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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Ahh, I'm so happy you enjoyed it, thank you so much!! ❤️❤️🚂🚂

Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

We're delighted to be welcoming author Shuang Xuetao 双雪涛 to Leeds on Wed as part of the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing, in association with @grantamag.bsky.social - the event is free, and all welcome! (Please book at the link below) writingchinese.leeds.ac.uk/events/shuan...

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Shuang Xuetao 双雪涛 at Leeds | The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Delighted to be part of this anthology of strange tales!

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Honoured to be involved in this year's Sponosored Write, on behalf of Macmillan Cancer Support, along with a whole gaggle of amazing writers!

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Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

My British Fantasy Award nominated collection* is available at UK Amazon for £2.90. I’m sure you’ve got a copy, but here’s a perfect chance to buy a cheap present for the archaeological horror fan in your life www.amazon.co.uk/Dirt-Upon-My... *this still hasn’t sunk in.

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Dirt Upon My Skin: 37 (Black Shuck Shadows): Amazon.co.uk: Toase, Steve: 9781917173995: Books

Buy Dirt Upon My Skin: 37 (Black Shuck Shadows) by Toase, Steve (ISBN: 9781917173995) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Over the moon to see The Cautious Traveller's Guide on the @goldsborobooks.bsky.social Glass Bell shortlist, along with some amazing books (including the lovely @jenniegauthor.bsky.social)! Thank you so much to Goldsboro!

A list of 6 books on the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell shortlist

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

As a tea obsessive, I love this! Thank you so much for reading 🚂✨️🫖

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Thank you so much for the kind words! And as a lifelong fantasy reader who used to draw her own maps as a child (and stain them with tea to make them look old) getting a map made me SO happy!

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Thank you to the brilliant @drrachelknightley.bsky.social for letting me chat about my white noise obsession, creative doubts, and much more! I've found listening to her podcast incredibly helpful when my confidence is wavering, so it was an honour to be on it ❤️📚 open.spotify.com/episode/7En5...

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

This is an amazing book - I'm still thinking about these characters ✨️

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Thank you so much!! I'm really happy you enjoyed it! ❤️🚂

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Thank you so much for the kind words - I'm so happy you enjoyed it! ❤️🚂

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Just finished a proof of this and loved it! It's a fantastic mix of golden age crime and supernatural mystery, with brilliantly atmospheric settings and a great heroine. Out in Oct from @hodderscape.bsky.social!

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Looking forward to this tonight!!

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Katie ♥️💜💙 @katiebruce.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

What a fabulous night! A brilliant discussion on all things historical science fiction and fantasy, great questions from the audience and a lovely signing afterwards! "Sanguinocrat, to the guillotine with you!" - a fabulous line uttered by @genevievecogman.bsky.social

Andrew Knighton, Sarah Brooks, Stephen Aryan and Genevieve Cogman sat on a stage in front of two black and white waterstones banners

Andrew Knighton, Sarah Brooks, Stephen Aryan and Genevieve Cogman sat on a stage in front of two black and white waterstones banners - Stephen is talking into the microphone

Andrew Knighton, Sarah Brooks, Stephen Aryan and Genevieve Cogman sat on a stage in front of two black and white waterstones banners - Sarah is talking into the microphone

A table full of books by the authors - The Judas Blossom, The Blood Dimmed Tide, The Sorrow of the Sea, The Cautious Traveller's Guide To The Wastelands, Forged For Destiny, Scarlet, Elusive, Damned, The Invisible Library

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Really enjoyed this event! Thank you so much to @aknighton.bsky.social for being such a fab moderator, and to @katiebruce.bsky.social and @britfantasysoc.bsky.social for organising!

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

It's today! Do you have your ticket to the past? Portal location is Waterstones, Leeds. tinyurl.com/Historical-SFF @stephenaryan.bsky.social @genevievecogman.bsky.social @sarahbrooks.bsky.social @aknighton.bsky.social

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Really looking forward to talking at Marsden Library tomorrow as part of @newwritingnorth.bsky.social's Northern Bookshelf Live! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-cautio...

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The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands - Readings and Q&A

Come join us for a night of readings and Q&A with author Sarah Brooks

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

It's tomorrow! Do you have your ticket to the past? Portal location is Waterstones, Leeds. tinyurl.com/Historical-SFF @stephenaryan.bsky.social @genevievecogman.bsky.social @sarahbrooks.bsky.social @aknighton.bsky.social

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Come and join us in Leeds next week, being nerdy about all things historical SFF!

