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Dr Chiara Bullen
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✨🏔️ THE INN AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT VENGEANCE 07/26 (Del Rey) 🏔️✨

sometimes author, sometimes academic. always anxious.

glasgow.
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My cozy fantasy novel inspired by my love (and fear…) of Scotland’s mountains, misadventures in academia, and time spent adventuring in Dungeons and Dragons, will be out next July!!
Del Rey has acquired The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance, an "uplifting and heart-warming" fantasy adventure by Scottish debut author and academic Chiara Bullen. The book will publish globally in July 2026 👇 #BookSky
Del Rey snaps up Chiara Bullen's 'uplifting and heart-warming' fantasy adventure
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December 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Today is the International Day of the Disabled Person. I wrote a bit about it on my Ko-fi page.

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International Day of the Disabled Person
SJ Groenewegen published a post on Ko-fi
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December 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
You can now add my debut fantasy novel to your 'want to read' list on goodreads!

(If you do, in fact, wish to read it.)

www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance
BEHIND EVERY HERO, THERE'S A HISTORIANAn ambitious youn…
www.goodreads.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Today could be a really good day to buy a copy of Birding from an independent bookshop, or perhaps even its poor neglected older sibling This Is Yesterday
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
My old letting agency phoning me to ask a question about my old flat's shower because the new tenant can't work it and the landlord doesn't know... UM HELLO??????
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Two chapters edited this morning. Three to go ✍️
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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#WorkInPublishingWeek Ever met a Sensitivity Reader? Does the idea make you shudder, from an indoctrination from legacy UK press/media? Read my article for the The Society of Authors setting the records straight, once and for all: lnkd.in/eRMgqE72
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November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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I'm so excited to see we've raised over 5k so far on the #Creatives4Sudan auction. Can you help us get to £10k? I'm offering a personalised original Loki drawing, and I really will go all out to make it as funny as possible. app.galabid.com/creatives4su... #KidLitUK #KeepEyesOnSudan
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November 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I actually love speak gaelic dot com
November 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Incredibly excited to share the US cover of my debut fantasy novel, out with Del Rey 07/26! This cover of my *dreams* is illustrated by the incredible Chay Ruby, who captures the characters better than I envision them in my own head tbh. Available to pre-order! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-inn-at...
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Are you looking for a christmas present for a creative person? Hoo boy do we have the auction for you. Hundreds of creatives from 20 countries are raising funds for people fleeing Genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan. Huge names, huge items! Bid here! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

Art by @raafaye, insta
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Saw some fancy new roof insulation on my walk 🐦
November 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Cauld, cauld as the wall
That rins frae under the snaw
On Ben a’Bhuird…

—Nan Shepherd, “Cauld, cauld as the wall”
published in A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS (ASL, 2017)
#poem #poetry
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November 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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See ma mammy
See ma dinner ticket
A pititnma
Pokit an she pititny
Washnmachine…

—Margaret Hamilton, “Lament for a Lost Dinner Ticket”
from NEW POEMS 1972–73: a PEN anthology of contemporary poetry, ed. Douglas Dunn (Hutchinson, 1973)
#WorldChildrensDay #poem
www.scotslanguage.com/articles/nod...
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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As someone who was introduced to William Wordsworth and Gertrude Stein by the Anastasia Krupnik books, I heartily agree
Idk I think it's fine if people work back from popular culture to learn more about folklore roots, culture, heritage, etc. People have to start somewhere.
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Idk I think it's fine if people work back from popular culture to learn more about folklore roots, culture, heritage, etc. People have to start somewhere.
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Finished a draft of a WIP today and I managed to beat The Crawfather in Silksong. Not sure which one feels like the biggest victory.
November 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Truly nothing more humbling than your word count when you've been writing all morning, thinking you're absolutely flying through the draft, only to realise you've written less than one thousand words 🥺
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year, the @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social winter sale!!!

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November 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Dinner time 🍽️
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM