@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social this is how you cover neo-nazis and the far right. You do not indulge their 'legitimate concerns' that amount to 'get rid of brown people because they're brown'
Godblind, Songs of the Drowned trilogies, also Black Library & Marvel. Magic & Mayhem Author Academy. 1/3 of The Write Advice. Rep @harryillingworth.bsky.social Zen, Shotokan, DnD, antifa, anti-AI, Working Class. She/They https://linktr.ee/AnnaStephens
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@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social this is how you cover neo-nazis and the far right. You do not indulge their 'legitimate concerns' that amount to 'get rid of brown people because they're brown'
Reposts bring visibility. There is no other algorithm.
OK, I need some help. I write to my MP a lot but the BBC is the next port of call to discuss the amplification of racism in public life. I think writing repeatedly to the BBC, contacting them to complain about an editorial policy that basically regards brown people are dangerous should be
this is wonderful
Today we're thrilled to welcome to the Hive authors from upcoming Dark Academia anthology THESE DREAMING SPIRES to discuss what the genre means to them! Read more: tinyurl.com/bd3r7ax3 #DarkAcademia @titanbooks.bsky.social @marieoregan.bsky.social @paulkane.bsky.social
reasons you *might* like my next book: - no romance, only trauma - 2nd person / 1st omniscient pov - ww2 in south china - low magic - monstrous women - 53yo mc - GHOST CAT 🐱
SEPTEMBER! 🙌 Bring out your jumpers, it's the beginning of spoopy season (I will be ignoring the fact that it's still pretty warm, okay)
Hey ok even if you are tying yourself in knots to be loyal to the substack goofballs: this is wild
The first of the month And all my money is gone Making others rich #haiku
Am i angry or is it the perimenopause? Am I unhinged or is it the perimenopause? Do I want to murder the world or is it the perimenopause? Do I want to die or is it the perimenopause?
Anyone else’s #perimenopause dreams just… really really weird and sometimes very filled with your life trauma lol? (Especially during your period.)
It worries me how fast someone can go from “I’ve been through it too” to “Let me fix your #perimenopause #menopause with this fitness and / or nutrition plan.” Influence ≠ expertise.
This was a delightful book, right up the Hurley alley 😆 a.co/d/7ynOIlf
Proud to see Goldsboro Books featured in The London Standard today! 📚 Opened as a tiny shop in Cecil Court, now three, home for book lovers, collectors, & stories from around the world. Here’s to the team, authors, & every reader who makes this dream possible. www.pressreader.com/uk/the-londo...
Just finished watching The Forest of Love, deep cut, on Netflix and wow, that's some fucked up television. Not actually sure how I feel about it. Was it good? Uncertain. Was it absolutely over the top melodrama? Yes. Did it make sense? Occasionally. Is it based on true events? Yikes, yes.
While shopping in my Strongjaw Ale shirt today (because we all know how much Grog LOVES a shopping trip!), 3 separate strangers talked DnD to me. All excited for campaign 4, all lovely people. #critters are everywhere!
This is such a fun book! Enter the give away!
Boredom is invaluable as a creative and it's one of the reasons I'm such a huge advocate for lowered workweeks and more relaxing jobs. Real work happens in bursts and people don't get to imagine songs or paintings or novels if they're grinding 10 hours a day 6 days a week.
#PortfolioDay - my name is KAELIN, and I deliver nonstop heels, mermaids, creatures and more.
The Shape of Monsters sounds awesome!
We have Disney channel for a limited time. Hit me up with recs!
This isn’t love. This is a real life Narcissus falling for their own digital reflection, and now there’s entire communities of them reinforcing each others’ insanity and self absorption “AI husband” smh 🙄
Project Hanuman is up on netgalley! @alasdairstuart.com relevant to your interests :-) #sff #scifi #amwriting
Don't mess with my dreams like this, fortune cookie...
and if I say this is functionally what happens to men who are radicalized by religion and/or the alt-right - that is, finding something they believe to be a source of Objective Truth which then treats them, specifically, as its heirs and prophets, enabling their collective worst impulses - what then
“The first new reservoir planned for Abingdon in Oxfordshire is sited in the same place as the government’s new datacentre zone, leading to fears the water will be used to cool servers rather than serve customers in one of the most water-stressed areas of the UK.” How convenient.
