Mark Leggatt

Deep dive into the Unbound disaster

Now there's a headstone full of life's adventures...

Ta! x

Two weeks to go before we cast off the bowlines!
The 5th #JonasFlynt #adventure #thriller sets sail on August 21 in #hardback & #ebooks
@canelobooks.bsky.social

@belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social

That’s a wrap on The Good Father book tour. I may go for a wee lie down. Thanks to everyone who came along…💙📚

Today I shall be editing my own book, and not someone else's!

And murmuring, "Jeez, who wrote this shit? Oh, wait. It was me."

Deep breath, fresh cuppa, let's go.

Oohh, yes please!

a cup of tea is being poured into a saucer with flowers on it ALT: a cup of tea is being poured into a saucer with flowers on it

Here we are, and I'll see if there are any biccies.

I'm going to the kitchen, would anyone like a cup of tea?

Crime in the Spotlight 2025 - Bloody Scotland The authors have been announced for our Crime in the Spotlight slots this year. Come and hear from this marvellous […]

Look at the splendid line up of new and emerging authors who'll be battling their nerves as they take to the stage in front of our headlining Albert Halls crowds in this year's Crime in the Spotlight slots! Full line up here bloodyscotland.com/crime-in-the...

The Scottish ballads are one of the wellsprings of Tartan Noir. They loom large in my own new novel, The Good Father. I wrote about them for Shots Magazine…💙📚

Bankruptcies of Unbound and Albert Whitman & Co Put Authors Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Writer Beware A Hellacious Mess: Unbound Established in 2011, UK-based crowdfunded publisher Unbound styled itself the Kickstarter for books and was widely heralded as the next big idea in publishing. Heady words l...

New #WriterBeware blog post: Publisher bankruptcies are terrible for authors. The recent implosion of Unbound (now Boundless Publishing) is especially awful, w/ over 200 authors owed thousands; but the less high-profile failure of Albert Whitman is pretty bad too writerbeware.blog/2025/06/06/b...

Thank you so much, @portybelle.bsky.social!

📢 Tickets are NOW LIVE for #Cymera2025 events—such as panels, workshops, agent one-to-ones, live performances and more 📢

There are a variety of in-person and digital events to choose from, plus livestream tickets for our in-person panels: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera25-eve...

Drum roll, please! We have five outstanding novels shortlisted for this year's Debut Prize - Congratulations to @davegoodman.bsky.social @nataliejayneclark.bsky.social Foday Mannah @byclairewilson.bsky.social and @richardstrachan.bsky.social

Got my copy ordered, will get a review up asap.
Enjoy the day, you'll have a great time! And fingers crossed!

Well done!!!

Crying
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you 🤩

If you are a Westminster-based analyst who has paid no heed to Scotland since 2014, please, I beseech you, there is no need to change that pattern today.

Hmmm, will The Elephant In The Room be Helen Wood?

As someone who has been tracking, writing about, nerding out about publishing news for over 15 years, I can't think of a worse scandal especially in terms of the money owed to authors.

And, if the theft from staff pensions proves to be true, then fuck me, this is truly a massive scandal.

Don't forget—the #Cymera25 Charity Auction is still live! 🤩

Bids will close on Fri 6 Jun at 11am BST. All funds raised will go toward supporting Cymera: www.32auctions.com/organization...

Freelance work is slow at the mo, so a reminder that I'm available for all sorts of typesetting, ebook creation and general publishing/production assistance for those self-publishing & general publishers.

Services: www.lauraflojo.com
via Reedsy (though I prefer direct!): reedsy.com/jones-laura

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Screenshot of Amazon sales ranking for THE FRIDAY GIRL showing no1 in Dcottosh Crime and Werewolves and Shifters Suspense, no2 in hard boiled mystery and #79 in Kindle Store

And now #thefridaygirl has cracked the top 100 overall! Can we keep it going? Come on, folks! Let's go! #booksky #scottishcrime @bwpublishing.bsky.social #kindledailydeal

Auld Alliance Comics Festival - Institut français · Écosse Join us for a vibrant weekend celebrating the rich worlds of French and Scottish comics! Discover incredible graphic novels, meet talented authors and illustrators from both countries, attend live dra...

#Edinburgh peeps - @ifecosse.bsky.social & La Belle Adventure (Franco-Scottish comics shop on Leith Walk) are holding the Auld Alliance Comics Festival in July, celebrating Scottish & French creators www.ifecosse.org.uk/events-agend...

#Ecosse #Scotland #France #comics #BandeDessinee #Edimbourg

THE COLONY, by Daniel Pollock. Five stars, and will be one of my books of the year.

The story of the Darien Scheme, superbly told in a thrilling ride through a part of Scotland's shadowy, shameful history.

Five stars, a cracking read.

www.amazon.co.uk/Colony-Danie...

According to that great British newspaper @theguardian.com nothing has happened in Scotland for five days. Nothing.

Muriel Gray, the BBC apparatchik, morbid unionist and double firesetter of the Glasgow School of Art posts "Water levels incredibly low in the Highlands right now. Nobody even THINK of having a campfire."

Nice to see Muriel taking an interest in fire safety.

Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical "Rerum Novarum" (On Capital and Labour)

Hmm, interesting, I would have thought bloggers got a few quid, 'cos it's not a small amount of work to read the book then blog.
For the lit fests, if there are quite a few panels supported, it could be tricky if they always run close to the bone, which I assume they do. Ach, we'll wait and see.