David J Griffin
@davidjgriffin.bsky.social
Multi-genre author ☞ gothic * supernatural * literary * sci-fi * magical realism • urban fantasy • I drink (too much) tea • Loves logic, truth, nature & imagination; oh, and reading • am I a Kentish man or a Man of Kent? > davidjgriffin.co.uk
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The Unusual Possession of Alastair Stubb
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. In the late 1890s, Theodore Stubb's Manor House is located in the quirky village of Muchmarsh. A keen entomologist, Theodore often spent time in his attic, ...
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The Unusual Possession of Alastair Stubb -gothic supernatural- now available as an #audiobook
"Unusual and Gripping"
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"Unusual and Gripping"
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Amazon amazon.co.uk/Unusual-Poss...
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#WritingCommunity What does your brain look like while editing? Respond with GIFs only!
March 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
#WritingCommunity What does your brain look like while editing? Respond with GIFs only!
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We're having to move distributors by the end of March.
Don't ask, but corporates being corporate.
It is going to cost a bit and a half.
If you are able to help cushion the blow.
You can buy some excellent books here:
www.bluemoosebooks.com
Thank you.
Don't ask, but corporates being corporate.
It is going to cost a bit and a half.
If you are able to help cushion the blow.
You can buy some excellent books here:
www.bluemoosebooks.com
Thank you.
March 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
We're having to move distributors by the end of March.
Don't ask, but corporates being corporate.
It is going to cost a bit and a half.
If you are able to help cushion the blow.
You can buy some excellent books here:
www.bluemoosebooks.com
Thank you.
Don't ask, but corporates being corporate.
It is going to cost a bit and a half.
If you are able to help cushion the blow.
You can buy some excellent books here:
www.bluemoosebooks.com
Thank you.
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💯 this 👇
For those of you who can,
Please support your local bookshops.
They pay their taxes and support our communities.
And don't squander profits on big boy toys.
@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@kennysbookshop.bsky.social
@bookshop-org.bsky.social
@forumbooks.bsky.social
Please support your local bookshops.
They pay their taxes and support our communities.
And don't squander profits on big boy toys.
@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@kennysbookshop.bsky.social
@bookshop-org.bsky.social
@forumbooks.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
💯 this 👇
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The Unusual Possession of Alastair Stubb -gothic supernatural- now available as an #audiobook
"Unusual and Gripping"
Audible audible.co.uk/pd/The-Unusu...
Amazon amazon.co.uk/Unusual-Poss...
Please repost & add your novel for me to repost :)
#BookSky #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #writing
"Unusual and Gripping"
Audible audible.co.uk/pd/The-Unusu...
Amazon amazon.co.uk/Unusual-Poss...
Please repost & add your novel for me to repost :)
#BookSky #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #writing
The Unusual Possession of Alastair Stubb
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. In the late 1890s, Theodore Stubb's Manor House is located in the quirky village of Muchmarsh. A keen entomologist, Theodore often spent time in his attic, ...
audible.co.uk
December 4, 2024 at 10:18 PM
The Unusual Possession of Alastair Stubb -gothic supernatural- now available as an #audiobook
"Unusual and Gripping"
Audible audible.co.uk/pd/The-Unusu...
Amazon amazon.co.uk/Unusual-Poss...
Please repost & add your novel for me to repost :)
#BookSky #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #writing
"Unusual and Gripping"
Audible audible.co.uk/pd/The-Unusu...
Amazon amazon.co.uk/Unusual-Poss...
Please repost & add your novel for me to repost :)
#BookSky #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #writing
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Congratulations to Rónán Hession.
Leonard and Hungry Paul included in the best Irish books of the 21st century
Top 50.
Marvellous.
@thebookseller.com
@irishtimes.com
@chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
@gutterbookshop.bsky.social
@booksireland.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Leonard and Hungry Paul included in the best Irish books of the 21st century
Top 50.
Marvellous.
@thebookseller.com
@irishtimes.com
@chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
@gutterbookshop.bsky.social
@booksireland.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 50 to No 26
A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish novels and short stories of the years 2020-2025
www.irishtimes.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Congratulations to Rónán Hession.
Leonard and Hungry Paul included in the best Irish books of the 21st century
Top 50.
