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Dave "David" Wragg @davewragg.com · 5h

TOMORROZ!

Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 6h

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...

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 6h

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...

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Dave "David" Wragg @davewragg.com · 22h

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Katie ♥️💜💙 @katiebruce.bsky.social · 1d

Two days!!
Come join the chaos!

Katie ♥️💜💙 @katiebruce.bsky.social · Aug 7

It's time for another fabulous @britfantasysoc.bsky.social event!

Building Brilliant Worlds: fantastic landscapes and the creatures that inhabit them!
Waterstones Leeds 9th October 7pm

@rjbarker.bsky.social
@aptshadow.bsky.social
@davewragg.com
Katie Bruce (mod)

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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Earon the Grate @earon66.bsky.social · 1d

Just finished The Iron Road - bloody brilliant! Great story, humour, fights, gore, mad schemes, wonderful characters, what more can you ask for...?

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Dave "David" Wragg @davewragg.com · 1d

Thank you so much for reading!

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sunyi @handle.invalid · 2d

Happy Mid Autumn Festival! 🥮 I’m thrilled to share the cover of #TheGirlWithAThousandFaces, coming 5 May 2026 from @torbooks.bsky.social! ⭐⁣The Girl with a Thousand Faces is a Chinese-Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong.

Cover art by Lindsey Carr, Cover design by Shreya Gupta

A ghostly Chinese woman with dead white eyes stares out from a stylised black and green ocean, her face surrounded by billowing gold foam

THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK EATERS

A haunting dark urban fantasy set in a historical Hong Kong, where ancient myths and local legends combine in a story of ghosts, grief and women who will not forgive.

Mercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past. After washing up on the shores of Hong Kong with no memory during World War II, she found a home in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost-infested slum full of lost and traumatised civilians. Since the war ended, Mercy has rebuilt her life and found work as a ghost-talker for the local triad, dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt this place.

But the past she can’t remember won’t let her go. An unusually powerful ghost lurks in Kowloon’s waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district. Unnervingly, it claims to know Mercy—and her forgotten childhood.

As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realise that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making.

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Next week, 7pm 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...

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Dave "David" Wragg @davewragg.com · 7d

It's the only rational response!

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Dave "David" Wragg @davewragg.com · 7d

A week away! You simply MUST come!

British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 7d

Coming up in Leeds!

Building Brilliant Worlds: A conversation on fantastic landscapes and the creatures that inhabit them.

Thur 9th Oct, 7pm. Waterstones, Albion Street.

Ticket: tinyurl.com/LeedsWorlds

@rjbarker.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social ‬ @davewragg.com‬ @katiebruce.bsky.social

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 7d

Coming up in Leeds!

Building Brilliant Worlds: A conversation on fantastic landscapes and the creatures that inhabit them.

Thur 9th Oct, 7pm. Waterstones, Albion Street.

Ticket: tinyurl.com/LeedsWorlds

@rjbarker.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social ‬ @davewragg.com‬ @katiebruce.bsky.social

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Katie ♥️💜💙 @katiebruce.bsky.social · 7d

Next week!
tinyurl.com/LeedsWorlds

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Fletchgod Apocalypse @michaelrfletcher.bsky.social · 11d

The "BUY MY BOOKS SO I CAN AFFORD TO DO STUPID STUFF" sale continues!

The first two novels (ebook only) of these completed trilogies are on sale for HALF PRICE!

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Anthony Ryan @anthonyryan.bsky.social · 11d

Attention UK #BookSky - A Tide of Black Steel, Book One of the Age of Wrath, is on sale in ebook today at £0.99.
#KindleSale #EbookSale

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David Goodman @davegoodman.bsky.social · 12d

I'm delighted to share the cover reveal trailer for SOLITARY AGENTS from @headlinebooks.bsky.social! Huge thanks also to @harryillingworth.bsky.social and @dhhlitagency.bsky.social

Available to pre-order from all major retailers (and local independents), Solitary Agents is out on June 4th 2026.

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Richard Swan @richardswanauthor.bsky.social · 12d

You can read the first chapter of my upcoming Empire of the Wolf novella here 👇🏼

Grimdark Magazine @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social · 13d

With the release of The Scour by @richardswanauthor.bsky.social mere weeks away, we think it’s time we gave you a bit of a peek at the amazing dark fantasy novella that awaits you.

EXCLUSIVE: Excerpt: Chapter 1 of Richard Swan's new Vonvalt novella The Scour

Stuffed with Vonvalt's trademark legal procedural overlay on the grim outer reaches of the Sovan Empire, a bit of dark fantasy buddy cop action, and a murderous mystery to be solved, I hope you enjoy ...

www.grimdarkmagazine.com

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Dave "David" Wragg @davewragg.com · 12d

You don't want to miss this. Get yourself to Leeds by any means necessary 🫡

Katie ♥️💜💙 @katiebruce.bsky.social · 12d

Just two weeks to go until the lords of chaos descend upon Leeds to discuss all things building worlds, fantastical landscapes and the weird and wonderful creatures that inhabit them!

There'll be an hour's discussion with time to ask your own questions, followed by a signing.

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Katie ♥️💜💙 @katiebruce.bsky.social · 12d

So come join @rjbarker.bsky.social, @aptshadow.bsky.social and @davewragg.com with the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social on a quest through the marvellous worlds they have created!

Thurs 9th October, 7pm, Leeds Waterstones
Tickets available at tinyurl.com/LeedsWorlds

Panel: Building Brilliant Worlds | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Panel: Building Brilliant Worlds today.

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Katie ♥️💜💙 @katiebruce.bsky.social · 12d

Just two weeks to go until the lords of chaos descend upon Leeds to discuss all things building worlds, fantastical landscapes and the weird and wonderful creatures that inhabit them!

There'll be an hour's discussion with time to ask your own questions, followed by a signing.

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Dave "David" Wragg @davewragg.com · 13d

Very thank you 🙏

Dave "David" Wragg @davewragg.com · 13d

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ADRIAN M. GIBSON 🍄 SFF Author & Book Designer @adrianmgibson.bsky.social · 15d

🍄 THE FUNGALVERSE REVIEW Sept. edition is out TOMORROW 🍄
This month I chat about the release of the @sffaddictspod.bsky.social Worldcon panel, book design, book recs (@michaelrmiller.bsky.social + @davewragg.com) & more.

Don’t miss tomorrow’s newsletter! SIGN UP TODAY: adrianmgibson.com/newsletter

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RJ Barker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 19d

Opportunity here for a writer on a low income to get access to a nine week novel writing course taught by the great @silvanhistorian.bsky.social

www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/break...

Breakthrough Scholarship for Fantasy Writers with Low Income

This scholarship will award one talented speculative writer with limited financial means a place on our new nine-week online Writing Fantasy course.

www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk

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Dave "David" Wragg @davewragg.com · 20d

Don't they look smart! 🤩

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Nils Shukla @nilsreviewsit.bsky.social · 20d

A huge thank you to @davewragg.com for sending me these gorgeous special edition hardbacks of The Tales of the Plains trilogy published by @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social

I’ve read The Hunters & The Company of the Wolf & loved both. I can’t wait to read Iron Road & see how it ends! Would recommend!

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