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Lady Kraken

@cjhenderson.bsky.social

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Scottish fantasy writer. She/her. Books, cats, more books. SFF, language, history, Twin Peaks, BSG, Star Trek. Co-founder @edinburghsff; member @gsfwc. Latest story is in Gallus anthology.

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Lady Kraken @cjhenderson.bsky.social · Nov 13

Hello to my many new followers, and thanks! If you're interested in finding more authors to follow, I can recommend giving the GALLUS: A Glasgow SF Writers' Circle Anthology amzn.eu/d/fF85LLP and Nova Scotia Vol 2: New Speculative Fiction From Scotland amzn.eu/d/fE6er2jant... a go.

GALLUS: A Glasgow SF Writers' Circle Anthology: Amazon.co.uk: Williamson, Neil, Williamson, Neil, Faulds, E.M., Milton, Brian M.: 9798328059664: Books

Buy GALLUS: A Glasgow SF Writers' Circle Anthology by Williamson, Neil, Williamson, Neil, Faulds, E.M., Milton, Brian M. from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction.

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David Goodman @davegoodman.bsky.social · 5h

I've set up a wee @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social affiliate page. I'll be adding to it over time, but if you want to buy or pre-order my books and books I recommend, support my work with a bit of commission AND support local independent bookshops, give it a look - uk.bookshop.org/shop/davidgo...

David Goodman's Online Bookshop Bookshop UK

David Goodman is an award-winning author of thriller and speculative fiction. His debut A RELUCTANT SPY won the 2025 McDermid Debut Award and Bloody Scotland Debut Prize and was optioned by Carnival F...

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 3d

Scam alert: there's an IngramSpark impersonator at ingramsparkbookpublishers dot com. Part of a wave of publishing/ghostwriting scams from Pakistan that hijack authors looking to self-publish--they often "borrow" well-known publisher names but this one also "borrows" the real IngramSpark's logo

Screenshot of IngramSpark impersonator's contact form, with chat window where scammer sales rep "Travis Clark" claims that "We are Ingram Spark's hands-on services department. You will be able to find our information here: https://www.ingramsparkbookpublishers.com/

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Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 1d

Sam’s writing is magical.

Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 1d

🎂🎉Happy UK Book Birthday to RAGWORT, @samkhorton.bsky.social 's much-anticipated sequel to his deliciously dark fantasy GORSE!

Welcome back to 18th century Cornwall, where Keeper Nancy Bligh is still holding the line against the dark...

Buy now - geni.us/ragwort

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 1d

🐙 1 month till THE SALT ORACLE is out🐙

So here's a closer look at the fab oracle cards by @hibernalbeast.bsky.social. I am very in love with the digital ghost orca ngl, they *have some fun* in the book! 🫢

Check out the preorder giveaway below too 👇🏽

An oracle type card with a border that's partly octopuses, jellyfish and fish skeletons & the title 'judgement'. The image is of two flying ravens against a backdrop of sea and giant tentacles.

Same card design, title 'The Oracle'. Image is of a white teenage girl in tatty clothes, with long pale hair rising around her, lightning filled eyes and her hands raised as if in distress. Behind is a railing and the distant sea

Same card design, title 'vengeance'. Image is an orca surrounded by static and with patches of pixelation, swimming down, holding some burning wreckage in its mouth, with more in the background.

Same again, title 'the choice'. Image shows main character 'Auli', a white woman with black hair standing in a fog filled library holding a clipboard in one hand and a raised storm lamp in the other. She's looks a bit anxious

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 1d

I have been reliably informed that you can now grab copies of Dark Crescent at But n' Ben Books in Stonehaven! (Lovely to see it in the North East where I was when I wrote many of the stories!) Wee event there coming soon also...👀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙✨️ @lunapress.bsky.social

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 1d

Happiest of publication days to this beautiful book & the possibly-fae @samkhorton.bsky.social 🖤🖤🖤

Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 2d

If you like dark folklore you must check out @samkhorton.bsky.social's Gorse and its sequel Ragwort, which is out today!

Gorgeous inside and out, it's a haunting tale of love, madness, loss, and mysterious secrets, set in Cornwall amid the clash of Enlightenment with the old magical ways

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A banner from Solaris with a picture of the book and a quote from Lorraine Wilson reading "brimming with love for the wild places, for the folklore and for the fallibility and generosity of the human heart. Horton is a storyteller outside of time, I suspect he may be fae"

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 1d

Just in time for Halloween, Stephen Cashmore releases his new book of spooky tales for kids, 'As They Grow Older: Spooky Stories To Read Aloud' (Sparsile Books) on 15th October!

Preorder now:
www.waterstones.com/book/as-we-g...

Waterstones Ayr Launch (31/10):
www.waterstones.com/events/book-...

As We Grow Older by Stephen Cashmore | Waterstones

Buy As We Grow Older by Stephen Cashmore from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

www.waterstones.com

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Lady Kraken @cjhenderson.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations!

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Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 2d

📚 🧡 MY BIGGEST DREAM COME TRUE 📚 🧡

My debut novel, MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, will be out in 2027!

