@markstay.bsky.social
Author, screenwriter and podcaster. https://markstaywrites.com/all-the-links/
Join me and @jeremyszal.bsky.social author of the Common trilogy. We’ll be discussing writing epic science fiction, and much more!
Join in the conversation live on TUESDAY 17TH FEBRUARY, 8PM GMT
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You’re in for a treat!
09.02.2026 21:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Crow Folk is five years old today!
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Really enjoyed Ben Elton’s autobiography. It gets a bit “poor me” towards the end, but the UK press were constantly giving him a kicking, so I think he’s earned the right to reply. But even if he only ever co-wrote Blackadder II, he still gets a pass for life from me.
03.02.2026 09:55 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ah yes, Gollancz’s dalliance with ceramics.
01.02.2026 08:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here we go! If you’re anywhere near the Surrey Sports Park in Guildford, come and say hi!📚
31.01.2026 09:11 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
@ellisblackwood.bsky.social is the author of the brilliant Samuel Pepys Mysteries and once made a very strange video with me on Youtube (we were young and needed the money)...
LISTEN: www.buzzsprout.com/2399041/epis...
WATCH: youtu.be/j5ub3PYlio4
FUEGO!!!
29.01.2026 10:26 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join me and Julie Wassmer for a LIVE recording of the Creative Differences podcast! !
Book tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/escalate-a...?
Chatting Alien Cult with the guys @authorizedpod.bsky.social and @markstay.bsky.social. Cows. (One day I'll be able to fully explain the xenomorph/custard connection): open.spotify.com/show/68YhhFL...
28.01.2026 15:10 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Always a pleasure to be a guest on @authorizedpod.bsky.social but doubly so when discussing Alien Cult by @gavingsmith.bsky.social
The book is thrilling stuff and we discover that the real enemy is… cows. 🐄
Did you know that you can get FREE Witches of Woodville short stories from the Woodville Village Library when you sign up to the newsletter here… witchesofwoodville.com#library
26.01.2026 17:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Lose yourself in a bit of epic fantasy this weekend… theendofmagic.com
23.01.2026 18:07 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
TONIGHT! Join me and @ellisblackwood.bsky.social live as we discuss the little things that make a big difference to writers!
8pm GMT
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Ahh yes, a "simple" unboxing video. Mark Stay is as understated as ever.
I had a fantastic time with the first two books in the series and The End of Gods promises yet more excellent storytelling. I can't wait to get into it!
#BookSky #Fantasy 🌏📚💙📚👀
Everything AK says in this 🧵 is correct, and I'll add that if you sign up to a mailing list, PLEASE add the email address it sends from to your contacts. Email providers LOVE to send those emails to spam, or bury them in "promotions" folders 🙄
20.01.2026 22:51 — 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Two white men, back to back, in active poses. On the left, Laurence, wearing shorts and an open shirt. On the right, Quentin, wearing a suit and tie. Laurence has his arms spread as he controls a vast tree behind them both, sending branches towards the unknown. His familiar, a raven, flies overhead. Quentin is much calmer, hovering about a foot off the ground, one hand in a pocket while the other is wreathed in fire. He's also suspending shards of ice in the air, in front of himself.
Hello, would you like some queer urban fantasy books? Would you like to discover them through the media of pretty pictures? GREAT! Here's a thread for you!!
1: Laurence and Quentin, by @rudiindra4.bsky.social
😂
19.01.2026 18:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Did you know that every time someone loans a book from a library in the UK or Ireland that the author gets money?!
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Bone Temple is grisly and bleak with terrific needle drops and an ending that offers hope and had me cackling with glee. A great start to 2026 at the movies.
19.01.2026 13:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And because it’s based on a book there’s less of Tarantino’s shoe leather.
18.01.2026 15:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today’s admin listening is the Jackie Brown soundtrack on CD with all the snippets of dialogue…
18.01.2026 14:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, a Charlie Hart novel by Roxy Chambers. The front cover has a silhouette of a woman holding a gun, with a backdrop of the Union Flag of Great Britain but in the lesbian flag colours. A list of things to be found inside the book surround the cover. They are: Queer spies Railway engineer Criminal mastermind Nukes Bri'ish, innit Evil billionaire Very slow burn f/f All was is class war Spy+quartermaster smooching
Who could have foreseen the state of the world anyway apropros of nothing whatsoever here's a book about queers fighting a megalomaniac billionaire who wants to kill us all
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A Quick Tour of My Notebooks... youtube.com/shorts/KZzK-...
17.01.2026 19:25 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Even if it was, you didn’t waste it! Rock and roll!! 😂
17.01.2026 16:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And I appreciate the choice of photo/record. Pink Floyd’s On the Turning Way. Love it!
17.01.2026 16:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh I see! Of course. In the UK they’re more commonly referred to as a single.
17.01.2026 16:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I have no idea what that is, but I hope you enjoyed it. 😁
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