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Courtney Smyth

@cswritesbooks.bsky.social
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Irish. writes murder, likes books | author of The Undetectables series: THE UNSOLVABLE CASE out now 👻🔍 | Rep: The Bent Agency they/them 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ campsite.bio/cswritesbooks

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 11h
As a member of the public, I support striking workers today. Public sector workers are woefully undervalued, and I thought we learned that lesson during the COVID lockdowns, but apparently we need a reminder. I want workers to be paid fairly for the valuable services they provide. Yup the unions!
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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If you’re free Tuesday 20th October, pop in for a cosy bookish chat with me, @rurooie.bsky.social and Sean Farrelly at @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social !!! #IrishBookWeek
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thank you!!
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thank you so much @reactorsff.bsky.social for including THE UNSOLVABLE CASE in this month’s roundup! 👻♥️
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Quote tweet it and tell your longtime adoring fans that you’ve got a whole spooky BOOK for them!!
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@cethanleahy.com
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@CethanLeahy

Me: oh wow, this shop has everything my heart desires!

Spooky shopkeeper: yes, I will warn you... every item comes with a price.

Me: yes, I know how shops work

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Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.

Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.

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Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I'm trying to tell you that I'm evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!

Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
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Amy Vants to Suck Your Blood 🩸 @msfoxifurnasty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
sundays are for dissociating for three hours because you have to do A Chore
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Richy can I be more boring and ask if you’ve considered a clothes steamer? Life changing!!
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yesterday she was defending furries and I thought that was an unusual W but I see we’re back to regularly scheduled wild takes time
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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We're also delighted to announce that @cswritesbooks.bsky.social books will now be joining us at the altar to chair our Dublin event! 💒 Sadly, @griffski.bsky.social is no longer able to join this event, but she will still be chairing in Newcastle.
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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
THE UNSOLVABLE CASE by @cswritesbooks.bsky.social is out now! 🔎 The queer witchy series concludes in one last mystery for the gang, as they have to solve their biggest, and most important case of all - who killed Theodore... tinyurl.com/mvkc7wf 🪲
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
People go to the airport to do two things: 1. Experience their first day on earth 2. Cough openly
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Wait I love this so much, go House Teen! I am currently trying to talk myself out of buying a badge maker 👀
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We should bring back button badges. Remember when button badges were a thing? They should be a thing again
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
rip Bonnie Tyler you would’ve loved 2026 partial eclipse of the evening sky
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I’ve had long hair pretty much my whole life, but I only really thought of it as “long” after other people pointed it out - to me it was just hair. Now I only think of it as “long” when it’s longer than chest length!
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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
THE UNSOLVEABLE CASE by @cswritesbooks.bsky.social is coming soon... ✨ The series concludes in one last mystery for Mallory, Cornelia and Diana as they have to solve their biggest, and most important case of all - who killed Theodore. tinyurl.com/mvkc7wf
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Dunes tour soon, kings? 👀 @lsdunes.bsky.social
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Harry Houdini I love your work
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
WHAT’S THE POINT OF ALLERGIES Asking the real questions @waterparksbandtx.bsky.social #Jinx
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 22/07/2026
The mainstream media's reporting of the BMA's critique of the Cass Review contained "misinformation" and was "factually wrong", members of the doctors union say 
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Reporting about British Medical Association critique of Cass Review was 'factually wrong'
The mainstream media's reporting of vital information about trans healthcare was wrong. Again.
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Juliet loves the beat and the lust it commands, drop the dagger and lather the blood on your hands Romeo
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.
Are you having fanatical thoughts about other people's crotches?
Has hating a minority group become your entire personality?
Do you obsess over other people's toilet use?
If so, you could be a danger to others - it's time to seek help.
Contact our team: youneedhelp@leavetranspeoplealone.com
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Our trans healthcare is bad but our self-ID system works exactly as intended. A politician is currently trying to bring in self-ID recognition for nonbinary and intersex people and by and large our government won’t entertain ‘debate’ over self-ID. 11 years and everyone’s pretty chill with it
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13/07/2026
JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Look at me. Listen. Spice bags are Irish. They were invented in the Sunflower Chinese takeaway in Terenure Dublin in 2010.
The “you wouldn’t steal a car” meme edited to say “you wouldn’t colonise a spice bag”
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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"If all of these industries are so essential to the healthy functioning of the Irish economy, then why does the Irish economy feel so terrible for so many people? The whole trade-off of building your economy around such awful things is that at least the economy is supposed to be good." New column!
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Surrealing in the Years: Government deserves little credit for passing the zombified Territories Bill
We’re sacrificing everything at the altar of an economy that doesn’t even work.
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
(I’m visiting briefly from Ireland where we do have gendered bathrooms but there isn’t someone standing at the door policing the FEMALE TOILET line)
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The (enclosed, separate sink, lockable room) bathrooms in a venue I was in yesterday being referred to as the “gents” vs “female toilets” was a stark reminder that everyone in the U.K. is being subjected to stupid TERFland gendered bullshit when trying to do something as simple as peeing
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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:
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Honey, We Bought an AI Story — Bona Books
The Queer Torments of the AI-sphere
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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Well, another Wrath Month has rolled around and we still don’t have a book. About that… 💙📚 #BookSky #SmallPress #Publishing #QueerBooks #AI (1/20)
What the fuck happened?
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RTÉ @rte.ie · 03/07/2026
New rules to be signed into law today will give consumers the legal right to speak to a person instead of an AI chatbot when buying financial products or services either online or over the phone. www.rte.ie/news/2026/0703/1581517-f…
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New legal right to speak to a human for finance consumers
New rules to be signed into law today will give consumers the legal right to speak to a person instead of an AI chatbot when buying financial products or services either online or over the phone.
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I thought of this post a lot while watching the last season
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This meme is why the Hayley Williams song goes “now I know better / never let me leave home without a pair of shoes”
(Screenshot of Twitter meme text):

