Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer
@kitwhitfield.bsky.social
Novelist ‘as tart, dark and juicy as a summer pudding’. World Fantasy Award finalist. She/her.
Timeline cleanse queen.
The Gyrford series: tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
Horror reviews: https://tinyurl.com/5cyf7x5v
Agent: Sophie Hicks.
Timeline cleanse queen.
The Gyrford series: tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
Horror reviews: https://tinyurl.com/5cyf7x5v
Agent: Sophie Hicks.
Pinned
Art by my husband illustrating one of the creatures of my IN THE HEART OF HIDDEN THINGS. (tinyurl.com/nvvetupj)
The brambles had been talking to themselves for a while, but it’s only when someone uprooted one that they started to get really stroppy…
The brambles had been talking to themselves for a while, but it’s only when someone uprooted one that they started to get really stroppy…
Or Sarah Lane, who did the difficult dancing for Natalie Portman in BLACK SWAN, wanting proper credit less for personal glory than because pretending anyone can become a ballerina in 18 months insults ballet.
You don’t get good at any art unless you love the form more than your own ego.
You don’t get good at any art unless you love the form more than your own ego.
This is Richard Hughes’ introduction to Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, and it’s exactly how I feel about AI.
‘If I could say in three pages what takes My Faulkner nearly three hundred there would obviously be no need for the book’.
‘If I could say in three pages what takes My Faulkner nearly three hundred there would obviously be no need for the book’.
January 4, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Or Sarah Lane, who did the difficult dancing for Natalie Portman in BLACK SWAN, wanting proper credit less for personal glory than because pretending anyone can become a ballerina in 18 months insults ballet.
You don’t get good at any art unless you love the form more than your own ego.
You don’t get good at any art unless you love the form more than your own ego.
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Tomorrow night, 4 Jan, livestreamed and free to view at 7.30pm(UK)
"The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual" by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Simply click here - you can watch anytime after the live broadcast
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"The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual" by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Simply click here - you can watch anytime after the live broadcast
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January 3, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Tomorrow night, 4 Jan, livestreamed and free to view at 7.30pm(UK)
"The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual" by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Simply click here - you can watch anytime after the live broadcast
youtube.com/live/YdVr-e4...
"The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual" by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Simply click here - you can watch anytime after the live broadcast
youtube.com/live/YdVr-e4...
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Year of the Horse innit? NEIGH PROBLEM!
#yearofthehorse #horses #unicorns
Cards available here
Unicorn
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Pony hug
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#bsnm #artforsale #ponygirls #horselovers #bskyhorses
#yearofthehorse #horses #unicorns
Cards available here
Unicorn
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Pony hug
dippyfishcards.etsy.com/listing/1760...
Prints available here
ko-fi.com/dippyfish/shop
#bsnm #artforsale #ponygirls #horselovers #bskyhorses
January 2, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Year of the Horse innit? NEIGH PROBLEM!
#yearofthehorse #horses #unicorns
Cards available here
Unicorn
dippyfishcards.etsy.com/listing/1082...
Pony hug
dippyfishcards.etsy.com/listing/1760...
Prints available here
ko-fi.com/dippyfish/shop
#bsnm #artforsale #ponygirls #horselovers #bskyhorses
#yearofthehorse #horses #unicorns
Cards available here
Unicorn
dippyfishcards.etsy.com/listing/1082...
Pony hug
dippyfishcards.etsy.com/listing/1760...
Prints available here
ko-fi.com/dippyfish/shop
#bsnm #artforsale #ponygirls #horselovers #bskyhorses
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January 2, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Cheery weekend to you!
Sometimes the alt text is an identification test, but hey, nice flowers. Was I right the yellow one is St John’s Wort, floral friends?
Artist: Eliot Hodgkin
Sometimes the alt text is an identification test, but hey, nice flowers. Was I right the yellow one is St John’s Wort, floral friends?
Artist: Eliot Hodgkin
January 3, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Cheery weekend to you!
Sometimes the alt text is an identification test, but hey, nice flowers. Was I right the yellow one is St John’s Wort, floral friends?
Artist: Eliot Hodgkin
Sometimes the alt text is an identification test, but hey, nice flowers. Was I right the yellow one is St John’s Wort, floral friends?
Artist: Eliot Hodgkin
Doc says the itches are ‘atypical hives.’ I choose to believe I have accidentally pleased the fey, who have rewarded me by planting tiny bee colonies under my skin, and if I wait patiently I will be getting atypical honey any day.
Don’t all lick me at once.
Don’t all lick me at once.
January 2, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Doc says the itches are ‘atypical hives.’ I choose to believe I have accidentally pleased the fey, who have rewarded me by planting tiny bee colonies under my skin, and if I wait patiently I will be getting atypical honey any day.
Don’t all lick me at once.
Don’t all lick me at once.
