Just been to see The Odyssey. This bit was scary.

Next week we'll celebrate The Arthur C. Clarke Award's 40th anniversary and reveal this year's winner! 🚀 Meanwhile Chair of Judges, Dr Andrew M. Butler, discusses this year's shortlist 👉 fivebooks.com/best-books/t...

The Best Science Fiction: The 2026 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist

The Arthur C Clarke award highlights six outstanding science fiction books every year. This year’s field shows the breadth of contemporary science fiction, says chair of judges Andrew M. Butler. From ...

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As I say on the cover, this is a very special book.

Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith@angelacleland.co.uk · 14h ago

🎵 Happy birthday to me Happy birthday to me Black Doe is OUT TODAY Go and buy it, pleeeeease! 🎵 Grab it on kindle now, or order from your favourite bookshop in person or online. #newbook #kindlebooks #historicalfantasy #scottishbooks 🩵 📚 blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... amzn.eu/d/0a0NApjt

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Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith@angelacleland.co.uk · 14h ago

🎵 Happy birthday to me Happy birthday to me Black Doe is OUT TODAY Go and buy it, pleeeeease! 🎵 Grab it on kindle now, or order from your favourite bookshop in person or online. #newbook #kindlebooks #historicalfantasy #scottishbooks 🩵 📚 blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... amzn.eu/d/0a0NApjt

🎵 Happy birthday to me Happy birthday to me Black Doe is OUT TODAY Go and buy it, pleeeeease! 🎵 Grab it on kindle now, or order from your favourite bookshop in person or online. #newbook #kindlebooks #historicalfantasy #scottishbooks 🩵 📚 blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... amzn.eu/d/0a0NApjt

Black Doe

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Make this your Wednesday treat to self! Just ordering now even though I am supposed to be waiting until the PhD is in. Happy publication day @angelacleland.co.uk and happy birthday! We will celebrate both tomorrow 🩷

Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith@angelacleland.co.uk · 14h ago

🎵 Happy birthday to me Happy birthday to me Black Doe is OUT TODAY Go and buy it, pleeeeease! 🎵 Grab it on kindle now, or order from your favourite bookshop in person or online. #newbook #kindlebooks #historicalfantasy #scottishbooks 🩵 📚 blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... amzn.eu/d/0a0NApjt

Having just finished reading this year's awards nominees, none of the captivated me like Black Doe did. It's an absolutely wonderful novel. Authentic and absolutely exhilarating.

Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith@angelacleland.co.uk · 14h ago

🎵 Happy birthday to me Happy birthday to me Black Doe is OUT TODAY Go and buy it, pleeeeease! 🎵 Grab it on kindle now, or order from your favourite bookshop in person or online. #newbook #kindlebooks #historicalfantasy #scottishbooks 🩵 📚 blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... amzn.eu/d/0a0NApjt

Do you like Pictish hill forts? Assassins? Romans? Violent pine martens? Kelpies? Well I have good news for you...

Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith@angelacleland.co.uk · 14h ago

🎵 Happy birthday to me Happy birthday to me Black Doe is OUT TODAY Go and buy it, pleeeeease! 🎵 Grab it on kindle now, or order from your favourite bookshop in person or online. #newbook #kindlebooks #historicalfantasy #scottishbooks 🩵 📚 blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... amzn.eu/d/0a0NApjt

One of the best books I’ve read all year. Do yourself a favour and grab a copy now

Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith@angelacleland.co.uk · 14h ago

🎵 Happy birthday to me Happy birthday to me Black Doe is OUT TODAY Go and buy it, pleeeeease! 🎵 Grab it on kindle now, or order from your favourite bookshop in person or online. #newbook #kindlebooks #historicalfantasy #scottishbooks 🩵 📚 blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... amzn.eu/d/0a0NApjt

Reading it currently and hugely enjoying it :)

Received an ARC of this. (Black Doe, not Angela Cleland's birthday) Can highly recommend. #historicalfantasy #scottishbooks

Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith@angelacleland.co.uk · 14h ago

🎵 Happy birthday to me Happy birthday to me Black Doe is OUT TODAY Go and buy it, pleeeeease! 🎵 Grab it on kindle now, or order from your favourite bookshop in person or online. #newbook #kindlebooks #historicalfantasy #scottishbooks 🩵 📚 blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... amzn.eu/d/0a0NApjt

🎵 Happy birthday to me Happy birthday to me Black Doe is OUT TODAY Go and buy it, pleeeeease! 🎵 Grab it on kindle now, or order from your favourite bookshop in person or online. #newbook #kindlebooks #historicalfantasy #scottishbooks 🩵 📚 blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... amzn.eu/d/0a0NApjt

Black Doe

Buy Black Doe by Smith, Cleland from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction.

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Wow. I’m so tipsy. And it’s only Tuesday. And it isn’t even 10pm. Whoops.

Jennifer Lawrence's Funny 'Oopsie' Face

Alt: Jennifer Lawrence's Funny 'Oopsie' Face

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Looking for #space #horror? Stars and Bones by Gareth L Powell is available from @titanbooks.bsky.social and all good book sellers.

Authors: show me the book covers you made yourself, without AI. Here’s one of mine. It’s not perfect, but when I look at it, it feels like it belongs to me, and I like that.

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

It’s so good!

To be clear, bought this entirely on the basis of the cover artwork. This book has already made my day.

Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith@angelacleland.co.uk · 2d ago

TWO DAYS TO GO…AAAAaAaAaAaH! And two more ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ reviews in the door, one ARC reader and the review site Reader’s Choice. Even so, starting to wonder at the wisdom of releasing a book on my birthday.😱 #historicalfantasy #historicalfiction #scottishfiction #preorders

Two authors at Cymera were raving about your book. Definitely on my list.

TWO DAYS TO GO…AAAAaAaAaAaH! And two more ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ reviews in the door, one ARC reader and the review site Reader’s Choice. Even so, starting to wonder at the wisdom of releasing a book on my birthday.😱 #historicalfantasy #historicalfiction #scottishfiction #preorders

I would love to get A Light for the Dead to Follow up to 100 sales at last (it's been out a year and I'm still at 62), so if you like epic fantasy novellas full of magic and romance, maybe check it out! 💫

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🗡️ fantasy novella ⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals 🏹 gallant knights 👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom 🌲 enchanted plants and forests 🥀 romance and friendship 🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR 💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-... 📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... [ #booksky ]

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TBRCon2026 - YouTube

TBRCon returns with TBRCon2026, an all-virtual sci-fi/fantasy/horror convention, streaming LIVE from July 26th-August 1st, 2026. Join us as we welcome 150+ a...

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Morning! Have fun at the beach. I'm reading Lucy Holland's Song of the Huntress which is great, and slowly reading Hookland Fragments by David Southwell which is also great.

Tchaikovsky's Children of Time. It took a bit to get into, but it gets really good pretty quickly.

Happy to report that I have a wet creaturey poem forthcoming in an issue of @othersidespec.bsky.social 💚🐊

Three angles of the hairy fool and one of the thorny stick that just embedded itself in my thigh when I sat down to write this on his other chair of choice. He leaves a trail of sticks and leaves wherever he goes.

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Selective time travel is one of the most interesting aspects of SF narratives around time. A lot of shows will talk about “fixed points” in time, essentially to prevent the characters from strategically or logistically deploying time travel to dismantle the crisis the story is about.

Impersonation scams targeting writers are an epidemic. To defend yourself: check any out-of-the-blue email that purports to be from a real person in publishing or Hollywood against Writer Beware's Impersonation List writerbeware.blog/2024/03/15/t...

The Impersonation List - Writer Beware

The most pernicious scams focused on English-speaking writers these days come from overseas: publishing/marketing/fake literary agency scams from the Philippines, and ghostwriting/publishing/marketing...

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Terrifying, but nowhere near as horrifying as having two different species carry out a pincer attack on someone during a “difficult” moment.