Just been Rick-rolled by the radiotherapy machine. Classy.

This is rather lovely - "Adventure SF with heart" - my latest story, out now in #analog

I could not be more proud.

Does anyone in the UK have recommendations for outdoor wireless garden cameras, please?

Reminder that, if you want to avoid big online stores like Amazon, you can get all my ebooks through itch.io. (And you can buy all the Mennik Thorn books together in a bundle that is far cheaper than buying them separately.) patrick-samphire.itch.io

My new album LIAR (Love Isn't A Right) is available to pre-order now from my official store and from @roughtraderecords.bsky.social, @normanrecords.com, Resident Brighton, The Jazz Vault and JPC in Germany! Pre-order here: linktr.ee/tanitamusic

We sent out our latest newsletter this morning with reminders about several COLOSSIVE events happening this month. Still, don't subscribe? You've already missed today's #zine fair. (You snooze, you lose.) But you can catch up on the rest of our news here: bit.ly/colossivejun...

My main blog website is www.bigbeardedbookseller.com and I write about books, tarot, films, home cooking, solo gaming, photography and whatever takes my fancy, the blog also hosts author/illustrator/blogger interviews

Come, on 'Ull!

The word for this week's Book Quote Wednesday is 'tight', and here's a tense, night-time confrontation in the port city of Grand BiIlon. www.tinyurl.com/WizDuos1 #BookQW

✨Are you a @bsfa.bsky.social member and thinking about @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social? The BSFA is sponsoring two in person memberships for persons of colour, persons with disabilities and those with financial difficulties for any reason. Details on how to apply are in the latest newsletter.✨

Last week at Broken Frontier... Colossive Cartographies #65 – Hayley Gullen Shares Her ‘Adventures in Pictland’. @hayleygullen.com @colossive.com www.brokenfrontier.com/gullen-adven...

No big team. No red tape. Just me—Alan Parry. I run this thing solo, and I’ve published over 30 books that punch above their weight. Submissions open Aug 1–31. 👉 shorturl.at/eTSjI 👤 @alanparry83.bsky.social

Cancer broke me down. I had to build myself back up again. By sharing my story, I hope to help others. #cansky

Oh-ho. Oh yeah.

Exploitation, plain & simple. Who would want to work with these utter clowns?

New Review - two novellas in one book exploring characters trying to work out their futures - really recommend Wiz Duos 2 - Song, Stone, Sail, Bone by Juliet Kemp and Take Me Hone by EM Faulds - thanks to @wtpress.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/5/...

"The products you love are tangibly worse. We're richer than ever, especially after all those layoffs. We're also building giant data centers that cost billions of dollars to force new and bad features into products you're already mad at, at the low cost of "the environment and every work of art."

I forgot to share this, but I wrote up a page listing some of the inspirations for situations and locations that appear in Darkened Hill & Dale. I have also listed 'things that I thought I'd made up but are at least partially real'. 😬 darkened-hill-and-dale.patchworkfez.games/references/

As a lifelong #fern lover I am delighted with my new ferny throw.

My writing life - so far.

I had my latest #covid booster jab yesterday. If you live in the UK and are eligible, please get yours. It's a walk in service, and it's free.

And most likely a better way too.

Lets see if we can get the Streisand effect going here boingboing.net/2025/05/23/p...

Come on, all you talented people!

FYI. The Gullen Test. Inspired by @alisonbechdel.bsky.social

The first @bristolcon.bsky.social 2025 progress report received! How I hope I can go.

And it's an excellent story too.

Canterbury bells, or Campanula medium. One of my late spring favourites.

This sounds very good! I love being read to.

I got off the sleeper train this morning and was home by 9am. I’d never have taken this trip if it wasn’t for cancer. If I learned anything from the ordeal of chemo it was to fully use the times when you DO have energy. Have the adventure today because it might not be possible tomorrow. #cansky

Colossive.com are a terrific, unique and inventive press.

This will be very good indeed.

Tarbat (the site of a Pictish monastery)

Nazis. Hahaha. “Stewart, the self-appointed leader, had never had a job and lived with his mother. “. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Conan-Doyle had to make Holmes use cocaine from time to time. Because if he exclusively used morphine he'd always be no-shit Sherlock. #I10Q

It's just a wobble. This thing is so relentless. I am like a child. #haiku #fuckcancer

It's flying boats all the way, TBH.

It is Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'cry'. This extract is from 'Bring Me Home' by E.M. Faulds which appears in our second Wiz Duo book, due out next week. Selen's body mod has some unexpected side effects. #BookQW Pre-order links: wizardstowerpress.co...

Strange days. www.localgov.co.uk/Snail-breedi...

I got nothing - but You might!

This sounds wonderful.

Only one left!

An apricot iris. #garden #iris #flower

It's hard to keep your sense of humour, When you have an incurable tumour. (-after Ogden Nash)

I have two hot off the press giveaway copies of Wiz Duos vol 1 (two SFF novellas in one sweet cover.) The God Road is mine, the other is Ben Wright's invenventive, haunting adventure across strange tides, To Sail the Interstice. Want one? DM me. I'll even sign it! (UK only.)

If you're working on a crime story, @julietemckenna.bsky.social has a bit to say about how too often "fiction" inspired by real criminal cases can cross the line from exploration to exploitation: milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/a...

You can now pre-order my book on The Female Man. Please circulate! www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page... Mendlesohn brings a scholarly precision, nuance and a wide-ranging political understanding to bear on this funny, feminist, angry, playful, utterly remarkable novel. Sarah LeFanu.

ICYMI: my new Colossive Cartography with @colossive.com describes my trip last year to Elgin and Forres to look at Pictish stones. Yours for just £2! colossive.com/product/adve...