Oh my favourite task of the day… Cleaning up vomit from an overexcited teenager

Today’s post up with a tarot reading on it

This always helps toward hosting and domain costs ko-fi.com/home/coffees...

Today's writing prompt ko-fi.com/post/Resolve...

2nd January 2026 I’m at work today so let’s see if being public with my intentions helps me more than just a straight notebook was doing. ☐ play a solo...

First album from the Mercury Prize Winners, going to listen to the all, then move onto one of the other lists on the blog Screamadelica by Primal Scream, still making me want to get up and dance #MusicSky youtu.be/Zjnf8mQ6BvM?...

Finalised today's post and a copy of it is up on the Substack open.substack.com/pub/bigbeard...

We're officially open to submissions. Please take five minutes to read the guidelines before submitting so that your email doesn't get deleted without being read. grindhousepress.com/submissions/

This is that new feature I was banging on about at the end of last year, in the morning post a starting off post on the blog with a to-do list, writing prompt, and image from the archive. This will get updated throughout the day, sometimes with a tarot reading and my response to the prompt 1/

This year on Bluesky I wrote 3,027 posts and 3,629 replies. I received 109,964 likes, whereas 2,887 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "read" and 💙! www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

This is the pinned thread for 2026 where I add the books I've read during the year, it's also a bit of an introduction to me to new and old followers I blog at these two places generally www.bigbeardedbookseller.uk ko-fi.com/bigbeardedbo... #BookSky 💙📚 #blogging #publishing #art #bookshops

First short story up on Ko-Fi for members ko-fi.com/post/The-Fli...

Ah it's that time of year again and I just saw how much it's going to cost me for the next year to renew my domains, hosting, and secure server. It' a bit of a hike but doable, but any assistance would be greatly appreciated! ko-fi.com/bigbeardedbo...

We're open for fiction submissions! We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it. No closing date, open indefinitely.

Antoine Ozanam. Magnetic Press, (104p) ISBN: 9781962413282. Graphic Novel, read 30/12/25, eBook ★★★★☆ A web of intrigue, backstabbing, throne-grabbing, and vile happening made this such a fun read! Set in...

single card feel for the year, I'll take that! More thoughts on the blog bigbeardedbookseller.uk/causeway-lon... #TarotSky #WitchSky #SacredRoseTarot #AceOfPentacles

This is that new feature I was banging on about at the end of last year, in the morning post a starting off post on the blog with a to-do list, writing prompt, and image from the archive. This will get updated throughout the day, sometimes with a tarot reading and my response to the prompt 1/

What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025?

Happy new year, from us to you! Today only, The Nine O'Clock Horses is 99p at the digital Batstore Want to stave off that Jan 1st hangover with a few short, sharp morsels of horror? We know a place...

Submissions are open. Poetry that remembers. That mourns. That refuses to let go. Read the call carefully. Take your time. Send the work that needs to exist. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry

Ah it's that time of year again and I just saw how much it's going to cost me for the next year to renew my domains, hosting, and secure server. It' a bit of a hike but doable, but any assistance would be greatly appreciated! ko-fi.com/bigbeardedbo...

That was fun... Just saw my new website renewal fee... Ouch!

First book of 2026 is going to be Scratch Moss by @davidmbarnett.bsky.social set in a wonderful folk horror universe that includes Withered Hill and Scuttler's Cove Been really looking forward to this! #Horror #BookSky 💙📚 #FolkHorror

First short story up on Ko-Fi for members ko-fi.com/post/The-Fli...

Ring in the New Year with some light reading on nuclear annihilation, courtesy of Ginger Nuts of Horror. George Daniel Lea's analysis of the traumatic masterpiece Threads (1984) is here to sober you up. gnofhorror.com/threads-anal... @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social

Storygraph wrap up - according to them I've read 197 books (it was 200 the other 3 weren't on their system), 41841 pages, read mainly horror and fantasy, and gave an average rating of 3.65 for the year #Booksky 💙📚

This is the pinned thread for 2026 where I add the books I've read during the year, it's also a bit of an introduction to me to new and old followers I blog at these two places generally www.bigbeardedbookseller.uk ko-fi.com/bigbeardedbo... #BookSky 💙📚 #blogging #publishing #art #bookshops

I'm also going to share the daily writing prompt on my Ko-Fi as well as on the blog ko-fi.com/post/Stroke-...

Bettina Lockemann. Hatje Cantz, (160p) ISBN: 9783775752718. Photography, read 30/12/25, Paperback ★★★★☆ I bought this on a whim at The Baltic in Gateshead as I’ve always been fascinated by the...

first indie publisher I went to to develop a directory page for is no longer indie... 🥲

single card feel for the year, I'll take that! More thoughts on the blog bigbeardedbookseller.uk/causeway-lon... #TarotSky #WitchSky #SacredRoseTarot #AceOfPentacles

Well it’s that time to set up a ‘What I’ve Read This Year’ page, this is where I keep track of my reading target (which is always 52) and make...

1st January 2026 The first day of the year and time to get this new feature started. ☐ play a solo board game ☐ review and publish Books of 2026...

Happy New Year! I start the year with my reading challenges for 2026! Do you have any? www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/12...

Happy New Year #pokemontcgp #mareep

I've written two books of my Necromancer's Apprentice series, and honestly I rate my second book highly. But the third one is giving me real trouble as I dived straight into it and the plot is nowhere near as tightly written and I keep having to contend with that.

Same as every year!

always nice to welcome new subscribers ko-fi.com/home/coffees...

I'm a writer and critic here in the Pacific Northwest; I've just launched season 3 of City of Roses, an epic urban fantasy serial: thecityofroses.com/media/Announ... Re-runs on the website have posted all of season 1 to read, and are almost done with the first four chapbooks of season 2:

✍🏼 The East End Writers' Workshop will be back in January! A warm, welcoming workshop for writers of all abilities - or none - to practice, be guided, and get bespoke feedback. ❓ 6 lessons over three months, £60 (concessions available). 🖇️ buff.ly/IzGLdlz

always on the lookout for authors who want to be involved in the Q&A series bigbeardedbookseller.uk/questions-fo...

SELF: Jen Dantes, Fantasy/Romance author, PA, USA PROJECTS: Chronicles of Taeliana, a high-fantasy novel series with primarily queer characters. Currently two books, The Ballad of the Grey Swan and Fiendblood, with Shadeborn and the anthology Tyranny's Concordance coming. taeliana.mephron.com

Thought I would possibly get my 1000th post up on the blog before the end of the year but the last month or so saw a little bit of a slow down as I transitioned into Christmas retail mode Should hit 1000 posts early next year

So many but let's choose this one for the moment youtu.be/j_QLzthSkfM?...

To the post office with the year's last orders, for distribution north (Northumberland), south (Oxfordshire), and west (Nevada). Thanks to everyone who has supported Longbarrow Press in 2025, whether you've bought books or helped in other ways; our heartfelt gratitude to you all.

While I've got you, and before you start on the booze... would you mind checking out the Kickstarter page for THE DEVIL'S SOUND? It's launching in a week and is an immersive audio project in the world of WITHERED HILL. I'd love it if you'd sign uo for updates. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

Happy New Year writer friends! I write mostly space opera SF. I just launched a new series about humanity and our giant robots fighting off the slow colonization of Earth. I also dabble in action/adventure thrillers under a non-secret pen name. All available everywhere johnwilker.com/books/

SELF: Matt Weber, SFF writer, NJ USA PROJECTS: BRIMSTONE SLIPSTREAM, Fast & Furious 🤝 How to Train Your Dragon political urban fantasy, free series starter 🤩 PAST WORK: THE DANDELION KNIGHT, shorter work (eg “Magenta & Indigo & Rust & Blackish-Green” in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social) EVENTS: TBA? 💙📚

The Northodox sale continues until 5 January - fill your boots with multiple genres and genre-defying works from an indie press challenging publishing's lack of representation of the history, culture, language and people of the North of England 💙📚

Hi! D. M. Pirrone, writer of historical mysteries, set in my hometown of Chicago. Check them out at my author website: www.dmpirrone.net Current project: Historical thriller, 1923. Brother-and-sister rookie private eyes, hired to find a missing speakeasy singer, stumble across 2 murders instead...