#booksky #bookqw word: TIRED
Apprentice fairy-smith John is hunting a child-stealing fey. Unfortunately, once you step inside its mists, things get … strange.
From ALL THE HOLLOW OF THE SKY
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Apprentice fairy-smith John is hunting a child-stealing fey. Unfortunately, once you step inside its mists, things get … strange.
From ALL THE HOLLOW OF THE SKY
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December 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
#booksky #bookqw word: TIRED
Apprentice fairy-smith John is hunting a child-stealing fey. Unfortunately, once you step inside its mists, things get … strange.
From ALL THE HOLLOW OF THE SKY
www.amazon.co.uk/All-Hollow-S...
Apprentice fairy-smith John is hunting a child-stealing fey. Unfortunately, once you step inside its mists, things get … strange.
From ALL THE HOLLOW OF THE SKY
www.amazon.co.uk/All-Hollow-S...
I just learned shrews:
- Are the same size as mice but heavier
- Have poison teeth
- Die if they don’t eat more or less constantly, or else hibernate so deep their brains shrink
- Hunt and eat mice
…I demand a horror movie where vampires are to us as shrews are to mice. We can call it The Shrewd.
- Are the same size as mice but heavier
- Have poison teeth
- Die if they don’t eat more or less constantly, or else hibernate so deep their brains shrink
- Hunt and eat mice
…I demand a horror movie where vampires are to us as shrews are to mice. We can call it The Shrewd.
December 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I just learned shrews:
- Are the same size as mice but heavier
- Have poison teeth
- Die if they don’t eat more or less constantly, or else hibernate so deep their brains shrink
- Hunt and eat mice
…I demand a horror movie where vampires are to us as shrews are to mice. We can call it The Shrewd.
- Are the same size as mice but heavier
- Have poison teeth
- Die if they don’t eat more or less constantly, or else hibernate so deep their brains shrink
- Hunt and eat mice
…I demand a horror movie where vampires are to us as shrews are to mice. We can call it The Shrewd.
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Would you like a queer urban fantasy novel featuring useless bisexual disasters and gay yearning?
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Jack of Thorns
What do you do when a Celtic god rings your doorbell?
Laurence Riley is a San Diego florist whose ex won't leave him alone. Quentin d'Arcy is a British earl on the run from his own family. Despi...
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December 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Would you like a queer urban fantasy novel featuring useless bisexual disasters and gay yearning?
My free gift to you for the holidays: ebook / audio for zero pennies!
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My free gift to you for the holidays: ebook / audio for zero pennies!
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Some fields remember the first turning of the plough, some the swords of battle. All remember the dead buried below. For this is an unquiet land where the ghost soil is deep. Death shouts across time. – #EmilyCBanting from her Misling Mire public lecture
December 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Some fields remember the first turning of the plough, some the swords of battle. All remember the dead buried below. For this is an unquiet land where the ghost soil is deep. Death shouts across time. – #EmilyCBanting from her Misling Mire public lecture
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Reminder! Turn off AI in your Canva settings.
Click on your name initials at the bottom of the menu on the left > privacy controls > turn off AI.
Click on your name initials at the bottom of the menu on the left > 'ai personalisation' > TURN OFF.
Click on your name initials at the bottom of the menu on the left > privacy controls > turn off AI.
Click on your name initials at the bottom of the menu on the left > 'ai personalisation' > TURN OFF.
December 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Reminder! Turn off AI in your Canva settings.
Click on your name initials at the bottom of the menu on the left > privacy controls > turn off AI.
Click on your name initials at the bottom of the menu on the left > 'ai personalisation' > TURN OFF.
Click on your name initials at the bottom of the menu on the left > privacy controls > turn off AI.
Click on your name initials at the bottom of the menu on the left > 'ai personalisation' > TURN OFF.
Bit of London mistletoe for you.
December 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Bit of London mistletoe for you.
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Happy evening beautiful people ❤️
December 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Happy evening beautiful people ❤️
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It's that time of year again!
I've surveyed the Romancing the Book Group members and we've come up with our top '5-star reads'
Get some bookish inspiration here!
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I've surveyed the Romancing the Book Group members and we've come up with our top '5-star reads'
Get some bookish inspiration here!
romancingthegothic.com/2025/12/28/r...
Romancing the Gothic Five-Star Reads
Every year, the Romancing the Gothic book group votes on the books it has read this last year to give you our top recommendations! I tried for a top 5 but we had 6 books tied in third place so̷…
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December 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
It's that time of year again!
I've surveyed the Romancing the Book Group members and we've come up with our top '5-star reads'
Get some bookish inspiration here!
romancingthegothic.com/2025/12/28/r...
I've surveyed the Romancing the Book Group members and we've come up with our top '5-star reads'
Get some bookish inspiration here!
romancingthegothic.com/2025/12/28/r...
Need a seasonal scare? Check out the creepiest of doll stories by @bookdragonauthor.bsky.social Charlotte Bond!
