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Today I'm on the Write and Wrong Podcast, talking about our series of Writing... books from Dead Ink, ways of worldbuilding in fantasy fiction, and the rather chaotic path I've taken through publishing. Maybe give it a listen!

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The First Thousand Trees by Premee Mohamed — Runalong The Shelves Publisher – ECW Press Published – Out Now Price – £14.99 paperback £6.49 ebook After making a grievous mistake that ended in death, Henryk Mandrusiak feels increasingly ostracised within his...

New Review - a fascinating series of novellas exploring our choices concludes with the great The First Thousand Trees by Premee Mohamed out now! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...

I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer

just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:

zombiesrungame.com

observer.co.uk/the-critics/...

The First Thousand Trees by Premee Mohamed — Runalong The Shelves Publisher – ECW Press Published – Out Now Price – £14.99 paperback £6.49 ebook After making a grievous mistake that ended in death, Henryk Mandrusiak feels increasingly ostracised within his...

New Review - a fascinating series of novellas exploring our choices concludes with the great The First Thousand Trees by Premee Mohamed out now! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...

Currently reading a Shirley Jackson collection.

I just finished an arc of THE REGICIDE REPORT, the culminating Laundry Files novel, by @cstross.bsky.social

Hey Bluesky do you have recs for general maths books that would be friendly towards neurodivergent kids, preferably with illustrations?
We are trying to learn equivalent fractions and the usual metaphors of pies and slices of pies are just not what kiddo needs

honestly I'm sick to death of everything cool from space exploration to strength training to norse mythology being ceded to the worst people without a fight. By declaring someone decent can't be into those things, you're not ensuring they won't exist, they'll just exist in the worst possible form

Cross-genre takeover A new report points to 2025 being the biggest year for speculative fiction ever, thanks to the ongoing boom in romantasy fiction

Science fiction now is a far smaller part of the industry, and if it wants to regain its prominence and remain relevant, publishers and readers are going to have to find new approaches and stories.

I jotted down some thoughts: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/romantasy-sc...

These of course are the sorts of account that get boosted under Musk’s X. If you’re still on the platform for engagement, you are a mug.

Hi, Womble. I'm about half way through Hex and the City by Kate Johnson at the moment

I just started Star Splitter by Matthew J. Kirby.

Good day, Womble! I just started The Offing by Benjamin Myers but already love it, because it's beautiful.

Against a purple fabric background, a paperback copy of August Clarke. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom right corner.

"A thunderous, visceral, Sapphic fever dream of a book" @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social

"Furious and staggeringly beautiful" @amalelmohtar.com

We're delighted to have brought August Clarke's Lammy Award-winning novel METAL FROM HEAVEN to the UK!

Buy now 👉 geni.us/metalfhe

Evening! tonight I am reading Ian McQue's narrative art book Mileships, a tale of floating islands and the sky ships that link them.

Evening Womble! Hope the work admin was swift and painless.
I'm currently reading Gorse by Sam K Horton and Cunning Folk by Tabitha Stanmore, which are making a great pairing. Unintentional but I'm quite happy with it ☺️

As always the Womble will have more for you soon!

The last seven days

The past of me!

This week we went to the past of Scotland

Firstborn of the Sun by Marvellous Michael Anson

Morning Womble! The dog woke me up at 530 this morning & that was just too early to be out of bed, so I started Sarah Gailey's Upright Women Wanted. Loving it so far!

Work got in the way, so evening!

Currently reading Sundered Streets by Paul Cornell

Going to begin Kit Whitfield's In the Heart of Hidden Things while the Spouse does the grocery shopping. (I usually go along for moral support but read in the car, a Pandemic tradition that has stayed with us.) The season of rather clammy reading wrapped in a wool overcoat begins.

Hi Womble! I hope you’ve got your admin done. I blitzed the latest Rivers of London - Stone Sky by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social I just couldn’t put it down! Still very much enjoying This Way Up by Jay Foreman & Mark Cooper-Jones. Looking for some hard sci-fi next

Good morning Womble! I've just started Brigands and Breadknives by @travisbaldree.bsky.social and it is a nice cozy read so far.

Good morning, Womble! I hope you’re having a good day. I’m listening to The Possession of Alba Diaz by Isabel Cañas while finishing up some tasks in Pokemon ZA. I’m also rereading Wuthering Heights.

Ooh, haven't read any of hers for a bit. Am currently reading Martin Cruz Smith's "Hotel Ukraine", and the graphic novel "Acid Box" by Sara Kenney & friends.

I went to Thoughtbubble at the weekend, so my physical TBR is full of comics and graphic novels.

The Wasp King Joanne Harris and the Storytime Band published a post on Ko-fi

I wrote a little story about the dangers of letting wasps live rent-free inside your head. Buy me a cup of tea if the spirit moves you, or just read it here for free... ko-fi.com/post/The-Was...

Writing the Diaspora Experience with R.B. Lemberg (SH@25 Episode 17) In this episode of Strange Horizons at 25, Podcast Editor Kat Kourbeti sits down with long-time Strange Horizons contributor RB Lemberg to talk about everything from using poetry as a tool to refin…

NEW PODCAST ALERT!

Episode 17 of the Strange Horizons @ 25 podcast is live now featuring R.B. Lemberg @rblemberg.bsky.social interviewed by Kat Kourbeti @darthj.uno.

Listen and read at the link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...