Vivid Worlds Book cover - green space ship and leaf design. edited by Donna Scott with stories by Ana Sun Cévile Cristofari David Cleden Liam Hogan Holly Schofield and many more...
Many congratulations to @rickandwrite.bsky.social whose story "One Step at a Time" from The Slab Press's anthology Vivid Worlds has been shortlisted for the BSFA Awards, Best Short Fiction.
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Poster reads: Coventry Book Extravaganza Join us at the Albany Theatre Saturday 28th February 2026 10:30 - 16:00 Albany Theatre, Coventry www.rosiesretrobazaar.co.uk
Just two days to go!
26.02.2026 11:31 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I'm up late to send some emails...
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If you have submitted a story for Obsidian, you will be hearing from us by Tuesday.
This book is coming out like a whirlwind. Exciting stuff!
Black book cover, Obsidian edited by Donna Scott with stories by TBA
A first look at the cover for The Slab Press's dark space anthology Obsidian. The submission window is still open, but the sooner you submit, the better. theslab.press/calls-for-su...
09.01.2026 10:32 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
A book floating in space surrounded by words. Solar punk, hopeful, cute recycling robots, whales, living in trees, human solutions, monkeys and mangoes, airship murder mystery, awesome stories.
Are you a member of @bsfa.bsky.social? Reminder, today, 19th Feb, is your last day to nominate. I'd really love you to consider Vivid Worlds for Best Collection and "One Step at a Time" by @rickandwrite.bsky.social and "Tractors in the Mist" by Cécile Cristofari.
19.02.2026 10:08 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Coventry Book Extravaganza over 40 stalls including indie publishers and authors fresh talent & poets Comic creators & illustrators Literary societies second-hand book dealers book crafts & prints Merchandise & memorabilia Free Entry Saturday 28th February 2026 10:30-16:00 Albany Theatre Coventry www.rosiesretrobazaar.co.uk
In just over 3 weeks, The Slab will be here! Come join us!
04.02.2026 16:09 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Also on the 'other site' it's £1.77 (the lowest it will go), or equivalent prices elsewhere in the world, but you can get Kindle format from Payhip and then send to your Device.
02.02.2026 13:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is my favourite story I had out last year. Not only is it longlisted alongside a great (and also longlisted) collection but it's now available for 99p!
What's not to love? 😁
Hello, EPUB is available on the Payhip link.
02.02.2026 13:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Cover of Vivid Worlds book BSFA Longlisted E-Pub/Kindle 99p Until Sunday 15th February 2026 Vivid Worlds - Payhip https://payhip.com/b/LNWd2
To celebrate the BSFA Award longlisting of Vivid Worlds, together with stories "One Step at a Time" by @rickandwrite.bsky.social and "Tractors in the Mist" by Cécile Cristofari the e-book is only 99p until 15th Feb via Payhip! payhip.com/b/LNWd2
(Price slashed on the other site too)
Black book cover, Obsidian edited by Donna Scott with stories by TBA
A first look at the cover for The Slab Press's dark space anthology Obsidian. The submission window is still open, but the sooner you submit, the better. theslab.press/calls-for-su...
09.01.2026 10:32 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Back at the hall there was more noise. Dafydd Adren was trying to address the crowd. “Yes, we have heard from the government this afternoon. They noted the drop in power as one of the turbines collapsed into the sea. We informed them that this was the result of a Cetaceous attack, which they do not believe. We have been accused of failing to maintain the farm, and therefore the grid. We know that this is wrong and have suggested that they send someone out to check if they do not believe us. They are sending out some inspection boats.” Finally, Dafydd had been met with approval, though he himself just looked tired. Daniel had been analysing his findings with help from Mary and was frustrated that they had not been able to operate the sonar radar and the recorder at the same time. “I’m not sure there’s a correlation between that low hum and the approach of the storm.” “What are you getting at, Mary?” “I first thought it was the wind farm, but it’s not. I think there’s something else.” Mary waved various different pads of notes at each of them. “That extra hum is always there but something must vary. We need more info. We need to go out again.” CJ Hooper “The Cymric Sea” in Vivid Worlds from The Slab Press
It is Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'tired'. This extract is from a story by CJ Hooper and is available in Vivid Worlds #BookQW #BookSky
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Still got some copies in stock if anyone needs a great book gift, but don't wait too long...
15.12.2025 16:29 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Massive thanks to @sjtownend.bsky.social for reviewing this anthology and singling out my story as the reason for picking it up in the first place!
Hiding Under the Leaves is still available from @theslabpress.bsky.social as a great Chrissy pressie for the folk horror fan in your life...
Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'blue' #BookQW
Our latest anthology Hiding Under the Leaves is full of spooky reads, perfect for Christmas.
