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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Some YA fantasy authors who to my knowledge have never funded an attempted trans genocide: Terry Pratchett Diana Wynne-Jones Garth Nix Suzanne Collins Susan Cooper Phillip Pullman Rick Riordan Pierce Brown Sheri S. Tepper V. E. Schwab Rachel Hartman Alex Pheby Alan Garner Ursula Le Guin And more!

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/02/2026

british sailor's euphemism for cannibalism: "the delicate question" american sailor's euphemism for cannibalism: "the custom of the sea" australian sailor's euphemism for cannibalism: "a salty tucker"

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Do pop down to an antique market in the south west of the United Kingdom right now if you are looking for a faceless life size child doll to take back home, destroy your regular sleep patterns and transform your house into a place of constant demonic terror.

A scary faceless doll I found at a market in Devon (but didn't buy, as I value my sleep).

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

This is my Lokifesto #KidsConf #UKkidlit #edusky lokibooks.com/lokifesto/

A poster of a manifesto about reading, by Loki, with 6 points on reading "bad" books, short books, comics, audioooks, webcomics and fanfic, plus not finishing bad books cos life is too short.

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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 24/09/2025

"One item of subtext that I think people miss in "Dracula" is that he's going to London because people there don't believe in vampires. Because that meant they wouldn't know how to protect themselves from him." #OverheardInABookstore

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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 18/09/2025

The British Library have just sent me photos of ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE - it has been printed!!! EMINENT ANTHOLOGIST Aww yeah. #FESTIVESHINYSHINY Book out October 16, pre-order your copy from links below:

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Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I AM GOING TO BE VERY BUSYYYYY!! I'm sort of going on book tour?!! And joining @ericlarocca.bsky.social, @timlebbon.bsky.social and @cgolden.bsky.social on theirs, plus a few cons! Come find me! I'd post links but I haven't collected them all yet. Google is your friend.

SEPTEMBER 20th- Edgelit, for panel and a ROOTS OF MY FEARS booklaunch panel, Derby

OCTOBER 7th- I'm joinining Tim Lebbon and Christopher Golden on tour with V. Castro and Ally Wilkes, Waterstones Trafalgar Square, London

OCTOBER 8th- I'm hosting Tim Lebbon and Christopher Golden on tour at Forbidden Planet, Bristol,

OCTOBER 10th- Neil McRobert and I launch GOOD BOY and ITCH! at Blackwell's, Manchester

OCTOBER 23rd, ITCH! In store conversation, Stanford's, Bristol

OCTOBER 24th, ITCH! author talk, Cheltenham Waterstones

OCTOBER 25/26th, MCM COMICCON, various panels, London

OCTOBER 27th- I'm joining Eric la Rocca on tour with Laura Purcell for Forbidden Planet, The Elgin, Maida Vale, London

OCT 31st, WORLD FANTASY CON, Brighton

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 13/09/2025

you share the same human substance that nazis possess. the thing that separates you from each other is not some capacity for empathy but the fact that they choose to be monsters and you do not

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

My illustrations for The Woman in Black are now available as signed giclee prints. You can view them on my website nicktankard.co.uk I’ll also be making the original illustrations available here on Bluesky, watch this space…The illustrations are in the hardback edition published by Vintage Classics.

A grid of black and white illustrations I made for The Woman in Black by Susan Hill.

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Here are some non-fiction book recs for readers who love horror fiction! (I didn't include books about horror movies)

Stephen King’s Danse Macabre
Why I Love Horror
America’s Most Gothic
Paperbacks From Hell
Most of J. W. Ocker’s Books
MY BOOKS 🤭
Monster, She Wrote
Wasteland
The Science of Monsters
The World of Lore
Curious Coffins & Riveting Rituals
A Rather Haunted Life
Somebody is Walking on Your Grave
Ghosted
When We Spoke to the Dead
How to Build A Haunted House
American Scary

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

The weather changed to an autumnal vibe too quickly for me, but at least it’s cosy reading weather. - Michael

There’ll be stories as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear - China Mieville

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Erin Braithwaite @ejbraithwaite.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Already said nice things about this on Instagram but it bears repeating here: Good Boy by Neil McRobert @talkscaredpod.bsky.social is a stunning piece of writing, everyone should read it and also everyone should hug their pets immediately. It’s out in October from @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social

A hand holding up a copy of Good Boy by Neil McRobert. The cover artwork depicts a night time scene of a man digging a hole with a shovel, while a little wire-haired terrier stands guard. There’s a house in the background with a single light on inside.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

was just told by a doctor that I need to "limit and reduce stress" in my life but then he refused to put me in a medically induced coma -- pick a side, man

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Erin Braithwaite @ejbraithwaite.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Day 4362 of trying to write this synopsis. So many subplots 🥲

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Erin Braithwaite @ejbraithwaite.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

News! 📢💥 A thing has happened! I’m very, very excited to say that I’m now represented by Silvia Molteni at PFD Agency 🎉📚

An open sketchbook on a table surrounded by pencils, a sharpener and pencil shavings. The illustration is of a notebook bearing the words “now rep’d by Silvia Molteni at PFD” drawn in orange pencil.

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Erin Braithwaite @ejbraithwaite.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Much excitement this week to have the Northern Gravy Fiction Anthology arrive through the letterbox 🥳 first time seeing one of my stories in an actual book!

