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My collection GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY will be published by @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social on 27 March. Some wonderful authors have been very kind about it! First up is Marian Womack, whose collection OUT OF THE WINDOW, INTO THE DARK you must read asap. blackshuckbooks.co.uk/great-robots...

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Happy #worldbookday from a tiny independent press based in beautiful Norwich. We're somewhat obsessed with chapbooks 😍 Tell us your favourite shorter-length collection/s of poetry / short stories.

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Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF, #mystery & #horror writers! Featuring food horror, spicy monsters, exploration of other worlds and supernatural parables. timjmajor.com/2025/03/04/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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Hello everybody. Remains is a magazine created by Andy Cox and Richard Wagner. The first issue has just been published and the second is out soon. We are rubbish at social media but look forward to making new friends and talking about stuff.

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While I'm on here (taking a break from, you know, the numerous annoyances of IRL), may I get a repost/shoutout for SHELFIES? shelfies.beehiiv.com The latest brainchild Jared Shurin and me, it's a weekly newsletter offering a unique glimpse into people's shelves and the books that matter to them!

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Cover reveal! JEKYLL & HYDE: WINTER RETREAT is the second book in my Jekyll & Hyde: Consulting Detectives series. Isn’t it beautiful? And wintry, and theatrical. Published by @titanbooks.bsky.social in October, and available for preorder now. (1/2)

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Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF, #mystery & #horror writers! Inc cryptids, first contact, mummies and elder things. timjmajor.com/2025/02/04/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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ANNOUNCEMENT! My new story collection contains 16 weird tales of magical and mechanical automatons from history and myth. GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY will be published by @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social in March, and can be preordered now from the website. blackshuckbooks.co.uk/great-robots... (1/2)

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Story #3 in the debut issue of Saros SF is "Four Fabrications of Francine Descartes" by @timjmajor.bsky.social. Read the whole story (for free!) at sarossf.com/issue-1/

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Saros #1 has arrived! Edited by @meganjkerr.bsky.social, this issue features stories by @lxuwrites.bsky.social, @thelialao.bsky.social, @timjmajor.bsky.social, and @thesuiway.bsky.social, with cover art by Barbara Candiotti. Digital versions are now available for free here: sarossf.com/issue-1/

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Gotta love a review that gets deep & really connects w/ the text like @wyatttowns.bsky.social does here for AND ONE DAY WE WILL DIE. Special shout-outs to: @breathinghead.bsky.social @christinogle.bsky.social @timjmajor.bsky.social @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social @johnlangan.bsky.social (cont'd)

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OUT TODAY! I have a strange story in this, based on 'Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2', alongside a weirdly conjoined story by @timjmajor.bsky.social. Whether you love Neutral Milk Hotel or just love strange fiction, editor @patrickbarb.bsky.social has produced a holy spectacle. Get your hands on it!

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Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF, #mystery & #horror writers! Inc witchcraft, cottage crimes, seaside gothic and surviving humanity. timjmajor.com/2025/01/10/o... Please share! #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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Book announcement! The sequel to JEKYLL & HYDE: CONSULTING DETECTIVES is a country house murder mystery with locked-room puzzles, disgruntled servants, disguises (& two detectives who share a body). JEKYLL & HYDE: WINTER RETREAT will be published by @titanbooks.bsky.social in October.

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Here's my final blog post of the year – this one lists my favourite books of 2024. timjmajor.com/2024/12/30/f...

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Another end-of-year-list blog post, this one featuring my favourite films, TV and videogames of 2024. timjmajor.com/2024/12/28/f...

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New blog post: My favourite albums of 2024 timjmajor.com/2024/12/23/f...

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Here’s a summary of my year in writing, in terms of novels and short stories published, and the projects I’ve been working on throughout the year. timjmajor.com/2024/12/20/m... #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF & #horror writers! Inc dark holiday horrors, anti-heroes, scientific revolution scares and animal-based SF. timjmajor.com/2024/12/04/o... Please share! #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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We're thrilled our next guest for @hullnoir.bsky.social will be @timjmajor.bsky.social talking about his Victorian crime novels, 11th December (7pm). It's free to attend at Central Library or via the online stream. Please reserve your space on the link: eventbrite.co.uk/e/hull-noir-...

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Here’s me being interviewed by the Los Angeles Public Library blog, covering #Jekyll and Hyde, #SherlockHolmes, Victorian SF, Bugs Bunny, the usual. I really enjoyed answering these questions! www.lapl.org/collections-...

