Elliot J Harper
@elliotjharper.bsky.social
Speculative Fiction Writer, based in York, England.
Author of the novel, New Gillion Street, published by Fly on the Wall Press, and independently published short story collection, The Strange Tales of Gillion.
www.elliotjharper.com
Author of the novel, New Gillion Street, published by Fly on the Wall Press, and independently published short story collection, The Strange Tales of Gillion.
www.elliotjharper.com
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My books, quirky speculative fiction novel, New Gillion Street, published by Fly on the Wall Press, and weird horror short story collection, The Strange Tales of Gillion are available to buy from most retailers.
For more info visit:
www.elliotjharper.com
#booksky
For more info visit:
www.elliotjharper.com
#booksky
February 18, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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Why does Fly on the Wall Press exist? 💭
We're here to break down the boundaries in traditional publishing, and promote stories that push forward voices that have been disregarded.
It's time to challenge ourselves through books.
We're here to break down the boundaries in traditional publishing, and promote stories that push forward voices that have been disregarded.
It's time to challenge ourselves through books.
February 17, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Why does Fly on the Wall Press exist? 💭
We're here to break down the boundaries in traditional publishing, and promote stories that push forward voices that have been disregarded.
It's time to challenge ourselves through books.
We're here to break down the boundaries in traditional publishing, and promote stories that push forward voices that have been disregarded.
It's time to challenge ourselves through books.
For the first time, I’m going to write a novel with multiple POVs. Ive spent the last two days mapping the story and how the four characters intersect. World building, concept and themes are mostly done. So far, I think it’s going to work, although I may need to up my planned workcount 🫠
#booksky
#booksky
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February 17, 2026 at 3:31 PM
For the first time, I’m going to write a novel with multiple POVs. Ive spent the last two days mapping the story and how the four characters intersect. World building, concept and themes are mostly done. So far, I think it’s going to work, although I may need to up my planned workcount 🫠
#booksky
#booksky
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Musk and Thiel are essentially mainstreaming racist narratives in a way we haven’t seen since Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind popularised and sentimentalised the Klu Klux Klan
February 17, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Musk and Thiel are essentially mainstreaming racist narratives in a way we haven’t seen since Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind popularised and sentimentalised the Klu Klux Klan
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Now's your chance!
You can get 25% OFF pre-orders at Waterstones over the next few days with the code FEB26.
Pre-order STAINLESS and DECOMPOSITION BOOK from @waterstones.bsky.social today!
You can get 25% OFF pre-orders at Waterstones over the next few days with the code FEB26.
Pre-order STAINLESS and DECOMPOSITION BOOK from @waterstones.bsky.social today!
February 17, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Now's your chance!
You can get 25% OFF pre-orders at Waterstones over the next few days with the code FEB26.
Pre-order STAINLESS and DECOMPOSITION BOOK from @waterstones.bsky.social today!
You can get 25% OFF pre-orders at Waterstones over the next few days with the code FEB26.
Pre-order STAINLESS and DECOMPOSITION BOOK from @waterstones.bsky.social today!
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Subverses by Mirko Boncaldo is a collection that treats the poem as a site of refusal, resisting authorial entitlement and inviting interpretation as a shared, destabilising game.
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
February 17, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Subverses by Mirko Boncaldo is a collection that treats the poem as a site of refusal, resisting authorial entitlement and inviting interpretation as a shared, destabilising game.
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
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Spaces are filling up for @cdelull.bsky.social's Queer Fiction writing course starting next month at SEESAW! 🎟️🔥
We have a number of discounted places available to underrepresented writers & those on low income
📧 commapublishing(at)yahoo.com to apply
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-fict...
We have a number of discounted places available to underrepresented writers & those on low income
📧 commapublishing(at)yahoo.com to apply
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-fict...
February 17, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Spaces are filling up for @cdelull.bsky.social's Queer Fiction writing course starting next month at SEESAW! 🎟️🔥
We have a number of discounted places available to underrepresented writers & those on low income
📧 commapublishing(at)yahoo.com to apply
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-fict...
We have a number of discounted places available to underrepresented writers & those on low income
📧 commapublishing(at)yahoo.com to apply
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-fict...
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I missed Valentine's Day this year as I was under the weather, so here's a belated thread about my romance books.
Firstly, they're all available from @srlpublishing.bsky.social now!
srlpublishing.co.uk/authors/w/ro...
Secondly, they're not strictly romance books...
Firstly, they're all available from @srlpublishing.bsky.social now!
srlpublishing.co.uk/authors/w/ro...
Secondly, they're not strictly romance books...
