If you're planning on being at Worldcon in LA or, indeed, on the line, there's lots of good stuff to enjoy!

Glasgow SF Writers' Circle@gsfwc.bsky.social · 3h ago

Come join us at LA Worldcon! With stellar programmes online and in-person across timezones, there's plenty to enjoy this year -- especially if you're a fan of our Christopher Caldwell, E.M. Faulds or Neil Williamson! guide.lacon.org Here comes the GSFWC schedule... (1/6)

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AK Faulkner 🔜 MCM Birmingham@ravenswordpress.com · 20h ago

Get 2,000 pages (or 50 hours of audiobook) of deeply chaotic bisexuals with extraordinary powers facing off against gods, daemons, warlocks, and their own trauma for an absolute steal (where steal = $35). shop.ravenswordpress.com/collections/...

Having just finished reading this year's awards nominees, none of the captivated me like Black Doe did. It's an absolutely wonderful novel. Authentic and absolutely exhilarating.

Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith@angelacleland.co.uk · 14h ago

🎵 Happy birthday to me Happy birthday to me Black Doe is OUT TODAY Go and buy it, pleeeeease! 🎵 Grab it on kindle now, or order from your favourite bookshop in person or online. #newbook #kindlebooks #historicalfantasy #scottishbooks 🩵 📚 blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... amzn.eu/d/0a0NApjt

Mason Coile wrote about a man sealed in a box, carried towards an ending he did not pick. Andrew Pyper died twenty months before the book came out. Driven is the last Coile novel, and the most schadenfreude thing horror has published this year. https://gnofhorror.com/driven-by-mason-coile-review/

Love novellas? How about two in one book? Wiz Duo #2 contains stories by Juliet Kemp & E M Faulds wizardstowerpress.co...

The August issue of Clarkesworld is now online and features stories by Ravn J. Silver, Eilis O’Neal, Jordan Alexander, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, E.N. Auslender, Y.M. Pang, and H.H. Pak. clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_239 Subscribe today at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

We've got seven weeks to go until Edge-Lit returns to QUAD - Derby, and here's our full line-up of events for the day! www.derbyquad.co.uk/whats-on/edg... #derby #derbyshire #writing #writers #authors #fiction #books #novels #shortstories #genrefiction #genrebooks

Edge-Lit 12

Edge-Lit makes it a dozen with its return in 2026, once again serving up a wide array of interviews, talks, workshops and more for lovers of genre fiction.

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I’d love a share for my folkloric/historical fantasy novel Black Doe. It treads a bloody path across ancient Scotland. Assassins, fierce women, kelpies, faeries and a bloodthirsty pine marten. Preorder now - out on Wednesday!😱 #FridayReads Who else needs a boost? blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Cheers @gabino.bsky.social! Hand-Me-Downs is a brand new collection of weird horror stories about inheritance and toxic masculinity. @gnofhorror.com said: "Fifteen sharp shots of quiet British dread, and its real monster is the man who will not change. Horror that carries a receipt."

Gabino Iglesias@gabino.bsky.social · 5d ago

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. This slice of mayhem takes you into the middle of a storm and then…well, then things get worse. In a good way. Anyway, it’s only $12! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

My @laworldcon.bsky.social schedule is here! Virtual so available from anywhere in the world. Would love to see you there as I talk about Larp, Race, Romance and storytelling. The virtual program is pretty great and worth signing up for.

Worldcon programme just dropped. It's in LA this year but they're offering an awesome virtual programme that members can enjoy from any timezone. And I'm part of it! Looking forwarded to talk Justice and Murder and to be hosting my Urban Folk Horror workshop. Sign up if you fancy it. guide.lacon.org

Had a wonderful time reading Home Sick by Rhiannon Grist a wonderful modern folk horror for the socially awkward of us with a dark side. Tense, emotional and wonderfully told it works even on a very warm day to chill this reader. Review to come

Lost In Found Footage by Joey Powell, Turns A Horror Fan Into The Final Girl https://gnofhorror.com/lost-in-found-footage-by-joey-powell-horror-review/

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Joey Powell’s Lost in Found Footage traps a horror vlogger inside a cursed film. Abby Wolf reviews a found footage horror novel that bites back.

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Hand-Me-Downs is absolutely and 100% out now! Check out this pin-point perfect review from the legendary Ginger Nuts Of Horror. gnofhorror.com/hand-me-down...

When you put a new book out there's NOTHING better than the first review not only being positive, but clearly and unequivocally *getting it*. Many thanks to Jim and Ginger Nuts for this. Massive smile on my face right now, let me tell you.

