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Andrew Knighton

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Writer of sff + comics. Rearranging words for a living since 2013. he/him Mailing list: https://eepurl.com/Zviqn The Executioner's Blade: https://www.northodox.co.uk/product-page/the-executioner-s-blade-paperback Also found at andrewknighton.com

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · May 15

Fake prophecies, a shiny new sword, & a branded birthmark are guiding Raul's fate. But who chooses the chosen one? And what can you do when your destiny is a lie? A story about deception, family, rebellion, and choosing your own path.
andrewknighton.com/forged-for-d...

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 12m

Every time I travel to this part of the country, I end up singing Road to Hell, but changing the words so it's Train to Hull. I am easily entertained.

Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 29m

Had a great time at Humber SFF this evening - lovely bunch of people, interesting questions, and I do enjoy talking about books. Now waiting for a succession of late trains home with far fewer copies of my books than I set out with.

Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 13d

I'm heading down to Beverley in a couple of weeks to talk to the Humber SFF group about my books. If you're in the area & like big fantasy stories about dragons, murder, & characters kicking against the system, then please come along.

Author photo of Andrew Knighton next to the cover for his novel The Executioner's Blade, featuring a grey-haired woman wielding a sword in front of a dragon. Between them, details for an event:
Humber SFF
Andrew Knighton
Sunday October 12 from 6.30pm
Upstairs @ Monk's Walk Inn, Beverley

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 4h

Unpopular opinion: Billionaires are pyramid schemes foisted on the public by disconnected from reality, growth obsessed stock markets, VCs & 1%ers.

Nobody's business is worth more than the land value of the planet. But they can scam real fortunes out of govs etc if they claim that. That's the goal.

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 6h

Spidermug, Spidermug,
Does whatever a spider does.
Off to Humber on the train
To talk about books again.
Look out, here comes Spidermug!

A Spiderman travel mug, a notebook, and a Kobo e-reader on a seatback table.

Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 10h

This is today! If you're in the Humber area, come hang out with a bunch of lovely sff people & listen to me talk about books, murder, dragons, & more.

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 12h

Good morning Womble! I'm reading the Biopunk anthology, edited by Ra Page, a really interesting collection of speculative fiction and paired essays showing how modern bioscience could affect our lives.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 16h

Daily bunny no.3105 needs to ask nicely

Two bunnies stand at the foot of an old brick wall, in a forest somewhere. There is a small door in the wall, the only way through. At the top of the wall are four blackbirds, one of which has the key in its beak. The bunnies implore the bird for the key

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 23h

This whole thread - some glorious costuming that combines maximum style with, at times, minimal coverage.

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Colombia is the first of our LOOK AT MY TITS contestants, but very much not the last. He looks slightly annoyed, but I cannot fault the combination of the maximum amount of skin on show but also the maximum amount of costume.

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 1d

My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com

Title: Where writers really get their ideas.

A writer, holding a note in his outstretched hand approaches a cart in the park. The front of the cart reads 'Fresh ideas' and a colourful umbrella shades the server who is reaching deep into the body of the cart (much as an ice-cream vendor might) and saying:
"I'm all out of mind-blowing concepts and heart-rending narratives, but I've got an acerbic observation, an unexpected outcome and a couple of amusing notions."

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Gaza journalist Maha Hussaini: “We have returned, like we’ll always do.”

A cat sits in a window. Beyond a completely destroyed city

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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 1d

Hello Evening Crowd we delve into how fantasy gets written

Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 1d

On the blog this week a great collection of interesting essays awaits in Writing The Magic - Essays On Crafting Fantasy Fiction edited by Dan Coxon and Richard V Hirst www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...

Writing The Magic - Essays On Crafting Fantasy Fiction edited by Dan Coxon and Richard V Hirst — Runalong The Shelves

Publisher – Dead Ink Books Published – Out Now Price – £10.99 paperback £5.99 ebook From Lord of the Rings to Game of Thrones , over the last hundred years few genres have captured the publi...

www.runalongtheshelves.net

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 1d

My weekend so far - interviewing @caimhmc.bsky.social at Leeds Waterstones, marching in support of immigrants with the Prof (and 3000 other Leeds folks), and tackling our first potato harvest. Time very well spent.