February 17, 2026 at 10:32 AM
I missed Valentine's Day this year as I was under the weather, so here's a belated thread about my romance books.
Firstly, they're all available from @srlpublishing.bsky.social now!
srlpublishing.co.uk/authors/w/ro...
Secondly, they're not strictly romance books...
Firstly, they're all available from @srlpublishing.bsky.social now!
srlpublishing.co.uk/authors/w/ro...
Secondly, they're not strictly romance books...
A truly great fucked-up horror movie! It’s very rare I ever see this one mentioned online. It’s a personal favourite of mine.
terrifying horror film
Watching now, for the first time...
2011's The Kill List.
2011's The Kill List.
February 17, 2026 at 6:33 AM
A truly great fucked-up horror movie! It’s very rare I ever see this one mentioned online. It’s a personal favourite of mine.
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The Epstein files present a unique reversal. Usually the billionaire class and tech titans have all the data on us
February 16, 2026 at 10:49 AM
The Epstein files present a unique reversal. Usually the billionaire class and tech titans have all the data on us
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The Wager And The Bear by @johnironmonger.bsky.social John Ironmonger is a sharply written, descriptive, redemptive tale following 2 men at odds within a changing climate. Great characters, plot, descriptions & prose
If you missed novel 'The Wager and the Bear' by @johnironmonger.bsky.social in 2025, imagine...
Two men floating away from Greenland on an iceberg, with only a hungry polar bear for company; the outcome of a bet or wager, foolishly committed to decades before...
Two men floating away from Greenland on an iceberg, with only a hungry polar bear for company; the outcome of a bet or wager, foolishly committed to decades before...
February 16, 2026 at 9:25 AM
The Wager And The Bear by @johnironmonger.bsky.social John Ironmonger is a sharply written, descriptive, redemptive tale following 2 men at odds within a changing climate. Great characters, plot, descriptions & prose
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In March 2026 comes a haunting tale of one mother's battle to save her child from adoption, when the state erases her identity... Translated for the first time in English from the best-selling Slovenian novel by Miha Mazzini!
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page... @inpressbooks.bsky.social
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page... @inpressbooks.bsky.social
February 16, 2026 at 12:02 PM
In March 2026 comes a haunting tale of one mother's battle to save her child from adoption, when the state erases her identity... Translated for the first time in English from the best-selling Slovenian novel by Miha Mazzini!
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page... @inpressbooks.bsky.social
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page... @inpressbooks.bsky.social
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Just over a week until short story collection submissions close!
Then we will have a month of reading - before novel and novella submissions open :)
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/manuscript-s...
Then we will have a month of reading - before novel and novella submissions open :)
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/manuscript-s...
February 15, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Just over a week until short story collection submissions close!
Then we will have a month of reading - before novel and novella submissions open :)
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/manuscript-s...
Then we will have a month of reading - before novel and novella submissions open :)
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/manuscript-s...
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Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds. The files reveal it was something far darker
Extraordinary read by @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for the Nerve on Epstein, academia and eugenics
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
Extraordinary read by @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for the Nerve on Epstein, academia and eugenics
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
February 15, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds. The files reveal it was something far darker
Extraordinary read by @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for the Nerve on Epstein, academia and eugenics
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
Extraordinary read by @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for the Nerve on Epstein, academia and eugenics
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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‘Timeless additions to a growing canon as much as calls to action in the present moment.’ @MarkazReview on the stories of Palestine Minus One commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
Palestine Minus One - Stories from the eve of the Nakba | Comma Press
£11.99 (Paperback / Anthology) - Mazen Maarouf, Selma Dabbagh, Ahmad Jaber, Anwar Hamed, Mahmoud Shukair and others
commapress.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 12:12 PM
‘Timeless additions to a growing canon as much as calls to action in the present moment.’ @MarkazReview on the stories of Palestine Minus One commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
I’ve since added another 6 fiction and 4 nonfiction/academic books to these shelves. I just fucking love Weird/New Weird fiction. It’s time to admit that I’ll only ever create odd/quirky/strange novels that will struggle to get published, but you write what you read, so fuck it 🤘🏻
#booksky #newweird
#booksky #newweird
This is my research shelf for my end of year project for the masters… It’s basically just an excuse to read weird af fiction 😋
#booksky #weirdfiction #newweird
#booksky #weirdfiction #newweird
February 15, 2026 at 9:20 AM
1. Two years ago today, my debut speculative fiction novel, New Gillion Street, was published by Fly on the Wall Press. As we watch with horror the madness unfolding in Minnesota right now, my little old book has been on my mind a lot…
#booksky
#booksky
February 14, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Angel’s Egg is very weird, which means it’s my kind of thing 🥚
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February 13, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Angel’s Egg is very weird, which means it’s my kind of thing 🥚
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PARADISE, the new genre-defying eco-thriller combining elements of noir, folk horror and nature writing by @bentufnell.bsky.social, is published early March!
