Consider it done.

Happy New Year, BlueSky! We're kicking off the year with some creative resolutions - and here's why you should make 2025 the year you fight back against AI, support your local library and actually submit your work.

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Thank you! A reader just yesterday had read the first story in Helen Grant's ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES and remarked is made for excellent holiday reading!

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Trying to balance shopping ethically and environmentally this Christmas, while not breaking the bank? Here's our latest piece on why books are the perfect Christmas gift.

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#Books #GiftIdeas #ChristmasWishList

Today’s #FirstLineFriday is taken from our latest short story anthology, #Elemental.

Introducing: Grape Expectations by Ivy Ngeow.

LINK: shorturl.at/wp39W

Pssst… it’s only 99p at the moment!

#ShortStory #ShortStories #ShortStoryCollection #Bookstagram #BookTwitter #BooksWorthReading

In today's edition of literary marvels, we bring you the ‘Unburnable Book’, featuring Margaret Atwood and a flamethrower.

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#Books #AmReading #Flamethrowers

So alternative: 50 independent and alternative publishers to support, buy books from, and submit your work to

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Feat. brilliant folks like @404ink.bsky.social, @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social, @carcanet.bsky.social @dauntbookspub.bsky.social

Do check out our interview with author Nicole Swengley, who has just published her debut novel through @breakthroughbook.bsky.social to much acclaim!

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#WritingCommunity #AmReading #Books

Attention, book lovers!

We are coming at you fast with a ruddy fantastic #BookReview from @aidenoreilly.bsky.social - who has delved into @adammarek.bsky.social's latest collection (published by @commapress.bsky.social)

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#AmReading #Books #Literature

If anyone else is as confused and angry as we were about this whole AI "publisher" tech bro nonsense, 'Spine', (as seen in the bookseller and @theguardian.com) - then this article is for you.

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Our manifesto, written in 2015, still stands today in a world of artificial intelligence, crypto bros, falling public investment in the arts and the institutions we rely on.

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So, who are we, well. We publish fiction, of course. But we also publish non-fiction, journalism, commentary, poetry, comedy, essays and translations. We’d publish a twenty-thousand page thesis on the cultural impact of ankle socks if it’s written well. Go wild. Go wherever your thoughts take you.

Hello, Bluesky!

Is there room for a little collective of creative types who are very much in the business of supporting writers, artists, and other inspirational folk in getting their work out there and the recognition they deserve?