SO you know when I posted 'A week today!!' about this? I lied. It was two weeks and one day, because time was timey-wimeying on me. NOW it's a week today. I promise.

Solaris Books@solarisbooks.bsky.social · 3w ago

🎉DON'T MISS OUT!🎉 At 7pm on Thursday 29th October, @rainewilson.bsky.social will have a very special pre-launch event @waterstoneskdy.bsky.social. She'll be celebrating the paperback release of her @clarkeaward.bsky.social shortlisted novel - THE SALT ORACLE! #🩵📚️ Book your ticket 👉️ buff.ly/pmxLMmn

This coming Tuesday Oct 27th - a bookish event with the brilliant @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social , @bingewriting.bsky.social and @benedictanning.bsky.social - check out Edinburgh Literary Salon's Eventbrite page for free tickets!

Edinburgh Literary Salon@ediliterarysalon.bsky.social · yesterday

October @edinburghlitsalon - Step into the dark with three writers exploring what frightens us most! Next week Tuesday 27th October at the Outhouse / on Zoom! Get your free tickets on our Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/octobers-s... . #edinburghevents #horrorbooks #horrorauthor #authorevent

This was a delicious evening of Scottish SF stories and chat from the GSFWC. Lots of good reading for the train journey back to Edinburgh. #Haverin

Glasgow SF Writers' Circle@gsfwc.bsky.social · yesterday

On behalf of the editors, authors and artist of Haverin, thank you to everyone who came to celebrate #GSFWC40 #Haverin with us last night! We're immensely grateful to you (and Waterstones Sauchiehall ST!) for helping us give our wee book the send off it deserved.

Hello UK fans. My next big book EXHUMATION is released TODAY (in the UK). Publisher's Weekly and Library Journal gave it starred rave reviews and Kirkus called it "a triumph". It's definitely my most ambitious one yet. harpercollins.co.uk/products/exh...

Exhumation

'Old-school creepy… a five-star horror novel' STEPHEN KING on Ascension IT'S NOT JUST THE DEAD WE BURYPrivate Investigator Arlo Abbas is broke, between cases, and running out of reasons to get off the...

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HOME SICK (2026)

Eric Raglin@ericraglin1992.bsky.social · 2d ago

The hero's journey? 🙅‍♂️ The fuckup's journey? 🤗

It's that time of year again... 👀 If you've read HOME SICK and you liked it, I'd be honoured if you'd consider nominating it. Thank you so much 🖤

A patient, frightening and warm debut that turns a 1970s murder case into first contact horror and asks who a small town ever counted as people. @kennedywrites.bsky.social And be sure to check out the new tweaked styling on the site

There Used to Be People Here Review: Kennedy Cole

There Used to Be People Here review: Kennedy Cole's debut drops first contact horror into a 1970s Mississippi murder case. Patient, scary, five stars.

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Prepping to film something I am VERY EXCITED about

It's that time of year again... 👀 If you've read HOME SICK and you liked it, I'd be honoured if you'd consider nominating it. Thank you so much 🖤

The hero's journey? 🙅‍♂️ The fuckup's journey? 🤗

So the society for *authors* weakened their position for the benefit of *publishers* I do hope they’ve learned a lesson from this.

As the @societyofauthors.bsky.social withdraws from the 'Charter of Ethical AI Use' (for now) following the collective outrage of its members, some big questions remain with the revelation that the Society does not have a legal remit to collectively bargain for writers who are 'freelancers'. /

Update: Charter of Ethical AI Use in the Creative Industries - The Society of Authors

Thank you to all our members who have fed back to us on this issue. To allow time to listen to members’ views and concerns, the Society of Authors will withdraw from the Charter. There will be discuss...

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...And let's not forget more recent entries into the booming #horror fiction shelves, from both sides of the Atlantic (& even closer to home with Scottish folk-horror Home Sick by @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social ) #SpookySeason #books #livres #horreur

You know the drill, if I see nuclear semiotics on my timeline, I have to plug An Honourable Place, my storytelling game about apocalypses, cults, myths and symbols across deep time. ryanvance.itch.io/an-honourabl...

An Honourable Place by Ryan Vance

A narrative game of myths, symbols, and survival

ryanvance.itch.io

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 4d ago

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_21482 ISO 21482 is a cool biohazard warning symbol, meant for *inside* sealed radiation sources. The expected audience is people literally right in the middle of the process of tearing open orphaned sources, hence the little guy running away

🚨👻SCARILY GOOD DEALS!👻🚨 To celebrate #SpookySeason, until the end of October, you can snap up 4 Spooky Solaris titles in paperback with 21% off at Amazon UK! Grab them now before the deal is gone! @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @samkhorton.bsky.social @alexgrecian.bsky.social

Oh hey, I'm gonna be reading alongside wonderful poets Bram E Gieben, Medha Singh, Jeda Pearl and Lesa Ng at @shoreinf.bsky.social's takeover @ptbopoetry.bsky.social on Saturday 14th of November, hosted by @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social You should come! pushtheboatout.org/events/takeo...

