Also, I have woken up with a 'not knowing what to be at' head on. Need to find something to be at.

I'm at Leeds Waterstones tonight with @thomasdlee.bsky.social @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social and Ruth Frances Long where we shall be bestowing our wisdom upon the masses. I think you might still be able to get a ticket.

My deepest thanks to @crimereads.bsky.social for hosting the cover reveal of "Mother of Night". To everyone at @zandoprojects.bsky.social and my wonderful agent @helenlane.bsky.social An exclusive excerpt from the novel is now available on the CrimeReads site: crimereads.com/category/dai... 🏳️‍🌈⚔️📚💙

The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a Flock of Seagulls video. -New Romancer. William Gibson.

I was gutted events stop me being at this. It should be a great night.

DEPICTING (Adj): What art thieves do to museums.

I am having great fun writing this new thing but it is BLEEEEAAAAAK.

The old door is opening.

Travelling down to London for today's event at Waterstones Putney with the very tall and very lovely @davewragg.com ! I forgot to bring a pen and I just got dripped on by the train air conditioner (thanks Avanti) but that will not deter me from celebrating my book with my friends.

Apropos of nothing, first line of the current SECRET PROJECT. "I like to think I’m a good man, but sometimes I have to do bad things." In case you can't guess, it's not quite as jolly as MORTEDANT'S PERIL.

Here we are back at work in the heat. Sweating out my life to put shoes on the table.

Lovely review of The Next Enemy Shall Be The Last.

If anyone needs me this month, I will mostly be making campaign materials for Count Binface.

This could be the greatest moment in British Politics.

I am so unbearably tired and the cat is being REALLY NICE to me and I am wondering if I'm already dreaming.

After THE ODYSSEY, I'm pitching a version of ARGONAUTICA in which a lad from Bolsover discovers he's the king of Thessaly, but to claim his crown must go on a quest to recover the Golden Fleece. He puts together a team of MMA fighters and sets forth. It's called JASON STATHAM AND THE AGGRONAUTS.

Solidarity!

Now is the time for Labour, Lib Dems, Tories, and Greens to all get behind Count Binface. Do it.

Launching today! I read an earlier version of this and it was a lot of fun!

up to $21,660! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

The FIRST UK public event since the release of ALL HAIL CHAOS is this week! On Thursday I go to @waterstones.bsky.social Leeds (fab bookshop!) & talk building castles from chaos w/ @rjbarker.bsky.social @rflong.bsky.social & @thomasdlee.bsky.social. Tix: www.waterstones.com/events/fanta... #booksky

GIANT OILED SPACE EUNUCHS HAVING A NICE DAY AT THE BEACH. SUNSCREEN PROTECTS!

I have no idea,what this video is about because I'm not letting anything spoil how my brain pre-filled it as NEW WARHAMMER CINEMATIC!!! EMPIRE OF MANKINIS

Maybe this hasn’t sunk in for anyone who should care but the NHS was birthed when the UK *literally had negative money*. The USA had razed us of every penny to pay for weapons to defend ourselves against Germany, Germany had bombed all our industrial sites. We still did it in 6 months. 6.

Jim Henson.

Wow six months of the year have passed? Think you need some reading for the holidays? Think a kind and gentle Booktempting Womble has some suggestions - correct! I have a a few suggestions for you! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/7/...

Saw this ad for a goat on Facebook. It’s perhaps the greatest advert I’ve ever read. It’s just superb.

Oh lawd he comin'.

If you are the event and I am not at the event then apologies. Sometimes I am rather hopeless.

My calender has just reminded me of "event" at 22.00 hours and I have no idea what this means. It better not be a surprise party as I have gone to bed feeling ill.

I think someone came over here and got a right blockollaking and now they're salty about it.

Some seldom use narrative principles. Boreshadowing Snubtext Allengory Checkov's Gran Worst Person Perspective Oh No Matopoeia Bird Person Perspective Poirotdox Metaflaws Dancethropomorphism Second Failson perspective.

Cant get past Inspector Lion, where every week a strange murder in Spley-Under-Horton is solved by the simple expedient of letting a lion loose in the village.

Christopher Nolan, an important film director. "I, Christopher Nolan, will take Greek myths and make them serious and important." Me, a nobody. "Will you do that by turning the brightness right down, Chris, is that how?" Nolan *on the verge of panic* "No more questions. Important films to make."

GET EM BOB

Just finished The Tide Child trilogy by @rjbarker.bsky.social (book 1: app.thestorygraph.com/books/a87dfe...) I think this might be the best thing I've ever read. RJs style deeply resonates with me, his focus on the characters, how so much affects them, and how they cope engaged and moved me. ❤️

(To the tune of Yesterday.) Newts today Yes I have seen some newts today They were small and then they swam away I said goodbye To newts today.

Batrachologists of bluesky. Is this gent a frog or a toad?

It's out today! THE IRON ROAD paperback is now yours to own and misuse as you please. This brings the Tales of the Plains trilogy to a close, and may well be my best work. You decide! harpercollins.co.uk/products/the...

What's that you say? It's publication day for #TheViolentHour *and* you get a newsletter? Surely I am spoiling you all! mailchi.mp/f2e0f3733751...

Hoping to see some beavers today. There's chewed down trees and everything near where we are.

This might be the most on-brand thing I ever produce - WW2 commandos vs Nazi occultists & an ancient dragon. Out now in the few remaining places that can handle this level of excitement. Buy it now, before the dragon awakes & burns down your local TG Jones. andrewknighton.com/out-now-comm...

The world is such a stressful and frightening place, I'm not sure how we even live in it any more. But I spent the morning keeping the bees, observing their quiet (and sometimes not so quiet) industry, harvesting beautiful white honeycombs, re-housing them to give them room to keep working...

Found this scarecrow. It's a bit cartel execution

Good sky from yesterday.

Attention, Leedsians... Leedites... Leedonians... people from Leeds and surrounding areas! Grab your tickets and join in the chaos! tinyurl.com/ChaosLeeds

48 - Mortedant's Peril by RJ Barker This was fun. Irody is a complete arse and does not in any way deserve the companions he has thrust upon him whilst trying to avoid being executed for murder. But it's very entertaining watching him trying to deal with it all!

I was just browsing reviews for a book I was considering on GR, and I read this: "When I die, I want [author] to lower me into the grave, so [they] can let me down one last time" and honestly, I would take the one star just to get that review, oh my *god*.

Bit worried about big, unfamiliar words myself so I'm reading this banger.