Marvellous.
@thebookseller.com
@irishtimes.com
@chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
@gutterbookshop.bsky.social
@booksireland.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Leonard and Hungry Paul included in the best Irish books of the 21st century
Top 50.
Marvellous.
@thebookseller.com
@irishtimes.com
@chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
@gutterbookshop.bsky.social
@booksireland.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Excited to share that my story Remembering The Hungry Ghosts is available to read from Inner Worlds Magazine.
Support and subscribe to @innerworlds.bsky.social if you can!
#shortstory #speculative #asianmyths #ghosts
Support and subscribe to @innerworlds.bsky.social if you can!
#shortstory #speculative #asianmyths #ghosts
🎆 Inner Worlds Issue Six has landed! 🎆
Feat. ghosts, robots, and a surprising number of insects in twelve stories exploring the strange terrain of the self.
✨️🧠❤️✨️
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-six-ed...
#SFF #SpecFic #Horror #LitMag #ShortFiction
Feat. ghosts, robots, and a surprising number of insects in twelve stories exploring the strange terrain of the self.
✨️🧠❤️✨️
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-six-ed...
#SFF #SpecFic #Horror #LitMag #ShortFiction
March 7, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Excited to share that my story Remembering The Hungry Ghosts is available to read from Inner Worlds Magazine.
Support and subscribe to @innerworlds.bsky.social if you can!
#shortstory #speculative #asianmyths #ghosts
Support and subscribe to @innerworlds.bsky.social if you can!
#shortstory #speculative #asianmyths #ghosts
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When your brain just doesn't have the juice to write, edit instead.
Because editing is writing.
Still a win 🙌
Wishing you all a productive session!
#writingtips #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #editing #writingtip #writesky
Because editing is writing.
Still a win 🙌
Wishing you all a productive session!
#writingtips #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #editing #writingtip #writesky
a man is sitting in front of a fireplace with the word editing cap written on the screen
ALT: a man is sitting in front of a fireplace with the word editing cap written on the screen
media.tenor.com
March 15, 2025 at 9:16 AM
When your brain just doesn't have the juice to write, edit instead.
Because editing is writing.
Still a win 🙌
Wishing you all a productive session!
#writingtips #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #editing #writingtip #writesky
Because editing is writing.
Still a win 🙌
Wishing you all a productive session!
#writingtips #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #editing #writingtip #writesky
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#writers For the same reason I prefer a home-cooked meal to a factory made frozen meal prepared by a microwave, I am always going to choose to read a book by Barbara Kingsolver or Anne Tyler, or any human novelist, rather than one manufactured by AI, no matter how well it imitates a human writer.
‘A computer’s joke, on us’: writers respond to the short story written by AI
Sam Altman, the OpenAI boss, has declared its new model ‘good at creative writing’. We asked writers including Tracy Chevalier, Kamila Shamsie and David Baddiel if they agree
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
#writers For the same reason I prefer a home-cooked meal to a factory made frozen meal prepared by a microwave, I am always going to choose to read a book by Barbara Kingsolver or Anne Tyler, or any human novelist, rather than one manufactured by AI, no matter how well it imitates a human writer.
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I'm delighted to announce that I have redesigned my author website & added a newsletter subscribe form. I will send you two free stories if you sign-up.
Please check it out! www.davidjgriffin.co.uk
#BookSky #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #writing #ebooks #fiction #website
Please check it out! www.davidjgriffin.co.uk
#BookSky #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #writing #ebooks #fiction #website
David J Griffin | David J Griffin multi-genre author
Website of the author David John Griffin whose novels include When The Lover Lies, The Unusual Possession of Alastair Stubb, Turquoise Traveller and Abbie and the Portal
www.davidjgriffin.co.uk
March 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I'm delighted to announce that I have redesigned my author website & added a newsletter subscribe form. I will send you two free stories if you sign-up.
Please check it out! www.davidjgriffin.co.uk
#BookSky #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #writing #ebooks #fiction #website
Please check it out! www.davidjgriffin.co.uk
#BookSky #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #writing #ebooks #fiction #website
What!!! We won the North England Regional and Country Small Press of the Year! Alongside @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social, whom it is an honour to stand beside 😘
@thebookseller.com
@thebookseller.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Good piece about Kazuo Ishiguro this morning in The Guardian.
