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David Gullen

@dergullen.bsky.social
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SFF writer, poet, editor, leather crafter, gardener. Milford SF Conference co-organiser, 5K Your Way Ambassador 2024 Nonsuch Parkrunner of the Year Winning battles, losing the war.

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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Just been Rick-rolled by the radiotherapy machine. Classy.
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
This is rather lovely - "Adventure SF with heart" - my latest story, out now in #analog
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I could not be more proud.
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Does anyone in the UK have recommendations for outdoor wireless garden cameras, please?
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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Reminder that, if you want to avoid big online stores like Amazon, you can get all my ebooks through itch.io. (And you can buy all the Mennik Thorn books together in a bundle that is far cheaper than buying them separately.) patrick-samphire.itch.io
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
My new album LIAR (Love Isn't A Right) is available to pre-order now from my official store and from @roughtraderecords.bsky.social, @normanrecords.com, Resident Brighton, The Jazz Vault and JPC in Germany! Pre-order here: linktr.ee/tanitamusic
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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 07/06/2025
We sent out our latest newsletter this morning with reminders about several COLOSSIVE events happening this month. Still, don't subscribe? You've already missed today's #zine fair. (You snooze, you lose.) But you can catch up on the rest of our news here: bit.ly/colossivejun...
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Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com · 01/01/2025
My main blog website is www.bigbeardedbookseller.com and I write about books, tarot, films, home cooking, solo gaming, photography and whatever takes my fancy, the blog also hosts author/illustrator/blogger interviews
Screenshot of the Big Bearded Bookseller blog with several different posts, menu and sidebar visiable
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Come, on 'Ull!
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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The word for this week's Book Quote Wednesday is 'tight', and here's a tense, night-time confrontation in the port city of Grand BiIlon. www.tinyurl.com/WizDuos1 #BookQW
The streets in this part of Grand Billon were quiet in the evening. Starpenny Line had planted its headquarters well away from the cafés and inns that kept their doors open throughout the night. There was only one man hurrying past, and there could be no mistaking his clothes.

It was only a one-storey drop, but Garnas landed hard enough to splay the man on the cobbles like a bearskin. His swearing swiftly turned into tight groans as a cracked rib shifted.