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December's Hull Noir guest is @timjmajor.bsky.social talking about his Victorian crime novels, Jekyll & Hyde: Consulting Detectives and Sherlock Holmes and the Twelve Thefts of Christmas. 7pm, 11 Dec. Free to attend @hulllibraries.bsky.social or via livestream. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hull-noir-...

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Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF & #horror writers! Inc fever dreams, vivid worlds, moonless nights and a very unlucky friend. timjmajor.com/2024/11/04/o... Please share! #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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Thanks so much to @cavan.bsky.social‬ for hosting me on his newsletter! My perfect Sunday features eggs Benedict, Tintin and uninterrupted, unfragmented thoughts...

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So pleased to have a story in this beautiful new anthology from Swan River Press, edited by Carly Holmes. ‘Ends Abruptly’ is one of the oddest stories I’ve ever written. Uncertainties VII is available for preorder now! swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/un...

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Story acceptance! For the first issue of Saros, a speculative-fiction sister publication to Fusion Fragment. ‘Four Fabrications of Francine Descartes’ is part of the same Great Robots of History series as my British Fantasy Award-winning (!) ‘The Brazen Head of Westinghouse’.

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Woke up this morning to discover that I really did win the Best Short Fiction award at last night's British Fantasy Awards! Thanks so much to Gareth Jelley and @interzone.digital for publishing 'The Brazen Head of Westinghouse' in the first place.

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Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF & #horror writers! Inc futuristic librarians, surveillance tech, Afrofuturism and untamed lands. timjmajor.com/2024/10/10/o... Please share! #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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Enough about me, back to the gorgeous #ChrisBilheimer cover AND ONE DAY WE WILL DIE: STRANGE STORIES INSPIRED BY THE MUSIC OF NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL. With stories by: @lillahlawson.bsky.social Helen V. Murray @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social @ha-ok.bsky.social @flameswallower.bsky.social @horrorsong.blog

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FYI, I’ll be emailing my monthly newsletter tomorrow, featuring 12 open calls for submission for #SF, #fantasy and #horror short-story writers, alongside updates about my own work. You can sign up to the mailing list here: mailchi.mp/682a29a81305... #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Sign up for IZ updates interzone.press/updates to get €5 discount off issues & subs at the INTERZONE shop shop.interzone.press Fiction by @carlosnorcia.bsky.social, @rwren.bsky.social, @rlsummerling.bsky.social, @authorizedmusings.bsky.social, @timjmajor.bsky.social & many other amazing authors

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The beautiful hardback edition of SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE TWELVE THEFTS OF CHRISTMAS is only £7.50 on Amazon UK – cheaper than the paperback! I haven’t started Christmas shopping yet, but maybe you have? This’d make a great gift, probably. www.amazon.co.uk/Sherlock-Hol...

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It was a pleasure to pop into the Criminally Good Bookshop to sign copies of Jekyll & Hyde: Consulting Detectives and Sherlock Holmes and the Twelve Thefts of Christmas! I'm very lucky to have such an amazing bookshop here in York.

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Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF & #horror writers! Inc utopian futures, Arthurian sorcery, folk horror and werewolves. timjmajor.com/2024/09/05/o... Please share! #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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BOOK BIRTHDAY! JEKYLL & HYDE: CONSULTING DETECTIVES is a Gothic murder mystery that I absolutely loved writing… …and it has beautiful endpapers, embossed gold birdcage and a flickbook effect in the page corners. Maybe you’d like to buy a copy? timjmajor.com/jekyll-hyde-...

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Thanks to ‪@gnofhorror.bsky.social‬ for hosting my guest blog post about Jekyll and Hyde, in which I argue that Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella was always a detective mystery story, making my novel JEKYLL & HYDE: CONSULTING DETECTIVES a natural enough sequel…

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Today The Nerd Daily is hosting my guest post about adapting well-known characters in spin-off fiction. Focuses on #SherlockHolmes and #Jekyll and Hyde – with background to characters in JEKYLL & HYDE: CONSULTING DETECTIVES, published by Titan Books on 3 Sept. thenerddaily.com/tim-major-au...

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Thanks so much to JS Barnes for his kind words about JEKYLL & HYDE: CONSULTING DETECTIVES! "Highly enjoyable, terrifically good fun, very well paced, and full of relish for Stevenson's original story." J&H:CD will be available five days from now! timjmajor.com/jekyll-hyde-...

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JEKYLL & HYDE: CONSULTING DETECTIVES will be published in 6 days! I can’t thank Tom Mead enough for his lovely and generous quote, which ended up on the front cover…

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