help SAVE LIVES 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

📈 When you allow infections to surge 📥 When some choose not to test / protect 💉 When millions at most risk are denied vaccines - Who always pays the highest price? 🤔 inews.co.uk/news/health/...

This anthology of short fiction is out next month, and I have a story in it! Mine is about a revenant crawling along train tracks at the end of the world, single-mindedly searching for the long-distance online love of their life that they never got to meet in person.

Just a reminder that if you like the work Romancing the Gothic does - free talks, free book groups and author visits, charity days, conferences, free workshops... you can support it here The project is supported by donations only www.patreon.com/romancingthe...

The problem is that "hallucinations" is a bad term. Every answer, correct or incorrect, spouted by LLMs like ChatGPT are produced in the same manner. LLMs don't know anything. They just generate likely patterns of texts. "Hallucinations" is how the whole thing works.

Thanks to those who tuned in to "The Uncommon Prayerbook". The next M R James livestream will be on Hallowe'en and concerns a phenomenally ugly and evil aristocrat: pay-what-you-can here halloweenmagnus.eventbrite.co.uk

Have you signed up for tomorrow's free online talk on American Witch-Trials in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath with Dorka Tamas, author of the upcoming book Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural? 10am - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1578389969... 7pm - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1578460881...

I still have full availability for cat portrait teabag bookmarks, friends! 🫖🐈

I will be auctioning this off soon!

Get moving with registration folks, this is on in a few hours: uncommonprayer.eventbrite.co.uk 8pm (UK) - pay-what-you-can but register in advance.

This is precisely why Covid-19 vaccines should be available free of charge for everyone in the UK. The government not purchasing enough vaccines to make this possible is the definition of a false economy. inews.co.uk/news/hospita...

🌈COVER REVEAL🌈 From the acclaimed author of Chef's Kiss and A Gentleman's Gentleman comes a riotous Regency romp, featuring a charming and unforgettable genderfluid lead. A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS is out March 10. Preorder & full synopsis: tjalexander.com#books6

Publication Day for me today. Finally, 6 months after it was originally supposed to be out. What a battle it's been - due to the terrible behaviour of my ex-publishers - to stop this being completely lost. Emotion of "THANK FUCK" has rarely been more strongly felt. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

I've removed the paywall permanently from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager (republished today), told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you won't... the-villager.ghost.io/the-village-...

You can find my Lost Children of the Alleghenies talk on the #RomancingTheGothic YouTube channel bsky.app/profile/romg...

I've been enjoying this original painting "Queen of the Night", but it's time to let it go and find it a home. 13" round Acryla gouache painting on wood. Priced $950 but taking serious offers in DMs. 🦇🦇🦇

Another #buyastrangerabook day offer, unclaimed from earlier. @whyalice24.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a book by either Sam Selvon or James Baldwin. Here's a selection, so if there's one you'd like , just get in touch! UK only.

Here's more #buyastrangerabook day magic for you. @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social is offering to buy THREE people one of these nine books that were originally longlisted for the Polari Prize. I've added titles etc in ALT. If you'd like one, let us know! UK only.