Reposted by Livi MichaelMike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Thanks to Renée for re-posting this deep and insightful review from the wonderful @livimichael.bsky.social. Such a validation for Livi to give my stories so much care and thought. 042
Reposted by Livi MichaelRosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Congratulations on this fab review @polyscribe70.bsky.social, but more importantly on the book itself! Yes, @livimichael.bsky.social , I too, loved the '.... line of eels hung as withered exclamation marks' image 🎊 142
Reposted by Livi MichaelEuropean Network of Short Fiction Research @ensfr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Mike Fox Book Review by Livi Michael ensfr.univ-angers.fr/2026/07/21/m...ensfr.univ-angers.frMike Fox Book Review by Livi Michael| Blurred Edges| Ballerini Book Press| Luzern Switzerland 2026| £13.00 First-person narration is not exclusively associated with the short story but it is probably the form where it came into its o… 022
Livi Michael @livimichael.bsky.social · 21/07/2026My review of this excellent collection: ensfr.univ-angers.fr/2026/07/21/m... @polyscribe70.bsky.socialensfr.univ-angers.frMike Fox Book Review by Livi Michael| Blurred Edges| Ballerini Book Press| Luzern Switzerland 2026| £13.00 First-person narration is not exclusively associated with the short story but it is probably the form where it came into its o… 130
Livi Michael @livimichael.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Wonderful. 'A place where water became land and land became water...' @polyscribe70.bsky.social 131
Livi Michael @livimichael.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Finally got my copy! Can't wait to read... @polyscribe70.bsky.social 110
Reposted by Livi MichaelFictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I totally agree! So pleased you enjoyed this gem and thank you for reading @livimichael.bsky.social @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday 021
Reposted by Livi MichaelFictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 03/05/2026ICYMI today we're featuring Tumbling by Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please click on the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/05/03/t... 073
Reposted by Livi MichaelGregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 03/05/2026On not attaining residency in the citadel of publishing.substack.comGregory Norminton (@gregorynorminton)A writing student told me the other day that they had always imagined that the publishing world was like a citadel. Once you had published a book, you were on the inside. You had gained, as it were, y... 023
Reposted by Livi MichaelNatasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I left Twitter/X because of the torrents of abuse, including antisemitic abuse. I've been on a few Palestine solidarity marches and I didn't experience any abuse at all, even when carrying a sign that mentions I'm Jewish. Remind me where antisemitism is breeding. 1413546678
Reposted by Livi MichaelSalt Books @saltpublishing.com · 04/05/2026🌟 Publication day 🌟 Today we publish Something Might Fall by David Flusfeder – a shimmering novella set in 1970s New York. 'Precise, sophisticated and shattering – this is Flusfeder's masterpiece.' – Julie Myerson 'One of the reading pleasures of the year.' – Linda Grant bit.ly/4u7lOMd 192
Reposted by Livi MichaelLinda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I mean, frankly, this sounds like just another day in Northern Ontario. But I can see how it would be disconcerting... #MicroMonday #microfiction by @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social this morning in @fictivedream.bsky.social ! fictivedream.com/2026/05/04/m...fictivedream.comMicroMonday #55We Moved to the Country for the Quiet, But by Nicole Brogdon The cicadas chirped maniacally and the mosquitoes buzzed like angry violins, tiny bodies carrying West Nile virus. Two writhing snakes h… 021
Livi Michael @livimichael.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Some more book recommendations: livimichael.co.uk/2026/05/01/1... @nicholasroyle.bsky.social @ailsacox.bsky.social @dickenssociety.bsky.social @eilzabethgaskellsh.bsky.social @polyscribe70.bsky.social @robertjrp.bsky.sociallivimichael.co.ukSome novels with a similar theme to Elizabeth and Ruth – Livi Michael 040
Livi Michael @livimichael.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Some more book recommendations: livimichael.co.uk/2026/05/01/1... @clairedean.bsky.social @xanbrooks.bsky.social @uniofmanchester.bsky.social @saltpublishing.comlivimichael.co.ukSome novels with a similar theme to Elizabeth and Ruth – Livi Michael 000
Reposted by Livi MichaelFictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 17/04/2026A fascinating insight. So pleased you enjoyed The Last Shaman, Claudia and thank you for reading @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @livimichael.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday 021
Livi Michael @livimichael.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Great short fiction from Claudia Monpere! fictivedream.com/2026/04/03/u...fictivedream.comUltrasound Q & Aby Claudia Monpere YOU ARRIVE AT the clinic on a cold night, lampposts flickering against the Vantablack sky. Moon and stars, gutted. You and the other pregnant women lie in ten rows of exam tables… 000
Reposted by Livi MichaelFictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 13/04/2026ICYMI today we're delighted to be featuring The Last Shaman by Livi Michael @livimichael.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please click on the link below and enjoyfictivedream.com 031
Livi Michael @livimichael.bsky.social · 13/04/2026A great story by Linda Bayley also in Fictive Dream! fictivedream.com/2026/04/10/w... @lmbayley.bsky.socialfictivedream.comWater Underby Linda M. Bayley I’m dancing with Daniel Mitty but I’m watching you. You twirl your new girl around slowly and her laughter slices through the music like a razor blade across skin. The light stro… 010
