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Ah, that's lovely to hear - let me know how you go!

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Grand old time at @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social tonight celebrating new books by @cameronjohnston.bsky.social and Rafael Torrubia. Brilliant questioning by Cailean Steed, and generally a lovely night all in all.

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Thanks for coming Neil, and for the lovely photo!

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& evening shuts up shop early (even the greylags clocked off at 8 & went south to wherever they roost), songbirds stop & a barn owl screams; all neighbours - human & not - decide it is night

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Rafael Torrubia and Cameron Johnston In Conversation | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Rafael Torrubia and Cameron Johnston In Conversation today.

#Glasgow Don't forget your tickets for our Cameron Johnston with Rafael Torrubia and Cailean Steed! Our Cameron will be launching his new novel First Mage On The Moon next Thursday 16th April at Waterstones Argyle Street. Details below:

@cameronjohnston.bsky.social @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social

2 weeks ago 11 7 1 4

Since many #Glasgow folks were at another event last night, let's bang the gong again for our Cameron Johnston with Rafael Torrubia and Cailean Steed at Waterstones Argyle Street next Thursday!

@rtorrubia.com @cameronjohnston.bsky.social @caileansteed.bsky.social @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social

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🙏💀🖤

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Come along to this, it's going to be really fascinating, extremely looking forward to exercising my last brain cell with this wonderful bunch!

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Shown is a graphic that has a creamy background with elegant writing across it. Coming from the top left is a black fountain pen with a gold nib. On the top right and left is the BFS logo, a silver dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’. Photos (left to right): Eleanor Pender; Eric Huang; Anna Stephens; Rafael Torrubia.

Shown is a graphic that has a creamy background with elegant writing across it. Coming from the top left is a black fountain pen with a gold nib. On the top right and left is the BFS logo, a silver dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’. Photos (left to right): Eleanor Pender; Eric Huang; Anna Stephens; Rafael Torrubia.

Our second panel of BFS Online: Language in SFFH takes place Saturday 18th April 2026, 2:30pm to 3:30pm (BST).

What’s in a name?

Ticket: tinyurl.com/sffhlang

@annasmithwrites.bsky.social @rtorrubia.com

#BritishFantasySociety #FantasyBooks #HorrorBooks #WritingCommunity #Language #BookSky

2 weeks ago 21 5 1 1

Thanks to everyone that came out to this, it was a DELIGHT x

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Efficient, that's me!

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I despise them, have written them, still do not fully understand them. Power to your arm.

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Yeaaaah amazing! I need to get a signed page in the post for you!

3 weeks ago 1 1 0 0

This is tomorrow! Me! You! @goldenharebooks.bsky.social ! All your questions! My excitable answers xoxo

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American friends! The Shipwright & the Shroudweaver is 25% off in the @barnesandnoble.com pre-order sale!

The graphic design is bad but I'm tired and I've forgotten to do my Spanish homework!

The book is very good though SO, get on it ilu x

3 weeks ago 6 4 1 1
Blue graphic with glowing yellow text that reads, “COVER REVEAL!” and credits art to Marcela Bolívar and design to Caitlyn Boyd.  The cover revealed is that of THE BONE BRIDES, by Marley Rose-Teter.  The cover’s main color palate is glowy blues and aquas and features two girls holding hands while standing face-forward.  One girl has a missing eye and a place her torso reveals instead a ribcage.  The other girl has a hand that has become skeletal.  In a satchel the second girl wears sits a skeleton-rabbit.  Behind the girls looms a large skeleton-deer, with one antler replaced by vines.  Very moody and atmospheric.  The graphic also shows that the book has pale-green sprayed edges, stenciled with deer skulls and the same antler/vine combination.

Blue graphic with glowing yellow text that reads, “COVER REVEAL!” and credits art to Marcela Bolívar and design to Caitlyn Boyd. The cover revealed is that of THE BONE BRIDES, by Marley Rose-Teter. The cover’s main color palate is glowy blues and aquas and features two girls holding hands while standing face-forward. One girl has a missing eye and a place her torso reveals instead a ribcage. The other girl has a hand that has become skeletal. In a satchel the second girl wears sits a skeleton-rabbit. Behind the girls looms a large skeleton-deer, with one antler replaced by vines. Very moody and atmospheric. The graphic also shows that the book has pale-green sprayed edges, stenciled with deer skulls and the same antler/vine combination.

Blue graphic (with the book’s cover watermarked beneath) that reads, “About the Book” followed by the tagline, “Hayao Miyazaki meets Guillermo del Toro in this Sapphic YA portal fantasy in which a girl must save her changeling girlfriend from a terrifying faery realm,” and the synopsis: “Nola James can handle it. She can handle that her father is dead. She can handle that her friends, bored with her grief, left her behind. Nola James has to handle it because Lumi―the love of her life and a faery changeling―is in danger. Not only is Lumi's human mother trying to kill her, but she’s being hunted by veiled monsters that want to return her to the fae. Hiding out in an abandoned cabin with only a skeleton-rabbit for company is hard, but Nola can handle it. And she does.

