#922 in Occult Suspense Rankings on Amazon. Yes we sell there but people have been finding alternative ways to purchase - including direct! Gets me out the house posting parcels. You pay the same price, you get it just as quick with a thank you card from me and I get some exercise. 🦡

We are almost done with the Kickstarter campaign. Here's an update on what happens next. And if you were thinking of pledging, please do so now as there are only a few hours left. www.kickstarter.com/...

It is Book Quote Wednesday and thr word is 'colour'. In "Walking a Wounded Land" by Andrew Knighton from Wiz Duo #3, Paul picks a bad place for a meeting. #BookQW wizardstowerpress.co...

This sad rubbish eating boy is refusing to talk to me. But I'm missing a weekend in Great Yarmouth watching Electric Six so he can have penicillin, probiotics and all the boiled chicken he wants.

It's officially launch day for Blood In The Bricks! It's folk horror, but right here in our towns and cities, written by some of my absolute favourite contemporary writers. Get it now (or They'll pay you a visit). www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

Yep, that's the full set! Thanks, @ivorkhillauthor.bsky.social 8 Best of British Science Fictions to catch up on though...😜

Just 3 days left to get the GIANT TRILOGIES BUNDLE! storybundle.com/trilogies

Following on from our amazing launch it's our book birthday for Hiding Under the Leaves! Support your local independent bookstore by ordering ISBN: 9781738426867 Or buy from us direct! We can ship paperbacks from stock in the UK, and from the publisher on demand in UK & US.

At @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social - @wtpress.bsky.social have a launch in Balmoral at 3pm with @julietemckenna.bsky.social @aknighton.bsky.social @r-emrys.bsky.social and Chaz Brenchley (in spirit if not in actual person. They also have LOTS of books in the dealer room and are eager to sell them 2 U

Thank you so much @runalongwomble.bsky.social 😊

Lovely day today, including my launch and the NewCon Press launch shown here. Bought Blood in the Bricks, Futures to Live By by Ana Sun and Cities are Forests Waiting to Happen by Cécile Cristofari #WorldFantasycon #Booksky

Proud publisher moment. The launch of Hiding Under the Leaves at World Fantasycon #BookSky

#WorldFantasy book launches, @stewarthotston.com with novel Project Hanuman, talking with Peter F. Hamilton. @theslabpress.bsky.social launches Hiding Under the Leaves, reading by @laurenwrites.bsky.social with @wishusdonna.bsky.social watching on.

It has been a long day and I am aching, but I'm so proud of project managing a book fair with over 70 vendors including The Slab which Neil had to run by himself today while I was running around.

I keep seeing the ad from OpenAI that converts the danger-fraught peer pressure rail track scene from Lost Boys into a piece of slop called Pull Ups. From the YouTube comments most people don't realise this is Jason Patric or what it's ripping off, they just get "80s vibes".

What's it like inside your head?

I actually don't know if anyone who hasn't worked with the BBC knows how much threat it's under. I do a lot of stuff for Radio 4 (never been an employee) and about 80% of senior producers and experienced staff have left now. Forced out, offered redundancy, told they'd need to move to Glasgow or go.

Updating my LEGO White House

Me! On the radio, talking about all things MK Indie Book Fair on Saturday 25th October! www.mkfm.com/on-air/podca...

Can't edit my posters in Canva due to the AWS outage, so I think now may be a great time to go to the shop, buy a metric tonne of chocolate, and get on with the editing mountain instead.

Less than £1000 to go now. It feels like we are on the final stretch. Can we get there by BristolCon? www.kickstarter.com/...

"Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make! Still, emo isn't proper goth, is it?"

We confused the lovely Johanna from Johanna Me My Dog and Books when we sent her a copy of Hiding Under the Leaves, so much did the "wild" cover look like something she would have picked up from Waterstones. youtu.be/2tJGh41wSj0?... Another big fan of Spooky Season! #BookSky

Pre-orders are open for Luna Novella 2026: @lyndseycroal.bsky.social gothic tale In This City, Where It Rains, and @aknighton.bsky.social SF story All That Is in the Earth. Out February 3. Pre-order today in all the usual places! Discount bundle in the Luna store. www.lunapresspublishing.com/shop

Imagine hating on me and I'm just at home like this

Babymetal New Model Army Lazuli Soft Play Obey Robots Echo and the Bunnymen Terrorvision Faith No More This was really hard! I also listen to loads of goth, prog, metal, folk and indie. A ninth would be Pop Will Eat Itself.

