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// Christopher Byford // THE NIGHT MARKET - OCT //
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Amazon bestselling author, Unusual Type
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// Christopher Byford // THE NIGHT MARKET - OCT // @thetenwings.co.uk · Nov 17
Hello new followers! Quick intro. I'm Chris, a disabled Amazon bestselling author who writes fantasy/spec, dabbles in astrophotography and loves English folklore. I wrote a series about a show train which got published by HQ/HarperCollins and I also wrote a book about people hunting mimics.
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The new jazzed up cover is live
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#booksky #fantasy #vampire #book
January 30, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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tumblr post: lesbuchanan Summer Olympics: Who can run the fastest? :) Who can swim the fastest? :) Who can do the best somersault? :) Winter Olympics: WHO CAN MAKE IT TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS ICE SLIDE OF DEATH AND SURVIVE?? WHO CAN GET AROUND THE RINK WITHOUT GETTING THEIR HANDS SLICED OFF BY EVERYONE ELSE'S FEET BLADES?? CAN THIS GUY DO A 1080 DEGREE FLIP WITHOUT DYING?? reblog by legionoftuna Summer Triathlon: Don't run too fast, you have to save your energy for a swim and a bike ride! :) Winter Biathlon: I see you've been skiing for five miles now here's your gun
February 7, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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I really want to do a thing where one of my characters interviews the other, or do something podcast-y with it. It'll be fun.
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February 7, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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It's a making merch day today. Here's a little preview of the sort of thing that's heading your way for the Night Market launch.
February 6, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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10. My dad's advice for badger attacks.
“PUT SEASHELLS IN THE ANKLES OF YOUR SOCKS,” my dad told me on the phone today. “Why on earth would I do that?” I asked. “YOUR MUM TOLD ME YOU’VE GOT BADGERS IN THE GARDEN. WHEN THEY BITE YOUR LEG, THEY’LL CRUNCH ON THE SHELLS AND THINK THEY’VE ALREADY HIT BONE, THEN LEAVE YOU ALONE.”
February 5, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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Feels like there's not enough tea in the world for this morning...
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February 6, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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Red Ogre (@ogre.red) gets rights to your work upon *submission*.

And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology.

Don't submit to this one, folks.
Content Licensing# Content submissions of any type to Red Ogre Review are conditioned on, and evidence of, your explicit agreement that in exchange for Red Ogre Review’s evaluation of your content submission for potential publication with Red Ogre Review or any other publication outlet, you intentionally and unreservedly grant Red Ogre Review an unrestricted, transferable, and nonrevocable worldwide license and right to use the submission content on this site and in any reproduced, related, or derivative materials, including in print books and in electronic books produced by Red Ogre Review, and on social media channels operated by or affiliated with Red Ogre Review, without expectation of any cash payment, royalty payments, or any other valuable compensation; you also irrevocably waive in their entirety any current or future exercise of “natural rights” or “moral rights of authors” as may potentially be asserted.
February 4, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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The Folio Society's spring collection includes some outstanding SF/F titles: Andy Weir's The Martian, Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven, China Miéville's Perdido Street Station, and more.

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The Folio Society unveils 2026 spring collection
Lots of SF/F titles to look forward to
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February 5, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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Bomberman collection announced with no Mega Bomberman is begrudgingly understandable.

Without Saturn Bomberman is utterly baffling and completely ridiculous.
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February 5, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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Walked out of the hospital once and passed Simon Pegg. Gave him a "all right?" nod of the head and he did it back.

Saw Eddie Redmayne half stumble down some stairs at the V&A.
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One of my academic colleagues looks a bit like Bob Mortimer. One time near our labs I saw him walking towards me and I warmly said Hey Kevin. It was Bob Mortimer.

Please share your very low impact celebrity encounters here.
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Fun low level anecdote: I once sat near Peter Mandelson in a theatre but I had a name blank and said rather too loudly ‘ooh look it’s Michael Portillo!’

