best end to a Sunday: just sold a story

yes I made my awards graphic by doing a PowerPoint slide and then screenshotting it when I couldn’t export it right. yes it took me twenty minutes. what of it

2025 Awards Eligibility I had five stories come out this year - if you are reading for awards I’d be really grateful if you gave them your consideration, or maybe even told a friend. (My graphic is very bad but in my defence I don’t know what I’m doing) www.louisinglishall.com/blog/awards-...

just written a new story stupidly fast and look if it doesn’t make anyone cry then what was the point

I tried to post about writing again and it autocorrected to ‘erring again’ and tbh I can’t argue much with that

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

classic evening refreshing The Submission Grinder and watching responses crawl their way towards matching my submission dates

writing a eulogy and I’ve managed to sneak in the phrase ‘the contemporary Irish legume scene’ which is bringing me a real sly joy

Happy Halloween! If you are looking for something small and spooky to enjoy today, maybe consider my short story MALO MALO MALO MALO, which contains five seasonal essentials: - creepy trees - Latin inscriptions - strange babes - supernatural vengeance - a man called Michael Carrington

absolutely hating myself for recognizing the make of a dressing gown worn by a side character in a single scene of the new Only Murders in the Building. nothing if not devastatingly on brand

just finished the novelette Four People I Need You to Kill Before the dance by @louisinglishall.bsky.social ! highly recommend! clarkesworldmagazine.com/hall_09_25/

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please can the rest of the world finish The Rose Field i want your many thinkpieces now

Bluesky #plants groupmind: am I being foolish trying to keep an umbrella plant in the living room of an Edinburgh flat? It’s dropping leaves allllll the time but I can’t really pump the heating for it from now till spring.

Peter Hall www.louisinglishall.com/blog/pslyhje...

Peter Hall www.louisinglishall.com/blog/pslyhje...

in a bit of a departure from my usual material - for the first and I expect last time ever - i’ve written something (an obituary) for The Guardian? www.theguardian.com/food/2025/oc...

I’ve just realised that yesterday I finished my THIRTIETH story. Which call for stats, I think? Accepted and published: 12 (11 original, 1 reprint) Accepted and forthcoming: 4 (3 original, 1 reprint) Current hold notices: 3 Legitimately dreadful and not for resubmission: 6

draft finished, i can be on holiday again, i am totally unhaunted by this

incredible scenes at the Hungarian Museum of Natural History. Four floors, of which two are almost completely empty - just blank corridors. One floor of dinosaurs and minerals and then the top floor is taxidermied specimens all walking into a gigantic Noah’s Ark. You have to admire their game

stupid evening cruise of the Danube interfering with my writing why have I done this

backer rewards WILL continue until morale improves

this story is zig zagging between horror, sci-fi and fantasy, which on one level is very confusing but on another level, i can submit it ANYWHERE

so I’ve gone on holiday to 1) have a holiday and 2) get some writing done. my Airbnb is the actual literal perfect spooky writing house. LOOK

look all architecture is valid but gothic is just

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

alright i know where it’s going and i really really like it

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I don’t know where it’s going. I don’t really know what any of it will mean. But at last, for the first time since the summer, I am writing again.

I ran a 10K today. funny old 3 months

how is it that whatever story I write. somehow it always comes back to teeth

yes you’ve all had productive days but now THE TIMES has picked up on the puma anecdote

I really, truly, believed I was making a sensible dinner for one.

now that. is an exciting hold notice.

yes you’ve all had productive days at work but have you managed to get Yahoo News to write about how one of your close relatives believed he was being stalked - in the south of England - by an escaped puma?

Signed the contract this morning so very pleased to say that I have a story forthcoming with Cosmic Horror Monthly! ‘House Cats’ is a ghost story about geology and divorce. It’s very much inspired by the landscapes I grew up in. It’s also got quiiiite a lot of discussion about chalk.

he’s reading Yeats and getting real emotional won’t somebody please break this tension

good news: i suddenly have a new idea for a sci fi story bad news: it is about a revolution again

alright I haven’t written a story in October (yet!) but I have written a biography slash obituary and I feel that should definitely count for something

In the September issue of @clarkesworld Four People I Need You to Kill Before the Dance Begins turned out to be extremely my jam. (That jam is shaped by falling in love with Evangelion and Majora's Mask at an impressionable age, so take it for what it's worth.) I'll be keeping an eye out for […]

It’s been an odd week. The practicalities of death, the brilliance of palliative care. My turn on the Great Universal Experience. I took a pretty picture, though. Which was nice.

People in the UK say: first day of autumn!! :) People in the US say:

If you are reading this, then I have committed website

alright I didn’t write a story in September but I wrote a website and I feel that should count for something

tempt them back to room with banana

horrible feeling i am at last going to make a website. it’s just not right

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…is this a good time to mention that i wrote ‘MALO MALO MALO MALO’ this year, which was in The Dark and some people quite liked? www.thedarkmagazine.com/malo-malo-ma...

this is exactly the sort of evening i should be writing in. and yet