D. V. Bishop's CARNIVAL OF LIES out now
@dvbishop.com
Writes Cesare Aldo historical thrillers, set in Renaissance Italy • CARNIVAL OF LIES out now • Buy my books: https://linktr.ee/D.V.Bishop • Free newsletter: https://dvbishop.substack.com • Rep: @jennybrownagency.bsky.social • Ex-Tharg
Flying to Italy this week fo #VeniceNoir! Grazie to @davidhewson.com, @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social and everyone else for organising this crime fiction festival in the city where my latest historical thriller CARNIVAL OF LIES is set!
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Flying to Italy this week fo #VeniceNoir! Grazie to @davidhewson.com, @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social and everyone else for organising this crime fiction festival in the city where my latest historical thriller CARNIVAL OF LIES is set!
Today I’m in conversation at the Mallaig Book Festival with @jennybrownagency.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Today I’m in conversation at the Mallaig Book Festival with @jennybrownagency.bsky.social
Great post by @agentofweird.bsky.social! This bit especially resonated with me:
November 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Great post by @agentofweird.bsky.social! This bit especially resonated with me:
Coming soon to a bookshop:
THE GOOD PHLEBOTOMIST.
THE GOOD PHLEBOTOMIST.
November 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Coming soon to a bookshop:
THE GOOD PHLEBOTOMIST.
THE GOOD PHLEBOTOMIST.
I'm leading an online masterclass [Wed Dec 3rd] on rewriting and strategies for a stronger second draft with The History Quill. More details here: thehistoryquill.com/masterclasses/
November 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I'm leading an online masterclass [Wed Dec 3rd] on rewriting and strategies for a stronger second draft with The History Quill. More details here: thehistoryquill.com/masterclasses/
Published #OTD 26 years ago: @2000ad.bsky.social Prog 1168, featuring Judge Death painted by Trevor 'Big T' Hairsine:
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Published #OTD 26 years ago: @2000ad.bsky.social Prog 1168, featuring Judge Death painted by Trevor 'Big T' Hairsine:
According to one online retailer, TOMBSTONING is celebrating its 240th anniversary this year!
November 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
According to one online retailer, TOMBSTONING is celebrating its 240th anniversary this year!
Love the fact there was a Soviet space dog called Bolik.
November 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Love the fact there was a Soviet space dog called Bolik.
My Ngaio Marsh Award winning historical thriller RITUAL OF FIRE is just 99p on Kindle UK during November! #RenaissanceFiction #bargain #KindleMonthlyDeal @panmacmillan.bsky.social @jennybrownagency.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
My Ngaio Marsh Award winning historical thriller RITUAL OF FIRE is just 99p on Kindle UK during November! #RenaissanceFiction #bargain #KindleMonthlyDeal @panmacmillan.bsky.social @jennybrownagency.bsky.social
32 years ago the Judge Dredd Megazine embraced Halloween with this creepy cover painted by the amazing Dean Ormston (co-creator of Black Hammer) celebrating Harke & Burr, (premise: The Goons X Lovejoy in the Cursed Earth), a daft series written by the much missed Si Spencer.
@2000ad.bsky.social
@2000ad.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
32 years ago the Judge Dredd Megazine embraced Halloween with this creepy cover painted by the amazing Dean Ormston (co-creator of Black Hammer) celebrating Harke & Burr, (premise: The Goons X Lovejoy in the Cursed Earth), a daft series written by the much missed Si Spencer.
@2000ad.bsky.social
@2000ad.bsky.social
Most of the year your novel needs to sell 5000+ paperbacks a week to make the bestseller list, whereas hardbacks only need 1000-1500 sales most weeks to crack the chart.
This week #10 on the hardback fiction chart outsold numbers 8, 9 & 10 on the paperback fiction chart! It's big book season.
This week #10 on the hardback fiction chart outsold numbers 8, 9 & 10 on the paperback fiction chart! It's big book season.
October 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Most of the year your novel needs to sell 5000+ paperbacks a week to make the bestseller list, whereas hardbacks only need 1000-1500 sales most weeks to crack the chart.
This week #10 on the hardback fiction chart outsold numbers 8, 9 & 10 on the paperback fiction chart! It's big book season.
This week #10 on the hardback fiction chart outsold numbers 8, 9 & 10 on the paperback fiction chart! It's big book season.
