The Works of Vermin, by @hironennes.bsky.social (pub by @torbooks.bsky.social) is a novel that blurs the line between genres, an imaginative proposal that gifts the reader with stuff worthy of nightmares (in the good sense). Full thoughts: jamreads.com/reviews/the-... 💙📚

God, how I hate what kind of society we are becoming... Btw, we can stop it, it depends on us: which kind of world we create, which kind of community we foster, which kind of cities we live in. You can help @argonautbooks.bsky.social by sharing wide and far! www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...

We need your help. @waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith. Please read on for more information www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908... (1/2)

A friend mentioned in WFC that I had said to him that I was ok now; thank you to that friend for pointing out that I wasn't acting as if it was. Still finding things hard, still on medication. Lots of things are better, but lots are not. It's okay to acknowledge this. It takes time. #MentalHealth

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture join.greenparty.org.uk

My #dailywalk has changed a little... I love walking by the river Cam, close to my house. But this is also home now, and the grounds are spectacular 💚 #dailywalk #naturewalk #wellbeing #nature #naturelovers #collegegrounds @girtoncollege @girtoncollegelibrary

Sitting *again* with the "albatross" novel that got me kicked out of my agency... What could possibly go wrong??? Missing a tiny bit my Discord pals @hironennes.bsky.social, @erisyoung.bsky.social, @nicholasroyle.bsky.social, and @jasminkirkbride.bsky.social, who always offered advice and support 💜

When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/

trans rights are human rights 💾🏳️‍⚧️✊ #floppydiskart #transgender

New wardrobe ideas. 🖤

My 2025 Eligibility post is now live! Holy shit, I had a lot of work out this year. Featuring writing w/ @undertow.bsky.social, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @reactorsff.bsky.social, @nightmare-magazine.com, @criticalrole.bsky.social, @tachyonpub.bsky.social, and more! buttondown.com/mcahill90/ar...

Post you from another era. Iceland, 2006. Pic by James Womack. We had been married for about a month. James was in Reykjavik with a "genius" grant for polyglots to learn Icelandic in a year, I stayed at Oxford, but visited.

Well, this morning I'm off to teach my Translation class at Cambridge Uni. Honestly, these students are so ace, that I am wondering, what can I actually teach them??? Inserting more weird/uncanny/female writers in their curriculum, one lesson at a time...

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Amazing news!!!

YES!!!

Then, a week later, on 5th December, the next Future Karaoke live lit event, which will double up as a launch for Ragged Band of Travellers: Writing from the Threshold of Dungeons and Dragons. More details/booking: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-kar...

There's a wee review of my new pamphlet, SOME THOUGHTS ON HORROR, over on LibraryThing. You can read the review here: www.librarything.com/work/3516421...

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

So... This woman right here just got a positive royalty statement from 'that novel that didn't do that well'... I'm terrible at Maths, useless as money, but this means that ALL MY BOOKS HAVE PAID THEIR ADVANCE, correct? Correct...?!!!

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

Huge congratulations to Zohran Mamdani on his election as Mayor of New York City from all of us at the Green Party! 🎉💚

Starting a new library job and the half term holidays means that I haven't had my usual mornings @plurabellebooks.com for a couple of weeks. God I have missed this place.

Just finished this. What a f***ing masterpiece. Threads of Peake, and Cisco, perhaps? But absolutely it's own thing. We only get a handful of writers this good in our timelines, everyone interested in Weird fic needs to read @hironennes.bsky.social now. My review hopefully soonish in a mag near you.

Abyss isn't out until May but if you're a Netgalley person you might be able to get an ARC. Some people have, and have already said some nice things!

About to start watching a bunch of people sitting down to knit on TV. How's your evening going? 🧶

Big original art in the art show at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social World Fantasy Convention 2025! Little originals available in the print shop!

THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW! "A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book" - Christopher Buehlman "A hallucinatory scorpion sting" - Elizabeth Bear "My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that." - My barber Get your copy from your local bookstore!

