Last week to get your tickets at the early bird price! This is your cheapest chance to attend!

Back to school this morning! A collaboration between Bloomsbury and University of Oxford and I'm going to learn all about Fantasy. First lecturer sounds familiar... eh @adamroberts.bsky.social?

Maybe The Rapture happened for some, but Manny cat spent the night leaping on the bed, purring in our faces, patting us with sharp paws and meowing to prevent our ascending. Or sleeping. Way too tired to rapture now.

I think now I'm juggling various bookish freelance roles, I'm busier than ever, but I also got some writing done this evening. 700 words - that's a good start!

I had a great time at Edge-Lit yesterday, and yet today instead of writing my next inspired epic, I did the responsible thing and completed my coursework for my qualification in Event Management. That's it, done, submitted! How shall I celebrate? (Apart from going to bed right now and sleeping...)

Statement of intent! Books I intend to finish this week. Looks like blue sky and blue water feature strongly. Does anyone else have any particular design themes going on with their reading this week?

What I love is that I shared this on Facebook and another Popmaster grand finalist was annoyed that the show cut him saying he liked Confidence Man, but he never noticed that this was in fact Betty Boo, Till Lindemann from Rammstein and two Melania Trumps.

These are the genuine members of the band "Confidence Man" and no one can tell me any different.

Like many in the UK, we wake up to the clips from the late-night US comics being ready for us to watch on YouTube. That's been my breakfast viewing for years - got me through the plague times. I was already upset that Stephen Colbert's show is ending, and now Jimmy Kimmel!

An absolute pleasure to help out at this MK Lit-Fest-arranged event last night in Waterstones, Milton Keynes - a talk by Professor David Wilson, whose new book A History of Modern Britain in Twenty Murders sounds like a fascinating work of social history. Can't wait to read it! #booksky

The latest blog post has just gone out to subscribers, and I've been tatting about with the shop for the rest of the afternoon. I hope you like it! theslab.press/store/

#booksky #bookqw word: IDEA Elder fairy-smith Jedediah has always protected his family. But now his abusive father has returned from some unseen path. He's been gone thirty years, but he hasn't changed. Not at all. He's still abusive - and now he's younger than his son.

Today's #BookQW word is POUR. Vasic's frankly not at the top of his game and is being uncharacteristically polite to the seer, Yurgen. Extract from The Waterborne Blade, ebook available here: angryrobotbooks.com/books/the-wa...

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'pour' #BookQW Every wedding's at the mercy of the weather. Will Dan Mackmain face something equally unpredictable and impossible to control? The Green Man's Holiday - 30th October 2025 - from @wtpress.bsky.social For preorders wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/book...

Book Quote Wednesday, and the word is IDEA. This is from 'A Healer's Guide To Adventuring', yet to be publishing (if it ever will be!) by me.

Today is Book Quote Wednesday, and the word is IDEA. This extract calls from Paul Crosby's haunting short story "The Forgiveness Tree" in Hiding Under the Leaves - out on 3rd November from The Slab Press #bookqw #booksky

It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is IDEA. What would Karl Marx have made of A.I.? How sad that we will never know ... #bookqw #ai #karlmarx www.benjeapes.com/index.php/wr... Hear me read a longer version at benjeapes.substack.com.

If you see this, quote post with the energy you bring to bluesky

The horror the horror! I wanted to tidy up this photo of me and Neil, but keep the banner in the background. Somehow Magic Grab in Canva gave me a new husband. Who is this guy?! I am freaked out!

Less than a week away! Join me in putting your procrastination to work in this upcoming workshop I'm teaching at MetroWest! metrowestwriters.myshopify.com/products/mar...

Halloween is coming! Two award winning writers at SRFC: IAN MCDONALD @ianmcdonald.bsky.social - renowned science fiction writer with folk horror novel The Wilding NUZO ONOH @nuzo.bsky.social - Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement winner launching new novel Futility 7pm, 14 Oct, Star of Kings Free!

My advice, don't wait until later as we have been receiving a fair few registrations of interest for this.

🎂🎉Happy UK Book Birthday to @voidcricket.bsky.social 's AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD! 🚀“Hutchings is a bright light in space opera.” — Bethany Jacobs 🌠“Unmissable. Ren Hutchings is on my must-read list.” @garethlpowell.bsky.social Buy now geni.us/unbrw

The audio cast for the new Harry Potter series would be my dream cast. Pretty much my favourite actors too. But it makes me so sad that they said yes.

