Very exciting news. Can confirm James Cameron is not only a brilliant director and very nice man but he has very good taste in books!

Congrats to @joeabercrombie.com on his number one spot!

Don't forget to register your objection to Meta using your posts to train their AI. Too late for my and everyone else's books however...

This is really good. The piece on Saruman is a wildly dissembling bit of corporate PR but huge fun. The piece on Tyrion? Is just and true.

So happy for Joe! www.thebookseller.com/news/indepen...

Un-fucking-believable!

Good luck to all the students taking their English lit gcse exam this morning. You can go back to enjoying reading after this…

Happy UK release day to THE DEVILS! I interviewed @joeabercrombie.com about creating this raucous grimdark fantasy about a group of misfit monsters on a dangerous mission, how he designed its alternate-history world, wrote the distinctive voices of the Devils, his work on the sequel, and more:

🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...

As two of my children begin their GCSE and Alevel exams today, I note that @joeabercrombie.com book tour has been meticulously planned to coincide with it! #soloparenting #YouOweMe

Job going here at the loveliest place with the loveliest people. A residential library with a restaurant cafe and no tv in the gorgeous bedrooms. Perfect place to write! Or read. Please share:)

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

One thing to consider is what education would look like if it were free with no grades and no punitive frameworks that make learning about fear.

Im not too proud to admit that Pieces of Us seems to be struggling to make its mark at the moment Any shares would be appreciated. Its a book about grief, friendship, toxic love and redemption. I promise i will repay you with virtual hugs xx amzn.eu/d/fIrXRBH

“I want to say that I got it wrong and I condemn Israel for what it is doing to the Palestinian people in Gaza” 🔵 Conservative MP Mark Pritchard symbolically 'withdraws' his support for Israel over war in Gaza For more politics content: www.politics.co.uk/subscribe/ ✅

Oh wow! I love this story!

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

Great evening at @joeabercrombie.com Bath Literature festival to kick off The Devils UK and US tour

Joe's first event is this evening. Who's going? I'll be the one heckling at the back...

Is AI a good thing?

I’m honored to receive the Pulitzer Prize today. I dedicate this success to my family, friends, teachers, and students in Gaza. I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and justice. 🍓🍓🍓🍓

Conclave 2: Sister Act

Ugh. I don’t WANT to use Ai. It’s not a refusal, I just don’t need it.

THE DEVILS HAVE BEEN UNLEASHED!!!! 🔥 '@joeabercrombie.com is in a class of his own' Joe Hill 🔥 'An unholy delight' Pierce Brown 🔥 'Abercrombie at his best' Django Wexler 🔥 'It slammed the living shit out of me' Tamsyn Muir OUT NOW in hardback, ebook & audio: geni.us/the_devils

Omg I am sooooo bored of all the AI. It’s everywhere. I’m all for it being used to solve medical conditions etc but making up songs from any word I type? Turning a bland photo into something it isn’t? Helping me type a fucking email? Go away. Just go the fuck away.

Morning! What a view to wake up to!

If you're looking for a good reason to celebrate it's the 80th anniversary of the death of the vain, dumb, ignorant, arrogant mass murdering racist Adolf Hitler - who died knowing that everything he had built was crumbling to dust around him.

Just been to look around an amazing college in Bristol centre for middlest. Music production, performance and photography to name a few. Can someone build a Time Machine to take me back 30 odd years please? Right up my street!

Little to celebrate here. UK still insistent on sending children to school in 1950s office cosplay. Boys (and some girls) from 11 forced to wear ties – why? Kids from 5 often in clothes unsuitable for play – why? Enforced posh shoes that cost a small fortune – why?

I have lost connection with words at the mo. Can’t read. Can’t write. Can’t even think of witty things to post here let alone somewhere like Substack. My creative well is parched so I’m taking a break from it all.

Laurie Penny’s perspective…

From a teacher at yesterday's Exploding Words festival: I just wanted to message and say a massive thank you for the schools event today!...The children were so engaged and when we got back to school they actually asked if they could read their story ideas from your session out to their classmates!

Well I have completely failed in my boycott of Instagram. Currently the only place that actually works to advertise myself as an author.

I bloody adore this stretch of rail! En route home after a fantabulous day at The Exploding Words festival.

Such a good day of workshops with engaged kids. Books almost sold out too. Reminds me why I do this. Now if I could just get the publisher to see how invested these kids are in my books, they might give me another contract!

Today’s office for the Exploding Words festival providing creative writing workshops for 9 lucky primary schools…

Icy dip today ahead of tomorrow’s Exploding Words festival at the Eden Project. Getting an early night, it’s gonna be a fun packed day! #writerslife

Such a good cause to support.

Heading to Cornwall for the night and because my suitcase is full of books I can’t fit my usual pillow in. Argh. I haven’t slept without my pillow in ages. Cue: insomnia…

Yes it's annoying but who is going to police this?

If we can get this to 2k by the time the 2025 #Curae prize shortlist is announced on 1st May, that would be THE BEST. Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed. Please share and repost. Thank you 💙📚

Waking up before 6am has become my new norm. I used to think my grandpa was crazy for getting up at 5. Now I know why. #wideawakeclub

Calling ASD a “disease” is stigmatizing and without basis. Tracking people with ASD in a database is fascistic and terrifying.

Happy St George's Day. A reminder that half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population. Some of these aristocratic landowners have inherited land since the Norman Conquest. England needs land reform and a strong Community Right to Buy! whoownsengland.org

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

If you’re a creative and want to fight back against big tech mining your work for their AIs, please register below – and then share with your community. And, if we get enough people, we believe we’ll be able to sue – and hold them to account. goodlawproject.org/authorsai/?u...

Megathread of pro-trans petitions on Parliament’s petition website. If Labour suddenly gets hit with debates for a bunch of pro-trans petitions, maybe they’ll realise this issue isn’t going away and they’ve fucked up. I’ll add more as I find them. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Good morning to all those wide awake club members! #wideawake

This is literally the plot of Silo. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t end well…