My new article at @reactorsff.bsky.social is up! More #translation beauties in time for #Halloween. 🖤

Have you exhausted all the spooky books on your shelves? Marian Womack (@maudmarianw.bsky.social) recommends that you sample frights from around the world with these 6 horror novels in translation! reactormag.com/spooky-reads...

We’re dealing with a decline in our real friends sharing online spaces with us, combined with a sudden flood of paid corporate insertions into those spaces, as these platforms reveal what was always true: they’re here to make money out of you, not to make you happy open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...

Some good news from me! At long last! (1/4) Delighted to share that I am now working at @girtoncollege.bsky.social Library. This is pretty much #goals / #dreamjob: a beautiful library & a place with an incredible sense of community and history. Yes! Those beautiful grounds are my new digs!

Unexpectedly, #celebritytraitors is turning all of us at home into Alan Carr's fans.

Book post is the absolute best post! I've really been looking forward to these two ones arriving! @mcflycahill90.bsky.social & @hironennes.bsky.social are not just two writers I deeply admire, but also that I am proud to call my friends. In short, absolutely cannot wait to cuddle up with these two 😍

Where's her Pulitzer??!!! I indeed have wondered this often, right, @hironennes.bsky.social? 🥰 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

TODAY TODAY TODAY: My last stop on my Vermin tour will be at A Seat at the Table Books in Elk Grove at 1!! Come say hi and get a signed copy before I have to go back to work on Monday 🥲

TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT OCT 17th, 5:30 PM, lil town of Bend, Oregon, VERMIN will be infesting Roundabout Books!

TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT: VERMIN EVENT IN SAN DIEGO Unfortunately Jonathan Maberry could not attend tonight so I will be hosting with no adult supervision--swing on by if you want to get into all sorts of mischief

TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT, OCT 15, 6:30 PM VERMIN event at Murder by the Book, Houston, Texas! The book has hatched, now watch it twitch its lil antennae!

What do you do when you are feeling just a little bit lost? You get a new tattoo, of course. Thanks for the quote, @lisaoneillmusic.bsky.social

TONIGHT AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS, 7 PM! We release the Vermin!

Happy publication day to my most anticipated book of the year!!!! 🥳💜🍾

VERMIN TOUR 10/14 Los Angeles: Skylight 7p 10/15 Houston: Murder by the Book 6:30p 10/16 San Diego: Mysterious Galaxy 7p 10/17 Bend: Roundabout Books 5:30p 10/18 Vancouver, WA: Vancouver community library 3:30p 10/18 Portland: Always Here 7p 10/19 Elk Grove: Seat at the Table 12:45p DEETS BELOW

SOMETHING PECULIAR is coming... Day five brings @maudmarianw.bsky.social , and her tale "The Way Through the Woods". SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released in October, and is available to pre-order now from the Black Shuck Books website.

In case you're not sick of Southern Reach stuff. atmos.earth/jeff-vanderm...

'Womack is a master at using realism to enhance the uncanny.' Rachel Robinson reviews @maudmarianw.bsky.social LOST OBJECTS for Full Stop Mag: www.full-stop.net/2025/03/31/r...

My little list is up 🖤

📌 Os animo a que os conectéis a esta charla que tendremos el próximo 23 de junio, lunes, a las 6:00pm (hora de Madrid) la talentosísima @eliabarcelo.bsky.social y servidora. Este es el enlace donde os podéis registrar gratis: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #cienciaficción #literatura #ficción

The book covers designed by Vanessa Bell on display at "Charleston at Lewes". I have been to all the exhibitions there since it opened and they haven't yet been less than excellent.

Catching up on @iandunt.bsky.social and this is exactly what I needed. As the husband of an immigrant, dad to a 2nd generation, I’d add how definitional living with an Italian has been for my adult life. How much stronger and happier it’s made all three of us. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...