Until Lumi is abducted.

In order to save her, Nola must enter the faery realm: a boggy world in which eyeless horses parade as brides, ghost-bees produce transformative honey, and skeletons dance in skin-colored cloaks. Aided by a witch-girl with uncertain motives, Nola uncovers the realm’s terrifying power over changelings. Unless Nola can outplay an abyssal faery queen and find the courage to let the world see her own pain, Lumi will be trapped―not only in faeryland but in a skin that’s not her own.”  Finally, the graphic lists the book’s publication date as September 29t, 2026.

Blue graphic (with the book’s cover watermarked beneath) that reads, “About the Book” followed by the tagline, “Hayao Miyazaki meets Guillermo del Toro in this Sapphic YA portal fantasy in which a girl must save her changeling girlfriend from a terrifying faery realm,” and the synopsis: “Nola James can handle it. She can handle that her father is dead. She can handle that her friends, bored with her grief, left her behind. Nola James has to handle it because Lumi―the love of her life and a faery changeling―is in danger. Not only is Lumi's human mother trying to kill her, but she’s being hunted by veiled monsters that want to return her to the fae. Hiding out in an abandoned cabin with only a skeleton-rabbit for company is hard, but Nola can handle it. And she does. Until Lumi is abducted. In order to save her, Nola must enter the faery realm: a boggy world in which eyeless horses parade as brides, ghost-bees produce transformative honey, and skeletons dance in skin-colored cloaks. Aided by a witch-girl with uncertain motives, Nola uncovers the realm’s terrifying power over changelings. Unless Nola can outplay an abyssal faery queen and find the courage to let the world see her own pain, Lumi will be trapped―not only in faeryland but in a skin that’s not her own.” Finally, the graphic lists the book’s publication date as September 29t, 2026.

Trope map graphic for THE BONE BRIDES that includes, “queer girls in love”; “are skeleton rabbits cute?”; “portal fantasy”; “mental illness rep”; “don’t look up”; and “haunted figs.”  It also includes the book’s publication date of September 29, 2026.

Trope map graphic for THE BONE BRIDES that includes, “queer girls in love”; “are skeleton rabbits cute?”; “portal fantasy”; “mental illness rep”; “don’t look up”; and “haunted figs.” It also includes the book’s publication date of September 29, 2026.

Today is cover reveal day for THE BONE BRIDES, and I am vibrating like a star in the sky! Not in my wildest imaginings did I ever think I would have a cover this beautiful.

THE BONE BRIDES comes out Sept 29th---with exquisite spredges exclusive to the first edition! Pre-order links in bio!

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I missed out on the chance to publish this book which was exceedingly annoying as it is wonderful.

Happily, if you are Edinburgh adjacent, you need not miss out on the chance to hear Raf talking about his book.

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We're very much looking forward to hearing all about The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver on Thursday 26th. Join us!

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Happy birthday! 🎂

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A wee reminder that I'm at @goldenharebooks.bsky.social next week to talk all things Shipwright and Shroudweaver. Alight with ideas for this one so book early to avoid disappointment.

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Booking feeds the little idiot I live with so don't let him starve.

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The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver Event with Rafael Torrubia - Thurs Join us in the bookshop to hear Rafael Torrubia in conversation about The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver. 6.30pm on Thursday 26th March at Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Street, EH3 5AQ. Buy a copy...

Finally remembered to book my ticket for this Edinburgh event

I already started reading the book and so far it's rather gorgeous

Looking forward to hearing you talk about it @rtorrubia.com

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Thank you pal! See you there! 🌊💀⛵️

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Sending you back some sunshine from up here.

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A photo of a copy of the 1975 Faber edition of North by Seamus Heaney. The cover art is uncredited by the publisher.

A photo of a copy of the 1975 Faber edition of North by Seamus Heaney. The cover art is uncredited by the publisher.

"I lay waiting
between turf-face and demesne wall,
between heathery levels
and glass-toothed stone.
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and I rose from the dark,
hacked bone, skull-ware,
frayed stitches, tufts,
small gleams on the bank."

First and last stanzas of BOG QUEEN

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The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver Event with Rafael Torrubia - Thurs Join us in the bookshop to hear Rafael Torrubia in conversation about The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver. 6.30pm on Thursday 26th March at Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Street, EH3 5AQ. Buy a copy...

Hey pals, I'm down at the beautiful @goldenharebooks.bsky.social at the end of the month (March 26th!) talking about The Shipwright and Shroudweaver. It'd be lovely to see you! Tix as below (click my giant heid), my boundless affection available in person

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May you all trip and fall 🌊⛵️

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Oh no way, I tripped and fell and *wrote* that book! Thanks so much for picking it up 🌊💀💙

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Thaaaaat's it 🤌

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Funnily enough I have a lovely looking book nearing the top of mine. Piggins? Poggins? Something like that.

(VERY excited for it)

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Well, this is lovely news! Looking forward to your thoughts :)

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