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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Launch day for “On the Hill That Looks Westward to Heaven”, another tale of the Kingdom of Tallain! Join Tir, a humble country page, as he navigates the strange circumstances of the death of his master, ably aided by the once-royal astrologer Sile. www.amazon.co.uk/Hill-That-Lo...

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Thanks to all who have read so far! Rising through the ranks in “Welsh mythology” according to the store page. While I think this is maybe overstating its weight in the canon, a great honour to be counted as Welsh mythology nonetheless

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

“The Pull of the Tides” available now! Miri is a rebel without a rebellion and a necromancer who can’t raise the spirit she seeks. Under threat of execution she sails west into the storm, where one vengeful spirit must be exorcised, but another may be rekindled... www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3JKKLV...

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The Pull of the Tides: A Tale of the Kingdom of Tallain

The Pull of the Tides: A Tale of the Kingdom of Tallain eBook : Thomas, Oliver: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

wrote a scene earlier where some torches in a dungeon burst into life of their own accord. thought to myself, god, this is what it’s all about, isn’t it

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

My mum has the early Wheel of Time books on her shelves and they fill me with a sense of wonder to this day

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

So far it’s a mixed bag: I’m finding my WPM is way up but my delusions of grandeur aren’t quite surviving my writing being read aloud to the kitchen while washing up

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Does anyone have any recommendations for dictating when writing? I’m experimenting with reducing eye strain for first drafts and having a go with the ios text to speech and open to suggestions

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

my wife has helped me come up with a heartwarming teen horror tale called “The Scarecrow Tokes at Midnight”. Look forward to that in (looks at calendar, looks at baby son) 10 - 20 years

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Adie Hart @adiehartauthor.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Indie Bites 18: Bards & Bargains is OUT NOW! This issue is absolutely stacked with stories that explore the musical, the magical, and more - grab your copy for free from www.silversunbooks.com/post/bards-b... (paperbacks also available, and this baby is thick!) 🥰

A paperback copy of Bards & Bargains propped against an antique mandolin on a daisy-dotted lawn.

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Watched some of a documentary about M.R. James which claimed its central question as whether he had seen or believed in ghosts. No harm to these people who are clearly huge fans and put a lot of work into it, but if you’ve read A Vignette I think it’s hard to arrive at an answer other than “yes”

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

this is M.R. James stuff. Quieta non movere thank you very much

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

*Un* natural disaster struck at The Grand Hotel today, where a toast to the health of Maimarizj, the Great Wyrm, was delivered in front of the assembled fraternal order of the Great Worm, an unrelated deity who demands, above all, abstention from homophonous sounds. We go live now to the scene

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

they should bring back the screen saver that’s a haunted house and the startup sound that’s jungle noises

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

that’s actually the RPMP-79, one variant of which came equipped with a cannon. It was put into mass production on the strength of the initial Poirot prototype but became somewhat infamous after its use in the ruthless suppression of protesters against the regime following the war

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

A Prophecy by Close Lobsters is definitely another one

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What are some ‘unofficial’ one hit wonders for you? I was just thinking how Dead Man’s Party was the first Oingo Boingo song I heard and nothing else by them touches it

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I fear sir that it must be a yea, ‘pon my troth sir it must indeed be a ‘hell yea’

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

my first job out of uni required me to sit at a desk phone and for hours every day make and field enquiries. it’s no exaggeration to say that the skill it gave me sometimes feels like a superpower

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

you’ve already had recommendations for Singlend but I’ll add my vote, and say that it’s so good that I had my wedding at it!

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

(passing a neighbour) oh hey, saw your galley, good oars! hew many foe-men lately?

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Volume up for wolf howls!!!! I never grow bored of that sound!!

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

had the pleasure of seeing Paul Muldoon in Portstewart with my folks a few years ago. Not a long session but he said a few things that have stayed with me. Will be a tough act to follow

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Pirates! Can’t live with ‘em, can’t have a proper bit of maritime adventure without ‘em. Have a read and see what a gang of them might get up to if they were led by a woman with a bit of… let’s say, “vision.”

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Indie Bites @indiebites.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The Wreck of Our Lady by Oliver Thomas is available to download FREE in the latest issue of Indie Bites (Pirates & Prophecies) @oliver-thomas.bsky.social www.silversunbooks.com/post/pirates...

A pirate ship sailing on a moonlit sea. Text reads:
“Kahir felt that two decades as a freebooter had left him acquainted with the very worst humanity could offer. Zealots, nihilists, men on the make; he had plumbed the depths of the scum in the sediment of humanity’s barrel, and then he made the acquaintance of pirates. - The Wreck of Our Lady by Oliver Thomas, Free in the Pirates & Prophecies issue of Indie Bites”

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Thank you so much! I hope to be able to share more adventures soon 😊

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

It very easily could have been. There but for the grace, etc

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Let’s correct the record here: *nearly* blew off. I *almost* made a fool of myself, but not quite

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I wish I read this *before* my hat nearly flew off crossing the road!

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Huge thanks once again to @indiebites.bsky.social for featuring me and to @adiehartauthor.bsky.social for her help in getting it ready to set sail!

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I hope you’ll enjoy “The Wreck of Our Lady”, a story that I think truly has it all — pirates, prophecies, religious schisms, demonic possession, and above it all swashbuckling action on the high seas!

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

(grim) it’s now the mash. it’s the monster mash!

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

like you say, it’s got to be somebody that “wants to help”. Some of my favourite stories involve protagonists who weren’t chosen ones or even of any importance, they just saw someone who needed help and went for it

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Horse & Hound is now where to get the only feel-good news in town.

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

was looking at getting a pruning saw and I’m absolutely stunned at what’s on offer here. one of them looks like a gunblade and I think I just saw a zanbatou

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I should have phrased this better because if it’s a Mythos episode you 100% *can* beat Mulder and Scully and should be embarrassed if you didn’t. Show an oak panelled, smoke filled room and these guys are nine out of ten times taking a great big L home with them

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

been watching a lot of X Files recently. you just can’t beat Mulder and Scully

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

First rejected story of the year. Onward!

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I think I shall begin to take pleasure in being at home and minding my business. I pray God I may, for I find a great need thereof.

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Waterstones Argyle Street @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

We are joined by a team of fantastic authors of epic fantasy to celebrate the release of @annabelcwrites.bsky.social's debut novel, The Outcast Mage, and discuss the glories of the genre! Annabel will be joined by @justinleeanderson.com & @lrlam.bsky.social

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Look out for “The Wreck of Our Lady” in next month’s “Pirates & Prophecies” issue of @indiebites.bsky.social ! I had a great time writing it, and I’m very grateful to @adiehartauthor.bsky.social for her assistance in polishing it to a real shine ✨

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Probably useful reading after the storm to be honest but I think I’ll stick with my dried lavender at the front and back

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

we never should’ve given power to the nerds. the jocks shouldn’t have it either. we must usher in the age of the goths

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Look forward to hearing about the fantasy/horror - always a fav combo of mine. Thinking fondly of this time last year when I was researching sword combat!

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

(Excitedly) The guests included the wolfman! Dracula, and his son!

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I once snapped out of it by thinking that it was actually quite arrogant to compare myself to the writer in question given they’d been writing for decades longer than I had!

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Oliver Thomas @oliver-thomas.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Funny how sometimes you have an idea but have to wait for it to be time to write it. Picked an old old story set during the French Revolution back up, who knows why, and feeling a lot more capable. Thanks to the late great Hilary Mantel and @mikeduncan.bsky.social for filling some contextual blanks

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