Dr Chiara Bullen
@chiarab.bsky.social
✨🏔️ THE INN AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT VENGEANCE 07/26 (Del Rey) 🏔️✨
sometimes author, sometimes academic. always anxious.
glasgow.
sometimes author, sometimes academic. always anxious.
glasgow.
Pinned
Del Rey has acquired The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance, an "uplifting and heart-warming" fantasy adventure by Scottish debut author and academic Chiara Bullen. The book will publish globally in July 2026 👇 #BookSky
Del Rey snaps up Chiara Bullen's 'uplifting and heart-warming' fantasy adventure
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My cozy fantasy novel inspired by my love (and fear…) of Scotland’s mountains, misadventures in academia, and time spent adventuring in Dungeons and Dragons, will be out next July!!
Two chapters edited this morning. Three to go ✍️
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Two chapters edited this morning. Three to go ✍️
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#WorkInPublishingWeek Ever met a Sensitivity Reader? Does the idea make you shudder, from an indoctrination from legacy UK press/media? Read my article for the The Society of Authors setting the records straight, once and for all: lnkd.in/eRMgqE72
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November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
#WorkInPublishingWeek Ever met a Sensitivity Reader? Does the idea make you shudder, from an indoctrination from legacy UK press/media? Read my article for the The Society of Authors setting the records straight, once and for all: lnkd.in/eRMgqE72
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I'm so excited to see we've raised over 5k so far on the #Creatives4Sudan auction. Can you help us get to £10k? I'm offering a personalised original Loki drawing, and I really will go all out to make it as funny as possible. app.galabid.com/creatives4su... #KidLitUK #KeepEyesOnSudan
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November 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I'm so excited to see we've raised over 5k so far on the #Creatives4Sudan auction. Can you help us get to £10k? I'm offering a personalised original Loki drawing, and I really will go all out to make it as funny as possible. app.galabid.com/creatives4su... #KidLitUK #KeepEyesOnSudan
I actually love speak gaelic dot com
November 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I actually love speak gaelic dot com
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Incredibly excited to share the US cover of my debut fantasy novel, out with Del Rey 07/26! This cover of my *dreams* is illustrated by the incredible Chay Ruby, who captures the characters better than I envision them in my own head tbh. Available to pre-order! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-inn-at...
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Incredibly excited to share the US cover of my debut fantasy novel, out with Del Rey 07/26! This cover of my *dreams* is illustrated by the incredible Chay Ruby, who captures the characters better than I envision them in my own head tbh. Available to pre-order! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-inn-at...
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Are you looking for a christmas present for a creative person? Hoo boy do we have the auction for you. Hundreds of creatives from 20 countries are raising funds for people fleeing Genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan. Huge names, huge items! Bid here! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Art by @raafaye, insta
Art by @raafaye, insta
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Are you looking for a christmas present for a creative person? Hoo boy do we have the auction for you. Hundreds of creatives from 20 countries are raising funds for people fleeing Genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan. Huge names, huge items! Bid here! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Art by @raafaye, insta
Art by @raafaye, insta
Saw some fancy new roof insulation on my walk 🐦
November 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Saw some fancy new roof insulation on my walk 🐦
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Cauld, cauld as the wall
That rins frae under the snaw
On Ben a’Bhuird…
—Nan Shepherd, “Cauld, cauld as the wall”
published in A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS (ASL, 2017)
#poem #poetry
asls.org.uk/publications...
That rins frae under the snaw
On Ben a’Bhuird…
—Nan Shepherd, “Cauld, cauld as the wall”
published in A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS (ASL, 2017)
#poem #poetry
asls.org.uk/publications...
November 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Cauld, cauld as the wall
That rins frae under the snaw
On Ben a’Bhuird…
—Nan Shepherd, “Cauld, cauld as the wall”
published in A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS (ASL, 2017)
#poem #poetry
asls.org.uk/publications...
That rins frae under the snaw
On Ben a’Bhuird…
—Nan Shepherd, “Cauld, cauld as the wall”
published in A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS (ASL, 2017)
#poem #poetry
asls.org.uk/publications...
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See ma mammy
See ma dinner ticket
A pititnma
Pokit an she pititny
Washnmachine…
—Margaret Hamilton, “Lament for a Lost Dinner Ticket”
from NEW POEMS 1972–73: a PEN anthology of contemporary poetry, ed. Douglas Dunn (Hutchinson, 1973)
#WorldChildrensDay #poem
www.scotslanguage.com/articles/nod...
See ma dinner ticket
A pititnma
Pokit an she pititny
Washnmachine…
—Margaret Hamilton, “Lament for a Lost Dinner Ticket”
from NEW POEMS 1972–73: a PEN anthology of contemporary poetry, ed. Douglas Dunn (Hutchinson, 1973)
#WorldChildrensDay #poem
www.scotslanguage.com/articles/nod...
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
See ma mammy
See ma dinner ticket
A pititnma
Pokit an she pititny
Washnmachine…
—Margaret Hamilton, “Lament for a Lost Dinner Ticket”
from NEW POEMS 1972–73: a PEN anthology of contemporary poetry, ed. Douglas Dunn (Hutchinson, 1973)
#WorldChildrensDay #poem
www.scotslanguage.com/articles/nod...
