You can get 15 e-books for $30 / c. £23 in the @storybundle.bsky.social Best of British SFF! Including my grimdark masterpiece A Woman of the Sword from @lunapress.bsky.social and my lyrical comedy sword and sorcery short from @wtpress.bsky.social #books #booksky #booktok #sff 📚🔥 Link below.

The view from my seat at my #celsiusfestival session. People were fighting to get in. I received a round of applause after every answer, moved people to tears, and was cheered and bowed to as the Queen of Grimdark at the end. Then I signed books for over two hours straight. Best. Day. Of. My. Life.

But the cobbled streets mean I have to wear ... FLAT SHOES.

And finally and fittingly before I jet off to the comparative cool of Spain to celebrate LOS TORRE DE LOS VIVOS Y DE LOS MUERTOS at the #Celsius232 festival, snow and celebration from my #grimdark masterwork THE TOWER OF LIVING AND DYING. #fantasy #fantasybooks #epicfantasy #booksky

As the heat continues relentlessly, here's another reminder of cold winds, snow, and not feeling like you're sleeping in an oven, this time from my golden lyrical folkhorror fantasy masterpiece A SWORD OF BRONZE AND ASHES, from @flametree.bsky.social #books #booksky #booktok #fantasy #folkhorror

On this hot, weary day, here's a cold breath of winter air from A WOMAN OF THE SWORD, currently available as part of the @storybundle.bsky.social Best of British Science Fiction and Fantasy books selection for 2026. $30 for 15 ebooks!

Hot and fed up? Sit down, stretch out and read this carefully curated Best of British SFF ebook bundle from @storybundle.bsky.social ! My 'tragic masterpiece' A Woman of the Sword even features some scenes set in winter snowfall! #books #booksky #booktok #fantasybooks

Nicobobinus and Caecilius the Grimdark Cat snoozing.

Another amazing piece of fan art by Stas Borodin, inspired by the mother and daughters in A Sword of Bronze and Ashes and A Sword of Gold and Ruin .

A beautiful morning walk in the cool (finally!!!) of the beech trees in Birchanger Wood this morning. Then home to write the final pages of the final Making of This World Ruined book.

Book mail! This gorgeous, blook-soaked tome arrived this morning. THE SHATTERED LINE by Jasper Walker. Grimdark fantasy and horror. I read and thoroughly enjoyed an ARC copy, it's lovely have a real copy to put on my treasured 'books by friends' shelf.

All set for Great Dunmow Bookfest! We're upstairs at De La Terre wine bar - come and say hello over a drink!

I'm so excited to announce that I'm going to have a new duology published by @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social . The Golden Road to Thearanor opens with The Queen of the Sword and the Sun, a high fantasy battle-poetry fever-dream which will be published in September 2027.

I'm so excited to be able to reveal this ... my new duology The Golden Road to Thearanor will be published by @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social , with the first book, The Queen of the Sword and the Sun, a "high fantasy battle-poetry fever-dream", out in September 2027. #booksky #fantasy #fantasybooks

And finally, at 10.15 on Sunday, I'm talking about writing the one female character in the franchise alongside Brigid Lowe and Samantha Davey. www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26...

Then at 3.45 on Saturday I'm interviewed on a live broadcast (what could possibly go wrong???) by Page One Podcast. www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26...

My first panel of this year's @cymerafestival.co.uk is at 1.45 on Saturday, talking about ruins and rebuilding and A Sword of Gold and Ruin with @clhellisen.bsky.social @alexpheby.bsky.social and Rafael Torrubia.

The @cymerafestival.co.uk auction is live. I'm offering signed and annotated hardback copies of A SWORD OF BRONZE AND ASHES and A SWORD OF GOLD AND RUIN. All the references, Easter Eggs, stupid personal jokes and absurd literary pretension marked up for your edification.

And poor Bobble trying his best.

Caecilius being looooonger.

Caecilius being looooooooong.

Nicobobinus and Caecilius basking in the warm today Boneless seal-boys, the pair of them.

Absolutely amazingly cool news coming soon! Lots of news! All the news!

Book mail! I love the Low Town novels and Daniel Polansky's writing more generally, so I'm really looking forward to getting stuck into this. And very grateful to @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social for the advance copy, too.

Cover reveal for the wonderful Song of the Damned series by @zbsteele.bsky.social . Whispers of the Storm is already out. The sequel, Rising Gale, is scheduled to release on June 16th. This is such a good series. Like a grimdark version of The Name of the Wind. Only with a likeable protagonist.

I'm a guest at the Great Dunmow Bookfest on Saturday 13th June. Part of Essex Book Festival 2026, the idea is to turn the whole town into a giant book shop for a single day. The high street will be pedestrianized, authors will be talking and reading in the town's shops between 12 noon and 5pm.

So farewell Belfast. I had an amazing time @norncon.bsky.social I was treated like a true queen. A chunk of secret project 1 off to my editor, a reading from secret project 2 received raputous applause, now sat in the airport energised for the final Making of This World Ruined book. Life is good!

Astonishing to be standing on the mound of Emain Macha itself. The Ulster Cycle is a huge influence on The Making of This World Ruined, especially A Sword of Gold and Ruin, to stand where those stories happened was wonderful. Thank you so much to @norncon.bsky.social for the trip .

@aptshadow.bsky.social , Ian McDonald, RB Kelly, Jack Fennell and J E Hannaford discuss writing the Other as the first panel of the first @norncon.bsky.social

'Everything is brutal AF but in equal parts beautiful ... possibly the most exciting ‘book 2’ of all time ... one of the best books I’ve ever read'. Today's review of The Tower of Living and Dying is from @blogspells.bsky.social . La Torre de los Vivos y de los Muertos from @ozeditorial.com #booksky