Takeover: On the Shoreline of Infinity - 2026 Push The Boat Out Festival

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An absolutely stonking review from the lovely Womble! "... a story for those who would prefer something that is a little less frightening and more mysterious and very very engaging. Offering adventure, history, romance and most of all exquisite storytelling combined with wonderful character work."

Run Away It’s The Womble@runalongwomble.bsky.social · 3d ago

New Review - an exquisite supernatural (or perhaps not) mystery to solve awaits in the excellent The Haunting of Avis Lovelock by @mkhardywrites.com out now thanks to @solarisbooks.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/10...

New Review - an exquisite supernatural (or perhaps not) mystery to solve awaits in the excellent The Haunting of Avis Lovelock by @mkhardywrites.com out now thanks to @solarisbooks.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/10...

The Haunting of Avis Lovelock by MK Hardy — Runalong The Shelves

I would like to thank Solaris for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Solaris Published  -out Now Price –£9:99 paperback £4.99 ebook Av...

runalongtheshelves.net

Book 30: Home Sick - Rhiannon Grist A fey and claustrophobic horror, and a surprising piece on empathy. Not sure if admitting that I found Tamsin to be incredibly relatable makes me look sane and normal, but there it is.

CL Hellisen@clhellisen.com · last wk.

Book 29 Trad Wife - Sarah Langan I paid 99p for this and that was overpriced. I'm actually annoyed. Horror of the times with every trope in the book, and writing on the level of See Jane Run. Ended up skimming the final part and missed nothing, it was so damn repetitive

Posting this for myself for reasons

Kelly Turnbull@coelasquid.bsky.social · last yr.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

A small but perfectly formed #bookhaul from @britfantasysoc.bsky.social #fantasycon and Glasgow @bramegieben.bsky.social @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social @solarisbooks.bsky.social

looking for a spooky season read 👻? check out this unsettling perfection by @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social @solarisbooks.bsky.social 👇💀🙀

#Glasgow Join me and a host of authors for the #Haverin #GSFWC40 launch this Wednesday 21st October at Waterstones Sauchiehall ST. We'll have tablet and terrific tales - but don't forget to grab a ticket first at the link below. Last chance to see me this year! www.waterstones.com/events/celeb...

Celebrating 40 Years of the GSFWC | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Celebrating 40 Years of the GSFWC today.

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they)@ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 4w ago

Event News! #Haverin, celebrating 40 years of the GSFWC, comes out this October. Join me at the launch parties at Fantasycon (9th October) and Waterstones Sauchiehall ST (21st October). Click below for all the details: ruthbooth.com/2026/09/have... @britfantasysoc.bsky.social #GSFWC40

I'm reading @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social's Home Sick - is it wrong to say I find Tamsin extremely relatable - a wire bundle of neuroses? And reading a short a night from the new anthology from @gsfwc.bsky.social Haverin

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Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · last wk.

I work with a lot of organisations to write their acceptable use policies for AI - these are typically quite granular and specific. This charter is, I think, completely useless and it points to the OECD framework which is, likewise, a bit of well-meaning fluff www.unesco.org/en/artificia...

Hmmm, I am experiencing some pretty swift mood swings. Could the cause be: a) Tiredness from an extremely busy year b) Tiredness from debuting a book c) Suspected perimenopause d) All of the above

Fab launch last night for THE VOID DRAGON by @annabelcwrites.bsky.social 🐲

People mention LLMs a lot in terms of "increasing accessibility" And as someone with intermittent cognitive disabilities, I *really* want to highlight how much work it is to sort through AI slop to try to find accurate information

James Baillie@jubalbarca.bsky.social · last wk.

The main way the LLM boom has affected my life is to make a lot of things so much harder. It makes information filtering an even more constant grinding process than it already was: it's noticeably worsened search info quality and makes it harder to find anything reliable and/or human and/or real.

We are delighted to reveal the UK cover for MAN EATER by Ally Wilkes (@av_wilkes), designed by the wonderful Julia Lloyd! 🌺 A twisting knot of historical horror about orchids, ghosts and the things that grow inside of us... 🌿 Coming in February 2027! 🌿

Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: To Kill a Mockingbird for Tax Purposes

Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜@lynnemthomas.com · last wk.

Add “for Tax Purposes” to a movie: Dirty Dancing for Tax Purposes