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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some very exciting news! If you've ever wondered what Aliens x The Thing would be like, you only have to wait until Spring 2028 to find out!

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DAW Books @dawbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We're excited to announce DAW's newest acquisition! DRAGONFLY, by debut author Paddy Dobson, is a sci-fi slasher, perfect for fans of ALIEN, THE LUMINOUS DEAD, and LEECH. Prepare to feel squeamish... Coming Spring 2028. astrapublishinghouse.com/2026/09/24/a...

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm beyond proud of my good pal @padswa.bsky.social. He's one of the writers I most admire, because of his determination to pick himself up and keep writing brilliant fiction even after setbacks and rejections. I'm sure DRAGONFLY's going to be a huge success. www.thebookseller.com/rights/harpe...

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HarperVoyager snaps up Paddy Dobson’s 'claustrophobic' sci-fi horror debut

HarperVoyager has acquired Dragonfly, a debut sci-fi horror by Paddy Dobson, scheduled for publication in early 2028.

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Anna ZenKen Stephens is on Patreon @annasmithwrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Dragon owner. Dragon racer. Together, they can triumph. But only if they don't fall in love. ARCs imminent. Sign up at anna-stephens.com/2026/08/11/a... #fantasyromance #dragonbook #hybridauthor #indiebook

Graphic detailing main character Ryota.
Ogawa Ryota, Ryo to his friends, had everything ahead of him: as heir to the Scarlet Triple racing stable, he was rich, loved, and influential.
It was all a facade.
Constantly ignored and belittled by his father, who refuses to believe he is ready to lead the training programme for their dragons, Ryo smuggles a dragon out of the stable to enter an illegal night race.
She wins - but Ryo loses everything.

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Keaton Merriwether grew up in the Stink, the lowest, poorest part of Mantletown.
Working a dead end job to pay the bills, she lives for jockeying dragons in illegal night races, the only type of race she’s qualified to fly.
A chance encounter with Ryo leads to a breathtaking victory and then a devastating outcome. Keaton is arrested and thrown into prison, a convicted illegal racer.
From these twin ashes, a new stable will rise.

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Throwing it out there that there's gonna be an uptick in optical appointments starting from about 19:00 GMT tomorrow.

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Anna ZenKen Stephens is on Patreon @annasmithwrites.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

ARC requests for The Sport of Wings are now live. Sign up here, and as soon as the ARCs are ready - just a couple of weeks! - you will automatically get sent a copy. anna-stephens.com/2026/08/11/a...

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ARC sign up for The Sport of Wings is live!

I am due copy edits back on The Sport of Wings imminently, which means e-ARCs will be available soon and a limited number of physical ARCs shortly afterwards. Want to know more before signing up? T…

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Anthony Ryan @anthonyryan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Check out the terrific cover for the first Polish volume of the Seven Swords (looks like they’re collecting the first three books into one volume). Design by Fecit Studio. Cover illustration by Paweł Zaręba. #BookSky

Book design for the first volume of the Polish edition of the fantasy novella series ‘The Seven Swords’ by Anthony Ryan

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Anna ZenKen Stephens is on Patreon @annasmithwrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Aaahhhhhhh, I can finally confirm my pun-riddled fantasy heist is coming to life! Expect ridiculous heists, excellent tailoring, terrible jokes, and high stakes. 9 months and counting, baby!

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Just finished Atomic Coffin by @benedictanning.bsky.social. Cold war, submarines, and existential dread. A claustrophobic nightmare. 10/10 - don't think I'll ever be able to listen to Jefferson Airplane ever again.

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I wonder if there's a way to sleep in a cold bath without drowning.

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Bloody brilliant book. Be excited.

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

A razor-sharp, laser-focused, super-quick read.

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 03/06/2026

eavesdropping on a couple of english lit academics in st. john, i overheard confirmation of what is surely going to be the biggest literary news story of the year

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Narrative Damage @narrativedamagerpg.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Join us next week as we play a 3-part adventure from Pathfinder's Curse of the Crimson Throne, adapted to the Nimble RPG system. Four Heroes, All Betrayed By the Same Man. Will They Take Revenge or Seek Justice? Our Actual Play of Haunted Fortunes starts on 28 May! youtube.com/shorts/jlRNm...

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Coming Soon... A Pathfinder 3-part adventure played with Nimble: Haunted Fortunes #ttrpg

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Very hard not to be thinking about Dune at any given moment.

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Setting up a diffuser and a dehumidifier next to each other, and seeing who comes out on top.

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Fiancée listens to a song called Fuck Me Eyes and I always misread the title as Fuck, Me Eyes, as in, 'I've left the brightness of my phone on max and have just unlocked it in a dark room.'

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Discovering that any wedding venue that doesn't have its prices on its website is "probably too much" and any wedding venue that doesn't have wedding prices in its brochure is "definitely too much."

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David (W) Goodman @davegoodman.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

It’s the FINAL day of the @waterstones.bsky.social #WPreorder February Sale! Your last opportunity to pick up my second novel in @headlinebooks.bsky.social stunning hardback for 25% off - just enter FEB26 at checkout. Grab your copy: tidd.ly/46UhLsI (affiliate link)

Promo image with the cover of my book and the details above

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Ole Zant @thebiobob.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Meet Spinosaurus mirabilis. I got to see the material and skull reconstruction in the lab last year. Lots of people have been working hard on getting this described for quite some time and it's great to finally see it published.

Sketch of Spinosaurus mirabilis by Ole Zant

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Mark my words, there will be an erotically charged curling TV series/film within the next few years.

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Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Behold, the beautiful cover of THE KNIGHT WATCH, which is now available to pre-order!

