JEKYLL & HYDE: WINTER RETREAT by @timjmajor.bsky.social is now available in paperback! In this tribute to classic Golden Age crime novels, the Jekyll & Hyde detective agency must solve a locked-room mystery! ❄️ Get your copy now: https://tinyurl.com/5bmmbk49

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF and #horror writers! This month featuring Dark Ages folk horror, 90s video games, superhero problems and the cosmic north of England. timjmajor.com/2026/10/02/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity Please share!

Open submission calls for writers: October 2026

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See "Four Fabrications of Francine Descartes" by @timjmajor.bsky.social in Saros SF #1 (and also included in Best of British Science Fiction 2025!) sarossf.com/issue-1/

Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tragically today, it’s the 386th anniversary of the death of René Descartes’ daughter Francine at the age of just five—to which he responded by building a robot daughter he took everywhere with him until she was murdered by superstitious sailors, hastening the philosopher’s own death Well... 🧵

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF and #horror writers! This month featuring baking horrors, weird alchemy, lush vampires and speculative sports. timjmajor.com/2026/07/06/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity Please share!

Open submission calls for writers: July 2026

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Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF and #horror writers! This month featuring Sapphic goddesses, side hustles, demons, merfolk and childhood fears. timjmajor.com/2026/05/21/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity Please share!

Open submission calls for writers: May 2026

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A massive thanks to @timjmajor.bsky.social for his excellent words about my upcoming novella Drone. mybook.to/droneDH

GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY is 1 year old today! 16 tales of robot-like figures from history/myth, inc ‘The Brazen Head of Westinghouse’, winner of British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction in 2024. blackshuckbooks.co.uk/great-robots... @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social @britfantasysoc.bsky.social

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Open submission calls for writers: March 2026

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February 2026 brings a new standalone novel from the Queen of Speculative Fiction: Arthur C. Clarke award-nominated Aliya Whiteley! Here's what @oliverklangmead.bsky.social @manuscriptgal.bsky.social @timjmajor.bsky.social & @catamaroon.bsky.social thought of it! Preorder geni.us/misheardw

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Open submission calls for writers: January 2026

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Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF and #horror writers! This one features eco-gothic stories, pulp SF, South Asian folk tales and sunny yet dark thrillers. timjmajor.com/2025/12/03/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity Please share!

Open submission calls for writers: December 2025

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Calling British short science-fiction writers who have had stories published this year - window closing soon for Best of British Science Fiction 2025. Get your story in under the door!

In festive instalment of the series and tribute to classic Golden Age crime novels, the Jekyll & Hyde detective agency must solve a locked-room mystery! JEKYLL & HYDE: WINTER RETREAT by @timjmajor.bsky.social is out now! ❄️ https://tinyurl.com/2jdvnut9

New Review - still need some horror then coming next week is this collection of folk horror I can recommend - Hiding Under The Leaves edited by @wishusdonna.bsky.social is out via @theslabpress.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...

Hiding Under The Leaves edited by Donna Scott — Runalong The Shelves

I would like to thank The Slab Press for an advance copy of this collection in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher - The Slab Press Published - 5/11 Price - £18.99 paperback £5....

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Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF, #horror and #mystery writers! This one features fabulism, tarot, terrifying humans and cheerful apocalypses. timjmajor.com/2025/10/24/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity Please share!

Open submission calls for writers: October 2025

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Happy book birthday to JEKYLL & HYDE: WINTER RETREAT by @timjmajor.bsky.social! In festive instalment of the series, the Jekyll & Hyde detective agency must solve a locked-room mystery. ❄️ Out now! https://tinyurl.com/2jdvnut9

OUT TODAY! JEKYLL & HYDE: WINTER RETREAT is a country house murder mystery at an artists’ retreat with comedians, actors, magicians, inventors. Plus detectives Muriel Carew & Henry Jekyll… and uninvited guest Edward Hyde. Published by @titanbooks.bsky.social

If you haven't got your hands on a copy of WRITING THE MAGIC already, you can read an excerpt from RJ Barker's essay at The Fantasy Hive today: You Do Not Need to Know How to Write a Book (Or How to Embrace Ignorance and Run with It). fantasy-hive.co.uk/2025/09/writ...

Available on NetGalley now!

Titan Books@titanbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

JEKYLL & HYDE: WINTER RETREAT by @timjmajor.bsky.social The Jekyll & Hyde detective agency must solve a locked-room mystery in this tribute to classic Golden Age crime novels which is perfect for fans of Stuart Turton and Lucy Foley. UK & US: www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

I'm so happy to have a story in the upcoming tenth volume in this amazing series!

Black Shuck Books@blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

SOMETHING PECULIAR is coming... Day four... please welcome @timjmajor.bsky.social's tale "Urchin Barren". SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released in October, and is available to pre-order now from the Black Shuck Books website.

The Jekyll & Hyde detective agency must solve a locked-room mystery in JEKYLL & HYDE: WINTER RETREAT by @timjmajor.bsky.social! This festive instalment of the series is a tribute to classic Golden Age crime novels, and hits shelves on October 21st! ❄️

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF, #horror and #mystery writers! Featuring criminal cats, atomic science, festive horror and B-movie pulp. timjmajor.com/2025/09/04/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity Please share!

Open submission calls for writers: September 2025

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The paperback of Jekyll & Hyde: Consulting Detectives is out in the US! Order your copy today from Barnes & Noble: bit.ly/423NzsG

Jekyll & Hyde: Consulting Detectives|Paperback

Dr Jekyll and his monstrous alter-ego join forces with his ex-fiancée to solve a series of disappearances across Victorian London in this thrilling mystery, perfect for readers of Stuart Turton...

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I've had the honour of being interviewed by the Womble, talking about the inspiration behind The Executioner's Blade, what's coming next for that series, & some other cool books I've been reading lately.

Run Away It’s The Womble@runalongwomble.bsky.social · last yr.

New Author Interview - today on the blog we welcome @aknighton.bsky.social to talk about their great fantasy novel The Executioner’s Blade and more! www.runalongtheshelves.net/interviews/2...

My British Fantasy Award nominated collection* is available at UK Amazon for £2.90. I’m sure you’ve got a copy, but here’s a perfect chance to buy a cheap present for the archaeological horror fan in your life www.amazon.co.uk/Dirt-Upon-My... *this still hasn’t sunk in.

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF, #horror and #mystery writers! Featuring solar SF, nature-fueled magic, the SETI Institute and cliffhanging pulp fiction. timjmajor.com/2025/08/14/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity Please share!

Open submission calls for writers: August 2025

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Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF & #horror writers! Featuring folklore, memory manipulation, romantic fantasy, neurodiversity, cemetery cats and DNA data storage. timjmajor.com/2025/07/08/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity Please share!

Open submission calls for writers: July 2025

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Not sure how I missed this until now, but last week my collection GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY featured in the Financial Times as one of the ‘best SF summer books of 2025’, with this wonderful write-up!

How is it possible that we’ve reached the halfway point of the year? But as that’s the case, here are my favourite albums released in 2025 so far. timjmajor.com/2025/06/27/f...

Favourite albums of the first half of 2025

How is it possible that we’ve reached the halfway point of the year? But as that’s the case, here are my favourite albums released in 2025 so far. Indie / Rock / Post-rock A new Richard Dawson albu…

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Delighted that I'll have a story in folk horror anthology 'Hiding Under the Leaves', edited by the excellent @wishusdonna.bsky.social. My story's called 'Rumours Overheard in the School Playground Relating to Miss Angeline Holst', and the book will be released at World FantasyCon in October.