Ginger Nuts of Horror@gnofhorror.com · last wk.

Hand-Me-Downs by Neil Williamson: The Horror You Inherit Fifteen tales of toxic inheritance, quiet British dread and the men who refuse to change gnofhorror.com/hand-me-down... @neilwilliamson.bsky.social

Seven fictional vampires I could batter without breaking a sweat, ranked. Full list up now on GNoH. #Horror #Vampires https://gnofhorror.com/fictional-vampires-i-could-easily-batter-in-a-fight/

7 Fictional Vampires I Reckon I Could Batter Without Breaking A Sweat - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website

Seven fictional vampires from movies I could kill without breaking a sweat, from a sparkling Edward Cullen to David from The Lost Boys. Come and have a go.

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Harbour of Hungry Ghosts by Eliza Chan is a wonderful mix of historical action fantasy as a young woman battles demons and ghosts but also smart examination of the period in Hong Kong with a few surprises along the way. Strongly recommended and review to come!

We've got so many fantastic authors joining us fort his year's Edge-Lit 12 event here in Derby - so many I can't possibly fit them all into one post! But here's just a handful, with our full list at www.derbyquad.co.uk/whats-on/edg... #Derby #Derbyshire #horror #scifi #fantasy #sciencefiction

I read all the Hugo novella nominees; I was, I’m afraid, a little disappointed. He’s my roundup talking about why.

Nerds of a Feather@nerdsofafeather.bsky.social · last wk.

Reading the Hugos: Best Novella 2026 A roundup of this year's novella nominees. @chloroformtea.bsky.social has our roundup at the NOAF blog www.nerds-feather.com/2026/07/hugo... #booksky #blueskybooks

The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/

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Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.

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Just finished Home Sick by Rhiannon Grist and enjoyed it so much. It's rare that authors get loneliness right, and the book felt so real despite being speculative fiction / horror. Definitely recommend.

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Scattering the TBR pile asunder to get cracking on the new @remainsmagazine.bsky.social. Always an absolute treat.

📚 Our seventh novella series crowdfund is now live 📚 Boosts appreciated!

What's this in the latest Itch.io Scottish Comics Bundle? Why, it's Puddlejumpers #1, written by our own Alex Blott with artist Vicky Chen and letterer Buddy Beaudoin! Pick up 30 comics for just $20 at the link below! itch.io/b/3727/scott... @alexblott.com @crowwkui.bsky.social @itch.io

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We love a bit of our M. Nesce Drake, and she's got a new poem out about her experiences with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Check it out and buy her a coffee at... well, it's in the name! Link below. buymeacoffee.com/mnescedrake/... @nesce.bsky.social

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Tis the season to get bundles -- and this time it's our award-winning E.M. Faulds' turn! Curated by Lavie Tidhar, the 2026 Best of British SFF Bundle includes 'Best of British Science Fiction 2025', which features 'Hand of Fire' by E. M. Faulds. Pick it up now from link below: @emfaulds.com

Lavie Tidhar@lavietidhar.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'm delighted to launch the 2026 Best of British bundle today! storybundle.com/bestof w/ @ianmcdonald.bsky.social @julietemckenna.bsky.social @annasmithspark.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social & more! Just $30 for 15 books! Plus supporting @locusmag.bsky.social! Reposts appreciated!

Patreon backers now have early access to our interview with @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social, who tells us all about her debut, Home Sick, and how winning the BFS prize for best novella helped her on her writing journey. Join Patreon to watch/listen now: www.patreon.com/ukpageone

Refuse to believe that it was twenty five years ago that I bought these fantastic books. But I definitely, heartily recommend them!

Gavin, Small Beer (closed due to long covid), &c.@gavingrant.bsky.social · 2w ago

25 years ago Kelly & I published our first season's titles — all 2 of them: first collections from Kelly (Stranger Things Happen; art: Shelley Jackson) & Ray Vukcevich (Meet Me in the Moon Room; art Rafał Olbinski). Buy either this month, we'll send you both: smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journa...

2026 books I've enjoyed!! Now that I've chaired @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social' s Edinburgh launch, can shout again about how much I loved this dark folkloric psychological Scottish cottage horror 🖤 A gripping, unsettling, and brilliantly crafted read! 🪓🐑🌲 @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Lyndsey Croal (she/her)@lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

2026 books I've enjoyed! I loved The Shape of Monsters, and A Million Points of Light by @clhellisen.bsky.social was just as magical! A stunningly written and explosive fantasy, full of intrigue, strangeness, dark and beautiful delights, high stakes, and fantastic worldbuilding. Loved it! 🖤✨