There are obviously worse injustices but it’s insane that Resident Alien doesn’t have a single Emmy nomination

Incredible news for kei truck lads

Honestly part of me thinks jkr is just out for revenge. She blames trans people for her fans turning on her so she just wants to make them suffer

Based on how many Americans I’ve seen posting their insane insurance price increases over the last couple of weeks, this is a fabulous time for him to be in the news a lot

The problem is, putting your mind to things is so much harder than anyone lets on

Not anywhere close to Tom Stoppard's greatest achievement, but Shakespeare In Love is the only Fiction About Shakespeare I can stand at all, and I adore it beyond words. He was a genius. Can't believe he's gone and died on my birthday.

Full disclosure: I've had an extremely rough year and I could really use a lift! You can help give me that lift by simply going out in the world and saying to another human, 'hey, you should read this thing!'

And if you like newsletters that swing between rating outfits on tv and impotent railing against the hell in which we find ourselves, I have that too! ihavenoplanforthis.ghost.io

If you like adventure stories and reading a book at the rate of one chapter every two weeks, there's my new serial novel calamitystrinket.ghost.io

There's the two part meta physical romcom I wrote last year for Radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

There's the history podcast I make with @emmasouthon.bsky.social where we answer the questions you don't have time to research yourself historyissexy.com

There's the audio drama we write in the same universe, currently in its 10th and final season www.nightvalepresents.com/withinthewires

If you like sprawling alternate history with unreliable narrators, there's the book I co-wrote with @happierman.bsky.social (currently only available as an audiobook in the uk) www.amazon.co.uk/You-Feel-Jus...

If you like fun romance at the beach there's my first romcom uk.bookshop.org/p/books/beac...

If you like small time drama with simmering tension amid an apocalypse, there's my most recent book uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9781...

If you like something fanciful and strange, there's my first ever book uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9780...

It's my birthday this week and what I would really like is for people to tell other people about something I have written! Honestly at this point there really is something for everyone

I am ten years, four books, and multiple audio dramas into my career and I am still getting advances this small, some of which have been paid out over TWO AND A HALF YEARS. And because the advances are small the marketing plans are also tiny, so you're left to build a readership entirely alone

It's my birthday this week and what I would really like is for people to tell other people about something I have written! Honestly at this point there really is something for everyone

Wrote about isolation! You know, for fun buff.ly/YFkxZHp

Look, I've never liked Wuthering Heights and I've read it multiple times to check I'm still right not to like it and that godawful trailer is making me want to read it YET AGAIN just to check I haven't remembered it all wrong, like, omg wtf

This is actually a good way to keep me around after I die because I will haunt you if you do this to me, I will find a way to make ghosts real so I can come back and roast you forever

All rental property should be state owned

This is the single most correct statement on the whole internet

Ok who's dishing out book token clues?

I've decided I want to make a ladies do crime road movie about three sisters, played by Kim Cattrall, Jennifer Coolidge and Miss Piggy

My hot take on the male gaze is that it only feels gross and exploitative when it is coupled with a fundamental lack of respect, when it is driven by wanting to fuck women while not enjoying their company, when it is possessive instead of appreciative

Wrote about HOPE like some kind of SAP, posting about it clouded with IRONY like some kind of MILLENNIAL buff.ly/AGQ9YGR

lol at "conservative feminism" actually

Mamdani, more like yumdani, is this anything

I don't use these words lightly: what a pussy ass bitch

We have to throw her a parade when it's George W's turn

Watching the new Channel 4 knitting show with my breakfast and it really is impossible to make knitting look urgent or stressful

The solution to the male loneliness kerfuffle is forcing all teenage boys to watch Shoresy

When Americans rebuild their democracy after the collapse I hope they use a system in which elections last a normal amount of time

Lol, you can tell I had a rough October

Here to tell people who don't like books being marketing with lists of tropes to calm tf down

Everyone younger than 45 has been a burned out, anxious wreck their entire adult lives, recession after recession, unpaid internships, underpaid jobs, rent out of control, political catastrophes, pandemics, genocides, can't afford therapy, just do self care, WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE

I saw at least two people being judgy about an innocuous thing and got mad to the tune of two thousand words about it, this what the internet is supposed to be ihavenoplanforthis.ghost.io/ok-so-we-all...

Look at him! If he can't get me a job no one can!

Extremely ready for spring ngl

I was annoyed about people being annoyed about romance tropes so I got a little carried away for this week's newsletter. OUT FRIDAY, DON'T FORGET TO LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE. ihavenoplanforthis.ghost.io

Friction IS an essential ingredient for learning. Where we put the friction matters though. If students spend all their friction cognitive capacity dealing with buggy infrastructure and bureaucratic busywork, they eventually balk at the meaningful but seemingly more optional friction.

The latest thing that's going to fix me is I've started making little bone broth noodle soups for lunch, like what if instant ramen got rid of wrinkles and joint pain stuff

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Writer's block, like all forms of procrastination, is about fear. Fear that when you look into your brain you'll find nothing there, fear that what you have to offer isn't interesting or funny or unique enough. The solution to it is to learn how to manage that fear, how to trust your own brain.

Wish my taxes would stop funding Wes Streeting actually

Welcome to is it a virus, is it SAD, is it burnout, am I dying season, does anyone have any energy? At all?

There's been a stonking huge spider hanging out outside my window for the past week or so and today he carefully dismantled his web and left