Lauren (LJ) McMenemy
@laurenwrites.bsky.social
📝Writer, editor, proofreader, coach & mentor
👻Writes the dark stuff
😈TWF EIC at Horror Tree
📣Publicity at British Fantasy Society
🤘Founder, Society of Ink Slingers
🔮Curator, Writing the Occult
👩💻Day job: Content marketing & community management
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👻Writes the dark stuff
😈TWF EIC at Horror Tree
📣Publicity at British Fantasy Society
🤘Founder, Society of Ink Slingers
🔮Curator, Writing the Occult
👩💻Day job: Content marketing & community management
🇦🇺in🇬🇧
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Songs that Spotify has chucked on that I'd forgotten were awesome tunes: a somewhat regular thread.
We're lucky to have so many talented people joining us for Writing the Occult: Creatures & Cryptids - including the very, very prolific @vlatinalondon.bsky.social. Take a look at all those books she's had her hands on, and that's not even the half of it! Details & tix: writingtheoccult.carrd.co 🧵⬇️
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
We're lucky to have so many talented people joining us for Writing the Occult: Creatures & Cryptids - including the very, very prolific @vlatinalondon.bsky.social. Take a look at all those books she's had her hands on, and that's not even the half of it! Details & tix: writingtheoccult.carrd.co 🧵⬇️
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The Speakies - aka the British Audio Awards - are currently underway! While we wait to hear about the winners, take a look back to when we spoke with two of the nominees for Best Science Fiction & Fantasy audiobook, Juno Dawson and Steve Lyons.
britishfantasysociety.org/recognising-...
britishfantasysociety.org/recognising-...
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The Speakies - aka the British Audio Awards - are currently underway! While we wait to hear about the winners, take a look back to when we spoke with two of the nominees for Best Science Fiction & Fantasy audiobook, Juno Dawson and Steve Lyons.
britishfantasysociety.org/recognising-...
britishfantasysociety.org/recognising-...
We're into the countdown period... yes, just SIX DAYS until we go hunting creatures as part of Writing the Occult: Creatures & Cryptids.
Tix are £40+bf, which gets you access to the whole day live on Zoom, plus recordings so you don't miss anything.
Details & tickets at writingtheoccult.carrd.co
Tix are £40+bf, which gets you access to the whole day live on Zoom, plus recordings so you don't miss anything.
Details & tickets at writingtheoccult.carrd.co
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
We're into the countdown period... yes, just SIX DAYS until we go hunting creatures as part of Writing the Occult: Creatures & Cryptids.
Tix are £40+bf, which gets you access to the whole day live on Zoom, plus recordings so you don't miss anything.
Details & tickets at writingtheoccult.carrd.co
Tix are £40+bf, which gets you access to the whole day live on Zoom, plus recordings so you don't miss anything.
Details & tickets at writingtheoccult.carrd.co
A visual prompt to kick off your creative weekend: what creature-ific worlds can you conjure from this image?
And if that whets your appetite, join us online for Writing the Occult: Creatures & Cryptids THI⬇️S SATURDAY (!) when we’ll peer into the murky world of creatures & cryptids. 🧵
And if that whets your appetite, join us online for Writing the Occult: Creatures & Cryptids THI⬇️S SATURDAY (!) when we’ll peer into the murky world of creatures & cryptids. 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A visual prompt to kick off your creative weekend: what creature-ific worlds can you conjure from this image?
And if that whets your appetite, join us online for Writing the Occult: Creatures & Cryptids THI⬇️S SATURDAY (!) when we’ll peer into the murky world of creatures & cryptids. 🧵
And if that whets your appetite, join us online for Writing the Occult: Creatures & Cryptids THI⬇️S SATURDAY (!) when we’ll peer into the murky world of creatures & cryptids. 🧵
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Reminder that books make awesome gifts for all holiday events, and they taste sweeter when they’re from indie bookstores. Don’t know what to get? Indie bookstores have gift cards!
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Reminder that books make awesome gifts for all holiday events, and they taste sweeter when they’re from indie bookstores. Don’t know what to get? Indie bookstores have gift cards!
