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Luke SPELLcourt 🧙🏼‍♀️🦇✨ @lukebelcourt.com · 6h

Whoever said you should ‘space out your annual leave’ was clearly lying

Luke SPELLcourt 🧙🏼‍♀️🦇✨ @lukebelcourt.com · 6h

Tomorrow I finish my shift, go shopping for multiple days of snacks and ready-meals, begin a four day weekend to play Pokémon ZA

Then potentially I have jury duty for 2 weeks, going right into World Fantasycon, the release of Vampires, and then I have Christmas to look forward to

Life is good

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Luke SPELLcourt 🧙🏼‍♀️🦇✨ @lukebelcourt.com · 8h

"Grief is a dangerous thing in the hands of a necromancer..."

Not caught up in time for the release of VAMPIRES?

In the UK, the paperback of WITCHES OF MERCHANT CITY is now available for a tenner! (And in the US for $12!)

shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

The new front cover of Witches of Merchant City, drawn by Jenni Coutts. Intricate black-and-white lineart depicts a woman with a side-cut and a black leather jacket, in front of Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA). Golden energy crackles from her hands, and green clouds swirl behind.

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Eamhair MacGriogair / Maya Evan MacGregor @maigheach.bsky.social · 9h

I have a wonderful bit of good news to share!

I have a new literary agent and am now represented by @keiralekseii.bsky.social of Azantian Literary Agency!

The moment Keir and I connected, I knew she was the perfect person to represent my work. I cannot wait to see where we go from here. 🥰✨

Pictures of author Maya MacGregor and literary Keir Alekseii on a mauve background with the silhouettes of a forest, photos of brambles, and the text: “I am represented by Keir Alekseii! Announcement! New representation: Keir Alekseii of Azantian Literary Agency”

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 18h

They won't be named or interviewed either. They will be referred to as prisoners, not hostages, despite many of them being detained for no reason and having no charges levelled against them. All because their kidnapper was a brutal, authoritarian regime.

valloween @trickycrayon.bsky.social · 1d

We are over 10 minutes now on coverage of the hostages being reunited with their families.

There was honestly a less than 30-second spot showing some of the buses coming in with Palestinians.

1700 people were held with no charges or convictions.

No happy videos of reunification there.

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Luke SPELLcourt 🧙🏼‍♀️🦇✨ @lukebelcourt.com · 1d

Sending love ❤️

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Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd · Jan 16

Similar to my post about "liberation means even for that annoying guy you hate" - weird art includes art you personally don't get, don't like, wouldn't spend money on, find unsettling. Games you wouldn't play. Books you wouldn't read. Decommercialise your preconceptions of what art deserves to exist

shaydh 🩸FLEDGLING MANOR OUT NOW🩸 @shaydh.bsky.social · Jan 16

Everyone saying "make weird art!" you better fucking mean it. There better not be an unspoken "but not too weird" tacked on at the end.

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V @visceralhit.bsky.social · Aug 6

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

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Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.social · 3d

Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

By Nick Charge

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Luke SPELLcourt 🧙🏼‍♀️🦇✨ @lukebelcourt.com · 3d

VAMPIRES releases soon!

To celebrate, I'm making the official playlist public! For multiple years, this playlist made my Spotify Wrapped pointless 😂

open.spotify.com/playlist/2cN...

For more info on VAMPIRES IN PARK CIRCUS, visit lukebelcourt.com/witches/two....

Spotify – Web Player

open.spotify.com

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 3d

The Magnum Photo Archive has recently published 5 unseen photos from Raymond Depardon's now iconic Glasgow 1980 series, discovered during a digitisation project.

📷 Magnum/Raymond Depardon

#Glasgow

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Luke SPELLcourt 🧙🏼‍♀️🦇✨ @lukebelcourt.com · 3d

It makes me ashamed to be a human being. There are no words to describe the tragedy that has been wrought on the Palestinian people.

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Luke SPELLcourt 🧙🏼‍♀️🦇✨ @lukebelcourt.com · 3d

Watching people return to a home that has been completely levelled. Parents mourning their children on a scale that is completely impossible to imagine

Palestine must be freed. Every penny that has come out of this country to fund Israel's genocide is a blood debt we will never repay.

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Luke SPELLcourt 🧙🏼‍♀️🦇✨ @lukebelcourt.com · 3d

VAMPIRES releases soon!

To celebrate, I'm making the official playlist public! For multiple years, this playlist made my Spotify Wrapped pointless 😂

open.spotify.com/playlist/2cN...

For more info on VAMPIRES IN PARK CIRCUS, visit lukebelcourt.com/witches/two....

