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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 08/10/2026

In good news, a SECRET STASH of my books has been found! 🎉🎇🪩 You'll be able to buy a copy of These Broken Little Worlds at Fantasycon by swinging by the @shoreinf.bsky.social table, where Noel has very kindly offered to sell them for us (and you'll find many more awesome things). What a nice guy! 💖

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Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith @angelacleland.co.uk · 08/10/2026

That’s so shit the launch was cancelled, but good news a stash has been found - we need to celebrate regardless! 🍾

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Michael J Dolan @michaeljdolan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A joke so good it makes me angry a bit, from the new @beetlemoses.bsky.social book

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Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith @angelacleland.co.uk · 08/10/2026

Here’s my Fantasycon schedule for those of you who will be there and would like to catch up. If I haven’t met you in person before, please do just tell me who you are and keep nodding and saying “from (wherever I know you from best)” until I twig. Also, check out ma badges!

Saturday 10-11am (Malin)
Reading from Black Doe

Saturday 11-12pm (Orkney)
The Art of Embedding Genre into Poetry

Saturday 1-2pm (Main room)
Black Doe launch

Sunday 12-13pm (Panel 3)
Writing for Audio - moderating

Copy of my book with lovely pin badges and special limited edition die cast badge. Exciting!

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Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My pop-up Wendy bookshop for my friends to take as many books as they wanted and for us all to catch up and chat 🩷

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“An Overwhelming Surplus of Diggity”

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Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith @angelacleland.co.uk · 07/10/2026

I love this idea - that’s not one I’ve heard before!

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 118: Most of your writing happens away from your desk, when you’re driving, walking, going about your daily business. To activate that mode, add ONE sentence to your WIP as you get up every morning, and keep the mental plates spinning for the rest of the day..

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Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith @angelacleland.co.uk · 07/10/2026

“Your queue position is 41” is not a positive start to the to do list. Hopefully I can knock some other difficult but important tasks off the list while I’m clawing my way up to position 1.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

TWISTED PIKE has been out for six days and you are all being very lovely about it in the ratings and reviews. Thank you! www.canelo.co/books/twiste...

canelo.co

Twisted Pike by David Barnett | Canelo

Paperback and Ebook

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I saw this post about the Lyndhurst Cinematic Universe, a family tree no doubt created by the prolifically adulterous time-travelling Alpha Lyndhurst of the 1940s.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 04/10/2026

Next weekend is FantasyCon in Glasgow and this will be the first year I have art in the art show (pls buy prints!), but I also have a launch with the fabulous @annabelcwrites.bsky.social and a short story and an audio book on the awards shortlists. So it's gonna be a banger - see you there!

graphic with event info:

Where to find CL Hellisen at FantasyCon
Friday
Panel: Women's Rage in Horror
Panel 2 - 8pm

Saturday
Panel: What Makes a Monster
Orkney - 10am
Reading
Malin - 3pm
Banquet
Main Room - 6pm
Awards
Main Room - 8pm

Sunday
Launch w/ Annabel Campbell
Main Room - 12pm
Panel: Creating Likeable Unlikeable Characters
Orkney - 1pm
and barcon, obviously

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Whenever you feel like you’re not properly connected to the world and humankind, remember there are people who stand in a crowd for minutes at a pedestrian crossing without anyone pressing the button

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Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith @angelacleland.co.uk · 04/10/2026

At 49 I’ll still fight people off to get to press the button, so this is a gift from the gods to me.

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Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith @angelacleland.co.uk · 03/10/2026

Bad hair? Shooshie! Effortless devil-may-care tousled ya mean.

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Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith @angelacleland.co.uk · 03/10/2026

😂 Laughing but also mentally filing through my various random wigs…

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Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith @angelacleland.co.uk · 02/10/2026

For me it hit that action horror sweet spot.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

J.R. is an incredible writer. A literal Hugo- and Nebula-nominated author. You would be lucky to work with them.

