Seriously, it is a great read and funny too. Full disclosure: Yes I am a Proud Mum, and Yes it is a great book that I would have enjoyed whoever wrote it!

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords@glenatron.bsky.social · yesterday

A thread about my book, which is available pretty much everywhere you find books as an ebook, audiobook, or paperback. It's really good! You should read it.

A physical object that exists in the world!

My contract is up so if anybody needs a very skilled and experienced senior/lead developer HMU.

Dorothy Dunnett - “Speak, she said, as you would write: as if your words were letters of lead, graven there for all time, for which you must take the consequences. And take the consequences. #QuoteBot

Be inspired by previous HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition winners: Sean Lusk, KF MacCarthy, Jo Tiddy, Chrissy Sturt, Naomi Kelsey, Alice Fowler, Kate Jewell, Jennifer Falkner and Annie Whitehead historiamag.com/final-score-sean-lusk-2025-hwaddss

Historia – the HWA@historia-hwa.bsky.social · last mo.

Historical fiction writers! The HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition closes on 1 July. Send us your unpublished short stories set in the past. We welcome new voices and adventurous approaches. Full details: historicalwriters.org/awards/the-dorothy-dunnett-society-hwa-short-story-award-2026

Attention historical fiction writers! 📜 The HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Award is a competition for unpublished short stories of up to 3500 Words. The winning writer will receive £500 and be offered mentoring sessions from an author and agent. Enter by 1 July:

The Dorothy Dunnett Society / HWA Short Story Award 2026

The Historical Writers Association

historicalwriters.org

Ben Moxon - a weekend visit?

Dr Toby Driver@drtobydriver.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For anyone interested in hillforts in west Wales, the famous Castell Nadolig #hillfort 🤩 at Sarnau will be open this weekend as part of the National Gardens Scheme Read more about the hillfort & its magical divination spoons here: coflein.gov.uk/en/sites/304...

This is amazing! I didn't think I'd made the longlist for this one!

Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️@stevewestenra.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm excited to announce Ben Moxon's The Redstone Rescue as BWGB's next #SPFBOXI semi-finalist! You can learn more about his secondary world fantasy mystery here: beforewegoblog.com/spfboxi-revi... Congrats, Ben! #SPFBO #SPFBOReviews @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social #booksky

A fascinating interactive map of merchant communications. Niccolo's patterns would have extended further north and east...#Dunnettcontent

Stephen Gadd@docuracy.co.uk · 3mo ago

✉️ Explore 145,000 medieval merchant letters as a live map: the correspondence network of Francesco di Marco Datini (c.1363–1412), spanning Florence to Barcelona to North Africa. Visualise routes, travel times & seasonality. docuracy.github.io/datini/ #DigitalHumanities #MedievalHistory

Writing for Byline Times, Caroline Lucas, Co-President of European Movement UK, argues that "the damaging #Brexit experiment imposed on us must now be reversed". #RejoinEU #LiarFarage bylinetimes.com/2026/05/01/n...

👑📚Entries for the 2026 HWA Crown Awards close on 30 April. Don’t miss the date! They're for historical fiction and non-fiction, first published in the UK between 1 April, 2025, and 31 March, 2026. If your book’s eligible, see full details at historicalwriters.org/awards/hwa-c... #HWACrowns26

Today’s moment of calm Wishing you all a fantastic weekend from me and our Dartford Warbler

Lymond is 500! This first issue of his quincentenary year features a talk Dunnett gave in 1997 on The Lymond Chronicles. Amongst other highlights: how the female characters drive the narrative of the novels; early maps and sea charts used by Dunnett’s heroes; priests and prophets 3, Niccolò.

It just happens that back in 2014 I made a bunch of Winter Olympic Lolcats. Let's have a look!

An illuminating and depressing thread. RIP the rule of law.

MdDoogie3@mddoogie3.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Video doorbell owners learning to their shock and disappointment that they were all of them deceived- there is only one lord of the Rings, and he does not share power.

No water, no heating, no power, -15 degree weather outside. It is not on the front pages of your newspapers, but Ukraine is living through a humanitarian disaster right now because of Russian bombardment and the world has barely noticed.

For the visually minded, here's my Indie Ink Awards vote beseeching in graphic form. It's really hard to distinguish yourself as a self-published author, even when the work is really good, which I believe The Redstone Rescue is. Getting on a shortlist would be a significant boost.

The Redstone Rescue has been nominated in the Best Setting category of the Indie Ink Awards, which I'm pleased about because I think Sataminva's mildly-persian-inspired utopian realm is a pretty cool setting and I hope the story does a good job of making it feel solid.

The Redstone Rescue has been nominated in the "Writing The Future We Need: Gay or Lesbian Representation" category of the Indie Ink Awards, which makes sense because it is ultimately a sapphic romance (with a certain amount of adventure along the way): indiestorygeek.com/a/indie-ink-...

Thank you for every repost, Bluesky friends! 💙 Here's our Steam page in case you want to add us to your wishlist! 2026 is finally our release year 💙 store.steampowered.com/app/3119540/...

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This is how genocide works. It doesn't mean having to kill everyone all at once, it means making conditions for life impossible so that the population crashes. Over 200 years Irelands population growth largely stood still thanks to the enforce famines of the 19thC.

If you wanted to read (or listen to) The Redstone Rescue for free, Read Indie Fantasy have a giveaway!

Read Indie Fantasy.com@blog.readindiefantasy.com · 9mo ago

The prize for today's challenge is The Redstone Rescue by @glenatron.bsky.social! Available as an ebook or audiobook!

In a lot of ways publishing The Redstone Rescue in December was the worst thing I could have done in terms of getting it noticed, but I had also been working on it for so long and I just wanted to get it into the world. Anyway, read The Redstone Rescue - you can still be an early adopter!

L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️@ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 10mo ago

B&N has dropped their Best Books of 2025 list with 2.5 months left in the year so here's your reminder that "best" is arbitrary, time is a construct, and there are still a ton of good books coming out that shouldn't be ignored just because the credits are rolling early

The HWA Crown Awards shortlists are revealed! They’re in Historia now, at historiamag.com/hwa-crowns-shortlists-2025 See which six books have made it through to the last round of judging in each category – Gold, Non-fiction and Debut. Good luck to all 18 authors! #HWACrowns25

✍️It's today! We announce the winning, shortlisted and highly-commended stories in this year's HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition at 1.30pm! The best in #histfic #shortstory writing. What gems have the judges found this year? @dunnettcentral.bsky.social @bettym.bsky.social #HWADDSS25

I don't talk about writing much but I did a thing. And the judges liked it enough to long list it for the Historical Writer's Association Dorothy Dunnett short story competition. And I am pretty excited about that. #writer

Great to hear Anna Groundwater extolling Dorothy Dunnett's historical novels- and naming Anselm Adornes as a key figure connecting Scotland to Europe and beyond. DD's archive in NLS deserves much greater recognition ( and use) as a serious academic resource. manuscripts.nls.uk/repositories...

Whispering Gallery 167: first of a series on priests and prophets; a defence of Sibylla; a first-time visitor to the Dunnett Archive at the NLS describes highlights; two essays on early Renaissance history; our new image-based series on the alchemy scene in GoK; Richard in Perth; Leicester Day.

Everything terrible right now and that's a good reason to read stories about better worlds. The Redstone Rescue is available now on Audible and it lets you escape to adventure, mystery and romance, as our heroine fights to survive, defend her utopia, and find someone who appreciates her puns.