While you lot are all eating cheese in your pjs, I’m Solving Murders* *in my pjs. With a plate of cheese. Books by G T Karber, @jdwhitelaw13.bsky.social, @antonyjohnston.bsky.social, G B Rubin #booksky 💙📚

Hohoho! I drew this year's holiday card for my art rep, Felix Comic Art. I wanted the recipients to get something that looked like a piece of vintage original art, but also couldn't help poking some fun at Felix's love for Dark Knight Returns.

That's my holiday reading sorted, then. Merry Christmas, all 😄📚

The Positive Climate News You May Have Missed This Year by @davidfickling.bsky.social Some Grids Have Almost Decarbonized: "in some parts of world, decarbonizing electricity is approaching its endgame. Roughly three-quarters of power generation in UK & Europe this year came from non-fossil sources"

A reminder as we go into the (potentially stressful) holidays: two of my more relaxing ambient music albums, Shelter/Place and Witchsilver, are pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp. Put on some headphones, listen, and chill. silencaeon.bandcamp.com

They should invent tiny speakers that can fit inside a person’s ear so that person can watch videos without other people having to hear everything.

A reminder as we go into the (potentially stressful) holidays: two of my more relaxing ambient music albums, Shelter/Place and Witchsilver, are pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp. Put on some headphones, listen, and chill. silencaeon.bandcamp.com

This is true of fiction, too. No matter how similar the concept/setup of your story might sound to someone else's, the mere fact that it's you writing it will make it different, and the fact is most readers won't even make the connection/comparison. Don't worry about it.

They don't want to be creators, they want to have what they perceive as the cultural status that creators have, without doing the work for it. A lot of them also think we make a lot more money than we do, which they want as well.

In the 1st hour of the #TREBookshow, with Hannah Murray from 20.00CET, bestseller lists from @AmazonUK + #TheSundayTimes, Guy Lloyd, International Sales Manager at Penguin Random House, @antonyjohnston.bsky.social, and David Everard #TuneIn on https://tre.radio or TRE Radio App

Foggy day out in York

The British Medical Association appears to be fed up with Streeting and his TERFy nonsense: www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-s...

I once heard a cutting assessment of someone’s intellect in Argentinian Spanish that went jugas al tetris y giras el cuadradito. It means “you spin the square tile on Tetris.”

In the 1st hour of the #TREBookshow, with Hannah Murray from 19.00CET, bestseller lists from @AmazonUK + #TheSundayTimes, Guy Lloyd, International Sales Manager at Penguin Random House, @antonyjohnston.bsky.social, and David Everard #TuneIn on https://tre.radio or TRE Radio App

This has become something of a tradition, now: two of my favourite goofy Xmas photos of our lurchers Connor and Rosie, whom we sadly lost in 2018-19. If you were wondering about the inspiration for the plastic dog antlers in The Dog Sitter Detective's Christmas Tail, well… 😅😍🎄

NEW 🤘THRASH IT OUT🤘 EPISODE! You got me and Brian in a chokehold, listening to Sleep Token's hit 2023 album TAKE ME BACK TO EDEN: thrashitoutpodcast.com/episodes/7-13

Overheard in the supermarket. Two teenagers. 1: 'Where's Dad?' 2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'

Tree’s up, chat, with our totally normal decorations

You know, YouTube, the one thing I really don't need you to do is tell me I'm a nerd 🧐

I can truly say I never in my life expected to see my name, and especially one of my books, in Good Housekeeping 😲 @sarahsuch.bsky.social @transworldbooks.bsky.social www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle...

CAN YOU SOLVE THE MURDER… AGAIN?? The news is out, announced in today's Publisher's Lunch email:

Great news for audio listeners – the audiobook of The Dog Sitter Detective's Christmas Tail 🎄🐶🔍 is now available! Narrated once again by the amazing Nicolette McKenzie, a perfect listen for cold winter evenings: www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0G1N58YLK

Do you need something extra-cozy to read this holiday season? I've got a new book and box sales! #booksky #kindlesale #romancelandia All my Virtue #ShifterRomance box sets are $2.99 for 3 days only: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F3YWTMD... OWL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

#AmReading “The Dog Sitter Detective's Christmas Tail,” by Antony Johnston (@antonyjohnston.bsky.social) #BookSky Looks like my goal of reading the entire series (or, the series as it exists so far) by Christmas is going to happen! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

"I haven't had this much fun reading a book in a long time… when I started to see these factors interweaving, I put down the book and cackled" Great review of Can You Solve the Murder? from author and magician Gordon Meyer: gordonmeyer.com/blog/book-re...

