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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yay! So nice you're coming over :)

Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Heading off on first leg of journey to Glasgow for @britfantasysoc.bsky.social fantasycon! Here's where I'll be at: 💫Breaking the Glass Slipper LIVE SAT 1-2pm, Rockall 💫Fairytale Retellings SAT 2-3pm, Orkney 💫Updating Myths for Modern Audiences SAT 7-8pm, Panel 3 💫Reading SUN 11am-12pm, Hebrides

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Who is going to Fantasycon Glasgow? Here's where to reliably find me! Don't miss my reading on Sunday at 11am - not only am I reading from HARP LORD, I'm performing some ancient Welsh poetry composed by the Old North's most famous bard, Taliesin. Here I am at his monument, Llyn Geirionydd, Cymru.

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Planning to get some art cards printed to send out with ARCs. Can anyone rec an environmentally friendly UK based printing company that doesn't autofeed the art you upload into some AI model?

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Little bit of practice before I attempt a recording. Anyone recognise this folk tune? (I realise I never post harp videos here because they're always too long).

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just finished the first two Hyperion books. Sad not to have read Simmons before the year of his passing, but how terrifying and vindicating that our current reality so uncomfortably resembles his science fiction.

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The Abominable Jonathan L. Howard @jonathanlhoward.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mixed feelings about my ATOMFALL novel. Delighted that it's out, less so that it was published four months ago and I only found out today. That aside, I think I did good work with this and, considering its less than barnstorming release, It's got nice reviews. ATOMFALL: THE SECRETS OF WINDSCALE

Cover of ATOMFALL: THE SECRETS OF WINDSCALE, showing the protagonist, journalist Jenny Coggins, regarding the Windscale plant in the distance. Blue energy emanates up from the ruined plant, and lighting strikes down from an angry cloud above.

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My god this is a low even for publishing. Congrats on the novel, Jonathan!

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Would you like to hear a story told in a 13th century church? Here's a clip from last week's event where I got to perform with a bard - the marvellous David Yardley. This is my retelling of The Herlathing, a British variant of the Wild Hunt myth, which inspired my novel, Song of the Huntress.

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh she's wonderful. Can I recommend The Shining Company, her reimagining of the events surrounding the late 6th century battle commemorated in Aneirin's Y Gododdin?

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So happy you enjoyed it, Finn! Thank you for reading x

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My name twinned in any context whatsoever with Rosemary Sutcliff's is the highest honour 🥹

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If after death I walk as a shade across an English ghostscape, I shall choose the old paths, the ancient ways. I will navigate by hollow hills, tread a haunted hodology. My living map of folklore will be the territory I'll tread. Harrowhounds shall pad beside me. – #CLNolan

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yay! Hopefully can set something up in October

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mildly obsessed with Ilea, gorgeous Void Prince

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It was so beautifully written and told. I hope you'll come on our podcast to talk about it. (Have emailed your publicist). X

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 17/09/2026

It's ONE WEEK to go before The Shape of Monsters is out in print! I am so amped for readers to meet Aleks, Vai and *evil grin* my sweet innocent precious Ilea. Come join @heatherpalmer.bsky.social and me at Blackwell's in Edinburgh at 7pm on Thursday the 24th September!

Cl Hellisen: The Shape of Monsters in conversation with Annabel Campbell (sadly she can't make this,but the wonderful Heather Palmer is taking her seat)
Thursday 24th September, 7pm

And a picture of me in a stripy top, with the red and dark purple cover of the Shape of Monsters with its creepy stag head

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Been a while since I read an unputdownable book - maybe this one just found me at the perfect time. What a place to end on, @clhellisen.com!

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 15/09/2026

It's not long til FantasyCon, and here's where I'll be, including a Very Exciting Double Launch with @annabelcwrites.bsky.social because for some reason we write tonally different books about voids, dragons, idiot over-powerful mages, and women who are Done With Everything

Promo post for fantasy Con Glasgow CL Hellisen

Friday 8pm Women's rage in Horror
Saturday 10 am What Makes a Monster
3pm reading
Sunday 12 pm Launch with Annabel Campbell - the Void Dragon and CL Hellisen The Shape of Monsters
1 pm Creating Likeable Unlikeable Characters

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm enjoying your book btw - took it with me to Yorkshire this weekend. I just knew oat milk guy wasn't going to make it 😂

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Thank you, it's largely my early medieval ensemble tweaked to look Bronze Age priestess!

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Nope just the Saturday. Sorry to miss you! I'll be at fcon though if you're going.

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Isn't it great? From a company called Hysteria Machine (I have zero craft skillz)

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Amazing day at Fantasy Forest Libertalia. Thank you weather gods! Everyone was nice and dressed so amazingly. Even spotted a whole table of @ravenswordpress.com books!

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

100%. Must protect the libraries. Crucially something not for profit but social good...and where books can be books rather than product.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

There are moments when time becomes uncertainty. It could be now, it could be two centuries back or more. Moments when we walk a landscape that feels more constant and reliable than the chaos of our own lives. How can I not feel this as an enfolding of ghosts? – #DAKilroy

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I am sure! Surprised and hopefully pleased at a sale :)

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Right? So cool. I am rarely flabbergasted but this is worthy of the word

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thanks Jonathan, would be great. I'll get Stark to collect next tine she sees :)

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Who knew somebody remembered Starborn ?!

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thanks to @jonathanlhoward.bsky.social for flagging my extremely cool feature in Private Eye recently. Am now the proud owner of the original Simon Pearsall cartoon :) An honour to be tossed onto the floor of a bookshop by George R R Martin 😂

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Maybe also hard to beat the Raistlin books. He legit remains my fav character of all time.

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I did not! Will check out. Although I recall attempting to read a new one a few years back and failing 🙃

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com · 02/08/2026

Also there is a new Mythago Wood tribute anthology that current appears to be UK only. I need to get it though blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... Stories by @aptshadow.bsky.social @silvanhistorian.bsky.social @sennydreadful.bsky.social @mytholder.bsky.social @rjbarker.bsky.social and many more

blackwells.co.uk

Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Oh yes. Even the name Cumbria is derived from common Brittonic "kombroges" (compatriots) which is where we get Cymru from too.

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com · 18/07/2026

In search of Rheged And its legendary king, Uryen by @silvanhistorian.bsky.social . fun research on her part for her forthcoming The Last Verse of the Harp Lord silvanhistorian.substack.com/p/in-search-...

silvanhistorian.substack.com

In search of Rheged

And its legendary king, Uryen

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Thanks for sharing Paul! It was a chonker to write 😅

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Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

For those interested in yr Hen Ogledd (the Old North) a few words about one of its most powerful realms, Rheged. This was the territory of Uryen, a figure drenched in legend but who almost certainly did rule Cumbria during the 6th century. Patron of Taliesin! open.substack.com/pub/silvanhi...

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