I'm chairing the launch of Cynthia Rogerson's 100,000 Birthdays @fruitmarket.bsky.social on 19th March. Lesley Glaister and Andrew Greig will be reading too and I might also sneak in a bit of a story www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/cynthi...

Some brilliant Victorian Christmas cards.

Today’s Puffin Post perfection

Melinda & I stroked the stingray.

This makes me feel exceedingly nostalgic for Puffin Post

Good on the Mirror for having the bravery to strike out against this bullshit

Storyteller Joseph O'Connor raises literary ghosts - from Jennifer Johnston to Boland to Stoker to Synge - in this enthralling interview with MadeleineKeane.bluesky.social for IrishWritersCentre.bluesky.social DublinCitylibs.bluesky.social unioflimerick.bluesky.social www.writing.ie/interviews/d...

Are you writing an historical novel? Want some guidance and support this September? Still places left on my online Historical Fiction course starting Tues 2nd Sep for 4 weeks! ✒️📚 2569 Online: Moniack in a Month – Historical Fiction with Victoria MacKenzie - Moniack Mhor share.google/zvBYzjnZnOJw...

Very possibly the most British road sign in Britain:

Cress had such a moment in the 70s

Hey have you heard that new song by

Blueprint is our brand new programme for emerging theatre-makers in Scotland (& we’re really, REALLY excited about it) 🧱🎭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 You may have just graduated, be considering a career change or enjoy being part of theatre projects & want to take your work to the next step 🪜 ⏰ Deadline: Fri 25 July @ 10am

Samuel understands.

Please share: Do you hate AI? Are you an editor, proofreader, designer, illustrator, typesetter, marketer, book blogger, audio narrator, reviewer, ARC/beta reader? WoodPig Press is creating a pool of freelancers for future paid work. woodpigpress.com/call-for-pub... #booksky #books #publishing

Dog-sized dinosaurs that ran around the feet of bigger dinosaurs! 😍😍 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Seen this twice now it's such a gorgeous film. What a funny and moving story. Great songs too! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

I've been in the entertainment industry for almost 30 years. Everybody's so enamored at the idea that AI will make movies cost less. The greed and bloat will come. Someday, a filmmaker will struggle with the cost and realize it'd be cheaper to just go out and film the scene. Trust me, it'll happen.

Ironic sloganeering in the Highlands.

Bizarrely we appear to have welded a pair of scissors onto one of our oven racks

Here we have a senior golden living their best life and a young golden just trying to make it to the end of their shift. Both 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday

Good evening! This week's theme is London Transport. ----- 'The Tube Station', Bank Station (c.1932) by Cyril Power

Various forms of Réglisse (Licorice) for your admiration.

I am at Tiverton Parkway. 'Parkway' is an English word that means 'not very close to'.

Hang on if the government has decided everything I do is completely worthless and anyone can help themselves to it, do I still have to pay tax????

V good letter in The Guardian on Labour’s flailing hopelessness in the face of Reform. Come on, Labour. The country is crying out for better. We’re sick of this ugly rightwing agenda. It brings nothing but failure. It’s disloyal to your voters and to the country. You’ve got power and time. Use them.

Joanna now has a London T-shirt & Graham has a planisphere. He's still got a runny nose.

I was just told that my launch event in Glasgow was going to be cancelled because I don't have *enough* tickets sold. Humiliating—not least because I worked my butt off for this book & went to other people's launches. If I could sell a few more today, maybe I could change their minds. Please.

Re-posting on behalf of a writer deserving of a launch. I'd go if I was in Glasgow

White Heron in the Rain (Uchu sagi), by Kawanabe Kyosai, around 1870s. A woodblock print of the Ultimate Peak of Life on Earth. #HeronModesty

The number of people on Swanage beach on Sunday actually exceeded infinity.

But is anyone making plans for Nigel? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...

Sometimes a book is enough technology. You can have your mathematical wizardry, cyber Swarfega, plastics & glass. But sometimes, a physical book is just enough. Please do support Independent publishers because once they're gone, they're gone. @thebookseller.com @waterstones.bsky.social

Theft is theft, Mark Zuckerberg. Do not steal our work without permission or payment, respect the law and do not destroy British creative industries. Be honourable, be honest, be fair. It’s easy.

If you’re not a member of the SoA, now is the time to join! We are fighting to protect the rights of all authors, now and in the future. We’re stronger together. Join now

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...”—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

'Girl Writing', St John's Wood (1931) by Harold Knight (Grundy Art Gallery)

I feel Britain and France can't tell their awful husband they're leaving him to his face because he might blow up, and they haven't anywhere sorted to stay yet, but they're squirreling money away and putting things in a bag.

Job interview on a building site with an English graduate: “Do you even know the difference between a joist and a girder?” “Yes, one wrote Ulysses and the other wrote Faust.”

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Adding @vertebratepub.bsky.social to this list of excellent independents! #ReadIndies

A reminder that, by adding googly eyes to the tap of a wine box, you can make your very own Shaun the Sheep.

So true

Getting flashbacks to that annoying paperclip every time the 'enable Copilot' sign turns up in my Word docs

Particularly like ‘perceptive’ and ‘epic’… 💙📚 #BookSky #writingcommunity

This is perhaps a bit like trying to uninvent the bloody crossbow, but if you're concerned by the government's march towards ceding all our creative endeavours to the maw of training generative AI, have a look at this and write to your MP. www.creativerightsinai.co.uk?fbclid=IwY2x...

#booksky #bookcomics

Driving me absolutely insane that our world is faced with environmental catastrophe but we've decided to pull out all the stops for AI, a thing that is catastrophic for the environment.