I had a fabulous time @antonyjohnston.bsky.social #CanYouSolveTheMurder last night in Mold. Thanks to Mold library and to The Bookshop for hosting the evening, and for the mince pies. And, not that it matters, or anything, but our team did solve a murder last night, and I have a badge to prove it!

I'm relaunching Dominion of the Fallen in the US with @awfulagent.bsky.social Magnificent covers by @fringe-element.net Deliciously gothic atmosphere, queer characters from across the world, and high intrigue--in a Paris wrecked by magical cataclysms March 10th, 2026! awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...

HELIOSPHERE is the tenth full-length release from SILENCAEON, my musical solo project. Vast and sombre ambient electronica. Beauty in desolation. A tribute to the tireless explorers of our solar system… and beyond 🛰🫡 Pay-what-you-want for launch week: silencaeon.bandcamp.com/album/helios...

HELIOSPHERE is the tenth full-length release from SILENCAEON, my musical solo project. Vast and sombre ambient electronica. Beauty in desolation. A tribute to the tireless explorers of our solar system… and beyond 🛰🫡 Pay-what-you-want for launch week: silencaeon.bandcamp.com/album/helios...

Been saving a bunch of books set at Christmas until now, and just finished the latest Dog Sitter Detective novel, another cracker (sorry!) set in remote Somerset with retired spies and of course, dogs! There’s even a little Goth Easter Egg in there, read it to find it! @antonyjohnston.bsky.social

• MOLD, Dec 4 • WORCESTER, Dec 5 • REDDITCH, Dec 6 • NOTTINGHAM, Dec 11 👆 The last 4 dates of my Can You Solve the Murder? Live 🔍 tour for Christmas! Several of the earlier dates completely sold out, so book now and I’ll see you there…

Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.

• MOLD, Dec 4 • WORCESTER, Dec 5 • REDDITCH, Dec 6 • NOTTINGHAM, Dec 11 👆 The last 4 dates of my Can You Solve the Murder? Live 🔍 tour for Christmas! Several of the earlier dates completely sold out, so book now and I’ll see you there…

Tickets for the 2026 Spring Gathering on April 11 are selling fast!! With authors @tommeadauthor.bsky.social @antonyjohnston.bsky.social & Kelly Mullen, the @christietime.com, & special guests @radiomukhers.bsky.social & @valmcdermid.bsky.social Don't miss out: www.iacf-uk.org/festival-202...

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

It's interesting to compare the tone of this FT article about Warhammer to all the "let's all point and laugh at the sad anoraks" pieces about Star Trek conventions in the 80s and 90s.

A game where you can do anything and they’re mad that people are doing anything.

Some of these make me wonder if any metal bands ever asked Todd to do their logo 🤘😂

the instant i started doing this the Big Project i was working on became 100 times better for it. you're not gonna make a sequel if the first one sucks, so put all the good ideas in the first one!! because it could be *the only one*, so make it COUNT

✨50% OFF BLACK FRIDAY SALE ✨ My calculator PCalc and my TTRPG dice app Dice by PCalc, are 50% off until Monday! PCalc for iOS / watchOS / visionOS: pcalc.com/store/pcalc PCalc for macOS: pcalc.com/store/pcalcmac Dice for iOS / watchOS pcalc.com/store/dice Dice for macOS: pcalc.com/store/dicemac

there are hardly any writing tips I think are worth anything at all -- any path is good, I don't trust any maxims about which one works better or is more valid or results in deeper/harder/better work -- but this is a sound principle.

It was Downey who coined the phrase in the LEVERAGE writers room “future episodes do not win out over present episodes”. Trust me, you’ll have more ideas. You’ll die full of them.

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

I adore the #DogSitterDetective books, by @antonyjohnston.bsky.social Can't wait to get stuck into this one.

It is my sad duty to inform you that, as of today, it is now 20 years since the last Fields of the Nephilim album 🤘😭

Manchester Airport terminal 2 still something of a work in progress…

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: * Paradise Lost * The Sisters of Mercy * Iron Maiden * Alien Sex Fiend * A-Ha 🤘😉

New short story THE LOST FILM in collaboration with artist Thit Bitsch out today in @airlightmagazine.bsky.social airlightmagazine.org/airlight/fal...

Just something new I’ve been working on, coming to your solar system in December 🛰