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Jacob Rollinson
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davegoodman.bsky.social
UK Readers! My award-winning debut novel A RELUCTANT SPY is on a Kindle Daily Deal for today only - just 99p on Kindle and 99p for Audible members.

Grab one or both before midnight tonight!

cc @headlinebooks.bsky.social @dhhlitagency.bsky.social

www.amazon.co.uk/Reluctant-Sp...
A promotional graphic for the eBook version of A Reluctant Spy, featuring the awards roundels for the McDermid Debut Award and Bloody Scotland Debut Prize, and a 99p sticker, on a dark background.
December 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Looks like the kind of thing you find in a disused room in a new house and wonder, was that here when we moved in?
November 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Check out THE TRUTH OF CARCOSA amongst this selection of macabre delights
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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It's quite good! #buymybook #it'squitegood
tobiascarroll.bsky.social Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · Nov 2
This is out in January of 2026 and it's quite good! (And I said as much on a blurb on its back cover.)
jacobrollinson.bsky.social Jacob Rollinson @jacobrollinson.bsky.social · Nov 1
The cover for THE TRUTH OF CARCOSA is revealed! Fantastic work by @corraldesign.bsky.social. I feel like it conveys things that are key to this novel: its retro SFF aesthetic, metafictional play, and vision of worlds within worlds
November 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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The cover for THE TRUTH OF CARCOSA is revealed! Fantastic work by @corraldesign.bsky.social. I feel like it conveys things that are key to this novel: its retro SFF aesthetic, metafictional play, and vision of worlds within worlds
Front cover of a novel. The title reads: The truth of carcosa: a novel. The author is Jacob Rollinson. The cover is yellow, with bold red lettering. In the centre is the figure of a figure in a robe and crown, but the face and body of the figure are empty, giving instead a vista of a fantastic landscape
November 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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youtu.be/8VztTd6qQ1I Here I am, with Thrity Umrigar. Thrity talks about her new book MISSING SAM. I talk about how I came to write THE TRUTH OF CARCOSA. Is there anything more DREADFUL than intergalactic ancient evil? Yes: public speaking. OBSERVE the panic oozing from my pores! PRE-ORDER my book!
Booked & Buzzy - Two Authors, One Book Buzz, 30 Minutes
YouTube video by Hachette Library
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October 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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davewragg.com
🚨 EBOOK DEAL KLAXON 🚨

Get THE COMPANY OF THE WOLF for a piffling 99 pennies while you can, just in time for the release of THE IRON ROAD next month.

Available at ebooks.com and the Beast, amongst others!

www.amazon.co.uk/Company-Wolf...

www.ebooks.com/en-gb/book/2...
The Company of the Wolf
Full of David Wragg’s unique blend of humour, heart, and high stakes, The Company of the Wolf is the epic next instalment in the Tales of the Plains trilogy. Seeking a better life, Ree and Ja...
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August 1, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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davegoodman.bsky.social
Americans! My award-winning debut novel A RELUCTANT SPY is available for a mere 99 cents for the *whole of August* in a Kindle Monthly Deal - www.amazon.com/Reluctant-Sp...
A promotional image for the Kindle Monthly Deal, showing a Kindle with my book cover displayed and a 99 cent price sticker.
August 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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justinwoolley.bsky.social
UK friends!

Shakedowners is a Kindle UK monthly deal and you can get it for just 99p for thr month of August!

