M Nesce Drake

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

Tomorrow! Will there be enough books, enough tablet, enough chat to keep it all going? While I fret slightly about that, why not come along to celebrate forty years of great writers and great people.

#Haverin is having its official Glasgow launch tomorrow at Waterstones Sauchiehall Street! There'll be chat, books, and most importantly: tablet 🧡 Word on the street is that I'm doing a reading from my story, The Weaver (my first ever) so wish me luck for that 🙏 www.waterstones.com/events/celeb...

Hello, the 4th episode of my serial urban fantasy, A Pair of Witches, is up now! #shortfiction #serialfiction

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I've been playing around with Inky, reworking a short story of mine and it's hard to not get mission creep but I've already downloaded Godot...

I've just hit 40k on a second-ish draft of a novel I'm referring to as "vampire witch shit." Yay! #writing #amwriting

I was writing a wee serial on substack before I abandoned the platform, but I also abandoned the story. Rising from the ashes... A pair of witches! "Succumb to my devil vagina magic!” Shouted the naked woman as she ran down the street" #shorts #writing

The panic of accidentally discovering a new shortcut key.

Me, knitting Saga's jumper from Alan Wake 2 and explaining circular knitting to my partner: It's not a loop; it's a spiral.

Please help get my collection of short stories get some more readers! "These Broken Little Worlds", is looking a little lonely on Amazon... If you can leave any review or rating, no matter if it's 1 star or 5, you have my gratitude. ❤️‍🔥 www.amazon.co.uk/These-Broken...

I'm having the anxiety, so I drew a thing. #artsky #art #MassEffect

#CoverReveal alert! Behold the cover art for our new anthology Haverin, designed by our own Jenni Coutts. Look carefully and you'll spot some sneaky clues to the tales inside. Celebrating 40 years of the GSFWC, #Haverin is out October 2026 from Taverna Press. #GSFWC40 @jennicoutts.bsky.social(1/2)

A student from my Graphic Fiction class is crowdfunding their comic. If you've a spare quid (not easy these days, but still) do chip it in. Here's a wee glimpse: www.kickstarter.com/projects/the... @gustaffovargas.bsky.social @metaphrog.bsky.social @garyerskine.bsky.social @2000ad.bsky.social

Reminder that age verification laws are identity theft mandates

Hand-Me-Downs by Neil Williamson: The Horror You Inherit Fifteen tales of toxic inheritance, quiet British dread and the men who refuse to change gnofhorror.com/hand-me-down... @neilwilliamson.bsky.social

This unfortunately covers much of those with power in the UK. Removing rights from people who are just trying to exist is not the path to a safe country. #transrights

Translation: Adult Bluesky users will have to upload their ID to prove they are not under 16. The UK is such a deceitful country.

I wrote a thing over on Buy me a Coffee* It's not behind a paywall or anything, and you should read it, not least because it includes the line: "You are filled with high quality snot and letting it out is not a shame." #Disability #writing *Please support me so I can buy some books.

TOMORROW www.waterstones.com/events/chill...

Our governments don't care, they want to make more money from fossil fuels while we die in increasing number year after year. We're being cooked to death and there's ways to turn the cooker down but our governments and industries are turning up the heat instead.

We need a hero! Bonnie Tyler has just died... and this is how The Mirror is choosing to remember her. (Not surprised but still disappointed)

"Corporate lobbying fights the Paris Agreement's Crediting Mechanism. This lobbying—targeting the UN Convention on Climate Change—is led by Drax, Oxy & Microsoft with industry associations: Intl Emissions Trading, Carbon Capture & Storage, Global CCS, IEA Greenhouse. They push to weaken safeguards."

Climate change is not a future problem; it's a now problem.

Silence is the wrong response. That’s why today we are publishing ‘The Machines Are Coming For Your Masthead”, a report on our experiences, small press publishing in the age of AI. Read the blog. Download the report. Share your thoughts - we want to hear them. (20/20 - fin)

This attitude is alive in Scotland! (It's England that's decided it doesn't believe in society anymore.) #DisabilityUK #Disability

It's not a scene until I make it a scene!!

I used to know someone called Hiro, and it did not sound like "hero."

"... only existing in physical media.." With Sony and Xbox declining to continue publishing physical games, we're doomed to lose everything published after about 2028.

This...

If certain people are to be banned, *all* of us need our privacy to be invaded to maintain it. The govts and corps *need* to violate **ALL** of the privacy to enact these bans.

There are people who say, “can we afford net zero?” This is a bit like sitting in London in 1940 and saying, “can we afford an air force?”

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This is making me think of Stardew Valley and how you need to keep interacting with the villagers so they don't start to hate you. Quick! Drop everything! I need to go post some nonsense on bsky so my followers don't start hating me!

Oh hey, it's my 11 year Glasgow anniversary today! Accidentally celebrated by lounging in my nearest park on the grass, brainstorming some short story ideas.

The catholic church was still undecided on believing Galileo until about the 1990s!! That is, during most of our lifetimes one of the world's largest and most influential religions couldn't find it in itself to believe a scientific fact proven some 300 years earlier. #atheism #science

She's a barrister????!!?!?!? Oy oy oy oy. I see the problem with *things*

Data centres sucking up all the electricity will mean the rest of us paying extortionate prices. They also mean more environmental vandalism and more climate change.

As a new Scot, I can confirm this is exactly how it works.

In the past 10 years, Worldcon has been alternating between Europe and Nth America. Meanwhile, Australia and Ocenania haven't had an in-person Worldcon since 2012 and are really due another.

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I just came across the line "The horizon was shitting a sun" and maybe I should just stop being a writer. I'll never be able to come up with this stuff. (It's from "This book is full of spiders," by David Wong.) #amwriting #books

I'm so dizzy and my face feels like it's about to fall off I'm so tired, but it's too early for me to go to bed. It's been like this for much of the day. CFS is a motherfucker.

First Mage on the Moon by @cameronjohnston.bsky.social "The secrets they were keeping from their superiors — I was on the edge of my seat!" Read the full review from Lady Mair here grimoireinkreviews.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/f...

The solution to the paradox of tolerance is that you don't tolerate people who break the social contract with intolerance. GC is explicitly about preventing people existing as themselves and hence breaks the social contract. It is not therefore protected with rules of tolerance ->indeed never do so