I’m told it’s the last day to vote for Who Wants Normal? for Readers’ Choice at the Diverse Book awards! If you like my writing or are slightly above indifferent, you can click this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Laura Elliott
@tinywriterlaura.bsky.social
Disabled writer of things. Bad at being on BlueSky. Debut sci-fi horror novel AWAKENED out now with Angry Robot Books. ‘An impressive debut worth losing sleep over’ - New York Times
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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The Greenhouse from recycled church stained glass windows, also known as "Sacré Blur" was made by horticultural installation artists Heywood and Condie from salvaged 18th and 19th century ecclesiastical stained glass. London
Happiest of pub days to this gorgeous, monstrous book!! Go get this thing asap! 🖤🏚️🧙
CL Hellisen | Preorder The Shape of Monsters@clhellisen.com · yesterdayThe Shape of Monsters is finally out in print and ebook from Tor UK! If you're here for a dark gothic fantasy with all the broken people, twisted dynamics, mages, murder and monsters then you have gone through the correct door Get it now from your favourite bookshop
The Shape of Monsters is finally out in print and ebook from Tor UK! If you're here for a dark gothic fantasy with all the broken people, twisted dynamics, mages, murder and monsters then you have gone through the correct door Get it now from your favourite bookshop
Here’s some Iris Liklikuwata art to make your Wednesday a little better.
Happy book birthday to Avis Lovelock! Go read my thoughts then buy the novel
CL Hellisen | Preorder The Shape of Monsters@clhellisen.com · 2d agoTomorrow is the release of brilliant new sapphic historical novel The Haunting of Avis Lovelock by @mkhardywrites.com Here's what they have to say about Victorian women mediums, killing or not killing characters, and if ghosts are real.... www.patreon.com/thequietsun/...
My second published story of the year with @electricliterature.com , and definitely one of my favourite flashes I've written! If you enjoy dark tales about bones and the sea, then check it out ✨️💙💀🦀 First line below, and free to read here: electricliterature.com/the-bone-her...
I drew my little heart out for this *amazing book* So...get one or several. That way I'll get to draw my little heart out two more times! And we can *all* have cheese and a house, bit more cheese, maybe..
Bad Hand Books@badhandbooks.bsky.social · 2d agoHere's a small selection of the dozens of illustrations you'll find in RISE FROM THESE DARK WATERS by @mmdaviesostrom.bsky.social. Art by @tomsbrown.bsky.social. The first volume in an epic trilogy comes next month. Pre-order today.
GUYS I HAVE CREATED THE WORLDS WORST UNBOXING VIDEO! There is nothing polished and filtered and uh...well-groomed about this one. It's the realio dealio
The @thebookerprizes.com shortlist has been announced this eve! It includes M. John Harrison's captivatingly strange and beautiful dystopian novel, The End of Everything, which imagines Europe after an unnamed crisis, with odd artifacts and alien creatures, and people trying to get by... 💙📚🪐
i volunteer to have my horror novel picked up by Hollywood 🙋♀️
Alex A. Pagliuca@alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 3d agoIt's almost inevitable that Hollywood is going to start scooping up lots of horror novels, because of the popularity and stability horror is demonstrating at the box office. It's going to come with pros and cons, as everything does. Hopefully, some good films and some stability for some writers.
Me: "No serial killer will ever lure me into their murder van. I'm way too smart for that." Serial Killer:
We're looking for folk horror features and short films for next year's DARKNESS IN THE FIELDS FILM FESTIVAL at QUAD here in Derby - if you've got something that fits the bill, why not check it out at filmfreeway.com/Darknessinth... #folkhorror #folklore #filmfest #filmfestivals #horrorfilm
Darkness in the Fields Film Festival 2027
Darkness in the Fields is a one-day film festival running each March/April in Derby, serving up a day of folk horror features, shorts and more. Our events to...
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they're definitely trying to suggest something aren't they www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What food items should you stock up on in case of an emergency?
Extreme weather may be changing the way we need to shop, with the UK government urging people to stock up on canned goods.
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horror Ewacui@ewacat.bsky.social · last wk....... UMMMM? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ways to help authors you love: - Review their books. - Share their posts. - Tell people about their books. - Learn the true name of the universe and manipulate it to make their book a bestseller. - Get your library to order in their books. - Ask local events to book them for appearances.
showing my age but Sonic the Hedgehog was the one I played ad infinitum on my uncle’s Sega before i was allowed my own console, my first was the N64 with Super Mario 64 & Shadows of the Empire which were MINE - but returning to gaming as an adult it’ll always be Dragon Age Inquisition for me!
Retro Blast 💫@retroblastpod.com · 6d agoWhat's your "origin" video game? Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you. I'm talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer. So, which game is 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?
Intending to write another column about the treatment of #ME/CFS patients this week, pegged to new research findings on the biological basis. My question for sufferers: Are any of you still being offered inappropriate (psych/GET etc) "treatments"? Please email george at monbiot dot info. Thanks.
I'm gathering good roasts for a thing....what are the best clean/not punching down ones you know? Or your kids know? Kids often know best on these matters. Every joker who replies with a picture of some roast lamb will be stopped. Perhaps not today. But one day. I mean insults and you know that.
probably the time james booked this very posh place i’d wanted to visit for AGES, but as we started it became clear i couldn’t eat (undiagnosed gastroparesis) but we’d pre-paid so they just kept bringing me these fabulous things & i kept not eating & having to apologise like NO IT’S NOT YOU IT’S ME!
Professor Peter Matthews@urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 7d agoThe hubby and I are off to a posh restaurant (Michelin starred) for our wedding anniversary tonight. So, in the spirit of making BlueSky slightly more fun, what's the most embarrassing thing you've ever done in a posh restaurant?
Goodnight from The Palace of Radiant Girls, where martinis, tableaux vivants and cigarette phantoms have never gone out of style. Goodnight from the Megalith Research Laboratory, where Dr. Regan is convinced the stones are influencing the volumteer dreamers. Goodnight from Hookland.
Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.
james is away for a couple of days so benni the pup only has one short walk round the block a day because it’s all i can manage. i just tried throwing a ball as Alternative Exercise & he looked at me like i was an idiot ‘madam, why are you throwing things when it’s walk time?’ that’s me told! 😅
Here’s some Tristan Elwell art to make your Thursday a little better.
TONIGHT 🧚♀️🧌 at 7pm UK time! On Fairy Tales & Disability with Amanda Leduc. Apt seeing the amount of people trying to convince us we can cure ourselves by the fairy tale trope of magical thinking! 📺 Livestreaming on our twitter, YouTube & Facebook Recording will be available.
NEW CAT!!!! this is the best day ever
sephirAmy@sephiramy.bsky.social · last wk.how about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!!