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Come and join us talking about books with long titles! Also circuses, trains, and general strangeness! Caper Books, Oxford, Tues 17th. checkout.square.site/merchant/ML2...

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Authors of the strange – Helen Marshall, Sarah Brooks, & Malcolm Devlin in conversation - Caper

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

My book is currently No.6 and No.10 on Amazon’s humorous essays chart. Do consider buying it while it is mind-blowingly cheap and help me get to No.1, so I can explain to my dad the point of my writing. Spike Milligan is No.1 but honesty I don’t think he’s feeling the benefit. amzn.eu/d/6mT5juh

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Coming soon! Find out how authors twist the past into magical shapes, with a panel on historical fantasy & scifi at Leeds Waterstones. @genevievecogman.bsky.social @sarahbrooks.bsky.social & @stephenaryan.bsky.social talk about their truly excellent books. www.waterstones.com/events/panel...

An old map of the world with a compass as background. Pictures of Andrew Knighton, Stephen Aryan, Sarah Brooks and Genevieve Cogman. The Waterstones and British Fantasy Society logos at the top and the text on purple background:
The British Fantasy Society & Waterstones Leeds 'An Evening of Historical Fantasy and Science Fiction'
Andrew Knighton (mod), Stephen Aryan, Sarah Brooks, Genevieve Cogman
Wednesday 25th June, 7pm, Waterstones, Leeds

An old map of the world with a compass as background. Pictures of Andrew Knighton, Stephen Aryan, Sarah Brooks and Genevieve Cogman and their book covers Damned, Forged For Destiny, The Sorrow of the Sea and The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Obsessed with this gorgeous, complex book - out on June 10th!

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Need to try and manifest this! (Though I'm not sure I'd manage more than incoherent babbling...)

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Thank you for including The Cautious Traveller’s Guide! ❤️

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Katie ♥️💜💙 @katiebruce.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

An Evening of Historical Fantasy & Science Fiction, Waterstones Leeds 25th June 7pm @stephenaryan.bsky.social @genevievecogman.bsky.social @sarahbrooks.bsky.social & @aknighton.bsky.social moderating Come listen to some fabulous people discussing all things historical SFF! tinyurl.com/Historical-SFF

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Genevieve Cogman @genevievecogman.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Get your history in your fantasy, or your fantasy in your history! Catch us at Leeds Waterstones on June 25th. @stephenaryan.bsky.social @sarahbrooks.bsky.social @aknighton.bsky.social

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The Knightleys @drrachelknightley.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

What a brilliant title by @rhi.bsky.social for Green Ink Sponsored Write for Macmillan Cancer Support 2025: Somewhere That’s Green: Paradises, Utopias and Happy Places. Sponsor the writers to receive the exclusive digital anthology, 48 hours after it’s written. (Writer announcements soon…)

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Green Ink Sponsored Write 2025 for Macmillan Cancer Support

Help Green Ink Sponsored Write at the Writers' Gym raise money to support Macmillan Cancer Support

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Ahh, congratulations, Katie!! 🎉

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Really looking forward to this event (and some sage nodding) on June 25th! Come and join us for all things fantastical and historical!

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Thank you so much, Craig - I'm really happy you enjoyed it! ✨️🚂

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Happy paperback publication day @emmasternerradley.bsky.social! Even bickering assassins need to celebrate! ❄️⚔️✨️🎉

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Ah, thank you, and huge thanks for your translation! I'm in awe of the work translators do, and am so grateful!

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Thank you so much, Sophie, you too! So happy to be neighbours on this list!

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Delighted that The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands is a Locus Award finalist, for first novel! Congratulations to all the finalists, and especially to fellow @clarionwest.bsky.social 2012-er @indrapramitdas.bsky.social!

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Ahh, thank you so much, Katie!!

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Thank you so much, Carlie, and congratulations @indrapramitdas.bsky.social!!

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Welcome aboard! I hope you enjoy it!

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Ah, thank you so much, Lesley - I'm so happy you enjoyed it! ❤️❤️🚂🚂

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Emma (Em) Sterner-Radley @emmasternerradley.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

This will be so great! I hope many of you can make it. (Are you looking forward to our usual sibling banter on panels? @franceswrites.bsky.social ? 😂)

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

SJ is a fab writer and a teacher, and this course sounds perfect for anyone interested in grappling with writing a novel!

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Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

So happy that this strange, beautiful story has won the @bsfa.bsky.social Award for best translated short work! @strangehorizons.bsky.social

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