www.amazon.co.uk/Shakedowners...
August 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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My little brother is directing a short horror film (that I wrote). I can confirm that the screenplay is EXCELLENT. Ever wanted your name in the credits of a movie? Now's your chance! Donate to the crowdfunder here: greenlit.com/project/room...
The Room in the Tower
A gothic tale of love, legacy, and possession set in 1920s England. Adapted from E.F. Benson’s short story, this film explores the inheritance of trauma and the terrifying persistence of the past.
greenlit.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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New Planning for Burial album out today and I'm feeling it planningforburial.bandcamp.com/album/its-cl...
It's Closeness, It's Easy, by Planning For Burial
9 track album
planningforburial.bandcamp.com
May 30, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Without just posting my book deal post yet again, I want to respond in a little more depth to @timclare.bsky.social's insightful thread about The Repairer of Reputations. Back in 2020, when COVID was just hitting, I needed something to focus my attention on. This story, and this book, was that.
timclare.bsky.social Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · May 14
I've been thinking a lot about The King in Yellow, particularly the first story in the collection. In some ways it's not especially well written, but it's also one of my favourite horror/weird stories ever written. In summaries, people often leave out its weirdness;
www.gutenberg.org/files/8492/8...
The Project Gutenberg eBook of The King in Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers.
www.gutenberg.org
May 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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I have very good reasons of my own to reskeet this thread on Robert Chambers' The Repairer of Reputations, my favourite short story in The King in Yellow.
Post announcing a publication deal for the novel The Truth of Carcosa by Jacob Rollinson. A tribute to Robert Chamber's cult horror classic THE KING IN YELLOW, set in a near future dominated by chaos and resurgent nationalism, and following three friends who become entangled in the quest for a mysterious manuscript that appears to summon unholy powers and which unscrupulous corporations are hell-bent on seizing and using for the own ends
May 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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richardswanauthor.bsky.social
Some *extremely* exciting news from me! It's time to get back to the 'SF' in 'SFF':
February 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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My deal announcement came out on my birthday. Happy birthday to me! May the Yellow King hold off destruction of this planet long enough for my tribute to his intergalactic majesty THE TRUTH OF CARCOSA to hit the shelves (in North America in 2026)
December 6, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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haileypiperfights.bsky.social
ICYMI we did a cover reveal of my upcoming queer erotic cosmic horror novel A GAME IN YELLOW, and now I'm holding an ARC in my hands 🤩 it feels lovely, and I can't wait for Saga and I to bring you this King in Yellow-fueled madness on August 12 next year! 💛
www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Game...
Selfie of Hailey Piper holding an advance review copy of her upcoming book, A Game in Yellow, art by Caroline Teagle Johnson
December 16, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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caseystegman.com
Today, on Shirley Jackson’s birthday, let’s all marvel at one of the greatest opening paragraphs ever written (from THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE)
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met nearly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
December 14, 2024 at 12:55 PM
jacobrollinson.bsky.social
My deal announcement came out on my birthday. Happy birthday to me! May the Yellow King hold off destruction of this planet long enough for my tribute to his intergalactic majesty THE TRUTH OF CARCOSA to hit the shelves (in North America in 2026)
December 6, 2024 at 12:18 PM
jacobrollinson.bsky.social
My debut novel THE TRUTH OF CARCOSA irrupting into this reality in 2026!!!
dhhlitagency.bsky.social DHH Literary Agency @dhhlitagency.bsky.social · Dec 6
We are incredibly excited that @jacobrollinson.bsky.social's debut, THE TRUTH OF CARCOSA, an upmarket horror novel, has sold to Union Square & Co. in the US - congratulations Jacob!
December 6, 2024 at 12:04 PM
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The latest editions of Penguin's Weird Fiction series have the most marvelous retro cover art. Here's a book I'm keen on. www.penguin.co.uk/books/467853...
The King in Yellow
Penguin Weird Fiction: a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified. Shot through with an unutterable sense of mystery, p...
www.penguin.co.uk
November 19, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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davegoodman.bsky.social
ICYMI, my debut novel #AReluctantSpy is now available on Netgalley!
davegoodman.bsky.social David Goodman @davegoodman.bsky.social · Jun 10
#AReluctantSpy from Headline Books is now available on Netgalley! Request it here - www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
An image of the cover of 'A Reluctant Spy' with the text 'Now available on Netgalley' around it
June 11, 2024 at 8:16 AM
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One of the things I miss about childhood is dinosaurs. They were so exciting. I used to for for walks through the woods, legitimately terrified of dinosaurs. Now I'm only terrified of the landowners
September 7, 2023 at 4:39 PM
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This found-footage spoken-word hypnosis nightmare music IS MY JAM. Listening at work, journeying through the synthotropic woods with a key in my hand, not updating my spreadsheets
difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/jumand
Jumand, by Witch on Horseback
4 track album
difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com
September 5, 2023 at 7:50 AM
jacobrollinson.bsky.social
Formal declaration of my interests:
Fiction (weird)
Horror (cosmic/body/archive)
Goblin music (black metal/dungeon synth/kitsch nonsense)
*I have a vested interest in discovering fellow acolytes, interpreters, and followers of THE KING IN YELLOW*
Large dog (large)
August 25, 2023 at 10:03 AM
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Authors!
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If you like what my clients have to say about me then check out my link below for more info about my services & how to get a quote!

https://www.ed-crocker.com/editing-services
August 14, 2023 at 4:56 PM