If you would like to read my British Fantasy Award winning story Shadow Jack, it is still up on @giganotosaurus.bsky.social for your enjoyment Note the content warnings! giganotosaurus.org/2025/05/01/s...

@michaelburchert.bsky.social Construction with rice waste. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The US produces millions of tonnes of rice waste each year. Now people are building homes with it

A notoriously stubborn agricultural waste product, rice husk is now being repurposed as a sturdy and resilient construction material.

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Available now, Wiz Duo #4, containing two queer first contact novellas by Stephen Cox and Ellen Mellor wizardstowerpress.co...

I read Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Review by kjcharles - Spiderlight

An immensely readable tale involving giant spiders AGAIN, goddammit Tchaikovsky stop doing thi...

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Thank you to @densitypoint.bsky.social , @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social and @emoryahlberg.bsky.social for saying lovely things! Get the book from wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/nove... (Also Graphic Design Is My Passion.)

Yes Fantasycon brought me a few gems just one or two as you can see

By sheer coincidence, my morning reading...

This weekend I got to spend some time hanging out with @theelaineg.bsky.social , and she is just as lovely in real life as she is on here ♡♡♡

There has been an accident...

@julietemckenna.bsky.social My mum sends her love x

You don't fix one security crisis by creating another. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending

Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say

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Refineries? BOOM. Oil money gone. Wildberries? BOOM. Troops can no longer buy necessities their military doesn’t bother providing. Data centers? BOOM. Bot networks around the world cut down. Disinfo vanished! Ukraine. You are AWESOME. 💪🏼🇺🇦👍🏼

It me! It was a great panel ♡

Vera Brook@verabrook.bsky.social · yesterday

It was my absolute pleasure to moderate the panel on Climate and Eco Fiction. With thanks to my brilliant panelists, Lorraine Wilson, Brigid Lowe, and Joanne Hall, and to all the participants for joining us in the very last hour of #FantasyCon. 💚 @rainewilson.bsky.social @britfantasysoc.bsky.social

Going to be in the Fantasycon bar til 8 if you want to say hi x

This was me :D

Kev McVeigh@kevmcv.bsky.social · yesterday

"If you come over as being a bit Morrissey people won't like you" wasn't the line I expected to hear on an eco fiction panel

Still at Fantasycon - in the bar for the duration!

Leg day at Fantasycon!

I'm trying to raise money to take some time off as I've really poorly recently - there are masses of other prints and paintings on my Etsy! Do take a look for early Christmas presents!

Anne Louise Avery@annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 3d ago

For sale! An important Hiroshige I landscape from 1856. The Armour-hanging Pine at Hakkeizaka from his seminal series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. A perfect Christmas Present! Comes mounted ready to frame. DM to buy or go to my Etsy shop here: etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

And the full list of winners can be found on our blog: britishfantasysociety.org/who-won-the-...

Awww!

Ffred Clegg@ffredclegg.bsky.social · 3d ago

This book is absolutely brilliant, I'd recommend it to any and all of my Welsh mates!

It’s the weekend and I think you may need a book happily to aid you here is this week’s Wombling Along www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/10...

Wombling Along — Runalong The Shelves

Hello! Welcome to Wombling Along the blog’s weekend supplement where I share reviews and other things online that catch my eye online. Grab a cuppa, relax and get booktempted. I’m typing this up...

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9am today, @wtpress.bsky.social are launching a whole loads of excellent books at Fantasycon including but not limited to @aknighton.bsky.social @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social @samarcand.northsky.social and a rather nice anthology edited by @rozc.bsky.social and me. We'll have coffee!

Today I am flying the flag for my beautiful sisters in literature : @samarcand.northsky.social @cherylmorgan.bsky.social @kaylaallen1965.bsky.social @juliarez.placid.horse Love you all ♡ #protectthedolls

@cherylmorgan.bsky.social seen this?

Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️@eliseswords.eurosky.social · last wk.

Trans Authors, For Trans Awareness Month (exact dates Nov 1st-15th), I'm putting together a Trans SciFi & Fantasy Bundle. (Note: its best to submit a book you won't be using for my Trantasy & Queer Fantasy bundle, running Dec 20th -Jan something 😉) Sign up form: is on my discord or I can DM it!

I'd like to #GiveAway a copy of Wiz Duos 4 to one lucky person. Just like and share this post and I'll randomly choose a winner on Monday 12th October at 5pm BST. (UK only, I'm afraid. Have you seen the cost of sending overseas these days?) And/or buy one from wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/nove...

TOMORROW! I love both these novellas and I hope you will love them too x

StephenCox Wiz-4 "funny raunchy romantic, satisfyingly twisted"@stephencoxauthor.bsky.social · last wk.

I love Top Tips For Loving a Lizard in Wiz-4 (preorder now, published at #Fantasycon) @wtpress.bsky.social "it just sings to me. “Joy joy joy”, it trills. “We can have good things.” I have written lots of m-m relationships, but this one really goes big. #books stephencox.co.uk/the-story-of...

Hear the Decemberists' new song from the movie adaptation of @colinmeloy.bsky.social's novel 'Wildwood'

The Decemberists Share New Song From Movie Adaptation Of Colin Meloy's 'Wildwood'

If you’ve navigated your web browser to stereogum dot com today, you likely know Colin Meloy first and foremost as the frontman for longstanding bookish indie-folk greats the Decemberists. But for a s...

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Lurking in the Main Room waiting for the Karaoke to start xx

Canadian authors, we are looking for a horror novella for 2027. If you have a complete ms in the ~18-40k range that is deliciously creepy, with carefully crafted prose and a strong eco focus, we'd love to read it. See our sub guidelines and submit to submissionsStelliform Press Please share!