Neil Williamson

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Writer and musician. Glasgow, Scotland
https://linktr.ee/neilwilliamson

📚 Latest thing: The Death Trap in Not One Of Us
https://legacyliteraryservices.com/not-one-of-us/latest-issue-table-of-contents/

📚 Next thing: Nova Scotia vol2, Gallus

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The Best of British SF/F Storybundle is live! bit.ly/465Gh8z 10 titles for just $20! Ft. Solaris' own Aliya Whiteley & @aptshadow.bsky.social, & inc. fabulous writers like Neal Asher, @lavietidhar.bsky.social, @starkholborn.bsky.social & more! With donations to @locusmag.bsky.social! Pls RT!

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Unexploded Remnants is out in UK bookshops today! If you'd like to support your local bookshop or your favourite queer bookshop, they are all able to order it for you. I know Category Is in Glasgow will have it in because I watched them order it last week 😍

More please. || @chriscrowing.bsky.social reviews UNEXPLODED REMNANTS by @theelaineg.bsky.social @tordotcom.bsky.social || www.grimdarkmagazine.com/review-unexp...

REVIEW: Unexploded Remnants by Elaine Gallagherwww.grimdarkmagazine.com Unexploded Remnants is the debut novella by Scottish author Elaine Gallagher and tells the story of Alice, who is the last surviving human.

So looking forward to this book.

Unboxing! Something to brighten up an otherwise dreary Monday. Pre-orders available now! www.lethepressbooks.com/store/p704/P... 😇🏳️‍🌈😈 #PreachingToThePerverted

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We are super excited that accepted programme participants should have received their draft programme by email overnight. This email went to nearly 1000 participants! (1/2)

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This is going to be my final book review before I look back over the last 12 months to pick my overall favourite. Raw Spirit by Iain Banks is a wonderful book and you don't even need to like whisky to enjoy this one. pagechewing.com/raw-spirit-b...

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As August closes in, it seems like a good time to reshare my Worldcon 2024 Survival Guide. Conning on a budget and looking for where to buy groceries, get a hot meal, or take a walk away from the convention centre? I've got you covered.

WorldCon 2024 Survival Guideheathervalentinewriting.com A guide for Worldcon Glasgow 2024 attendees, including directions to nearby groceries, pharmacies, and food options.

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There is ONE WEEK LEFT to vote for the Final Ballot of the 2024 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. If you want to vote, check this out! 1/6

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Watch out for lesbian pirates and hungry mermaids in this selection of sapphic #scifi and #fantasy stories. Read Farther Reefs! www.amazon.com/dp/B0B99D1LC2

Amazon.com: Farther Reefs: Ten Stories of Ocean Adventure, New Relationships, and Nautical Mystery (Worlds Apart: A Universe of Sapphic Science Fiction and Fantasy Book 2) eBook : Fields, J.S., Day, S...www.amazon.com Amazon.com: Farther Reefs: Ten Stories of Ocean Adventure, New Relationships, and Nautical Mystery (Worlds Apart: A Universe of Sapphic Science Fiction and Fantasy Book 2) eBook : Fields, J.S., Day, S...

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I have a book coming out! Publication date tomorrow: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/fara... I really enjoyed compiling this. Thank you to Edward James and to several of you on facebook for helping me come up with non traditional choices.

Classic Fantasy Stories by Farah Mendlesohnwww.panmacmillan.com Find out more about Classic Fantasy Stories by Farah Mendlesohn

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ok so you've seen the cover, would you now like to read an excerpt from my next book in [checks notes] [checks notes again] ... Cosmopolitan magazine www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainmen...

Oh hey y’all guess what I have a new book coming out in March 2025 & you can pre-order it if you want! You can do so from anywhere, I recommend your local indie, but meanwhile here’s Macmillan’s link us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Exclusive: Check Out Amal El-Mohtar's Debut Solo Novella ‘The River Has Roots’ Cover Reveal and Excerptwww.cosmopolitan.com The This is How You Lose the Time War author will leave you speechless with her new story.

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Nova Scotia Vol 2 anthology, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson, is now available for pre-order! www.lunapresspublishing.com/post/andrew-... @neilwilliamson.bsky.social

Andrew J. Wilson: Nova Scotia Vol 2 Anthology. Pre-Order Available Now!www.lunapresspublishing.com Nova Scotia Vol 2 anthology, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson, is now available for pre-order!

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A week ago we revealed the cover for the @GSFWC upcoming anthology. So today, by way of a reminder, I thought I'd have an indulgent ramble about why I volunteered to do it and why it's not about me. #Gallus #Worldcon munchkinstein.co.uk/index.php/20...

Revelling in the editor’s power – Brian M. Milton, SF&F writing and nonsensemunchkinstein.co.uk

Don't know who would benefit from this information (though I'm definitely tagging @halduncan.bsky.social because spicy things) but Lupe Pintos on GWR is stocking nduja now. First outing was with cod, beans and rainbow chard and it were lush.

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Nova Scotia Vol 2 anthology, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson, is now available for pre-order! www.lunapresspublishing.com/post/jon-cou...

Jon Courtenay Grimwood: Nova Scotia Vol 2 Anthology. Pre-Order Available Now!www.lunapresspublishing.com Nova Scotia Vol 2 anthology, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson, is now available for pre-order!

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Here's what you can always expect from my books. Signed copies are available in my shop or you can check your local bookstore (if not, request them!). I've got ebooks & audiobooks, too! Check the links in my profile and get set up for existential dread and sad shit today!

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I’m lucky enough to be in the Nova Scotia Vol 2 anthology, which comes out at the end of the month and is now available for pre-order. Today I’m on the Luna blog talking about my story ‘New Town’.