Fancy reading about an impossible heist in Renaissance Venice? My historical thriller CARNIVAL OF LIES comes out in paperback New Year's Day (yes, 2026 is only 62 days away!) Sir Ian Rankin called it 'brilliant'. @panmacmillan.bsky.social @panmacnews.bsky.social @jennybrownagency.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Fancy reading about an impossible heist in Renaissance Venice? My historical thriller CARNIVAL OF LIES comes out in paperback New Year's Day (yes, 2026 is only 62 days away!) Sir Ian Rankin called it 'brilliant'. @panmacmillan.bsky.social @panmacnews.bsky.social @jennybrownagency.bsky.social
Live footage:
October 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Live footage:
Write the story you want to tell, that you'd love to read. Don't worry about the market, you've no control over it.
Heard a podcast yesterday where a bestselling author had been told by their agent historical fiction isn't wanted right now.
Below are today's headlines from @thebookseller.com:
Heard a podcast yesterday where a bestselling author had been told by their agent historical fiction isn't wanted right now.
Below are today's headlines from @thebookseller.com:
October 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Write the story you want to tell, that you'd love to read. Don't worry about the market, you've no control over it.
Heard a podcast yesterday where a bestselling author had been told by their agent historical fiction isn't wanted right now.
Below are today's headlines from @thebookseller.com:
Heard a podcast yesterday where a bestselling author had been told by their agent historical fiction isn't wanted right now.
Below are today's headlines from @thebookseller.com:
The first series of SAPPHIRE & STEEL audio dramas from @bigfinish.bsky.social (including my story All Fall Down) is on sale until this Sunday: bigfinish.com/releases/v/s...
October 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The first series of SAPPHIRE & STEEL audio dramas from @bigfinish.bsky.social (including my story All Fall Down) is on sale until this Sunday: bigfinish.com/releases/v/s...
Think it's the cello cover...
October 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Think it's the cello cover...
Still waiting to see what the new cover for an imminent reissue of Val McDermid's debut will look like but it's never been well served in nearly 40 years of being published...
October 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Still waiting to see what the new cover for an imminent reissue of Val McDermid's debut will look like but it's never been well served in nearly 40 years of being published...
My historical thriller CARNIVAL OF LIES just hit 200 ratings on GR, which is nice.
October 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
My historical thriller CARNIVAL OF LIES just hit 200 ratings on GR, which is nice.
29 years ago #OTD Judge Dredd led a Hunting Party out into the Cursed Earth. Alan Grant and Arthur Ranson's mindbending creator-own series Mazeworld began, and the front cover of @2000ad.bsky.social Prog 1014 painted by Jason Brashill featured a free pack of X-Files Season 2 trading cards.
October 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
29 years ago #OTD Judge Dredd led a Hunting Party out into the Cursed Earth. Alan Grant and Arthur Ranson's mindbending creator-own series Mazeworld began, and the front cover of @2000ad.bsky.social Prog 1014 painted by Jason Brashill featured a free pack of X-Files Season 2 trading cards.
The 4th Cesare Aldo novel A DIVINE FURY just hit 400 reviews and ratings. Delighted readers enjoy my serial killer thriller set in Renaissance Florence!
It was shortlisted for @thecwa.bsky.social Gold and Historical Daggers, the @bloodyscotland.bsky.social McIlvanney Prize & the Ngaio Marsh Award.
It was shortlisted for @thecwa.bsky.social Gold and Historical Daggers, the @bloodyscotland.bsky.social McIlvanney Prize & the Ngaio Marsh Award.
October 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
The 4th Cesare Aldo novel A DIVINE FURY just hit 400 reviews and ratings. Delighted readers enjoy my serial killer thriller set in Renaissance Florence!
It was shortlisted for @thecwa.bsky.social Gold and Historical Daggers, the @bloodyscotland.bsky.social McIlvanney Prize & the Ngaio Marsh Award.
It was shortlisted for @thecwa.bsky.social Gold and Historical Daggers, the @bloodyscotland.bsky.social McIlvanney Prize & the Ngaio Marsh Award.
@2000ad.bsky.social progs 1065 and 1116, published #OTD in 1997 and 1998, art by Jason Brashill and @simonfraser.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
@2000ad.bsky.social progs 1065 and 1116, published #OTD in 1997 and 1998, art by Jason Brashill and @simonfraser.bsky.social
#NameThree80sSongs
For Today - Netherworld Dancing Toys
Breakdown - Car Crash Set
Hope She’s Alright - The Instigators
For Today - Netherworld Dancing Toys
Breakdown - Car Crash Set
Hope She’s Alright - The Instigators
October 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
#NameThree80sSongs
For Today - Netherworld Dancing Toys
Breakdown - Car Crash Set
Hope She’s Alright - The Instigators
For Today - Netherworld Dancing Toys
Breakdown - Car Crash Set
Hope She’s Alright - The Instigators