Just a bit of signing then.

I'm off to a bookshop to sign a bunch of dedicated preorders today. Me, explaining: So I might be writing, "happy birthday Jane, love from Peter and KJ" Mr KJC: So is there anything you won't write? Me: Mr KJC: You're basically like Nigel Farage saying 'Up the Ra' on that site Me:

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They're looking really hard to find the people responsible for this shocking state of affairs.

I'm writing a breakneck action sequence that I intend the reader to consume more or less in a single breath, flying urgently through the pages. It's taken me all morning to do 500 words.

If you're an author and have ever wondered hopefully whether it might be worth replying to the nice lady who wants to get your book to the dedicated readers in her {Exactly Your Book's Genre} book club, please read this.

Echo Location, Location, Location.

see, this would be a lot easier with TV shows. Mrs Brown Long-Eared Bat's Boys Grey Long-Eared Bat's Anatomy Common Pipistrelle As Muck

On the plus side, Kobo have Percival Everett's astounding novel The Trees on at 99p, and if you don't already own this book, get in there *right now*. Run, do not walk. On the minus side they have it in their list of Romance Deals, which...mmph. eesh. Nnnnno. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

Gah my Kobo is full of books I'm desperate to read, but 95% of my book brain is occupied with the WIP now, so it's rereads or bust. (This Body's Not Big Enough For Both Of Us by Edgar Cantero absolutely hit the spot for deranged violence and messing with form)

The incredibly weird experience when you wrote several thousand words at white hot speed last week, and you read it over and you're like, wow I didn't remember this stuff happened.

YES OUR QUEENS

Yes the big girls!

Botterman is a *unit*

Tfw you ask yourself, is this a novel, or is it five personality disorders tied up in a sack?

look, this was published four years ago so it's hardly cutting edge publishing commentary, but can I just point out that there is no word in the English language that goes "w_ _r_b".

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Dozens of delegates from multiple nations walk out of UN hall as Israeli prime minister prepares to speak.

I read Kick at the Darkness: An Apocalyptic Novella by Suleikha Snyder

It's not just that my inbox is full of AI-generating book marketing plans. It's that they're so goddamn *needy* about it.

They aren't bringing ID cards in to make people's lives easier, they are specifically bringing them in to make certain people's lives harder.

So I can finally share my vague publishing news with you: I wrote an academic adventure romance.

reminder that Dracula was a contemporary novel, i.e. set in the year it was published, which was 1897 and Coca-Cola was first commercially bottled in 1886 you can 100% depict Harker, Van Helsing, Morris, Seward and Holmwood chugging at these motherfuckers while they go huntin

I honestly don't know why people are in so much denial about this. I keep seeing variants on "how could POC have possibly been present in Georgian Britain?" like, have these people not heard of ships?

We are delighted to announce that we will publish @sachacoward.bsky.social’s Queer as Folklore in paperback and ebook editions in December 2025. Initially published by Unbound, it was longlisted for the 2025 Polari Prize and has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society awards. #booksky

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

I know they say you should never judge a book by its cover, but this cover 110% communicates the book’s vibes. It is an exquisite gay gothic confection, witty and self aware. 10/10 do recommend.

Oh hey look what I've got

I'm wishing @isobelcarr.com a peaceful transition from this world, and am in awe of the friends who are caring for her through this last phase of her life. Her GoFundMe is nearly met - gofund.me/514cc87e4 May we all have friends like this.

What a fantastic piece, in which @readingtheend.bsky.social absolutely nails what's wrong with publisher-monetised fanfic. "Let’s not get into the habit of trawling the wriggling, unknowable sea floor that is fandom, only to feed its most palatable morsels into the hungry maw of capitalism."

The AI did a follow up email about whether I had a chance to review her proposal etc... six hours after the first one. As if actual humans in publishing have ever done anything in six hours.

Absolutely marvellous. Both leads excellent but Ncuti Gatwa is what you find when you look up 'charisma' in a picture dictionary.

Today's bullshit AI generated "market your book" email included a detailed seven stage marketing plan that was rather more convincing than several I've had from actual publishers.

Right, I'm heading out to the pub, followed by Born with Teeth starring Ncuti Gatwa in leather trousers. It'll do till the rapture comes along.

Meeting with my lovely new editor yesterday, in which I explained how my besetting sin was being too nice to my characters and solving their problems too easily. I then had to add that obviously this is something I work on in the draft, because I grant you, it rarely appears on the finished page.

I seem to have missed the rapture thing till now, but all those bloody awful people are going to disappear today? Best news ever.

FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT

Going to see Born with Teeth tonight, absolutely cannot wait.

it's like nobody remembers the French revolution any more and it's like they really should.

would anyone like my recommendations of gay romance books i really liked. i have a bunch up my sleeve now, they are pretty much all fairly raunchy historical fiction

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

Good thread but mostly this

in a new low, I boiled the kettle, filled my mug, waited a goodly time for the tea to brew, added milk, wondered why it was so pale, and finally realised I'd omitted the step where you put the teabag in the cup.

Ah, this is fantastic fun! Congratulations Bex on publication day, and everyone else, get yourself some post-zombie-apocalypse sapphic adventure romance!

It's seriously great and makes a good entry point to see if maybe you'll enjoy reading absolutely everything else @kjcharleswriter.com writes, which I do. She's on my "auto pre-order" and also "auto bump up to top of TBR" list

What with the Middle Aged Man Island and the Writing Support Group, it's actually hard to believe the new Mitchell and Webb show isn't a targeted personal attack on my family.

COVER REVEAL! UNBROKEN (Rath & Rune 4) now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book will release on October 17, 2025, in ebook and paperback, with audio coming next year. Preorder from me: jordanlhawk.com/products/unb... Preorder from a corporation: buy.bookfunnel.com/6pbn12izk1

For the record, if I still have fans after I die and someone does this to me, I will come back from the dead and inhabit the soulless corporate parody of my existence just to invoke a curse on everyone involved.

This book by @kjcharleswriter.com is utterly, sweetly, impressively delightful! A 1920s MM romance between a detective fighting corruption and a hot graphologist (handwriting analyst), who is also a post-war amputee. They’re so cute!! 📚💙 📚❤️ 📚🏳️‍🌈 📚♿️

It depends what I'm getting out of it. I've read Riddley Walker three times; I never got past page 17 of Ulysses and never will.

First Saracens home game of the season tonight and I cannot convey how much I need 80mins of something that will absorb 100% of my attention and emotions while not having an actual impact on my life, and which gives me a valid reason to scream in public.