“I do not have time for nonsense,” Garnas whispered in his ear. “You will tell me where she is being held, by whom, how many of them there are, and how they are armed.”
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Snowy River hat and reading glasses on a round rusted blue lamp.
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Ida Keogh @idakeogh.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
✨Are you a @bsfa.bsky.social member and thinking about @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social? The BSFA is sponsoring two in person memberships for persons of colour, persons with disabilities and those with financial difficulties for any reason. Details on how to apply are in the latest newsletter.✨
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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Last week at Broken Frontier... Colossive Cartographies #65 – Hayley Gullen Shares Her ‘Adventures in Pictland’. @hayleygullen.com @colossive.com www.brokenfrontier.com/gullen-adven...
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Colossive Cartographies #65 - Hayley Gullen Shares Her 'Adventures in Pictland' – Broken Frontier
Hayley Gullen reflects on the pull of history in 'Adventures in Pictland', #65 in Colossive Press's Colossive Cartographies series.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 31/05/2025
No big team. No red tape. Just me—Alan Parry. I run this thing solo, and I’ve published over 30 books that punch above their weight. Submissions open Aug 1–31. 👉 shorturl.at/eTSjI 👤 @alanparry83.bsky.social
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The Broken Spine Summer Competition 2025: Submit Bold Poetry and Fearless Prose for Publication - The Broken Spine
This August, I’m opening submissions for The Broken Spine’s Summer Competition 2025, and I want writing that leaves a mark.
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Hayley Gullen @hayleygullen.com · 30/05/2025
Cancer broke me down. I had to build myself back up again. By sharing my story, I hope to help others. #cansky
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Oh-ho. Oh yeah.
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Exploitation, plain & simple. Who would want to work with these utter clowns?
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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
New Review - two novellas in one book exploring characters trying to work out their futures - really recommend Wiz Duos 2 - Song, Stone, Sail, Bone by Juliet Kemp and Take Me Hone by EM Faulds - thanks to @wtpress.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/5/...
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Wiz Duos 2 - Song, Stone, Sail, Bone by Juliet Kemp and Bring Me Home by EM Faulds — Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Wizards Tower Press for an advance copy of this collection in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher - Wizards Tower Press Published - Out Now Price - £13 pape...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2025
"The products you love are tangibly worse. We're richer than ever, especially after all those layoffs. We're also building giant data centers that cost billions of dollars to force new and bad features into products you're already mad at, at the low cost of "the environment and every work of art."
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Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I forgot to share this, but I wrote up a page listing some of the inspirations for situations and locations that appear in Darkened Hill & Dale. I have also listed 'things that I thought I'd made up but are at least partially real'. 😬 darkened-hill-and-dale.patchworkfez.games/references/
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
As a lifelong #fern lover I am delighted with my new ferny throw.
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
My writing life - so far.
A shelf of books, magazines, and journals I have work in, edited, or have written. A shelf of books, magazines, and journals I have work in, edited, or have written.
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I had my latest #covid booster jab yesterday. If you live in the UK and are eligible, please get yours. It's a walk in service, and it's free.
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
And most likely a better way too.
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Dr Dave Clements @davecl.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Lets see if we can get the Streisand effect going here boingboing.net/2025/05/23/p...
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PBS censors free speech documentary
PBS has censored a documentary about Art Spiegelman, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, Maus. It removed a 90-second clip of Spiegelman at a public event.…
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Come on, all you talented people!
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Hayley Gullen @hayleygullen.com · 22/05/2025
FYI. The Gullen Test. Inspired by @alisonbechdel.bsky.social
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The first @bristolcon.bsky.social 2025 progress report received! How I hope I can go.
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
And it's an excellent story too.
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Canterbury bells, or Campanula medium. One of my late spring favourites.
Canterbury bells / Campanula medium.
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
This sounds very good! I love being read to.
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Hayley Gullen @hayleygullen.com · 17/05/2025
I got off the sleeper train this morning and was home by 9am. I’d never have taken this trip if it wasn’t for cancer. If I learned anything from the ordeal of chemo it was to fully use the times when you DO have energy. Have the adventure today because it might not be possible tomorrow. #cansky
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Colossive.com are a terrific, unique and inventive press.
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Shop now! • Colossive Press
Welcome to Colossive Press, a two-person, two-cat press based in Penge, South London. Home to Colossive Cartographies and Croydon Spaceport
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This will be very good indeed.
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Hayley Gullen @hayleygullen.com · 15/05/2025
Tarbat (the site of a Pictish monastery)
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Nazis. Hahaha. “Stewart, the self-appointed leader, had never had a job and lived with his mother. “. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Three Nazi extremists convicted of planning terrorist attack in England
Self-styled Nazi cell had amassed 200 weapons and discussed attacks on mosques and synagogues
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Conan-Doyle had to make Holmes use cocaine from time to time. Because if he exclusively used morphine he'd always be no-shit Sherlock. #I10Q
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
It's just a wobble. This thing is so relentless. I am like a child. #haiku #fuckcancer
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
It's flying boats all the way, TBH.
A Short Sunderland flying boat.
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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
It is Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'cry'. This extract is from 'Bring Me Home' by E.M. Faulds which appears in our second Wiz Duo book, due out next week. Selen's body mod has some unexpected side effects. #BookQW Pre-order links: wizardstowerpress.co...
“I know what happened,” I said again. “Maybe they’re not talking about it, but it did happen.”
   “Okay, I believe you.” It sounded like something he’d been trained to say. “Let’s start from the start. Tell me when you noticed the first strange thing. We’ll work it all out.”
   I didn’t want to tell him about Jayce, but I had to say something to someone. Or I’d really go insane. And then who knows what would happen?
   “It… the first time I felt something odd was two days after the implantation.” I started crying, and this wasn’t even the worst part. “I woke up, and my hand fell into a patch of sunlight. And there was pain, like a shock. I thought it was just temporary. And it stopped. Everything seemed fine. But then, a couple of weeks later, the same thing, but it… I hurt someone else.”
   “Hurt someone?” I thought there might be a rising note of panic in his voice. Like he was worried about liability. “How?”
   “I threw him across the room! I didn’t mean to.”
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Strange days. www.localgov.co.uk/Snail-breedi...
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Snail breeding racket leaves holes in council’s finances | LocalGov
Westminster City Council has unearthed a snail breeding racket which has been operating secret snail farms in empty office spaces.
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I got nothing - but You might!
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This sounds wonderful.
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Only one left!
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
An apricot iris. #garden #iris #flower
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
It's hard to keep your sense of humour, When you have an incurable tumour. (-after Ogden Nash)
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David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I have two hot off the press giveaway copies of Wiz Duos vol 1 (two SFF novellas in one sweet cover.) The God Road is mine, the other is Ben Wright's invenventive, haunting adventure across strange tides, To Sail the Interstice. Want one? DM me. I'll even sign it! (UK only.)
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Milford SFF Conference @milfordsff.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
If you're working on a crime story, @julietemckenna.bsky.social has a bit to say about how too often "fiction" inspired by real criminal cases can cross the line from exploration to exploitation: milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/a...
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As writers, where should we get our ideas from? – Juliet E. McKenna
I see in the news that reparations have been paid to the relatives of the Maids Moreton murder victims. This is the case recently dramatised on TV as The Sixth Commandment. That’s right. A real cri…
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Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
You can now pre-order my book on The Female Man. Please circulate! www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page... Mendlesohn brings a scholarly precision, nuance and a wide-ranging political understanding to bear on this funny, feminist, angry, playful, utterly remarkable novel. Sarah LeFanu.
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Considering The Female Man by Joanna Russ, or, As the Bear Swore | Luna Press Publishing
Pre-Order Now!Release date Summer 2026Cover Art by Judith Clute 1985. Considering The Female Man by Joanna Russ, or, As the Bear Swore Joanna Russ’s writing career was relatively short, running from 1...
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Hayley Gullen @hayleygullen.com · 10/05/2025
ICYMI: my new Colossive Cartography with @colossive.com describes my trip last year to Elgin and Forres to look at Pictish stones. Yours for just £2! colossive.com/product/adve...
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Adventures in Pictland by Hayley Gullen (Colossive Cartographies 65)
Adventures in Pictland by Hayley Gullen. Part of the Colossive Cartographies zine series. Available individually or as part of a Series Eleven subscription
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