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Mel Reynard
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SFF author #FutureWorldsPrize SL 2023 | #RevPit SL 2025 | @writementor LL 2025 | 📚 hoarder 🌱 enthusiast 🤓 social media dabbler 💫 she/her
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Mel Reynard @meljrey.bsky.social · 21d
Here’s my adult epic fantasy #AgentGuide for #QuestPit

Ingredients:
🥷 1 stabby shifter
⚔️ 1 brooding smuggler
❤️‍🔥 2 for 1 on slow burn romances
✨ 3 kinds of forbidden magic
🚩 everybody lies
🐉 more twists than twisted dragon horns!

#A #F #OWN
A photo of a dark haired woman in the jungle. Title: An Agent/Reader Guide to The Breath of SIlence - A fantasy novel by M J Reynard A photo of a rainforest with the Title "Comps": A Feather so Black - magical FMC in a non-magical world The Last Vigilant - A broken MMC with a life debt The Jasad Heir - Forbidden magic The Raven Scholar - Intrigue & deadly agendas One Dark Window - slow burn sub plots A rainforest photo with the following text: The Pitch In a world where magic is forbidden, an outcast shifter & a broken soldier form a fragile alliance to smuggle a relic, but as betrayal leads to murder, they must stop a vengeful sorceress or lose all magic – forever! The Breath of SIlence by M J Reynard Illustrations of a POC woman in leather armour and a Caucasian man in a Regency style shirt and coat with brown hair. The following quotes: "He's a liar!" "She's hiding something." City in the sky!
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Join the BFS at Redditch Library for a special event to celebrate the launch of To Touch a Silent Fury, the start of a new series from acclaimed fantasy romance author R.A. Sandpiper.

Sat 6th December, 2pm. Redditch Library.

Ticket: tinyurl.com/rasandpiper

@rasandpiper.bsky.social
A white background. Photos: RA Sandpiper (right); covers of books by the authors in a row (below). The Redditch Library and British Fantasy Society (a dragon curling around the letters BFS) logos.
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Most anticipated: The Republic of Memory by
@mahmudelsayed.bsky.social

Best Novella: Ghost Apparent by @jelenawrites.bsky.social

Author to watch: @meljrey.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Wrapping up my year-end recap:

Best fantasy novel: The Wingspan of Treason by
@inknest.bsky.social

Best short story: Our Last Evening in a Moon-Struck City by
@madeehahwrites.bsky.social

Best dark fantasy: The Way of Unity by
@skbalstrup.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Opportunities in Speculative Fiction

Tickets here: tinyurl.com/bfslian

A round-up of all the wonderful things that have been happening in speculative fiction, where trends are kicking off, in which parts of the world, by whom, and more! Join moderator, Lauren McMenemy, and panellists (1/3)
Shown is a graphic that has a wavy pink background. Right at the top is a black banner with the event name— Imaginarium II— in white, followed by the name of panel, “Diaspora Heroes to the Rescue”. Beneath that are pictures of the panellists— Ann Sei Lin (top left); Pim Wangtechawat (top right); The Mollusc Dimension (bottom left); JM Engineer (bottom right). At the bottom of the graphic is a white panel that has the 4 logos of the sponsors: (from left to right) Difference Engine SG, Li’l Factory, Writing Our Legacy, and the British Fantasy Society.
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Massive congratulations to @junodawson.bsky.social and Nicola Coughlan for winning the inaugural Speakie for best SFF audiobook!
britfantasysoc.bsky.social British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 1d
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.

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November 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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ALL MY BOOKS
#poetry #books #shortstories #kidlit
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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#7syllablesentence
#cloudstep

The cloudstep obscured the hills.
November 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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#prompts #writingprompts #book
November 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Diaspora Heroes to the Rescue!

