Robert Edgar

A great launch of The Wandspringer last night at York Explore hosted by York Literature Festival. @foolscapquill.bsky.social

Check out the book trailer for The Wandspringer.
🪐📚💙📚 #timetravel #kidlit #scifi
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She laughed to herself with the very idea. It seemed that the way of keeping people safe was to stop anyone thinking differently.'

'Miss Vogel had taken her time to speak to them and when she did it was with a quiet voice, and she kept her face to the window. She explained how this force of agents, police, and informers was established to keep them all safe.

A black beret next to a copy of the paperback of The Wandspringer.

The Wandspringer published by @foolscapquill.bsky.social. A middle-grade novel about the importance of family and friends and also the dangers of totalitarian governments. www.robertcedgar.com

YouTube video by Foolscap & Quill The Crack in the Lens Audiobook Sample - Darlene A. Cypser

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I can highly recommend! A wonderful take on Holmes. A great novel and beautifully read.

Image shows book cover of The Wandspringer by Robert C. Edgar which has artwork featuring a person wearing a big coat and a red beret in front of a tower. Near the bottom are blue cars with red wheels. Next to the book cover is a golden seal that says Middle Grade Time Travel Adventure. Below that it says: Ellie's father has disappeared. Her uncle is doing strange things in his cellar. A new teacher has taken over classes at school. Then Ellie discovers how all these things are connected.

The Wandspringer is a middle grade time travel adventure available from Bookshop.org and many other booksellers worldwide. #kidlit #timetravel #scifi #middlegrade 📚💙#booksky 🪐📚

Julia Roberts to narrate new BBC series Leonard and Hungry Paul The feel-good series follows two board-gaming friends in their thirties who meander through leafy suburban life finding solace in their quiet routines

I know I'm banging on.

But we have to because we're a small press and need this limelight to let readers know about our books.

From Hebden to Hollywood via Dublin.

As Rónán said. 'It's like throwing a dart from Dublin and hitting the bullseye in New York.'

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Foolscap and Quill - a fantastic publisher. It's a middle-grade espionage/time travel novel. Half the story is set in 1970s East Berlin!

There's nothing better than opening a parcel of books! @foolscapquill.bsky.social

The Wandspringer- available now.

Wandspringer is a German word that means "wall jumper." It is used to refer to some spiders. In this book "The Wandspringer" is a spy who helps people cross the Berlin Wall.

There will be a York Literature Festival book launch on Thursday 23rd October, 6pm at York Explore. You can get a copy there. It is also available at Blackwells, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, amongst others. It will be appearing soon on other catalogues and can be ordered from independent bookshops.

I'm very pleased to announce that my novel, The Wandspringer, is now available in print and ebook. Published by the fantastic Foolscap & Quill (foolscap-quill.com/wandspringer.html) The Wandspringer is a middle-grade time-travel/cold war espionage story.

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The first of the Orion Labauve series books, Search for the Signet, is available on Amazon & Kobo in paperback and ebook. 2nd book coming next month. Delve into this magical realism series! 🪐📚 #magic #ghosts #fantasy www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNKXLRM9

The Wandspringer Check out The Wandspringer - <p>When Ellie uncovers a hidden link between her missing father and a legendary spy, she's drawn into a daring mission across time. With history in the balance and danger ...

The Wandspringer - Ellie must travel through time to East Berlin to save her father. Now available on Bookshop.org #middlegrade #scifi #kidlit #timetravel 🪐📚 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Wandspringer - Ellie must travel through time to East Berlin to save her father. #middlegrade #scifi #kidlit #timetravel 🪐📚

A middle grade time travel, science fiction adventure story #booksky #childrensbooks #history

The Wandspringer The Wandspringer - Kindle edition by Edgar, Robert C.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Wandspringer.

Ellie’s world has shifted. Her father has disappeared. She lives with her uncle who spends his nights working with machinery in his cellar. Now there is a new teacher at school & a radical change in the lessons. What is the connection? Who is the Wandspringer? 💙📚🪐 www.amazon.com/dp/B0FMJRX4JW/

Hellllooooo Brick and Mortar stores!

If you list our books on your website, we link to your website!
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A polaroid showing the butterfly meme with the capture "Is this hauntology?"

For everyone who's attended the conference...

(meme by Lowen Frampton,
polaroid by Edie Owczarek-Palfreyman)

Title card: Folk Horror with Professor Bob Edgar

BONUS EPISODE - Folklore in the Field

FOLK HORROR
with @robertedgar.bsky.social

Listen free at www.thefolklorepodcast.com/folk-horror.... or on your podcast app

Recorded live at this year's UK Ghost Story Festival @ghoststoryfest.bsky.social, I chat with Prof Bob Edgar about Folk Horror

Very pleased to have a chapter on CUD: Rich and Strange @cud.bsky.social (thanks to @williampotter.com) in Rereading Musicians and their Audiences edited by @profkirsty.bsky.social, Tom Attah and Christian Lloyd

Sneak peak at another book coming out this summer:
The Wandspringer

Looking for reviewers, bloggers & podcasters! We are publishing two books in August. One is a mid-grade time travel adventure about a girl looking for a hero to save her father who finds the hero in herself. The other is a magical realism story about an old curse & a new hero. DM for review copies.

Discussing hauntology at the Ghosts in Britain and Ireland 1500-1950 Conference, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick

The cover of the book "The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror" featuring brown banners at the top and bottom and, in between, a photo of a stone house sitting in a field, surrounded by monoliths.

Folk horror isn't dead (HOST) except when it is (CANDYMAN) and sometimes it's fake (ANTRUM). "The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror" has essays on those & other films, plus literature, music and history. Now in paperback. Eds @robertedgar.bsky.social Wayne Johnson
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A slight update to our CFP! Were please to announce that this year’s conference will have limited hybrid capacity! See our CFP for details!