E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds

Guess I should start shouting about this! PRE-ORDERS NOW OPEN!! Official launch date is 29th of May 2026, but you can get a limited edition hardback if you're quick! This is my 2nd SF / Fantasy / Spec Fic story collection and yep, it contains the Godzilla one. www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

Making my way through the @gsfwc.bsky.social's Haverin anthology on this sunny post-storm Sunday. I've just finished @cameronjohnston.bsky.social's The Cats on Sanquhar Street, which made me cry 🐈🐈‍⬛🌙 what a gorgeous story of love and loss and claws 🩷

Gave 'em back, despite Omar's tempting. I think they'd have guessed where they went 😅

What's the reverse of killing the golden goose? Because yesterday we had one bale of insulation land in our garden from a nearby construction site, so I dutifully took it back. This morning:

If someone could just explain to me how the machine putting us all out of work and flooding the market with bullshit is strengthening our economy, I'd like to know.

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

Shall be there with some of the @edinburghsff.com gang no doubt! Should be a horrible night. Wait. I mean, a night of horror. (Love yah!)

Reading more and more like my horoscope.

I will be at choir tonight, but this sounds good!

As a reminder, it's not just about solving your story problems, it also deals questions on writing while ADHD / ND, like this one:

Tonight! Last call for this and still some hardship ticket prices remaining. If you're not doing something more fun with your Monday evening, why not come along? bibliotta.com/events/outli...

The gift I'm giving myself today: reading a few of the many excellent stories in here. A real love letter to the form, and a right chonker of a book! Fantastic stories from Scotland and realms beyond. Get it here, or at your preferred bookshop... amzn.eu/d/0dDRQrgj

Come take a look! Quick but clever things that help writers.

"A.i." is a tool of extraction, not liberation. These fucking products are designed to fuck you over, not help you.

What a noob, that should be #spnRewatch, naturally

It’s #BristolCon day 1! The Storm Forged Throne is launching today! Come to the @wtpress.bsky.social table in the dealers room or the big launch at 14:00!

@pictcon.bsky.social is now half way to breaking even for 2027. Do you live in Scotland or near enough that a one day science fiction and fantasy convention (with an optional dinner the night before, for early arrivals) appeals? Just £30/£20!- we just need to sell 26 more tickets to be on target!

Other things: they start with not 1 but TWO fridgings, probably why I bounced off it initially. It does better as it goes along. The car is in the very first scene! I hadn't picked up on that. They sit on it post 🔥 God, there were a lot of out-of-work BSG actors kicking around BC lol. #suprewatch

Started rewatching Supernatural and it's funny how the boys swapped goodlookingness over the seasons. They're both lovely, don't come for me 🤣

Whether you'd like advice on writing with ADHD or updating your website, Bibliotta has you covered. Run by our E.M. Faulds, new webinars are open for booking at the link below. 26th October - Outlining Stories while ADHD 29th October - Working with the Wordpress Themes Editor @bibliotta.bsky.social

The BFS is excited to announce our next in-person Reading event, The Things that Haunt Us: Writing the Gothic Today. Wed 28 Oct, 6:30pm. Waterstones, Broad Street, Reading. tinyurl.com/bfsgothic @mkhardywrites.com @mlinton.bsky.social @juniperjennyt.bsky.social ‬ @gretacolombani.bsky.social ‬

I had a great time at this! It was a beautiful location, had great guest speakers, and it really helped me work some stuff out on my WIP!

Stop trying to make @aptshadow.bsky.social a prophet! Stop! It! What's next, spiders in space?

MCM London! Come to the forest, allow it to beguile you! WB-01, opposite Posca Pens!

I once wrote "taking the piss" as part of an article and the American editor commented that 'piss is a liquid and therefore cannot be taken hold of' and I think I'll never receive a more perfect edit in my career

I, personally, would welcome the guy who plays River Cartwright trying to be all sexy, caddish, and smooth. It'd be a right giggle. Pop Gazza Oldman, as Lamb in as Q and you've got a winner. "Now pay fahking attention, Bond, you fahking knob"

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Perhaps I could cheat and enter a wholly human written piece. These people clearly have no skill at understanding well-written work, though, so... Perhaps not.

It's Bristolcon this weekend, and this is where I'll be (as well as the bar). Please think about coming to the launch of A Healer's Guide to Adventuring! @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social have allowed us to do a special early launch. It'll be available all weekend from @bookhaus.bsky.social at the con 😀

Now available in ePub for those of you who need that format.

Gotta say, I hate the promo grind. I don't like putting this stuff in front of my lovely followers who are mostly here for the shitposting, I imagine. Yet I have to do it at the mo because... *checks bank balance*... reasons. Haha, what a world. Hahaha. 🫠

This month's pinching, so reposts of this are greatly appreciated. And please do check this out. See a selected ToC by following the link! I am a real writer and this is drawing on my real experience for you to benefit. bibliotta.com/product/sell...

A cracking evening yesterday at the Waterstones launch of the GSFWC 40th anniversary book, Haverin, edited by Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social, Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social and my big bro, Peter Morrison @remotecore.bsky.social !

And this 'un... bsky.app/profile/bibl...

A new week, a new promo of this thingy here...

reminder that "A.i." is a gat damn pox

Haverin anthology launch for the @gsfwc.bsky.social is well attended!

Best of luck to our Christopher Caldwell for tomorrow's announcement of the 2026 winner of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Here's Chris introducing his shortlisted collection, Call and Response, on the Le Guin Foundation channel. @seraph76.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p7b...

Hey, @thdray.bsky.social, loooook

hey did you know that youre allowed to make a bunch of sculptures and animate them singing to music you love

I needed this today. Just a delight!