Cailean Steed
@caileansteed.bsky.social
Pronounced ‘Kaylin’ | #TheMirrorHalls coming 2026 in 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇸🇪 |
#Home🏚️ out now from Bloomsbury Raven | Writer, teacher & dog owner | Agent Oli Munson AM Heath | They/them | Host @balancingthebooks.bsky.social | 🏴🏳️⚧️
#Home🏚️ out now from Bloomsbury Raven | Writer, teacher & dog owner | Agent Oli Munson AM Heath | They/them | Host @balancingthebooks.bsky.social | 🏴🏳️⚧️
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Cailean Steed
@caileansteed.bsky.social
· Jan 27
I can finally talk about this!!
I’m so excited that my next two books will be with Helen at Little, Brown and Charlotte at John Murray Press - and I’m blown away that my book will be published in French, Spanish and German as well!
Thanks so much to Oli and all at AM Heath for all their hard work!
I’m so excited that my next two books will be with Helen at Little, Brown and Charlotte at John Murray Press - and I’m blown away that my book will be published in French, Spanish and German as well!
Thanks so much to Oli and all at AM Heath for all their hard work!
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“Connection reaches into Rodge’s work not just as a responsibility, but through his writing method as well”
@snackmag.bsky.social speaks to @rodgeglass.bsky.social about moving to Glasgow, meeting Alasdair Gray, & his latest book Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir
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@snackmag.bsky.social speaks to @rodgeglass.bsky.social about moving to Glasgow, meeting Alasdair Gray, & his latest book Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir
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Rodge Glass looks back to moving to Glasgow, first meeting Alasdair Gray, and latest novel 'Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir' (interview) - SNACK: Music, film, arts and culture magazine for Scotland
Rodge Glass has been writing in Glasgow for decades. He came to the city as an ambitious young student at ...
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October 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“Connection reaches into Rodge’s work not just as a responsibility, but through his writing method as well”
@snackmag.bsky.social speaks to @rodgeglass.bsky.social about moving to Glasgow, meeting Alasdair Gray, & his latest book Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir
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@snackmag.bsky.social speaks to @rodgeglass.bsky.social about moving to Glasgow, meeting Alasdair Gray, & his latest book Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir
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There’s a new episode out today with author and podcast host @caileansteed.bsky.social
I loved chatting to Cailean about how authors juggle their creative work with other commitments 📚💙
I loved chatting to Cailean about how authors juggle their creative work with other commitments 📚💙
October 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
There’s a new episode out today with author and podcast host @caileansteed.bsky.social
I loved chatting to Cailean about how authors juggle their creative work with other commitments 📚💙
I loved chatting to Cailean about how authors juggle their creative work with other commitments 📚💙
Episode 3 now out!
Episode 3 out now!
I chat to Ben Davies about balancing his career as a children’s author alongside working as a postie
RSS link - www.instagram.com/linkshim/?u=...
I chat to Ben Davies about balancing his career as a children’s author alongside working as a postie
RSS link - www.instagram.com/linkshim/?u=...
June 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Episode 3 now out!
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Episode 3 out now!
I chat to Ben Davies about balancing his career as a children’s author alongside working as a postie
RSS link - www.instagram.com/linkshim/?u=...
I chat to Ben Davies about balancing his career as a children’s author alongside working as a postie
RSS link - www.instagram.com/linkshim/?u=...
June 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Episode 3 out now!
I chat to Ben Davies about balancing his career as a children’s author alongside working as a postie
RSS link - www.instagram.com/linkshim/?u=...
I chat to Ben Davies about balancing his career as a children’s author alongside working as a postie
RSS link - www.instagram.com/linkshim/?u=...
Episode 2 now out! Loved chatting to Heather Parry about freelancing, managing stress, building a career, and why you shouldn’t run a drum and bass club while you’re trying to become an author 🤷
Available on your favourite podcast platform now! 🎧
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Available on your favourite podcast platform now! 🎧
tinyurl.com/4wk29w3z
June 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Episode 2 now out! Loved chatting to Heather Parry about freelancing, managing stress, building a career, and why you shouldn’t run a drum and bass club while you’re trying to become an author 🤷
Available on your favourite podcast platform now! 🎧
tinyurl.com/4wk29w3z
Available on your favourite podcast platform now! 🎧
tinyurl.com/4wk29w3z
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Episode 2, featuring Heather Parry, is now live! Join our chat about the freelancing life, the importance of building community, and unexpected ghostwriting.
Listen on your favourite podcast platform!
Listen on your favourite podcast platform!
June 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Episode 2, featuring Heather Parry, is now live! Join our chat about the freelancing life, the importance of building community, and unexpected ghostwriting.
Listen on your favourite podcast platform!
