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Thanks Caroyn. That explains it. 👍

Anybody smelling thick smoke over Leicester tonight? Seems to be coming through the windows. Woke us up. 🔥 🪟 🤔

I really loved THE BLUE SALT ROAD novella. A gorgeous hardback with elegant illustrations. 🦭 🌊

Really enjoying the NASA Vending Machine podcast as I catch up on #ForAllMankind S2. Just watched the Russians arrive at Jamestown ep. 9 & the season's whole MAD escalation hit the fan. Yikes! @dmoren.com 🌔 🔫 👨‍🚀 😬

So, the band and I recorded this. It's the musical version of my novella THE BLUE SALT ROAD, with illustrations by @bonniehawkinsart.bsky.social. Check it out on Bandcamp... joanneharrisandthestorytimeband.bandcamp.com/album/the-bl...

A few more gorgeous collective nouns for you… A group of: 🐞-ladybirds is called a ‘loveliness’ 🪶-long tailed tits is called a ‘zephyr’ 🪶-wrens (many often squish together in nestboxes to roost at night) is called a ‘chime’ 📷: Suffolk wildlife trust 🦋-butterflies is called a ‘kaleidoscope’

This👇🏼 perfect peacock butterfly gave me such a lift. To me peacock’s eye spots are exquisite -mesmerising & ever so slightly frightening. They’re designed to distract & startle birds. Perhaps I’m part bluetit & have never realised i👀:

Think I maybe saw some photos of that.Though Silo 17 is hardly a haven. Certainly couldn't accommodate 10,000 evacuees. So who knows what the plan is? They really need to find an OFF switch for that goddamn blue computer. 🤔

Oops. Just promoted him! 😅 Though Billings is probably being lined up for Mayor when Juliet gets heroically 'retired'. And Billings has such a great 'One more thing' vibe going on. He's made for #Silo noir. 🔎 🕵️‍♂️ 🎞

Edge-Lit's schedule is now in the bag, with a wide range of exciting sessions on offer with a huge array of exciting genre fiction talent! www.derbyquad.co.uk/whats-on/edg... #Derby #Derbyshire #genrefiction #horror #scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy

A new indie bookshop opening in Derby. I think that deserves a load of likes and shares ☺️😬😂🙋‍♂️🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.

Oh yes please! Love "The Ancient Mariner". Especially my copy with the Gustave Dore illustrations. Now where did I put that book??🌊 🙏

If you missed us at Comic-Con you can catch me, @jendiagammon.bsky.social & Sarah Faxon at the launch party for WOMEN OF THE WEIRD WEST! Stop by for signed copies, snacks & swag on Sat August 15 at 2pm at Mysterious Galaxy 🥳 #SanDiego #newbook #SoCal #SanDiegoauthors #weirdwest

Dan Brown’s The Secret of Secrets hits the overall top spot, but Christopher Nolan-fuelled Homer takes the Paperback Non-Fiction number one 👇

Lovely packed launch for this book from @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social yesterday afternoon. An important book documenting these Caribbean gardeners experiences in their own words. 🌱🌱

Come and join us for a spooky Hallowe'en weekend at QUAD here in Derby, with our latest Gothic market, talks, author interviews, workshops and more - ALL HALLOWS HAUNTS runs from 30th October to 1st November!

Another very busy day on the book front. How has it taken whole day to write up brief for my cover artist?? Working on imagery, colour palette, backblurbs etc. But always enjoy the process of cover designs. 🤔 📝 🎨 📚

We're joining @creatorsrights.bsky.social in calling on Government to protect creators from the existential threat of GenAI Help get the petition to 10,000 signatures - sign the petition 🔽 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 7: Much as a pianist benefits from practising scales before trying a Bach variation, it helps for a writer to try several versions of something small before going large. Try this: How many ways can you write a scene in which one character learns that the other is sad?