Asked my partner to buy in some paracetamol. Need to keep my #autism topped up.

Landing a literary agent is the dream for many writers, but it's not easy. @felipeazucares.bsky.social tells us about his journey and gives some important tips on how to approach this big step for many writers: milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/a...

Might just be my #autism, but I think #liquidglass is easily my least favourite OS overhaul ever especially on macos. The mismatch between the rounded corners of the windows and squared off edges of the screen just looks like no-one thought this through properly.

A very happy birthday to @felipeazucares.bsky.social! Why not pre-order his debut multiversal London fantasy novel from @titanbooks.bsky.social LIGHTHOUSE AT THE END OF THE WORLD? It's the Mark Fisher/VE Schwab mashup you never knew you needed. titanbooks.com/72442-cities...

Reappraising the movie that gave us the #bambiburster: "I am so cute! But also, I will eat your fucking face!" philipasuggars.substack.com/p/11-alien-o... #liminalhorror #horrormovies #alien3 #thebackrooms #theweird

Does xeno-woof wanna go walkies? Re-evaluating Alien3 … #alien3 #alien #xenomorph substack.com/@philipasugg...

Does xeno-woof wanna go walkies? Re-evaluating Alien3 … #alien3 #alien #xenomorph substack.com/@philipasugg...

As a writer from a #working-class background, I love what @beelitmag.bsky.social are doing and I've loved some of the writing I've read there. They're open for submissions now. thebeemagazine.com

#ReformUK: Britain’s newest costume drama. #hauntology #ukpolitics open.substack.com/pub/philipas...

#Season7 of #Buffy is mostly just Sarah Michelle Geller repeatedly auditioning for the “world’s most demotivating public speaker” award.

How political hauntology helped #Farage create the haunted fairground ride of #ReformUK also hummus (again!) open.substack.com/pub/philipas...

How political hauntology helped #Farage create the haunted fairground ride of #ReformUK also hummus (again!) open.substack.com/pub/philipas...

So are we watching #alien:earth or have we all had enough of Annie Acid-breath?

Capitalism: the entity that haunts you with cashback. open.substack.com/pub/philipas... #writing #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #writingcommunity #speculativefiction #horror #itfollows #speculativefiction

End-stage #capitalism now available in three #haunting new flavours … open.substack.com/pub/philipas... #booksky #writinglife #writing #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #writingcommunity #speculativefiction #horror #itfollows

1 day left to enter! 🦖 WIN a ROAR-some family ticket to Jurassic World: The Experience! Step into the land of dinosaurs and meet prehistoric giants face-to-face. UK entries only — enter now on our website: https://bit.ly/43XJS9z

I wrote an essay about It Follows. It mentions hummus. #itfollows #horror #theweird #theuncanny #hauntedcapitalism #booksky #writinglife #writing #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #BookSky 💙📚 #writingcommunity #speculativefiction open.substack.com/pub/philipas...

I wrote an essay about It Follows. It mentions hummus. #itfollows #horror #theweird #theuncanny #hauntedcapitalism #booksky #writinglife #writing #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #BookSky 💙📚 #writingcommunity #speculativefiction open.substack.com/pub/philipas...

Hi, #American friends. Happy #independenceday and all that. Although, of course, it’s beginning to look like you could’ve just skipped the intervening 249 years and saved us both all that hassle.

On querying: “From then on it became a sort of grim, hard-bitten slog (imagine an accounting firm run by James Ellroy)” substack.com/@philipasugg... #booksky #writinglife #writing #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #BookSky 💙📚 #indieauthors #indiepublishing #writingcommunity #authorlife

Given everyone on #Murderbot treats SecUnit with more patience than most folks show #autistic people, it must be time for us NDs to install wrist guns.

