With the hunt for the next #JamesBond on, #SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) looks at #WhatIf #OnHerMajestySecretService had been made with #SeanConnery instead of #GeorgeLazenby. #FilmHistory #Bond007 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/on-her-...

Yesterday we showcased the first #AlternateHistory #book by John A. Hopkins ( @jahauthor.bsky.social ) starring secret agent David Brook. Today, it's the second, "Funny Money", in which he fights a #Nazi #counterfeiting ring in #Egypt. The third is on the way! www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...

My physio (I recently hurt my back!) Natasha is doing a charity walk in a few weeks. If anyone would like to sponsor her, I am sure it would be much appreciated. Thanks #charitywalk #moonwalk giving.give-star.com/microsite/wa...

Another chance to read Alex Richards' article series on the best way to make a #map for #AlternateHistory #WhatIf #fiction scenarios. #Mapmaking #Cartography #Graphics #Writing #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/so-you-...

Congratulations to #NASA and partners for an absolutely textbook crewed lunar mission - something we once feared we'd only see again in #AlternateHistory fiction.

As we celebrate the return of the #ArtemisII astronauts, today's SLP #SaturdayShowcase is of an optimistic take on the #future of #humanity in #space, Tom Anderson's "The Surly Bonds of Earth". www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...

As the #ArtemisII #Integrity spacecraft approaches the #Moon for its groundbreaking #flyby mission, Matthew Kresal remember a time fifty years ago when it was once planned that #Apollo might travel all the way to #Venus for a similar mission. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/apollo-...

Congratulations to #NASA for the textbook #ArtemisII launch! We post many #WhatIf articles here speculating about cancelled ambitious space projects, so it is wonderful to see one actually enter real #history.

Great summary of space travel (and not) since the last moon landings. #Moonshot

Just caught up with the @spybrary.bsky.social tribute to #LenDeighton. Terrific author. The Ipcress Files is a great, book, movie and TV series. Shows the quality of the source material. #writing #thriller

A topical #SaturdayShowcase of past SLP #AlternateHistory #books today - in "The Darling Buds Express", Ed Feery explores a world with a worse #OilShock leading to the UK re-adopting #coal and #steam #trains - as seen through the eyes of ordinary people. www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...

Len Deighton’s SS-GB is the most successful example of treating alternate history as a setting, not a genre: a master of the espionage genre weaves a tale through Nazi-occupied London that doesn’t rely on the setting to be interesting, but grabs and uses what’s unique about it. RIP to a great.

Tom Anderson looks at the origins of #political #flags and party #colours via their origins in #rosettes and #cockades. And how could they have been different in a #WhatIf scenario? www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/alterna...

Excellent summary of flying wings and their AH potential. I have a special interest as my upcoming 3rd #DavidBrook ah-novel features flying wings. First in series: www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...

In this #SaturdayShowcase of SLP #AlternateHistory #books, it's "Zonen" by @TomBlack.UK A tiny change to #history - a #Danish occupation zone of #Germany after #WW2 - results in the lives of individual families taking a tragic turn. #WhatIf #Denmark www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...

Happy Read an Ebook Week! Just a few days left to get a half price copy of my book, The Careless Fraudster, available now at @Smashwords. www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

New: SLP #AlternateHistory #author Alexander Rooksmoor discusses why he wrote "Streseland". In a sea of #WhatIf books about the #Nazis winning #WW2, he instead explores a #Germany where their rise to power was averted altogether. #AuthorInterview #Stresemann www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/why-i-w...

With the #Pahlavi dynasty in the news over #Iran, here's another chance to read David Hoggard's article on some other unusual #monarchy #restoration movements. #Ideology #Monarchism #Italy #Portugal #Spain #Carlism www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/other-i...

My book, The Careless Fraudster, will be promoted as part of a special sale on @Smashwords to celebrate Read an Ebook Week from March 1 - 7. Follow me for updates and links to the promotion for my books and more! #Smashwords #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity books2read.com/CarelessFrau...

The @sealionpress.co.uk vignette contests are always fun, and I often but not always enter something that might fit into my #DavidBrook #alternatehistory #ColdWar. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DR9HN96M

More #space themed #whatif moments from the #SpaceRace as we count down to #NASA 's #ArtemisII mission. Andy Cooke explores the possibility of #Korolev living longer and the impact on the #Soviet space programme. #ColdWar #Soyuz #Apollo www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/the-lau...

As the #NASA #ArtemisII mission to the #Moon approaches, we look at some of SLP's #space focused #fiction #books such as "The Surly Bonds of Earth" by Tom Anderson. www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...

As we count down to #NASA 's #ArtemisII mission to the #Moon , Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) looks at the ambitious 1970s plan for a crewed #Apollo flyby of #Venus. #SpaceHistory #Space www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/apollo-...

Amazing how bad #AI can be - I just did a quick search for Tammy Abraham to check where he was currently playing - Besitkas in Turkey. However, according to the #Co-Pilot summary - the first entry! - he plays for Aston Villa. Not since 2019! Absolutely astonishing!

