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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just read a fantastic line in Zelazny’s Guns of Avalon, the second book in the Chronicles of Amber: “You make the mistake, Eric, of considering yourself necessary.” You rarely see understated but cutting lines like that anymore #fantasy #booksky

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Because I love fantasy I’m somewhat safe from the “lit bro” label, but Jesus, nothing is hitting the same since I finished Infinite Jest. Take me back #DFW

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Michael Paul Green @michaelpaulgreen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Made a Literary Fantasy & SFF BookSky starter pack for prose-forward fantasy, weird fiction, doomed cities, old gods, moral dilemmas, and books that ruin your day in a good way. Drop recs below. #booksky go.bsky.app/M2bwC7R

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Queen of Grimdark @annasmithspark.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Being able to help and support other writers is one of the best things about being a published writer.

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Huge thank you to the Queen of Grimdark herself, @annasmithspark.bsky.social, for taking the time to give me some advice on querying The Hollow Sky. Both The Court of Broken Knives and A Sword of Bronze and Ashes are beautiful, savage books, and well worth checking out.

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Ian McDonald @ianmcdonald.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Big thank you to Team Norncon for a great @norncon.bsky.social . That was a great convention.

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Just crossed the 100k mark on my literary dark fantasy novel “The White Moth” #booksky #writesky

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Really enjoyed the first #Norncon. Got lots of great bits, including this beautiful edition, along with some great artwork, signed by @annasmithspark.bsky.social

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

90k words and 75% done with the first draft of my dark literary fantasy WIP “The White Moth” #writesky #booksky #amwriting

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Just saw the update to the @norncon.bsky.social lineup includes @ianmcdonald.bsky.social and now I’m trying to figure out if I can fit all three Luna books in the bag for the weekend

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Finally Got around to getting my membership for Norncon. First con I’ve managed to get to since Dublin Worldcon

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

65k and halfway through the first draft of my dark literary fantasy WIP The White Moth #writesky #booksky

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Just crossed the 60k mark in my WIP. If I was writing literary fiction I would be done by now. #writesky #booksky #epicfantasy

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Reading Infinite Jest and coming to the realisation that DFW was the closest thing to Mervyn Peake modern literature has produced. Both Enfield and Gormenghast are examined to the point of madness, and both are full of characters that are grotesque.

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Just crossed 50k words on my WIP as well as 50 consecutive days writing at least 500 words. There is no better advice than “write every day” #writesky #booksky

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I loved Kaho, published in the New Yorker in 2024, so I’m delighted to hear Murakami’s next novel shares something of that story.

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Haruki Murakami Isn’t Afraid of the Dark

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Loved this essay on Cheever and the New Yorker by @naokan.bsky.social. Reading long literary essays like this are like revisiting those arguments I had back when I was an MFA student. #booksky www.woman-of-letters.com/p/money-and-...

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The New Yorker offered him a deal

Two months ago, I read a seven-hundred-page collection of short stories by John Cheever.

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Just reused scenes from a draft of a novella I originally wrote in 2014. Don’t ever delete anything. #writesky #booksky

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Just boosting this again. Please do have a listen - leave a comment / like if you can.

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A map of the main setting for my novel; the City of Night after the Fall. The remnants of the Nightfolk live on one side of the canal while the other is ruled by the Kinless and the Dead. #booksky #amwriting #worldbuilding

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Yesterday I finished the first draft of Part One of my novel: Part I. The Swift Descent of the Sun 30k words done. 100k to go. #booksky #amwriting

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Great insight into one of the best to ever do it from her own son. Of particular insight is the point that she was capable of changing and understanding how she had changed (in a way few others are able to or willing to do.)

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Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin

I would never have proposed this exhibition in her lifetime. This is, after all, a writer who said in an interview, “Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over.”

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

VAYAL THE HUNTER is a sword and sorcery novella with modern sensibilities (and genderless frog-people(; 35k words currently in late stages of revision DMs open to beta readers/swappers, agents, small presses etc.

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Vayal would have been chieftain, if it wasn’t for his brother’s betrayal. Now an arrogant exile and mercenary, he finds a way to restore his destiny: slaying the Creature, a shapeshifting demon that destroys villages. But the Creature is far more devious than he can imagine... #BluePit📖 #A #W #F

A giant centipede weaves its way around a tree adorned in broken human bodies

Credit Angelina Zhogina

A humanoid frog-person stands with a wizard's hat and staff in hand

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An enormous tree stands and a small, human figure in red stands before it

Credit Blanca Parra

An iconograph of a man in a boat fishing with a spear. Vicious aquatic creatures swarm around his boat.

Credit: Parker Rayl

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RJ BaHarker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Ooh, if fantasy murder mysteries in a deeply weird city with an oddball but loveable cast is your thing, Looks like MORTEDANT'S PERIL is up on Netgalley. www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

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Mortedant's Peril

NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

“I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The existential fear of leaving an Excel cell blank can be the greatest tool in a writer’s arsenal.

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Only one writing goal this year: finish the first draft of The City of Night. 16k in, so c. 110k to go

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Best fantasy reads of 2025 for me: No Life Forsaken by Steven Erikson City of Last Chances by @aptshadow.bsky.social Fugitive Prince by @jannywurts.bsky.social Written on the Dark and Under Heaven by @guygavrielkay.bsky.social Blade of Dreams by @abraham.bsky.social

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Another map from my WIP “The City of Night.” This one shows the city itself and its hinterlands, where the greatest concentration of the remnant Nightfolk make their homes. #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #maps

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The map for my epic fantasy WIP “The City of Night.” Ce Nattad after the Fall

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sarah margaret @sarahmargs.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

The Ones Who Visit Omelas Without Doing a Ton of Research But Then on the Tour of Omelas They’re Like “Wait What the Fuck Did the Tour Guide Just Say”

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The older I get, the more convinced I become that Songs About Leaving is the best album ever made.

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

This epigraph in Bolaño’s Nazi Literature in the Americas

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

My wife bought me these amazing Folio Society editions of the first three Earthsea books by @ursulakleguin.bsky.social for my birthday

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Since folks are talking about the importance of reviewing and sharing books we love on here, I've decided to start doing more of it. Starting with "Our Share of Night" by Mariana Enriquez - one of the finest horror novels I've had the pleasure of reading Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Nick Badot's review of Our Share of Night

5/5: This book is often touted as a future classic and one of the finest modern examples of "literary" (as much as I hate the term) horror - and after reading it I have to agree. This book exceeding i...

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

My short story “A Personal History of Fire” is in Vol. 3 Issue 4: “BURN” of Hearth and Coffin www.hearthandcoffin.com/post/a-perso...

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