Roz Clarke / Zora_db

Repeat after me: 1) PIP isn't an out of work benefit. It is a benefit paid to disabled people to pay for the extra costs of living with a disability. 2) Some PIP claimants work. Some PIP claimants will never able to work at all. 3) Impoverishing people doesn't get them closer to employment

Available now, our very Welsh Kickstarter project. They Are Still Here features stories of resistance and resilience in Welsh community, with a little help from our supernatural friends. wizardstowerpress.co...

What does "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Hokusai have in common with Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" & the alchemical formula for eternal life? Let's learn about how Prussian Blue was created & the bizarre life of Johann Konrad Dippel. Our story begins in Castle Frankenstein (the real one)...

Because my bio on They Are Still Here says you can skeet me, I am officially back on BlueSky and available for skeeting. Do people still say skeeting? It’s been a few months…

I was sceptical that thunder warnings sent out by the council today were a necessity. now i wish they’d been a deal more strongly worded. fuckin’ ‘ell.

Delightfully surprised to find that Call and Response is on the shortlist for the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection

Holy shit, I'm on the BFA shortlist! More dignified response to follow when I'm not juggling luggage and coffee while trying to catch a train 😆

I get the strategy. But I have needs. 💍 #WhereTheHellIsOurCongress #WeDontWantAKing

These Broken Little Worlds (NewCon Press) is the fabulous new collection from our own E.M. Faulds, due out 29/05. Featuring the BSFA award-winning 'Godzilla As A Young Man Named Mike', you can pre-order yours now from the link below: www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as... @bethkesh.bsky.social

I enthusiastically recommend reading everything but the last chapter of Steering the Craft. #writingabtwriting #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #author

Great talk today at the Llandeilo Literature Festival about the anthologies “Fight Like A Girl” (Vol 1&2), their backstory, wild launch party, and much more by @cherylmorgan.bsky.social @hierath77.bsky.social @lmorgan.bsky.social and @rozc.bsky.social . And more books for my TBR pile too - yay! 🤩 🥳

This study into canine care assistance is more nuanced and original than the tagline (“Assistance dogs interpret needs of the person they assist non-verbally”) makes it seem. Worth a read. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I have spent the afternoon packing cardboard boxes. So many books! Good job that @rozc.bsky.social & @hierath77.bsky.social have a car too.

Well that’s a very pleasing review. FYI @r-emrys.bsky.social @aknighton.bsky.social @rozc.bsky.social @hierath77.bsky.social

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 165: Don't wait for inspiration. It's rare and unpredictable. Hard work, lots of practice, editing, and rewriting is what matters every time.

With stories by Danie Ware, Juliet McKenna, Anna Smith Spark and many others, Fight Like A Girl #2 was a feature on award short lists this year. Find out why people love it so much: wizardstowerpress.co...

WIN

Congratulations to Juliet E McKenna and E M Faulds who have made the Long Lists in this year's British Science Fiction Association Awards: www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-...

It is Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'world'. In 'Song, Stone, Scale, Bone' by Juliet Kemp from Wiz Duos #2, Sir Cade is heading into the catacombs with a seemingly clueless client. #BookQW wizardstowerpress.co...

Submissions are open for our Welsh folklore anthology, They Are Still Here: wizardstowerpress.co...

Good news.

Good morning world. It is still yesterday in California so we still have an hour or so left of the Kickstarter campaign. We are currently at £7223. Anyone else fancy joining the fun? www.kickstarter.com/...

Just finished "The Sheltering Flame", the first novella in Wiz Duos volume 3 from @wtpress.bsky.social and it was excellent, a very satisfying contemporary fantasy that reminded me of Peter Beagle or Charles de Lint - three burnt out academics discover their fixer-upper house is a magical sanctuary.

Join me in calling on @RachelReevesMP to stop propping up declining oil and gas companies with £2.7 BILLION of tax breaks a year (🤯) and fund a jobs guarantee for workers instead: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Today's update features a real-life Welsh princess who eloped with a young king to help lead a guerilla army, died fighting the English, and may have also been a notable author. www.kickstarter.com/...

Ghosts linger amid the fields of England, waiting to be summoned by passing feet. As a walker faces the spectres of his own grief, he's drawn into a struggle between the paths connecting us & the boundaries that cut us apart, in Walking a Wounded Land. wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/nove...

Look out, look out! There's a skeletal horse about! For today's update, Jo Hall tells us all about the Mari Llwyd: www.kickstarter.com/...

What connects Star Wars, the Bible and a mythical sea monster? Why, today's update of course: www.kickstarter.com/...

👇 Super important resource from @fairness.bsky.social.

Today's legendary update is all about Stonehenge. Was it built by Merlin? And if not, where did that story come from? www.kickstarter.com/...

Did you know if you are an attending or online member of #WorldFantasy2025 you can get a bunch of free eBooks right now (including two that feature me)? Just log in and look for the Members Only Content button!

“It’s a discourse that sets people against one another.” The UN special rapporteur on poverty says that welfare cuts and the collapse of the social safety net are behind the rise of the far right: https://bit.ly/47oKpSr

We had a wonderful weekend at #BristolCon, including reaching our first stretch goal. Thank you, everyone. Here's a brief update on what happens next. www.kickstarter.com/...

Brilliantly walking the thin line between great and mean parenting.

I’m technically at Bristolcon, but I’m prioritising naptime. See you all whenever.

About a 4.

Today's piece of Welsh legend is an actual piece of fiction that Cheryl wrote. It tells the tale of Princess Gwladys and the villainous Gwynllwy the Bearded: www.kickstarter.com/...

There was no response to our post about witch trials this morning, so let's recap: In the 16th to mid 18th centuries, around 500 people were executed for witchcraft in England, and perhaps as many as 1500 in Scotland. The equivalent number in Wales was FIVE.