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Barbara Henderson (new WIP 6831) @scattyscribbler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thought provoking panel at Nairn Festival yesterday, discussing AI and the creative industries, featuring @sjgroenewegen.co.uk , @heatherparry.bsky.social, Barbara Gaborova and chaired by @seanluskauthor.bsky.social .

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Sean Lusk @seanluskauthor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I have news…my new novel, a story of resistance to tyranny by men and women who are far from heroes, is out next Feb @doubledayuk.bsky.social

What if the only choice you have is no choice at all? What if the only choice you have is to survive…

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Get your short stories ready for @galleybeggars.bsky.social Short Story Prize 2026/27! Deadline 8th Nov, with a 1st prize of £3k! I'm really thrilled to be one of the judges this year, alongside Timna Fibert and Gonzalo C Garcia (and there are 200 free entries for low earners if you're quick!)✒️📚

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Sean Lusk @seanluskauthor.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Such a lovely evening at the @dhhlitagency.bsky.social 18th birthday party.

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Sean Lusk @seanluskauthor.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This will be fabulous, and @taniahershman.bsky.social the perfect tutor, too!

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SJ Groenewegen @sjgroenewegen.co.uk · 19/06/2026

I'm delighted to say that I will on a panel about generative AI in the creative sector with the amazing Barbora Gáborová and Heather Parry, chaired by @seanluskauthor.bsky.social

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Sean Lusk @seanluskauthor.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I loved reading this advance proof of @vickymackenzie.bsky.social new novel #eachleafeachcurveofstem coming January 2027 from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social An intimate, touching and ingenious portrait of Victorian polymath #johnruskin

An image of Sean Lusk holding a proof cope of @victoriamackenzies new novel

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

‘Every bit as gripping as the classic, yet has added immediacy and emotion. Hugely moving.’ #Catherine: A Retelling of #WutheringHeights by @essiefox.bsky.social is OUT NOW🥹🕯️ GET YOUR COPY NOW⬇️ Hardback: 🔗https://geni.us/hdV1 Ebook: 🔗https://geni.us/79FJv #TeamOrenda @seanluskauthor.bsky.social

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Sherry Morris 💙🇺🇦💛 @uksherka.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Hurrah! 🥳 The 1st episode of Sherry's Shorts 2026 is out! Featuring a fabulous *new* story from Saltire winner @seanluskauthor.bsky.social, PLUS acclaimed Highland writer @helensedgwick.bsky.social, Ian Tallach & me. Catch us live at 12 noon UK time today on HHR.Scot. @highlandhradio.bsky.social

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

If you'd like to dig down into 8 cracking short stories and discuss them with a lovely bunch of fellow short story fans, then I have the online reading/writing course for you! Starting Tues 13th Jan till 10th March (exc 10th Feb) 1830-2030 GMT, all welcome! Fee £250, incs feedback on your own story.

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Sean Lusk @seanluskauthor.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Listen in tomorrow evening (7.15 Weds 3rd Dec) when I’ll be talking to Kirsty Wark about 18th century genius #marywortleymontagu the subject of my #saltirebookaward winning novel #awomanofopinion

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 20/11/2025

If you're looking to order a copy of the latest winner of 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱'𝘀 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 - @seanluskauthor.bsky.social's A Woman Of Opinion - why not try a local bookshop, instead of putting money in the pocket of an American billionaire? Here's a good one: nairnbooks.com

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Nairn Books | Explore Our Collection

Discover a diverse selection of books and gifts at Nairn's beloved independent bookshop. Visit in-store or order online via uk.bookshop.org for local insights and recommendations.

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SJ Groenewegen @sjgroenewegen.co.uk · 20/11/2025

Oh wow. Congratulations @seanluskauthor.bsky.social Well deserved!!!!

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DHH Literary Agency @dhhlitagency.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Huge congratulations to @seanluskauthor.bsky.social who has won Fiction Book of the Year at Scotland’s National Book Awards with the wonderful A WOMAN OF OPINION!🏆🎉

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Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com · 25/10/2025

What better place to spend your Saturday than in a bookshop? If you're an #IndieBookshop why not tell us something about yourself, any upcoming events, where you're based, what your speciality is if any, show us around! #SaturdayInABookshop #BookSky 📚💙 #Bookshop #BrowseABookshop alt text please

picture of the front entrance to an Independent Bookshop with books in the window and in the background

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DHH Literary Agency @dhhlitagency.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

We are thrilled that A WOMAN OF OPINION has been shortlisted for the Saltire Book Awards 2025! A huge congratulations @seanluskauthor.bsky.social! 🎉

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The programme for this year's Bookmark Blairgowrie book festival. A really excellent, high quality book festival in the heart of Perthshire. This year feat. @seanluskauthor.bsky.social @linanderson.bsky.social @billykayscot.bsky.social @florajowriter.bsky.social and many others. Well worth a visit.

