Verity Holloway
@verityholloway.bsky.social
Strange fiction, weird history. Lost member of the PRB. Marfan syndrome. Will-o’-the-wisp. Victorians, folklore, bad medicine. THE OTHERS OF EDENWELL and CHEER THE SICK out now. 🦇🖋️🇬🇮
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Perfect reading for a freezing winter’s night. @helleborezine.bsky.social make lovely things
November 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Perfect reading for a freezing winter’s night. @helleborezine.bsky.social make lovely things
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These comments (and more) from our readers have seriously made my weekend! Thank you everyone for all the love 🖤
November 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
These comments (and more) from our readers have seriously made my weekend! Thank you everyone for all the love 🖤
Positive mantras don't work on neurodivergent people, but I'm genuinely finding success with "This isn't what David Lynch wants for me."
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Positive mantras don't work on neurodivergent people, but I'm genuinely finding success with "This isn't what David Lynch wants for me."
I'll be teaching a couple of undergrad classes on short weird fiction in the spring. I'd like to do more of these, so if anyone is putting together a set of online seminars, bear me in mind.
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I'll be teaching a couple of undergrad classes on short weird fiction in the spring. I'd like to do more of these, so if anyone is putting together a set of online seminars, bear me in mind.
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"He told the BBC he had been contacted by people "who were nine years old and Nigel Farage, when he was 18 years old, marched frequently into the playground where they were playing and they were told to 'go back to Africa."
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Nigel Farage’s abuse was persistent, not banter, claims ex-schoolmate
Peter Ettedgui says he was targeted at Dulwich College. The Reform UK leader denies he racially abused anybody
www.thetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
"He told the BBC he had been contacted by people "who were nine years old and Nigel Farage, when he was 18 years old, marched frequently into the playground where they were playing and they were told to 'go back to Africa."
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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AND I SAID
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November 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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AND I SAID
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feeling extremely something to see some peanut go "you haven't given people a reason to *not* pirate books" juxtaposed with said peanut talking about the kind of queer representation they want in media
unfun fact: a lot of queer creatives are broke as shattered windows, and piracy doesn't help
unfun fact: a lot of queer creatives are broke as shattered windows, and piracy doesn't help
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
feeling extremely something to see some peanut go "you haven't given people a reason to *not* pirate books" juxtaposed with said peanut talking about the kind of queer representation they want in media
unfun fact: a lot of queer creatives are broke as shattered windows, and piracy doesn't help
unfun fact: a lot of queer creatives are broke as shattered windows, and piracy doesn't help
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"As long as policymakers continue to flood money into AI, small press publishers will only grow in importance. The quality of the books they produce, driven by that creative, alternative thinking & integrative design focus is only set to become more in demand." www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"As long as policymakers continue to flood money into AI, small press publishers will only grow in importance. The quality of the books they produce, driven by that creative, alternative thinking & integrative design focus is only set to become more in demand." www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
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If it's truly to fuck over the corporations, go drop the cost of that novel in an author's tip jar anonymously.
But we all know you won't do that.
So.
Request books from your library. Shit, I'd rather you ASK ME for one of my books outright than pirate it. Yes, I've sent copies this way.
But we all know you won't do that.
So.
Request books from your library. Shit, I'd rather you ASK ME for one of my books outright than pirate it. Yes, I've sent copies this way.
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
If it's truly to fuck over the corporations, go drop the cost of that novel in an author's tip jar anonymously.
But we all know you won't do that.
So.
Request books from your library. Shit, I'd rather you ASK ME for one of my books outright than pirate it. Yes, I've sent copies this way.
But we all know you won't do that.
So.
Request books from your library. Shit, I'd rather you ASK ME for one of my books outright than pirate it. Yes, I've sent copies this way.
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The leftism leaving people's bodies like cartoon ghosts when people say "artists need to be paid" and "don't steal books."
i have never wanted to make a YouTube video before, but now i want to make one that's basically: Books Are Not Free Content For You, Stop Stealing From Authors, You Scabs.
we are not the enemy.
every dollar folks think they're taking from Amazon, they're taking from authors more.
we are not the enemy.
every dollar folks think they're taking from Amazon, they're taking from authors more.