Listen on your favourite podcast platform!
My first podcast ep is live! Loved chatting to @imranmahmood777.bsky.social about his work and life for the launch episode - new one out next Monday!
Episode 1 with @imranmahmood777.bsky.social now live!
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Podcastle - podcastle.ai/show/balanci...
June 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
My first podcast ep is live! Loved chatting to @imranmahmood777.bsky.social about his work and life for the launch episode - new one out next Monday!
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RSS feed for other podcast platforms - feeds.podcastle.ai/493c89c2-c80...
June 16, 2025 at 11:21 AM
RSS feed for other podcast platforms - feeds.podcastle.ai/493c89c2-c80...
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Episode 1 with @imranmahmood777.bsky.social now live!
Spotify link - open.spotify.com/show/6bgEjsp...
Apple Podcasts - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Podcastle - podcastle.ai/show/balanci...
Spotify link - open.spotify.com/show/6bgEjsp...
Apple Podcasts - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Podcastle - podcastle.ai/show/balanci...
June 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Episode 1 with @imranmahmood777.bsky.social now live!
Spotify link - open.spotify.com/show/6bgEjsp...
Apple Podcasts - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Podcastle - podcastle.ai/show/balanci...
Spotify link - open.spotify.com/show/6bgEjsp...
Apple Podcasts - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Podcastle - podcastle.ai/show/balanci...
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I had such a lovely weekend. Huge thanks to @cymerafestival.co.uk for a great event. The panel was fun and brilliantly moderated by @caileansteed.bsky.social . The atmosphere at the reading on Saturday was so welcoming and filled with people sharing favourite books at the end. Feeling blessed.
June 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I had such a lovely weekend. Huge thanks to @cymerafestival.co.uk for a great event. The panel was fun and brilliantly moderated by @caileansteed.bsky.social . The atmosphere at the reading on Saturday was so welcoming and filled with people sharing favourite books at the end. Feeling blessed.
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Award-winning dystopian near-future science fiction from the pen of @caileansteed.bsky.social on Spec Fic Radio Theatre this week.
Listen / subscribe pod.link/1812026298
Listen / subscribe pod.link/1812026298
June 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Award-winning dystopian near-future science fiction from the pen of @caileansteed.bsky.social on Spec Fic Radio Theatre this week.
Listen / subscribe pod.link/1812026298
Listen / subscribe pod.link/1812026298
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Look out for our first ep this week! I chat with @imranmahmood777.bsky.social about balancing a career in law alongside writing & raising young children. We also chat managing writing when your day always looks different, drawing inspiration from the day job, & Imran’s stint in a potpourri factory
June 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Look out for our first ep this week! I chat with @imranmahmood777.bsky.social about balancing a career in law alongside writing & raising young children. We also chat managing writing when your day always looks different, drawing inspiration from the day job, & Imran’s stint in a potpourri factory
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Tickets for Glasgow! Things are going to get super queer and very fun…! www.waterstones.com/events/pride...
@oliverklangmead.bsky.social @caileansteed.bsky.social @gollancz.bsky.social
@oliverklangmead.bsky.social @caileansteed.bsky.social @gollancz.bsky.social
May 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Tickets for Glasgow! Things are going to get super queer and very fun…! www.waterstones.com/events/pride...
@oliverklangmead.bsky.social @caileansteed.bsky.social @gollancz.bsky.social
@oliverklangmead.bsky.social @caileansteed.bsky.social @gollancz.bsky.social
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Glasgow!! Come and see @caileansteed.bsky.social, @oliverklangmead.bsky.social and me chatting all things queer and science fiction on Wednesday 4th June! www.waterstones.com/events/pride... @gollancz.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Glasgow!! Come and see @caileansteed.bsky.social, @oliverklangmead.bsky.social and me chatting all things queer and science fiction on Wednesday 4th June! www.waterstones.com/events/pride... @gollancz.bsky.social
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Book launch! One week today! Me and @caileansteed.bsky.social chatting about the socialist lesbian robot climate revolution! Signed books! Cupcakes! Free to attend! At @waterstones.bsky.social Inverness!
April 5, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Book launch! One week today! Me and @caileansteed.bsky.social chatting about the socialist lesbian robot climate revolution! Signed books! Cupcakes! Free to attend! At @waterstones.bsky.social Inverness!
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Missed out on Helensburgh? My next event is at the lovely Waterstones Inverness with @caileansteed.bsky.social! And there will be cake.
March 31, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Missed out on Helensburgh? My next event is at the lovely Waterstones Inverness with @caileansteed.bsky.social! And there will be cake.
