it's always a disappointment when I catch a band performance live and they're intense, powerful, face-tearingly good. Then I listen to the album and it's...very tame. It's not just the death of live music, it's the death of the very idea of a band, what it means to perform, to feel that energy.

Just waiting for Starmer to make the Greens a proscribed organisation

Every person who works in IT who watched the latest episode of Slow Horses just through a brick at the television

Always caught slightly off guard when someone buys one of my books, like, “oh yeah, that’s a thing isn’t it”

Goddammit why couldn’t my Irish ancestry be a couple of generations closer to me so I could get a passport out of here.

Seeing Nine Inch Nails hawking for a bunch of Hollywood wankers, including Jared Fucking Leto, while promoting a dumb CGI pile of trash movie financed by fucking Disney, is the least impressive thing I think I've seen in a while. And the score is shit anyway. We've all seen techno clubhouse NIN.

New episode of Writing The Rapids is out now! I talk to Jenkin Benson about his new book, his academic pursuits, neologisms, and more!

Sometimes you write 10.5k words only to realise that that’s 10.5k words too many.

I love the way modern management dogma has shifted the definition of leadership from being "we managers are responsible" to "we're all responsible", meaning, it's your job now. All dressed up in the language of "co-operation" and "collaboration".

The newest Episode of Writing The Rapids is out now! I talked to @raviddice.bsky.social about his new book The Squimbop Condition ( @1111press.bsky.social ), and all that wild ride of a book entails. Take a listen.

So if Palestine Action are terrorists for spray painting an aircraft, what does that make the 150k flag shaggers who brought "wholly unacceptable violence" to central London today?

So Starmer out before or after Christmas?

@drflewis.bsky.social what could possibly go wrong?! 😑

Going back to a piece of music I recorded some years ago and realising as I try to relearn it that I have no idea how my guitar was tuned and it makes no sense at all.

Our Nomad Souls LUCID | May TRIAD | August PRIDE | December Literature. Queer | Romance | Magical Realism | Slice of Life 2026, via @rebellesolitaire.bsky.social

Concluding @goliathwriter.bsky.social 's Our Nomad Souls trilogy in December 2026, is PRIDE. Synopsis to follow

The notes I made while brainstorming new book ideas specifically say "No apocalypses". I think I was very clear on that matter. And yet...

The remastered version of Alice In Chains' Dirt is fucking awful.

Ah, Bowie, what could have been... www.loudersound.com/bands-artist...

My only complaint with the new house is that empty cardboard boxes appear to be breeding. If I was back home in Glasgow I'd just pile them up in the back close and set them on fire. The rats would have a BBQ. Here I have to do some weird bourgeois York thing called "recycling". Fetch my flamethrower

Kicking things off in May 2026. LUCID, by @goliathwriter.bsky.social Our Nomad Souls, Book One. Synopsis to follow.

Cover reveal. May 2026. LUCID Our Nomad Souls, Book One.

Filling out my submissions spreadsheet like a nerd for the first time since 2019

New episode of Writing The Rapids is out! @maeisafraid.bsky.social and I talk about her book, writing place and identity, revenge stories, my love for her character Dwayne, and more!

Had this week off work taken up mostly by work on the new house, so trying to make some progress on the WIP today. SunnO))) - The Grimm Robe Demos

If you want a sneak into our next release (October) then listen out for this Friday's episode from @talestoterrify.bsky.social as they work their audio magic on "An Hour Before We Met" which features in this upcoming @jvgachs.bsky.social collection 🐁🖤🐀

New episode of Writing The Rapids is out now! @emptywrites.bsky.social and I talk about In The Eyes of the Hungry, Steinbeck’s unpublished werewolf novel, and more!

So many England and Union flags out all over the place in York today, it’s a bit like being back in Glasgow. Makes it easier to spot your racist neighbours though I guess. Reminded of this Fugazi lyric: “We draw lines and stand behind them That's why flags are such ugly things”

Happy Book Birthday to the dude, @timlebbon.bsky.social THE SECRET LIVES OF THE DEAD is out today! Check it out: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1835... #TheSecretLivesOfTheDead #pubday #newrelease #TimLebbon #TitanBooks #horror #folkhorror #Thriller #booktok #mustRead #Bookstagram #AmReading

The DaVinci Code movie is pure schlock and I love it but seriously what is going on with Tom Hanks’ hair?!

6.5k words over the last few days into new book (working title of Bastard). Should hit first 10k milestone in a day or two. Coming together. This is not a nice book.

We've added another title to our web store, and it's a BANGER. So if you want to download directly from us rather than the ZON, have at it! 🐀☣️🐁 www.infestedpublishing.com #Booksky #horror #dystopian

Tonight's writing music is Swans - Filth.

I'm currently in the early stages of work on a new novel, which means I'm also figuring out the sonic tone for the music I listen to while writing, which helps inform the work. So far it's been Death Grips, Lana del Rabies, The Body, SunnO))), and Oren Ambarchi. Make of that what you will.

Off to see Weapons

channeling a bit of Guyotat's Eden, Eden, Eden for this one

It's a "Side One of Napalm Death's Scum, or Side Two" kind of day.

the letting agent of the flat we moved out of when we bought our house wanted to know why we hadn't "cleaned it properly". Well, because, fuck you.

Might have a new book project in the works…

New episode of Writing the Rapids is out now! I talk to @jpate.bsky.social about writing in different modes, how genre can be freeing, and the True Meaning of Goth.

So 31C today eh? That’ll be nice…

Watching some of the coverage of TRNSMT and feeling rather homesick. Even if it is Snow Patrol.

Ahead of a new story of mine on BBC radio four, you can listen (should you wish) to a couple of other pieces of mine. Together they'll make a loose folk horrorish trilogy. here's The Death of Wildflowers:

Post a book you love from the 1970s

Me in work this week.

I kind of messed up the listings of my books on Goodreads. Oh well. Amazon can go fuck itself anyway. If you're a Storygraph user then you can add my books there: The Gift Garden - shorturl.at/6XIho Desk Clerk - shorturl.at/NWl4k In the Vast and Boundless Deep - shorturl.at/QBuzf

When you’re packing and remember you have 4 old laptops, 3 defunct consoles, several ancient phones, and enough weird cables to cross the Irish Sea.

Take a break. Listen to writers talk to me about their work.

Sometimes I get so overwhelmed by my life that I just cannot function. That’s the space I’ve been in for 2 days now. Just can’t even.