Interested reviewers please get in touch.
Pre-order here: www.influxpress.com/shop/paradis...
Interested reviewers please get in touch.
Pre-order here: www.influxpress.com/shop/paradis...
February 13, 2026 at 12:09 AM
PARADISE, the new genre-defying eco-thriller combining elements of noir, folk horror and nature writing by @bentufnell.bsky.social, is published early March!
Interested reviewers please get in touch.
Pre-order here: www.influxpress.com/shop/paradis...
Interested reviewers please get in touch.
Pre-order here: www.influxpress.com/shop/paradis...
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Coming this summer: an unforgettable, near-future dystopia set in a climate-change induced haze, following Teddy Moon, rally car driver who suffers a career ending crash, and Jim Sorrel, the senior technician who shoulders the blame.
Available to pre-order now!
deadinkbooks.com/product/wrec...
Available to pre-order now!
deadinkbooks.com/product/wrec...
February 12, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Coming this summer: an unforgettable, near-future dystopia set in a climate-change induced haze, following Teddy Moon, rally car driver who suffers a career ending crash, and Jim Sorrel, the senior technician who shoulders the blame.
Available to pre-order now!
deadinkbooks.com/product/wrec...
Available to pre-order now!
deadinkbooks.com/product/wrec...
February 12, 2026 at 11:55 AM
I’m planning my end of year project for my masters, which is also a book. The urge to giddily jump headlong into writing is powerful but I MUST resist! I haven’t done enough character mapping or worldbuilding. Rushing will only mean a heavy edit and a sloppy story.
Stop. Take a breath.
#booksky
Stop. Take a breath.
#booksky
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February 12, 2026 at 11:50 AM
I’m planning my end of year project for my masters, which is also a book. The urge to giddily jump headlong into writing is powerful but I MUST resist! I haven’t done enough character mapping or worldbuilding. Rushing will only mean a heavy edit and a sloppy story.
Stop. Take a breath.
#booksky
Stop. Take a breath.
#booksky
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Happy publication day to the deep, dark, beautiful ride that is Keshed by Stu Hennigan.
We’re incredibly proud to be publishing this bold, uncompromising novel.
Congratulations @stuhennigan.bsky.social, and thanks to @turnarounduk.bsky.social, Jack Smyth, Tom and Jaime Witcomb and Alex Billington.
We’re incredibly proud to be publishing this bold, uncompromising novel.
Congratulations @stuhennigan.bsky.social, and thanks to @turnarounduk.bsky.social, Jack Smyth, Tom and Jaime Witcomb and Alex Billington.
February 12, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Happy publication day to the deep, dark, beautiful ride that is Keshed by Stu Hennigan.
We’re incredibly proud to be publishing this bold, uncompromising novel.
Congratulations @stuhennigan.bsky.social, and thanks to @turnarounduk.bsky.social, Jack Smyth, Tom and Jaime Witcomb and Alex Billington.
We’re incredibly proud to be publishing this bold, uncompromising novel.
Congratulations @stuhennigan.bsky.social, and thanks to @turnarounduk.bsky.social, Jack Smyth, Tom and Jaime Witcomb and Alex Billington.
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Join The Writers Workshop in Sheffield next month - and us, Isabelle Kenyon will be delivering a talk on pitching to agents and publishers for fiction, and be on a publishing panel about trends!
www.thewritersworkshop.co.uk/writers-day-...
www.thewritersworkshop.co.uk/writers-day-...
February 12, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Join The Writers Workshop in Sheffield next month - and us, Isabelle Kenyon will be delivering a talk on pitching to agents and publishers for fiction, and be on a publishing panel about trends!
www.thewritersworkshop.co.uk/writers-day-...
www.thewritersworkshop.co.uk/writers-day-...
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It's almost like being fabulously rich doesn't make you happy or well adjusted. It's almost like it makes you sad and lonely. And leaves you forever casting about for scapegoats to offset your deep self-loathing. Thank you Jim Ratcliffe and Elon Musk for these important life lessons.
February 12, 2026 at 7:51 AM
It's almost like being fabulously rich doesn't make you happy or well adjusted. It's almost like it makes you sad and lonely. And leaves you forever casting about for scapegoats to offset your deep self-loathing. Thank you Jim Ratcliffe and Elon Musk for these important life lessons.