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My first ever adult-book event and I had an absolute blast. Thanks hugely to everyone who came to and asked questions at the event with me and @saderotica.bsky.social, to @caileansteed.bsky.social for chairing and to @hburghbookfest.bsky.social for organising. I cannot wait for the next one! 🩵🤖
March 31, 2025 at 10:04 AM
My first ever adult-book event and I had an absolute blast. Thanks hugely to everyone who came to and asked questions at the event with me and @saderotica.bsky.social, to @caileansteed.bsky.social for chairing and to @hburghbookfest.bsky.social for organising. I cannot wait for the next one! 🩵🤖
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Hello Bluepals, we are open.
Amazon are taking the evening off, so if there are any books you'd like, just ask.
Amazon are taking the evening off, so if there are any books you'd like, just ask.
March 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Hello Bluepals, we are open.
Amazon are taking the evening off, so if there are any books you'd like, just ask.
Amazon are taking the evening off, so if there are any books you'd like, just ask.
Tis me! I’m a podcast bro now!
Writers with day jobs, side gigs, kids and dependents, disabilities and responsibilities, drop me a message if you’d like to chat about the realities of the writing life!
Writers with day jobs, side gigs, kids and dependents, disabilities and responsibilities, drop me a message if you’d like to chat about the realities of the writing life!
Hello! I’m @caileansteed.bsky.social & I’m starting a new podcast all about how to juggle the realities of life as an author-managing day jobs, coping with caring or family responsibilities, dealing with disability, & sorting out your finances. If you’re interested in coming on, let me know!
March 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Tis me! I’m a podcast bro now!
Writers with day jobs, side gigs, kids and dependents, disabilities and responsibilities, drop me a message if you’d like to chat about the realities of the writing life!
Writers with day jobs, side gigs, kids and dependents, disabilities and responsibilities, drop me a message if you’d like to chat about the realities of the writing life!
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Hello! I’m @caileansteed.bsky.social & I’m starting a new podcast all about how to juggle the realities of life as an author-managing day jobs, coping with caring or family responsibilities, dealing with disability, & sorting out your finances. If you’re interested in coming on, let me know!
March 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Hello! I’m @caileansteed.bsky.social & I’m starting a new podcast all about how to juggle the realities of life as an author-managing day jobs, coping with caring or family responsibilities, dealing with disability, & sorting out your finances. If you’re interested in coming on, let me know!
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Details here, free to attend! And there will be cake: www.waterstones.com/events/book-...
Book Launch: Lucy Lapinska in conversation with Cailean Steed | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Book Launch: Lucy Lapinska in conversation with Cailean Steed today.
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March 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Details here, free to attend! And there will be cake: www.waterstones.com/events/book-...
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Inverness, Black Isle, Ross-shire and general Highlands readers - its Book Launch time! Come listen to me chat to the incomparable @caileansteed.bsky.social at @waterstones.bsky.social Inverness, Saturday 12th April at 3pm
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@rossshirejournal.bsky.social @invernesscourier.co.uk @gollancz.bsky.social
March 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Inverness, Black Isle, Ross-shire and general Highlands readers - its Book Launch time! Come listen to me chat to the incomparable @caileansteed.bsky.social at @waterstones.bsky.social Inverness, Saturday 12th April at 3pm
@rossshirejournal.bsky.social @invernesscourier.co.uk @gollancz.bsky.social
@rossshirejournal.bsky.social @invernesscourier.co.uk @gollancz.bsky.social
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@hburghbookfest.bsky.social is this weekend! I'll be chatting to the brilliant @caileansteed.bsky.social on Saturday evening!
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Callum McSorley in conversation with Cailean Steed
29 March 2025 at Helensburgh Community Hub from 7:00 PM (Tickets Available)
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March 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
@hburghbookfest.bsky.social is this weekend! I'll be chatting to the brilliant @caileansteed.bsky.social on Saturday evening!
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Latest pre-order! Can’t wait for The Vengeance from @emmanewman.bsky.social 🙌🏻
March 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Latest pre-order! Can’t wait for The Vengeance from @emmanewman.bsky.social 🙌🏻
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We’re delighted to welcome @callummcsorley.bsky.social back to the book festival for a second year in a row! will be joined by Helensburgh author @caileansteed.bsky.social, this is sure to be a fantastic event!
You can also see Callum on our Pitch Perfect panel, giving advice to aspiring writers.
You can also see Callum on our Pitch Perfect panel, giving advice to aspiring writers.
March 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
We’re delighted to welcome @callummcsorley.bsky.social back to the book festival for a second year in a row! will be joined by Helensburgh author @caileansteed.bsky.social, this is sure to be a fantastic event!
You can also see Callum on our Pitch Perfect panel, giving advice to aspiring writers.
You can also see Callum on our Pitch Perfect panel, giving advice to aspiring writers.