On Sunday i will be in Sheffield, in a bowler hat, kilt and newrocks , like you do. Trying to corrupt people into reading words printed on murdered trees , I shall be with fellow Harvey writer @katebaucherel.bsky.social who has a new book out... #shefield #comiccon #scifi #books #unleashedevents

Fluke Le Mot (@WordleFR) #1359 2/6 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wordle.louan.me

Train! Stockton & Darlington Railway 200th Anniversary - a replica of the machine that changed everything.

Launch day! Near future cybercrime thrillers - bit of cyberpunk, lots of tech, and remarkably 'cosy' according to my editor (cats, family etc). Both of these are out NOW on Amazon, Kobo, Apple and the like - book 6 of the SimCavalier series, and the completed second trilogy. mybook.to/QuantumBreach

When you realise this #totp is actually quite old and you’re still seeing two of the top 20 bands in December… Supremely dreadful graphics 🤣🤣

There are several artists this evening that I had happily forgotten existed. #totp

Not what you’d call a vintage year - apart from Dana International. #totp

Bookish gorgeousness!! The hardback trilogy edition has landed.

A little blatant self promo, but I Wrote A Thing…. Preorder now!! mybook.to/QuantumBreach

The boss says it’s not time to work yet.

Edits are back… a little bit of tweaking to do and then we are GO!!

Okay I’m proud of this one Le Mot (@WordleFR) #1340 2/6 ⬛🟨⬛🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wordle.louan.me

The #WIP is no longer a WIP but a Thing That Is With The Editor. I think I tied all the loose ends!! I guess I will find out soon enough.

70054 #WIP #Wordcount Almost there. It'll be finished tomorrow. But now... karate class!

Good lord. Automated Teller Machine, Disintermediation (hah!), Estrogen Replacement Therapy (hurrah!), Flower Power, and Recreational Drug 🤣🤣

Wondering why I am aching a little this morning. Ah, that'll be 12 hours of training over the weekend...

Two days in a row. Bizarre. Wordle 1,533 2/6 🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

65,000 #WIP #wordcount

Totally this. Any they get lonely. They need more books to be happy. @markhayes.bsky.social

60,000 #WIP #Wordcount Writing so fast as I get to the climax of this book, and it is WONDERFUL how my subconscious just triggers new scenes and connections and feelings that enrich the journey through the very basic waypoints I have to hit.

“Here comes the sun” 🎶 - call Diss Four One Double One

57500 #WIP #wordcount #impendingdeadline

55,000 #wordcount #WIP

How do you make an author happy on their birthday? Go on, give one of these beauties a whirl... www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Kate-... Already read them? Reviews are the second best gift! #booksky📚💙

Releasing my inner 18 year old at the Pet Shop Boys headliner last night. Although 40 years on it was nice to drive home from the festival and sleep in a real bed.

A post Newtonian Magic Victorian Urban fantasy In Kindle, Paperback, or hardback #newbook #scifi #steampunk #urbanfanasy #booksky #magicalrealisum #newreads #kindleunlimited #amreading www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DWMWJ927

CAT: I want to go out. HUMAN: Its 40 out there, you’re mad. Go back to sleep in that cool spot. CAT: <claws mat> It is my right to go out. I demand the opening of the door. 2 minutes later: CAT: Woe! Woe! I’m melting! Why did you shut me out in this furnace! Let me in at once, slave. /repeat

Cat, enthroned.

Tummy tickling temptation: 10/10. Practicality: minus several million... @thecatreviewer.bsky.social

Free association starter word strategy pays off. Wordle 1,507 2/6 🟩🟩🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

@evilthumper.bsky.social thinking of Luke’s portfolio.

Checking out the stars after the Mairie installed some really annoying lights that stay on all night 😭😭. Lost the dark sky, I reckon 40% diminished, but still impressive. Couple of meteors flashed by too. But that light pollution is dreadful. Will be having words…

Today - 31st July - is the last day to pick up this first-in-series at a discount on all your favourite ebook platforms #authors #booksky📚💙 - give it a whirl.

Portrait of a burrito.

This cat regularly guides visitors around the vineyard, leading them along paths through the vines. Today she was supervising wine tasting from her barrel throne. 10/10 no notes. @thecatreviewer.bsky.social

This delights and saddens me. A very experienced diver historian friend spent years researching it, but died in a diving accident several years ago. (I hid him and the bell in one of my books.) >> Divers find WW1 ship 109 years after it was sunk www.bbc.com/news/article... #hmsnottingham

Milestone: 45,000 words. My characters are getting into position for the final act. Now for something that I never do, which @markhayes.bsky.social will attest to, is I am going back through and checking my draft and tying up loose ends before everything explodes... #authors #WIP

Météo France says the rain has passed. Let’s put the washing out!

The Caravane that precedes the Tour de France is the most magnificent thing I have seen for a long time. #tdf2025

Excited that @letourfr.bsky.social is coming through Richelieu tomorrow!! Expected at 1240pm UK - keep an eye out, we’ll wave! #TDF2025 - artwork from La Gazette des Richelais

I do sell through Amazon - and the last couple of days have seen people in different countries buying the 3rd, 4th, 5th in series! Do yourself a favour and try out the first one - solid cybercrime thrillers that get even better as they go on (writing #6 right now) mybook.to/BitcoinHurri...

Large cat small shade.

Happy Prime Day(s) 🤣 Avoiding Amazon? All my ebooks and audiobooks are available to buy direct from my website (side load / listen in browser) or to buy from literally every other platform of your choice…. #primeday #notamazon #booksky📚💙 #authors galiadigital.co.uk/shop/

Amid the remembrance for 7/7 - I’ll never forget the news coming through - I have another memory to share. Happy 98th birthday to my wonderful dad (who left us in 1993).

Le Mot (@WordleFR) #1271 2/6 ⬛🟩🟨⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wordle.louan.me Although while thinking and mulling I found this gem (redacted for spoilers):

Yes Fred, 6 kg of warm fur is what I needed right now

Changed my Pulp CD cover in honour of the #glastonbury set. Anyone else still have the interchangeable artwork?

This box is snoring.

Loving Peter Capaldi rocking out with Frank Ferdinand! I remember years ago David Tennant playing with them too. A theme there - the Glasgow link obvs.