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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 15h

*SUBMISSION WINDOW NOW OPEN 5 DAYS ONLY*

We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual.

More info 🐐
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...

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Elliot J Harper @elliotjharper.bsky.social · 1h

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Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 1h

🚨RELEASE DAY🚨

To Fetch a Pail of Water is officially out now! This beautifully written literary noir romance novel sees students Jack and Jill try to escape their dark pasts, only to discover the universe has other plans.

Order yours here: share.google/kLGOocvuukye...

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Elliot J Harper @elliotjharper.bsky.social · 21h

That’s two more chapters edited on my novel-in-progress. The first three chapters are about as standard as it gets. From now on the weird begins, so that’s a good place to leave it for the moment.

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Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 1d

Huge thank you to every person and bookshop that's ordered Ravenglass and made it stonking success so far 😍

This gripping and powerful tale of gender-fluid Kit/Stella traversing the world in the 1700s is very relevant in today's climate!

Order here: share.google/i6inpiZ7vDgH...

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Elliot J Harper @elliotjharper.bsky.social · 23h

Free-writing tally equals 500 words this morning. I just find it so much easier to write first thing rather than in the afternoon or evening. My brain just warms to the task at this time of day.

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Northern Books @northernbooksblog.bsky.social · 1d

We've had the fantastic opportunity of interviewing the amazing @isabellekenyon.bsky.social of @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social

If you want to learn how to make it in publishing and the difficulties of running a one-person publishing house give it a read!

www.northernbooks.org/post/an-inte...

An Interview with Fly On The Wall Press

An Interview with Isabelle Kenyon from Fly On The Wall Press

www.northernbooks.org

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Elliot J Harper @elliotjharper.bsky.social · 1d

Free-writing = 109 words today. I had a busy day so I’ve only just found a moment to do it before class tonight. This practice continues to flesh out this world that is organically forming in my mind.

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Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social · 1d

Flash UK Kindle sale for The Process of Poetry!

Just 2.99 for a book 37 readers have rated as 4.5 stars?!

www.amazon.co.uk/Process-Poet...

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Elliot J Harper @elliotjharper.bsky.social · 1d

This is fantastic and well researched article which will be of interest to people like me who quit Shitter and for those who might be considering it👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 1d

🔴 The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter

"Media companies, governments and public figures are pretending to themselves that it will all get better. It won't. The Twitter many of us joined is dead and, while X is not yet, it should be" @ottoenglish.bsky.social

The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter

Otto English explains why, after 15 years, he has left the social media platform now disseminating disinformation worldwide under the control of Elon Musk

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Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 1d

🚨NEW EVENT🚨

This Saturday, we will be celebrating Bookshop Day at Dark Peak Books in Glossop with some of our fantastic writers! Please do come down and say hello if you're in the area, and be sure to support your favourite bookshops!

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Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 2d

The best thing about events like Sheffield last Saturday is that we get to put books and writers that you wouldn't necessarily normally see together! Huge thanks to all those who have picked up our Sheffield authors' books recently 🙏

Check them out here: share.google/Q0RE6GnaBOgM...

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Elliot J Harper @elliotjharper.bsky.social · 2d

I’m back on the editing train. I’m going to slowly work through my most recently written work-in-progress on a daily basis, but just a chapter or two per session, so that it doesn’t impact my uni work. I find it helps my writing practice because it’s a reminder that I can actually do it 🤣

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Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through @franmoldaschl.bsky.social · 3d

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Bought this on a whim in the @northodoxpress.bsky.social sale & absolutely loved it. The depiction of grief & two slightly broken people coming together was amazing.
Not my usual genre - so glad I picked it up. Reminded me of Lost For Words by Stephanie Butland.

Review by franmoldaschl - Claire Morris is Completely Lost

I really loved this book, particularly the intergenerational friendship of Claire and Hazel. I...

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Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 2d

🚨RELEASE WEEK🚨

This week, we release one of our most challenging and devastating reads. When Jack and Jill get together at university in the 90s, they vow to leave their tragic pasts behind. But fate has other plans...

Order this incredible, literary noir romance here:
share.google/QJ65Dj3z4lSD...

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Ted Northodox @tednorthodox.bsky.social · 2d

Oh God, it's finally time 🥺

The sheer emotional blunt force trauma of this literary masterpiece makes it a difficult read, but it has stayed with me since editing it, and I can't recommend it enough! Just line up something happy for afterwards!

Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 2d

🚨RELEASE WEEK🚨

This week, we release one of our most challenging and devastating reads. When Jack and Jill get together at university in the 90s, they vow to leave their tragic pasts behind. But fate has other plans...

Order this incredible, literary noir romance here:
share.google/QJ65Dj3z4lSD...

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Elliot J Harper @elliotjharper.bsky.social · 2d

I’m back to free-writing first thing in the morning as part of my “writing practice.”

This time around I’m using free-writing to flesh out a new novel idea set in an entirely different world/universe, and it’s yielding some interesting results.

This morning I wrote 126 words.

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Ted Northodox @tednorthodox.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder that I had a short story published in the last issue of Twisted Ink magazine (Molotov Cockatiel).

*Something, something, vague post about another one being published soon*

Anyway, here's a link to the last one 👀
Issue 2 – Twisted Ink share.google/6CdmprQW8ZcJ...

Issue 2

Home About Submissions contact news magazines twisted ink issue 2Download twisted ink issue 2Download

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Elliot J Harper @elliotjharper.bsky.social · 4d

And if you don’t want to wait until March to read some of my stuff, I have two books waiting for you already! Check out the books tab on my website:

www.elliotjharper.com

Elliot J Harper | Author

Elliot J Harper, speculative fiction writer and author of New Gillion Street, an SF/F novel, published by Fly on the Wall Press.

www.elliotjharper.com

Elliot J Harper @elliotjharper.bsky.social · 4d

Don’t forget to read my latest blog about Portal Fantasy and how it relates to my next book, The Peculiar Journey of Cecil Tabiner.

Available for preorder now:

www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...

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Paul S Edwards @paulsedwards.bsky.social · 5d

While I’m busy writing what will be my third published novel you can still buy my first

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SRL Publishing @srlpublishing.bsky.social · 6d

Only a few days left to get these eBooks for £1.99 each - check them out, and others, on our website

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Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social · 5d

Submit your poems & essays for 'Woman, Mapped'

Plus our first translated novel acquisition! Introducing political thriller, 'Erased' by Miha Mazzini (Slovenian translation)

flyonthewallpress.substack.com/p/submit-you...

Submit your poems & essays for 'Woman, Mapped'

Plus our first translated novel acquisition! Introducing political thriller, 'Erased' by Miha Mazzini (Slovenian translation)

flyonthewallpress.substack.com

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Paul D Coombs @pauldcoombs.bsky.social · 5d

With Halloween approaching why not get bitten and become smitten by The Great Orme?

#Booksky💙📚 #DarkThriller #Halloween

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Elliot J Harper @elliotjharper.bsky.social · 6d

💥 SFF Reviewers Needed! 💥

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Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 6d

UK based SFF reviewers: we need you!

We have a few unclaimed review copies left of both these brand new titles!

If epic fantasy or unusual, character driven scifi is your thing, get in touch for a copy. Strictly first come, first served ⚔️🚀

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Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social · 6d

A watching and reading pair for you!

Read: The Water That May Come by @amylilwall.bsky.social
As rising seas threaten to engulf Britain, four lives are on the brink. With sanctuary beckoning across the Channel, each faces impossible choices. Who will they save? What will they sacrifice?

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