That feeling when the podcaster hasn't sold their ad spot and you don't need to scramble for the +30 🔘. Meme worthy @warmovietheatre.bsky.social ?

@deidrerobb.bsky.social Didn't know you were here or that textiles were on! How you doing?

On the profanity and comedy panelABC Big Day of Books on Saturday.

SBS interview for my book. Excited. Dressed for SBS Italian too.

Yes I'm doing book signings in these now. Particularly if your bookstore has saloon doors and a spittoon.

Don't know much about tiktok but apparently booktok is huge. Absolutely gorgeous review of my book. Might have to join the kids. www.tiktok.com/@this_chubby...

Very exciting to be one of the authors chosen for the ABC Big Day of Books event on the 28th of June. Lots of great authors, books and presenters. If you are in Perth, come along to ABC studios. Big event. www.abc.net.au/perth/perth-...

For those who who would like to hear - and see me be funny on the topic of swearing, writing and Sicilians, I'm on the @libbyapp_anz book club next week. Lots of Libby fans of Montegiallo already apparently. By the way, NZ fans, quite a bit of the book was written in NZ in the tiny town of Fairlie.

Went with 80s Italian velour for my book launch, The Montegiallo School of Swearing, Italian shoes and I think glasses too. So lovely to see everyone there.

Those buying book at the launch on Thursday 24 April State Library (or who already have the book) can have a custom hand carved rubber stamp of Viviana as well as getting it signed.

Loving doing all the first author cliches including sighting book on shelves. This at the very pleasant Collins Booksellers Bunbury .

This vintage denim jacket has pockets big enough to take @chrischibnall.bsky.social 's entire first novel! Great to hear him chat on the latest @backlisted.bsky.social on The Unconsoled. A book which I found somewhat suffocating at the time. Not sure they have convinced me to pick it up again.

The only day in my life that will ever be debut author book release day! Maybe I'll sell enough to sign off, David Niven style, a postcard to @backlisted.bsky.social podcast - Andrew HC McDonald from Cap Ferrat. Photo by Michael Barker Fremantle Shipping News

Advanced copy reviews on Goodreads looking good.

Preparing to open advance copy reviews of my book on Goodreads. Will I need to vomit? Should I pre vomit? #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #ahcmcdonald #comedyfiction #australianwriter #australianwriters #swearing #sicily #oneeuro #fremantlepress #themontegialloschoolofswearing #italianswearing

A couple's perfect digital life begins to diverge from their reality - at first unnoticeably. Interesting book. Latronico says was inspired by Things: A Story of the Sixties by George's Perec, but it reminded me a little of the desperate trivialities of Then we came to the end by Joshua Ferris

Didn't know this author. Some very good and very hardboiled L.A. noir.

Fremantle Press who are publishing my book The Montegiallo School of Swearing in April are encouraging this year's writers to do video. Made a little rubber stamp animation.

After reading the vicious and unbelievably outrageous Lightning Rods as recommended by @backlisted.bsky.social I ordered Helen Dewitt's The English Understand Wool which was delightful. But being a fast reader with a short book it cost me about $40 an hour! Great book.

One of the most fun things about writing the book was having to have my Italian swearing reviewed by a professor at Melbourne University! Dotoressa Bresin. fremantlepress.com.au/books/the-mo...

Ahh Felix.

Lovely people at Fremantle Press presented the advanced copy of my book in hand made book bags using Sicilian and Melbourne tea towels! I almost cried.

Macdonald is such a fantastic writer. Still holds up. Brilliant sentences on every page.

In non writing news, a man practicing golf swing outside his apartment, near midnight in Tokyo.

I'm officially coming soon. fremantlepress.com.au/books/the-mo...

Drinking a (checks receipt) Yuzu Breeze as the gulls feed on Tim Madden's heart. Such a terrible cover for such a classic. The glass stain helps @causticcovercritic.bsky.social

The mean streets of New York to the quokka infested gutters of Rottnest Island. An absurd Pan foiled cover from the 1980s. @causticcovercritic.bsky.social

Thought you might like cover @causticcovercritic.bsky.social

Rather embarrassingly on the day the Gina portrait thing blew up I received a totally unexpected- and not insubstantial - cheque from her! Thought I’d better make up a quick portrait to make amends.

James Clavell is back apparently. If it wasn’t for the dense type the paperback would be a metre deep.

Channel 10 captioning from a different show certainly adds something to Diagnosis Murder.

And repeat.

My magnificent gold embossed business card.

I am the knowledge economy to be honest.

Would have thought a movie featuring a bloke dying from explosive diarrhoea sieved through the weave of his still belted strides would have been the quintessential @tonymartin.bsky.social film. Remember La Grande Bouffe very well.

My author publicity pic. By Jolyon James.

Book editing has started. So exciting to see the red pen - which was wielded way less than I expected. #novel #comedy #australianwriter

The Day of The Panther, a film I worked on (lighting assistant) in 1988 is now on Brolly! I know @tonymartin.bsky.social is a big fan of Michael Carlin’s sizzling performance of boat salesman Damien Zukor.

Since @causticcovercritic.bsky.social is talking ex libris-es. Here is my rubber stamp version on a Ross MacDonald.

EU Manspreading angle on public transport tightens, while in post Brexit UK, 130° thighs still considered acceptable. The EU now mandates that a 28° leg angle is sufficient for scrotum comfort on a train.

From vault. “Sting faked record orgasm." A 12 hour long single tantric orgasm claimed by Sting as a record, lasted "barely 7 hours" according to a former assistant.

Many samurai quotes were harmed in this so bad it’s funny book about seeing the sun rise from your un-self aware ring hole.

My first reaction to the news my book was accepted for publishing was to establish louche writer’s hair.