Well. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087...

Had the faintest sniff of an opportunity, so faint in fact that a bloodhound would struggle to pick up the scent, so of course I've thrown myself into research and prepping and outlining and making it bigger and more far-reaching than anyone would ever want and it's all going to end in tears.

The Executioner is back! My epic fantasy murder mystery novel The Executioner's Blade is coming back into print later this year thanks to @wtpress.bsky.social with two sequels to follow next year. Action, intrigue, monsters & murder, as an ageing executioner seeks justice for a woman she killed.

Good morning. I'll be chatting about 20 years of Indie publishing This Saturday 4th July at 6pm @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social It'll be fun. @bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social @yorkshirepost.co.uk www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/the-po...

I'm at Bradford Lit Fest on Sunday July 5, talking all things folk horror with Katie Evans and Andrew Michael Hurley. Join us! www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/the-ma...

Any comic artist folks who would be interested in jumping on a pitch with A Publisher? Sequential experience an absolute must, and previously published is preferred. If you enjoy drawing dinosaurs, historical fashions, and stylish action, it'll be up your alley. Happy to share details!

Could there *BE* an author or book more perfect to celebrate on Northern Horror Hub? @davidmbarnett.bsky.social's latest novel Scratch Moss is set in a northern mining town - and it's a folk horror triumph. In true folk horror style, this isolated and insular community holds dark secrets.

From the weekend... I interviewed @manmademoon.bsky.social about his bloody brilliant ROGUE TROOPER movie, straight from the pages of @2000ad.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/film...

Are any artist friends of mine interested in pitching / drawing my medieval heist story with me? lmk

Oh no, RIP Penelope Keith. Fags and gins all round tonight in honour of Margo Leadbetter.

I would just like to say that if I caught anyone wearing nonce goggles filming me, my family or my friends then they would be very shortly live-streaming their own colonoscopy.

From the weekend... I interviewed @manmademoon.bsky.social about his bloody brilliant ROGUE TROOPER movie, straight from the pages of @2000ad.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/film...

For today's @theobserveruk.bsky.social I interviewed Duncan Jones (@manmademoon.bsky.social) about bringing @2000ad.bsky.social ROGUE TROOPER to the big screen. observer.co.uk/culture/film...

Currently reading Scuttler's Cove by David Barnett. It did put the word "scuttlers" in my brain, however, which I then need to say it out loud at random intervals. Genius [email protected]

Thank you to the @histnovsoc.bsky.social for making SCRATCH MOSS an Editor's Choice review! Out now in the UK and Sept 1 in the US. historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/scra...

For today's @theobserveruk.bsky.social I interviewed Duncan Jones (@manmademoon.bsky.social) about bringing @2000ad.bsky.social ROGUE TROOPER to the big screen. observer.co.uk/culture/film...

'A folklore horror centred on a Lancashire village in the heart of coal country, from 1895 to 2025. Pulses with life.' Editor's Choice: Scratch Moss by David Barnett, reviewer Fiona Alison

Bookpost!

As the fields start to turn, isn’t it time to add a bit of gold to your life? We only have 5 copies left of the special Golden version of our Sunburst print. Don’t let it fade away. #printmaking #countryside #countrysidemagic #sun #folklore www.cutfromtheland.co.uk/product/sunb...

What the fuck is this Tonto song? #totp

Bit of journalism, bit of comics, bit of prose fiction... good all-round writing day.

Every now again I remember that me and @martinsimmonds.bsky.social scored a Bill fucking Sienkiewicz variant cover for PUNKS NOT DEAD and I think what the actual fuck.

AI people be like: "Why have sex and spend nine months gestating a baby when you can make this in a single day without anyone else's input and it's just as good if not better?"

I'M TOO HOT. Buy one of my folk horror books and cool us all down for Owd Hob's sake. (apologies for big head on publisher website) www.canelo.co/authors/davi...

