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Open submission calls for writers: July 2025 Here’s this month’s list of the most interesting open submissions calls for writers I’ve found!Sign up for my email newsletter if you want advance notice of open calls like these. MmeoryI love this…

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF & #horror writers! Featuring folklore, memory manipulation, romantic fantasy, neurodiversity, cemetery cats and DNA data storage.

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Not sure how I missed this until now, but last week my collection GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY featured in the Financial Times as one of the ‘best SF summer books of 2025’, with this wonderful write-up!

Favourite albums of the first half of 2025 How is it possible that we’ve reached the halfway point of the year? But as that’s the case, here are my favourite albums released in 2025 so far. Indie / Rock / Post-rock A new Richard Dawson albu…

How is it possible that we’ve reached the halfway point of the year? But as that’s the case, here are my favourite albums released in 2025 so far.

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Delighted that I'll have a story in folk horror anthology 'Hiding Under the Leaves', edited by the excellent @wishusdonna.bsky.social. My story's called 'Rumours Overheard in the School Playground Relating to Miss Angeline Holst', and the book will be released at World FantasyCon in October.

Good news – it's already available, direct from the publisher! blackshuckbooks.co.uk/great-robots...

Open submission calls for writers: June 2025 Here’s this month’s list of the most interesting open submissions calls for writers I’ve found!Sign up for my email newsletter if you want advance notice of open calls like these. Dracula Beyond St…

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF & #horror writers! Featuring Dracula and Doctor Who, thrutopias and soilpunk… inc four exciting writing contests.

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Open submission calls for writers: May 2025 Here’s this month’s list of the most interesting open submissions calls for writers I’ve found!Sign up for my email newsletter if you want advance notice of open calls like these. Book WormsIssue 8…

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF & #horror writers! Featuring monsters of folklore, powerful artefacts, haunted Saturday morning TV and grimdark SF.

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Ha! Brilliant.

Delighted to find my collection GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY reviewed in the Financial Times today!

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“This is an excellent collection playing with the concept of the robot and his long history in myth and science fiction with a lot to think about as to how they reflect us. Inventive, funny, scary and always intelligent this is a fascinating book to dive into. Highly recommended!”

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Great Robots of History by Tim Major — Runalong The Shelves I would like to thank the author and Black Shuck Books for an advance copy of this collection in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Black Shuck Books Published – out Now Price ...

GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY has been reviewed on Runalong the Shelves, and it's really positive!

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Open submission calls for writers: April 2025 Here’s this month’s list of the most interesting open submissions calls for writers I’ve found!Sign up for my email newsletter if you want advance notice of open calls like these. The Morning After…

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF, #mystery & #horror writers! Featuring last girls, weird westerns, sudden transformations and monstrous angels.

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GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY is published today!

Sixteen weird tales of robots and robot-like figures from history and myth, including ‘The Brazen Head of Westinghouse’, which won the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction 2024.

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My weird-fiction collection Great Robots of History is out tomorrow! This final author testimonial is from the incomparable @timothyjjarvis.bsky.social, whose own collection Treatises on Dust is staggeringly good.

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The first review of GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY has appeared online! I’m delighted that so many of the stories seem to have landed so well. The collection will be published by @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social on Thursday!

My SF-meets-weird-fiction collection GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY will be published by @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social on 27 March!

Thanks so much to BSFA Award-winning author @adamroberts.bsky.social for this terrific quote!

You can preorder at blackshuckbooks.co.uk/great-robots...

You Will Grow Into Them — Influx Press

Also, if you haven’t already read Malcolm Devlin’s incredible collection YOU WILL GROW INTO THEM, now’s the ideal time – it’s been reissued by Influx Press.

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Here’s a lovely quote from the wonderful malcolmdevlin.bsky.social about my upcoming short story collection GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY!

GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY will be published by @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social on 27 March.

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Out of the Window, Into the Dark Buying from the EU? Please read about shipping from the UK. "[C]onfirms her as one of the modern masters of the short story form... An essential document of one of our key authors working in genre tod...

And here’s a link to Marian’s brilliant, and brilliantly weird, collection, recently published by @calquepress.bsky.social:

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My collection GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY will be published by @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social on 27 March. Some wonderful authors have been very kind about it!

First up is Marian Womack, whose collection OUT OF THE WINDOW, INTO THE DARK you must read asap.

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Happy #worldbookday from a tiny independent press based in beautiful Norwich.

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Open submission calls for writers: March 2025 Here’s this month’s list of the most interesting open submissions calls for writers I’ve found!Sign up for my email newsletter if you want advance notice of open calls like these. PatternsThis them…

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF, #mystery & #horror writers! Featuring food horror, spicy monsters, exploration of other worlds and supernatural parables.

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Hello everybody. Remains is a magazine created by Andy Cox and Richard Wagner. The first issue has just been published and the second is out soon. We are rubbish at social media but look forward to making new friends and talking about stuff.

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While I'm on here (taking a break from, you know, the numerous annoyances of IRL), may I get a repost/shoutout for SHELFIES? shelfies.beehiiv.com The latest brainchild Jared Shurin and me, it's a weekly newsletter offering a unique glimpse into people's shelves and the books that matter to them!

This one’s a country house murder mystery at a snowbound artists’ retreat attended by variety-hall comedians, actors, stage magicians, inventors and investors. Plus detectives Muriel Carew and Henry Jekyll… and uninvited guest Edward Hyde.
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Cover reveal! JEKYLL & HYDE: WINTER RETREAT is the second book in my Jekyll & Hyde: Consulting Detectives series. Isn’t it beautiful? And wintry, and theatrical.

Published by @titanbooks.bsky.social in October, and available for preorder now.
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This one’s a country house murder mystery at a snowbound artists’ retreat, with variety-hall comedians, actors, stage magicians, inventors and investors. Plus detectives Muriel Carew and Henry Jekyll… and uninvited guest Edward Hyde.
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Open submission calls for writers: February 2025 Here’s this month’s list of the most interesting open submissions calls for writers I’ve found!Sign up for my email newsletter if you want advance notice of open calls like these. Hiding Under the …

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF, #mystery & #horror writers! Inc cryptids, first contact, mummies and elder things.

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Features stories first published in Nightscript, @interzone.press, @shoreinf.bsky.social‬ & more, & includes British Fantasy Award-winning story ‘The Brazen Head of Westinghouse’. @britfantasysoc.bsky.social

Image is detail from ‘Pygmalion and Galatea’ by Jean-Léon Gérôme, design by Steve Shaw.