£50 compensation from Northern train company UK. The train was delayed by over 4 hours. Power is back on. Praise Satan!

District wide power cut now. Monday has started great!

Guess what? Hiked into town and everywhere's closed. Local saint day. And folks ask why I worship Satan. 🤷🏻‍♂️

James Bennett | Pre-order "Mother of Night"@jamesbennett.bsky.social · 10h ago

Up at the crack, shaved and showered for... the supermarket. It's so remote here I crave some excitement.

Up at the crack, shaved and showered for... the supermarket. It's so remote here I crave some excitement.

Volcán

Name your favourite Disney princess. Wrong answers only.

Julian Clary Taskmaster

Alt: Julian Clary Taskmaster

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Shona Kinsella@shonak.bsky.social · yesterday

Name your favourite Disney princess. Wrong answers only

There is so much to think about that I've decided to lie on the floor and do nothing.

Our worlds were set ablaze this week: a Kickstarter launched to fund three new books by the British Horror Master Clive Barker. To celebrate, we asked three authors to reflect on Barker's enduring cultural impact. Here's your massive weekend read... britishfantasysociety.org/celebrating-...

Racy chapter finished. Gonna mop it up a bit, so to speak. But it's grand to be actually *writing* again. Then take a look at some boring admin stuff. Yay.

You ever sit down and think, "I'm tired of writing historical gay sex scenes?"

Sanditon Actually, I Don't

Alt: Sanditon. A woman in a bonnet tells a man, "Actually, I Don't" before getting up to leave.

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Making use of the big screen smart TV to rewatch season 2 of "The Rings of Power". The Annatar/Celebrimbor thread is great. Everything else is a bit... Well, not great.

Making use of the big screen smart TV to rewatch season 2 of "The Rings of Power". The Annatar/Celebrimbor thread is great. Everything else is a bit... Well, not great.

Bob Marley Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Kate Bush

Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d ago

What's the greatest "greatest hits" album ever?

My characters get to bonk today. ✍🏻 #MoreCoffee

I'll go home soon. I am getting moaned at. But the truth is I find it all too distracting. The writing just wasn't happening. What serves me best is being alone. And that's a lonely thing to understand and accept, I think.

Today's office. Pray for me!

Celebrating a year of magic: dark, light, fantastical, and horrific! Get our magic-themed anthology, OF ENCHANTMENT, ENIGMA, AND THE INFINITE today! www.starsandsabers.c... #fantasy #horror #books

Wrote half a chapter and an article today. Cried over both. In splendid isolation. In a big empty house on a wild island peninsula off the west coast of the African continent. As you do.

The casa is surrounded by banana plantations, the god-emperor of all fruit. Of course I bought some homemade banana cake from the local store. Oh my word. 🍌

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN JULY 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's June's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

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Hi all! I’m still a mess in general but the show continues, this month with works from June—and there are quite a few, thanks in large part

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You have to be careful with historical names. Unlike in the secondary world fiction of @rjbarker.bsky.social where he can just call someone Ergot Shipchair-Twirlywigge and no one will question it.

James Bennett | Pre-order "Mother of Night"@jamesbennett.bsky.social · 4d ago

Writing has occurred. I also changed a character name, which was a ballache as he occasionally has a title and I had to manually change all the caps. Do I get a slice of cake? I had a biscuit yesterday.

Writing has occurred. I also changed a character name, which was a ballache as he occasionally has a title and I had to manually change all the caps. Do I get a slice of cake? I had a biscuit yesterday.

What’s your favourite Bible verse. Wrong answers only.

Zelda Spellman: Praise Satan!

Alt: Zelda Spellman: Praise Satan!

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Philippa East (Author)@philippaeast.bsky.social · 4d ago

What’s your favourite Bible verse. Wrong answers only.

Rewatched "As Good As It Gets" last night. Now there's a film that hasn't aged well.

And yes, I've backed the new books. Gimme. 😻

James Bennett | Pre-order "Mother of Night"@jamesbennett.bsky.social · 5d ago

Blocked someone for saying that Clive Barker's talent tanked when he came out. 1. Barker came out publicly in 1996. 2. "Sacrament" remains one of his finest novels, a genuine groundbreaking classic and a beacon to so many of us at the time. 3. Fuck off into the sun.

Blocked someone for saying that Clive Barker's talent tanked when he came out. 1. Barker came out publicly in 1996. 2. "Sacrament" remains one of his finest novels, a genuine groundbreaking classic and a beacon to so many of us at the time. 3. Fuck off into the sun.

Today I finished my careful read-through/tweak of my WIP so far and wrote 1K words of a new chapter. Do I get a biscuit?

Hit 5K followers! Hello, everyone! 👋🏻 All of my stuff can be found on my website, with a link on the mighty @crimereads.bsky.social to an excerpt from my upcoming medieval horror novel "Mother of Night". Appreciate you all. 📚💙⚔️🌈🙏🏻 james-bennett.org

James Bennett

James Bennett is a British Fantasy Award winning author of dark fantasy and horror. His novels and short fiction have appeared internationally.

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Congratulations A.P. Thayer on the publication of Tapeworm. If you haven't ordered your copy yet you really should. It's full of wormy goodness. @helenlane.bsky.social

Ahh! It's out, it's out! Beware! Run for the hills! Protect yourselves! THE CALAMITIES has escaped its prison deep in the void and is now appearing on bookshelves in libraries and bookstores everywhere! Shit! Shit!!

The Demons! The Demons Are Free! The Calamities Is Out!

The Calamities (Book One of The Fiends) is now out, rampaging through the populace, gamboling about, claws at the ready, teeth sharp, and its countless eyes fixed upon you. So, I do hope you’…

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