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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 24/09/2026

The Shape of Monsters is finally out in print and ebook from Tor UK! If you're here for a dark gothic fantasy with all the broken people, twisted dynamics, mages, murder and monsters then you have gone through the correct door Get it now from your favourite bookshop

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've been playing around with Inky, reworking a short story of mine and it's hard to not get mission creep but I've already downloaded Godot...

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

................. do people just crave an illiterate, ignorant, THOUGHTS ARE JUST TOO HARD FOR MAH BWAIN BWAIN approach to modern life?

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've just hit 40k on a second-ish draft of a novel I'm referring to as "vampire witch shit." Yay! #writing #amwriting

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was writing a wee serial on substack before I abandoned the platform, but I also abandoned the story. Rising from the ashes... A pair of witches! "Succumb to my devil vagina magic!” Shouted the naked woman as she ran down the street" #shorts #writing

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The panic of accidentally discovering a new shortcut key.

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Me, knitting Saga's jumper from Alan Wake 2 and explaining circular knitting to my partner: It's not a loop; it's a spiral.

My knitting work in progress of Saga Anderson's jumper from Alan Wake 2. It's a muted orange-red mainly with dark grey, pink and light grey colour work.

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 01/09/2026

Please help get my collection of short stories get some more readers! "These Broken Little Worlds", is looking a little lonely on Amazon... If you can leave any review or rating, no matter if it's 1 star or 5, you have my gratitude. ❤️‍🔥 www.amazon.co.uk/These-Broken...

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These Broken Little Worlds (Polestars Book 13) eBook : Faulds, E.M.: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm having the anxiety, so I drew a thing. #artsky #art #MassEffect

A pencil and ink drawing of a hannar from Mass Effect. Is it Blasto? Could be, but they're not holding a gun. Maybe Blasto is facing left, there's a slight green glow around their legs from some sci fi lighting coming from the right. The background is an orange starburst against purple.

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#CoverReveal alert! Behold the cover art for our new anthology Haverin, designed by our own Jenni Coutts. Look carefully and you'll spot some sneaky clues to the tales inside. Celebrating 40 years of the GSFWC, #Haverin is out October 2026 from Taverna Press. #GSFWC40 @jennicoutts.bsky.social(1/2)

The cover of Haverin, the GSFWC anthology, which features a red-haired girl reading while surrounded by books and a cat in a green space. Text reads: Featuring: Neil Williamson, E.M. Faulds, Christopher Caldwell, Eliza Chan and many more. Haverin, Edited by Brian M. Milton, Peter Morrison and Heather Valentine.

The back of the cover of Haverin, continuing the green landscape dotted with various creatures, including a robot head, lion, and a pie. Text reads: Haverin, Scots, Verb: Talking in a foolish or trivial manner, speaking nonsense. Glaswegians enjoy a bit of haverin and few enjoy it more than the Glasgow SF Writers' Circle have for the last forty years, following many hard critique sessions with a bit of a haver in the pub. This anthology is a celebration of those forty years, with more than forty stories of Fantasy, Science and the Odd from members past and present. Join us on this fantastical journey, turning havers into stories and revelling in the full range of writing that has come out of the Circle since 1986.

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SHADOW OF MADNESS out now! @dvbishop.com · 13/08/2026

A student from my Graphic Fiction class is crowdfunding their comic. If you've a spare quid (not easy these days, but still) do chip it in. Here's a wee glimpse: www.kickstarter.com/projects/the... @gustaffovargas.bsky.social @metaphrog.bsky.social @garyerskine.bsky.social @2000ad.bsky.social

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Reminder that age verification laws are identity theft mandates

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Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 29/07/2026

Hand-Me-Downs by Neil Williamson: The Horror You Inherit Fifteen tales of toxic inheritance, quiet British dread and the men who refuse to change gnofhorror.com/hand-me-down... @neilwilliamson.bsky.social

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This unfortunately covers much of those with power in the UK. Removing rights from people who are just trying to exist is not the path to a safe country. #transrights

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IndiaWilloughby @indiawilloughby.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Translation: Adult Bluesky users will have to upload their ID to prove they are not under 16. The UK is such a deceitful country.

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I wrote a thing over on Buy me a Coffee* It's not behind a paywall or anything, and you should read it, not least because it includes the line: "You are filled with high quality snot and letting it out is not a shame." #Disability #writing *Please support me so I can buy some books.

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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Our governments don't care, they want to make more money from fossil fuels while we die in increasing number year after year. We're being cooked to death and there's ways to turn the cooker down but our governments and industries are turning up the heat instead.

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We need a hero! Bonnie Tyler has just died... and this is how The Mirror is choosing to remember her. (Not surprised but still disappointed)

A screengrab from an article showing 2 images. The first is one of her performing (big hair, red jacket, microphone, big emoting) and the second is from a photo shoot (plunging black shirt with boobage, yellow background). It would be fine but this image has been cropped so we can only see from her chin down, with her cleavage in the centre.

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Paul K. Smith @paulksmith.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"Corporate lobbying fights the Paris Agreement's Crediting Mechanism. This lobbying—targeting the UN Convention on Climate Change—is led by Drax, Oxy & Microsoft with industry associations: Intl Emissions Trading, Carbon Capture & Storage, Global CCS, IEA Greenhouse. They push to weaken safeguards."

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Climate change is not a future problem; it's a now problem.

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Silence is the wrong response. That’s why today we are publishing ‘The Machines Are Coming For Your Masthead”, a report on our experiences, small press publishing in the age of AI. Read the blog. Download the report. Share your thoughts - we want to hear them. (20/20 - fin)

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Honey, We Bought an AI Story — Bona Books

Bona Books share a hard-learned lesson: we accidentally bought AI-generated fiction. This deep dive into our experience with submission fraud covers the "red flags" we missed, the toll it took on our ...

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This attitude is alive in Scotland! (It's England that's decided it doesn't believe in society anymore.) #DisabilityUK #Disability

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It's not a scene until I make it a scene!!

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I used to know someone called Hiro, and it did not sound like "hero."

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"... only existing in physical media.." With Sony and Xbox declining to continue publishing physical games, we're doomed to lose everything published after about 2028.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 26/06/2026

The hardcover of The Shape of Monsters is out from Tor UK in three months - dark fantasy with shades of the gothic, twisted and queer! The wonderful folk at @skiffyandfanty.com reviewed the audio book version previously, if you're wondering if this is your jam skiffyandfanty.com/uncategorize...

Book cover for The Shape of Monsters by CL Hellisen - a silhouetted stag's head on a deep red cover

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

If certain people are to be banned, *all* of us need our privacy to be invaded to maintain it. The govts and corps *need* to violate **ALL** of the privacy to enact these bans.

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Management Lessons from The Lord of the Rings is out now @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

There are people who say, “can we afford net zero?” This is a bit like sitting in London in 1940 and saying, “can we afford an air force?”

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

THE FIRST TEN PAGES PROGRAMME! The British Fantasy Society is searching for authors, editors and agents to guide the next generation of BIPOC authors. If you're an industry professional interested in offering anonymous feedback to BIPOC authors, you can sign up here: forms.gle/8daYWe3RVhrj...

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This is making me think of Stardew Valley and how you need to keep interacting with the villagers so they don't start to hate you. Quick! Drop everything! I need to go post some nonsense on bsky so my followers don't start hating me!

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Oh hey, it's my 11 year Glasgow anniversary today! Accidentally celebrated by lounging in my nearest park on the grass, brainstorming some short story ideas.

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The catholic church was still undecided on believing Galileo until about the 1990s!! That is, during most of our lifetimes one of the world's largest and most influential religions couldn't find it in itself to believe a scientific fact proven some 300 years earlier. #atheism #science

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

She's a barrister????!!?!?!? Oy oy oy oy. I see the problem with *things*

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Data centres sucking up all the electricity will mean the rest of us paying extortionate prices. They also mean more environmental vandalism and more climate change.

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

As a new Scot, I can confirm this is exactly how it works.

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Aussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

In the past 10 years, Worldcon has been alternating between Europe and Nth America. Meanwhile, Australia and Ocenania haven't had an in-person Worldcon since 2012 and are really due another.

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Bibliotta Webinars @bibliotta.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

NEW WEBINAR DATES! Self-editing your writing for maximum impact. Pick the brain of a multi-award winning author @bethkesh.bsky.social at a "Perfect Your Prose session! bibliotta.com/events/perfe... bibliotta.com/events/perfe...

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Perfect Your Prose – Thursday 2nd July

Polish up your sentences until they shine! Get noticed in the slush pile with these line editing techniques. No prescriptive one-size-fits-all nonsense, just adaptive tools for you to use on short sto...

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I just came across the line "The horizon was shitting a sun" and maybe I should just stop being a writer. I'll never be able to come up with this stuff. (It's from "This book is full of spiders," by David Wong.) #amwriting #books

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I'm so dizzy and my face feels like it's about to fall off I'm so tired, but it's too early for me to go to bed. It's been like this for much of the day. CFS is a motherfucker.

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Andy Cooper #backzack @spsblue.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The solution to the paradox of tolerance is that you don't tolerate people who break the social contract with intolerance. GC is explicitly about preventing people existing as themselves and hence breaks the social contract. It is not therefore protected with rules of tolerance ->indeed never do so

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 12/06/2026

Please join this if you can 🏳️‍⚧️ Please share 🏳️‍⚧️

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Wrighty @wrightsnake.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Nice thing to see on my way home.

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peter remote morrison @remotecore.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Kier would rather ban children from the internet, break the systems that protect our privacy and create a surveillance nation than deal with the very real problem with right wing violence, right wing finance and corruption of our systems by outsiders.

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Jeremy Szal @jeremyszal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Let's bring Worldcon to Australia in 2028!

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M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

So, what if I, as a cis lady, just started using the men's toilets? I mean, clearly the rules as written here are only meant to cause needless shame, so what if I just said fuck that?

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice "We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights." Full statement👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...

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