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#TimeTravelAuthors D7 'embarrass' Embarrassed, George swung his laptop away. He’d left the word processor open with his diary notes on the week’s happenings. “Got inspired to write a novel, you know with all these mad things happening.” #Booksky #UrbanFantasy

A list of actions for the time travel authors game. October 7
post-sized snippet (optional word embarrass)

A book. The cover shows a silhouetted figure walking across rain-washed cobbles. Behind them is a winged serpent set into an intaglio such as you might find on signet ring.
Text reads: Her Borrowed Grave. 8the October 2026

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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 9h

We've given up on blue tooth mice and keyboard. We're back to wired everything.

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It's book quote Wednesday. Today the word is "push", and we're back with Nik Thorn in his least-favourite and yet somehow also favourite bar. From Nectar for the God. #bookQW books2read.com/NectarGod

Promo image for Nectar for the God by Patrick Samphire, showing the cover of the book and the accompanying text:

I made my way down the steps, pushed the door open, and stumbled into the poorly-lit interior. To say Dumonoc was cheap was like saying that a volcano was warm; it wasn’t wrong, but it didn’t exactly capture the essence of the situation. The interior was almost entirely dark, other than the bar and a couple of flickering candles at shadowed tables, and Dumonoc didn’t provide those. If you wanted light, you brought your own. Most people didn’t bother. Probably so they wouldn’t have to see what was floating in the beer.

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DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen" @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 7h

Men are committed to two lies that underpin rape culture. 1. That women consent and then change their mind later. 2. That rape is rare and perpetrated by strangers (usually imagined as PoC, because racism). Both are lies. Both are foundational to rape culture.

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Investigating what happens when magic collides with reality.

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No one will ever find out about the beetroot. It's stored in the darkest part of my c̷r̷y̷p̷t̷ cellar.

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you. But your lack of seriousity keep my head from swelling. 😆

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The best part of being unverified on here, is that I have no access to DMs.

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 9h

I don't have access to DMs, and don't call me a 'dear'.

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 10h

Ooo lovely, a Murder of MLitt students. 🙂

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 11h

♫Tomorrow, Tomorrow… ♪ Her Borrowed Grave is finally released into the wild. Thank you to everyone who helped me get here. Tomorrow, the story becomes yours. 99p/¢ for the first month. UK www.amazon.co.uk/Her-Borrowed... US www.amazon.com/Her-Borrowed... #Booksky youtube.com/shorts/e7Nk5... 🌃📚

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 11h

Different Donald, don't see this one riding a motorbike in a thunderstorm.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 15h

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'push' #BookQW #BookSky We can't always find the nominated word, so when push comes to shove, we can go with a synonym. This unexpected encounter leaves Dan Mackmain badly off balance. For UK and international purchase options - wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/book...

Cover art by Ben Baldwin for The Green Man's Debt by Juliet E McKenna. A grey wolf with pale eyes stands in the shadows of a derelict building with a black and white tiled floor. The wolf is looking straight at you. Its snarl reveals blood on its teeth and jaw.

Book extract reads: The shadows vanished and daylight filtered through the firs. I could hear cheerfully singing birds, and the murmur of a breeze in the needle-fringed branches above me. The hawthorn’s guardian gripped my bruised wrist as I knelt at her feet. I couldn’t fight my way free even if I wanted to. My arm was as limp as old rope.
She released my wrist, sending a painful jolt through my shoulder and into my rib cage. Her blazing gaze skewered me, furious, as she stooped to seize hold of my jaw, forcing me to look into her eyes, still on my knees.
‘You swore you would not trespass. Do not ever do that again.’
‘I—’ I have no idea what I was going to say.
‘Tell no one of your idiocy.’ She released me with a shove that rocked me back on my heels, jarring my spine from the back of my neck to my tail-bone.
Before I could even gasp at the pain, she vanished.

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 14h

It's Book Quote Wednesday and today's #BookQW word is 'push'. In The Waterborne Blade, Alwenna's woken from a familiar nightmare.

Extract from The Waterborne Blade by Susan Murray:

Alwenna woke to stillness. The crumbling, falling nightmare had ended. The same old nightmare, yet still so vivid, so real. The imagined weight of her father’s broken body pressed down on her legs. She could almost taste the loosened earth, the grit in her mouth, the dust caking her lips. Her eyes stung with grit when she opened them and tears streamed unbidden.

Dust? Grit?

