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Writer, reader. Debut novel 'The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands' published by W&N (UK) and Flatiron Books (US). https://linktr.ee/sarahbrookswriting

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11.01.2026 22:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ahh, I'm so happy you enjoyed it, thank you so much!! ❤️❤️🚂🚂

11.01.2026 21:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Shuang Xuetao 双雪涛 at Leeds | The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing

We're delighted to be welcoming author Shuang Xuetao 双雪涛 to Leeds on Wed as part of the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing, in association with @grantamag.bsky.social - the event is free, and all welcome! (Please book at the link below) writingchinese.leeds.ac.uk/events/shuan...

15.09.2025 16:17 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Delighted to be part of this anthology of strange tales!

12.09.2025 17:29 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Honoured to be involved in this year's Sponosored Write, on behalf of Macmillan Cancer Support, along with a whole gaggle of amazing writers!

01.09.2025 22:36 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Dirt Upon My Skin: 37 (Black Shuck Shadows): Amazon.co.uk: Toase, Steve: 9781917173995: Books Buy Dirt Upon My Skin: 37 (Black Shuck Shadows) by Toase, Steve (ISBN: 9781917173995) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

My British Fantasy Award nominated collection* is available at UK Amazon for £2.90. I’m sure you’ve got a copy, but here’s a perfect chance to buy a cheap present for the archaeological horror fan in your life www.amazon.co.uk/Dirt-Upon-My...

*this still hasn’t sunk in.

21.08.2025 10:21 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
A list of 6 books on the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell shortlist

A list of 6 books on the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell shortlist

Over the moon to see The Cautious Traveller's Guide on the @goldsborobooks.bsky.social Glass Bell shortlist, along with some amazing books (including the lovely @jenniegauthor.bsky.social)! Thank you so much to Goldsboro!

21.08.2025 11:23 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

As a tea obsessive, I love this! Thank you so much for reading 🚂✨️🫖

16.08.2025 18:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you so much for the kind words! And as a lifelong fantasy reader who used to draw her own maps as a child (and stain them with tea to make them look old) getting a map made me SO happy!

28.07.2025 20:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you to the brilliant @drrachelknightley.bsky.social for letting me chat about my white noise obsession, creative doubts, and much more! I've found listening to her podcast incredibly helpful when my confidence is wavering, so it was an honour to be on it ❤️📚
open.spotify.com/episode/7En5...

28.07.2025 18:16 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This is an amazing book - I'm still thinking about these characters ✨️

23.07.2025 10:51 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you so much!! I'm really happy you enjoyed it! ❤️🚂

23.07.2025 09:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you so much for the kind words - I'm so happy you enjoyed it! ❤️🚂

23.07.2025 09:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just finished a proof of this and loved it! It's a fantastic mix of golden age crime and supernatural mystery, with brilliantly atmospheric settings and a great heroine. Out in Oct from @hodderscape.bsky.social!

10.07.2025 09:17 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Looking forward to this tonight!!

10.07.2025 09:10 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Andrew Knighton, Sarah Brooks, Stephen Aryan and Genevieve Cogman sat on a stage in front of two black and white waterstones banners

Andrew Knighton, Sarah Brooks, Stephen Aryan and Genevieve Cogman sat on a stage in front of two black and white waterstones banners

Andrew Knighton, Sarah Brooks, Stephen Aryan and Genevieve Cogman sat on a stage in front of two black and white waterstones banners - Stephen is talking into the microphone

Andrew Knighton, Sarah Brooks, Stephen Aryan and Genevieve Cogman sat on a stage in front of two black and white waterstones banners - Stephen is talking into the microphone

Andrew Knighton, Sarah Brooks, Stephen Aryan and Genevieve Cogman sat on a stage in front of two black and white waterstones banners - Sarah is talking into the microphone

Andrew Knighton, Sarah Brooks, Stephen Aryan and Genevieve Cogman sat on a stage in front of two black and white waterstones banners - Sarah is talking into the microphone

A table full of books by the authors - The Judas Blossom, The Blood Dimmed Tide, The Sorrow of the Sea, The Cautious Traveller's Guide To The Wastelands, Forged For Destiny, Scarlet, Elusive, Damned, The Invisible Library

A table full of books by the authors - The Judas Blossom, The Blood Dimmed Tide, The Sorrow of the Sea, The Cautious Traveller's Guide To The Wastelands, Forged For Destiny, Scarlet, Elusive, Damned, The Invisible Library

What a fabulous night! A brilliant discussion on all things historical science fiction and fantasy, great questions from the audience and a lovely signing afterwards!

"Sanguinocrat, to the guillotine with you!" - a fabulous line uttered by @genevievecogman.bsky.social

26.06.2025 08:31 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

Really enjoyed this event! Thank you so much to @aknighton.bsky.social for being such a fab moderator, and to @katiebruce.bsky.social and @britfantasysoc.bsky.social for organising!

26.06.2025 13:57 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

It's today! Do you have your ticket to the past?

Portal location is Waterstones, Leeds. tinyurl.com/Historical-SFF

@stephenaryan.bsky.social @genevievecogman.bsky.social
@sarahbrooks.bsky.social @aknighton.bsky.social

25.06.2025 15:22 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands - Readings and Q&A Come join us for a night of readings and Q&A with author Sarah Brooks

Really looking forward to talking at Marsden Library tomorrow as part of @newwritingnorth.bsky.social's Northern Bookshelf Live! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-cautio...

25.06.2025 09:08 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's tomorrow! Do you have your ticket to the past?

Portal location is Waterstones, Leeds. tinyurl.com/Historical-SFF

@stephenaryan.bsky.social @genevievecogman.bsky.social @sarahbrooks.bsky.social @aknighton.bsky.social

24.06.2025 13:05 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1

Come and join us in Leeds next week, being nerdy about all things historical SFF!

18.06.2025 14:35 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Come and join us talking about books with long titles! Also circuses, trains, and general strangeness! Caper Books, Oxford, Tues 17th. checkout.square.site/merchant/ML2...

14.06.2025 10:19 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

My book is currently No.6 and No.10 on Amazon’s humorous essays chart. Do consider buying it while it is mind-blowingly cheap and help me get to No.1, so I can explain to my dad the point of my writing.

Spike Milligan is No.1 but honesty I don’t think he’s feeling the benefit.

amzn.eu/d/6mT5juh

10.06.2025 14:35 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
An old map of the world with a compass as background. Pictures of Andrew Knighton, Stephen Aryan, Sarah Brooks and Genevieve Cogman. The Waterstones and British Fantasy Society logos at the top and the text on purple background:
The British Fantasy Society & Waterstones Leeds 'An Evening of Historical Fantasy and Science Fiction'
Andrew Knighton (mod), Stephen Aryan, Sarah Brooks, Genevieve Cogman
Wednesday 25th June, 7pm, Waterstones, Leeds

An old map of the world with a compass as background. Pictures of Andrew Knighton, Stephen Aryan, Sarah Brooks and Genevieve Cogman. The Waterstones and British Fantasy Society logos at the top and the text on purple background: The British Fantasy Society & Waterstones Leeds 'An Evening of Historical Fantasy and Science Fiction' Andrew Knighton (mod), Stephen Aryan, Sarah Brooks, Genevieve Cogman Wednesday 25th June, 7pm, Waterstones, Leeds

An old map of the world with a compass as background. Pictures of Andrew Knighton, Stephen Aryan, Sarah Brooks and Genevieve Cogman and their book covers Damned, Forged For Destiny, The Sorrow of the Sea and The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands

An old map of the world with a compass as background. Pictures of Andrew Knighton, Stephen Aryan, Sarah Brooks and Genevieve Cogman and their book covers Damned, Forged For Destiny, The Sorrow of the Sea and The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands

Coming soon!

Find out how authors twist the past into magical shapes, with a panel on historical fantasy & scifi at Leeds Waterstones. @genevievecogman.bsky.social @sarahbrooks.bsky.social & @stephenaryan.bsky.social talk about their truly excellent books.

www.waterstones.com/events/panel...

04.06.2025 16:32 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

Obsessed with this gorgeous, complex book - out on June 10th!

04.06.2025 11:28 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Need to try and manifest this! (Though I'm not sure I'd manage more than incoherent babbling...)

04.06.2025 11:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for including The Cautious Traveller’s Guide! ❤️

04.06.2025 11:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
An old map of the world with a compass as background. Pictures of Andrew Knighton, Stephen Aryan, Sarah Brooks and Genevieve Cogman. The Waterstones and British Fantasy Society logos at the top and the text on purple background:
The British Fantasy Society & Waterstones Leeds 'An Evening of Historical Fantasy and Science Fiction'
Andrew Knighton (mod), Stephen Aryan, Sarah Brooks, Genevieve Cogman
Wednesday 25th June, 7pm, Waterstones, Leeds

An old map of the world with a compass as background. Pictures of Andrew Knighton, Stephen Aryan, Sarah Brooks and Genevieve Cogman. The Waterstones and British Fantasy Society logos at the top and the text on purple background: The British Fantasy Society & Waterstones Leeds 'An Evening of Historical Fantasy and Science Fiction' Andrew Knighton (mod), Stephen Aryan, Sarah Brooks, Genevieve Cogman Wednesday 25th June, 7pm, Waterstones, Leeds

An old map of the world with a compass as background. Pictures of Andrew Knighton, Stephen Aryan, Sarah Brooks and Genevieve Cogman and their book covers Damned, Forged For Destiny, The Sorrow of the Sea and The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands

An old map of the world with a compass as background. Pictures of Andrew Knighton, Stephen Aryan, Sarah Brooks and Genevieve Cogman and their book covers Damned, Forged For Destiny, The Sorrow of the Sea and The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands

An Evening of Historical Fantasy & Science Fiction, Waterstones Leeds 25th June 7pm
@stephenaryan.bsky.social
@genevievecogman.bsky.social
@sarahbrooks.bsky.social
& @aknighton.bsky.social moderating
Come listen to some fabulous people discussing all things historical SFF!
tinyurl.com/Historical-SFF

04.06.2025 08:46 👍 21 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 3

Get your history in your fantasy, or your fantasy in your history! Catch us at Leeds Waterstones on June 25th.

@stephenaryan.bsky.social @sarahbrooks.bsky.social @aknighton.bsky.social

27.05.2025 18:05 👍 18 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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Green Ink Sponsored Write 2025 for Macmillan Cancer Support Help Green Ink Sponsored Write at the Writers' Gym raise money to support Macmillan Cancer Support

What a brilliant title by @rhi.bsky.social for Green Ink Sponsored Write for Macmillan Cancer Support 2025:

Somewhere That’s Green: Paradises, Utopias and Happy Places.

Sponsor the writers to receive the exclusive digital anthology, 48 hours after it’s written.

(Writer announcements soon…)

23.05.2025 10:18 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0