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Leigh Loveday
@leighloveday.bsky.social
Another writer fleeing Twitter. 30 years of videogame-adjacent scrawling and also, these days, weird short stories. Pics of cats, books and foxes likely.
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2024 publications round-up time! Settle in, you love it, I did an image and everything. Listed from long to short and then slapped on top of a photo taken from my back door, with links and word counts further down the thread: 🪐📚
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Halloween may be over, but we're still feeling spooky!

So, how about a bumper website exclusive #stillspooky sale of our spookiest titles for only 0.99 each? Shop the sale: geni.us/Solarissale

Titles available vary by your country of origin. Ends on 24th November 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
A real bargain and a total of *counts carefully* an absolute spaffload of stories. Dark Stars, Wyrms 2 and The Book of Drabbles contain stories by me but I'm afraid it's not possible to have those removed before purchase.
🚨Bundle!🚨

You can grab 15 drabble anthologies for only $12 from the Shacklebound Bookstore!

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November 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Every ad now
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Final teases for our charity print anthology!
It has to be post-apocalypse time (a favourite genre for our Ed).
These three writers truly nailed the end of the world; brutal and beautiful writing 🦝

Grab a copy here: mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

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November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Seeing Belém in the news makes me think about my li'l cryptid friend from this story last year. Hope he's up on a roof, watching. He may be a city boy these days but the rainforest made him. trashcatlit.com/the-unknown-...
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Okay, I'm in (but not specifically for Sam Rockwell's hobo juice).
November 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Bookmail! October sale pickups! From Influx Press! They arrived over a week ago but the cats liked sitting on the parcel and it is illegal to move them!
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Seeing Belém in the news makes me think about my li'l cryptid friend from this story last year. Hope he's up on a roof, watching. He may be a city boy these days but the rainforest made him. trashcatlit.com/the-unknown-...
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Cheeky lad in the back garden tonight who is this arsed about being observed: not remotely arsed
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I can't wait for The Running Man to be in cinemas! Not because I want to see it but because it feels like the trailer has played before EVERY SINGLE GODDAMN FILM I'VE BEEN TO SEE FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS and once it's out they have to stop
November 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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award season approaching...please consider nominating my works/share this post! all stories are linked on my website www.elenasichrovsky.com/fiction
November 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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I made an awards eligibility post! I always feel a bit embarrassed doing these, but I'm really proud of these stories and extremely grateful to the editors who've published them
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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No, I don't want to "quickly hop on a call with you". I want to bump into you at random on a rain-lashed heath, nod at you in silent mutual admiration as we watch a buzzard gliding smoothly over a dramatic chicane in the river, then get the fuck on with my day
November 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Thanks again to Rat Bag Lit for publishing my sci-fi short about horrible time-sucking tortoise aliens. Been lucky enough to get into Trash Cat, Silly Goose and now Rat Bag, has anyone done a starter pack of quirky animal lit mags?
November 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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It's genuinely worth a quick check of the advanced moderation settings as there's plenty I'm sure people would like to tweak but aren't aware that they can.
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Train platform 18_C....Collab with my partner @ekellystudio.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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HEY!

Get yourself a Big Green Books Advent Calendar.

Choose from 4, 6 or 12 books.

Unwrap a new surprise book every few days in the run up to Christmas.

Books will be individually picked based on what you enjoy reading.

Info HERE.

www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...

PLEASE SHARE
November 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
A distinct Void Baby theme to the cards this year. No complaints.
November 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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UK folks, THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR is a monthly Kindle deal for November: just 99p! Often this sort of deal leads to price-matching at other online retailers, too. Happy reading!
November 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Cheers to JP for bumping my bad-tempered dead Medusa story and many more Trash Family wins! www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/under-a...
November 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Love a Luna Novella and these ones couldn't be in two safer pairs of hands...es. Andrew's previous outing Ashes of the Ancestors is also excellent and I have told him so TO HIS FACE.
Pre-orders are open for Luna Novella 2026: @lyndseycroal.bsky.social gothic tale In This City, Where It Rains, and @aknighton.bsky.social SF story All That Is in the Earth. Out February 3. Pre-order today in all the usual places! Discount bundle in the Luna store. www.lunapresspublishing.com/shop
November 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Word-related things I enjoyed in Spain:
- The almost-swearing retail outlets Friking and Pasta Basta
- Trips on luxury yatches offered at Puerto Marina
- Marine fauna beachfront sign praising Málaga's wonderful bottoms
November 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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So long for now, Spain. Your vibes were immaculate.
November 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM