Feeding Sammie on the Park. He’s not backwards about coming forwards, I know that much. Eager lad our Sammie.

Just seen the dental hygienist to have my pegs scrubbed so if you’ve ever planned to French kiss me today’s your optimal window.

The cleanest sweater I have right now is a Christmas jumper and so I’m wearing a Christmas jumper on Valentines Day. Punk as fuck.

Got dat 70’s pub landlord rizz

Currently looking up the roads around the Millennium Dome on Google Street View for the short story I’m working on. Don’t ever tell me writing ain’t a wild and exciting life.

Speaking as a Brit it was nice to see the halftime Super Bowl, a side of America that I hadn’t seen in a while. Joyful and creative and, above all, kind.

The Telegraph can shove its opinion pieces up its arse. #Leicester4ever

One of my favourite moments in a museum was the label underneath a neolithic pot: 'c.4000-2500 BCE. Artist unknown.'

Pennyblade has just had its hundredth review on Goodreads. A… divisive novel, I love to read the reviews, especially the one stars. Thank you to anyone who left a review or rating. www.goodreads.com/book/show/58...

⚰️ Contract signed! Happy to announce that my dark fantasy/horror piece, "Gravefisher", will appear soon in Of Dread, Decay, and Doom, by @starsandsabers.bsky.social. Akela is addicted to the remnant of souls that corpses can offer. What happens when a king offers to reconnect her with her children?

Got given a fancy baguette at work the other day so I made a mushrooms in creamy mustard thing to dip it in. It’s my basic response to any sudden baguette situation.

Am I the only one who thinks ale is a weird choice of alcohol for the Romulans? They just strike me as a wine drinking sort of culture. Ale drinkers are either vikings or folk music fans on wooly jumpers.

Really looking forward to this anthology from @starsandsabers.bsky.social . Just look at the list of authors!

Sat in my favourite Japanese cafe having lunch and they’re playing the theme tune from The Godfather over the speakers. Which, I’ll admit, kinda throws me.

What is it about being in the top percentile of super rich and powerful that turns people into nonces? You see it in just about every era, not just now.

Andrew Tate would never grasp those last ten minutes of Casablanca. Not in a million years.

My 27 year old pal genuinely asked me ‘What’s that famous quote Eisenhower said about what would happen to Generation Z?’

We are still crowd-funding for OF DREAD, DECAY, AND DOOM, our first horror anthology, starting at $5 on up, with great perks the more you donate!

I think this horror anthology from @starsandsabers.bsky.social is going to be something real special, full of spooky-wonderful author's stories (Check out the list!). Just needs a little help to make it happen. YOU can make the world a little spookier... www.starsandsabers.com/books/of-dre...

So I did a load of washing up at mum’s. She said: ‘Do you want the radio on?’ When I said yes she pointed to one corner ‘That radio is for Classic FM’, pointed at the other corner ‘Radio 4’ then at a *third* radio on the microwave ‘Radio Leicester’. What a set up! Never has to turn a dial!

Every writer knows this feeling.

How well and to what extent is the US army trained for cold environment warfare? Compared to Northern European armies? In an environment they can't bomb too much because they want to take its resources etc? Over a protracted time? I don't think it's clear cut at all.

A year gone. See you in celluloid dreams, bud.

She’s behind me isn’t she?

I’m doing Dry January this year. Dry white wines and dry gins only. It’s a struggle but I think I can go the distance.

My record of losing every episode of the One Star Review Quiz on @writeopolis.bsky.social remains intact. I put this down to exercise, diet and sheer determination never to learn the rules. Thanks for having me on again, gang!

We’re going to the glorious city of @writeopolis.bsky.social for the One Star Review quiz! It all kicks off at 8:30pm Brit-time tonight! Follow the link for a top-tier hoot! discord.com/invite/AWaD9...

It's One Star Quiz day!! Join us tonight, 8:30pm UK time, live in the Discord with @lauramauro.bsky.social @stewarthotston.com @worrad.bsky.social and Kayleigh Dobbs for all the chaos! discord.gg/AWaD9x4E

Two programmes in a row on BBC 1 have pointed out that dragonflies are statistically the most effective predators in the world. Has anyone checked on the BBC boardroom? Is it just all these six-legged executives wearing torn and bloody suits?

For people that feel helpless, this period is so tough but there's ways to help for anyone. Go out there support Venezuelan ppl and artists living in it as they prepare for unpredictable times Here is a starter pack of artists with commissions or donations open as well: go.bsky.app/8daQmpX

Celebrating New Years Day by going to my Leicester’s leading high-fantasy-pimp-inspired pub.

If I’d have known my picture was being taken I’d have waved at the camera.

The art deco style control room of Kelenfold power station, Budapest should have inspired a sci-fi movie by now. Constructed in 1929, the vast glass ceiling ensures a soft and non-tiring lighting for a high-stress job.

Woohoo!

Sconehenge #FoodStuffsInGeographicalPlaces

My housemate just said that Lust For Life is ‘y’know, that song where Iggy Pop takes his top off’ and I’m just giggling at the idea it’s just one song where it’s his gimmick and then he puts his top back on and things go back to normal.

Someone keeps sticking googlie eyes on everything in our pub. It’s terrorism I tell you! Pure terrorism!

Apparently we’re in the midst of another X-odus. Welcome one and all. If you’re a fellow fantasist you might want to check out my starter packs: 🧵 1/5 Fantasy Authors Part 1: go.bsky.app/2juFpGj

Harry’s apartment in When Harry Met Sally is absolutely gorgeous. Never noticed before.

I feel like in the space of my lifetime brutalist architecture has gone from being a pleasure of a small minority and become a question where what you choose puts you in a defined camp and says something about you. The pro argument gets stronger as the crapper Brutalism goes and the great remains.

I finally uploaded my Mr Benn/Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion pic to Redbubble so here's some ideal Christmas gifts for the Gen X Fantasy Nerd in your life www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1769...

Helen Gaius Mohiam in Dune Part Two: “We Bene Gesserit do not hope. We plan.” Helen Gaius Mohiam in Dune Part One: “Goodbye young human, I hope you live.”

People aren’t ready for my Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein is an Emperor Of Mankind origin story theory…

Meanwhile on Twitter I may have found peak 2025…

PER MY LAST TABLET,

A guy came into the pub last night whose high paid job was in AI. He was exactly the hollow, soulless, right wing, passive aggressive, entitled prick you’ve already expected him to be when you started reading this.

Could I just have one day off, one good writing day, where my manager at my pub doesn’t post something weird and frustrating in the WhatsApp group? I sense this isn’t a niche quibble that only this writer has.