Leila Martin
@bookishleels.bsky.social
Writer, reader, next-level procrastinator. What time is it?
Late to the party as usual but very happy with my haul from the latest Northern Publishers' Fair 😊 thanks @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Late to the party as usual but very happy with my haul from the latest Northern Publishers' Fair 😊 thanks @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
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Thanks to @bookishleels.bsky.social @nightjarpress.bsky.social for the image I mention in Part 1.
New episode!
Meet @ailsacox.bsky.social, short story writer and Professor Emerita at Edge Hill University (UK). In this episode, we discuss famous claims about short fiction and short story writing… are they facts or fiction?
Listen here to find out: www.spreaker.com/episode/the-...
Meet @ailsacox.bsky.social, short story writer and Professor Emerita at Edge Hill University (UK). In this episode, we discuss famous claims about short fiction and short story writing… are they facts or fiction?
Listen here to find out: www.spreaker.com/episode/the-...
September 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Thanks to @bookishleels.bsky.social @nightjarpress.bsky.social for the image I mention in Part 1.
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We’re delighted that @deadinkbookshop.bsky.social is now stocking Nightjars. Little interview about it here deadinkbookshop.com/blogs/requir...
Nightjar Press: An Interview with Nicholas Royle
We’ve just started stocking short story chapbooks from Nightjar Press. If you, like us, are fans of the gothic, the weird, the surreal, and the supernatural, we recommend you check them out here in th...
deadinkbookshop.com
August 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
We’re delighted that @deadinkbookshop.bsky.social is now stocking Nightjars. Little interview about it here deadinkbookshop.com/blogs/requir...
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An amazing morning at Callanish #StandingStoneSunday
August 10, 2025 at 6:30 AM
An amazing morning at Callanish #StandingStoneSunday
Thanks for the review @iancritchley.bsky.social ☺️
Ghosts await a man heading back to his home town for his mother's funeral. Emotions and memories jostle in his mind as he heads inexorably towards his past and his future.
Superb sense of gathering dread in this story by @bookishleels.bsky.social pubbed by @nightjarpress.bsky.social
Superb sense of gathering dread in this story by @bookishleels.bsky.social pubbed by @nightjarpress.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Thanks for the review @iancritchley.bsky.social ☺️
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I have a new story out on Nightjar! Its called Flight Paths and its a ghostly tale of aeroplanes and romance fraud...you can use the link below to buy one for £3
Four new Nightjars now available here nightjarpress.weebly.com by @bookishleels.bsky.social @rlsummerling.bsky.social @ggaffa.bsky.social & Joe Stretch
Nightjar Press
Nightjar Press publish original short stories as signed, limited-edition chapbooks.
nightjarpress.weebly.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I have a new story out on Nightjar! Its called Flight Paths and its a ghostly tale of aeroplanes and romance fraud...you can use the link below to buy one for £3
Super excited my short story chapbook "Kodavision" has been published by @nightjarpress.bsky.social today! It's paired with "Through Narrowing Veins" by @rlsummerling.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.com
July 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Super excited my short story chapbook "Kodavision" has been published by @nightjarpress.bsky.social today! It's paired with "Through Narrowing Veins" by @rlsummerling.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.com
This is the best #shortstory collection I've read in ages - so piercing, so moving. These will stay with me for a while 😌 @polyscribe70.bsky.social @confingopublishing.bsky.social
July 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This is the best #shortstory collection I've read in ages - so piercing, so moving. These will stay with me for a while 😌 @polyscribe70.bsky.social @confingopublishing.bsky.social
Great vibes as always at the beautiful #Manjushri Kadampa meditation centre 😌
June 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Great vibes as always at the beautiful #Manjushri Kadampa meditation centre 😌
This is a GREAT read - such an intoxicating blend of uncanniness, weird magic and humour. Trippy as hell and so gripping @deadinkbooks.bsky.social @adamsleslie.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This is a GREAT read - such an intoxicating blend of uncanniness, weird magic and humour. Trippy as hell and so gripping @deadinkbooks.bsky.social @adamsleslie.bsky.social
Honoured to have a (chilling) story published in the wonderful Crow & Cross Keys today 🙏 🐦⬛
Deep in the bowels of the tower, there is a whale with a city on its tongue. We like to visit from time to time. In today’s short story witness a...