Two authors sitting on front of an audience in a bookshop - C K McDonnell and Andrew Knighton.

Two people smiling for the camera, one of them holding a "refugees welcome" sign, with other demonstrators visible behind them.

Rows of potatoes laid out on a garage floor.

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Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 1d

It's Bookshop Day! The best day to buy from an indie bookshop is now and here are my two favourites:

@portalbookshop.bsky.social may be actual superhumans. Relentlessly positive, talented community leaders as well as being a great bookshop.

the-portal-bookshop.square.site/s/shop

the-portal-bookshop.square.site

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 1d

One for next year's awards perhaps 😆

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

The World Fantasy Convention will be meeting in Brighton at the end of the month and I hope they’ll be considering Trump’s health report released after his six-monthly annual examination yesterday.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Got a question about publishing you've always wanted answered? Well now's your chance!

#AuthorTalk #WritingCommunity #Manchester

@aknighton.bsky.social ky.social @emmasternerradley.bsky.social @britfantasysoc.bsky.social
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@urmstonbooks.bsky.social

Background graphic of a printing press. Urmston Books and BFS logos on either side of the title.
Three author photos beneath title plus the compass emblem for Northodox Press
Text:
The British Fantasy Society & Urmston Books & Board Games
“Paths to Publication”
Keith Dickinson, Andrew Knighton, Emma Sterner-Radley, Northodox Press
Wednesday 22nd October, 7pm, Urmston Books, 72 Flixton Road, M41 5AB
Tickets £5
https://www.urmstonbooks.co.uk/paths-to-publication

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 2d

It's important to focus on who won, not who did not.

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 2d

I'm having some thoughts about the "AI will never replace human creativity" cliche, based on the fact that I went and watched some videos by The AI Bible, and now YouTube is serving me a lot of classic-SF AI slop videos (you know, Star Trek: TNG but in the style of Miami Vice, etc). 1/🧵

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Adam P. Knave @adampknave.com · 3d

Why didn't Starscream get any of Megatron's messages the other day? He was in airplane mode.

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 4d

Fancy a tale that'll leave you shaking 'Down to the Roots'? Check out the reprint of our Neil Williamson's classic tale of Halloween Scotia in The Dark Magazine, available now from the link below.

@neilwilliamson.bsky.social @oldcharliebrown.bsky.social

www.thedarkmagazine.com/issues/octob...

October 2025 - The Dark Magazine

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints...

www.thedarkmagazine.com

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 3d

Sounds brilliant. Looking forward to it already.

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 3d

Do you need an audiobook to listen to? A good one, that you'll enjoy? Because I have just the thing - I know it's good because I wrote and produced it and I have listened to it so many times by this point but I still like it: www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Redst...

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 4d

Blood Over Bright Haven is so good!

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 4d

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 4d

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'strong' #BookQW
Dan Mackmain's physically fit and mentally tough. That means nothing in this situation. Want to find out what happens next?
The Green Man's War is a 99p Kindle UK deal for October.
www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Mans-W...

Cover art by Ben Baldwin shows a lethal, pale-scaled serpent-dragon or wyrm lurking in woodland. It looks straight at you as its forked tongue flickers between open, sharp-toothed jaws.

Book extract reads: The man by the door with the mattock said something I didn’t catch, but he was obviously warning the others. Sledgehammer guy looked around again. His mate with the pickaxe took a couple of steps towards a jewellery seller at the other end of the barn. She was tiny, wearing a long black dress, with purple hair that matched her lipstick and eyeshadow. If she was next on their list, there was nothing I could do.
I’d have to take that sledgehammer off the short-arse in front of me, then get past his mate with the mattock. No chance. My mother’s a dryad, but that doesn’t give me superpowers, not really. A dryad’s daughters take after their mothers and live for centuries in the unseen world alongside normal life. I’m tall and strong and hardly ever get ill, but I’ll grow old like my dad.
Billhook guy called out. I realised I hadn’t misheard mattock man guarding the door. Whoever these thieves were, they weren’t speaking English between themselves

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 5d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 5d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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