That seems fine and completely not-deadly-at-all...
Did you know that our live TTRPG tomorrow night is for charity? We'll be pulling out some Sean Bean impressions, my ignorance about filmmaking will be put in the spotlight (puns!), and we're hoping to raise a few gold pieces for charity - what could be better?? www.gofundme.com/f/ps40-for-4...
I've just read a blurb request in which the actual synopsis & elevator pitch for the book (which sounds great) was buried under several paragraphs telling me which memes and TikTok trends the book may evoke. Marketing teams, please don't do your authors dirty like this. And PRINT THEIR FULL NAMES!
Last night's dnd began with a bored barbarian stuck on a rock in the middle of an underground lake, progressed to a druid trapped in mind numbing shadows, was followed by some PvP brawling, a cursed locket, an exploding door, & concluded with some more PvP fighting. Why must they do this to me?
Today has been: 2544 words on a developmental edit report 387 words of planned interaction for tonight's DnD session 994 words on the WIP. With 2 hours until said DnD starts, I think that's me done writing for the day.
This will be great! Get thee to the Star of Kings if you can.
LIBRARY ACQUISITION 8/14 Grabbed a collection of #AgeOfSigmar books and some gems I’m looking forward to reading in there! First one out of the box, Gothghul Hollow by @annasmithwrites.bsky.social #Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary
Ahh, my stabby, gothic baby! I hope you enjoy it. I had SO MUCH fun writing that one.
I shall! With utmost trepidation.
Finally started reading House of Leaves after picking up a hardback copy on eBay. It is already getting in my head. The word 'house' appears in blue ink when you catch it from the corner of your eye, but when looking at it directly I swear it's printed in black. I'm on page 6. Of 700.
Then don’t read it 🤷🏻♀️ The world doesn’t revolve around you and your preferences, or you and your cultural associations.
A warm welcome to Suzan Holder, who joins Broo Doherty’s list. Suzan trained as a newspaper journalist before moving into TV, and was an executive producer on ITV’s ‘Loose Women’. She now weaves her love of music and talent for comedy into her rockin’ romcoms. shorturl.at/vuQ9t
I will never get tired of that “cover to be revealed” graphic, it’s unreasonably exciting and mysterious. UK reviewers, if you’d love an arc, please reach out! Priority for physical and audio will be given to folks who have accessibility needs for certain formats ❤️ #advancedreadingcopy
I'm going to be celebrating HarperVoyager's 30th birthday in London next month with many other excellent and talented authors. Stay tuned for details of how to come and celebrate with us.
The context is not a world I know, but decency and kindness are the world I’d like to know. Thanks for sharing.
L5R is 30, and to celebrate, select L5R products are on sale! Get RPG's at 30% off from DriveThruRPG, ebooks for $3.99 from participating retailers, including Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Fable and more. Get audiobooks for $4.99 from participating retailers, including Apple, Google, Kobo, & Chirp!
I have a scifi novel out in Nov. It's full of strange physics about the universe and a loose retelling of how the god Hanuman lost his powers Preorders are lifeblood, so if you fancy that - it would be wonderful if you ordered it. UK - bookshop.org shorturl.at/IXSac US - B&N shorturl.at/HLwtv
Original painting: art, deliberate, soulful AI 'exploration' of original painting: not art, ghoulish, inhuman, emperor's new clothes Putting the Doom UI over it: art, intentional, hilarious, human, quietly profound
Oh boy, we need to buy a new car. And by 'new car', I clearly mean second hand. Still, have you seen even those prices?? So, if anyone would like to buy that book I've got on submission, now's the time, folks!