On writing sci fi as a literary novelist: “I was following something more internal. I wasn’t angling for someone to shout ‘Judas’.” 📚💙🖋️ #writingncommunity
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
On writing sci fi as a literary novelist: “I was following something more internal. I wasn’t angling for someone to shout ‘Judas’.” 📚💙🖋️ #writingncommunity
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
‘AI will become very good at manipulating emotions’: Kazuo Ishiguro on the future of fiction and truth
On the 20th anniversary of Never Let Me Go, the Nobel prize-winning novelist talks about the role of the author in a post-truth world – and why he’s ‘not a great writer of prose’
www.theguardian.com
March 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Good piece about Kazuo Ishiguro this morning in The Guardian.
On writing sci fi as a literary novelist: “I was following something more internal. I wasn’t angling for someone to shout ‘Judas’.” 📚💙🖋️ #writingncommunity
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
On writing sci fi as a literary novelist: “I was following something more internal. I wasn’t angling for someone to shout ‘Judas’.” 📚💙🖋️ #writingncommunity
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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#FridayReads Continuing to savor The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker. It gets more intriguing with each new development! 💙📚
I'm tempted to rush through The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker in one sitting and ignore everything else I have to do today, but instead I'll savor the mystery unfolding. 💙📚
March 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
#FridayReads Continuing to savor The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker. It gets more intriguing with each new development! 💙📚
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Lots of Babies being tossed with the Bathwater.
February 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Lots of Babies being tossed with the Bathwater.
I'm delighted to announce that I have redesigned my author website & added a newsletter subscribe form. I will send you two free stories if you sign-up.
Please check it out! www.davidjgriffin.co.uk
#BookSky #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #writing #ebooks #fiction #website
Please check it out! www.davidjgriffin.co.uk
#BookSky #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #writing #ebooks #fiction #website
David J Griffin | David J Griffin multi-genre author
Website of the author David John Griffin whose novels include When The Lover Lies, The Unusual Possession of Alastair Stubb, Turquoise Traveller and Abbie and the Portal
www.davidjgriffin.co.uk
March 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I'm delighted to announce that I have redesigned my author website & added a newsletter subscribe form. I will send you two free stories if you sign-up.
Please check it out! www.davidjgriffin.co.uk
#BookSky #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #writing #ebooks #fiction #website
Please check it out! www.davidjgriffin.co.uk
#BookSky #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #writing #ebooks #fiction #website
#BookSky #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #writing
I've just discovered Plottr - it looks just the ticket for planning out my next novel. New territory for me; I've always been primarily a pantser rather than a plotter…
Do you use Plottr, and if so, what is your opinion of it?
plottr.com
I've just discovered Plottr - it looks just the ticket for planning out my next novel. New territory for me; I've always been primarily a pantser rather than a plotter…
Do you use Plottr, and if so, what is your opinion of it?
plottr.com
Plottr – Story planning software for plotters and pantsers
Outline faster, organize smarter, and turbocharge your productivity today with Plottr, the #1 visual book planning and story bible software.
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March 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
#BookSky #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #writing
I've just discovered Plottr - it looks just the ticket for planning out my next novel. New territory for me; I've always been primarily a pantser rather than a plotter…
Do you use Plottr, and if so, what is your opinion of it?
plottr.com
I've just discovered Plottr - it looks just the ticket for planning out my next novel. New territory for me; I've always been primarily a pantser rather than a plotter…
Do you use Plottr, and if so, what is your opinion of it?
plottr.com
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This Underwood 315 #typewriter is one of my favorite tools to help add more personality to the #zines I make. I got this one around 2015 and it's still going strong! May upload a page of it's letter style/font later. ⌨️ 📃
#writing #analogtechnology
#writing #analogtechnology
March 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This Underwood 315 #typewriter is one of my favorite tools to help add more personality to the #zines I make. I got this one around 2015 and it's still going strong! May upload a page of it's letter style/font later. ⌨️ 📃
#writing #analogtechnology
#writing #analogtechnology
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Before any plants were taller than three feet, and before any animal with a backbone had made it out of the water, the earth was dotted with two-story-tall, silo-like fungi.