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for ICE agents to kill a 37-year-old nurse, who was only there because another ICE agent killed a 37-year-old mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I watched the video of today’s ICE execution - a terrible idea, don’t do it - and I find this level of state evil in America incomprehensible I’m so sorry for my US friends who are seeing this happen to their county The American govt is a rogue terrorist faction; the world must sanction it.

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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 23/01/2026

Fascists like climate change, because the chaos it causes will allow populist politics to go down easy, with mass starvation and refugee catastrophes. It is our duty to work against them. Join the most effective political group you can.

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Will never tire of the culture shock for visiting Americans encountering the unsmiling bartender.

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

There's a little girl behind me in the waiting room, listing her favourite venomous snakes off in order, to her mum. As adults, we don't list off our favourite venomous snakes often enough, and evidently we should, because she's having a great time.

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I am leisurely making my way through Ursula Le Guin’s “Always Coming Home” and I came across a poem I just have to share. The ending especially slaps.

ARTISTS

Written on a white plaster wall in the workroom of the Oak Society in Telina-na.

What do they do,
the singers, tale-writers, dancers, painters, shapers, makers?
They go there with empty hands, into the gap between.
They come back with things in their hands.
They go silent and come back with words, with tunes.
They go into confusion and come back with patterns.
They go limping and weeping, ugly and frightened, and come back with the wings of the redwing hawk, the eyes of the mountain lion.
That is where they live, where they get their breath: there, in the gap between, the empty place.
Where do the mysterious artists live?
There, in the gap between.
Their hands are the hinge.
No one else can breathe there.
They are beyond praise.
The ordinary artists
use patience, passion, skill, work and returning to work, judgment, proportion, intellect, purpose,
indifference, obstinacy, delight in tools, delight, and with these as their way they approach the gap, the hub, approaching in circles, in gyres, like the buzzard, looking down, watching, like the coyote, watching.
They look to the center, they turn on the center, they describe the center, though they cannot live there.
They deserve praise.
There are people who call themselves artists who compete with each other for praise.
They think the center is a stuffed gut, and that shitting is working.
They are what the buzzard and the coyote ate for breakfast yesterday.

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The murder of Renee Good just confirms what anyone with a lick of sense has known for years - ICE is the American Gestapo. Protected identities, zero accountability, and unchecked power. If the officer responsible isn't charged with murder by the state then I don't know where that leaves the US.

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Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti) @krveale.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Can highly recommend Broken Veil. Six-part pod that has some supremely chilling moments, and gets in deep into what scares us.

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

A phone is the cigarette for the eyes. In a few swipes you can see: book recommendation list - tradwife baking - war crimes - a cat - hierarchical polycule which is somehow just as misogynistic as the tradwife thing - a meme that needs you to watch a seven hour video to understand - AI slop - a cat.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

My favourite time of year has come - when Tom sends me his beautiful illustrations of scenes from my book in his Christmas card. Thank you so much! And a merry Christmas to you too @thomasdlee.bsky.social! 🎄

A Christmas card featuring an illusion of a T. rex with a hat, being confronted by an armed cowgirl.

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Finished reading Children of Time last night and here's my screaming-hot take on it; it's really, really good.

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Gareth Brown @garethjohnbrown.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I am very pleased to announce that I am supporting the wonderful Goldsboro Writing Academy to provide funded places on their courses for writers from low-income and under-represented backgrounds in 2026 and in 2027. For more details contact Phil Vinter or visit the @goldsborowritingacademy website!

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Just unbelievable value. Get yours now!

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

In the latest Predator film, they have a shot inside the Predator's ship with a mounted T. rex skull. Which leaves us with at least three options: A) The Predators have had space faring technology for a *minimum* of 65 million years and all they've done with it is be big game hunters.

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Nicholas Binge @bingewriting.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

UK COVER REVEAL Job description — Isolation, madness, obsession, (light) cannibalism. Apply at @torbooksuk.bsky.social. Deadline 14 May 2025.

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Had a bloody fang-tastic (sorry) time with The Feeding by @anthonyryan.bsky.social. Characters as ruthless as the world they occupy, yet human enough to go to extraordinary lengths for one another, and still treasure the arts that we do. And the feeders are a savage twist on a classic which I loved!

The paperback copy of The Feeding by A. J. Ryan.

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Mel Reynard @meljrey.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

🙌🏽 This is the fantasy series I’m recommending to everyone! THE IRON ROAD by @davewragg.com is 5 star - what a finale to Tales of the Plain! 🤩 Perfect for fans who love rebellion, Pratchett style banter & action adventure. I laughed, I cried, I hid behind my hands 🫣 www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Had a cracking time with Elder Race by @aptshadow.bsky.social. The coalesce of both bits of SFF is always my jam, and this one has a lovely, warm sense of adventure about it. Tackles depression in a kind and hopeful way, and left me feeling optimistic.

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Watched 'The Assessment' tonight, a 2024 sci-fi about parents being tested to see if the state thinks they should be allowed children. Bound to touch a few nerves regarding a bunch of current issues. Pulls at the seams of society. An important film, well worth your time.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

My first full length Warhammer novel sees me doing my alien mindset schtick with the Seraphon, the lizard warriors of the Mortal Realms.

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Paddy Dobson @padswa.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Stormed through The Buffalo Hunter Hunter today and for me it's a contemporary masterpiece. Admittedly I'm a prime target for it, loving both the period and vampires. But man, every corner of it has been so deeply considered, researched, and executed. Massively inspired @sgj.bsky.social 🔥

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David (W) Goodman @davegoodman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Just over an hour until I ask Gareth lots of questions. Come along!

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