Rose Black

Writing is a lonely business?! Not for our panel, who have embraced co-creation with others. Come along to find out how it works.

Join us for Cymera's Writers' Conference on Saturday, 22nd November: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...

Freshly hatched copies of The Salt Oracle hardback and We Are All Ghosts In The Forest paperback on a green cloth, looking handsome

Close up of the base of both book spines, showing a tiny leaping orca on The Salt Oracle

The dedication page from The Salt Oracle, that reads: To Mr Short, My secondary school science teacher who told me, repeatedly, that girls weren't cut out for science. My PhD and I beg to differ.

LOOK WHO HATCHED!

New books are in my very own paws & they're looking so damn pretty I can't!

(Please admire the teensy spine orca whomst I adore)

(Also have I shown you my spite dedication? I can't remember)

@solarisbooks.bsky.social @literaryfey.bsky.social

It's time for another GOODREADS GIVEAWAY. Now through Halloween you can enter for a chance to win one of 25 paperback copies of THESE FAMILIAR WALLS! https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/enter_choose_address/419013-these-familiar-walls

In 1998, desperate loneliness pushes preteen Amber to ignore the misgivings of her family, particularly her younger sister, when she befriends the troubled new kid in the neighborhood—a boy with dead eyes, a fascination with fire, and no remorse. Their turbulent relationship is brief but creates lasting consequences. Twenty-two years later, in 2020, he resurfaces to kill Amber’s parents, and is in turn betrayed by his accomplice and killed in Amber's childhood home. After the deaths, Amber inherits the house and, in an effort to save money, moves in with her husband and two children, hoping to reclaim some sense of stability in the grief and chaos surrounding her. Instead, she finds that the familiar walls are haunted by more than just bitter memories and lockdown stress. She shifts in and out of dreamlike trances, her reflection won’t blink, and a menacing voice whispers to her from the gathering shadows. Although she tried to brush off the strange happenings as stress-fueled hallucinations, Amber is soon forced to admit that something much more real—and more dangerous—haunts her family. But Amber has deadly secrets of her own, and she must resolve these long-buried truths or lose the life she’s contrived for herself.

Good morning, friends!

Look, a giveaway!

Between now & Halloweeeeeeeeeeen (which is coming up way too soon, gosh I don't want October to end) you can enter for a chance to win a paperback ARC of my upcoming dual-timeline haunted house novel, THESE FAMILIAR WALLS!

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Just popping on to say that there will be audiobooks for both Bloom Mountain and Metropolis Down in the spring.

Fave Five: Fantasy with Transfem MCs

Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane The Calyx Charm by May Peterson Princess of the Pomegranate Moon by Emily Wynne Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson Bonus: These are all Adult, but in Middle Grade, check…

They look a bit like Sweet William so I think you're right with Dianthus.

Okay I already have plot notes. I don't want to stop writing the anti-empire murder train book, but this is gnawing at my brain.

Maybe I'll outline it...

AJ White always comes highly recommended - the trigger warnings on his work mean they're not something I can read, but I've never heard a bad word said. And Jamison Shae

For fantasy
- Alexandra Rowland
- @clericofthevoid
- Jules Arbeaux
- Lex Croucher and Cass Biehn write historical fantasy

screenshot of edge of address bar with "AI Mode" button

screenshot of the chrome "flags" page with "ai mode" in the search bar; the search result "AI Mode Omnibox entrypoint" is highlighted, with an option box to the right set to "Default"

hey I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere but - if you're using Chrome and you don't want this gross little AI Mode button to pop up in your address bar, paste "chrome://flags" into your address bar and search the flags for "AI Mode." find "AI Mode Omnibox Entrypoint" then you can just disable it!

the other thing i’ll say here is i am a bit frustrated with the narrative of online radicalization that treats it as akin to brainwashing. it lets individuals, families and communities off the hook for the choices they make and the environments they foster

I really want to write Silent Hill IP. Or maybe be part of a Silent Hill esque anthology? Places that are shaped by the character's trauma, that shape them back in return. Webs of places that exist of the periphery of existence, until we find ourselves trapped in them.

Anti-trans group admits bathroom predator myth is made up Dec 07 2018 • Written by Sofia Lotto Persio

Swimmer Riley Gaines Admits She's Just Using Sports to Make Trans Rights "Crumble"

Helen Joyce reveals plans to use fears around trans kids as stepping stone to eliminate "trans" in public life by Mallory Moore & transsafety.network

right wing bigots have admitted

- the “trans women in bathrooms” issue

- the “trans women in sports” issue and

- the “trans kids getting surgery” issue

were all MADE UP TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY

are you paying attention?

Why our organs cannot simply be classified as male or female Biological sex is usually described in simple binary terms: male or female. This works well for germ cells (sperm versus eggs), but for other body organs it is of little help.

I'm just posting this again, because we all need to be completely clear that despite sex differentiation starting at 10 wks gestation, every cell in anyones body is very unlikely to be 100% "male" or 100% "female".

