KB Willson

Just back from a great few days at worldfantasycon... I might have bought a couple of books...

Me and other authors signing books at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social Good times!

Guess where I am...

This little beauty is now out in the wild from @underlandpress.bsky.social , featuring my festive revenge story 'Snowflake'... Christmas is coming, make sure you're not on the naughty list...

Kozy Krampus PREORDER: This product ships at the end of September. We arrive yet again at the end of it all: the dreaded holiday season, where everything is too bright, nothing is where it should be, and you will ...

Got to hand it to Mark at Underland Press for the fastest turnaround of an anthology I have ever known! Signed the contract at the weekend, and it'll be out in September. Astonishing!
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Lovely start to the day... another of my stories has been accepted for an anthology. At least on the writing front, it's turning out to be a good year!

Sunshine and Showers As I write this, the sun is streaming in through the window and there is a slightly chilly north-easterly wind ruffling the leaves of the s...

A little blog post...
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You wait ages for a piece of your work to be published, then two come out within weeks of each other! Very pleased to report that my contemporary horror story 'The Melusine Pact ' is in the current edition of Parsec magazine. Hurrah!
#writing #horror

Been trying (unsuccessfully) to shed the Christmas pounds, so decided to give intermittent fasting a go during Lent (seemed appropriate)... and guess what? I'm losing weight! Who knew, right?

In other writing news, I've just had my SF story 'Pulse' published in Black Cat Weekly...
#writing #sciencefiction

Precious Dreams and Living Nightmares: a personal journey into grief Buy Precious Dreams and Living Nightmares: a personal journey into grief by Burke, Kevin (ISBN: 9798307556788) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

It's been a whirlwind four weeks since my grief memoir was published, and my heartfelt thanks go to all who have read it and said that it has helped them with their own grieving. Please feel free to share, in the hope that it might reach others who could find it beneficial. #grief
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Vivid Worlds ToC and Cover Reveal I hope you had a great World Book Day yesterday. Here at The Slab Press, we're having our Vivid Worlds Book Day today instead, because I get to announce the writers and stories that will be featuring in our upcoming solarpunk anthology - plus reveal the cover designed by Northampton artist Paul Alex Condie. It is still quite an auspicious day to announce the ToC, because March 7th is, very aptly the start of the 5th World Conference on Climate Change and Global Warming in Vienna, which is just the sort of event where they will be discussing the very sorts of ideas and innovations that the solar punk genre concerns itself with. 

Vivid Worlds ToC and Cover Reveal

I hope you had a great World Book Day yesterday. Here at The Slab Press, we're having our Vivid Worlds Book Day today instead, because I get to announce the writers and stories that will be featuring in our upcoming solarpunk anthology - plus reveal the cover…

Thank you, Janis, I appreciate that. It continues to be a hard road to travel...

The most wonderful review of my grief memoir 'Precious Dreams and Living Nightmares ' on amazon (written under my own name - Kevin Burke - rather than my pseudonym). I am absolutely blown away.
#writing #grief #book

Precious Dreams and Living Nightmares: a personal journey into grief Buy Precious Dreams and Living Nightmares: a personal journey into grief by Burke, Kevin (ISBN: 9798307556788) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

I am humbled by all the people who have said that they read my grief memoir in one sitting - unable to put it down - then have said such lovely things about it. I thank you all, truly.
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I now feel officially old. In the dentist's waiting room this afternoon, a young man gave up his seat for me.
#ageingdisgracefully

Yep... I'm there

Put it in the laundry basket and go to bed. Lay awake for hours worrying about what the oil is doing to your shirt. Get up at 2 to deal with it. Go back to bed at 3 but sleep is impossible because you're now wide awake. Make hot chocolate at 4. Fall asleep at 6.30. Alarm goes off at 7. Simple!

Writing has no Sell By Date Writing is an act of concentration and reflection.  It is an act of diving into the well of our inner lives.  It is a process of healing and regeneration.  It cannot be done when we are thinking ab…

Lovely piece about my book in Andrea's blog...

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Goodreads seems to be completely flummoxed by the fact that I have written 'Precious Dreams and Living Nightmares ' under my own name. I'm sure it will be sorted eventually... *sigh* #writing #books
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Precious Dreams & Living Nightmares This is the week when the book documenting my first year of grief goes live, and it is a bittersweet experience. As those few hardy indivi...

Today is a difficult day emotionally, but it is also publication day of the book I've been working on detailing my first year of grief. If you'd like to know more, here's my latest blog telling you all about it (which includes a link to the book on amazon) kbwillson.blogspot.com/2025/02/prec...

Someone's had a go at making the guest room towel into an elephant... 'A' for effort, I think!

Trying to use the new version of Word with the ubiquitous 'copilot' AI 'assistant ' is like trying to teach a class of children with one hyper-enthusiastic pupil continually screaming "Me! Me! Use me! I know the answer! Ask me! Me! ME!"

Just received the proof copy of the book I've been working on throughout last year. Just need to check it and iron out any typos that may have snuck through, then I can release it into the wild!

Hell yeah...

A poem for a brave bishop

Well, here we go... Andy Cox, whose Black Static magazine was the cornerstone of the UK dark/weird/horror fiction scene is back with a brand new thing. Remains, illustrated from start to finish by the amazing Richard Wagner, is a stunning new magazine of horror fiction.

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Fabulous!

Amen to this!

Never watched the American version... sounds like I should!