Helen Grant
@helengrantsays.bsky.social
Lives in Scotland & writes books. Latest novel JUMP CUT published by Fledgling Press. Short story collection ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES available from Swan River Press. Perthshire Gothic. M.R.James fiend. Represented by Fraser Ross Associates.
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All welcome on Sat 15 Nov at 10.30am in Dunblane Cathedral Hall, to free 2025 Geraldine Goddard Memorial Lecture, “Enlightenment & Conspiracy at the Leighton Library, 1780-1832’ presented by Dr Josh Smith
www.leightonlibrary.org.uk/calendar/202...
www.leightonlibrary.org.uk/calendar/202...
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
All welcome on Sat 15 Nov at 10.30am in Dunblane Cathedral Hall, to free 2025 Geraldine Goddard Memorial Lecture, “Enlightenment & Conspiracy at the Leighton Library, 1780-1832’ presented by Dr Josh Smith
www.leightonlibrary.org.uk/calendar/202...
www.leightonlibrary.org.uk/calendar/202...
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Join me to explore how you can use memories and artefacts to stimulate your writing. Examine how you can use your memories and local materials such as photographs, newspapers or memorabilia to stimulate fresh ideas and unlock your unconscious.
#creativewriting #WritingCommunity
#creativewriting #WritingCommunity
November 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Join me to explore how you can use memories and artefacts to stimulate your writing. Examine how you can use your memories and local materials such as photographs, newspapers or memorabilia to stimulate fresh ideas and unlock your unconscious.
#creativewriting #WritingCommunity
#creativewriting #WritingCommunity
I went to see my old Dad 17 days ago for French food and music and I still have Edith Piaf in my head singing La Vie En Rose. That is one long running ear worm.
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I went to see my old Dad 17 days ago for French food and music and I still have Edith Piaf in my head singing La Vie En Rose. That is one long running ear worm.
Inverness 🦄🏴❤️
November 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Inverness 🦄🏴❤️
I have some writing I ought to be doing but the tiny dog is barking and barking and barking and pretty soon my brains are gonna run out my ears
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I have some writing I ought to be doing but the tiny dog is barking and barking and barking and pretty soon my brains are gonna run out my ears
Sounds like the start of a ghost story...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Somerset church tomb collapse exposes 1700s stone crypt
The church says it is currently unclear whether the collapse has damaged any surrounding graves.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Sounds like the start of a ghost story...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Available for pre-order!
www.amazon.co.uk/Witchcraft-S...
www.amazon.co.uk/Witchcraft-S...
Witchcraft Short Stories: Folk Tales & Horror Stories (Beyond and Within): Amazon.co.uk: O'Regan, Marie, Kane, Paul, Bacon, Eugen, Barnett, David, Bobe, Melissa, Buba, Gabriella, Chadbourn, Mark, Chan...
Buy Witchcraft Short Stories: Folk Tales & Horror Stories (Beyond and Within) by O'Regan, Marie, Kane, Paul, Bacon, Eugen, Barnett, David, Bobe, Melissa, Buba, Gabriella, Chadbourn, Mark, Chan, Eliza,...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Available for pre-order!
www.amazon.co.uk/Witchcraft-S...
www.amazon.co.uk/Witchcraft-S...
Really wise words from the brilliant Lynda E. Rucker. This is well worth a read, wherever you have got to in the writing journey.
letterfromsomewhere.substack.com/p/six-things...
letterfromsomewhere.substack.com/p/six-things...
Six Things About Writing
First: A huge huge huge congratulations to my friend Maura McHugh, who won the World Fantasy Award last weekend for her short story “Raptor” in the anthology Heartwood (which also garnered a World Fan...
letterfromsomewhere.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Really wise words from the brilliant Lynda E. Rucker. This is well worth a read, wherever you have got to in the writing journey.
letterfromsomewhere.substack.com/p/six-things...
letterfromsomewhere.substack.com/p/six-things...
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"The moment you allow AI to write a sentence for you, you lose your voice."
Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social.
#pictcon
Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social.
#pictcon
November 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"The moment you allow AI to write a sentence for you, you lose your voice."
Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social.
#pictcon
Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social.
#pictcon
Very loud fireworks. The dog is in the back garden looking rather bemused and occasionally barking back.
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Very loud fireworks. The dog is in the back garden looking rather bemused and occasionally barking back.