She raised her hand to rub her eyelids, but something hampered the movement. She jerked her arm reflexively and freed it. Her action set something in motion with a tiny skirling hush that stilled after a moment or two. What? It sounded like pebbles. Or sand. The smell of mouldering plaster rose up around her. She blinked, looking for the chink between her bed curtains where moonlight or firelight always shone, but the night was too dark. Disorientated, she tried to push herself up into a sitting position, only to find one foot was pinned by tangled bedcovers. Impatiently she tugged it and pain ripped through her ankle. She yelped out loud and subsided. More cautiously she explored the darkness with her free hand. She was covered not by woollen blankets, but by a blanket of grit and small stones, crumbled plaster and mortar. This was not her old nightmare. Not now. It had propelled her into a new, waking one.

#BookQW – push

Cover of The Waterborne Blade by Susan Murray. A woman in an ornate gown is moving past the viewer, a long dagger held in her blood-spattered right hand. Cover art by Paul Young.

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Ben Jeapes @benjeapes.bsky.social · 16h

It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is PUSH. Just two teen boys chatting like teen boys do, neither knowing it's the last time things will ever be normal again. #bookqw #yafantasy #salisbury www.benjeapes.com/index.php/th... Hear me read a longer extract at benjeapes.substack.com.

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 12h

It's Book Quote Wednesday. #BookQW Today's word is Push. Caroline witnesses a hit and run and stops to help the downed motorcyclist. He acts like he knows her, but she has never met him. Tomorrow 📚🌃 UK www.amazon.co.uk/Her-Borrowed... US www.amazon.com/Her-Borrowed...

A flyer for Her Borrowed Grave it shows an ebook and a paperback with the same cover. A silhouetted figure walks rain-washed, cobble streets. Behind them is a winged serpent on an intaglio such as you might find on a signet ring.
Text reads: “Finally. Brown eyes, so beautiful. But here? How?” His voice became querulous.
He reached for her face. Caroline caught his arm with her free hand, pushing it down.
“No. Please, Donald. You must stay still, moving might hurt your back.”

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 13h

So, I've been up to something...

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My first doctor was Jon Pertwee, who I watched from behind the sofa in terror of the monsters. I was under 7-y-o when he regenerated into Tom Baker. It's almost as if the BBC has stopped believing that psychological horror is good for children's TV, naming no Children of the Stones.

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I will never understand algorithms. I posted four of my A-Z of British Mythology shorts on Youtube, and Youtube is showing them around without me doing anything. 76 views on C is for Cait Sìth and Cù Sìth in less than a week! B is for Barghast could use some love. 😆 www.youtube.com/shorts/D4dra...

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They're so big that they don't need to be helpful.

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Yeah, I got a message from KDP that they couldn't send my proof copy of the paperback this morning. Failing to work out how to pull the paperback from release. Very Monday.

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It does feel that way. But I'm used to the clouds up here. No Draconid meteor shower watching from my balcony. 😪

Nick Snape 💙🐉⚔️🪐📚 @nicksnapeauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Please find my fantasy book review of Wrath of Olympus by @emkkoulla.bsky.social on FanFiAddict. If Roman Gods and mythology entice, yet you love stories with a human touch, definitely give this one a read. Loved it. fanfiaddict.com/review-wrath... #fantasybooks #fantasy #indieauthor

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yep, my characters managed to skip out before that year.

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'll have to remember to visit on the first day this time. At Worldcon I waited until the last day and everyone else had bought the books I wanted.

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 05/10/2026

I should probably mention I have a book launch 4pm on Saturday at Fantasycon! These Broken Little Worlds will be getting its official ribbon-cutting alongside many others with books this year from NewCon Press. Let me deface a book for you. emfaulds.com/news/fantasy...

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Fantasycon 2026 programme participation

Spaceships & Feelings

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Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're going to be at Fantasycon you should definitely come along to the NewCon launch and grab a copy of These Broken Little Words. It's *brilliant*.

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#TimeTravelAuthors Day5 The historical sections are set in the Dark Ages just before AD536, possibly the worst year to be alive in human history. So only everyday lives. There is an entire Old English Epic Poem written about the Character Donovan, from before he shows up in the C21st.

A poster showing the activities for the time travel authors game
October 5: Does anyone see any important and/or historical events?

text A book. The cover shows a silhouetted figure walking over a rain-washed, cobble street. Behind the figure is a winged serpent set in an intaglio such as you might find in a signet ring.
Text reads: Her Borrowed Grave 8th October 2026

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Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Blood In The Bricks is NewCon Press's book of the month for October. Not only did it scoop a BSFA award earlier in the year, it's shortlisted in the British Fantasy Awards Best Anthology category, the winner of which will be announced at Fantasycon next weekend, too. Get yer urban folk horror here!

Advertising graphic for a folk horror anthology, titled Blood in the Bricks. The cover features a man with a rat's head in a seedy alley. The graphic is titled: OCTOBER'S BOOK OF THE MONTH.