 [Sky-diving]
INSTRUCTOR: pull your shute!
ME: my shoe?
INSTRUCTOR: your parachute!
ME: my pair of shoes?
[later]
CORONER: where's his shoes?
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This meme is why the Hayley Williams song goes “now I know better / never let me leave home without a pair of shoes”
(Screenshot of Twitter meme text):

 [Sky-diving]
INSTRUCTOR: pull your shute!
ME: my shoe?
INSTRUCTOR: your parachute!
ME: my pair of shoes?
[later]
CORONER: where's his shoes?
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Speaking of which, you know Audible is owned by Amazon, right? For those of you who like a good audio book and care where your money goes, @libro.fm is an excellent choice. We've just signed up so you can support us *and* treat your ears⤵️ libro.fm/ravenbooks
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Buy audiobooks & support Raven Books
Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through Raven Books.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Just to explicitly say: The Minister has forced through a law which is in direct contravention with the AI Act, justifying it with a transparent piece of undergraduate sophistry, blustered out without any attempt to persuade. This is not an action any serious Justice Minister would take.
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SoundOfTheForest @soundoftheforest.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I’m going to start saying, go to your local library instead of Google it.
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It’s me, I’m dad
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 23/06/2026
Banning social media could have serious consequences for LGBTQIA+ young people, who often use social media to find community, support and safety.
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Youth social media bans should raise privacy concerns for everyone
TL;DR: The UK Government has announced a sweeping under-16s social media ban, which could have implications for privacy rights for everyone. The UK government has announced a sweeping ban on children under the age of 16 accessing social media. This landmark decision – in what is already a highly
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
My pet snake finally had a good skin shed AND ate a normal size mouse after a rocky few months of him not adjusting well to the house move!!
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Mícheál Lehane @fertha.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Legislation to end mandatory three day wait for abortion passes second stage vote in the Dáil.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 08/06/2026
every screen, pop-up or button i have to see after clicking "cancel subscription" and before i see "your subscription has been canceled" should cost the company ten million dollars
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
BE GAY SOLVE CRIMES REWIND. The Undetectables take on their last-ever case: the unsolved murder of Theodore Wyatt 👻 Out 22nd September from @titanbooks.bsky.social !!! Preorder: campsite.to/cswritesbooks (more links to come)
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🏳️‍🌈BE GAY SOLVE CRIMES TAKE PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈 I am immensely proud to have published 3/4 of a fantasy mystery series with messy relationships, ride-or-die friendships, and a queernorm world where there are (maybe) a handful of token straight people. What better way to spend June than with The Undetectables? 🪐📚
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Image two description: copies of The Undetectables (cream with a purple pentagram accent), The Undead Complex (cream with green accents) and The Unfathomable Curse (cream with blue accents) are displayed on a burgundy background on top of a small progress pride flag
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Aghh I didn’t finish the image descriptions before hitting send! Image one description: the spines of The Undetectables, The Undead Complex and The Unfathomable Curse by Courtney Smyth are displayed in a neat stack on a burgundy background next to a progress pride flag
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Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🏳️‍🌈BE GAY SOLVE CRIMES TAKE PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈 I am immensely proud to have published 3/4 of a fantasy mystery series with messy relationships, ride-or-die friendships, and a queernorm world where there are (maybe) a handful of token straight people. What better way to spend June than with The Undetectables? 🪐📚
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