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Katie ♥️💜💙 @katiebruce.bsky.social · 15d

So come join @rjbarker.bsky.social, @aptshadow.bsky.social and @davewragg.com with the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social on a quest through the marvellous worlds they have created!

Thurs 9th October, 7pm, Leeds Waterstones
Tickets available at tinyurl.com/LeedsWorlds

Panel: Building Brilliant Worlds | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Panel: Building Brilliant Worlds today.

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 27d

I am on tour right now with a book about two gay working class artists who died long before I was born. I’ve visited bookshops and libraries and galleries. And at every event I’ve been welcomed and there has been warmth and community. Books build empathy. The arts connect us. They just do.

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RJ Barker @rjbarker.bsky.social · Sep 8

THE 20TH! not the 27th. Stupid fingers.

RJ Barker @rjbarker.bsky.social · Sep 8

If you can't make London then I'll be in DERBY at the BRILLIANT Edge Lit on the 27th of September with a whole HOST of authors. Tickets here.

www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/edgel...

Edge-Lit 11 | Derby QUAD

View our latest event: Edge-Lit 11. See what the available times are for this event.

www.derbyquad.co.uk

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · Sep 8

The BFS is excited to announce our 1st event at the Trafford Centre, Alternate Earths. Sunday 21st Sep 2025, 7pm (BST). Waterstones, Trafford Centre, Manchester.

Ticket: tinyurl.com/altear

#BritishFantasySociety #Waterstones #SFFBooks #AuthorTalk #WritingCommunity #WritingPanel #WorldBuilding

Background graphic of an old map. Waterstones and BFS logos on either side of the title.
Three author photos beneath title.
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The British Fantasy Society & Waterstones Trafford Centre
“Alternate Earths”
Dan Hanks, Stephen Aryan, Thomas D. Lee
Sunday 21st September, 7pm, Waterstones, Trafford Centre
Tickets £5: https://www.waterstones.com/events/fantasy-panel/manchester-trafford-centre

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Shellie Horst @millymollymo.bsky.social · Aug 27

It's kinda stuck on repeat in our house and takes the premise of 'earworm' to a new level 😆 You'll be singing along soon...

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · Aug 10

My cartoons for this week’s @theguardian.com books
#holiday #vacation #reading

A happy book says:
I'm so proud you chose me as your holiday read! I can't wait to start entertaining you!

A smiling drink says:
And I'm right here! Ready to keep you cool and refreshed while you read!

A gleeful phone adds:
Yay! So great! How about we kick things off with a load of the same old rubbish you always look at, plus some gloomy news and mavbe a few emails from work!!

Hours later...

The drink and book lie untouched.

The phone is out of view but a bubble reads:
Scroll Scroll Scroll Scroll Scroll

The book says
“I hate that guy.”

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Shellie Horst @millymollymo.bsky.social · Jul 31

Let’s not forgot Indie presses are the first to pick up new writing, and some of the biggest books in recent years started out as self-published.

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Shellie Horst @millymollymo.bsky.social · Jul 31

A little thread about accessibility and representation in book marketing. Tiered processes like this makes it so difficult for small indie bookstores to support local and emerging authors.

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · Jul 31

Contacted Bookshop[dot]org to ask why my books are listed in the US but not in the UK and basically if you're not on the main Gardners list you're not getting in.

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Shellie Horst @millymollymo.bsky.social · Jul 28

Dragon says: “Start your Monday with a roar”

Selfie shows Shellie in front of a grafitti-art, blue and green dragon found on boarding near Drypool Bridge, Hull, Uk

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Shellie Horst @millymollymo.bsky.social · Jul 8

➡️ Book Now! July 12 Saturday: square.link/u/GhXQ6e11
➡️ Book Now! July 13 Sunday: square.link/u/pbBf2qtm

📚 Writing Fiction: An Introduction to Building Your Story (Saturday) - Hornsea Collective Ltd

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Shellie Horst @millymollymo.bsky.social · Jul 8

I'm doing this #EastYorkshire 📚✍️ #WritingWorkshop
Hornsea Collective & Hornsea Village for a weekend of creativity, lots to do July 12-13.
🎨 🪴 ✏️
📚✍️ links below
Tap into your inner storyteller and learn from someone who writes for a living! Whether you're a budding writer or just curious!

Picture shows a collection of creatives, a person plays guitar, another is using a pottery wheel. An artist paints at an easel. The text includes Summer Creative Weekend. Hornsea 12-13 July, Hornsea Village. www.hornseacollective.com.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Jul 1

RIP Jim Shooter. Comics legend.

As a Marvel editor, he was handed a new toy license to do comics for. Neither Hasbro or Marvel leadership cared about their quality.

Jim did. He rewrote Hasbro's character bios to not be shit, and made his writers treat it seriously.

That license was Transformers.

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Shellie Horst @millymollymo.bsky.social · Jul 1

RIP Jim Shooter, thanks for far ‘more than meets the eye’
bleedingcool.com/comics/jim-s...