He was visibly unamused.
February 5, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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Goodnight.
Hare, The Frost Pink Moon, Catherine Hyde.
Hare running across snowy or frosty landscape with golden lower border, pink moon, painting.
February 4, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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Reminds me of when I was accused by someone of flaunting my education because I said basic spelling should be a requirement of anything published. I had to point out he went to uni for English lit, and I went to college for IT...
February 5, 2026 at 7:19 AM
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And in true me fashion I glazed an image of this mari missing a hand. Here she is with her missing appendage
February 4, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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How your email finds me.
February 4, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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Writing music for today:
Hold on (The Distance Between)
YouTube video by The Protomen - Topic
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February 3, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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It's publication day for In This City, Where it Rains out now from @lunapress.bsky.social! This is my Scottish gothic love letter to Edinburgh, a weird tale of ghosts, curses, family secrets, weird moths, & dark rituals 🖤 All links: linktr.ee/lyndseycroal Bonus Q: how many ghosts can you see here? 👀
Copies of In This City, Where it Rains on a shelf with various ghostly themed knick knacks
February 3, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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Boy, do I love delivery drivers dropping off stuff at the completely wrong address and in the RAIN.

I'm being sarcastic. I don't like it at all.
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February 3, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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Astronomers now say it’s 100 times more likely that Earth and our galaxy sit inside a giant cosmic void. This idea challenges one of the most basic assumptions in cosmology: that matter is evenly spread throughout the universe on large scales. Instead, new evidence from baryon acoustic oscillatio...
February 2, 2026 at 5:26 AM
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Deserved.
February 2, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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I've been deep in editing for the last few weeks. I've reached that beautiful, wonderful point that all authors do, where they're so blinded by the process they think the entire manuscript is trash and the only solution is fire.

And plenty of it.
#amediting #booksky
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January 31, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Oh Musk. Will you ever learn?
January 31, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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🚨COVER REVEAL!🚨

Feast your eyes on Sam Gretton's cover for THE EAGLE IN THE MOUNTAIN, the much anticipated sequel to Caskey Russell's indigenous epic fantasy - THE DOOR ON THE SEA!

Out September 2026.
Full reveal by @reactorsff.bsky.social https://bit.ly/3M0FgsU
Buy book 1 https://geni.us/doorsea
Against a red water-y background, the book cover for THE EAGLE IN THE MOUNTAIN by Caskey Russell. Cover is by Sam Gretton.
January 30, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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The new jazzed up cover is live
harpercollins.co.uk/products/the...
#booksky #fantasy #vampire #book
January 30, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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After repeated attempts, I just can't get into the musical War of the Worlds. I love prog rock, but I think the difference between the source and the musical styles just doesn't land for me.
Some tracks just seem to funky for their own good. I don't want to be grooving when aliens are blasting stuff
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January 30, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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Hooray, Enchanting the Fae Queen is finally out in the UK today!

I love the glittering gold foil on this hardcover copy - so perfect for Lorelei, who showers glitter and sparkles everywhere she goes...with dangerous intent. ;)

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#romancelandia
This photo shows a hardcover copy of Enchanting the Fae Queen, presented face out, with the gold foil glinting around the cover's illustrations. The front cover image has a green background with a frame of climbing roses and branches rising through a night sky full of stars. In the center of the image, just beneath the moon, stands a massive, ominous castle with a hedge maze before it. A blonde woman in a long gown scattters sparkles in her wake as she leads her tall. uniformed male companion through the moonlit hedge maze at a run, while giant butterflies flutter overhead. The tag line reads: “All’s fae in love and war” and a blurb from Sarah Beth Durst reads: “Full of charm, wit and magic.” The back cover of Enchanting the Fae Queen shows the back of the illustrated castle from the front cover, surrounded by leaves and roses and butterflies. A snippet from the book reads: "Lorelei adored popping into her enemies' parties, and she never bothered to wait for an invitation." Then a header reads: Praise for Stephanie Burgis, followed by several blurbs: 'Stephanie Burgis is a fresh new voice." - Ilona Andrews. "Spectacular" - Sarah Beth Durst. "The perfect blend of fantasy and romance." - Jessie Mihalik. "A warm and lovely story with a big heart." - Sangu Mandanna. Above a box full of author copies of Enchanting the Fae Queen, one copy is held spine-out to show the lovely foil-embossed illustration of a rose at the top of the book's spine and the butterfly at its bottom. Magical stars ornament the title in between the two illustrations.
January 29, 2026 at 8:28 AM