Spotify – Web Player

open.spotify.com

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 5d

People who think the idea of "give me ideas" is something genuinely creative people want have literally never experienced the absolute EUPHORIA of a brainstorming breakthrough, either solo or with a human collaborator. They don't understand what is happening when artists create, on a basic level.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Luke SPELLcourt 🧙🏼‍♀️🦇✨ @lukebelcourt.com · 4d

There is a moment when it gets dark so early, that’s so peaceful

I’m trying to enjoy it before 6 months of it kills me

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 4d

Revolting children! Vee are talking about The Vitches this veek with our good Judy @robwillb.bsky.social - available verever you get your podcasts

Once Upon A VHS - 80s and 90s Fantasy Podcast @onceuponavhs.bsky.social · 5d

New episode - The Witches (1990) with @robwillb.bsky.social of @bonabooks.bsky.social

linktr.ee/onceuponavhs

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Luke SPELLcourt 🧙🏼‍♀️🦇✨ @lukebelcourt.com · 4d

Aaaa legend!! I hope you enjoy it!

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Luke SPELLcourt 🧙🏼‍♀️🦇✨ @lukebelcourt.com · 5d

Standin by the tuck shop puffin my candy cigarette like “Stopped playin hidey tig years ago, it’s in the pocket of Big Keysies”

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 5d

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 259:
Failure is nothing to be ashamed of. It means you tried something. No-one succeeds without failures: it’s a necessary part of the process.

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Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 5d

📚 🧡 MY BIGGEST DREAM COME TRUE 📚 🧡

My debut novel, MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, will be out in 2027!

Publishers Marketplace, Z. K. Abraham's My Darling Clementine, in which a Black queer woman, who, feeling lost in teh depths of an unhappy marriage, leaves it all behind, only to lose herself completely-and beyond human recognition-to a new love, to Makayla Tabron at Amistad, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2027, by Carleen Geisler at P.S. Literary Agency (world English). Translation: Taryn Fagerness Agency

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remotecore @remotecore.bsky.social · 5d

You know what? Now seems a good day remind people that Gallus exists. A collective anthology by members of the @gsfwc.bsky.social community, put together for the Glasgow Worldcon. My story is about the end of the world, and witches looking for hope. #gallus #gsfwc40
gsfwc.wordpress.com/gallus/

GALLUS

Gallus celebrates Glasgow’s third home turf Worldcon and showcases brand new work from our authors. Some of the writers featured here have been around since the beginning, some are brand new. Some …

gsfwc.wordpress.com

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Luke SPELLcourt 🧙🏼‍♀️🦇✨ @lukebelcourt.com · 5d

YISSSS omg the weight off my mind!!

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Luke SPELLcourt 🧙🏼‍♀️🦇✨ @lukebelcourt.com · 5d

Yooooo the UK paperback is now available for preorder in Waterstones!! Go get those witches in PAPER!! 🧙✨🔮

www.waterstones.com/book/vampire...

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Luke SPELLcourt 🧙🏼‍♀️🦇✨ @lukebelcourt.com · 10d

VAMPIRES IN PARK CIRCUS!

🧙🏼‍♀️ Your favourite queer witches return!
❤️ Multiple F/F romances
🦭 The tragic end of your giant selkie gf
🦇 “I’m a vampire, you’re a witch, it can never work, and yet…”
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 More Weegie shit
🔪 Supporting women’s wrongs

CW: death, grief, toxic coping mechanisms

Luke SPELLcourt 🧙🏼‍♀️🦇✨ @lukebelcourt.com · 14d

COVER REVEAL! 🎉

After what feels like a lifetime, I finally get to show you what I've been working on the last few years! The long-awaited sequel, VAMPIRES IN PARK CIRCUS!

Coming Halloween 2025!

You can pre-order here! lukebelcourt.com/witches/two....

A photograph of the cover for Vampires in Park Circus. It is drawn in the same style as the 2025 Witches cover -- fine black lineart, but the colour scheme is red rather than teal.
A woman with long flowing black hair in a Kate Bush-esque gown runs towards the viewer. She looks behind her, afraid. Park Church Tower, a notable landmark in the centre of Park Circus, looms behind her. The same golden magic from the first book explodes from her head like psychic power.
The photograph is taken in a park, with tree cover behind it.

The epigraph to the book:

"A vampire moves to Scotland and makes friends with a local human at a bar.
'It's hard, not being able to go out in direct sunlight,' the vampire says.
'How long has it been since you've seen the sun?' the local asks.
'Since I died, nine years ago,' the vampire says. 'You?'
The local finishes his drink. 'Fifteen long years. I remember it like it was yesterday.'
- Anonymous

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