Got a new mug to use while writing the book because clearly that’s the thing that’s missing and now I have everything I need 🙃
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Got a new mug to use while writing the book because clearly that’s the thing that’s missing and now I have everything I need 🙃
Whaddyareckon? How good is the stuff?
November 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Whaddyareckon? How good is the stuff?
Wrapping up the Haunted Landscape for @forteanlondon.bsky.social is @odavies9.bsky.social and @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social, who are taking us on a legend trip around Britain through the lens of folklore.
November 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Wrapping up the Haunted Landscape for @forteanlondon.bsky.social is @odavies9.bsky.social and @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social, who are taking us on a legend trip around Britain through the lens of folklore.
@magicnotwitches.bsky.social transports us back to the mid-1500s o tell the stories of cunning folk as part of @forteanlondon.bsky.social’s Haunted Landscapes.
(Ghosts, graveyards & witches: this is why I love these events!)
(Ghosts, graveyards & witches: this is why I love these events!)
November 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
@magicnotwitches.bsky.social transports us back to the mid-1500s o tell the stories of cunning folk as part of @forteanlondon.bsky.social’s Haunted Landscapes.
(Ghosts, graveyards & witches: this is why I love these events!)
(Ghosts, graveyards & witches: this is why I love these events!)
Dr @icysedgwick.bsky.social is bringing the North to the Haunted Landscape by sneaking into @folklorepod.bsky.social’s territory with the black dogs known as the barguest and gytrash.
November 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Dr @icysedgwick.bsky.social is bringing the North to the Haunted Landscape by sneaking into @folklorepod.bsky.social’s territory with the black dogs known as the barguest and gytrash.
Post-lunch honours go to @profrog.bsky.social showing us “photos of car parks”, aka London’s lost inner city burial grounds. Right up my proverbial street, this one!
November 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Post-lunch honours go to @profrog.bsky.social showing us “photos of car parks”, aka London’s lost inner city burial grounds. Right up my proverbial street, this one!
Many of today’s speakers at @forteanlondon.bsky.social’s Haunted Landscape event have books on sale, as modelled here by Mr Norman of @folklorepod.bsky.social. Support the writers and creators; it really makes a difference!
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Many of today’s speakers at @forteanlondon.bsky.social’s Haunted Landscape event have books on sale, as modelled here by Mr Norman of @folklorepod.bsky.social. Support the writers and creators; it really makes a difference!
Into a bit of psychogeography now with @rachelpoultonphoto.bsky.social and her Unseen explorations of Sussex - intuitive walking and automatic photography.
November 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Into a bit of psychogeography now with @rachelpoultonphoto.bsky.social and her Unseen explorations of Sussex - intuitive walking and automatic photography.
Keeping up tradition, it’s time for the annual appearance of Jeremy Harte at Haunted Landscapes by @forteanlondon.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Keeping up tradition, it’s time for the annual appearance of Jeremy Harte at Haunted Landscapes by @forteanlondon.bsky.social
Next up at Haunted Landscapes: the inimitable Mark Norman of @folklorepod.bsky.social, talking about the folklore of churches. I’m expecting lots of lovely pictures of graves.
@forteanlondon.bsky.social
@forteanlondon.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Next up at Haunted Landscapes: the inimitable Mark Norman of @folklorepod.bsky.social, talking about the folklore of churches. I’m expecting lots of lovely pictures of graves.
@forteanlondon.bsky.social
@forteanlondon.bsky.social
Missed the beginning of @jaylikesthings.bsky.social’s talk on underground horrors and folklore, but the fact I arrived to the stories of Cornish knockers would make Mr L very happy.
November 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Missed the beginning of @jaylikesthings.bsky.social’s talk on underground horrors and folklore, but the fact I arrived to the stories of Cornish knockers would make Mr L very happy.
I have arrived! Just as Florence was singing “drink deep” in my ears, too. Here we go…
November 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I have arrived! Just as Florence was singing “drink deep” in my ears, too. Here we go…
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It's that time of year again!
Nominations for the 2025 BSFA awards are open for BSFA Members. Nominations then form the Longlist. Nominations will close at the end of the year.