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 AM
The leftism leaving people's bodies like cartoon ghosts when people say "artists need to be paid" and "don't steal books."
Delighted to find this little piece about the haunted chest of drawers I heard about as a student. The shop that sold it to the anonymous owner quoted here was advertising for a PA, and I very nearly applied out of morbid curiosity. I wonder where it is now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt9J...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt9J...
1983: PARANORMAL INVESTIGATORS and a HAUNTED CHEST OF DRAWERS | Nationwide | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Delighted to find this little piece about the haunted chest of drawers I heard about as a student. The shop that sold it to the anonymous owner quoted here was advertising for a PA, and I very nearly applied out of morbid curiosity. I wonder where it is now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt9J...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt9J...
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I didn't know people did this and now I want to pay someone to flood all the pirate sites with 'adjusted' versions of all my romance novels.
I truly hope if you're downloading books that you download one of the ones that are uploaded with the fake endings, the random "and then he shit in her mouth and turned her into a zombie" that i know someone is adding that to her romance books & has her sister upload dozens of versions of that.
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I didn't know people did this and now I want to pay someone to flood all the pirate sites with 'adjusted' versions of all my romance novels.
You can buy my out-of-print portal fantasy, Pseudotooth, directly from me, all signed and doodled in. This book made at least two readers miss their stops on the train.
ko-fi.com/s/7292dd0671
ko-fi.com/s/7292dd0671
Pseudotooth paperback (signed) - Verity Holloway's Ko-fi Shop
The debut novel from Verity Holloway, Pseudotooth is an adult take on ‘portal fantasy’, boldly tackling issues of trauma responses, social difference ...
ko-fi.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
You can buy my out-of-print portal fantasy, Pseudotooth, directly from me, all signed and doodled in. This book made at least two readers miss their stops on the train.
ko-fi.com/s/7292dd0671
ko-fi.com/s/7292dd0671
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If you're an author being published by small and tiny presses, please shamelessly promote your work, however much your temperament might militate against it. I've seen many wonderful authors at this level so quickly forgotten when they die, you deserve all the readers you can get while you're alive.
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 AM
If you're an author being published by small and tiny presses, please shamelessly promote your work, however much your temperament might militate against it. I've seen many wonderful authors at this level so quickly forgotten when they die, you deserve all the readers you can get while you're alive.
Dreamt I was considering breaking up with my girlfriend, the ghost of a 1920s housebound pianist who I met in an antique shop, because she kept offering me big rocks of ghost cocaine.
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Dreamt I was considering breaking up with my girlfriend, the ghost of a 1920s housebound pianist who I met in an antique shop, because she kept offering me big rocks of ghost cocaine.
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Grand Designs is just people with unlimited money, time, and freedom saying, "Ever since I was a little heir, I've always loved featureless squares."
November 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Grand Designs is just people with unlimited money, time, and freedom saying, "Ever since I was a little heir, I've always loved featureless squares."
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November 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My Tory MP sends out frequent newsletters arguing that horse racing gambling shouldn't be taxed the way 'real' gambling is, and also please don't look too closely at the living conditions of the stable hands. 🙃
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
November 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
My Tory MP sends out frequent newsletters arguing that horse racing gambling shouldn't be taxed the way 'real' gambling is, and also please don't look too closely at the living conditions of the stable hands. 🙃
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"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not.
He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions.
Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes."
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions.
Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes."
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Zack Polanski: ‘People will have to find some other way to hurt me’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not.
He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions.
Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes."
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions.
Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes."
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post
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A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Nothing can prepare you for how toe-curlingly weird this interview is.
‘America is British’. Heaven is ‘a socialist state’. David Attenborough is ‘anti-human’ – the startling theories of Reform MP Danny Kruger
‘America is British’. Heaven is ‘a socialist state’. David Attenborough is ‘anti-human’ – the startling theories of Reform MP Danny Kruger
He was a Conservative party big-hitter who wrote speeches for David Cameron and worked with Boris Johnson before he suddenly jumped ship. He talks family, flags and why Nigel Farage is ‘top dog’
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Nothing can prepare you for how toe-curlingly weird this interview is.