Publishers Marketplace, Z. K. Abraham's My Darling Clementine, in which a Black queer woman, who, feeling lost in teh depths of an unhappy marriage, leaves it all behind, only to lose herself completely-and beyond human recognition-to a new love, to Makayla Tabron at Amistad, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2027, by Carleen Geisler at P.S. Literary Agency (world English). Translation: Taryn Fagerness Agency

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 2d

If you’re near Leeds (I’m not, I’m fighting Tyranids in Nottingham) you should definitely go to this.

British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 2d

TONIGHT! LEEDS!
Moderator @katiebruce.bsky.social is joined by SFF writers @aptshadow.bsky.social David Wragg & @rjbarker.bsky.social for Building Brilliant Worlds: A conversation on fantastic landscapes and the creatures that inhabit them at Waterstones, Albion Street. Tix: tinyurl.com/LeedsWorlds

A background of moorland with dry stone walls and a grey, cloudy sky. Pictures of the authors around the outside and their books in the centre. Adrian Tchaikovsky - The Hungry Gods, David Wragg - The Iron Road, RJ Barker - Heart of the Wyrd Wood

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Benedict Anning @benedictanning.bsky.social · 2d

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ragw...
It's release day for the delicious follow-up to Gorse!! Highly highly encourage you nab a copy from the inimitable worldly wordsmith @samkhorton.bsky.social ✨

Ragwort

Check out Ragwort - A year on from the loss of Lord Pelagius Hunt of Mirecoombe, new Keeper Nancy Bligh is still struggling. She can banish the spirits and keep peace between the spriggans and piskies...

uk.bookshop.org

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Lady Kraken @cjhenderson.bsky.social · 2d

So sorry, David.

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 2d

Ooooo

www.rockpapershotgun.com/clair-obscur...

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is getting a whoole free update with a new location, boss battles and threads

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developers Sandfall Interactive have announced the RPG is getting a free update with a new location, boss battles and threads.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 2d

www.thebookseller.com/rights/titan...

Titan snags ‘refreshingly original’ fantasy adventure from Mike Brooks

Titan Books has acquired a new fantasy adventure novel from The God-King Chronicles author Mike Brooks.

www.thebookseller.com

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Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 2d

Are you still looking for the perfect autumn read? I have a short story in ONCE UPON AN AUTUMN, a collection of autumnal folk and fairy tales 🥰 🍂 🎃

My story is about an orphan girl who stumbles into a fairy ring and finds herself in a magical fungal network 👀 🍄

💙📚👀

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 2d

Fancy a tale that'll leave you shaking 'Down to the Roots'? Check out the reprint of our Neil Williamson's classic tale of Halloween Scotia in The Dark Magazine, available now from the link below.

@neilwilliamson.bsky.social @oldcharliebrown.bsky.social

www.thedarkmagazine.com/issues/octob...

October 2025 - The Dark Magazine

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints...

www.thedarkmagazine.com

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Lady Kraken @cjhenderson.bsky.social · 2d

Normally I'd suggest with coffee, but that might upset your tea-loving sensibilities.

Lady Kraken @cjhenderson.bsky.social · 2d

Thoughts and prayers.

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Lady Kraken @cjhenderson.bsky.social · 3d

Nooo!

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 3d

At 7pm on 9th October, don't miss @aptshadow.bsky.social at Leeds Waterstones for a very special panel event on "Building Brilliant Worlds" alongside @rjbarker.bsky.social and
@davewragg.com in association with @britfantasysoc.bsky.social!

Tickets only £5! www.waterstones.com/events/panel...

A screenshot of the Waterstones Event Graphic.

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David Green @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social · 3d

Autistic people are told what's 'normal' all the time. Even if what's being called 'normal' doesn't sound very 'normal' to us...

'Magic, Maps, and Mischief: A Cozy Neurodivergent Adventure' is out October 24th!

mybook.to/magicmapsand...

“There are no elves in the basement?”
Greton nodded. “No.”
“Why are you nodding, Greton?”
“I am agreeing with you.” The old man swallowed, but the large lump taking residence in his throat refused to shift. “I agreed that there are no elves in the basement behind me.”
“A person usually shakes their head when they say no, Greton. Not nods. That’s what normal people do, shake their heads.”
‘That’s what normal people do’. If the old Sparker had a gula for every time he’d heard that phrase, he’d be richer than all the bankers in Lira City combined.
Gritting his teeth, he let the barb slide for the good of Lura and her children. “Yes, of course. I shall try to remember that.”

Magic, Maps, and Mischief: A Cozy Neurodivergent Adventure Out October 24th 2025

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CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 4d

Goddamit. Every now and again FB throws me a reminder that I could once make art and I need to find the time again.

I need to quit my day job lbh.

Digital painting of a dark haired woman in a pale dress and sun hat, from a reference photo online.

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Ginger Nuts of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 5d

I really hate doing this, but when I had my breakdown last month, I took two weeks off from work, and they didn't pay me for my time off, and I am broke.

If you find it in your heart to tip even the minimum amount then I would be enternally grateful

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Support GNofHorror

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Lady Kraken @cjhenderson.bsky.social · 4d

Lettuce see...

Lady Kraken @cjhenderson.bsky.social · 4d

Great news! Congratulations!

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