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I’m at beautiful Arvon Totleigh Barton for a week of teaching historical fiction with Anna Mazzola - Updates only. to some unsuspecting victims..!

The cover of The Hymn to Dionysus IS HERE!!! Listen with the sound on, the music was composed specially by Emma Butterworth 🔥🔥🔥

Here he is in all his beautiful UK glory from Gollancz AND you can preorder here to get your hands on him in April! geni.us/THEHYMNTODIONY…

The Mars House is only 99p! I know the blurb makes it sound like heavy-going, but I promise it's actually full of Christmas romance and helpful talking mammoths, and a dog with an imaginary friend... amazon.co.uk/Mars-House-Rad…

Lots of people are dissing Emily Wilson's translations of the Iliad and Odyssey. I've read lots of translations, mostly unbearable, and several long sections in Greek. Hers is the best, by far. It sounds heavy, beautiful, and like real humans talking... ...like the Greek.

Squeee have a beautiful illustrated edition of Paradise Lost and it is SO PRETTY

Super cool books* at a very nice discount for those in the UK…! *by Joe Abercrombie plus this other one by me that at least two readers** have said is “all right” ** definitely not my brother and my imaginary dream tortoise.

A ceasefire! What a piece of news to light up such a cold and bleak turning of a new year! Long may it last.

Anyone creative and in the UK still on here, remember to tell the government what you think about their proposal to suspend copyright of creative work to enable data scraping by AI companies (uncompensated for artists of course!) gov.uk/government/con…

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Here is a small romantic scene from The Hymn To Dionysus to celebrate. Out in March in the US, April in the UK. Meet Phaidros and Dionysus…

I really don’t think anyone should be surprised that quite a few of us have said it’s not okay to make it legal for tech companies to steal our work unless we specifically ask them not to…

You can preorder Dionysus from Waterstones with 25% off this weekend! waterstones.com/book/the-hymn-…

I dressed up to match my book :)

US online events! Come and listen to Maya Deane ANNIHILATE me with her awesome brain. And Barbara calls me kiddo. For some reason I find this hysterically funny.

Thanks to Sid Sagar, who narrates brilliantly, Dionysus is an Apple must listen! Woo hoo, balloons, sparkles…!

My creative writing students discovered the website where you can let off pretend nuclear bombs today and spent their break exploding stuff and working out the radius of radioactive contamination and what mega tonnage does what. They love it, so expect more nuclear fiction soon…

I can’t wait to come back to Swansea— this Waterstones is one of my all time favourites! Please do come along and say hi :)

I was just congratulating myself about how clever and awesome I was today at work and the spent an entire minute trying to open my front door with my car key.

It’s my first US online event today! You can watch from anywhere though, 8pm UK time. You can find us here: facebook.com/thepoisonedpen…   youtube.com/channel/UCTbRu…

*EVENT* Thursday 3rd April, 6pm - Natasha Pulley The brilliant Natasha Pulley 🇺🇦 will be in conversation with Elaine Canning about her brand new novel, #HymnToDionysus! Tickets and details👇 waterstones.com/events/natasha…