Marjane Satrapi, John Blanche, and Anthony Stewart Head. What a terrible week for amazing people.

Oh bearer of the curse, they care not that it consumes you, only that as the clock turns they arrived before you to the Starbucks queue.

Wouldn't catch me walking away from Omelas. One forsaken child in exchange for a perfect civilisation? My current civ tosses thousands in a woodchipper, daily, for no discernable benefit.

Flying in your favorite aunt for the wedding: sweet, lovely, nicest thing anyone has ever done. Summoning your most glorious ancestors from across the nine hells to bear witness to our union: bad, awful, violation of nature and human dignity. I just don't understand women.

Ethical non-monogamy is great, but have you tried unethical monogamy? Both of you sitting in the corner of the party making mean comments about the other guests. Cackling until everyone feels uncomfortable. Dropping the mutagen into the water supply together at midnight.

"Oh I love dungeon crawls." "I love megadungeons!" Yet the Mammoth Cave Complex in Kentucky remains unexplored. Interesting.

What is it about my knee that makes it the hip and happening hot spot where all the flies in the house land to hook up?

Love in a dehydrator 🎵 Living it up as all our fluids evaporate 🎵

Women want me. Fish fear me. Negotiations with the merfolk have been fraught.

I suppose in a way I'm quite lucky not to have had anything new published in my name since the advent of generative AI. Readers can rest assured that my books are definitely safe from its influence.

Kid has debate club. I suggest the subject: Settling disagreements through debate is immoral.

Every time my OFFLINE game of Diablo 4 disconnects from being always online and ruins an evening's pleasant gaming, I should be legally entitled to punch a Blizzard Executive directly in the throat.

Cast Ncuti Gatwa as James Bond and watch every gammon on the British Isles implode.

I am slowly inching forward with my gilded age dinosaur murder mystery, the first piece of writing I've done in my own name for several years. And while it is very exciting... It does leaves me with the slight problem of who the hell is going to publish a gilded age dinosaur murder mystery.

Being a child is extremely difficult, particularly because you don't always have the conceptual framework and language to explain what you are experiencing. When my "picky eater" kids grew up enough they were able to perfectly articulate their reasonable issues with certain foods.

Important work being done.

Rudyard Kipling's Mark of the Beast managed to surprise me. The racism was... present, but there were more than a few subtle jabs at the reader's own assumptions of superiority over the "foreigner." Even the resolution of the plot hinged on the British being absolute savages in comparison.

Why do I want to read Horrobbit now? In a hole in the ground, there lived a creature. A creature that can choose to be unseen. A creature with a terrible hunger... This summer... YOU ARE SECOND BREAKFAST.

Slightly increase a band: The Comatose Kennedys.

Good day, kindly Womble! I've been reading Jodi Taylor's Chronicles of St Marys. Time travelling historians. I'm jumping out after 3 books, as it seems to have reached a good stopping point despite the vicious cliffhanger. The author's romance background shines through, with all its ups and downs

waking up and reading about the results of the locals and feeling very

Having done my civic duty and cast my votes in the Scottish Election, can I suggest that anyone who is on the fence get out and do the same. Looking to be tight margins in many places.

Absolutely no worry about any upcoming deadline.

Drop some STAR TREK

Don't ever talk to me or my lemur-stoned son ever again.

Sad Picnic

A very happy May the 4th to all who celebrate. While I may have lost faith in recent years, it is comforting to know that there are so may people out there who still believe in a force that surrounds us, penetrates us and binds the galaxy together.

influencers try to make being a writer look glamorous and chic but this is what being a writer is like

Warlocks accidentally forging pacts with angels because once you get deep enough into either side things get too body-horror abstract to make easy distinctions.

The new expansion has tempted me back to Diablo 4, though neither of the new classes look terribly exciting.

Onward to the deadline on the horizon.

I could use some help spreading the word. My new little book is about two sisters who hunt down killers and collect body parts while complicating their lives with volatile magics, bizarre visions, and a mysterious mouth in the wall. Think Junji Ito meets Little Women. ghoulish.rip/product/fami...

Hey, y'all, just reminding you of Mage Errant's bookstore launch with Simon and Schuster! If you want to help it succeed, there's nothing better than pre-ordering now, especially through Simon and Schuster! As a side note, it will now include both Into the Labyrinth and Jewel of the Endless Erg!

I don't know why I love the new author photo so much, but I really do.

I sometimes wonder how different my life would have been if I'd pursued art instead of writing. I'd spend the same 12 hours in front of the computer working every day, but if I was drawing instead of writing, I could have a podcast on. I'd be all caught up on podcasts!

Why vampires and werewolves don't get along: vampires like to raise legions of skeletons to fight their battles for them doggy like chew bones

Post your favorite “lord of the rings” characters. Wrong answers only.

"I think I know a little something about running black ops." - Shit I say while arguing with a tv show that can't hear me.