"Her hair—slithers. Like black-skinned, satiny veteran reptiles. Crawl over Ranna’s body. Circle her thighs. Then, hips. Tightly." Read 'They Fear Our Open Hair' by Sabahat Ali Wani in our latest issue: CW violence from the start inner-worlds.ghost.io/they-fear-ou...

🪐💫 AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD is out now! @solarisbooks.bsky.social It's a standalone space opera set in the same universe as Under Fortunate Stars. I hope you'll love Page, Maelle, Dalya & the Storyteller! September 9th: 📱🎧 Ebook & audiobook 📖 US/Canada paperback September 11th: 📖 UK/Europe paperback

Oh, crikey. #NotAllInsomniacs

Fantastic - MOLA are an archaeological team based near me. I'm often seeing them on post-dig wrap celebrations down my local, and they always have loads to celebrate. Often new build sites need to be archeologically investigated first, uncovering fascinating new historical stories.

Calling all authors, book sellers and publishers from around #MiltonKeynes - there's an indie book fair in Middleton Hall on Saturday 25th October. Register your interest by September 19th! www.mklitfest.org/ibf2

To celebrate Freddie's birthday, today's soundtrack for work is an awesome OST #FreddieMercury

Wordle 1,538 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Nice!

Reminder that all the books we published were meant to be read in Autumn. (I know it's not Autumn yet. But one can dream.) Help a publisher out. undertowpublications.com

Today's #BookQW word is FLESH. In this extract Alwenna's disinclined to trust Marten, whose intentions are as dubious as ever. From The Waterborne Blade - ebook available here from Angry Robot: angryrobotbooks.com/books/the-wa...

It's #BookQW and the word this week is 'flesh'. In Daughters of Nicnevin, Mairead and Constance face violent circumstances when the redcoats pay a visit after Culloden. Available for pre-order from Flame Tree Press: www.flametreepublishing.com/daughters-of...

#booksky We only need to sell 19 more copies of "Airship Shape and Bristol Fashion 1" to have sold a THOUSAND copies, which for a small press anthology is really really good! So if this is the sort of thing that floats your paddle steamer.... wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/anth...

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'flesh' #BookQW Pre-orders will soon be available for Hiding Under the Leaves. In the meantime, here is a snippet to whet your appetite!

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'flesh' #BookQW I can find that in The Green Man's Holiday, but spoilers! Some lateral thinking about 'flesh and bone' brings me to Dan seeing this unknown creature in the flesh for the first time. Preorders now open. Check out: wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/book...

UK preloved book buyers, I've started adding some of my read books to Ebay. Please consider stocking me in case I ever add anything you might fancy. www.ebay.co.uk/usr/wishus1

We're into the week-of countdown! Just FIVE DAYS until we gather for worship. Until we embrace our fate. Until we find out who's really in charge. Or maybe just until we talk about all things faith and belief in speculative fiction. 🧵⬇️

Two exciting books this month from Solaris!

Free online attendance at The Fantasy Summer School 2025, organised by the University of Oxford, and Bloomsbury Publishing, that brings together the expertise of scholars, publishers working with fantasy authors. Link here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxford-blo... Please share :)

As we are very rightly praising translators may I draw your attention to @cristinamacia.bsky.social and @molowrites.bsky.social. Awesome Cristina is very well known for her GRR Martin translation, and I worked with Monica translating for David Mancera for Vivid Worlds (Through the Crimson Forest ).

I'm sorry, I can't work today. I tried to lift my cat out of the chair and he dug his claws into it. I think he really wants to stay there.

Can I give you a MASSIVE spoiler about Thursday Murder Club? VERY cute llamas and deers!!!

One week to go. Last Hurrah! 11 whole books for 25 bucks. Or 3 for just $5. @meerkatpress.bsky.social @storybundle.bsky.social storybundle.com/scifi

It's a good week for getting a big list of stuff done. Edits: done. TQ assessment: done. Budget: done. Fridge clean: done. Pitch for training work: done. Invoices: done. Brickwork reinforcement and patio repairs: done. What can I add to my To-Do list to celebrate?

The first Nazi book burnings were the biggest archive of trans research that existed at the time.

I have two reprint anthos that have been swiped by Meta according to the Lib.Gen database. I will be urging all my authors and their editors to make sure their original copyright is filed.

I DO very much like the sound of it! Micah Grey was always great. This deserves to soar!

An update on the blog, with a link to the Wizard's Tower Press page for The Green Man's Holiday preorders. Incidentally, you can sign up to get updates direct via email if you would like. (I've tried and failed with newsletters. Turns out I'm rubbish at them.) www.julietemckenna.com/the-green-ma...