On the way to St. Andrews today, the dog threw up in the car. She seemed fine afterwards and consumed a sausage and a puppuccino.
On the way home from St. Andrews, daughter got a migraine and also threw up in the car.
😱
On the way home from St. Andrews, daughter got a migraine and also threw up in the car.
😱
November 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
On the way to St. Andrews today, the dog threw up in the car. She seemed fine afterwards and consumed a sausage and a puppuccino.
On the way home from St. Andrews, daughter got a migraine and also threw up in the car.
😱
On the way home from St. Andrews, daughter got a migraine and also threw up in the car.
😱
It's Saturday so it must be Saint Andrews 🏴
November 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
It's Saturday so it must be Saint Andrews 🏴
Dodgy Victorian taxidermy in the museum at Inverness. Note the blep.
November 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Dodgy Victorian taxidermy in the museum at Inverness. Note the blep.
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Seen as it looks like I won't have a main job for a while (and seen as I haven't been paid anything since September) if you'd like to support the work that I do through Romancing the Gothic, you can!
You can also buy courses (in case you didn't know!)
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You can also buy courses (in case you didn't know!)
ko-fi.com/samhirst
Support Sam Hirst ❤️
Support Sam Hirst
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November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Seen as it looks like I won't have a main job for a while (and seen as I haven't been paid anything since September) if you'd like to support the work that I do through Romancing the Gothic, you can!
You can also buy courses (in case you didn't know!)
ko-fi.com/samhirst
You can also buy courses (in case you didn't know!)
ko-fi.com/samhirst
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Saw an exhibition of Ken Currie figurative paintings in Glasgow, several years back. Very powerful. His work seems to have changed from hard edged allegorical pieces, through to ghostly and sometimes translucent figures. Great work.
November 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Saw an exhibition of Ken Currie figurative paintings in Glasgow, several years back. Very powerful. His work seems to have changed from hard edged allegorical pieces, through to ghostly and sometimes translucent figures. Great work.
I have been out for ONE DAY. Daughter did not eat the lunch I left for her. She had OH's lunch so Lord knows what he had. And they have run out of milk!!! How? I bought some yesterday and more is being delivered tomorrow. I think OH is bathing in it like bloody Cleopatra.
November 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I have been out for ONE DAY. Daughter did not eat the lunch I left for her. She had OH's lunch so Lord knows what he had. And they have run out of milk!!! How? I bought some yesterday and more is being delivered tomorrow. I think OH is bathing in it like bloody Cleopatra.
On the train home from Inverness. It's twilight and we are travelling through a birch wood.
November 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
On the train home from Inverness. It's twilight and we are travelling through a birch wood.
Waterstones Inverness now have a signed copy of JUMP CUT (my lost movie novel) if anyone wants one...
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Waterstones Inverness now have a signed copy of JUMP CUT (my lost movie novel) if anyone wants one...
At the Ken Currie exhibition in Inverness. Weird, striking, haunting.
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
At the Ken Currie exhibition in Inverness. Weird, striking, haunting.
Misty morning and I'm on my way to Inverness!
November 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Misty morning and I'm on my way to Inverness!
I've been adulting a bit too much recently. I am tired.
November 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I've been adulting a bit too much recently. I am tired.
2 days ago I was driving up the hill when I saw a bloke who looked exactly like Gandalf, with a long grey beard and carrying a pilgrim's staff. He was carrying something remarkably like a packet of Co-op salted popcorn. I guess they don't have popcorn in the Shire so he nipped over to get some.
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
2 days ago I was driving up the hill when I saw a bloke who looked exactly like Gandalf, with a long grey beard and carrying a pilgrim's staff. He was carrying something remarkably like a packet of Co-op salted popcorn. I guess they don't have popcorn in the Shire so he nipped over to get some.
One of my OWN RELATIVES has sent me a DM with a flagrant comma splice in it.
#OTemporaOMores
#OTemporaOMores
November 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
One of my OWN RELATIVES has sent me a DM with a flagrant comma splice in it.
#OTemporaOMores
#OTemporaOMores
"Questions about potential conflict of interest"
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres
Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s cabinet member for social care owns private care company
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 AM
"Questions about potential conflict of interest"
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Daughter is doing her annual November 5th watch of V FOR VENDETTA. I love these old traditions.
November 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Daughter is doing her annual November 5th watch of V FOR VENDETTA. I love these old traditions.