Reposted by Livi MichaelSalt Books @saltpublishing.com · 12/04/2026Ray Holt launders money for a Manchester gang. He's also stealing from them – and has convinced himself that makes him the good guy. Darker With the Day by Trevor Mark Thomas: Northern Noir at its sharpest. Coming soon from Salt. 🖤 1105
Livi Michael @livimichael.bsky.social · 13/04/2026So delighted to be published in Fictive Dream! fictivedream.com/2026/04/13/m... @clairedean.bsky.social @xanbrooks.bsky.social @uniofmanchester.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com @nicholasroyle.bsky.social @ailsacox.bsky.social @dickenssociety.bsky.social @eilzabethgaskellsh.bsky.socialfictivedream.comMicroMonday #52The Last Shaman by Livi Michael In 1952, after the Chinese Revolution the leaders of the Oroquen agreed to give up their superstitions and religious practices. Over three nights in July a special r… 082
Livi Michael @livimichael.bsky.social · 13/04/2026So pleased to be published in this great magazine! 020
Reposted by Livi MichaelAilsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 27/02/2026'Michael is superb at forcing the reader to confront uncomfortable questions about poverty and the well-meaning outsiders who seek to end it.' 032
Reposted by Livi MichaelCaroline Pitcher Johnson @lineynell.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Are you watching Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...you.38degrees.org.ukEnd the sewage pollution scandalWe're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo... 021
Reposted by Livi MichaelNicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 25/02/2026In which @kaggsy59.bsky.social makes my jour. 172
Reposted by Livi MichaelSalt Books @saltpublishing.com · 25/02/2026Huge thanks to Houman Barekat for this terrific review of Tibor Fischer’s new novel, My Bags Are Big, in The Guardian. #booksky #litfictiontheguardian.comMy Bags Are Big by Tibor Fischer review – how to make it in cryptoAmusing oddballs populate a wise-cracking wheeler-dealer’s tale of leaving London for Dubai in search of loot and laughs 1114
Livi Michael @livimichael.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Private water companies have been dumping sewage and letting infrastructure crumble for over 30 years. Sign the petition to bring water into public ownership #WeOwnIt weownit.org.uk/act-now/lets... @weownit.org.ukweownit.org.ukLet's bring water into public ownership 010
Reposted by Livi MichaelSalt Books @saltpublishing.com · 20/02/20268 new historical novels to read in February Antonia Senior reviews ‘Elizabeth and Ruth’ by Livi Michael in The Times today. “Michael is superb at forcing the reader to confront uncomfortable questions about poverty.” #BookSky #HistoricalFiction #LiteraryFictionthetimes.com8 new historical novels to read in FebruaryA land struck down by gold fever. Plus, the genesis story of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth, sun-drenched spies on an island off Corfu, and twins torn apart by war 072
Livi Michael @livimichael.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Delighted to be mentioned in this round-up in The Times: smry.ai/proxy?url=ht...smry.ai8 new historical novels to read in FebruaryWhite River Crossing by Ian McGuireIt is 1766 and a pedlar arrives at the colonial trading outpost at Hudson Bay with a lump of gold found in a far-flung part of Canada. Gold fever breaks out — and an... 021
Reposted by Livi MichaelSalt Books @saltpublishing.com · 17/02/2026🚨 25% OFF PRE-ORDERS 🚨 The February pre-order offer is LIVE at @waterstones.com! Get 25% OFF RRP on these 8 incredible upcoming titles. 🎟️ Use code: FEB26 🛒 Shop here: www.waterstones.com/campaign/feb... ⏳ Offer ends Friday 23.59. (1/2) #WPreorder #Books #NewBooks 193
Reposted by Livi MichaelAilsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Congratulations Livi! Looking forward to the launch @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social 011
Reposted by Livi MichaelSalt Books @saltpublishing.com · 02/02/2026Whoa! First review of Elizabeth and Ruth by Livi Michael — "Michael’s prose has a vividness one can smell and touch... This novel is both readable and not an ‘easy’ read, and I thoroughly recommend it." — Historical Novel Societyhistoricalnovelsociety.orgElizabeth and Ruth - Historical Novel SocietyManchester, 1849: Elizabeth Gaskell, whose novel Mary Barton has brought her both praise and opprobrium, visits a sixteen-year-old Pasley – the only name she is known by – in prison. A talented seamst... 042
Reposted by Livi MichaelAll Good Bookshop @allgoodbookshop.co.uk · 02/02/2026being a cool book shop, we have this one in stock 042
Reposted by Livi MichaelSalt Books @saltpublishing.com · 06/02/2026Have great weekends everyone! Happy reading! #BookSky #WritingCommunity 1143
Livi Michael @livimichael.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Publication Day! livimichael.co.uk/2026/02/08/p... @clairedean.bsky.social @xanbrooks.bsky.social @uniofmanchester.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com @nicholasroyle.bsky.social @ailsacox.bsky.social @dickenssociety.bsky.social @eilzabethgaskellsh.bsky.social @polyscribe70.bsky.social 262
Reposted by Livi MichaelKatherine Mezzacappa @katmezzacappa.bsky.social · 04/02/2026It's a splendid book, Livi! 021
Reposted by Livi MichaelNicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 04/02/2026This makes me think of a great story by @writemeave.bsky.social and a wonderful novel by @livimichael.bsky.social both of which I highly recommend. Also stories by Christopher Burns and David Constantine. 131
Reposted by Livi MichaelSalt Books @saltpublishing.com · 25/01/2026Manchester, 1849. Elizabeth Gaskell visits a young girl in prison and begins a fight against the hypocrisy of the day. Based on real letters between Gaskell & Dickens, Elizabeth and Ruth by Livi Michael is a fierce story of censorship and grit. Out Feb 9! 📖🔥 #BookSky 4144