#Querying is just speed-dating with more existential dread and better snacks. (Or how I got an #agent) #booksky #writinglife #writing #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #BookSky 💙📚 #indieauthors #indiepublishing #writingcommunity #authorlife

How I got a new kettle (and a literary agent as well). open.substack.com/pub/philipas... #booksky #writinglife #writing #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #BookSky 💙📚 #indieauthors #indiepublishing #writingcommunity #authorlife #agenting

Getting an agent: part hope, part hustle, part Lidl. open.substack.com/pub/philipas... #booksky #writinglife #writing #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #BookSky 💙📚 #indieauthors #indiepublishing #writingcommunity #authorlife #agenting

Synth-pop pioneers #OMD celebrate the release of their ground breaking #architectureandmorality LP.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif ?”hard mode” (no Star Wars, Star Trek Lord of the Rings or Marvel)

Contact me to get on the ground floor of this once in a lifetime investment opportunity where you can earn as much as $6 WEEKLY (courtesy of issue #8 of #Charlton comics #Haunted 1972) #sellgrit

#booksky #writingcommunity

What doesn’t kill you makes you … deduct -1d4 hp.

How to not lose your shit entirely when you’re agenting … open.substack.com/pub/philipas... #booksky #writinglife #writing #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #BookSky 💙📚 #indieauthors #indiepublishing #writingcommunity

I know I’m late to the part but I just git on #thesinners train. It’s not a perfect movie by any means, but fuck me, that scene that every’s talking about still has me buzzing.

How I got an agent … eventually #booksky #writinglife #writing #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #BookSky 💙📚 #indieauthors #indiepublishing #writingcommunity #authorlife #writerlife #writing #author open.substack.com/pub/philipas...

This is mostly just regurgitating Nick Bostrum’s book Superintelligence. I suppose given the subject that shouldn’t be a surprise.

Schalcken the Painter: like Caravaggio fell asleep in a crypt, dreaming of the BBC licence fee. philipasuggars.substack.com/p/7-less-som... #SchalckenThePainter #theweird #horror #ghosts #ghoststories #amwriting #writingcommunity #amwritingfantasy #speculativefiction #thegothic #gothic

The term "#latecapitalism" always makes me chuckle as a term as it suggests we have a freaking clue as to what comes next.

Turns out the scariest thing on telly that Christmas wasn’t the Queen’s speech for once. #SchalckenThePainter #theweird #horror #ghosts #amwriting #writingcommunity #amwritingfantasy #speculativefiction #hauntology #theuncanny #horrorTV substack.com/@philipasugg...

Whenever #marketeers advise on #socialmedia use, I’m put in mind of the way Roman #oracles would confidently predict the future by prodding at chicken entrails.

My phone insists on correcting #hauntological to janitorial. Honestly, everyone’s a fucking critic these days.

Schalcken the Painter: when late-night telly felt like a séance. open.substack.com/pub/philipas... #SchalckenThePainter #theweird #horror #ghosts #ghoststories #amwriting #writingcommunity #amwritingfantasy #speculativefiction

#Alien:Earth The sound of a million raspberries blowing.

#BBC2 traumatised me as a child. I remain grateful. open.substack.com/pub/philipas... #SchalckenThePainter #theweird #horror #ghosts #ghoststories #amwriting #writingcommunity #amwritingfantasy #speculativefiction #thegothic #gothic

Candlelight, regret and one deeply cursed fiancé, happy holidays from 1979 #booksky #writinglife #writing #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #BookSky 💙📚 #indieauthors #indiepublishing #writingcommunity #schalckenthepainter #bbc #horror #theweird open.substack.com/pub/philipas...

Oh for the love of all that's unholy please no.

open.substack.com/pub/philipas... schalcken the painter and the concept of #theuncanny as format #booksky #writinglife #writing #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #BookSky 💙📚 #indieauthors #indiepublishing #writingcommunity

Some thoughts on how we experience #theuncanny as a format rather than as content. The BBC's "lost" adaptation of #SchalckenThePainter #theweird #horror #ghosts #ghoststories #amwriting #writingcommunity #amwritingfantasy #speculativefiction open.substack.com/pub/philipas...

“A boy in the bush is worth two in the hand. I’m a bit racist and I look like your nan.” #thesmiths updated

Wait. What? There are more #dinosaurs?