@meljrey.bsky.social
SFF author #FutureWorldsPrize SL 2023 | #RevPit SL 2025 | @writementor LL 2025 | 📚 hoarder 🌱 enthusiast 🤓 social media dabbler 💫 she/her
To all my #WritingCommunity American friends, I am thankful we connected. 🙏 🧡
Have a great Thanksgiving if you celebrate. 🦃
I also don’t mention that, for me, the Dark Heart unicorns are ND coded. Their magic is disruptive & they are rejected by the other unicorn families, but over time, they learn to master their skills…
27.11.2025 09:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Dark Heart Unicorns book sitting on a book shop shelf.
A page from the book showing three unicorns running together near a city and birds flying overhead. The artwork is stylised and elegant.
A rack of books in a book shop. The Dark Heart unicorns sits on the bottom tier in the middle.
Screenshot of customer reviews for the book. 88% 5 star and 12% 4 star out of 20 global ratings.
I don’t talk much about the Dark Hearts unicorn book but it’s been a year since it came out & it’s still in my local book shop! I’m also pleasantly surprised by the ratings 🤩
I wrote for the publisher’s top-line brief, in this established series of children’s story collections. A great experience.
A white background. Photos: RA Sandpiper (right); covers of books by the authors in a row (below). The Redditch Library and British Fantasy Society (a dragon curling around the letters BFS) logos.
Join the BFS at Redditch Library for a special event to celebrate the launch of To Touch a Silent Fury, the start of a new series from acclaimed fantasy romance author R.A. Sandpiper.
Sat 6th December, 2pm. Redditch Library.
Ticket: tinyurl.com/rasandpiper
@rasandpiper.bsky.social
Thank you, you’ve put my in great company, Hussain. Nice way to round up the year too.
25.11.2025 06:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Most anticipated: The Republic of Memory by
@mahmudelsayed.bsky.social
Best Novella: Ghost Apparent by @jelenawrites.bsky.social
Author to watch: @meljrey.bsky.social
Wrapping up my year-end recap:
Best fantasy novel: The Wingspan of Treason by
@inknest.bsky.social
Best short story: Our Last Evening in a Moon-Struck City by
@madeehahwrites.bsky.social
Best dark fantasy: The Way of Unity by
@skbalstrup.bsky.social
Shown is a graphic that has a wavy pink background. Right at the top is a black banner with the event name— Imaginarium II— in white, followed by the name of panel, “Diaspora Heroes to the Rescue”. Beneath that are pictures of the panellists— Ann Sei Lin (top left); Pim Wangtechawat (top right); The Mollusc Dimension (bottom left); JM Engineer (bottom right). At the bottom of the graphic is a white panel that has the 4 logos of the sponsors: (from left to right) Difference Engine SG, Li’l Factory, Writing Our Legacy, and the British Fantasy Society.
Opportunities in Speculative Fiction
Tickets here: tinyurl.com/bfslian
A round-up of all the wonderful things that have been happening in speculative fiction, where trends are kicking off, in which parts of the world, by whom, and more! Join moderator, Lauren McMenemy, and panellists (1/3)
Massive congratulations to @junodawson.bsky.social and Nicola Coughlan for winning the inaugural Speakie for best SFF audiobook!
24.11.2025 23:10 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2
ALL MY BOOKS
#poetry #books #shortstories #kidlit
#7syllablesentence
#cloudstep
The cloudstep obscured the hills.
Back at you Lily 🫶🏽
24.11.2025 06:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
#prompts #writingprompts #book
22.11.2025 12:51 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Shown is a graphic that has a wavy dark green background. Right at the top is a light green banner with the event name— Imaginarium II—followed by the name of panel, “Diaspora Heroes to the Rescue”. Underneath this are pictures of the panellists. They are Ann Sei Lin (top left); Pim Wangtechawat (top right); The Mollusc Dimension (bottom left); JM Engineer (bottom right). At the bottom of the graphic is a white panel that has the 4 logos of the sponsors: (from left to right) Difference Engine SG, Li’l Factory, Writing Our Legacy, and the British Fantasy Society.
Diaspora Heroes to the Rescue!
Tickets here: tinyurl.com/bfslian
We need new heroes, who are culturally and socially more diverse and sensitive. Come and listen to our panellists, Pim Wangthechawat, Ann Sei Lin, The Mollusc Dimension and JM Engineer, as they discuss with moderator (1/3)
Anytime ☺️
21.11.2025 21:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s exactly the right time of year to start reading Winter’s Wishfall by @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social – the perfect book for people who like a sprinkle of magic with their romance ✨💖❄️
21.11.2025 21:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yes 🙌🏽 I believe I did say that! I love it!
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'Put some magic & romance into your #Christmas countdown with Ceri Houlbrook's enchanting & escapist debut novel', said one lovely reviewer of Winter's Wishfall. 'Cosy, speculative mystery with a good sprinkling of romance and magic' said another (the wonderful @meljrey.bsky.social I believe) ☺️
21.11.2025 20:51 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
#promptbook #writingprompts #comingsoon
20.11.2025 13:10 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The background image is of two trees at sunset
With his name on one half of the latest Wizard’s Tower Books duo, @aknighton.bsky.social talks about his experience working with an iconic small press on a dual-author release.
britishfantasysociety.org/launching-wi...
I’m making fairly steady progress in the new WIP: I’m averaging 350 words a day but yesterday I got between 600-900 words (not sure as I also did some editing!) and I’m quite pleased with that ☺️
20.11.2025 06:57 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I think this is fantastic feedback P. And yes - getting closer!
20.11.2025 06:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#comingsoon #writingprompts #book
19.11.2025 13:10 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The BFS is very pleased to support the Best Audiobook: Science Fiction & Fantasy category at the inaugural British Audio Awards the ceremony for which takes place on 24th November. To mark the event, Long Story Short presents our very first Podcast Special.
britishfantasysociety.org/blog/bfs-pod...
#comingsoon #prompt #newbook
18.11.2025 13:23 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0😅 small increments achieved on a daily basis add up!
18.11.2025 12:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Okay, I need to check this out!
16.11.2025 10:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0#christmas #kidlit #picturebooks
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📚🌊🩸 New Review! 🩸🌊📚
Tides of Torment by @scrimscribes.bsky.social
"A desperate race against time to end a cycle of violence full of impossible choices & pulse-pounding high seas action that pauses for breath only to rip apart your heart. Concludes one of the decade's unmissable fantasy series."
Turquoise background. Open book image in bottom left with Bookclub 82k. A beautiful young woman in a gold picture frame, spelled with age
A beautiful young woman tossing long dark hair over her shoulder. Eyes closed. Splashes of gold paint on the blue grey background
Four book covers. Blue Sisters, drawing of a young woman's sad face, The Push, two women facing away from each other, silhouette, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a young man's face, half of it aged, Hello Beautiful, a young woman's smiling face. A series of images: spooky trees, a dilapidated pier, a woman on a cat walk, a woman having her face injected,a pale hand reaching for a devil's hand.
Turquoise background, splashes if gold, three boxes of text.
Updated #agentsguide following #questpit
'A sister always has your back, until she sticks a knife in it.' 🔪
#litagents
#amquerying