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

A story in three parts

I have worked on a few of these books and can tell you this is an absolute bargain. There's some gold here!

I'm delighted to launch the 2025 TRILOGIES BUNDLE from @storybundle.bsky.social today! 29 books for just $33! 8 complete trilogies+1 bonus pentalogy! Whoa! It's a deal, it's a steal! +supporting Locus Magazine! storybundle.com/trilogies Reposts appreciated!

Spending more time/money at Bookshop.org these days than the bad site.

Only two days before US-based literary agent Sheyla Knigge @sknigge.bsky.social joins us to comment on pitches and answer questions. Join us online this Friday if you have one of those pitches or questions. Cover charge £5. #amwriting #amquerying www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1663223750...

Very good. Mitch shared this an hour ago, and it has likely already had a bigger audience than some of the comics did in Riyadh in their echoey theatres.

People my own age never remember this one. Or Mr. Rossi. youtu.be/G238WjBNY74

"What, The Running Man? Not another remake, surely. Have we no new ideas...?" *watches trailer* *sees "Edgar Wright"* *Hears ELO* 🤩Right, I don't care how busy November is. I'm going to go and see that! 🎥🏃

For anyone going to World Fantasycon in Brighton this year, here is the list of all the places you can find me that aren't the dealer's room. Or bar, to be honest.

I am an eternal child. There was a treasure hunt at recent trips to Whitby Abbey and The Titanic Museum that I did. Did I have a child with me? No! Did I do them? Yes! At Whitby one of the volunteers even came over and started helping me. Look, I didn't say I was good...

Day ticket booked & I’ll be at the @theslabpress.bsky.social launch of ‘Hiding Under The Leaves’ on Halloween 🎃 🍂 Look forward to seeing some of you there!

I’ve got a story in this one!

Preorders are OPEN for HIDING UNDER THE LEAVES @theslabpress.bsky.social 🍂 Including my flesh garden story, "Nature Morte" ⚰️

I'm particularly annoyed by the ad for AI where someone puts "too much sugar in the gochujang pasta sauce" and AI suggests the meal can be rescued by making "cookies". Just no! Stop! Go to the library and go through some cookbooks, you freak! youtube.com/shorts/i4w5d...

My 12yo has burst 3 pairs of shoes in 2 weeks and now needs both school shoes/boots and trainers immediately. Please buy my books so that I can keep this child shod

The River Nene, or maybe Cogenhoe.

🐙 1 month till THE SALT ORACLE is out🐙 So here's a closer look at the fab oracle cards by @hibernalbeast.bsky.social. I am very in love with the digital ghost orca ngl, they *have some fun* in the book! 🫢 Check out the preorder giveaway below too 👇🏽

I'm a Japanese to English #translator whose "general" work has vanished, but I do cultural articles (like on Nippon.com) etc. Lately, I've been translating novels, especially the mystery/horror works of author #Uketsu: Strange Houses, Strange Pictures, and coming soon, Strange Buildings! Click it!

Fancy a tale that'll leave you shaking 'Down to the Roots'? Check out the reprint of our Neil Williamson's classic tale of Halloween Scotia in The Dark Magazine, available now from the link below. @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @oldcharliebrown.bsky.social www.thedarkmagazine.com/issues/octob...

The word for this week's #BookQW is STRONG. Eilert is not enjoying his time back "home".

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'strong' #BookQW Dan Mackmain's physically fit and mentally tough. That means nothing in this situation. Want to find out what happens next? The Green Man's War is a 99p Kindle UK deal for October. www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Mans-W...

More places to pre-order this title coming soon. Meanwhile check out this #BookQW extract by @epiphanyferrell.bsky.social