Jim Shooter, Marvel EIC & Founder Of Valiant Has Died, Aged 73, RIP

Jim Shooter, writer of Superman, Secret Wars and Legion, Editor-In-Chief of Marvel, co-founder of Valiant, Defiant and Broadway has died, aged 73.

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · Jun 30

A double-whammy of author announcements for Edge-Lit 11 to kick off the week! A big welcome aboard to two very talented authors in Laura Elliott and JL Worrad! www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/edgel...

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Shellie Horst @millymollymo.bsky.social · Jun 30

Hard at work. Look at all those words… No dear reader, I didn’t get distracted at all. Promise. #writerslife

Image of coffee, notebook and open laptop on a desk, with retro video games in background. A large hand painted mural of Street Fighter is also in the background.

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Ida Keogh @idakeogh.bsky.social · Jun 2

✨Are you a @bsfa.bsky.social member and thinking about @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social?

The BSFA is sponsoring two in person memberships for persons of colour, persons with disabilities and those with financial difficulties for any reason. Details on how to apply are in the latest newsletter.✨

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Adam Christopher @adamchristopher.me · Jun 4

Y'know Star Wars isn't the only universe that has a dark side...

Announcing CRAWLSPACE, a sci-fi horror novel, coming from @torbooks.bsky.social Nightfire in March 2026!

New York Times bestseller Adam Christopher’s CRAWLSPACE, a SF horror novel pitched as reminiscent of Event Horizon, in which a crew manning an experimental ship meant to change the course of human history begins to suspect they’ve been lied to about the true purpose of their mission when they discover strange symbols carved into the hull, to Will Hinton at Nightfire by Stacia Decker at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner for publication in Spring 2026.

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · May 10

Delighted to confirm our first Guest of Honour for Edge-Lit 11 is a firm favourite of the event, and a multi-talented author - Tim Lebbon is our first name on the bill for 2025! We'll be running on the 20th September, with loads more announcements to come... www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/edgel...

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SFF Addicts Podcast @sffaddictspod.bsky.social · May 10

🪶 LAUNCH PARTY LIVESTREAM 🪶
To celebrate the launch of his novel THE SORROW OF THE SEA, @stephenaryan.bsky.social and friends @justinleeanderson.com @davewragg.com & @frasierarmitage.bsky.social will chat LIVE on the FFA channel.

Join them at 3pm ET/8pm UK on May 13:
www.youtube.com/live/ZSR6mTr...

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Thea Lyons 🌈 Updates Only. Please 👀 at my 📚. 💜 @alethearlyons.bsky.social · Apr 22

🏳️‍🌈Event Announcement🏳️‍🌈

@britfantasysoc.bsky.social is teaming up with Social Refuge and Queer Lit in Manchester to bring you 'Queer & Weird', a panel on Making Fiction Gay.

Featuring @emmasternerradley.bsky.social, @lindzmcleod.bsky.social, Frances White, and C. M. Kuhtz (and I'm moderating).

Shown is a graphic of a paper heart with a rainbow of paper colours coming from it like sunbeams. Near the top are logos for the British Fantasy Society (a dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’) and Queer Lit (a capital ‘Q’ in the Pride Flag), plus a graphic of a ticket stating ‘tickets £5’.
Three central panels with text:
1. “The British Fantasy Society & Social Refuge – Queer Lit
‘Queer and Weird’
Making Fiction Gay”
2. “Frances White
Emma Sterner-Radley
Caroline Kuhtz
Lindz McLeod”
3. Wednesday 21st May 6:30pm BST
Social Refuge, 27 Great Ancoats St. M4 5AJ
https://bit.ly/EventBriteQueerWeirdSFF
Two book covers on either side:
Left: Voyage of the Damned and Sloe Moon Tall Trees

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.bsky.social · Apr 12

Rev up those rockets! The 60th Annual Nebula Awards Conference schedule is bursting into view. Sneak a peek at the weekend we've planned for June 5-8, then register to celebrate this diamond-year event with us! events.sfwa.org/our-2025-con...

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Shellie Horst @millymollymo.bsky.social · Apr 13

Thank you for writing it!

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Shellie Horst @millymollymo.bsky.social · Apr 12

Saturday - chill day. Found the perfect reading spot and here with the teen. Currently reading #ya Calm @sjbakerauthor.bsky.social @neemtreepress.bsky.social (“no spoilers mum”)

Image shows Calm ya novel by S J Baker with a woodland back drop

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Shellie Horst @millymollymo.bsky.social · Apr 4

Here have some blue skies and a #castle- Middleham, #englishheritage Today was a Wandering around #Yorkshire day. research and mindfulness all in one #writerslife

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · Mar 29

Publishing finances that dictate that most authors can only afford to write if they make a living doing something else (and have time and space to write around their work) work directly against the drive for more voices from marginalised communities. I don't know how we unpick that. And it stinks.

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