Back to reading through Mortedants SOMETHING, the second Irody Hasp book today.

Tonight! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @cameronjohnston.bsky.social !! discord.gg/gGXUqYxNm

The fridge dough has been tamed.

For this week's Waiting on Wednesday, I highlight a particularly awesome upcoming fantasy novel with Mortedant’s Peril @rjbarker.bsky.social. An intriguing read that will a dark magic city setting with conspiracy and murder, this is going to be an epic book. unseenlibrary.com/2025/10/31/w...

The Boy has made pizza dough that needs a 24 hour prove and I'm genuinely frightened it might eat the fridge tonight.

If you want to share the cover with others then that would be BRILLIANT. Also, it's released just after my birthday so you can pre order it for yourself AND it'll mean you don't have to get me a present.

I am so excited about this book. It's just a wild fun ride all the way through and I think, hope, people will love Irody. No one even dies!* *Some people may die.

Lastly the blurb from TOR.UK.

Aaaaand here's the UK version. Gone for less Tim Burton more a classic 1930s feel which I also love and fits the book really well as it's a whodunnit. I love them both.

AT LAST I CAN SHOW YOU! Here is the US cover for MORTEDANT'S PERIL! And ain't it a cracker?

Kerp an eye out today as AUTHOR STUFF may be happening.

Attending tickets for Iridescence 2026 ( Eastercon ) currently start at £50/£80 for adults, £20 for teens. This price will rise at the start of December 2025, so check out the link in the profile today and book! When? 3rd-6th April, 2026 Where? Hilton Metropole Hotel, Birmingham, UK.

I should DEFINITELY have got todays Wordle far more quickly than I did.

Listening to Lucibel (Good Spirits of Europe) by Babylon Whores. Absolutely my favourite song about the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathar heresy in the 1300s. youtu.be/yDryRFVws_0?...

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

I can tell most of today will be spent LOATHING adobe acrobat. Is there a free version that unlike AA actually works and will let you annotate PDFs?

Final queries and writing acknowledgements for MORTEDANT'S PERIL today. Then back to reading through the second Mortedant book.

Does anyone want to pay for me to go to Montana?

I saw quite a few people say that S2 of Poker Face wasn't as good as S1 and let me tell you all of those people are very wrong. Exceptional.

"Dazzlingly fresh and original: relentlessly paced, lavishly crafted and always human" @gautambhatia88.bsky.social "A gem, breathtaking in scope and concept, pushing the boundaries" @aptshadow.bsky.social "As wildly inventive as it is intriguing...a galaxy spanning story" @rjbarker.bsky.social

Looking forward to this. I think if you are guest of honour everyone has to bow when you enter the room. Bit formal but I don't make the rules.

I can see there's going to be some block capital tweeting tonight. Nice one, NY.

So quite a few people have bought Project Hanuman! And I love you for it. If you have the time and could drop a review somewhere that would be extra awesome :-)

Dear @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social, my 15 yr old son wants to know why you no longer say "horn-ed viper" in Only Connect. (He thinks you should btw. He is also beating us at it, the creature.)

THE HUMANITY

Hey, UK FRIENDS, looks like GODS OF THE WYRDWOOD, is only 99p on Kindle and probably KOBO too so if DEEPLY WEIRD slowburn forest adventures are your thing jump on that. www.amazon.co.uk/Gods-Wyrdwoo...

I was thrilled to be part of this and now, thanks to Dan, I'm a partial World Fantasy Award winner. Sort of.

Me, a medieval architect watching a stonemason load a milkmaid into a trebuchet. "That's not what I meant by a flying buttress."

Fireplace looking a little lonely tonight.

"The class pet is called Joseph Gerbils?" Poker Face being brilliant there.

Well now. It appears I won a World Fantasy Award. I knew I should have put a shirt on.

Winner of the Dracula Society’s Children of the Night Award. British Fantasy Awards-nominated. Have you visited WITHERED HILL yet? www.canelo.co/books/wither...

Pointless Tesla robot: “my program will not allow me to act against an officer of this company” Tesla board member: Elon you’re fired Robot: Thank you (it falls over and catches on fire)

With SNAP benefits going to shit because of rich assholes and corruption running rampant through politics I'd like to point your attention to a Clinton. No, not one of those Clintons. This Clinton. Clifford Clinton.

I can't make Fantasycon/WFC in Brighton this year so if you could all just not talk about it that would be great, thanks.

There better be a copy editor readying up a 'GAME OF CLONES' headline for this or what even are we anymore?

Stair Own brightens up every morning.

I'm not saying a writer's retreat is a bad thing. I'm just saying that it should be a tactical decision designed to lure your enemy into a trap so you can turn a difficult situation into a successful writer's attack.

Hey @rjbarker.bsky.social did you know you were on this list: youtu.be/dWDV_d--V1w?...?

Well, Kid Kapichi at the Key Club were brilliant. Boy was amazed by them.

ANYWAY, into this mix came Computerised CBT, the answer to all our woes. This basically consisted of a CD-ROM that cost £9k a year to licence PER COPY. The software itself was predictably awful, asking you in its robovoice how many times you thought about taking your own life in the last week.

Drawing smiles on their faces will help people with depression, says GP surgery manager.

People who aren’t writers think writer’s block is at least as big and real a problem as I thought quicksand would be, as a child.

Spent most of this weekend helping MrsRJ with her new project. A table. It will look incredible when it's done. Here is a sneaky corner.

Been followed by a load of new people today. So hello new people wherevee you have appeared from.

Taking the boy to see Kid Kapichi tomorrow. He is VERY excited. youtu.be/omMN8o2UDlU?... (So am I actually.)

Current family discussion, when does urchinhood end. I reckon anything after thirteen.

Is it even Sunday morning without nine minutes of mind expanding psychedelic goth-prog? youtu.be/dWpaq4onye8?...

If you're @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social my new novel, Project Hanuman, is launching there two weeks early. @aptshadow.bsky.social called it 'A gem, breathtaking in scope and concept, pushing the boundaries of the genre.' #scifi #projecthanuman @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

Today on the pod we are talking with leading literary agent, Ed Wilson, all about querying, the submission process and the state of the publishing industry in general. Plus, he tells us about grateful clients naming things after him... Watch now: youtu.be/y4_lNw9rznc Or listen: linktr.ee/ukpageone