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Very very happy to have contributed an essay to this excellent book. If you've every considered editing an anthology you have to get this book!

Right!?

Watching that second half after the penalty you could just feel the expectation of every one of those 27 years couldn't you?

Brilliant

Television screen cap reading: 90:00 SCO 4-2 DEN 9:10 +6

I don't often talk football on here but... Fuck me, that was an amazing football match. It had everything that great sport has - high stakes, mistakes, amaaaaazing goals.
And, for once, a happy ending. There's nothing like being a Scotland supporter.

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If you missed our E.M. Faulds' excellent ecofiction tale 'Love, Scotland' in 2024's Gallus, here's your chance. 'Love, Scotland' features in ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction (Apex Book Company / Violet Lichen), out now in all good bookshops.

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Pictcon 1 was an fantastic day. I'm looking forward to Pictcon 2 already. See you there?

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Another thing today!
My story "Love, Scotland" gets a new life in ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction from Apex Books / Violet Lichen, out TODAY 🎉
The anthology received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly! 🥂 More here, including the lush ToC:
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Understandable.

I was also a must-finisher when I read that. Must have been 15 or 16. I read both trilogies during the same two week holiday in Spain while the rest of the family relaxed in the sun. They were all I'd brought with me.
Still not a sun-worshipper but I'd very much come armed with options now.

"Who knows what our old bricks were made of or what lies beneath our brightly lit pavements? Who knows what goes on behind locked doors?"

Enter to win a copy of the "Blood in the Bricks" anthology, edited by @neilwilliamson.bsky.social, from NewCon Press #💙📚 #Booksky

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New Review - let’s start the week with some excellent fantasy Scotland 1745 and two women finally able to share their secrets. I strongly recommend Daughters of Nicnevin by Shona Kinsella out now! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...

That is an utterly baffling progression of logic. I mean it's "lovers become enemies... and stay enemies" or it's just a book that doesn't feature romance central to the plot or ... what?

Morning Womble! I'm racing through King Sorrow this week. And will be for some time. :)

I acquired this novel a while ago, and it's a stunning read - it's so clever, and intimate, and downright scary. It was brilliant when I first read it, but with the edits Rhiannon worked through it, it's just amazing. And Katie Klim produced the most perfect cover ❤️

Yeah its never been a favourite venue of mine either. But it was perfect for tonight.

Actulol. *big hug

Ha, yeah, I was shouting to the rooftops a couple of years back when the previous album came out. Great songs, cracking band.
Be great if he was able to manage a state side tour some time.

A man with a yellow cap, black jacket and moustache singing to an audience. Various musicians play around him.

Fricking delight to enjoy BC Camplight at the Classic Grand tonight. Lots of tracks off the new album, A Sober Conversation, but they found room for some deep cuts too.

A bug hug of a show on a cold Glasgow night.

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THE SALT ORACLE has been out in the world for one whole week! So here's some nice things some even nicer people said about it!

And thank you to everyone who entered the preorder giveaway - I'm contacting winners today & am very grateful to you all x
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Scottish SF and Fantasy microcon Pictcon has just announced their 2026 Guest of Honour -- it's our own Neil Williamson!

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Pictcon 2 takes place on Sat 17th October 2026 in Perth. Get your tickets (£30/£20/under 18s, childcare, dogcare options) below:

You're not wrong.

*plans a listicle: Top Ten Reacts

But James! What will people do for The Content when you ban all the stuff that takes literally no skill or original thought?

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Sure, in some ways. I just think it has similar beats to something like Halloween or Friday 13th. But there are obviously differences too. Like there's a technical difference between a spree killer and a serial killer.

It's a solid question. And a challenge for all reading this I guess.