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Nancy Jardine @nansjar23.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“I was immediately drawn to the mystery surrounding the house and its tangled secrets and enjoyed the way they were revealed.” #romanticcomedy #yorkshire #mystery getbook.at/funromreadmt...

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm sorry, I won't have any with me. This whole business is a steep learning curve. I might have worked out it by eastercon.😞 On the plus side, I should have book two in the series as well.

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, I finally worked out the formating for paperback. Hopefully it will be out on the 8th October as well. It's only Amazon at the moment, as I'm doing all the formating myself and it's been a learning experience. Easier next time. 🙂

Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I will be attending FantasyCon in Glasgow between 9-11 October, the weekend immediately following the launch of Her Borrowed Grave on the 8 October. You can find me on two panels, and I will be reading from my new book. I’ve got a lucky dip to win one of five ebook copies of Her Borrowed Grave.

Fancy scroll work surround the text which reads: Vanessa Knipe at Fantasycon 2026. 9th October ~ time travel narratives ~ 5- 6 pm ~ panel 3. 10th October ~ Too much Science, too much fantasy ~ 3-4pm ~ Flame tree room. 11th October ~ reading group 32 ~ 12-1pm ~ malin.

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#BacklistSaturday. Halloween. A young widow accidentally offers her son to vampire who hide at the Whitby Goth Festival. Only her ex-boyfriend, who threw her over for his career in the College of St Van Helsing ten years ago, can save him. 📚🌃 #UrbanFantasy #booksky www.amazon.co.uk/Date-Darknes...

An ereader. The book cover shows a brooding man. Behind him is a murder of crows perched in an autumn-bare tree.

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We're officially in the countdown to Fantasycon 2026: just SIX DAYS until we meet in Glasgow! Day and weekend tix still available. Find the full programme (including the British Fantasy Awards!) and ticketing details over on our website: britishfantasysociety.org/events-2/fan...

A graphic advertises 6 days until Fantasycon 2026, to be held from 9-11 October in Glasgow. It's illustrated with tentacles and parchment paper

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#TimeTravelAuthors D3 Hot air choked his lungs. The stark morning sun drained the life from people, leaving them washed out, pale ghosts of themselves.

A list of actions for the time travel authors game. October 3rd Saturday excerpt (optional word: ghost/spirit)

An advert for Her Borrowed Grave. The book cover shows a silhoutetted figure walking on rain-washed, cobble streets. behind them is a winged serpent in an intaglio such as you might find on a signet ring.

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The tarot cards revealled it all. As did the magic mirror, the oracle at Delphi, the bibliomancy readings, the pyromancy (I really liked that one all the pretty fire), and astrology. 😉

Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why do you think I'm hiding in Scotland?

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#Fantasycon kicks off a week today at Glasgow's Crowne Plaza. I'll be along for two packed days of talking John Carpenter, AI, Reviewing, plus I'll be giving a reading and helping launch GSFWC anthology #Haverin. Here's my full schedule: ruthbooth.com/2026/09/fant... @britfantasysoc.bsky.social

A parchment style background with an 18th century style sea motif. Text reads: Hear the siren's call... Fantasycon 2026 9-11 October 2026 Glasgow Crowne Plaza www.britishfantasysociety.org

The cover of Haverin, the GSFWC anthology, which features a red-haired girl reading while surrounded by books and a cat in a green space. Text reads: Featuring: Neil Williamson, E.M. Faulds, Christopher Caldwell, Eliza Chan and many more. Haverin, Edited by Brian M. Milton, Peter Morrison and Heather Valentine.

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Here's an interesting thing, the earliest recorded Knipe was Simon de Gnype in Westmorland in AD 1314. Reform and Braverman would define that as supremely British, but also because my Dad was born abroad, as was I, they'd chuck me out of the country for not being British enough. 😕

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Back in the 80s for O levels, I was told I wasn't an artist because I drew in pencil then coloured in. More recently, I've been turning my drawings into little videos. A-Z of British Mythology. Alt text on my website www.vanessajknipe.com/folklore-and... www.youtube.com/shorts/ldxR2...

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A is for Albion

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy Launch Month to #Haverin, our new anthology! Come celebrate #GSFWC40 with some splendid stories and tasty tablet at these fab events: Fantasycon, Glasgow, 9/10 (5pm) britishfantasysociety.org/events-2/fan... Waterstones Sauchiehall ST, Glasgow, 21/10 (7pm) www.waterstones.com/events/celeb...

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They didn't mention which one was reported. The only one I reported was a Docusign one, because that one was dangerous and that was to docusign.