Every day, Rabinovich walks up to the newsstand, skims the front pages, and leaves. Finally the salesman asks him: "what are you doing?" "I'm looking for an obituary." "But the obits are on the last page..." "The one I'm looking for won't be."

I see from the forecast that we're heading towards another heatwave which I was not consulted about and did not agree to

Thought of another fun exercise everyone can try: turn Bouba and Kiki (of the Bouba/Kiki Effect) into characters that fit your own tastes and interests

It's out today! THE IRON ROAD paperback is now yours to own and misuse as you please. This brings the Tales of the Plains trilogy to a close, and may well be my best work. You decide! harpercollins.co.uk/products/the...

they sure do love those little cars in these films

lina poluna -- more incredible ripple and color work

in the 90’s, computers would scream every time you went online. that‘s called foreshadowing

had to skim through a book I wrote a little while ago and had that fun experience of reading bits and thinking... 'huh. That bit was... good? Some of this is... good? Perhaps this book isn't... bad??'

All these batshit book takes: if you write bad things, you support bad things! If you write sad stuff, you are bad for infecting readers with sadness! Skip prologues! Read only dialogue! 3rd person too harrrd! I refuse to believe any of this is real. These are not readers, they are rage farmers.

the way that you know you are one of god's chosen, by the way, is that your hair air-dries into something roughly presentable, and you don't, for example, have to be blowdrying your hair mid heat wave clearly I am an outcast heathen

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

good god, what have they done

It's that time again! If any of my pals across the pond are thinking of pre-ordering The Dreamless (you sweet baby angels) then B&N are doing their preorder offer at the moment - Members get 25% off all pre-orders from 6/23 - 6/26 using code PREORDER25 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-dreaml...

When our house was up for sale the photographer told us to move the cat's bowl out of shot because some people don't like cats... ... Did it occur to NO ONE in this process? 😂

It's that time again! If any of my pals across the pond are thinking of pre-ordering The Dreamless (you sweet baby angels) then B&N are doing their preorder offer at the moment - Members get 25% off all pre-orders from 6/23 - 6/26 using code PREORDER25 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-dreaml...

Three best sitcom performances of all time Catherine O'Hara - Schitt's Creek Glen Howerton - It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Rik Mayall - Bottom

Happy Summer Solstice everyone! #StandingStoneSunday This amazing photo by Callanish Digital Designs shows two prominent stones at Calanais (51 & 52) forming a window for the rising midsummer sunrise sun that lights up first as the sun appears. There's a close up next... 1/

lol eat shit other planets. earth number one all time

This morning's important news: I have discovered Beck's version of 'Everybody's gotta learn sometime' As you were.

RPG people of Bluesky - I want to get a set of D10 dice, maybe some really fancy ones with sharp edges or liquid cores. But everywhere I look it's poly sided sets. Any recs of shops that do D10 sets??

This isn't quite it, but it reminded me of reading a well known fantasy classic from the 80s where I got to the last 50 pages and realised I simply did not give a monkeys about any of the characters. It was not a short book. I have never regretted it.

Done! happy with the colors

FINISHED! should i take preorder?

If you got AI to write your book you didn’t write your book. Stephen King wrote your book. Octavia Butler wrote your book. Jilly Cooper wrote your book. Dav Pilkey wrote your book. Lisa Jewell wrote your book. I wrote your book. Every author whose work has been digitised wrote your book. You did not

This is good. Really, really good.

Paul McGann as a fox? Damn right!

Masters of the universe soundtrack is my writing background today

Westminster MPs have until the end of the month to reject the proposed anti-trans guidance. If you haven’t written to your MP yet, here’s a good template for you to use. writetheletter.bimini.workers.dev

Tumblr with another banger

This will surprise precisely no one, but I absolutely loved the new Masters of the Universe film. Just top fun from start to finish. Bring me a sequel (and the film teased post credits) immediately.

some important internet history herein

Still makes me roar 😂

Orcs, goblins, trolls, that sort of thing

restaurant bathroom - balanced my handbag on the edge of the sink, it fell in, triggered the automatic tap which proceeded to fill my open handbag with water *at speed*

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

Loved doing this interview with Bristol24/7. Now I really feel like a local 😁 There's even a picture of me and Pete at Wake the Tiger - peak bristolling 😂 www.bristol247.com/culture/book...

speaking of comps, the German publisher of the Winnowing Flame trilogy totally get it

And on Bookshop! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Oh hey THE BITTER TWINS is 99c on kindle in the US this month - since this book features quite a bit of my favourite gay couple (that I've written) I choose to believe this is for Pride month www.amazon.com/Bitter-Twins...

Just realised that if I had to use comp titles for the book I'm currently drafting it would be 'Reaper Man meets The Last Unicorn' Have to admit this is very on brand for me

I love this publicity photo for Big Train. A former screensaver of mine.

Old but current.

I want to find whoever wrote this, make them read it out loud, and then every time they say the words 'account' or 'accounts' I blast an airhorn in their ear

Feat. M A Carrick, @indrapramitdas.bsky.social, @soundingline.bsky.social, @nicolaz.bsky.social, @dr-bethany-jacobs.bsky.social, @brentclambert.bsky.social, @older.bsky.social, @edmcdonald.bsky.social, @marthawells.com & @sennydreadful.bsky.social (w/ bonus @jennlyons.bsky.social & @vajra.me).

we decided to spend this super hot afternoon in the air conned cinema watching Mortal Kombat 2, and let me tell you, that was an excellent decision.

I read Pete a chapter of the current WIP and he said 'Ah, two characters have just met and they are arguing - now it feels like a classic Jen Williams book' This is correct. Bonus points if they are kissing in 20 chapters.

of course the real reason I am back on social media is so I can talk about how hot it is today. It is so hot. It's not even June and it's boiling. We have deployed fans and ice poles. I think my kohl pencil has melted.

I'm back for a bit! Have the greenest bird you've ever seen

I'm gonna delete this place from my phone for a little bit (possibly longer?) but I'm still around on instagram if anyone needs me www.instagram.com/sennydreadfu...