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Andrew Knighton

@aknighton.bsky.social

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Writer of sff + comics. Rearranging words for a living since 2013. he/him Mailing list: https://eepurl.com/Zviqn The Executioner's Blade: https://www.northodox.co.uk/product-page/the-executioner-s-blade-paperback Also found at andrewknighton.com

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · May 15

Fake prophecies, a shiny new sword, & a branded birthmark are guiding Raul's fate. But who chooses the chosen one? And what can you do when your destiny is a lie? A story about deception, family, rebellion, and choosing your own path.
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 11h

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

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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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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 8h

Sounds brilliant. Looking forward to it already.

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 8h

Do you need an audiobook to listen to? A good one, that you'll enjoy? Because I have just the thing - I know it's good because I wrote and produced it and I have listened to it so many times by this point but I still like it: www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Redst...

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 13h

Blood Over Bright Haven is so good!

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 15h

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 21h

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'strong' #BookQW
Dan Mackmain's physically fit and mentally tough. That means nothing in this situation. Want to find out what happens next?
The Green Man's War is a 99p Kindle UK deal for October.
www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Mans-W...

Cover art by Ben Baldwin shows a lethal, pale-scaled serpent-dragon or wyrm lurking in woodland. It looks straight at you as its forked tongue flickers between open, sharp-toothed jaws.

Book extract reads: The man by the door with the mattock said something I didn’t catch, but he was obviously warning the others. Sledgehammer guy looked around again. His mate with the pickaxe took a couple of steps towards a jewellery seller at the other end of the barn. She was tiny, wearing a long black dress, with purple hair that matched her lipstick and eyeshadow. If she was next on their list, there was nothing I could do.
I’d have to take that sledgehammer off the short-arse in front of me, then get past his mate with the mattock. No chance. My mother’s a dryad, but that doesn’t give me superpowers, not really. A dryad’s daughters take after their mothers and live for centuries in the unseen world alongside normal life. I’m tall and strong and hardly ever get ill, but I’ll grow old like my dad.
Billhook guy called out. I realised I hadn’t misheard mattock man guarding the door. Whoever these thieves were, they weren’t speaking English between themselves

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 21h

Very exciting!

Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 21h

Happy editor @rozc.bsky.social with the next @wtpress.bsky.social Wiz Duos from @r-emrys.bsky.social and @aknighton.bsky.social - launching at WFC!

Riz, a white lady with curly red hair and oval glasses wearing a grey cardie, holding two copies of Duo 3

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 21h

Once again I've followed your lead, and am enjoying some JuJu while cooking pancakes for a late breakfast. Can't believe I haven't listened to this before, it's fantastic.

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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 1d

YES. This exactly. Bless you, The Oatmeal. Bless you, and bless Butt Rat, and bless the feeling of paint dripping in the artist's eyes. And fuck AI.

The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 1d

Yorkshire folks, I'm going to be putting questions to @caimhmc.bsky.social on Friday evening at Waterstones, talking about his new book Ring the Bells. Come along for tales of the Mancunian supernatural & the forces unleashed when a book club goes wrong.

www.waterstones.com/events/ring-...

Ring the Bells: Let's Get Festive with C.K. McDonnell! | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Ring the Bells: Let's Get Festive with C.K. McDonnell! today.

www.waterstones.com

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Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 2d

Project Hanuman has its launch at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social two weeks before it's in shops. There will be cake, wine and merch. 2pm on the Friday of the convention (31st October).

I'm petrified of launching this thing alone so please come along and eat my cakes

There may also be special guest

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 3d

Good news! The Green Man's War is a Kindle ebook deal for October. You can get fully caught up with Dan Mackmain's adventures before The Green Man's Holiday is published on 30th October.
www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Mans-W...

Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · Aug 30

Congratulations to Juliet E McKenna whose The Green Man's War is finalist for Best Novel in the British Fantasy Awards.
wizardstowerpress.co...

Cover of The Green Man’s War by Juliet E McKenna. Art by Ben Baldwin.

Image is of the face of an angry wyrm against a dark forest background.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 3d

It's okay for the abyss to stare back, but does it have to wink?

That's just unseemly.

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 5d

Our Kickstarter campaign is closing in on 30% funded. Not bad for our second day. Check out what all the excitement is about: www.kickstarter.com/...

The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd).

The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left.

Art by Josh Arklin.

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 5d

First Friday of the month, so here's some flash fiction, in which a small girl meets a much larger monster.

andrewknighton.com/stay-close-a...

Stay Close - a fantasy short story

When a dragon turns up at the hiring fair, Gillie's going to get a closer look, no matter what stands in her way.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 5d

Counter-opinion: it’s a f***ing tragedy that corporate greed has broken the medium which facilitated Tahrir Square etc and is now doing its best to break the rest of the Internet.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 5d

Opinion: It would be a hugely welcome development to discover that we have not merely reached social media saturation point, but that the experience has been degraded to such an extent that it has shocked people out of their stupor. on.ft.com/476Dcr8

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 5d

Three quarters of British people want Indonesian for takeaway tonight, with only one quarter holding out for pizza, new survey* says.

*taken in my house

The Independent @the-independent.com · 6d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 5d

First Friday of the month, so here's some flash fiction, in which a small girl meets a much larger monster.

andrewknighton.com/stay-close-a...

Stay Close - a fantasy short story

When a dragon turns up at the hiring fair, Gillie's going to get a closer look, no matter what stands in her way.

andrewknighton.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6d

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 6d

Just read @rjbarker.bsky.social's piece in Writing the Magic, & for a man who claims not to know how to write a book, he sure writes beautifully about that ignorance. Lovely essay, strong recommend.

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Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social · 6d

ICYMI, the most recent Starship Alexandria episode is an enthusiastic discussion about the 80's movie Battle Beyond The Stars, which I had not seen until @aptshadow.bsky.social suggested it. starshipalexandria.com/episode-6-ba...

Starship Alexandria: Episode 6- Battle Beyond The Stars

For our sixth episode of Starship Alexandria, Adrian puts forward our first film, Battle Beyond the Stars directed by Roger Corman, for Emma to watch and consider.  Other talking points:  ...

starshipalexandria.com

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 6d

War and Peace in the Willows

Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 6d

So for this year's somewhat abbreviated Oktobersketch I'm experimenting with group scenes, one per week. Here are some stalwart defenders of some small European nation circa 1800(?). Group first then the individual originals.

a group of uniformed animals with muskets, wearing red and blue uniforms including tasselled caps and old fashioned long coats, rallying around a flag.

A uniformed mantis with a sabre and a flag.

A uniformed giant anteater aiming a musket.

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 6d

"What do you mean, you've given up penny farthings & starting using LLMs? We thought you people were making progress."