Heather Palmer
@heatherpalmer.bsky.social
DEATHBOUND is out on audible now!
Represented by Robbie Guillory at Underline.
www.heatherannepalmer.com
Represented by Robbie Guillory at Underline.
www.heatherannepalmer.com
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Hello to everyone joining me here after Cymera Festival!
Here's a quick intro to Deathbound, only on Audible!
⚔️ Sapphic awakening
⚔️ Proud lady knight guarding a spoiled princess
⚔️ Undead army at the walls
⚔️ Murder and magic
⚔️ Trilogy in the making
I hope you like her!
Here's a quick intro to Deathbound, only on Audible!
⚔️ Sapphic awakening
⚔️ Proud lady knight guarding a spoiled princess
⚔️ Undead army at the walls
⚔️ Murder and magic
⚔️ Trilogy in the making
I hope you like her!
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Thought Bubble is next weekend! Really excited, but please please wear a mask - i see fewer & fewer each year, and COVID is just as serious as it was 5 years ago. TB is an amazing event, but it’s not worth getting disabled or immunocompromised.
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Thought Bubble is next weekend! Really excited, but please please wear a mask - i see fewer & fewer each year, and COVID is just as serious as it was 5 years ago. TB is an amazing event, but it’s not worth getting disabled or immunocompromised.
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I now have incredibly frustrating chronic fatigue after getting covid in 2022. Please wear a maaaaask, it sucks
Thought Bubble is next weekend! Really excited, but please please wear a mask - i see fewer & fewer each year, and COVID is just as serious as it was 5 years ago. TB is an amazing event, but it’s not worth getting disabled or immunocompromised.
November 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I now have incredibly frustrating chronic fatigue after getting covid in 2022. Please wear a maaaaask, it sucks
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A quick reminder that i have a weirdish dark fantasy novel available on Audible.
And, despite the shocked Pikachu reviews about being woke cannibal erotica, it is a) queer and b) not a YA ;)
Listen to The Shape of Monsters by C L Hellisen on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0FGDJ5X1...
And, despite the shocked Pikachu reviews about being woke cannibal erotica, it is a) queer and b) not a YA ;)
Listen to The Shape of Monsters by C L Hellisen on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0FGDJ5X1...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
A quick reminder that i have a weirdish dark fantasy novel available on Audible.
And, despite the shocked Pikachu reviews about being woke cannibal erotica, it is a) queer and b) not a YA ;)
Listen to The Shape of Monsters by C L Hellisen on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0FGDJ5X1...
And, despite the shocked Pikachu reviews about being woke cannibal erotica, it is a) queer and b) not a YA ;)
Listen to The Shape of Monsters by C L Hellisen on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0FGDJ5X1...
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After a whirlwind time in Brighton at World Fantasy Con, here’s a quick reminder of the last few UK tour stops!
Edinburgh, Nov 4 w/ Hannah Kaner
Glasgow, Nov 5 w/ @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social
Leeds, Nov 6 w/ @tashasuri.bsky.social @toribovalino.bsky.social
Tickets below!
Edinburgh, Nov 4 w/ Hannah Kaner
Glasgow, Nov 5 w/ @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social
Leeds, Nov 6 w/ @tashasuri.bsky.social @toribovalino.bsky.social
Tickets below!
November 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
After a whirlwind time in Brighton at World Fantasy Con, here’s a quick reminder of the last few UK tour stops!
Edinburgh, Nov 4 w/ Hannah Kaner
Glasgow, Nov 5 w/ @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social
Leeds, Nov 6 w/ @tashasuri.bsky.social @toribovalino.bsky.social
Tickets below!
Edinburgh, Nov 4 w/ Hannah Kaner
Glasgow, Nov 5 w/ @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social
Leeds, Nov 6 w/ @tashasuri.bsky.social @toribovalino.bsky.social
Tickets below!
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Can we use a prescription as a base for a SFFH story? What about a receipt? A parking ticket? A nursery rhyme? How many 'other' forms of writing could we harness to enrich our writing practice?
Join us for Cymera's Writers' Conference on Sat 22 Nov: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...
Join us for Cymera's Writers' Conference on Sat 22 Nov: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Can we use a prescription as a base for a SFFH story? What about a receipt? A parking ticket? A nursery rhyme? How many 'other' forms of writing could we harness to enrich our writing practice?
Join us for Cymera's Writers' Conference on Sat 22 Nov: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...
Join us for Cymera's Writers' Conference on Sat 22 Nov: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...
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Announcing the Scottish Christmas Book Fair!
* The perfect occasion for Christmas gift shopping
* All your favourite genres for adults & children
* Chat with Scotland’s indie publishers & meet their authors
See below for who'll be there!
www.publishingscotland.org/event/scotti...
* The perfect occasion for Christmas gift shopping
* All your favourite genres for adults & children
* Chat with Scotland’s indie publishers & meet their authors
See below for who'll be there!
www.publishingscotland.org/event/scotti...
October 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Announcing the Scottish Christmas Book Fair!
* The perfect occasion for Christmas gift shopping
* All your favourite genres for adults & children
* Chat with Scotland’s indie publishers & meet their authors
See below for who'll be there!
www.publishingscotland.org/event/scotti...
