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Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year!
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Award-winning author. Earth bender. Full-time goblin mode. Agent: Juliet Mushens. Partner of Peter Newman. From London, enjoying Bristol.
The Copper Cat Trilogy|The Winnowing Flame Trilogy|The Talon Duology|The Sleepless Duology
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Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · Feb 21
Did you know you can preorder my first ever YA fantasy novel?? Amazing but true! Release dates: UK 22/5/25, US 30/9/25
🐉 A serpent queen
⚡ A whole roster of weird gods
🦊 A cute little guy
☠️ Forbidden touch
🩸 Costly magic
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-sleepl...
The US cover of The Sleepless, featuring a golden serpent and pink and purple flowers. The edges are bright pink. The UK cover of The Sleepless, which features a young man and woman entwined in the coils of a golden serpent, surrounded by strange flowers and fungi.
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Other work of the Ladybird artists.
The Beech Wood
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
The scene looks as if it has come straight out of the pages of ‘what to look for in autumn’ but is not. The scene focuses on the woodland floor and the creatures who live among the lovely rusty leaves
November 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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it's been a patchy Drag Race UK to say the least (most painful Snatch Game ever?) but it did give us Denise from Eastenders as a pissed up sheep, so
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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🥳 As of today HERO SLAM, my first ever card game, is now available everywhere! Indie stores, book stores, Amazon, wherever you normally buy your games!
⚔️ Or, if you fancy buying the Hero Slam game or jigsaw direct from the publisher, head to www.laurenceking.com, enter code SMART20, and get 20% off!
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Public benches are made of cheap concrete, pavements are falling apart, old structures are left derelict. Amid this backdrop of unloved, muted ugliness, a new wave of guerrilla mosaicists are enlivening their cities with beautiful, colourful designs
‘It’s unexpected joy’: the guerrilla mosaic artists adding colour to potholes, benches and bomb craters — Guardian US
From Southampton to Sarajevo, urban mosaicists are transforming city spaces and bringing communities together – one tile at a time
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November 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years.

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JESUS CHRIST IN RICHMOND PARK: ORIGINAL UPLOAD
YouTube video by JAGGL113
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November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Ah my greatest literary moment is nearly a decade old
November 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Normalize this by age 1.5 B & W cats causing random acts of chaos
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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me at YALC on Sunday

Anyone I know here going?
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November 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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BABIES ARE BORN WORSHIPPING UNKNOWN GODS — DWARF FORTRESS, BUG REPORT #13172
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.

From Broken Ghosts, which far too few people have read.
Opening page of novel Broken Ghosts. The chapter number is a simple '1' and then the following text: 2023 No matter how many times she comes back, the house always looks wrong. Like a badly fitted false tooth, it's too modern compared to the buildings on either side. The windows don't match; the roof tiles are a different shade of grey; the harling has fewer cracks than the neighbours, even if there are more this year than last. None of the houses in this quiet cul-de-sac are the same any more, although she remembers a time when they were. A generation has come and gone, multiple owners making their small marks of difference, but the buildings are all essentially the same. Same shape, same dimensions, same size. Except the one in the middle. She sits in the car, unsure whether she has the strength of will to climb out, get closer. The view intermittently blurs and clears as the windscreen wipers sweep away the lightest of smirrs. There is no one left in this little community who would know who she is now. No one who would understand why that one house in the scheme is not like all the rest. On the passenger seat beside her, the bunch of flowers seems unnecessary, even a little vulgar. What would people think if they saw her placing it beside the low wall that separates the front garden from the pavement?
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.

THE SLEEPLESS opens with…
‘The sun was rising, and the serpents had been screaming all night’
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Today is the day!

STAR WARS: MASTER OF EVIL is out!

Grab it from your favorite store, or hit up tinyurl.com/master-of-evil for some order links!

Launch day bonus! Meet Halland Goth, commander of the Royal Guard, in this brand new exclusive extract over at @space.com! www.space.com/entertainmen...
I want you to read Star Wars. Following the continuing adventures of Darth Vader brought to you by Adam Christopher in Master of Evil! On sale at bookstores across your galaxy. (Graphic based on the old Marvel Comics ad from 1983)
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Look whose awesome fantasy novel showed up in the National Book Tokens email @sennydreadful.bsky.social

And right at the top of the article too newsletters.booktokens.co.uk/c/15xSgzHdXO...
The Copper Promise by Jen Williams
November 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Nice mention for @sennydreadful.bsky.social & Cursed from @reactorsff.bsky.social at the below link:

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November 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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happy tuesday, please enjoy these extremely early 90s stickers I found in my old sticker collection and ask yourself why a sticker of young Clive Owen exists (was he a heartthrob then??)
November 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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love that when the DJs on Radio 6 start really bigging up a track like crazy I know, I KNOW, it's going to be the worst piece of shit I've ever heard
November 3, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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This is perfection, but the alt-text is icing
October 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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salem's lot!
October 31, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Books of Blood by Clive Barker is great! The Monk by Matthew Lewis is one of my favorite books ever so I gotta recommend that one too.
October 31, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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This overlooked gem is due a re-read.
A silhouette of black house on a red sunset makes up the cover of The Elementals.
October 31, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Happy Halloween!! 🎃 I have the yearning to reread The Haunting of Hill House today, although I am still mid-Lonesome Dove quartet

Tell me your favourite scary books, please! I feel like I want a horror season after this. #booksky
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October 31, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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I might need an intervention to stop me listening to West End Girl. It's been on repeat for 2 days.

Just can't get over the badassery of recording an entire album of 'my husband was the fucking worst' which also absolutely SLAPS
October 31, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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hope everyone has a lovely time at worldcon! have a drink for me etc etc
October 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Omg Balatro and Vampire Survivor have done a crossover, this is the greatest day of my life
October 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Looking for a last minute halloween read? Maybe this lovely review will lead you to Red Rigg House:

'This is a good, old fashioned, supernatural mystery. Atmospheric, with that lovely undercurrent of tension and suspense that kept me glued to the page'
October 29, 2025 at 10:43 AM