Amanda Mason
@amandajanemason.bsky.social
Writer. THE WAYWARD GIRLS (2019) THE HIDING PLACE (2021)
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Advance copies of this beautiful book arrived today #BeyondandWithinWitchcraft - massive thanks @flametreepress To pre-order yours:
www.amazon.co.uk/Witchcraft-S...
www.amazon.co.uk/Witchcraft-S...
I'm so delighted to be included in this anthology #BeyondandWithinWitchcraft
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Surpassing human capabilities isn’t the biggest threat that AI poses, says activist and author of “Enshittification” Cory Doctorow.
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Surpassing human capabilities isn’t the biggest threat that AI poses, says activist and author of “Enshittification” Cory Doctorow.
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The greatest tragic love story ever told…
**BREAKING NEWS**
We're thrilled to announce that we'll be publishing
@essiefox.bsky.social's #Catherine – a retelling of #WutheringHeights as a MAJOR literary event on 12.02.26
🖤 bit.ly/3KlDp11
#classics #gothic #Heathcliff #DarkRomanceBooks
The greatest tragic love story ever told…
**BREAKING NEWS**
We're thrilled to announce that we'll be publishing
@essiefox.bsky.social's #Catherine – a retelling of #WutheringHeights as a MAJOR literary event on 12.02.26
🖤 bit.ly/3KlDp11
#classics #gothic #Heathcliff #DarkRomanceBooks
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
🐦⬛🪦🕯️🖤
The greatest tragic love story ever told…
**BREAKING NEWS**
We're thrilled to announce that we'll be publishing
@essiefox.bsky.social's #Catherine – a retelling of #WutheringHeights as a MAJOR literary event on 12.02.26
🖤 bit.ly/3KlDp11
#classics #gothic #Heathcliff #DarkRomanceBooks
The greatest tragic love story ever told…
**BREAKING NEWS**
We're thrilled to announce that we'll be publishing
@essiefox.bsky.social's #Catherine – a retelling of #WutheringHeights as a MAJOR literary event on 12.02.26
🖤 bit.ly/3KlDp11
#classics #gothic #Heathcliff #DarkRomanceBooks
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A movie that takes place where you're from.
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
A movie that takes place where you're from.
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Highly recommended, fellow Darkness fans
As one of the BBC’s most extraordinary series returns to iPlayer to mark its fortieth anniversary, Jude Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically minded crime thriller
Why #EdgeOfDarkness makes so much sense in 2025
buff.ly/nIF9mdh
Why #EdgeOfDarkness makes so much sense in 2025
buff.ly/nIF9mdh
November 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Highly recommended, fellow Darkness fans
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Whitby jet faceted bead bracelet and a similar bracelet worn by the woman in the early 1880s photograph.
November 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Whitby jet faceted bead bracelet and a similar bracelet worn by the woman in the early 1880s photograph.
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This is truly delightful. Definitely worth taking some time to read.
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
This is truly delightful. Definitely worth taking some time to read.
I'm watching the 2006 adaptation of Jane Eyre which I really like. Jane and Rochester are at least presented as equals even though the idea that Toby Stephens is in any way unpleasant to look at is faintly hilarious.
November 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I'm watching the 2006 adaptation of Jane Eyre which I really like. Jane and Rochester are at least presented as equals even though the idea that Toby Stephens is in any way unpleasant to look at is faintly hilarious.
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Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’
Boris Johnson took four days off from official government business during a key period in the UK’s Covid preparation when the NHS was bracing to be “overwhelmed” by the virus.
Official disclosure for the period in February 2020 – described by the Covid inquiry as a “lost month” in the country’s crisis response – reveal Johnson enjoyed an extended break during the half-term holidays at Chevening, a governmental estate in Kent, where he spent time walking his dog and taking motorcycle rides. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
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With the whole “going over the falls in a barrel” aspect of AI saturation, I found Ryan Holiday’s thoughts useful, reassuring and important. ryanholiday.medium.com/youre-gonna-...
You’re Gonna Need This Now More Than Ever
I do all my research on physical notecards.
ryanholiday.medium.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
With the whole “going over the falls in a barrel” aspect of AI saturation, I found Ryan Holiday’s thoughts useful, reassuring and important. ryanholiday.medium.com/youre-gonna-...
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BREAKING: Former Ukip / Reform MEP Nathan Gill is sentenced to ten and a half years at the Old Bailey on 8 counts of bribery by a Russian agent... MORE SOON
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
BREAKING: Former Ukip / Reform MEP Nathan Gill is sentenced to ten and a half years at the Old Bailey on 8 counts of bribery by a Russian agent... MORE SOON
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Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
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Inspired by @annamazz.bsky.social at WhitbyLitfest I have just finished this and it is*so* good.
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Inspired by @annamazz.bsky.social at WhitbyLitfest I have just finished this and it is*so* good.
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Today's themes: HP Lovecraft, quail hunting, National Front environmental policy, Umwelt, litter-picking, Depression-era union bashing, hydroelecttic dams. This is going to be a fucking amazing book, guys.
This is what I'm working on next: fascism and the environment. Hoping to finish it before the world burns and/or the fascists take charge. Fingers crossed. Do ask me about it, if you're curious. www.thebookseller.com/rights/manch...
Manchester University Press signs Richard Smyth’s ‘vital’ book on fascism and the environment
Manchester University Press has acquired Richard Smyth’s Greenshirts, a new book that uncovers the "deep, often obscured entanglements between fascist ideologies and environmental thought" over the la...
www.thebookseller.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Today's themes: HP Lovecraft, quail hunting, National Front environmental policy, Umwelt, litter-picking, Depression-era union bashing, hydroelecttic dams. This is going to be a fucking amazing book, guys.
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IT’S HERE! Our first volume of strange and supernatural stories for the darker half of the year. Nine new tales by masters of the genre: Ramsey Campbell, Helen Grant, Reggie Oliver, Ally Wilkes, Steve Toase, Verity Holloway and more.
👉🏼 Get your copy on www.helleborezine.com
👉🏼 Get your copy on www.helleborezine.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
IT’S HERE! Our first volume of strange and supernatural stories for the darker half of the year. Nine new tales by masters of the genre: Ramsey Campbell, Helen Grant, Reggie Oliver, Ally Wilkes, Steve Toase, Verity Holloway and more.
👉🏼 Get your copy on www.helleborezine.com
👉🏼 Get your copy on www.helleborezine.com
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saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away
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Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
.
Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
"Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it."
November 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it."
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Happy International Men's Day.
November 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Happy International Men's Day.
Come, write ghost stories with me. It'll be fun. 👻
If you missed out on Winter Haunts, it won't be long until our next dose of spooky online goodness with the 'virtual' UK GHOST STORY FESTIVAL! And we've got a great line-up including Delilah S Dawson, Adam S Leslie, Laura Purcell, AC Wise and many more! www.ticketsource.co.uk/ukghoststory...
November 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Come, write ghost stories with me. It'll be fun. 👻
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Bumping up this upcoming release again, and my story in it. These books are so beatiful, the author lineup is particularly stellar, and @marieoregan.bsky.social and @paulkane.bsky.social have curated and perfected the stories masterfully.
Pre-order links below ⬇️
Pre-order links below ⬇️
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Bumping up this upcoming release again, and my story in it. These books are so beatiful, the author lineup is particularly stellar, and @marieoregan.bsky.social and @paulkane.bsky.social have curated and perfected the stories masterfully.
Pre-order links below ⬇️
Pre-order links below ⬇️
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Watching someone who understands this stuff go through it does not reassure.
I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...
Asylum and returns policy statement
This policy statement sets out significant reforms to the UK’s asylum and returns policy.
www.gov.uk
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Watching someone who understands this stuff go through it does not reassure.