See ma dinner ticket
A pititnma
Pokit an she pititny
Washnmachine…
—Margaret Hamilton, “Lament for a Lost Dinner Ticket”
from NEW POEMS 1972–73: a PEN anthology of contemporary poetry, ed. Douglas Dunn (Hutchinson, 1973)
#WorldChildrensDay #poem
www.scotslanguage.com/articles/nod...
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As someone who was introduced to William Wordsworth and Gertrude Stein by the Anastasia Krupnik books, I heartily agree
Idk I think it's fine if people work back from popular culture to learn more about folklore roots, culture, heritage, etc. People have to start somewhere.
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
As someone who was introduced to William Wordsworth and Gertrude Stein by the Anastasia Krupnik books, I heartily agree
Idk I think it's fine if people work back from popular culture to learn more about folklore roots, culture, heritage, etc. People have to start somewhere.
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Idk I think it's fine if people work back from popular culture to learn more about folklore roots, culture, heritage, etc. People have to start somewhere.
Finished a draft of a WIP today and I managed to beat The Crawfather in Silksong. Not sure which one feels like the biggest victory.
November 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Finished a draft of a WIP today and I managed to beat The Crawfather in Silksong. Not sure which one feels like the biggest victory.
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Only a few days left to enter the @writersandartists.bsky.social Working Class Writers' Prize! Please share.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Only a few days left to enter the @writersandartists.bsky.social Working Class Writers' Prize! Please share.
www.writersandartists.co.uk/competitions...
@mklitfest.bsky.social
@societyofauthors.bsky.social
@openuniversity.bsky.social
@bbcwriters.bsky.social
www.writersandartists.co.uk/competitions...
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@openuniversity.bsky.social
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Truly nothing more humbling than your word count when you've been writing all morning, thinking you're absolutely flying through the draft, only to realise you've written less than one thousand words 🥺
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Truly nothing more humbling than your word count when you've been writing all morning, thinking you're absolutely flying through the draft, only to realise you've written less than one thousand words 🥺
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year, the @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social winter sale!!!
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November 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, the @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social winter sale!!!
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/shop/#utm_ca...
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/shop/#utm_ca...
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This explains why British Library staff are on strike
The union says - managers take home up to £170k with £15k bonuses, while staff offered below-inflation pay rise
Meanwhile, frontline staff take abuse for the massive data breach - which managers failed to foresee
@pcsunion.bsky.social
The union says - managers take home up to £170k with £15k bonuses, while staff offered below-inflation pay rise
Meanwhile, frontline staff take abuse for the massive data breach - which managers failed to foresee
@pcsunion.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This explains why British Library staff are on strike
The union says - managers take home up to £170k with £15k bonuses, while staff offered below-inflation pay rise
Meanwhile, frontline staff take abuse for the massive data breach - which managers failed to foresee
@pcsunion.bsky.social
The union says - managers take home up to £170k with £15k bonuses, while staff offered below-inflation pay rise
Meanwhile, frontline staff take abuse for the massive data breach - which managers failed to foresee
@pcsunion.bsky.social
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I'm on strike for the next three days in protest at my employer's refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies as part of their cost-cutting vision for a radically diminished university. My school makes a healthy profit, most of which goes back into central coffers, yet still we're told to save more.
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I'm on strike for the next three days in protest at my employer's refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies as part of their cost-cutting vision for a radically diminished university. My school makes a healthy profit, most of which goes back into central coffers, yet still we're told to save more.
Tried to phone Three to cancel my phone contract, the line was so bad I couldn't hear them and I had to give up. Poetic.
(Or a smart business tactic...)
(Or a smart business tactic...)
November 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Tried to phone Three to cancel my phone contract, the line was so bad I couldn't hear them and I had to give up. Poetic.
(Or a smart business tactic...)
(Or a smart business tactic...)
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'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'
Proofs of my book are at YALC this weekend!! Alas I am in Glasgow, but thinking fondly of my book living it up in London. Maybe it will go see Hadestown.
November 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Proofs of my book are at YALC this weekend!! Alas I am in Glasgow, but thinking fondly of my book living it up in London. Maybe it will go see Hadestown.
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Sorry for the delay.
We had to wait on timezones.
Because HOME SICK just had its cover reveal in People Magazine.
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
We had to wait on timezones.
Because HOME SICK just had its cover reveal in People Magazine.
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
Rhiannon Grist’s ‘Cottagegore’ Horror 'Home Sick' Will Make Your Skin Crawl — See the Cover! (Exclusive)
Rhiannon Grist is debuting a new psychological horror novel. PEOPLE has an exclusive preview of 'Home Sick', a new book that puts a dark spin on the haunted house story.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Sorry for the delay.
We had to wait on timezones.
Because HOME SICK just had its cover reveal in People Magazine.
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
We had to wait on timezones.
Because HOME SICK just had its cover reveal in People Magazine.
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
Completely forgot about Hidden Books game yesterday but I don’t think my jet-lagged self could have handled it anyway 🥲
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Completely forgot about Hidden Books game yesterday but I don’t think my jet-lagged self could have handled it anyway 🥲