Ida Keogh
@idakeogh.bsky.social
Neurospicy and queer BSFA and British Fantasy Award winning SFF author and occasional mermaid. Equality and Diversity Officer for the British Science Fiction Association. she/her
https://tinyurl.com/idasbooks
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November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Such an interesting and friendly evening with @odavis.bsky.social and @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social discussing the changing nature of folklore at @treadwells-books.bsky.social.
Thank you for making me feel so welcome! I look forward to coming back for future events.
#Folklore #Booksky #Writersky
Thank you for making me feel so welcome! I look forward to coming back for future events.
#Folklore #Booksky #Writersky
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Such an interesting and friendly evening with @odavis.bsky.social and @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social discussing the changing nature of folklore at @treadwells-books.bsky.social.
Thank you for making me feel so welcome! I look forward to coming back for future events.
#Folklore #Booksky #Writersky
Thank you for making me feel so welcome! I look forward to coming back for future events.
#Folklore #Booksky #Writersky
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Hello gays and theys, the end of the year approach-eth, so you know what that means:
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
Hello queers and fears, it's almost Pride Month and I've got a gift for you:
the first six months of the 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
I'm organizing this by month so click on through!
the first six months of the 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
I'm organizing this by month so click on through!
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Hello gays and theys, the end of the year approach-eth, so you know what that means:
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
I finally felt able to write a bit today, and have just finished typing up all five recipes to go in 'Taste', my WIP food themed genre collection.
Just the final edits to go on the opening novella, then I can compile it all and send to the publisher I'm hoping will take it on!
#Booksky #Writersky
Just the final edits to go on the opening novella, then I can compile it all and send to the publisher I'm hoping will take it on!
#Booksky #Writersky
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I finally felt able to write a bit today, and have just finished typing up all five recipes to go in 'Taste', my WIP food themed genre collection.
Just the final edits to go on the opening novella, then I can compile it all and send to the publisher I'm hoping will take it on!
#Booksky #Writersky
Just the final edits to go on the opening novella, then I can compile it all and send to the publisher I'm hoping will take it on!
#Booksky #Writersky
I got to the end of this and could barely contain my grief. This is so crisply, starkly perfect @mattkendrick.bsky.social
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Nothing certain ~ by Matt Kendrick
The day the sun forgets to rise, Mr White sits down for breakfast at precisely twelve minutes past seven. This is in the dining room. It is Tuesday. His Tuesday breakfast is a soft-boiled egg opene…
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November 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I got to the end of this and could barely contain my grief. This is so crisply, starkly perfect @mattkendrick.bsky.social
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...
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I was once told that this book - Magic, Maps, and Mischief - written by an autistic person about the autistic experience, did nothing new.
I didn't agree, and put it down to people judging worth differently.
1,600 sales later since October 24th, I'm glad people agree with me ❤️
I didn't agree, and put it down to people judging worth differently.
1,600 sales later since October 24th, I'm glad people agree with me ❤️
November 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I was once told that this book - Magic, Maps, and Mischief - written by an autistic person about the autistic experience, did nothing new.
I didn't agree, and put it down to people judging worth differently.
1,600 sales later since October 24th, I'm glad people agree with me ❤️
I didn't agree, and put it down to people judging worth differently.
1,600 sales later since October 24th, I'm glad people agree with me ❤️
Reposted by Ida Keogh
Before she died, Alice Wong was kind enough to give me an interview for my book, Who Wants Normal?
Here’s her wonderful advice to disabled women (from the Guardian extract): www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Here’s her wonderful advice to disabled women (from the Guardian extract): www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
November 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Before she died, Alice Wong was kind enough to give me an interview for my book, Who Wants Normal?
Here’s her wonderful advice to disabled women (from the Guardian extract): www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Here’s her wonderful advice to disabled women (from the Guardian extract): www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Ok @shonak.bsky.social I have now discovered the ancient language of Octopian (used by all space-faring octopuses) and have created a font. This is all your fault 😂🐙
November 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Ok @shonak.bsky.social I have now discovered the ancient language of Octopian (used by all space-faring octopuses) and have created a font. This is all your fault 😂🐙
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I'm off work and my brain is scrampled egg right now so can't get stuck into writing... So I have been doing a bit of art. It's messy and it's shiny and it's keeping me sane. Ish. Anyway here is my space octopus.
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I'm off work and my brain is scrampled egg right now so can't get stuck into writing... So I have been doing a bit of art. It's messy and it's shiny and it's keeping me sane. Ish. Anyway here is my space octopus.
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This time last week I was packing to leave @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social. It was a strange con for me as I was deep in bereavement, but the support of so many wonderful friends and loved ones kept me going.
Here are a few highlights, and there will be a load more on my Ida Keogh FB page.
Here are a few highlights, and there will be a load more on my Ida Keogh FB page.
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This time last week I was packing to leave @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social. It was a strange con for me as I was deep in bereavement, but the support of so many wonderful friends and loved ones kept me going.
Here are a few highlights, and there will be a load more on my Ida Keogh FB page.
Here are a few highlights, and there will be a load more on my Ida Keogh FB page.
This story out today by @worldanvil.bsky.social is incredibly beautiful and spoke to my grief when I needed it most this morning.
www.dreamtheory.media/song-of-the-...
#Writersky #Booksky
www.dreamtheory.media/song-of-the-...
#Writersky #Booksky
Song of the Loom
by Janet Forbes
I Sang to the loom, the day my mother died.