“Whale Fall” by @bookishleels.bsky.social
crowcrosskeys.com/2025/05/10/w...
“Whale Fall” by @bookishleels.bsky.social
crowcrosskeys.com/2025/05/10/w...
May 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Honoured to have a (chilling) story published in the wonderful Crow & Cross Keys today 🙏 🐦⬛
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Wanna explore how to create vivid, realistic settings in your fiction (and/or how to bring real-life locations to life in your non-fiction!)?
I've got a workshop for that:
Write What You Know: Setting & Place
Fri 28 March @ 7.30pm (GMT)
PAYF booking here: www.jogatford.com/writing-work...
I've got a workshop for that:
Write What You Know: Setting & Place
Fri 28 March @ 7.30pm (GMT)
PAYF booking here: www.jogatford.com/writing-work...
Write What You Know: Setting & Place — Jo Gatford
A pay-as-you-feel ticket to the Write What You Know: Setting & Place online workshop — Friday 28th March @ 7.30pm (GMT)
www.jogatford.com
February 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Wanna explore how to create vivid, realistic settings in your fiction (and/or how to bring real-life locations to life in your non-fiction!)?
I've got a workshop for that:
Write What You Know: Setting & Place
Fri 28 March @ 7.30pm (GMT)
PAYF booking here: www.jogatford.com/writing-work...
I've got a workshop for that:
Write What You Know: Setting & Place
Fri 28 March @ 7.30pm (GMT)
PAYF booking here: www.jogatford.com/writing-work...
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New Review - the Short Shelves return and this week I look at a new horror magazine from Andy Cox and Richard Wagner - Remains out now and very good! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/2/...
Runalong The Short Shelves - Remains — Runalong The Shelves
Publisher - https://remains.uk Price - £8.99 print Another new magazine for the Short Fiction shelves this week in the form of new quarterly horror magazine Remains brought to you via editor Andy Co...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
February 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
New Review - the Short Shelves return and this week I look at a new horror magazine from Andy Cox and Richard Wagner - Remains out now and very good! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/2/...
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Rosie Garland & Neil Campbell at Waterstones Deansgate 6th February from 6.30pm, hosted by Isabelle Kenyon.
Tickets: www.waterstones.com/events/in-co...
Tickets: www.waterstones.com/events/in-co...
January 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Rosie Garland & Neil Campbell at Waterstones Deansgate 6th February from 6.30pm, hosted by Isabelle Kenyon.
Tickets: www.waterstones.com/events/in-co...
Tickets: www.waterstones.com/events/in-co...
Wasn't going to buy any more books for a while after my Xmas haul but this looks amazing...
Lost in the Garden has won the 2024 Nero Book Award for Fiction!! Huge congratulations to @adamsleslie.bsky.social and @deadinkbooks.bsky.social on the success of this eeriely enchanting tale of folk horror. Maybe going to Almanby wasn't such a bad idea after all...👻🌼
https://buff.ly/4anudC8
https://buff.ly/4anudC8
January 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Wasn't going to buy any more books for a while after my Xmas haul but this looks amazing...
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I have received the first proofs of my forthcoming book on the folklore of churches and churchyards from my publisher, Crossed Crow Books.
What's not to like about this gloriously ornate title page?
You can pre-order now from
www.crossedcrowbooks.com/shop-crossed...
or at most bookstores.
What's not to like about this gloriously ornate title page?
You can pre-order now from
www.crossedcrowbooks.com/shop-crossed...
or at most bookstores.
January 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I have received the first proofs of my forthcoming book on the folklore of churches and churchyards from my publisher, Crossed Crow Books.
What's not to like about this gloriously ornate title page?
You can pre-order now from
www.crossedcrowbooks.com/shop-crossed...
or at most bookstores.
What's not to like about this gloriously ornate title page?
You can pre-order now from
www.crossedcrowbooks.com/shop-crossed...
or at most bookstores.