Vera Brook
@verabrook.bsky.social
Neuroscientist turned science fiction & fantasy #writer. Stories in Analog, Escape Pod, Cast of Wonders, Utopia SF, Radon. BSFA & BFS member. Based in Edinburgh. verabrook.com. she/her
Life has been busy. But I made progress on setting up my first #Kickstarter campaign - for my debut short story collection, APARTMENT WARS AND OTHER STORIES. Here are the new paperbacks, with a slight tweak to the cover and a bit more polished inside. 🥳 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ver... #Booksky
To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.
During our week in Asturias in northern #Spain, we visited Los Picos de Europa. We hiked La Ruta del Cares from Poncebos to Caín and back, about 7 hours total with a lunch in Caín. But so worth it! The views were absolutely incredible. I cannot wait to go back. 😎🥾⛰️ #Asturias #Hiking #Senderismo
Hi. I am launching my first short story collection, APARTMENT WARS AND OTHER STORIES, on #Kickstarter. ✨✍️✨ It’s my first ever KS campaign, and it would make my day if you checked it out. 🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ver... #Booksky #Books #ShortStories #IndieAuthor #ApartmentWars
Exoplanet aspires to be a professional market for speculative short fiction. As sales and support increase, we'll invest those funds into gradually raising our pay rate until we reach eight cents ($0.08) per word, the SFWA pro rate. We're just getting started. #specfic #shortstories #submissions
Scholarly research folk! Can anyone point me toward some solid books/papers on the audience for the Homeric epics? How, when, where, and for whom were they performed? Especially interested in non-elite/working-class access to the narratives. Signal boosts appreciated if you don't know.
Would anyone like to grab a Jeremy Creature from my Big Cartel shop? I can mail them off tomorrow. Each creature is designed and hand-sewed by me and takes many hours to create. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com
The 2026 Best of British SF/F bundle is now available! 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!
The last day of #Celsius232 festival. What a fun event, full of books & book people. We definitely want to come back next year. ✨📚✨
Always a pleasure to meet my fellow writers of speculative fiction! ✨📚✨ With Julia Díaz, José A. Bonilla & Oscar Navas at Apache Libros shop at #Celsius232 festival in Avilés. Thank you for signing your books & stories. I look forward to reading! #writer #escritor #sciencefiction #cienciaficcion
Aprendiendo español con un juego de rol sobre el apocalipsis. Una pause para el café entre las sesiones en Celsius 232 festival en Avilés. 🙂 #Celsius232 #escritor #Booksky
In a “literary phone booth” (cabina literaria) at #Celsius232 festival in Avilés. You can call up one of the attending authors and hear them read their work. Fun! #Booksky #writer #libros
Two great pleasures at a book festival like Celsius 232 in Avilés, Spain: meeting other book lovers and choosing the books to buy & read. ✨📚✨📚✨ Apache Libros has many terrific anthologies of short stories! I will be coming back for more. #Celsius232 #libros #CienciaFicción #Booksky
Very lucky to meet the author & editor of the book you’re buying and get a signed copy. ¡Muchas gracias, Julia Diez! So many great books at the Apache Libros booth at Celsius 232 book festival in Avilés, Spain. #Celsius232 #Booksky
Lovely to meet Fatima Acaso, an author & illustrator, and her partner at Celsius 232 festival in Avilés. Check out the 1984 game that she illustrated! #Celsius232 #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #writer #Booksky
Librería Cervantes at Celsius 232 festival of science fiction, fantasy & horror in Avilés, Spain. So many great books, including some familiar authors in Spanish translation. ✨📚✨ #Celsius232 #writer #avilés
I just snatched a copy of El Monstruo de Nueve Cabezas in Spanish at Librería Cervantes at Celsius 232 festival of science fiction, fantasy & horror in Avilés, Spain. Experimental novel with 9 authors. Can’t wait to dig in and challenge & stretch my Spanish. 🔥🔥🔥 #Celsius232 #Booksky
El Transbordador publisher at Celsius 232 festival of science fiction, fantasy & horror in Avilés in Spain. Books in Spanish and Catalan. So beautiful. ✨📚✨ #Celsius232 #Booksky #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror @eltransbordador.bsky.social
I am thrilled to be at Celsius 232 Festival in Avilés, Spain. My first time here! (And the region of Asturias is gorgeous. Mountains, forests, beaches. More on that later.) #Celsius232 #booksky
Hello, new followers! I am the author of The Wings Upon Her Back (Compton Crook winner/World Fantasy finalist science fantasy novel) and Rabbit Test and Other Stories (all my best shorts from 2018-2025). Welcome, welcome More deets: samtasticbooks.com/novels samtasticbooks.com/collections
New Morag and Seamus story over at Clarkesworld, where there are some sad goodbyes but also some very happy hellos: clarkesworldmagazine.com/moore_07_26/
Cliff's Girl by Fiona Moore
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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There are still 2 spots left on Milford's Critique Week at @gladlib.bsky.social, 12-19 Sept. £1056 for bed, breakfast & evening meal. And if you prefer, you can just sign up for a personal retreat week with no workshopping. More info and an application can be found here: www.milfordsf.co.uk
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The annual Milford Writers' Retreat just concluded in @gladlib.bsky.social for 2026. Let's take a look at some posts sharing how it went. First up, @jaceybedford.bsky.social: milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/m...
Milford Retreat at Gladstone’s Library, Day One and Two – by Jacey Bedford
After getting stuck in a mega traffic jam at Mottram that made me 40 minutes late to pick up Terry at Lymm services, the rest of the journey was relatively smooth, though I always have to remember …
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It's alive! My collection of bittersweet sci-fi and fantasy is now out, but you can only order it if you have good taste. Includes: a giant hare, a sad titan, spaceship dudes making diamonds, a dead man who builds boats, and a gravity-eating slug. Plus some weird stuff. books2read.com/MarketofLoss
I really loved the last Dublin Worldcon, and I'd love there to be another one so I've gone ahead and supported this bid. (Hoping @megintransition.bsky.social is feeling inspired filkwise!)
Dr. Meg MacDonald@megintransition.bsky.social · last mo.So super super important question/ call to action for your all- Have you supported @dublin2029.bsky.social yet? Presupports are how bids become cons. Assuming it will just happen doesn't make it happen. If you haven't then I will make a deal with you... dublin2029.ie?fbclid=IwY2x...
Some #SolarpunkSunday musings... We often talk in my solarpunk bookclub about whether solarpunk needs to be a roadmap and what that might look like. In @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's *The Beginning Comes After the End*, she talks about how the prefiguring of a better world is already here... 1/n