Blonde woman with glasses holding up a book in front of her, the Northern Gravy Fiction Anthology edited by Nick Jones.

The back cover of the Northern Gravy Fiction Anthology edited by Nick Jones.

A hand holding a book open to a page containing a short story titled Adrift, written by Erin Braithwaite.

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 14/08/2025

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

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Erin Braithwaite @ejbraithwaite.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

If you could get a place in any 5 cities (5 cribs), which would you choose? Bristol, Edinburgh, Brooklyn, Paris, Cape Town

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

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Erin Braithwaite @ejbraithwaite.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Posting again for anyone who can help with a donation, we’ve got to help Amanda and her pooches! Finding a pet friendly place in this country is no joke 🥺

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Amanda Rutter @alrutter.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I feel ashamed of myself for even posting this and asking, but I need the help to take some of the stress and pressure away - me and my husband, and our three beautiful dogs, are hoping that you can help raise emergency funds to try and find a new house. gofund.me/061cd1b4

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Donate to Help to Avoid Homelessness, organized by Amanda Rutter

My name is Amanda, and me and my husband, Dan, have just been served a Section 21 notice on t… Amanda Rutter needs your support for Help to Avoid Homelessness

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Back to the dark forests for me this August, with this evening workshop looking at WRITING FOLK HORROR! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-fo...

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Erin Braithwaite @ejbraithwaite.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Reached 20k words on my work in progress tonight 🥳 (trying not to panic that it’s middle grade and I haven’t even reached the midpoint yet. Publishers are loving really really long middle grade novels at the moment, right? 😅🤣)

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.

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Erin Braithwaite @ejbraithwaite.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

If I vomit on this bus I’ll be aiming for the guy behind me who’s watching videos without headphones

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Erin Braithwaite @ejbraithwaite.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

As someone who has bragged for years about my unflinching ability to read in the car, my apparent delayed development of mid-life motion sickness is quite a devastating blow.

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 30/06/2025

You know you're about to read the most horrifying shit you've ever laid eyes on when the dedication goes "to my partner, light of my life, and to our friends and community, I would be nothing without you, here's to another amazing year of our beautiful found family". You're about to need prayers

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Tom Abba @tomabba.studio · 27/06/2025

@bookhaus.bsky.social’s owners are retiring, and the manager - the brilliant Darran McLaughlin (alongside the equally brilliant Phil Wrigglesworth) are crowdfunding to buy the bookshop - they deserve all your support: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...

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bookhaus - Bristol's radical home

I have managed bookhaus since the beginning. The owners have decided to retire, and I am raising the funds to buy it and carry on our legacy

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Erin Braithwaite @ejbraithwaite.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

One of my manuscripts has made it onto this shortlist and it was a lovely Monday morning surprise! 🥹

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Edge-Lit is back at Derby QUAD this September, with a loaded day of horror, fantasy and science-fiction writing activities! And the line-up is already looking great, with loads more talent announcements to come... www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/edgel... #Derby #Derbyshire #horror #fantasy #scifi

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Edge-Lit 11 | Derby QUAD

View our latest event: Edge-Lit 11. See what the available times are for this event.

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Erin Braithwaite @ejbraithwaite.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I found myself in a completely empty subway carriage for two stops during rush hour in New York. It really freaked me out 😂 the carriages on either side were full! Felt like I’d crossed some blurred line of reality. An experience I know will simmer into a story at some point 😎

A New York City subway train carriage without any people inside

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Erin Braithwaite @ejbraithwaite.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

About to board a plane to New York! To then go on to attend Stokercon! How did I get this right! 😂😎🥳

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Vet bills this week have reached 'ouch' territory. If you'd like to support me and my poorly pooch, I sell signed books direct from my ko-fi. No one's going to want my spare kidney, so... ko-fi.com/verityhollow...

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Visit Verity Holloway's Shop!

I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

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julie gourinchas @literaryfey.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

absolutely this.

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Erin Braithwaite @ejbraithwaite.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Today I got to work on my novel after three weeks of life being too busy for me to have any headspace for it and I feel very literally like this emoji 💃

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 11/05/2025

Wonderful to see a bunch of people who earn a minimum of £93,904 a year and who are supposed to represent their constituent's interests refusing to enforce the legal rights of UK writers, who on average earn £7000 a year from their writing work. Real heartening stuff

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Data Bill's AI amendment to enforce copyright law on tech companies defeated in parliament

An amendment backed by creatives that would ensure AI models obey copyright law has been defeated in parliament as the contentious Data (Use and Access) Bill proceeds towards its final stages.

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

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Erin Braithwaite @ejbraithwaite.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Got my copies of The Ghastling today 🥳 My story (Your Eyes Only! Love Jessica) right in the middle with some fantastic artwork by Andrew Robinson (Monografik). My story was inspired by a house I grew up in and the letters my friends and I would write to one another (still got them!) 👻

A copy of issue 21 of The Ghastling magazine. The front cover is black with a purple candle artwork

A copy of The Ghastling open on a short story by Erin Braithwaite titled “Your Eyes Only! Love Jessica.”

A collection of three letters, some folded up and some inside envelopes, hand written by children with doodles of eyes and flowers

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