The Secret Lives of Fungi
They shape the world—and offer lessons for how to live in it.
www.newyorker.com
March 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Before any plants were taller than three feet, and before any animal with a backbone had made it out of the water, the earth was dotted with two-story-tall, silo-like fungi.
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Cover reveal:
The Orange Notebooks @susannacrossman.bsky.social
Designed by @feekra.bsky.social
'Each single book was a library, a universe. Long ago, word after word fell in a delicate rain, and the words became a lake from which we drew our water.'
May 25.
@guardianbooks.bsky.social
The Orange Notebooks @susannacrossman.bsky.social
Designed by @feekra.bsky.social
'Each single book was a library, a universe. Long ago, word after word fell in a delicate rain, and the words became a lake from which we drew our water.'
May 25.
@guardianbooks.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Cover reveal:
The Orange Notebooks @susannacrossman.bsky.social
Designed by @feekra.bsky.social
'Each single book was a library, a universe. Long ago, word after word fell in a delicate rain, and the words became a lake from which we drew our water.'
May 25.
@guardianbooks.bsky.social
The Orange Notebooks @susannacrossman.bsky.social
Designed by @feekra.bsky.social
'Each single book was a library, a universe. Long ago, word after word fell in a delicate rain, and the words became a lake from which we drew our water.'
May 25.
@guardianbooks.bsky.social
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Currently knee-deep in the second read-through and line edits of my sequel, and I just realized... I’ve been calling one of my characters the wrong name this entire time. Even in my crossover short stories! 😲🤯
Fellow #writers, please tell me I’m not alone in this disaster?
#writingcommunity
Fellow #writers, please tell me I’m not alone in this disaster?
#writingcommunity
February 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Currently knee-deep in the second read-through and line edits of my sequel, and I just realized... I’ve been calling one of my characters the wrong name this entire time. Even in my crossover short stories! 😲🤯
Fellow #writers, please tell me I’m not alone in this disaster?
#writingcommunity
Fellow #writers, please tell me I’m not alone in this disaster?
#writingcommunity
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Many thanks to Ian and all the wonderful booksellers @waterstones.bsky.social Leeds.
Love the support for Indy publishers.
@thebookseller.bsky.social
@serenitybookshop.bsky.social
The Accidental Immigrants by @jomcmillan.bsky.social
Love the support for Indy publishers.
@thebookseller.bsky.social
@serenitybookshop.bsky.social
The Accidental Immigrants by @jomcmillan.bsky.social
February 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Many thanks to Ian and all the wonderful booksellers @waterstones.bsky.social Leeds.
Love the support for Indy publishers.
@thebookseller.bsky.social
@serenitybookshop.bsky.social
The Accidental Immigrants by @jomcmillan.bsky.social
Love the support for Indy publishers.
@thebookseller.bsky.social
@serenitybookshop.bsky.social
The Accidental Immigrants by @jomcmillan.bsky.social
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Publication week is here for #SpellsStringsAndForgottenThings by @houseofrandall.bsky.social ✨
🔮Witchy romance
🏠Small town setting
❤️🔥Enemies to lovers
👯♀️Stories of sisterhood
Coming this Thursday 🌙
🔮Witchy romance
🏠Small town setting
❤️🔥Enemies to lovers
👯♀️Stories of sisterhood
Coming this Thursday 🌙
February 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Publication week is here for #SpellsStringsAndForgottenThings by @houseofrandall.bsky.social ✨
🔮Witchy romance
🏠Small town setting
❤️🔥Enemies to lovers
👯♀️Stories of sisterhood
Coming this Thursday 🌙
🔮Witchy romance
🏠Small town setting
❤️🔥Enemies to lovers
👯♀️Stories of sisterhood
Coming this Thursday 🌙
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“5 Mindset Tips For Revising Your First Draft" by Savannah Gilbo #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips www.savannahgilbo.com/blog/revisio...
5 Mindset Tips For Revising Your First Draft
Transform your approach to novel revision with 5 powerful mindset strategies from expert book coaches. Learn how to confidently handle writing feedback, navigate the revision process effectively, and ...
www.savannahgilbo.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“5 Mindset Tips For Revising Your First Draft" by Savannah Gilbo #amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips www.savannahgilbo.com/blog/revisio...
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