In today's #SaturdayShowcase of past SLP #AlternateHistory #books, it's "Decisive Darkness", Paul Hynes' (who penned the new #WW2 article earlier this week) bleak take on #ImperialJapan fighting on after the #atomic #bomb fell on #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki. www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...

Paul Hynes looks at #French planning for #WW2 and how their battle strategy was ironically upended by the loss of #NaziGermany 's plans at #Mechelen forcing them to change their own strategy for a repeat of #WW1. #WhatIf #AlternateHistory #Gamelin #Maginot www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/dreams-...

To go with yesterday's look at the #AlternateHistory #ColdWar #thriller "Atomic Secrets" by John A. Hopkins ( @jahauthor.bsky.social ) here's another chance to read his "Why I Wrote..." article about the #writing process. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/why-i-w...

New: Tom Anderson discusses #worldbuilding in #ScienceFiction and #Fantasy, focusing on the principle of 'rule-making vs rule-breaking' made famous by the 'first law' of #BrandonSanderson. #Writing #Fiction #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/fiction...

Love a space #AlternateHistory

#SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) discusses why he wrote "Our Man on the Hill" - #WhatIf arch-red-baiter #JoeMcCarthy had secretly been a #Communist agent himself? www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/why-i-w...

Let's begin our #SaturdayShowcase for 2026 of past SLP #AlternateHistory #books with one of the few that started it all - Ed Thomas' "Fight and Be Right". #WhatIf #WinstonChurchill 's father had become #PrimeMinister? www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...

A reminder that most SLP #AlternateHistory #books are discounted until the #NewYear as part of the #Smashwords winter #sale! www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/25-off-...

Enjoying the 1st game of AFCON25, especially Efan Ekoku on comms - absolutely lovely to listen to. Looking forward to watching the remainder of the tournament. And WHAT A GOAL from Ayoub El Kaabi to get the tournament going. #AFCON

And the sales is now on! My David Brook series is here: www.smashwords.com/books/byseri... #AlternateHistory #writersky #fiction #book #WhatIf

In today's #SaturdayShowcase of past SLP #books, it's our guide "How to Write #AlternateHistory" edited by David Flin. Remember to check out the #Smashwords #sale in which many of our books are currently discounted! www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...

The #Smashwords #Christmas #sale is NOW ON! Please check out all the dozens of SLP #AlternateHistory #novels #discounted! #Books #BookOffer #WhatIf #Counterfactual #Writing #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/winter-...

And the sales is now on! My David Brook series is here: www.smashwords.com/books/byseri... #AlternateHistory #writersky #fiction #book #WhatIf

Excited my @sealionpress.co.uk books are part of this sale. www.smashwords.com/profile/view... Atomic Secrets & Funny Money are the first two books in the #AlternateHistory David Brook series. I'm hard at work editing book three, tentatively titled Lethal Wings. #writersky #fiction #book #WhatIf

Not to teach anyone to suck eggs but... If like me you have a M365 subscription renewal, check you haven't been auto-enrolled for Co-Pilot for an extra £25/yr (assuming you don't use it).

Interesting list. Thanks

#Writer #Author #Poet Absolutely, reviews are so vital in raising awareness & attracting more potential readers. Just a few positive words & hopefully a 5* rating can make a vast difference & mean so much! TY

An excellent last film of the #LondonFilmFestival last night - #Giant, the story of #PrinceNaseemHamed and #BrendanIngle. I also highly recommend #Tuner, the #SurpriseFilm - a interesting crime thriller with #DustinHoffman and #LeoWoodall. And finally, #APrivateLife, #JodieFoster. #movies #LFF

An interesting look at prequels and #JamesBond. Like Mr. Anderson, I rather like the three Horowitz Bond books. I love the original books and re-read them all the time, so it was good to have something more like #IanFleming than the other continuation writers.

What a fantastic day at the Women's Rugby World Cup Final on Saturday. Two fantastic games, and the #RedRoses emerged as #WorldChampions - congratulations #WRWC

Cracking start - looking forward to next week.

Today's #SaturdayShowcase of past SLP #AlternateHistory #books: the #USCivilWar is over and the South has won. But what happens to #BleedingKansas? Mark Ciccone tells the tale of of an ordinary cavalryman who just wants to go home. #Kansas #CivilWar www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...

Nice summary - I agree there was a drop in quality in the 2000s. I would add Craig Thomas to the list - his #Firefox (turned into a Clint Eastwood movie) is often mentioned as the 1st techno-thriller. The follow-up Firefox Down, and my favourite Winter Hawk are terrific.

In August I decided to set myself the (potentially stupid) target of hitting 1,000,001 at #darts. Self-imposed rules: - Play 501 legs - Maximum 30 darts per leg as there is no point taking 20 darts to hit double 1! I am clearly a poor darts player, so curious to see if I actually improve!

In today's #SaturdayShowcase of SLP #AlternateHistory #books, it's Jared Kavanagh's #SidewiseAward nominated "Walking Through Dreams", in which #indigenous #Australians have the crops to found #urbanised #civilisations before #firstcontact with #Europeans. www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...