The programme for this year's Bookmark book festival in Blairgowrie, 4-5 October. Tickets www.bookmarkblair.com

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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

After raising £4k for fuel poverty charities from the print anthology, the FUEL flash ebook—with 12 bonus flash stories—is on its way! That’s 87 brilliant, surprising prizewinning flash stories by writers worldwide, exploding the myth that there's a formula for a “winning” story. www.fuelflash.net

A screenshot of the cover of the forthcoming ebook version of FUEL: An anthology of prize-winning flash fictions raising funds to fight fuel poverty, edited by Tania Hershman. There is a picture of a yellow petrol pump, and text diagonally across the top of the page says "Ebook with 21 bonus prize-winning stories".

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Sean Lusk @seanluskauthor.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I adored this unputdownable novel from #lucysteeds #theartist Very unusual for me to be unable to tear myself away from a book, but this gripped me through sheer luminosity of language and story.

Cover of novel The Artist by Lucy Steeds

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Sean Lusk @seanluskauthor.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

A mini book tour over the weekend took me to three wonderful bookshops - #beinnbooks at Dufftown, where I met the owners of this great new book and coffee shop, Sam and Kelly. Then to @waterstones St Andrews and the amazing Jack and to @waterstones du dee…all in the sunshine, of course!

A picture of novel A Woman of Opinion in Waterstones Dundee

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Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

As a philosophy major who adored symbolic logic courses, this may be my favorite cartoon ever.

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Sean Lusk @seanluskauthor.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Apply! You have until June 4th. Go on…go in

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Rosie Garland @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I've done a blog! Get me, all modern & stuff. Chatting about imaginary paintings, finding inspiration at 36,000 feet over the Atlantic, & Flower Power🌹🌸🌹 for my new collection This Is How I Fight, incoming 19th June with @ninearchespress.bsky.social ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/05/in-c...

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In Conversation - Rosie Garland

On writing 'This is How I Fight' (and a bonus poem) Rosie Garland returns with a collection centred on connection, defiance, and shifting p...

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Sean Lusk @seanluskauthor.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Great to drop into @waterstones.bsky.social Inverness today to sign copies of #AWomanofOpinion #Marywortleymontagu would have been very pleased to have her own charming table! @doubledaybooks.bsky.social

Pile of copies of book ‘A Week man of Opinion’

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Sean Lusk @seanluskauthor.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Such a lovely event at #bookmarkblair yesterday with @vickymackenzie.bsky.social - the best sort of chat about historical fiction, with the best sort of audience. And a big shout out to #indiebookshop #adventureintobooks who made the lovely bookmark. Thank you!

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Olga Wojtas @olgawojtas.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Great BookmarkBlair event with authors @vickymackenzie.bsky.social and @seanluskauthor.bsky.social discussing their protagonists Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. And thanks to Chair Gail Wylie for giving a namecheck to "Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Uncharted Island."

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Historia – the HWA @historia-hwa.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

To celebrate Sean Lusk's A Woman of Opinion being out in paperback, here's a feature he wrote for Historia: How Mary Wortley Montagu and other great 18th-century women were forgotten Read it at historiamag.com/how-mary-wor... Happy publication day, Sean! @seanluskauthor.bsky.social

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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

What a book - grab it from your nearest gorgeous independent bookshop! I saw a copy yesterday in the wonderful @serenitybookshop.bsky.social in Stockport, if you're in that neighbourhood. Congrats, @seanluskauthor.bsky.social 🎉

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Sean Lusk @seanluskauthor.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Out TOMORROW. And the brilliant @vickymackenzie.bsky.social and I will be talking about #awomanofopinion and her superb #forthygreatpain this Saturday at #blairgowrie Would be lovely to see you there! #paperback #history #novels

Flyer for book event at Blairgowrie on Sat 3rd May

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

A week today! 📚🤩

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Novelist @seanluskauthor.bsky.social and I will be reading from our #historicalnovels at #Blairgowrie in 10 days time! As well as discussing the brilliant women featured in our novels there will be home-baking and a raffle! 🍰☕📚 Sat 3rd May 2pm. Tix and details: www.bookmarkblair.com/events/bookm...