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Bedsocks and biscuits. Fire. Christmas tree. Cold Outside? Stay indoors, stay cosy. And read some creepy folk horror. Hiding Under the Leaves. “excellent tales and very much worthy of anyone’s time” Horror Tree “Highly Recommended” Run Along the Shelves
We have a few copies of all our paperbacks in stock, so you can still order in time for Christmas. Last date for posting from our stocks is December 18th (UK only).
US readers can order from our POD links, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble.
E-books also available!
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A fantastic review of Hiding Under the Leaves from Stephanie Ellis in Horror Tree. I'm very happy with this. 😀
Featuring shout-outs for @kevrooney.bsky.social @laurenwrites.bsky.social @ivorkhillauthor.bsky.social Tom Wren and Matt Thompson!
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Last chance to buy paperbacks online from Waterstones for Double/Triple stamps today. They sell The Slab Books too!
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A dark Old-Fashioned pairs well with dark magic and folk horror. Read my murdr-ballad inspired story Muddy Water here. This anthology is widely available, including Barnes & Noble! @theslabpress.bsky.social
29.11.2025 00:16 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Green background with Vivid Worlds book Seasonal Offer Green 'any day' E-pub/Kindle 99p until Sunday 30th November 2025 https://payhip.com/b/LNWd2
Stories that need to be read. Featuring @singingtotigers.bsky.social @liamjhogan.bsky.social @davidcleden.bsky.social @coreyjwhite.com @rickandwrite.bsky.social @rosemaxwell.bsky.social and many more. payhip.com/b/LNWd2
Paperback also available from theslab.press
New blog post with another call for submissions, World Fantasycon report and bargain ebook offer. theslab.press/2025/11/24/w...
24.11.2025 15:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
First up, books I'm in. (Anthologies full of other brilliant authors as well, so hush now!)
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Graphic displaying cover for EVERY DARK CLOUD, 2025 novella by Marisca Pichette from Ghost Orchid Press.
Graphic listing 2025 stories by Marisca Pichette published in the following magazines: One More Song Goblins and Galaxies #0 Upon a Vast, Velvet Veil Fusion Fragment #25 In Her Tower of Scales Worlds of Possibility, June 2025 The House of Us DreamForge Magazine #16 Naked They Cling Cosmic Horror Monthly #58 The Last Harvest Phano #2
Graphic listing 2025 stories by Marisca Pichette published in the following anthologies: Where Walls Once Rose Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology Soft Fire BOREAL: An Anthology of Taiga Horror The Watercolor Room The Midnight Labyrinth How Not to Swallow a Dragon Behind the Revovling Door Nature Morte Hiding Under the Leaves Appleseed Spirit of the Wolf
Graphic listing the 2025 flash pieces published by Marisca Pichette: Nine Acre Corner Anomaly Press Release from a Utopia on the Way Down Simultaneous Times #84 This is Not a Fiction Full House Literary, Spring 2025 One, Two, We, Our Tales & Feathers, Vol. 3 What the Boys Lost MYRIAD Digital Zines: Nocturnal
Awards Eligibility Post: I published a novella, 12 stories, & 5 flash in 2025!
Huge thanks to all the publishers, editors, readers, & reviewers who spent their time with my writing this year. 🖤🎈🦇
Sharing this for NewCon Press and our mutual editor.
12.11.2025 15:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book cover and extract reading: “No one would’ve thought you could last this long in the wilderness. Too much of a city girl. You’ve never even camped at a music festival, preferring to find a local B&B within commuting distance. Back then, you didn’t listen to the talk of “missing the full experience”; you’d rather have a real shower to warm you up at the end of those long days. You can’t deal with mud caked on your skin, not even for a beauty treatment. It’s too much sensory overload. Yet here you are: no shower since you left civilisation, crouching on your haunches and stoking a campfire, alone in the middle of an ancient woodland and covered in dust. Senses both dulled and heightened. You tell yourself it was your only choice, really. You needed space. You needed time to think. Life is too, too noisy. How are you meant to figure out who you are and what you’re meant to do if you’re surrounded by the noise of London all the damn time? You told yourself that a week in the woods would clear your mind, help you figure out what a woman should be at this age, past 40 yet without the expected trappings and baggage. When there’s no man, no kids, no career… Nothing but a whole big pile of steaming nothing. LJ McMenemy “No One Knows The Old Ways Anymore And It Will Be The End of Everything” - Hiding Under the Leaves theslab.press released 3rd November 2025
Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'girl' #BookQW and this is an extract from a story by @laurenwrites.bsky.social in Hiding Under the Leaves.
12.11.2025 12:34 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Has our Ivor K. Hill got a tale for you! Hiding Under the Leaves (Slab Press) features 'The Crow Who Burned', folk horror about the "terrifying certainty of the mob".
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#922 in Occult Suspense Rankings on Amazon. Yes we sell there but people have been finding alternative ways to purchase - including direct! Gets me out the house posting parcels. You pay the same price, you get it just as quick with a thank you card from me and I get some exercise. 🦡
07.11.2025 12:14 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Original stories please!
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