Paypal and Stripe hit Patreon with strict nsfw regulations a few years ago. It's the same thing that's happening with Steam and itch and if itch can seek new processors that are more nsfw-friendly, I think Patreon should too to support its creators
Proud of what you all have accomplished! #CriticalRoleFDN www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gSM...
Happy publication day to @garethbrown.bsky.social - THE SOCIETY OF UNKNOWABLE OBJECTS is out today! Take a journey to the world of unknowable objects, where magical items possess extraordinary powers… a brand new fantastical adventure from the author of the fantasy sensation, THE BOOK OF DOORS ✨
Next week I'll be here. With long covid I'm paying a price but it will be worth it because @amydelaforce.bsky.social @danhanks.bsky.social @davewragg.com are all fabulous people and I'm very much looking forward to talking to them. Will I see my London peeps there? #sff @waterstones.bsky.social
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
Bisexual couples after a break up
New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
Happy #DHHNewsRoundup day! We’ve got a brilliant line-up of bookish updates to share - congratulations to our fabulous clients and happy reading 📚✨ shorturl.at/BP4Po
Tonight! An interview! With me! 8pm! Hop on over to the Broken Binding channel to get your Wragg fix thebrokenbindingsub.com/blogs/news-1...
📕🚀🧑🍳 New Interview! 🧑🍳🚀📕 I chat to SFF wunderkind @essahansen.bsky.social about her new novella from @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social, Casthen Gain. We chat about: 🍽️Bubble universe cooking! 🔫Battle Royale 🔥The Legacy of The Graven 🔊Her very cool jobs and equally cool hobbies 📕Her next books And more!
The fact that ai art and writing programs are built on stolen work really seems to be fading from the discussion even amongst artists and writers, which is a bit shit.
Some advice I wish I'd been given as a baby author is you can only have two of these: An author career A career that makes a live-able wage Kids A life
Other authors aren't your enemy. You're not competing against them. They're your support network.
I mean, obviously, it was still epic and I had loads of fun, but good dice gods, give me a break!
So, every d20 i rolled was cursed (and I have a lot of d20s). I even in game asked the wizard to check if I was cursed because I was rolling badly in combat. Never seen so many sub-5 rolls in one game from one player. Lost HALF my hp in the first encounter, which was supposed to be just a warm up!
2 hours to DnD! As it's a one shot, we're playing lvl15 characters. The highest I've ever played is 8, so I'm excited. I'm reprising my halfling barbarian, Bunny Daffodil Sunshine Smallbottom, who can, now she's levelled up, probably kill god. Tho to be fair, she'd have given it a good go at lvl6.
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One week to UK Publication! A reminder I am doing a few events across the UK the week following 👇. Tickets available at Waterstones website.
Americans! My award-winning debut novel A RELUCTANT SPY is available for a mere 99 cents for the *whole of August* in a Kindle Monthly Deal - www.amazon.com/Reluctant-Sp...
UK friends! Shakedowners is a Kindle UK monthly deal and you can get it for just 99p for thr month of August! www.amazon.co.uk/Shakedowners...
Same, I would kill to write D&D.
✨ It's finally time. The fifth Queer Games Bundle is live now. For $60 (or $10+), get over 600 games, TTRPGs, zines, and more. Support over 300 queer artists for their survival and future art. itch.io/b/3062/
Motherfucking wind farms…
Today's feel good story featuring a Very Good Dog to make you blub.
t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today.
1) the things people read/watch are not indicative of what they actually like/want in real life. just because people are reading dark romance doesn’t mean they condone or want relationships with violent men. art explores so we can too without having to actually experience a thing
Seven years late but since getting back into playing DnD (thanks, gang!) I've been absolutely mainlining @criticalrole.bsky.social campaign 1. 100 episodes since October and it's all leading up to ... this. The Vecna fight. Yes, that is my day job desk. Sshhh.
