GB Williams and Abi Barden

New scammer call alert.

Just had a call from 'BT' saying I'm due a £210 refund of overcharge, then he started asking questions so instead of responding, I asked him why he was calling me to tell me this. He put the phone down his end. Yeah that was a call from BT right?

Image of table at bookfair. Silver table cloth, showing books from GB Williams in forefront.

Set up at a bookfair showing silver table cloth with Abi Barden books in forefront.

All set up for the Pontypridd Christmas Book Fair. Representing both GB Williams and Abi Barden.

Fingers crossed for sales.

#writerslife

Thank you!

Grey tones of the Bristol Channel off Aberavon beach. With birdies playing in the retreating wave.

Went out for a bracing birthday walk this afternoon. If you ever want to make a writers day, it's simple, give a nice review or buy yourself a copy of their book.

The Sands of Time Paperback This is the paperback edition - we print in the UK, USA, Canada, and Australia.The SANDS OF TIME - A SHORT STORY COLLECTION with a foreword by JODI TAYLORChannelling the inventive spirit of David Sand...

It's out! A Journey of Disasters is now available in The Sands of Time. If you enjoy short stories, varied ways to look at things, if you remember David Sands at St Mary's (Chronicles by Jodi Taylor), you'll love this collection.

rushford.ltd/b/thesandsof... for paperback, ebook also available.

Thanks for sharing

The Hanging Man Investigation is out now. Atkins and Palmer book 2, available in paperback and ebook.

And if you've read the Locked Trilogy, or Unlocked, you might even see a familiar face or two.

mybook.to/HangingManInv

Off to do a day of Christmas shopping before the Christmas shopping crowd becomes homicide inducing.

The Queen of Cups Murders Crime | Psychic | Police Procedural | Action | Contemporary

Are you a reader of Police Procedures? Want something with a different twist? Try Queen of Cups Murders. Welcome to weird Wales.

books.gailbwilliams.com/QueenOfCups

Feel ya!

It's too easy to do that, but you are a great artist.

Wow! Look I made the top 100 in Psychic Suspense books. The Hanging Man Investigation is book two of the Atkins and Palmer Series.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DJ7Q6MXM

Conversations with my editor, who definitely knows me too well.

RIP Pearly.

Much loved and will be missed. Passed quietly in her sleep this morning.

2007-2025

So, bad health day, so I decided to stop doomscrolling and read a real book, an actual physical book. I picked one, looked at it, saw the first page and my brain went. 'Oh God, there's a map. I can't cope with that.'

Now I'm just going to bed.

In Carmarthen next Saturday?
Enjoy crime fiction?
Then come along to Carmarthen Library at 2pm to enjoy a panel with Crime Cymru authors @alishawkinsauthor.bsky.social @gbwilliams.bsky.social and me.
Tickets are free on the Carmarthenshire Libraries website.

In London on Wedesday, I went to 5 Waterstones, including the flagship store, and I only brought one book. I also went to two Lego stores, including the flagship one, and I only spent £9.99 on a red panda for my daughter.

Am I getting old?

Gosh, started doom scrolling two hours ago, can't seem to stop.

Palmer and Atkins need help. Send motivation so I can write them, please.

Went to #TheRoebuck tonight. Lovely pub, we go there whenever we come to Richmond, but nearly had a heart attack at the round. A pint and a medium glass of wine £15.10!

Bigger surprise was that the wine was from Kent and it was absolutely lovely. Chapel Down I believe. Recommend pub and wine.

Have just spent the last hour and a half crying over the ending of "Crooked Kingdom" by Leigh Bardugo. That was breathtaking. Hats off to you Ms Bardugo, you did your job so well.

#CrookedKingdom #6ofCrows

Journey of Disaster A David Sands Competition story by GB Williams

I just got my first sci-fi story published! Something of a deviation for me, it's sci-fi and kind of comedy. If you'd like to see what weirdness I can come up with in space, do check it out.
www.joditaylorbooks.com/p/journey-of...

Totally! The em-dash is a dramatic pause, for dramatic reasons. I write dramatic books, ergo I use em-dashes.

Also, where did AI learn to use the em-dash? Oh that would be from all the writers using in it in all the literary works that the AI trainers STOLE from authors.

Picture of the latest cover of Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey

This book was first published before I was born and for because I was told my writing style was like hers, I never read it. Now I'm reading it and I wish I'd read it years ago, I'm loving it.

A conversation with authors Jodi Taylor and C.K McDonnell This is a Battersea Bookshop event.

Just booked for this - can't wait. Love both these fabulous authors, Jodi Taylor with C K McDonnell at Battersea in October.

Anyone else feel hoarse from screaming into the void?

New @gjwilliams92.bsky.social chats THE CYGNET PRINCE on Crime Time @legendpress.bsky.social @gwylcrimefest.bsky.social @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social
Apple.co/3znb7b5 Podfollow pod.fo/e/3051d8 @gbwilliams.bsky.social

this is kinda funny and kinda not. Guessing it's from Private Eye.

One white plimsoll where the heel has come away from the sole completely

Had a fabulous time in Warwick Castle yesterday, but my plimsoll apparently wasn't so happy. I need new shoes.

After nearly melting in the heat so I couldn't concentrate, came outside and sat in evening shade from 8pm, managed to write 4381 words.

A good day.

It's half ten and so far I've written 2371 words, read 30 pages and had a bath. Cat got me up at 04:30 this morning. Time to do some editing, book two of Atkins and Palmer.

Today I am experiencing that stupid feminine dichotomy of caring vs. working. I was caring for my daughter so I shouldn't feel guilty that I got no work done. But I do. Mind I'd feel way worse if I'd worked and not been there for her.

#awomanslife

(She's fine, no drama, all good)

Picture of the hardback version of "When the Moon Hatched" by Sarah A Parker with a monster claw book mark, standing on a wooden floor.

Wow! Just finished "When the Moon Hatched" by Sarah A Parker. Wonderful book and I'm looking forward to the next installment. Also wanted to show the bookmark and thank TE Kinsey for the gift - love it and it works so well with a hardback.