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Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄 @carturo222.bsky.social · 18d

Here, have some Hiroshi Yoshimura.

Something blue

YouTube video by Hiroshi Yoshimura - Topic

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Alex S. Bradshaw 🦕 @alexsbradshaw.bsky.social · 19d

So stoked for the beginning of @spotlightindie.bsky.social 's Big Indie Weekend!

Look at all these amazing guests!!

Spotlight Indie @spotlightindie.bsky.social · 19d

Want to know what's coming up today? ⬇️
1pm BST: Predicting the Future
3pm BST: War, Wounds and Battlescenes
6pm BST: Realm Raiders
7pm: No Such Thing as a Stupid Question
8.30pm: Interview: Graham Austin King
9.00pm: Live Launch Party: Phil Parker

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The Write Advice @thewriteadvice.bsky.social · 19d

Spotlight Indie's Big Weekend kicks off soon! Follow them @spotlightindie.bsky.social to get all the goods!
Great people doing great work writing great books and supporting each other ... greatly. ~ Anna

Spotlight Indie @spotlightindie.bsky.social · 22d

Our Big Indie Weekend takes place 3rd to 5th October with online panels, workshops and giveaways across three days. We're officially kicking things off on Wednesday 01st October with our first giveaway. Don't miss out - it's going to be an amazing weekend of epic indie awesomeness!

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Kaushik Karforma @kaushikkwrites.bsky.social · 23d

I've been fortunate to receive mentoring from @annasmithwrites.bsky.social who's 1/3 of TWA. She's extremely patient, comes up with brilliant insights, and really wants to make the story better. I'd to leave because of some life issues, but will resume early next year.

The Write Advice @thewriteadvice.bsky.social · Sep 17

Get in touch for next year, though! Email us at [email protected] or check out www.thewriteadvice.co.uk ~ Anna

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Angela Cleland @angelacleland.co.uk · Sep 18

Anna has been helping me rework an old manuscript this year and it’s been awesome. She revitalised my enthusiasm for the book with her insightful feedback and suggestions. It’s not just improved the ms - it’s improved my writing overall. Stop swithering! Get yourself in TWA’s diary for 2026.

The Write Advice @thewriteadvice.bsky.social · Sep 17

Get in touch for next year, though! Email us at [email protected] or check out www.thewriteadvice.co.uk ~ Anna

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · Sep 16

Winter Haunts returns this November, and what a line-up of authors and speakers taking part once again! If you're a lover of ghost stories and Gothic fiction, then this could be the event for you... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-hau... #gothic #gothicfiction #ghoststories #ghoststory

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · Sep 17

Small Publishers Fair returns to London's Conway Hall
next month, with 66 UK & international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks. More details soon.

Fri 24 & Sat 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL smallpublishersfair.co.uk

Promotional card for the 2025 Small Publishers Fair, with a full list of the 66 participating artists and publishers. Full details at https://smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-2025/

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The Write Advice @thewriteadvice.bsky.social · Sep 17

Get in touch for next year, though! Email us at [email protected] or check out www.thewriteadvice.co.uk ~ Anna

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The Write Advice @thewriteadvice.bsky.social · Sep 17

I've worked on 8 editorial projects this year, both novels and novellas at developmental and copy/line.
Finishing up the last two over the next 6 weeks and then taking a break until next year.
It's been brilliant to be so busy and work with so many talented authors, but I need a rest.
Like Bailey!

A fluffy brown dog sleeps on a bed, his head on the pillow. A true Prince.

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · Sep 15

Less than a month until #DVpit, a pitch event for marginalized creators looking to find an agent & get traditionally published! Here's a reminder of the rules!
For more guidelines & info go to dvpit.carrd.co
See you all at DVpit on October 8th, 2025!
#writersky #booksky

#DVpit (Diverse Voices Pitch) is a Bluesky event for marginalized creators that have been historically underrepresented in publishing to pitch their work to agents & editors.
Post your pitch on Bluesky on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2025 between 8AM ET - 8PM ET.
Your pitch must include the #DVpit hashtag (illustrators pitching their art must use #DVArt)
A like ❤️ from an agent = a query request
A repost 🔁 from an editor = interest in submission once you've signed with an agent
A like ❤️ from an editor = editor who takes unagented submissions
Please do not like or repost a pitch if you are not an agent or an editor. Support other creators by replying to their pitch or quote-reposting their pitches.
Visit dvpit.carrd.co for more detailed guidelines.

