Let's mess up a book title by changing or adding a word. I'll start: "Frankenstein's Wi-fi" #writing #booksky

Big news. Book deal! My debut novel, INFINITE NIGHT EYES, will be published by Black Spring Press (UK) and available via Simon & Schuster (USA, Canada). Coming to a bookstore near you in autumn 2026 💥 #infinitenighteyes #bookdeal #publishersmarketplace #literaryscifi

1 of 2. Can someone explain this to me? Friendly DM received from an author who wanted to chat. Asks about my work, suggests we swap book links to Amazon. He has a gazillion reviews on Amazon, I have one (!)... #writingcommunity #writesky

This is such an important piece. What's happening to film criticism - and so quickly - is deeply saddening.

Walking through Dublin City Centre at night is strangely uncomfortable for me considering I'm in the city centre every day for work. When you don't drink, alcohol culture comes across a ugly and intimidating. Tried helping a drunk guy who fell three times (at 7pm) but he just told me to F Off.

post one if the most haunting shots in movie history from a film before 2000

😡 Yet again, undervaluing critics and criticism. So stupid imho. Criticism is fun to read for anyone! Biz stories about Hollywood not so much!

When national newspapers exist solely to recycle the wildest claims of tech industry PR, what does the free press still represent?

I love Animal Farm, but it makes me cry as I relate to Boxer. I agree with this article's sentiment that it "is an eternal warning against political leaders who hijack potentially noble movements for their own selfish purposes." #booksky www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

This morning, I'm writing Lecture 10 for my series on the Inklings from The Great Courses. The topic? Charles Williams. Come on, Higgins: You should be able to write this one in your sleep, with one hand tied behind your back, backwards, & in high heels. #Inklings #CharlesWilliams #TheOddestInkling

Hey NZ! Especially Hamilton teachers, parents, kids, come along tomorrow morning to Books For Kids in Grey St! #booksky

Brings back fond memories of days of reading in the garden so many years ago 7/10 #RichmalCrompton #JustWilliam

COME, SEE THIS TALE OF WOE AND ETERNAL TORMENT THAT HAPPENS TO FEATURE SOME DAFT SIGNS

Thanks to everyone waiting for my new novel, for being interested and patient. I hope the wait is worth it. THE DEAD HOUR, the sequel to THE DEAD TALK, will be published in August 2025 by @jms-books.com. Stay tuned! #WritingCommunity #writerslift #lgbt #bookboost #bluesky #Booksky

Soar 3/3 See images or philipcliveminty.com/i-wroted-a-p... This bit begins: or better still colour me adorable, nerdy cool, (beyond the pale, reproductively speaking), and so on and so forth, whatever proves you right, #poetry #writing #poem #writingcommunity

‪ Soar 2/3 (see images or visit philipcliveminty.com/i-wroted-a-p...) #poetry #poem #writing #writingcommunity

Soar 1/3 I had a bash at a poem. (see images or visit philipcliveminty.com/i-wroted-a-p...) It begins: i am interested in plane wings which makes me boring, because interesting things are where you went on holiday with other people who went on holiday #poetry #poem #writing #writingcommunity

Review of Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Madly romantic, magnificently overdone, and more themes than a lisping dressmaker (I'm copyrighting that gag). Check it out: philipcliveminty.com/book-review-... #Literaturesky (is it literature??) #Booksky

My little book is out in the wild. May appeal to those who like a little #archaeology, #history & #folklore in their fantasy 🍄✨ UK: amzn.eu/d/acwFL0c USA: a.co/d/csn96Jk #booksky #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #fantasybooks #childrensbooks

Hotel Melikov, the sequel to Citizen Orlov, will be out 11/18. Join me on pub day at @mysteriousbookshop.com in NYC with Greg Wands or on 11/20 at Elaine's in Old Town Alexandria with Jeffrey James Higgins.

2 of 2. Dickens continues: "Behind dingy blind and curtain, in upper story and garret, skulking more or less under false names, false hair, false titles, false jewellery, and false histories, a colony of brigands lie in their first sleep." #BleakHouse #CharlesDickens

1 of 2: Chapter 26 from Bleak House. What a great way to start the chapter and set the scene. 'Sallow face' conjures the sulphurous atmosphere of industrial London. #BleakHouse #CharlesDickens

01/08/25

It's Friday. What are you reading? #💙📚 #Booksky #FridayReads

Dickens makes me laugh. In Bleak House, milquetoast Mr. Snagsby is under the formidable thumb of Mrs Snagsby. In the two words, 'unchallengeable reality', the author tells us so much about the poor man's life. #BleakHouse #CharlesDickens

Especially liked this: "I have come to the café to have A breakdown in a public place: It seems to be going really well." Bleak but fab.

This is why I read Dickens: "Jo lives—that is to say, Jo has not yet died—in a ruinous place known to the like of him by the name of Tom-all-Alone’s." Dickens isn't known for his economy of expression, yet here, in the first eleven words, he encapsulates the tragedy of Jo's existence. #BleakHouse

Jean Brodie Pt 2: "...The warning [of Jean Brodie] is that fascism comes clothed in noble aspect and purpose. It can be magnificent as Jean Brodie’s profile, as uplifting as her eulogies on art and beauty." See v long review here: bit.ly/44tpo7o My first ever hashtags: #Literaturesky #Booksky

Miss Brodie Part1. Want to read a very long review of this clever, dense, layered, short novel that’s replete with moral ambiguities? Of course you don't! But it's here anyway: bit.ly/44tpo7o

I’m a long-standing inhabitant of the planet, but completely new to social media. I love reading and reviewing books. On more upbeat days - despite sales-based evidence - I call myself a writer. I’d love to chew the fat about writing and talk to readers of 19th & 20th century fiction.