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Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith @angelacleland.co.uk · 01/10/2026

That’s incredibly shit. Absolutely raging for you. 😡

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Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith @angelacleland.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Thanks. Look after yourself in those last 000 pages. If you haven’t posted for a while we’ll send a search party.

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Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith @angelacleland.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Yeah. I saw a brief description of it today and got the fear.

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Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith @angelacleland.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Snippet from the drafts folder. Might this character and their plotline make it into the book? Some ideas have to go to make room for the story to breathe. So tricky. Argh!

They come again and again. Feet leave me. Focus, focus, leave this body. Takes everything, takes all my effort - I feel it, the crumpling. The men pile onto me as I slither down into myself. Now open jaws- wide - wide-scream, scream! Only when scream!

Ha ha! Their world stops, world as putty, world as clay, world to shape with, world to

play with. Yip yip! My voice scrapes chunks from the air, scrapes chunks from their reality.

They are frozen, wooden men, godsticks for some backwater shitty little gods. Slink around them, wind around their ankles then Bang! Bang now bang! Meat sack again. I snarl. But the warriors are still frozen. Fear in their eyes I could drink all day long.

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remember, folks: for every author you see on here describing how they’ve filled out forms to get *some* compensation from the Anthropic AI case there are dozens, hundreds, hell THOUSANDS of us who get 0 because our books weren’t registered with the US copyright office yet have UK copyright!

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Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith @angelacleland.co.uk · 30/09/2026

Guess who got overexcited on the VistaPrint site… If anyone would like to buy a book to help me pay for all this, that would be grand!🤣

My new business cards. Black with “Cleland Smith” and a white knife printed on the front, contact details on the back.

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 28/09/2026

It's that day again. Use any and all resources available to help you through it. (And, as always, #FuckAI)

Reminder to treat your body like a data center:
1. Consume as much water and literature as possible
2. Upset the local city council with your existence

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kieranfurie.bsky.social @kieranfurie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson I loved the previous book. It was a no brainer to pre order this and I wasn't dissapointed.

The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson

The cover art is in blue and gold.

Angry waves at the bottom killer whales swimming within.

A neck and head rears from the waves a female face with half closed eyes gold against a dark blue background shot through with black.

Long hair blowing from left to right in a breeze there's fishing line and hooks tangled through it. The skeletons of birds and fish can be seen within it as well .

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kieranfurie.bsky.social @kieranfurie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Book number 30 Picked this up as it was read a translated work by a woman month in August. Husband and wife here but that counts. Really interesting. Dark, Kafkaesque Academia. Harry Potter but Harry has been blackmailed into going to Hogwarts and kept there through threats and intimidation.

The cover of Vita Nostra by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko. Translated from Russian and by a couple of married Ukrainian authors.

The cover shows a seated female figure side on in a black dress her hand up in front of her and her head tilted to the side almost as if she has been struck.

There's a halo of water, frozen air or smoke around her head and face.

The title is above her in golden capitals and the authors name below. The background is a mottled grey.

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Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith @angelacleland.co.uk · 27/09/2026

It’s going to be SO COOL! 📚📚📚

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Spotlight Indie @spotlightindie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Anyone else fancy revealing what foodstuff represents you as a writer?

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Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith @angelacleland.co.uk · 26/09/2026

This was great fun. Big thanks to Phil and the other panellists. One question we didn’t quite get to was (something like) “what foodstuff represents you as a writer?” For the record, I initially thought cream egg, but then decided macaroni pie. Find me at Fantasycon for a garbled justification.

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Eddie Robson is at Fantasycon @eddierobson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I didn't hear anything about this incident but wow this is fucking horrible. I increasingly feel like being able to publicly share our immediate reaction so easily is not good for us. That dopamine hit of self-righteousness seems to override critical thought, empathy, everything.

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Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith @angelacleland.co.uk · 26/09/2026

Will good and cool things please stop happening on October 1st, as I have a dull but necessary thing to do instead of going to any of them and it’s all making me very sad and annoyed.

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