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Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year!

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Award-winning author. Earth bender. Full-time goblin mode. Agent: Juliet Mushens. Partner of Peter Newman. From London, enjoying Bristol. The Copper Cat Trilogy|The Winnowing Flame Trilogy|The Talon Duology ~The Sleepless UK 22/5/25, US 30/9/25

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Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · Feb 21

Did you know you can preorder my first ever YA fantasy novel?? Amazing but true! Release dates: UK 22/5/25, US 30/9/25
🐉 A serpent queen
⚡ A whole roster of weird gods
🦊 A cute little guy
☠️ Forbidden touch
🩸 Costly magic
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-sleepl...

The US cover of The Sleepless, featuring a golden serpent and pink and purple flowers. The edges are bright pink.

The UK cover of The Sleepless, which features a young man and woman entwined in the coils of a golden serpent, surrounded by strange flowers and fungi.

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Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 2d

Oooooo! Interesting...

Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 2d

If you have a spare couple of hours, do yourself a favour and watch this documentary about competitive birdwatching. It is a delight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...

LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching

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Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 2d

Every christmas I remember it exists and I boggle anew at how incredible awful and emotionally bankrupt it is

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Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 2d

luckily Bill Nighy has appeared in films that are not Love Actually

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Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 2d

Gosh wouldn't it be nice to have never seen Love Actually

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 2d

If your autumn vibes require more weird fantasy and romantic yearnings than horror, the Nerd Daily has a little excerpt of The Sleepless 🐍 thenerddaily.com/the-sleeples...

Read An Excerpt From 'The Sleepless' by Jen Williams | The Nerd Daily

Get ready to fall in love with The Sleepless, the first in an epic slow-burn YA fantasy duology from multi-award-winning author Jen Williams.

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Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 2d

given it's spooky season, I was pleased to see A Dark and Secret Place (Dog Rose Dirt in the UK) given a space on a list of horror novels about cults...do NOT join the Commune, always a bad idea www.horrordna.com/features/joi...

Join Us: Twenty of the Creepiest Cults in Horror Fiction

Beware strange or persuasive men and women who insist they have all the answers!

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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 5d

The thing about AI is that it ultimately doesn't matter how realistic it gets, or looks, or sounds, or seems - those are all red herrings. The problem at its heart is that nothing it produces comes from a real person, and it therefore has no aesthetic value. That's it. No more needs to be said.

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Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 5d

truly the breakfast of ennui

Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 5d

slightly warm bread, that's what I'm looking for 😂

Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 5d

ah, clearly the toast gods got us mixed up

Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 5d

given how often I do this, you'd end up with a brown toast subscription service

Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 5d

as an enjoyer of weak-ass toast, there are few things sadder than overbrowning the toast. Now I must either accept that I have sacrificed a slice of bread to the gods of breakfast & chuck it, or munch my sad way through toast that tastes like bitterness.

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Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 6d

I missed the start of spoopy season yesterday but worry not, I was actually wearing Dracula socks all day

HAPPY SPOOPY SEASON MY LITTLE GOBLINS

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Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 7d

Heads up: the first 2 books in @sennydreadful.bsky.social's Copper Cat Trilogy are on US ebook sale for $1. I got some copies of each for random giveaway.

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Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 7d

I always loved illustrations where there were lots of details to spot

Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 7d

it was!

Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 7d

His drawings were so formative for me. I am the child of Richard Scarry, Watership Down, and blue flavoured slush puppies.

Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 7d

Important information from the Richard Scarry book I picked up at the charity shop

Big cat and little cat read together. The caption reads ‘all animals love to read books’

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Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 7d

these are the things we need to know

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Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 7d

Important information from the Richard Scarry book I picked up at the charity shop

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Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 8d

Hahaha of course!

Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 8d

cheers Paul!

Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 8d

oh fast work! 😁

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Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 8d

The Sleepless is out in the US today! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 So proud of my first ever YA fantasy, with all its weird creatures, scheming gods and complicated feelings 💖💖💖 I have celebrated by having a mini Lizzo dance party on Beat Sabre 😂

A copy of The Sleepless, propped against a bouquet of pink and white roses

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 10d

I hand over an invisible ‘Tree Of The Day’ award to the most charismatic tree I see on each of my walks. Here are just a few past winners of this esteemed but still largely unknown prize.

An angry man with branch hands pretending to be two conjoined Sycamore trees.

A tree on Exmoor which has some fucking stories to tell even though it doesn't go around shouting about it.

A tree on Dartmoor which, though old, is still quite cheeky, and likes using its branches to sneakily tickle cattle, ponies and people when they pass it.

A tree which is so endlessly proud of the village where it lives that it stands constantly at the edge of it, constantly welcoming everyone who arrives, with a wave and a smile.

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