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The Write Advice @thewriteadvice.bsky.social · Aug 22

Today in Anna's Adventures in Editing, I've so far had to look up what behaviours indicate a psychopath v a sociopath, and when breathalysers were invented.
Yep, it ain't a SFF book, folks.

The below gif should read Challenge ACCepted, by the way 😋

a bald man is standing in a room with his arms outstretched and the words `` challenge exceeded '' written on the screen .

ALT: a bald man is standing in a room with his arms outstretched and the words `` challenge exceeded '' written on the screen .

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · Aug 13

Politely withdrawing from a book prize isn’t cancelling anyone. When the Women’s Prize said it had no problem incl transgender women, the “gender critical” novelist Lissa Evans, for example, said she’d no longer allow her books to be submitted for it. I wonder where the substacks were about that?

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World Fantasy 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social · Aug 2

If you are planning to come to World Fantasy Convention 2025 and would like to be on programme items, you need to fill out the form before 8th August.

worldfantasy2025.co.uk/participation/

Participation – World Fantasy Convention 2025

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The Write Advice @thewriteadvice.bsky.social · Jul 27

Another 5 mentoring sessions done today. Tough work, but one writer is a mere 3 chapters away from finishing their first book and another is embarking on draft 2 with the aim of getting most of it done by the end of the year.
Super proud of them both, and all my others, of course. ~ Anna

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óÓÒò Spotted Menace óÓÒò @spottedmenace.bsky.social · Jul 24

Boss. I'm tired boss. We been doing these experiments and studies since the 60s and 70s and the outcome has been the same in them all.

The pushback against these measures aren't because they don't work. It's because they DO work and they'll include peoples they wish to exclude from society.

Jon Munitz @jonmunitz.bsky.social · Jul 24

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.

They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.

Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.

#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

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The Write Advice @thewriteadvice.bsky.social · Jul 25

Grammar for adventurers:

"Can I" is an ability check
"May I" is a persuasion roll.

Anna.

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The Write Advice @thewriteadvice.bsky.social · Jul 24

I'm not saying I'm dedicated, but I just took a selfie of myself looking Very Disappointed and sent it to a mentee as motivation to write more consistently, one of their goals, and extracted a promise that they'd send me their word count each day so that "you never look at me like that again" ~ Anna

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The Write Advice @thewriteadvice.bsky.social · Jul 11

Congratulations to editorial client Stephen on publication of his new novel, Inquisitive.
I didn't work on this one, but if it's half as good as the one I've just edited, then it's very, very good! You can check it out here ~ Anna

Inquisitive

Lottie’s life is upended when Payge, a mysterious bookseller, warns her she’s being hunted by powerful Makers who control portals between worlds. Forced into...

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The Write Advice @thewriteadvice.bsky.social · Jul 11

It really does make a difference. And I'm sure my dog is glad that I sing a lot less now!

The Write Advice @thewriteadvice.bsky.social · Jul 11

Me: Today I shall edit while listening to One OK Rock.
Me, 10 minutes later, caterwauling along: Oh, no, this is not going to work.
*Begrudgingly switches to movie soundtracks*
*Miraculously is able to edit*
Welcome to Anna Fridays.

a group of people playing instruments in front of a one ok rock sign

Alt: The band One OK Rock singing and playing instruments in front of a one ok rock banner

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The Write Advice @thewriteadvice.bsky.social · Jul 10

Oh man, I knew something was wrong when I couldn't find you on here as Knightman and had to check the cover for your name! Clearly forgot to change the banner. Sorry!!

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The Write Advice @thewriteadvice.bsky.social · Jul 5

Anna reads, loves, and reviews Wriggly Little Hands by @authoralexknight.bsky.social thewriteadvice.co.uk/2025/07/05/b...

Book Review – Wriggly Little Hands, by Alex Knight

I was delighted to get an ARC of Wriggly Little Hands a couple of months ago, and dived in straight away to a book I’d heard good things about. My first cosy fantasy! Sends up some of the big…

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valentine @dozygay.bsky.social · Jun 28

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.

However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Justin Lee Anderson @justinleeanderson.com · Jun 28

Guys, guys, guys...

The Damned King is on Netgalley.

Go get it!

www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

The Damned King

NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

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The Fantasy Hive @thefantasyhive.bsky.social · Jun 6

We have partnered with @hodderscape.bsky.social to bring you a GIVEAWAY for a hardback copy of A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim!

To enter:

Follow us and repost this post only.

Rules:

UK & N. Ireland entries only due to shipping restrictions.

Ends: 13th June

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