The best cure for post World Fantasy blues is to book my ticket for @easterconuk.bsky.social! Having a con to look forward to is a great motivator.

On the way home from @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social Thank you to everyone I got to spend time, I had the best weekend.

Congratulations @foxesandroses.bsky.social ! She deserves this award so much. She is an incredible author and it was the best in a category of great stories Thank you for letting me accept it on your behalf. 🙌

I'm on the BFS blog this week talking about writing, my influences and just general shenanigans!

This is not the cool high tech future that teen me was promised. We don't have flying cars but your bed breaks if the Internet goes out. 😂 www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

I got silver in Catch Wrestling Worlds Championships in over 100kg. I had a dominant performance, but a shoulder injury meant I couldn't compete in the final. Not the medal I wanted, but I can't wait for next year. (Josh blew his knee out, so hopefully that's next year too)

I'm all weighed in to compete at the catch wrestling world championships tomorrow. I've got former UFC champion Josh Barnett in the division, so I've asked for him first round. The organiser sounded keen. I am hyped!

I only have one panel for @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social but it's my favourite topic in the world and I'm already excited! Going to be a great weekend.

Very sad to see On Spec go. They ran a great magazine and the one story I ran with them was a great experience. They brought a lot to the SFF scene.

Just having a nice coffee in front of a deconstructed windmill

You know it's a good stick when your dog lies down to pose with it!

Last week I got bronze in the over 100kg Pro Division at the British open. I won British over 30's earlier in the year and wanted to challenge myself. One no show, one loss and a dominant win against a giant means I'm pretty happy! Middle aged IT managers aren't prime athletes but not the worst

@charlotteashley.bsky.social has been working day and night to put this writing con together. It's going to be incredible and you can now buy tickets 🙌

I left Sid alone for one damn minute.

Just casting my child out on a fantasy adventure!

Just gave this a read and it is a wonderfully wicked little flash piece, a glimpse into a future I find too depressingly real with a great sting in its tail.

Please send us your stories at @escapepod.org ! We have lots of episodes to fill with wonderful Sci-Fi so we are open once more.

I love @samtasticbooks.com short fic, and her debut novel is even better! This is an incredible book that shows both the journey into indoctrination and the escape from it in an engaging world of abandoned gods. I can absolutely see why it's nominated for a @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social award.

This sums up short story life.

I finished andor season 2. A bit slow to start, but definitely worth it. I am tired, I'm up early tomorrow but I have an over whelming urge to watch rogue 1! Movie time. More of the jerkiest robot in the star wars universe.

This is becoming one of my favourite podcasts. Two smart, funny authors talking about Classic SF that they love. What's not to like? And this time I learned that the reason lots of older sci-fi shows psychic powers is because of 50's US government projects. Can't wait for next month!

I can't help but feel this penguins are plotting something? No good can come from this.

I have a sci-fi flash fiction out with @metastellar.bsky.social today! If you have 4 minutes and fancy a fun take on what the future of advertising may hold, please have a read. www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...

In case anyone wonders how editing the novella is going: 🎵99 flaws in my book, 99 flaws in my book. Fix one flaw , merge two scenes 134 flaws in the book 🎵

I've had a great time reading submissions for @escapepod.org I've signed up for next year, and would recommend it to anyone :)

I have a novella to edit. Two short stories to edit. One requested short story I need to write. One non-fiction piece I have agreed to write. So why am I outlining a novel about cults?

It's Yorkshire day today. Feel free to celebrate by drinking ale, eating Yorkshire puddings, and listening to Brian Blessed singing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

I nearly finished my next short. But the assistant editor said it was time for a walk instead!

I read Butcher of the Forst by @premeemohamed.com This drew me in right off the first page, and then never let me go. It was darkly delicious and the forest itself is so atmospheric I could read it being described all day. I have never read Premee before, but I am going to read everything now!

The novella first draft is done! I have 33k words. They need a lot of work, there's a fair few <insert description here> bits and at least one character is yet to be named. But done! Now I get to work on two shorts as a treat before I go back to edit it. 🙌

My dog has never been so proud of himself. I have no idea how he got there. But he cried until I came to get him. They tell you samoyeds are full of personality but they don't tell you that they're mischievous jerks 😂

May honestly be the best pint of guiness I've ever seen.

I've had the pleasure of working with Donna twice as editor, and very much hope I will again! If you need an editor I couldn't recommend her more. If you just look at her catalogue of work you'll see she really knows her stuff 🙌

This is my old local pub. It is 400 years old. It has a plotting room where they organised stopping the original King Charles entering the city in the English civil war. Has a great selection of beers. Ye olde white harte is a great pub.

Living semi-rural means I miss out on some things like shows, events, civilisation. But the views are pretty damn good?

Got this to celebrate my @bsfa.bsky.social award! Took 6 hours, I cried the last hour, but dead happy how it turned out!

The novella is now at 18,500 words. Which means it's past the minimum amount and is officially a novella! My main worry is that it stops while it is still a novella. It keeps finding new places to go. #amwriting

Congrats to @eugeniatriantafyllou! It's a wonderful story and deserves all the spotlights it's receiving. Her plans for world domination are well under way.

I'm now the over 30's British champion in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at 100kg. Hell of a year.

Starting the day with a puppy pool party!

I have an irrational fear of forgetting how to write when I take a days off writing. But can happily report after two days off I've done 900 words. Although I did spell very with a th so a mixed bag! #amwriting

This is a tempest prognosticator. It predicts storms by using leeches. This is absolute mad scientist levels of innovation and I'm here for it. Lol

This is the hand of glory in Whitby Museum. It is the preserved hand of a hanged man. According to English folklore, it helps the owner to rob houses at night. Real life rarely gets as fantasy as this!

Is it even a trip to whitby if it doesn't rain? Got to love British summer!

I'm 3,000 words into writing my first ever novella. After 4 years of focusing on short fiction, I'm deeply concerned it will fall apart in the middle. I'm already scared I'll spend months on it and it won't sell. But this is how we learn! #amwriting

It's officially British summer. It's time people of all political flavours unite against the country's biggest threat.

Just finished Ashes of the Ancestors by @aknighton.bsky.social A great novella that wasn't what I expected. It has wonderful imagery and feels incredibly deep, and full of life for such a short read. Every word lifted so much weight. Yet to be disappointed by a @lunapress.bsky.social novella!

I got that caught up writing my current short that I forgot to drink my tea! This is the first time this has ever happened. Hopefully a sign this story is good? #amwriting

I just wanted a new weights bench. Instead I got this connect a dot set. I was not emotionally prepared for this many assemy pieces.

An aquarium is definitely the wrong place to find out your child is petrified of fish 😂