Tickets here: tinyurl.com/bfslian

We need new heroes, who are culturally and socially more diverse and sensitive. Come and listen to our panellists, Pim Wangthechawat, Ann Sei Lin, The Mollusc Dimension and JM Engineer, as they discuss with moderator (1/3)
Shown is a graphic that has a wavy dark green background. Right at the top is a light green banner with the event name— Imaginarium II—followed by the name of panel, “Diaspora Heroes to the Rescue”. Underneath this are pictures of the panellists. They are Ann Sei Lin (top left); Pim Wangtechawat (top right); The Mollusc Dimension (bottom left); JM Engineer (bottom right). At the bottom of the graphic is a white panel that has the 4 logos of the sponsors: (from left to right) Difference Engine SG, Li’l Factory, Writing Our Legacy, and the British Fantasy Society.
November 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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It’s exactly the right time of year to start reading Winter’s Wishfall by @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social – the perfect book for people who like a sprinkle of magic with their romance ✨💖❄️
cerihoulbrook.bsky.social Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 4d
'Put some magic & romance into your #Christmas countdown with Ceri Houlbrook's enchanting & escapist debut novel', said one lovely reviewer of Winter's Wishfall. 'Cosy, speculative mystery with a good sprinkling of romance and magic' said another (the wonderful @meljrey.bsky.social I believe) ☺️
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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'Put some magic & romance into your #Christmas countdown with Ceri Houlbrook's enchanting & escapist debut novel', said one lovely reviewer of Winter's Wishfall. 'Cosy, speculative mystery with a good sprinkling of romance and magic' said another (the wonderful @meljrey.bsky.social I believe) ☺️
November 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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#promptbook #writingprompts #comingsoon
November 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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With his name on one half of the latest Wizard’s Tower Books duo, @aknighton.bsky.social talks about his experience working with an iconic small press on a dual-author release.

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November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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I’m making fairly steady progress in the new WIP: I’m averaging 350 words a day but yesterday I got between 600-900 words (not sure as I also did some editing!) and I’m quite pleased with that ☺️
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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#comingsoon #writingprompts #book
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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The BFS is very pleased to support the Best Audiobook: Science Fiction & Fantasy category at the inaugural British Audio Awards the ceremony for which takes place on 24th November. To mark the event, Long Story Short presents our very first Podcast Special.

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November 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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#comingsoon #prompt #newbook
November 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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#christmas #kidlit #picturebooks
November 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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📚🌊🩸 New Review! 🩸🌊📚

Tides of Torment by @scrimscribes.bsky.social

"A desperate race against time to end a cycle of violence full of impossible choices & pulse-pounding high seas action that pauses for breath only to rip apart your heart. Concludes one of the decade's unmissable fantasy series."
Review: Tides of Torment (Sea of Souls #3) by N. C. Scrimgeour | FanFiAddict
Last Tide Synopsis The capital has fallen. Ghostly wraiths and bloodthirsty selkies roam the coast as the haar spreads its sickness across Silveckan. Every ...
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November 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Updated #agentsguide following #questpit
'A sister always has your back, until she sticks a knife in it.' 🔪
#litagents
#amquerying
Turquoise background. Open book image in bottom left with Bookclub 82k. A beautiful young woman in a gold picture frame, spelled with age A beautiful young woman tossing long dark hair over her shoulder. Eyes closed. Splashes of gold paint on the blue grey background Four book covers. Blue Sisters, drawing of a young woman's sad face, The Push, two women facing away from each other, silhouette, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a young man's face, half of it aged, Hello Beautiful, a young woman's smiling face. A series of images: spooky trees, a dilapidated pier, a woman on a cat walk, a woman having her face injected,a pale hand reaching for a devil's hand. Turquoise background, splashes if gold, three boxes of text.
November 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Had a fun filled day at YALC with the lovely @meljrey.bsky.social ✨

Had to have a pic at the iconic YALC sign 👍🏼
November 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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I’ve read the opening of this book! The wit, the excellent ocd rep & spot on description of grief… it was fantastic!

Shout out to the #writingcommunity who should all go and follow Sarah! She’s my IRL/long suffering friend! 🫡🙃♥️

#writesky #writersky
sarahmaywrites.bsky.social Sarah May Hayes @sarahmaywrites.bsky.social · 11d
Excited to introduce my #amquerying novel BURIED FEELINGS

💁🏻‍♀️💕 Upmarket women's fiction/strong
romcom thread
🇮🇪🪦 Set at an Irish wake
👩🏻‍❤️‍👨🏼💕 Forced prox, second-chance love
😵‍💫🧠 Fresh take on mental health/OCD
🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒👵🏻 Familial chaos across generations

#upmarket #pitchcard #womensfic #litagents
November 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they filled out). Today we're hitting gothic mode with @beverleylee.bsky.social, whose coming-of-age folk horror The Haunting of Wounded Birds came out this week.

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On a black background with flourishes of red dots and lines is the text: Meet the BFS members! Beverley Lee. Beverley is pictured in the centre: she is a white woman with short, tightly-curled hair, wearing a black top, and overlooking a balcony in Paris.
November 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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#7syllablesentence #object
I will never object to prompts
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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I don’t know if there is mileage here for drafting accountability but drafting is hard & I’m seeking #WritingCommunity solidarity!
Turns out I have 10.2k words on my current WIP
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November 14, 2025 at 7:43 AM