The BFS is excited to announce another amazing panel at Waterstones Covent Garden: Humanity through the Looking Glass of Fantasy Ticket: tinyurl.com/glassfan Tuesday 12th August 2025, 6pm BST
READERS! Would you like 25% off THE IRON ROAD? Get in on a whopping discount as part of the Waterstones July pre-order promotion. Use the code SUMMER25 at checkout to save bucks on cracking books, like this one www.waterstones.com/book/the-iro...
WTF dream time last night. First up: zombie rats in an underground cellar trying to eat us. We had to pull all their legs off so they couldn't get to us, while avoiding their teeth. Second up: crashing the car into a wall while taking a corner because the steering locked up. Thanks, brain.
Grammar for adventurers: "Can I" is an ability check "May I" is a persuasion roll. Anna.
I'm not saying I'm dedicated, but I just took a selfie of myself looking Very Disappointed and sent it to a mentee as motivation to write more consistently, one of their goals, and extracted a promise that they'd send me their word count each day so that "you never look at me like that again" ~ Anna
Our Monster Botherer returns to a favourite monster this week - orcs - as she reviews Michelle Mills' monster romance ORCS DO IT BETTER: "Tropes were played with, the characters were so much fun and the setting was interesting" Read more: tinyurl.com/53am7435
Oh no!!! You did! I think the late pledge thingy is still open? gamefound.com/en/projects/...
If you want to read a book about eating kaiju (and also eating the rich) then you're in luck, go pick up a copy of SEVEN RECIPES FOR REVOLUTION by my agency sibling @ryanprose.bsky.social
Replied. Thanks.
Hi, I worked with @davidbowles.us on my secondary world fantasy series inspired by Mesoamerica. He's extremely knowledgeable regarding and fantastic to work with. Recommended without reservation.
AHHHHHHHHH! The first of the official Discworld TTRPG kickstarter rewards just landed in my inbox - the pdf of the core rulebook! I'm so excited!
Fucking hell. Ozzy Osborne's gone. RIP, Prince of Darkness.
Rewatched Only The Brave as itnl popped up on Netflix, a film based on the Yarnell Hill Fire that killed 19 firefighter/hotshots in 2013. Films like this always hit hard, but as the child of a firefighting family - dad, uncle, great-uncle - it was particularly brutal. RIP and love to the families.
“You don’t like AI therapists because they’re a threat to your income” No, I don’t like AI therapists because they are harmful!
AI is scraping our art and our humanity. AI "musicians" on Spotify; AI "writers" on Amazon. I simply don't understand why anyone would want to create something through prompts. That's not creation. Why not take the time and effort to learn to write, play music, etc.? Isn't that part of being human?
*Tapping the sign* If you want to find books with aroace characters in them, all you need is THE AROACE DATABASE!!! www.aroacedatabase.com
Each other. Each OTHER! Curses.
Caught up with a good buddy and his spouse I haven't seen since worldcon Glasgow- last August! - who was in town for a fine dining experience (they fancy!) And it was so wonderful to meet face to face after such a long time and fall into the old rhythm as if we last saw each a week ago. Heart full.
GUESS WHAT
Me too!!
Fuck NO!
Welcome to the Hotel Orient, Darling… 🛎️💋 We are delighted to share the beautiful cover of @alessandraranelli.bsky.social’s MURDER AT THE HOTEL ORIENT coming to a bookshop near you in May 2026!
The magpies lost one nest (neighbours trimmed the hedge & they abandoned the chicks 😭 don't trim hedges until late June!) But they reared a 2nd brood & both of them fledged & they're now VERY NOISILY living in our garden constantly begging their parents for food. AM BABY! FEED ME! HELPLESS & HUNGRY!
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.
Some gorgeous #BookPost - coming this November is this exciting science fiction novel Project Hanuman by Stewart Hotston - thanks to @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social
Read it. READ IT AND WEEP (from laughing but also from trauma). READ!!!!! IT!!!!! NOW!!!!!
It is finally cooler outside than inside! I can open every window in the house! We have a breeze! We have a COOL BREEZE! The relief.