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BOOKMARK AGM & Meet the Authors - Sean Lusk and Victoria MacKenzie

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Sean Lusk @seanluskauthor.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We’d love to see you at #Blairgowrie on 3rd May when the brilliant @vickymackenzie.bsky.social and I will be talking about amazing women written out of history. @doubledayuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social #awomanofopinion #forthygreatpain

Invitation to book event in Blairgowrie on 3rd May.

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Rosie Garland @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Thrilled to reveal the cover for THIS IS HOW I FIGHT, my new poetry collection!💜 From marvellous @ninearchespress.bsky.social “Poetry of danger and unknowing, wildness and strangeness, and of kindness as a radical act.” Artwork Ali White. Out 19 June! 👇🏼 ninearchespress.com/shop#!/This-...

Book cover. Image is of a dried rose photographed from the back.
Book title THIS IS HOW I FIGHT at top of image. Author name ROSIE GARLAND at bottom of image.

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Sean Lusk @seanluskauthor.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Out next week...the thoroughly enjoyable #monsterland from the brilliant #nickjubber A journey around the world looking at some of the strange, often disturbing and frequently bonkers traditions of monsters, which have been celebrated in local communities for centuries.

Picture of cover of new book from Nick Jubber called Monsterland

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

So delighted to be reading with historical novelist @seanluskauthor.bsky.social on Saturday 3rd May at the Bookmark Festival in Blairgowrie! #histfic #booksky #ForThyGreatPain Details and tix: bookmarkblair.com/events/bookm...

Poster advertising book reading with novelists Sean Lusk and Victoria MacKenzie on Sat 3rd May at Bookmark Book Festival in Blairgowrie.

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Sorry to bang on about this but sign-ups are a bit slow so far...🐌. If anyone's interested in doing a stimulating, fun and relaxed 8-week online #ShortStory course with me on Tuesday evenings throughout May and June, do get in touch - and please spread the word! Thank you! ✒️📚 #BookSky #amwriting

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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Still some spots left on my fairy-tale-crime mash-up Zoom writing workshop next Tues Mar 11! No matter what word-shapes you write, you'll come away with 4 new drafts. Book here, free & pay-what-you-can available & if you can't join live you'll get the recording: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

A black and white photo of me next to the words "Unbox your words - give yourself permission to play", and underneath the text "Unbox your Words Writing Workshop - A Fairy Tale and Crime Mash-up", Tues Mar 11 2025 7-9pm GMT. Online zoom.

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Sean Lusk @seanluskauthor.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Always a highlight of a London trip to see my clever, funny and principled agent @davidhheadley who happens to also be excellent company

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David H Headley @davidhheadley.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Delighted that @goldsborobooks.bsky.social has been shortlisted for best Independent Book Shop regional and country finalist London. We are grateful to our brilliant customers and the amazing authors and publishers who continue to support us. We appreciate it. #britishbookawards #Nibbies

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Dogstar Theatre's adaptation of James Robertson's Gideon Mack is 5⭐️ Playwright Matthew Zujac plays up a storm in his double role as Gideon's minister father and the Devil, who, it transpires, definitely has an Inverness accent. Go and see it if you can.

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Sean Lusk @seanluskauthor.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I loved this sparkling debut from @emmacowing.bsky.social Coming this May from @hodderbooks.bsky.social A novel that captures the life of the women who performed in Scotland's showgrounds in the early 1900s beautifully, with added intrigue! #TheShowWoman #historicalfiction #Scottishhistory

The cover of the novel The Show Woman coming this May

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Sean Lusk @seanluskauthor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

A joyful evening last night to launch @kateagriffin.bsky.social and Marcia Hutchinson’s (Lila Cain’s) brilliant #blackbirdsofstgiles a Dickensian journey though a fascinating slice of London’s black history. Out now!

Kate Griffin and Marcia Hutchinson signing books

France’s Owen, Essie Fox, Susan Stokes Chapman, Anna Mazzola and Sean Lusk

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