Simon Spanton

@simonguy.bsky.social

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"I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." Wandering. Wondering. Freelance SFFH editor. Commissioning for The Broken Binding. Living in Edinburgh. Views my own and independent of my employers. Photos my own unless otherwise etc.

A photo of the 2010 Collins omnibus of The Peregrine, The Hill of Summer and Diaries by J.A. Baker.
A photo of a red barrier and a flood warning sign in a stony alley between two houses. Green trees and shadows behind.
A photo of a shingle and stone spit out into a loch. Grey and misty hills in the distance.
A photo of a sunlit grassy hill with white houses and trees running down to a shore. A dark rocky hillside in shadow behind it.
A seaweedy concrete jetty jutting out from a stony beach into the grey waters of a loch.
A photo of a fluorescent buoy on the shingly shore of a loch, mist and green hills beyond.
A grey loch, a seaweedy concrete jetty, dark hills, a grey day.
A photo of a stone outhouse with a wooden rain barrel and a living roof.
A photo of a golden roan working cocker-spaniel asleep on a brown leather sofa.
A photo of three small, peach-coloured crab carapaces laid on a flat stone on a pebble beach.
A photo of a copy of the 2026 Titan edition of Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. The cover was designed by Michael Windsor.
A photo of a spaniel running on a sandy beach. Sea and mountains behind.
A photo of a copy of the 2007 Bloomsbury 21 edition of Johnathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
A spaniel on a sofa looking reproachful.
A photo of a spaniel and a man's shadow on a loch shore. Green weed, blue water, green hills, blue sky, white clouds.
A photo of a wooden stump with the vague sense of eyes and a nose and a mouth cut by a chainsaw. Greenery behind.
A photo of an acrylic painting of a misty harbour with small rowing boats and sailing trawlers moored in still water between wooden pilings. Buildings and slate rooves holding shadows and catching light in the mist beyond.
A photo of a view down past trees and a fenced garden to a loch and the dark hills on its far shore. The sun breaking through in a sky of grey clouds.
A spaniel asleep on a sofa. He is sprawled over cushions and looks very comfy.
A photo of a golden roan working cocker-spaniel, asleep, resting his head on the arm of a brown leather sofa. A lamp nearby.
A black and white pen doodle in an A6 notebook. Uneven divisions of the page marked out with white lines. The resulting areas patterned with thin black and white stripes. And the pen that drew them.
A photo of a green hill, with houses clustered at the bottom and trees across its slopes, reflected in the still waters of a lochm
A photo of a long piece of grooved driftwood laid across the open palm of a man's hand. Pebbles behind.
A photo of a copy of the 2026 Titan edition of Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. The cover was designed by Michael Windsor.
A photo of misty hills seen across a still loch. Copper sun and pale sky above.
A photo of cow parsley stalks and flowers with hills and a pale sky reflected in a loch behind.
A photo of the sun rising over a bank of cloud and hills. Into an orange sky and over a metal loch.
A photo of some white and pale tops on a washing line on the shore of a loch. The blue water of the loch and green hills on the far side behind. It is a sunny day.
A small varnished, clinker-built sailing boat in a grass-bank bordered harbour. Blue waters of a loch and green hills behind, blue skies above
A photo of a copy of the 2006 Gollancz edition of The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. The cover illustration is a treated photograph of St. Mark's Square in Venice.
A photo of low-lying grassy flats by a loch, with pools reflecting the blue sky. Hills on the other side of the loch.
A photo of plastic pegs on a washing line. A shingle beach, a loch, green hills beyond. Blue sky and scattered white cloud above.
A photo looking across a loch to a row of yachts moored in front of a small wooded headland. Green-blue hills behind, pale sky above. Bright sunshine, white masts and hulls, green trees.
A photo of a stony hillside rising above grass and topped by cloud.
A photo of the CD case for We'll Never Turn Back by Mavis Staples.
A photo of four park benches wrapped in film and brown parcel tape.
A photo of a piece of rusted iron machinery, locked in sand, amongst rocks, on a beach.
A photo of a shelf of old Puffin paperbacks.
A photo of a copy of the 2020 Penguin Classics paperback edition of The Book of Taliesin. Translated by Gwyneth Lewis and Rowan Williams.
A photo of the CD case for The Boy and the Tree by Susumu Yokota.
A photo of pink thistle blooms.
A photo of a copy of the 2012 Jo Fletcher Books edition of Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord. The cover art and design are by cabinlondon.
A photo of a Gormley statue stood in calm water. A thick, green wall of trees behind.
A photo of 1986 Collins paperbacks of Neuromancer by William Gibson and Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock. The covers are by Tim White and Peter Goodfellow respectively.
A photo of the 1996 Viking omnibus edition of The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker.
A photo of copies of the Picador editions of the Black Water and White Fire anthologies of fantastic literature, edited by Alberto Manguel.
A photo of a grubby toy plush animal with brown fur and green ears and snout.
A golden roan working cocker-spaniel sat on bed with a plush red squirrel in his mouth. He is staring out of an unseen window.
A photo of a copy of the 1978 reprint of the Chatto edition of Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee. The cover art is by John Ward.
A photo of a copy of the 2001 Collins edition of The Time of the Ghost by Diana Wynne Jones. The cover art is by David Wyatt.
A photo of a path bordered by high wild flowers.
A photo of a copy of the 1991 Gollancz edition of Luck in the Head by M. John Harrison and Ian Miller.
A photo of the 2007 Bloomsbury 21s edition of Johnathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
A photo of a "Passing Place" roadsign at the side of a hill. Grey clouds above.
A photo of a black and white pen doodle of curved columns of alternating hatching in a small notebook and the pen that drew them.
A photo of an extensive set of outhouses. They are old, grey-painted and made from wood and corrugated steel. They stand around a mossy courtyard and contain shadows.
A photo of a small boy in a garden, dressed in a cowboy outfit, stood next to an ornamental well.
A photo of a jackdaw amongst some wild grasses and flowers.
A photo of a wide landscape with low hills and grey skies. A stony track winds into the middle distance where there is a cream coloured cottage and some outbuildings.