Nova Scotia Vol 2 anthology, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson, is now available for pre-order! www.lunapresspublishing.com/post/david-g... @davegoodman.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social

David Goodman: Nova Scotia Vol 2 Anthology. Pre-Order Available Now!www.lunapresspublishing.com Nova Scotia Vol 2 anthology, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson, is now available for pre-order!

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Update: become IZ’s *69th patron (you get 6 issues of the mag right away, incl. fiction by @authorizedmusings.bsky.social, James Sallis, @carlosnorcia.bsky.social, Rachael Cupp, @aijiang.bsky.social; reviews by @delagar.bsky.social, @gautambhatia88.bsky.social, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social; & more)

If you’re able, become IZ’s 66th monthly patron today and help feed the foundries and power the engines of INTERZONE so it can continue to publish stories as sublime and as satisfying as ‘The Clockwork Heart of Heaven’ by Roby Davies, and not go the way of the dimetrodons interzone.press/patreon ✨

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Many lovely recommendations I spot books by Aliya Whiteley, @neilwilliamson.bsky.social, Cécile Cristofari, @jolantru.bsky.social, a collection edited by Teika Marija Smits, and lots more

As always and always a valid answer but hopefully the thread will make you find something else and if not there is also www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/7/...

Halfway Through the Year! — Runalong The Shelveswww.runalongtheshelves.net

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The very best book I read last year. All the things here are true, and should be attended to.

‘This is especially true of one late-in-the-novel experience of Justin being lost in Seoul’s Gimpo Intl. Airport. This episode is among the most striking in the book, and also one of the most fantastical, as space, time, and logic seems to collapse around Priest’s protagonist.’ Val’s super review 👇

THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT AIRSIDE BY CHRISTOPHER PRIEST: Val Nolan on the genre-defying literary maestro’s final novel // IZ Digitalinterzone.digital ‘There are no aliens or portals here; there is, perhaps, a time/space slippage, but the reality of that is up to each reader to decide. A speculative audience will hum along to the book’s eerie tune.’...

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"the act of cursing one’s enemies is carried out mostly by older women in a gloomy underpass, using an old shoe to beat a name written on paper." Learn more about why I chose to write about the obscure folk tradition of villain hitting for Nova Scotia 2.

Nova Scotia Vol 2 anthology, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson, is now available for pre-order! Discover the contributors! www.lunapresspublishing.com/post/eliza-c... @elizachanwrites.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social

Eliza Chan: Nova Scotia Vol 2 Anthology. Pre-Order Available Now!www.lunapresspublishing.com Nova Scotia Vol 2 anthology, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson, is now available for pre-order!

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Nova Scotia Vol 2 anthology, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson, is now available for pre-order! www.lunapresspublishing.com/post/morag-e...

Morag Edward: Nova Scotia Vol 2 Anthology. Pre-Order Available Now!www.lunapresspublishing.com Nova Scotia Vol 2 anthology, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson, is now available for pre-order!

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A story of mine made it into a thing! That thing is the #Gallus anthology filled with amazing stories from the brilliant writers of #GSFWC with an absolutely stunning cover by @jennicoutts.bsky.social ! Very excited for its launch at Glasgow #worldcon!

Announcing Gallus! Our new anthology launches at Glasgow #Worldcon this August. The cover by Jenni Coutts -- her take on the legend of St Mungo -- is as gallus as the tales within! For more #Gallus, head to gsfwc.wordpress.com/2024/07/02/g... @glasgow2024.bsky.social @jennicoutts.bsky.social

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There's some dark history of a real witchhunt in Scotland behind my Nova Scotia 2 story 'Mhairi Aird'. Find out more about that story and how mine grew from it here 👇🏽

Nova Scotia Vol 2 anthology, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson, is now available for pre-order! @rainewilson.bsky.social www.lunapresspublishing.com/post/lorrain...

Lorraine Wilson: Nova Scotia Vol 2 Anthology. Pre-Order Available Now!www.lunapresspublishing.com Nova Scotia Vol 2 anthology, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson, is now available for pre-order!

Soundtrack in the "writing office" is somewhat off piste, but on point this morning. Thanks i-cafe, that's got properly in the mood. youtu.be/UAKCR7kQMTQ?...

Deep Purple - Highway Star 1972 Video HQyoutu.be Classic RockDeep Purple - Highway Star 1972 (Single, Album Machine Head) Ritchie Blackmore - GuitarJon Lord - Keyboards, Organ Ian Paice - DrumsIan Gillan - ...

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Gallus is a production of the @gsfwc.bsky.social - a Glasgow based writing group. Gallus has been produced with the express purpose of celebrating @glasgow2024.bsky.social & Glasgow writers. Edited by @bethkesh.bsky.social @munchkinstein.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social 💙📚 #Glasgow #GSFWC

Worldcon 2024 is in Glasgow in August. A #WorldconForTheFuture. Surely Glasgow must have some writers? Writers for the future? Wouldn't it be gallus to pick up a souvenir of Glasgow? Have we got you covered? You bet. We're pure #gallus, so we are.💙📚 #booksky gsfwc.wordpress.com/2024/07/02/g...

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My new book, just out in ebook format! Paperback 5th August, official launch at Worldcon Glasgow on 11 Auguat 1300-1400.

Dark forces controlling Glasgow are challenged by the champions of good. But even they may need to make a deal with the devil. No, not yesterday’s election… October 1893, Lucifer & Son, Sooty Feathers Book III by David Craig. Out now. Buy via books2read.com/LuciferAndSon More: bit.ly/LuciferAndSon

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This is such a fun book!

I just finished this novella (Unexploded Remnants by @theelaineg.bsky.social) about a space archaeologist who finds an ancient superweapon and it was so much fun! The worldbuilding reminded me a lot of Becky Chambers. I'd love to real a big doorstop set in this universe.