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a whopping 55% off in the Steam Summer Sale! 💀⛏️🩸 It's a great time to check out our folk horror adventure set on the moors of Northern England. The answers lie in the soil...

“God damn it too late again! Every time the same God damn calling card. A hat, a scarf, two lumps of coal and another dead hooker in the snow. The one they call the 'snowman' is one sick sonofabitch...”

Aled Jones has just scored a three-book deal for a series of crime novels. Hope that gives all you querying writers out there some inspiration on this hot Friday!

People in 1976: You think this is hot? Sit down, sonny, and let me tell you about the Great September Heatwave of 1926...

From Rockabilly Rats to Blitz Kids. From Post Punk to Neon Rave. subCULTURE is a tribute to the cliques & coteries that razed the status quo. Let’s hit the funding halfway mark today: 160 Backers on board and less than 1K away from 10K! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sxb...

last night to support our unique Holmes prose novella campaign ends this Fri lunchtime and we are only £186 away from being funded so who wants to get us there? www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri... @marksable.bsky.social @marklondon.bsky.social @davidmbarnett.bsky.social @mikemarts.bsky.social

Can’t say any more but I’m watching ROGUE TROOPER and holy fucking shit. Goosebumps just from the opening credits.

The Kickstarter for Last One Out in Lychford, the final book in the series, is live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sim...

I did not perform a frankly superhuman effort to write a novel while in the depths of intensive cancer treatment so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable". Anyway, it's out October 1st. www.canelo.co/books/twiste...

If I was Burnham I'd immediately call a general election after becoming PM and even if he lost he'd still get the £115k a year Public Duty Costs Allowance for life all former PMs get, which would be a nice little earner.

Been avoiding wearing shorts (or anything that displays any flesh) because I've lost so much weight during cancer treatment, but had to cave in today.

THE PERIL OF THE BRUTAL DARK #5 from @christophcondon.bsky.social and myself is out NOW! Pick up the penultimate issue from your local comic shop

That time Vic and Bob invented looksmaxxing. youtu.be/BfA_Z7DpiWU?...

Chris Condon is quietly becoming one of my favourite contemporary comics writers. Just read the first two issues of Of The Earth and can't wait for the next episode.

Why, I ponder, does BabyBel cheese need a paper wrapper on top of its waxy wrapper?

Keep calm and Carry On, Britain.

Wonder if anyone's done an OnlyFans joke about the heatwave yet.

For LCS on NCBD, Hooky Street tune We’ve got some Darth Mauls, Eightballs, hauls of Asterix the Gauls X-Men, Corben’s Den, ten volumes of Barefoot Gen Spider-Man, Superman, Batman and if you dash Some Absolute Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and the Flash Flash, Flash, Flash, Flash, Flash, Flash, Flash

Worried about the AI data centres in this heatwave. They need a lot of constant hydration, you know. If you have one local to you, please check in on it.

Gonna be a hot one in the old Chemo Lounge today, boys.

I don't understand "Champagne Socialist" as an insult. Socialists love a bit of bubbly! We want everyone to have it!

Yeah, you think this is hot but you should have been there in 1976. I saw the postman spontaneously combust on our step at 7am. We made jam from ladybirds. Water evaporated as soon as you turned the tap on. Did we whinge about it? No. We just slathered ourselves in lard and played out for 16 hours.

The new Makerfield MP went to the Commons yesterday, or as Talking Heads might have it, "Burnham down the House".

Filed a piece to a commissioning editor yesterday with the subtext that it was probably the finest bit of journalism I, and possibly anyone ever, had written. Re-read it this morning and it's a bag of shite.

Burnham will become PM to The Verve's Lucky Man. He will usher in Cool Britannia II. The Union Jack will be reclaimed by ordinary folk and bucket hats will be given out on the NHS to protect against long, hot summers. Burnham's cabinet will drive to Brussels in three Minis to rejoin the EU.