My hands were an echo of hers. Heavy with grief, they wove eight hundred threads onto the frame, a hundred for each string of her Lyra. ...
www.dreamtheory.media
November 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
This story out today by @worldanvil.bsky.social is incredibly beautiful and spoke to my grief when I needed it most this morning.
www.dreamtheory.media/song-of-the-...
#Writersky #Booksky
www.dreamtheory.media/song-of-the-...
#Writersky #Booksky
The cake was dressed and boxed on time and thoroughly taste tested, with thanks to my trusty helpers @liwella.bsky.social and @worldanvil.bsky.social! I await nervously to hear any feedback from the audience members who received a piece...
#Amwritingrecipes #Foodfiction
#Amwritingrecipes #Foodfiction
October 31, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The cake was dressed and boxed on time and thoroughly taste tested, with thanks to my trusty helpers @liwella.bsky.social and @worldanvil.bsky.social! I await nervously to hear any feedback from the audience members who received a piece...
#Amwritingrecipes #Foodfiction
#Amwritingrecipes #Foodfiction
I am at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social!
I'm moderating this evening's panel on Food, Music and Costume (7pm) and have CAKE - the recipe for which is in my food genre story collection 'Taste', which I'm just putting the finishing touches on.
Good audience question = CAKE!
I'm moderating this evening's panel on Food, Music and Costume (7pm) and have CAKE - the recipe for which is in my food genre story collection 'Taste', which I'm just putting the finishing touches on.
Good audience question = CAKE!
October 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I am at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social!
I'm moderating this evening's panel on Food, Music and Costume (7pm) and have CAKE - the recipe for which is in my food genre story collection 'Taste', which I'm just putting the finishing touches on.
Good audience question = CAKE!
I'm moderating this evening's panel on Food, Music and Costume (7pm) and have CAKE - the recipe for which is in my food genre story collection 'Taste', which I'm just putting the finishing touches on.
Good audience question = CAKE!
This is the kind of stuff I like to explore in my writing. I am just putting the finishing touches on a collection of genre stories all centred around food. The way sharing it enriches our lives, the impact of food scarcity, the ritual use of food to celebrate or to mourn.
#amwriting #foodfiction
#amwriting #foodfiction
"Agriculture and produce is inherently political. Think of all the things that goes into food: who has access to eat it, to grow it, how it’s kept safe, what companies dominate that market, where it is imported from and exported to, what food is kept to the wealthy and kept away from the poor..."
In today's apple reviews, I review a -- *checks notes* banana?
Also, some chatter about food insecurity and food banks --
Also, some chatter about food insecurity and food banks --
October 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is the kind of stuff I like to explore in my writing. I am just putting the finishing touches on a collection of genre stories all centred around food. The way sharing it enriches our lives, the impact of food scarcity, the ritual use of food to celebrate or to mourn.
#amwriting #foodfiction
#amwriting #foodfiction
It's been a very tough week, but I'm having a little pamper in the salon today to get ready for @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social and finally getting round to reading British Fantasy Award nominee @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social's Long Live Evil. 💜
October 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
It's been a very tough week, but I'm having a little pamper in the salon today to get ready for @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social and finally getting round to reading British Fantasy Award nominee @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social's Long Live Evil. 💜
Mmm, what a beautiful piece of food fiction! Utterly delicious prose.
October 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Mmm, what a beautiful piece of food fiction! Utterly delicious prose.
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'I am a mermaid' by Indigenous Australian painter Djakangu Yunupingu, a Yolngu elder based in Yirrkala in the Northern Territory #WomensArt
October 25, 2025 at 4:38 AM
'I am a mermaid' by Indigenous Australian painter Djakangu Yunupingu, a Yolngu elder based in Yirrkala in the Northern Territory #WomensArt
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Not a false alarm!!
I'm building a pop-up queer mermaid escape room for Tate Britain!
www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
I'm building a pop-up queer mermaid escape room for Tate Britain!
www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
October 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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@jeremycshipp.bsky.social if you're on the look out for turtles, you may like this post as much as I did... (I think the algorithm is just showing me all your animal seeking posts now 😂)
The etymology of ‘turtle’ is interesting as shell.
'Turtle' comes from the French 'tortue,' which in turn comes from the Late Latin 'tartarucha.'
‘Tartarucha’ was short for the phrase ‘bestia tartarucha’ which means "infernal beast" or "beast of the nether regions."
'Turtle' comes from the French 'tortue,' which in turn comes from the Late Latin 'tartarucha.'
‘Tartarucha’ was short for the phrase ‘bestia tartarucha’ which means "infernal beast" or "beast of the nether regions."
October 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
@jeremycshipp.bsky.social if you're on the look out for turtles, you may like this post as much as I did... (I think the algorithm is just showing me all your animal seeking posts now 😂)
I bought a copy of Futility after hearing @nuzo.bsky.social read from it at Super Relaxed Fantasy Club on Tuesday. It is... passionate, and hilarious, with just the right amount of extreme female rage. Well worth picking up!
Remember, we have 5 copies of @nuzo.bsky.social's latest, Futility, to give away with big thanks to @titanbooks.bsky.social! Head over to our blog to read more about the book, and find out how you can win.
britishfantasysociety.org/from-pen-to-...
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October 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I bought a copy of Futility after hearing @nuzo.bsky.social read from it at Super Relaxed Fantasy Club on Tuesday. It is... passionate, and hilarious, with just the right amount of extreme female rage. Well worth picking up!
My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.
Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.
3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.
You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.
Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.
3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.
You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.
So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?
Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?
Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?
Something else?
What have you got?
Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?
Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?
Something else?
What have you got?
October 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM