So much that’s good in this, but clipped out this in particular. Yes, yes, yes: it’s a losers’ ideology, demonstrably, historically so. It’s stupid and pointless and wearying, and, as he says, it ends up eating itself. It’s who it takes with it on the way down the shitter that’s the tragedy.

This Sunday! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @thomasdlee.bsky.social !! discord.gg/SNGXZWg8

Gimme!! Gimme!! Gimme!! (And a pox on Ballantine books for being queerphobes.) It'll cost as much to ship as to buy the book (not for the first time do I miss Book Depository, destroyed by amazon), and I do NOT care. #booksky #reading #periloustimes #knightwatch

This sounds SO GOOD and I’m so bummed it won’t be pubbed in the US for fashy reasons 😭

Too gay for the US?!? Put that on my TBR!! 😁 📚🌈

Pleased to be able to report that Lancelot is even more of a queer disaster in The Knight Watch than he was in Perilous Times

...ok 👀

Ahhhh I’ve been waiting for this book since I devoured Perilous Times!!! *scrambles off to pre-order now*

You should pre-order @thomasdlee.bsky.social’s prequel to Perilous Times, despite the fact that he did not use my suggested title, An Afternoon of Mild Peril. It’s going to be a delightful read.

Hey, US publishers! A lot of us wanna read about queer knights killing Nazis! One of y'all pay the man some money and bring his book here! Ballantine's loss is your gain!

Behold, the beautiful cover of THE KNIGHT WATCH, which is now available to pre-order!

Stay tuned for a special announcement tomorrow, and limber up your pre-ordering fingers...

Looking forward to chatting with the Edinburgh Writers' Club on Zoom later today, chaired by my buddy @lindzmcleod.bsky.social We'll be talking about knights and books and pirhannas, among other things.

Taking an unexpected detour through Greek mythology for my next book and I don't know how you guys write Greek retellings without going insane. I just wrote a whole scene with two characters before realising that they're both bastard offspring of Zeus from different mothers.

Reviewing the final cover design for The Knight Watch and I'm SO EXCITED TO BE ABLE TO SHARE IT SOON

Next up we have @thomasdlee.bsky.social! Tom's Sunday Times bestselling debut, Perilous Times, sees Sir Kay & his fellow knights awakened from their mythical slumber in modern times. Britain is divided, there's a dragon, & Kay is not the only ancient & terrible thing to crawl out of the ground...

Is good book

Do not use these things. Do not give them a try. Do not give them your money. It’s a Mechanical Turk that can actually kill you.

can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice

This goes quintuple since the entire theme of the 2020s is that the world is ruled by and in the direct interests of semi-literate squillionaire idiots, financial crooks and sex criminals via networks of influence and increasingly, just directly by imposing their will by force.

I'n extremely left wing and my definition of 'core British values' includes defending our democracy from foreign interference and not appointing pedophiles to important diplomatic roles. I'm interested in defending those core British values. Less interested in whatever Starmer's definition might be.

you know, laying off staff in the middle of a war zone while enduring a ukraine winter without power makes laying off ppl during the holidays look downright humanitarian. billionaires shouldn’t exist.

In Perilous Times I put Caer Moelydd (aka Camelot) on Moelydd Hill in Shropshire. Exercising my sacred right as an Arthurian author to put it in my home county.

Come on down to Waterstones Worcester on the 25th of Feb, where I’ll be discussing some extremely bookish bookery with @starkholborn.bsky.social, @thomasdlee.bsky.social and Stephen Aryan www.waterstones.com/events/scien... @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Looking forward to this event in Worcester on the 25th of February with Stephen Aryan, Tom Turner, and @starkholborn.bsky.social Click through for tickets! www.waterstones.com/events/scien...

Watching a documentary about Seymour Hersh, in which he says "books taught me how to think" - detailing how he got to attend the University of Chicago, despite the odds, and later became the journalist who reported the My Lai Massacre. Can't help thinking that that's why fascists want books to die.

Microsoft Word used to let you view a document's 'version history' which was stored locally on your hard-drive. I used to do it on a fairly regular basis. Now 'version history' is tied to OneDrive and only possible if you enable 'Connected Experiences' (e.g. CoPilot). #Enshitification intensifies.

Why did Keir Starmer really block Andy Burnham from running in Gorton and Denton?

My sister messaged me last night saying, and I quote 'watching search for spock and obsessed with saavik’s cunty pink chair'

To celebrate the publication of @d-j-frost.bsky.social and mine’s book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, I am giving away a copy to one randomly chosen person who reposts this post by 11.59pm ACST Sunday 1 Feb. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

As usual Clan McSweeney are more interested in spineless self-preservation than they are in the good of the country or of the Labour party

I’ve just started reading Perilous Times by @thomasdlee.bsky.social. Enjoying the premise/writing style; reminds me of Tom Holt. Set in (maybe) the near future, the planet is burning, cities are drowning and society is collapsing. It is England’s hour of need. Who you gonna call? Who’s interfering?

Kay and Mariam hide in one of these old ROC bunkers in the first few chapters of Perilous Times. I've poked around inside one of them in Lincolnshire. They're a fascinating relic of the Cold War (and yes, one of them falling into the sea is a sure sign that subtlety is dead).

Absolutely delighted to announce that I'm joining the team at @thewriteadvice.bsky.social where I'll be offering my mentoring services to budding writers. Click through to the website to read my introductory blog post (and, if you're interested, to have a look at our rates and services).

A ray of sunshine amongst all the doom and gloom. @lindzmcleod.bsky.social has informed me that her collaborative masterpiece An Honour & A Privilege has been longlisted for the British Science Fiction awards! A huge achievement for all of the authors involved. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

I'm sorry that my American friends and readers have to put up with being represented on the world stage by an ambulatory bag of faeces. We share your horror, but we know that he doesn't represent all of you.

I’m thrilled to reveal the cover of Eight Tastes of Treachery! In the sequel to Seven Recipes For Revolution, Paprick and co will reckon with dire prophesies, new flavors, and bigger emphon. July 21, 2026

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Jesus fucking christ, even the literal Vichyists are being less cowardly than British politicians.

I have more much contempt for spineless quisling aristocratic cowards like Tim Stanley (who is closely related to the Earl of Derby) than I do for the average misinformed Trump or Reform voter. Not the first time Britain's aristos have tried to kowtow to fascism, and I daresay it won't be the last.

GenAI is a kleptomatic bullshit generator, and it's eroding the foundations of what it means to learn and grow as a human being, but it's also very dangerous. I've had episodes of depression & breaks from reality in the past and they would have been *much* worse if I had an AI devil on my shoulder.

There are no rules, they don’t actually care about respect, decorum, bipartisanship or debate, and only pretend to do so to browbeat you into submission. Nothing is going to change until more people realise that and respond accordingly; including to the media and politicians who have failed them.

Feeling very heartened by the sheer number of depraved furries who have liked this post. I've got excellent news for you: The Knight Watch and my secret third book both have a lot of accidental furry representation 🤣

As I've said elsewhere, my next book The Knight Watch won't be published in the US. My former US publishers told me it was unpublishable, that some of the queer characters were 'stealing the show' and that the reader would 'get confused' about which characters they were meant to be invested in 😑

Why is there an AI for writing books and not an AI for cleaning the tiles in my bathroom. Where is my Jetsons robot butler with a multitude of Inspector Gadget cleaning attachments who keeps getting himself into comical mishaps.

If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.

Just gave blood again (and got some free Bourbons). Think about doing the same if you can - especially if you have a rare blood subgroup, like I do!

Books are keeping me going at the moment, especially when they're the quality of 'Perilous Times' by @thomasdlee.bsky.social, my book of 2025. #booksky potsandplots.blog/2026/01/09/p...