Project Hanuman is only just out but if you enjoyed it please consider nominating it in the best novel category 😍
Nominations for the 2025 BSFA awards are open for BSFA Members. Nominations then form the Longlist. Nominations will close at the end of the year.
Project Hanuman is only just out but if you enjoyed it please consider nominating it in the best novel category 😍
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
It's that time of year again!
Nominations for the 2025 BSFA awards are open for BSFA Members. Nominations then form the Longlist. Nominations will close at the end of the year.
Project Hanuman is only just out but if you enjoyed it please consider nominating it in the best novel category 😍
Nominations for the 2025 BSFA awards are open for BSFA Members. Nominations then form the Longlist. Nominations will close at the end of the year.
Project Hanuman is only just out but if you enjoyed it please consider nominating it in the best novel category 😍
Am off into the Big Smoke for @forteanlondon.bsky.social’s annual Haunted Landscapes conference at @conwayhall.bsky.social. I am, as usual, running late & will miss much of the 1st session which annoys me, but mornings are my nemesis. Prepare for pointless photos of speakers flooding your feed!
November 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Am off into the Big Smoke for @forteanlondon.bsky.social’s annual Haunted Landscapes conference at @conwayhall.bsky.social. I am, as usual, running late & will miss much of the 1st session which annoys me, but mornings are my nemesis. Prepare for pointless photos of speakers flooding your feed!
I very much enjoyed this one.
November 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I very much enjoyed this one.
And here's your schedule for the 10th Writing the Occult, when we go hunting critters.
Tickets are £40 + booking fee (for both live access and the recordings of all sessions), and are available now: www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-th...
Tickets are £40 + booking fee (for both live access and the recordings of all sessions), and are available now: www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-th...
November 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
And here's your schedule for the 10th Writing the Occult, when we go hunting critters.
Tickets are £40 + booking fee (for both live access and the recordings of all sessions), and are available now: www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-th...
Tickets are £40 + booking fee (for both live access and the recordings of all sessions), and are available now: www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-th...
Next weekend - yes, NEXT WEEKEND! - we've got a massive day planned, dedicated to all things creature feature. With some rock stars in the field. And some good ol' fashioned fun. Plus tentacle p0rn. What more could you ask for?
Tickets available now: www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-th...
Tickets available now: www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-th...
November 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Next weekend - yes, NEXT WEEKEND! - we've got a massive day planned, dedicated to all things creature feature. With some rock stars in the field. And some good ol' fashioned fun. Plus tentacle p0rn. What more could you ask for?
Tickets available now: www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-th...
Tickets available now: www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-th...
Reposted by Lauren (LJ) McMenemy
Step into the eerie world of modern Kiwi horror, where Māori myth, wild landscapes, and unsettling folklore blend into something unforgettable. From taniwha to ghost-haunted fjords, these stories reveal the darker side of Aotearoa.
Read more: horrortree.com/tales-from-t...
Read more: horrortree.com/tales-from-t...
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Step into the eerie world of modern Kiwi horror, where Māori myth, wild landscapes, and unsettling folklore blend into something unforgettable. From taniwha to ghost-haunted fjords, these stories reveal the darker side of Aotearoa.
Read more: horrortree.com/tales-from-t...
Read more: horrortree.com/tales-from-t...
BFS member profile time: meet Valeriya!
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). Here's Belarus-born, Sheffield-based sci-fi writer Valeriya Salt, who finds inspiration for her Earth-bound SF in gardens and parks.
britishfantasysociety.org/meet-valeriy...
britishfantasysociety.org/meet-valeriy...
November 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
BFS member profile time: meet Valeriya!
I get the feeling @danhowarth20.bsky.social's new one is going to have some very big and important things to say about the state of this country...
With his gritty new novel unleashed tomorrow, 21 November, on his own Northern Republic Press, @danhowarth20.bsky.social walks us through the genesis of his “very nearly book”, Lionhearts.
britishfantasysociety.org/from-pen-to-...
britishfantasysociety.org/from-pen-to-...
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I get the feeling @danhowarth20.bsky.social's new one is going to have some very big and important things to say about the state of this country...