Hey #Romancelandia! Do this and then spread the word!!

a new model for US fiction : film adaptation of bestseller novel that's a bestseller novel because it was workshopped for film adaptation and given the hollywood PR treatment, with a main aspect of the book's hype being that it's so good it got picked up by film producers, who actually co-wrote it

A reminder that, as Women In Horror Year progresses, there's a handy index (updated daily) with links to all 365 books that are featured. www.briankeene.com/womeninhorro...

Kramer is a perfect example of what's wrong with news in general and 24H news networks specifically: He's constantly wrong, but he's an over-the-top character who draws ratings. There's no journalistic reason for him to still be on the air, and yet here we are.

NBCC member Jake Casella Brookins talked to Molly Templeton, book critic and administrator of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, about the mass-market fantasy era and Jo Clayton's "Moongather" for the A Meal of Thorns podcast:

Why didn't anyone tell me that there is a Quatermass podcast?! It's called BERGCAST. bergcast.room207press.com

Not to sound melodramatic, but I nearly misplaced my boxed set of Tod Slaughter movies. 😱😱😱 travsd.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/t...

Neo-noir movie poster acquired! "Cash on Demand"! Notice how Peter Cushing and André Morell get equal billing. 😍

Today is International Water Safety Day!

RIP David Burke The first of two excellent Watsons (the other being Edward Hardwicke) who played opposite Jeremy Brett’s iconic Holmes in Granada’s wonderful Sherlock Holmes series.

Sad to see reports that the great David Burke has died. A fine actor with a wide body of work on stage and screen, including the Wilmer Sherlock Holmes series, Armchair Thriller, 2 Ghost Story for Christmas films, and, of course, as an impeccable Dr Watson to Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes.

RIP David Burke, the first actor to play Watson with Jeremy Brett’s Sherlock Holmes, in the finest adaptation of the Holmes stories that has ever been made. He was 91 years old. #SherlockHolmes

Unsolicited writing advice: sometimes the things that don't feel like progess (making playlists, creating mood boards, setting up character sheets, etc) are critical to your process, which doesn't necessarily look like anyone else's. Plot, pants, daydream, set up whiteboards. You do you, babe.

I now own an "Enemy from Space" (ahem, "Quatermass 2") lobby card. With Hammer icon Michael Ripper!!! And Brian Donlevy in his Quatermass 2 gas mask.

It's not perfect, but it was fun putting together a display of my two "Cash on Demand" movie lobby cards. #HammerFilms

The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident

86 47 you ludicrous stooge

I’m not going to say this energy drink was strong, but suddenly, I started to think my math tutor, Professor Moriarty, was trying to kill me. 😉

My new Nigel Kneale book came in, and it's HUGE.

What do you mean no one has written fanfic about the Peter Cushing/Andrè Morell neo-noir movie “Cash on Demand”?! Someone is letting me down…

In re: the utterly abject poverty of our current National Conversation™️ about Tone Policing The Democrats while the far right authoritarian party completely dismantles & defunds the core institutions underlying American power & prosperity.

I think we could do with a little less "Don't worry, I'm allowed to make this art because I'm traumatized in these ways." and a lot more "Don't worry, I'm allowed to make this art because I'm allowed to make any art. And also, it's none of your fucking business whether or not I am traumatized."

I think I’ve found my new favorite Christmas movie! “Cash on Demand,” a neo-noir bank robbery movie by Hammer. 💷🧳 It stars Peter Cushing as the by-the-book bank manager and André Morell as the clever and urbane thief. letterboxd.com/film/cash-on...

Texas Tech can stage mass wildcat labor actions or cease to be a university. Those are the only two choices that I can see.

Alex Jones yesterday, April 22nd of 2026, is once again saying the Sandy Hook massacre was a false flag done by "professional shooters." It is imperative we take over that studio as soon as possible.

@briankeene.bsky.social It’s here! It’s here! The first issue of the “Of Keene Interest” print zone!

Probably not suspicious that Trump fired his Navy Secretary in the middle of a naval blockade.

221 B Bagel Street? 🤭 My Towson Hot Bagel (THB) receipt matches the address on my T-shirt. #SherlockHolmes

Best Novel A Drop of Corruption by @robertjbennett.bsky.social (Del Rey; Hodderscape) Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social (William Morrow; Gollancz) 1/

This nomination belongs to all of us, y'all. 🥰

Hmm. When I first watched “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes,” I missed the subtext. Or was that the “above-text”?

Why oh why am I writing Quatermass and the Pit* slash? I mean... Because I can, I guess? Because I want to.👽 • The BBC version by the way.

This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself! And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.

I love it when Google Images asks “Remember this day?” And it’s something like a photo of Andrew Keir and James Donald looking at the Martian in “Quatermass and the Pit.” Hey, Google. I’m pretty sure I wasn’t there. Unless I’m the Martian. 😏

Did…the Trump regime lowkey threaten to kill the pope?

Always exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news

Happy Leland Melvin day to all who celebrate. 💚

Why do so many people belittle "Clan of the Cave Bear" by calling it "porn"? In the first book, the only sexual experience Ayla had was being SA'ed by Broud. And they didn't happen until far into the book. If you were turned on by that, that seems like a You problem.

Now I’m just a backwoods small town hyperchicken, but it seems to me that if a company is big enough to existentially threaten the government then you don’t actually have a functioning government anymore.

What in the AI is this? This biography of James Donald morphs into a bio of Donald Pleasence! 🤦‍♀️It also refers to Donald Pleasence as a Scottish actor?! And I'm sure they didn't pay Getty for the rights to that photo.

Your federal government on Trumpism: "More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May 2025, when the Trump administration shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program... "Another 90,000 vets are heading toward foreclosure..." www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Wow this sucks www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I do not take booktok seriously and I never will. What the fuck you mean the epilogue and prologue “aren’t part of the book/story”???????

My latest @theguardian.com books cartoon

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. We existed before the government decided to make us their pet project, and we will continue to exist no matter how hard they try and erase us. Build community and protect it. Keep giving ‘em hell.

Reminder: the Federal Reserve has opened a proposal for public comment on "reputation risk" discrimination in banking. Public comments have been surging, and the new FTC action shows this issue is getting harder to ignore. Keep the pressure on. www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...