Maleeessss and feeemaaalles ❌
We're all a vibrant mix ✔️

phys.org/news/2025-09...

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12:20pm Sat 1st Nov
Bute Place

Publishers de-prioritizing children's books is just crappy, but it's also shortsighted financially:

1. Kidlit is recession-proof! Parents will always need to buy books for kids.

2. If you're not fostering the next generation of readers, then you won't have a consumer base 10-20 years from now.

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

Sometimes you just need some fish crime in your day

That cover is beautiful

Never trust a fish with your credit card. They're masters of phishing.

Tarot card style graphic titled The Bellwether, with the text: What: The New Baltic College of Oceanographic Research Where: Åland Islands, Baltic Sea Why: To study the Salt Oracle and rebuild lost maps, climate forecasts & fisheries models from her cantations. Who: A crew of scientists and boatmen guards. And a lot of deadly digital ghosts. ' All over a dark image of a lighthouse and tentacles.

Tarot card graphic titled The Bellwether, with a mix of images of abandoned rusting sea platforms, the Aland islands, a steampunky pulley system and a library beneath a glass dome.

SOMEONE (me) spent too much time on Canva, so I am running a MEET THE CHARACTERS posts series this week!

Starting with the setting of THE SALT ORACLE - The Bellwether.

College, fortress, haven, deathtrap.
Come to save the world, try not to die.

@solarisbooks.bsky.social
geni.us/saltorac

Just in case anyone forgot.
I'm the creator and curator of the Biggest Gayest Table.
Originally the Gay Table!

Black neon tetra - Wikipedia

good day

i need everyone to go read about this black neon tetra credit card fraud

i'm going with, they did this on purpose

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_n...

Oleander Craw The home of the SFF and horror author, Oleander Craw. Here you can find the free serialized dark fantasy novel The Wards Will Fall.

I am back from my writing retreat and realized my queer fantasy novel releases NEXT WEEK. If you like:

💠 M/M with a sad bi protag
💠 Expedition to a lost city rotting from the inside
💠 Possessed and slowly becoming Something Else

Then 🫵 read for free a chapter a week.

www.oleandercraw.com

Words cannot express how toxic and dangerous this approach from Labour is. As soon as we start saying people are only welcome if they "give more than they take" we demonise the disabled, those who do unpaid care work, anyone who isn't a 'productive member of society'.

Baby 🥺

Another request for research help - anyone know anything about steam trains or know someone who might be able to answer a couple of quick questions?

Block list for Trump regime government accounts. How to Dismantle a Dictatorship, Step 4: Block validation. #3E bsky.app/profile/did:...

This is amazing

Ace Pride Week Mega Bundle Books have either a major character that identifies on the ace spectrum, an ace-identifying author, or BOTH! Oct. 19-25, 51 Books, $50.00 Book covers are: Secondhand Origin Stories by LeeBrontide City of Strife by Claudie Arseneault Sidetracked: Part 1 by SK Kelley In Spite of the Inevitable by Morgan Biscup The One He Brought Home by Skye Kilaen Riyati Rebirth by Kai Zeal Lost Blades by Liz Sauco Bridges of Smoke by Jule March The Whisperer in White by Y.R. Liu Where We Converge by A.E. Bross Child of the Forest by Audrey Simmons A Dragon’s Treasure by Elis Madsen Enemies to Enemies by Ash Kreider Chai and Cat-tales by Lynn Strong Puppetry by Nina Waters Devil’s Deal by Tessa Hastjarjanto A Spark in Space by Janina Franck The Harmony of Falling Snow, A Polyamorous Romantasy Novel by Andora Brokaw How Six Saved the Frogs Pet by H.S. Kallinger Merchants of Knowledge and Magic by Shadow Spark Publishing Claimed by the Undead by C.L. Carhart Doce Drosera by Anita Peace in the Sky by William C. Tracy A Life in Too Many Margins by S.E. Thomson Non-Player Character by Veo Corva Journey Home by May Barros Triple Strike: Threads of Fate by G.M. Gray Wherever the Stars Call by S. Jean Yours Celestially by Al Hess The Star-Crossed Empire by Maya Darjani The Audacity 1 by Carmen Loup The Thirteenth Key by Cara Nox In the Eye of the Beholder by Beverly Anne Michel A Designer Magick by Stefanie Carter Bloody Spade by Brittany M. Willows Structural Integrity by Tabitha O'Connell Curse of Souls by Niranjan The Thread That Binds by Cedar McCloud Of Spells and Love by Odessa Silver Courtly Love by T.D. Cloud Song of the Wolf T.C. Smith The Dragon Next Door by Vanessa Ricci-Thode The Grand Duke's Masseur by sbdrag Blood by D.C. Hart Lantern by Burgundy Athena Pendragon Inarora's Excursion by Astrid E. Abell The Blood Divide by Zan Lowell The Towers of Nine by Alyssa Louttit Walking the Knife's Edge by Elise Carlson Junk Junction by William C. Tracy

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ADM features not one but TWO ace MCs: the enby Niven and sad boy Ellory.

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