Jo M Thomas

Red's Heart Joyce Chng published a post on Ko-fi

A new story up on my Kofi:

Plant mecha, love lost and betrayed, solarpunkish.

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Daughters of Nicnevin Check out Daughters of Nicnevin - <p>Mairead and Constance, two powerful witches, meet in the early days of the 1745 Jacobite uprising. While the men of the village are away fighting, the villagers fa...

It’s today! 13 months after I started writing it, Daughters of Nicnevin is out in the world! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/daug...

[Story]: For The Care And Love Of A Dragon Joyce Chng published a post on Ko-fi

Grab a cuppa, curl under blankets and read.

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Cover of Wiz Duo Book 2. Art by Roz Clarke. The images are of a shield superimposed on a flying dragon, and a girl with a hole through her belly.

Love novellas? How about two in one book? In Wiz Duo 2, Juliet Kemp sends a reluctant knight on a quest, while E M Faulds gives her heroine a superpower that totally sucks.
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Northern Fiction Alliance 2025 Winter Showcase Join us for a festive evening of new fiction from northern writers!

thrilled to bits to be doing the Northern Fiction Alliance 2025 Winter Showcase @ the lovely @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social

📌 Dec 4
⏰ 18:30

Tickets below! Come join for mince pies and readings from lovely books including mine from @northodoxpress.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-f...

white circle in a blue background and the words "It's Monday! What are you reading?" in the circle

It's Monday again and today I'm reading What Stalks the Deep by @tkingfisher.com, the conclusion to the Sworn Soldier trilogy and I've Snake-Eater lined up after that

What book(s) are you reading this week?

💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR

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An alert reader let me know the whole Lotus Kingdoms series is available for $2.99 each in ebook! Also on Kobo and other platforms!

www.kobo.com/us/en/series...

Cup of tea, and time to ill. You know what that means, Bluesky: #Storytime.

They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd) An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore

Half an hour left: www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

Cover for THE KING MUST DIE, illustrated by the amazing Eleonor Piteira.

On a planet damaged by rushed terraforming, a bodyguard-turned-reluctant rebel joins the last dregs of her parents’ failed uprising...

THE KING MUST DIE is out today! If you love stories about found families, revolutions, and second chances, this book’s for you.

End tax breaks on oil and gas Sign the petition to stop the giveaway and demand a fair jobs plan needs major people power right now.

Join me in calling on @RachelReevesMP to stop propping up declining oil and gas companies with £2.7 BILLION of tax breaks a year (🤯) and fund a jobs guarantee for workers instead: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

My condolences

Special Award – Non-Professional: #WorldFantasyAwards2025
Winner: Steve J Shaw, for Black Shuck Books

Ahem, paging @runalongwomble.bsky.social...

I’m ready to hear what your favourite SFF reads are. Give me suggestions…

32 book covers, all stories with trans main characters, by trans authors. Centre Text: Trans People Take on the World The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson What Lies Within, Issy Waldon Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton Non-Player Character, Veo Corva A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood Echo Sight, Cian Verath The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan Manipulators War, Elise Carlson Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com First Rose, Jake Vanguard A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault Illusory, M.X. Misfits

Argentum in Aqua (Finn McLellan) Blood on the Snow, Silver in the Ashes, Fire in the Sky • Queer Gothic gaslamp fantasy • Werewolves, vampires, magicians, and a whole lot of blood, swearing, and tea • Bisexual vampire gentleman scholar • Disabled transmasc assassin/thief • Lesbian werewolf bodyguard/lady’s maid • Deeply out-of-his-depth anxiety-ridden autistic vampire student (who’s ace, he just doesn’t know it yet) • Culturally (and personally) Significant Knives • Fog-shrouded streets, rooftop chases, fights in alleyways, mysterious boxes… Ongoing web serial: read online at https://saranadosfiction.com/ or in ebook form at https://finn-mclellan.itch.io/

Want to support trans authors? Fancy filling your e-reader/computer/phone with stories featuring badass trans folk?

Well, in that case, I have a bundle for you! $35 for 32 books, including Blood on the Snow, the first book of my queer Gothic gaslamp fantasy serial

itch.io/b/3352/trans...

Title: Trans People Take on the World, Nov 1-15 in Itchio 32 Book covers, background a sunset photo by Elise Carlson. The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson What Lies Within, Issy Waldon Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton Non-Player Character, Veo Corva A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood Echo Sight, Cian Verath The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan Manipulators War, Elise Carlson Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com First Rose, Jake Vanguard A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault Illusory, M.X. Misfits

I'd like to kick off Trans Awareness Month with 32 stories of Trans People Taking On The World, by mainly trans authors

Your heroes may tackle; love, friendship, magic &war, self discovery, trauma & healing, demons (literal or metaphorical 😉) & or the world itself!

🌈📚💙💕📚🪐📚♿ itch.io/b/3352/trans...

We're now open to publishing enquiries for novellas and short fiction collections, from writers living in the North of England. We're seeking works of strange and literary speculative fiction, of 15,000 to 40,000 words.

Exciting news! We're open to queries for novellas and works of collected short fiction, for our 2026-2027 publishing schedule. We want to receive strange and literary fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and weird fiction from writers living in the North of England.

Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions

"...And on the screen, these words appear:
My name is Clippy, King of Kings;
Would you like some help with your despair?"

I mean, clearly if it was a fae or an eldritch horror thing, you're screwed because they don't like being revealed. But normal humans should be fine with it

It's ok as long as everyone knows it's another Saltdean

Probably

A graphic featuring two swans on an icy canal, a book cover for an anthology called Absolute Zero, and the text: "A former Glasgow policeman haunted by an inexplicably brutal murder. A young couple sleepwalking towards disaster. Cold Case"

I'm not known for historical fiction but a while back I wrote a story set in Glasgow in 1960, a time when there were a number of infamous murder sprees. It's a story about the human cost of working on those criminal cases involving absolutely inexplicable inhumanity.

How could you not know about Saltdean?

*Hurriedly looks up where it is*

Short fiction thread:

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR

supportjamaica.gov.jm

As predicted, Rosie, who was too excite to eat and too snobbish to drink (much of) the local water while at @bristolcon.bsky.social has spent a ridiculous amount of time with her face in a water bowl since getting back about half three and is now eating like the diet starts tomorrow

Found it!

I have misplaced Rosie's badge. FFS...

Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today appropriately for starting a break in reading The Green Man’s Holiday by Juliet E McKenna (and things are not going to plan already!) whether you reading at the moment?

Blue skies Iver a church steeple and trees

Looks like it's a blue skies thinking kind of day here in the vicinity of St Mary Radcliffe on the second day of #BristolCon