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Horror Christmas Calendar Hannah Doll, by Charlotte Bond.
YouTube video by ExaggeratedElegy
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December 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Need a seasonal scare? Check out the creepiest of doll stories by @bookdragonauthor.bsky.social Charlotte Bond!
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December 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM
You know, given his love of philology and the age of the word, I suspect it would have upset Tolkien a lot less than having a character say something new-fangled like ‘hello.’
The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering to insert the most useful swear word?
"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
December 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
You know, given his love of philology and the age of the word, I suspect it would have upset Tolkien a lot less than having a character say something new-fangled like ‘hello.’
December 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Dear friends, I wish you blessings of the season. K
Christmas Eve
A whirling galaxy of starlings
at sunset on Christmas Eve.
Star – lings (a bright and shining name for such a dark and dusky bird)
A murmurration of stars
sweeping the darkling night,
making a moving path
for the Milky Way
Christmas Eve
A whirling galaxy of starlings
at sunset on Christmas Eve.
Star – lings (a bright and shining name for such a dark and dusky bird)
A murmurration of stars
sweeping the darkling night,
making a moving path
for the Milky Way
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December 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Dear friends, I wish you blessings of the season. K
Christmas Eve
A whirling galaxy of starlings
at sunset on Christmas Eve.
Star – lings (a bright and shining name for such a dark and dusky bird)
A murmurration of stars
sweeping the darkling night,
making a moving path
for the Milky Way
Christmas Eve
A whirling galaxy of starlings
at sunset on Christmas Eve.
Star – lings (a bright and shining name for such a dark and dusky bird)
A murmurration of stars
sweeping the darkling night,
making a moving path
for the Milky Way
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Tufted Titmice are perfection with their big dark eyes and sassy tuft.
December 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Tufted Titmice are perfection with their big dark eyes and sassy tuft.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care.
In the hope that Saint Nick wasn’t easy to scare.
In the hope that Saint Nick wasn’t easy to scare.
December 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care.
In the hope that Saint Nick wasn’t easy to scare.
In the hope that Saint Nick wasn’t easy to scare.
Want a sweet story with a menacing spice? My dear friend and award-winning writer @bookdragonauthor.bsky.social reads a Christmas take written by me.
Shoutout to @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social for organising and Nico @tinybookcase.bsky.social for the prompt ‘gingerbread’!
Happy holidays all. xxx
Shoutout to @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social for organising and Nico @tinybookcase.bsky.social for the prompt ‘gingerbread’!
Happy holidays all. xxx
This evening's offering from The Horror Christmas Calendar is: How To Make Gingerbread For Your Family, by @kitwhitfield.bsky.social, read by @bookdragonauthor.bsky.social:
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Horror Christmas Calendar: How To Make Gingerbread For Your Family, by Kit Whitfield
YouTube video by ExaggeratedElegy
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December 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Want a sweet story with a menacing spice? My dear friend and award-winning writer @bookdragonauthor.bsky.social reads a Christmas take written by me.
Shoutout to @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social for organising and Nico @tinybookcase.bsky.social for the prompt ‘gingerbread’!
Happy holidays all. xxx
Shoutout to @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social for organising and Nico @tinybookcase.bsky.social for the prompt ‘gingerbread’!
Happy holidays all. xxx
Who’s for some spooky stories this Christmas! Kicking off with me reading an incredibly atmospheric festive yarn of trailer covens in the back woods.
More to come, including @bookdragonauthor.bsky.social reading a story of mine later.
More to come, including @bookdragonauthor.bsky.social reading a story of mine later.
The first entry in the Horror Christmas Calendar features The Witch's Yule, by Matthew Brockmeyer, read by @kitwhitfield.bsky.social
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Horror Christmas Calendar 2025 The Witchs Yule By Matthew Brockmeyer (Read by Kit Whitfield)
YouTube video by ExaggeratedElegy
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December 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Who’s for some spooky stories this Christmas! Kicking off with me reading an incredibly atmospheric festive yarn of trailer covens in the back woods.
More to come, including @bookdragonauthor.bsky.social reading a story of mine later.
More to come, including @bookdragonauthor.bsky.social reading a story of mine later.
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Oh for the days when your job was to count the smiles in The Iliad
December 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Oh for the days when your job was to count the smiles in The Iliad
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Creating a list of horror works by trans authors (books don't have to have trans characters--the list is based on authorship): pagebound.co/lists/cc73e5...
I'm pausing to edit, but if you have suggestions that aren't already there (including self-recs), let me know!
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December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Creating a list of horror works by trans authors (books don't have to have trans characters--the list is based on authorship): pagebound.co/lists/cc73e5...
I'm pausing to edit, but if you have suggestions that aren't already there (including self-recs), let me know!
I'm pausing to edit, but if you have suggestions that aren't already there (including self-recs), let me know!