* The perfect occasion for Christmas gift shopping
* All your favourite genres for adults & children
* Chat with Scotland’s indie publishers & meet their authors
See below for who'll be there!
www.publishingscotland.org/event/scotti...
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What beats writers block is not treating your body like a factory. What beats writers block is healthcare. What beats writers block is gardening, & rest, & food, & companionship, & reading, & leisure, & anti-capitalism—but of course that’s not a very profitable thing to write, & won’t sell LLMs.
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
What beats writers block is not treating your body like a factory. What beats writers block is healthcare. What beats writers block is gardening, & rest, & food, & companionship, & reading, & leisure, & anti-capitalism—but of course that’s not a very profitable thing to write, & won’t sell LLMs.
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Writer pals! just a wee reminder to join ALCS if you haven't already, and to make sure they have details of your print publications by the end of november - 30/11 is the cut-off for the next royalty payments in March.
www.alcs.co.uk
www.alcs.co.uk
ALCS
www.alcs.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Writer pals! just a wee reminder to join ALCS if you haven't already, and to make sure they have details of your print publications by the end of november - 30/11 is the cut-off for the next royalty payments in March.
www.alcs.co.uk
www.alcs.co.uk
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Sorry but it’s hard for me to care about the BBC’s risk of being defunded or whatever when frankly it’s been primarily used to normalise right wing rhetoric about immigrants, trans people, and others. 🤷🏻♀️
October 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Sorry but it’s hard for me to care about the BBC’s risk of being defunded or whatever when frankly it’s been primarily used to normalise right wing rhetoric about immigrants, trans people, and others. 🤷🏻♀️
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I am so excited for you all to read @rainewilson.bsky.social's THE SALT ORACLE - it's beautiful, tragic, haunting and filled with brilliant details - this is near future speculative fic of the fantastical.
Also TINY SPINE ORCA!
Also TINY SPINE ORCA!
LOOK WHO HATCHED!
New books are in my very own paws & they're looking so damn pretty I can't!
(Please admire the teensy spine orca whomst I adore)
(Also have I shown you my spite dedication? I can't remember)
@solarisbooks.bsky.social @literaryfey.bsky.social
New books are in my very own paws & they're looking so damn pretty I can't!
(Please admire the teensy spine orca whomst I adore)
(Also have I shown you my spite dedication? I can't remember)
@solarisbooks.bsky.social @literaryfey.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I am so excited for you all to read @rainewilson.bsky.social's THE SALT ORACLE - it's beautiful, tragic, haunting and filled with brilliant details - this is near future speculative fic of the fantastical.
Also TINY SPINE ORCA!
Also TINY SPINE ORCA!
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In things that are cool, The Shape of Monsters is up for a Speakies award next month! Am I amused that it's listed as YA? Yes, but also teens read whatever they want.
www.thebookseller.com/british-audi...
www.thebookseller.com/british-audi...
Best Audiobook: Young Adult Books Shortlist | The British Audio Awards
The shortlist for the Best Audiobook: Young Adult Books category at The British Audio Awards - aka The Speakies - organised by The Bookseller and The Stage
www.thebookseller.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
In things that are cool, The Shape of Monsters is up for a Speakies award next month! Am I amused that it's listed as YA? Yes, but also teens read whatever they want.
www.thebookseller.com/british-audi...
www.thebookseller.com/british-audi...
I'm super excited to chat about the manuscript's journey and working with agents at this fantastic conference in November!
Our 2025 Writers' Conference Programme is LIVE 🎉
This year's programme delivers a variety of writing workshops, industry expert panels and agent one-to-ones – plus a full day of fantastic networking opportunities with other genre writers.
www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...
This year's programme delivers a variety of writing workshops, industry expert panels and agent one-to-ones – plus a full day of fantastic networking opportunities with other genre writers.
www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...
October 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I'm super excited to chat about the manuscript's journey and working with agents at this fantastic conference in November!
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The incredible @cymerafestival.co.uk is on Sat Nov 22 in Edinburgh. It’s a celebration of sci-fi, fantasy and horror literature.
I’m part of this panel session about collaboration - working with other writers, artists, colourists and more.
Full event details: www.cymerafestival.co.uk
I’m part of this panel session about collaboration - working with other writers, artists, colourists and more.
Full event details: www.cymerafestival.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The incredible @cymerafestival.co.uk is on Sat Nov 22 in Edinburgh. It’s a celebration of sci-fi, fantasy and horror literature.
I’m part of this panel session about collaboration - working with other writers, artists, colourists and more.
Full event details: www.cymerafestival.co.uk
I’m part of this panel session about collaboration - working with other writers, artists, colourists and more.
Full event details: www.cymerafestival.co.uk
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You’ve got blood on your hands
Each and every one of you transphobic bastards have blood on your hands.
The politicians, the ‘journalists,’ the ‘academics,’ the ‘concerned parents,’ the people with ‘legitimate concerns.’
You all have fucking blood on your hands
Each and every one of you transphobic bastards have blood on your hands.
The politicians, the ‘journalists,’ the ‘academics,’ the ‘concerned parents,’ the people with ‘legitimate concerns.’
You all have fucking blood on your hands
Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."
This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."
RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...
This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."
RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...
Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack
A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.
share.google
October 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
You’ve got blood on your hands
Each and every one of you transphobic bastards have blood on your hands.
The politicians, the ‘journalists,’ the ‘academics,’ the ‘concerned parents,’ the people with ‘legitimate concerns.’
You all have fucking blood on your hands
Each and every one of you transphobic bastards have blood on your hands.
The politicians, the ‘journalists,’ the ‘academics,’ the ‘concerned parents,’ the people with ‘legitimate concerns.’
You all have fucking blood on your hands
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It's me! And a game I wrote in a cool book curated by @jedapearl.bsky.social with lots of fun folks! Come to the launch! Play a #game buy a #book! It's about the fantastic #NorthBridge #Edinburgh and its gone in a #TimeCapsule in the #Bridge!! #rpg #ttrpg #TimeTravel #AuldReekie
Creative technologist, game designer, producer and writer, ABS @abs.ventures created a genre-psychogeographical game (that we printed full colour), titled 'Fir Fae-Eyes Only'!! 🧚🏽🧌🦦 Get a wee taste & maybe a hint* or two at the launch!
Find ABS on www.abs.ventures and www.morefunwith.games
Find ABS on www.abs.ventures and www.morefunwith.games
October 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
It's me! And a game I wrote in a cool book curated by @jedapearl.bsky.social with lots of fun folks! Come to the launch! Play a #game buy a #book! It's about the fantastic #NorthBridge #Edinburgh and its gone in a #TimeCapsule in the #Bridge!! #rpg #ttrpg #TimeTravel #AuldReekie
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🚨 ROLL UP! ROLL UP!🚨
It's a @waterstones.bsky.social preorder sale!
Until 17th Oct, you can grab 25% off a selection of our forthcoming Spring 2026 titles including: @kerstinhall.bsky.social @authortrmoore.bsky.social & the UK special limited run of THE ORB OF CAIRADO from @pennyvixen.bsky.social!
It's a @waterstones.bsky.social preorder sale!
Until 17th Oct, you can grab 25% off a selection of our forthcoming Spring 2026 titles including: @kerstinhall.bsky.social @authortrmoore.bsky.social & the UK special limited run of THE ORB OF CAIRADO from @pennyvixen.bsky.social!
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
🚨 ROLL UP! ROLL UP!🚨
It's a @waterstones.bsky.social preorder sale!
Until 17th Oct, you can grab 25% off a selection of our forthcoming Spring 2026 titles including: @kerstinhall.bsky.social @authortrmoore.bsky.social & the UK special limited run of THE ORB OF CAIRADO from @pennyvixen.bsky.social!
It's a @waterstones.bsky.social preorder sale!
Until 17th Oct, you can grab 25% off a selection of our forthcoming Spring 2026 titles including: @kerstinhall.bsky.social @authortrmoore.bsky.social & the UK special limited run of THE ORB OF CAIRADO from @pennyvixen.bsky.social!
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Salt does great books, and keeping a strong indie scene alive is good for us all. Support them if you can!
We need your help. 💙 Salt is fighting to keep indie publishing alive — discovering new writers, nurturing voices that matter. Every pound helps us publish more books. Please donate or share today. #SupportIndie #KeepBooksAlive #Books #Writers #IndiePress
Donate to Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026, organized by Christopher Hamilton-Emery
New books and reprints arrive daily at Salty Towers – and we'… Christopher Hamilton-Emery needs your support for Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026
gofund.me
October 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Salt does great books, and keeping a strong indie scene alive is good for us all. Support them if you can!
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October 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.
msf.org/msf-denounce...
msf.org/msf-denounce...
October 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.
msf.org/msf-denounce...
msf.org/msf-denounce...
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Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years.
This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.
This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.
This amazing article from @vic-parsons.bsky.social via @wearequeeraf.com shows the absolute criminal state of trans healthcare in the UK.
Scotland has a 224 year wait for a first appointment. Yes, you read that right.
www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...
Scotland has a 224 year wait for a first appointment. Yes, you read that right.
www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...
Latest waiting times for gender identity clinics in the UK
Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care
www.wearequeeraf.com
October 4, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years.
This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.
This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.
Some days you write a scene which you know is going to make people so furious in a year and a half.
And you just have to wait for it.
And you just have to wait for it.
October 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Some days you write a scene which you know is going to make people so furious in a year and a half.
And you just have to wait for it.
And you just have to wait for it.
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The Gender Critical have already inundated this survey with their disgusting views on banning trans people from using the ponds.
Would be a shame if we inundated with trans positive views on not banning trans people.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
Would be a shame if we inundated with trans positive views on not banning trans people.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
Public Consultation on Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds | Commonplace
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is
October 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The Gender Critical have already inundated this survey with their disgusting views on banning trans people from using the ponds.
Would be a shame if we inundated with trans positive views on not banning trans people.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
Would be a shame if we inundated with trans positive views on not banning trans people.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...