Took my daughter to a “Jack and the Beanstalk” pantomime yesterday. Jack was about to sell his cow to a couple of thieves for a bag of beans. “Should I trust these men?” Jack asked the audience. “Noooo!” a young voice piped up from the back of the auditorium. “They’re going to screw you!”

I wrote and directed this movie! It’s coming out in cinemas across South Africa tomorrow. If you know any kids who like dinosaurs, aliens or cute jungle animals, this might be up their street. (The first movie is available on Showmax in ZA, and on Netflix everywhere else in the world)

For all my friends out there with anxiety, a hysterically funny primer: youtu.be/h5SavjMFRLg?...

Great article from my cousin @mellow-belly.bsky.social about OCD, whiteness and Kinshasa

Keeping myself amused at the Franschhoek Literary Festival with homemade bingo cards with all the authors names

Went to to the movies yesterday and found a poster for a movie I directed! Coming 27 June.

Sorry, update, we're officially over 20k on the auction alone because buyers have been adding donations to their final payments! 😭😭😭♥️♥️♥️ + £1000 raised @easterconuk Belfast

In the meantime, she's ALSo got the new auction Genre Creators for Trans Rights Part 2 up at the same link, now live and running til 7 June. www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans. This time our charities are Gender Intelligence in the UK and Gender DynamiX in South Africa

Oh hey, today is your LAST chance to get your hands on any and all of the gorgeous things donated by brilliant people in our community in Part 1 of the Genre Creators For Trans Rights charity auction. This phase of the auction ends midnight BT, today, Friday 2 May www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans.

I’ll be back at Comic Con Cape Town on Sunday with a great panel of local authors. If you’re around, see you at the Pop Taku stage at 12pm!

Douglas Adams’ short story “Young Zaphod Plays It Safe”, mentions Aorist Rods, which are a cheap form of energy that burn the past as fuel. Some people object to this, and are accused of progress-blocking sentimentality. 1/2

Self-promotion continues unabated

Hey everyone! I’m back at the Franschhoek Literary Festival this year, on the panel MY WORLD, MY RULES – "In a genre where almost anything can happen, how do you decide what that will be?” Saturday, 17 May, 10 am www.webtickets.co.za/v2/EventCate... #flf2025

"The First Murder On Mars" includes a mention of fire opals. As a small part of my thanks for all her support, I bought Kerry a fire opal. Kerry and Megan-Jayne McFall designed a setting for it based on the parachute of the Perseverance Mars rover, which had a hidden message: DARE MIGHTY THINGS.

Here’s the trailer for the movie I wrote and directed! Coming to South Africa on the 25th of April! youtu.be/Tqi64U-g9ak?...

I got a new car and now I can run at 70mph! Running is now accessible! What do you mean I “shouldn’t be in this marathon” because my car is “killing a bunch of real runners” stop being a gatekeeper

IT'S HAPPENING! The movie I wrote and directed, Jungle Beat 2 The Past, is coming to South African cinemas on the 25th of April! It's the sequel to Jungle Beat: The Movie, which is currently on Netflix (or Showmax in South Africa). Huge love and respect to everyone involved!

“Play Things” is a monthly showcase of interesting new theatre, dance and comedy performances. I’m back on the line-up on Sunday the 6th of April, performing my latest interactive comedy “Audience: The Game Show” R125. 6pm, 6th April, at the Theatre Arts in Obs. Come on down!

Occasionally I open Threads instead of Bluesky and I only realise my mistake when I start foaming at the mouth in fury

Coffee with no milk or sugar is called Gothee. Follow me for more great content

As a sidenote, it's weird trying to do the "buy my book" dance in the middle of everything going on. It's like trying to sell ice cream during a neverending earthquake.

(To the interview camera) Listen, I’m not here to make enemies, I’m here to lose the game

Setting a 10 minute a day limit on all my social media so my brain stops being tapioca

I wondered where the phrase “curiosity killed the cat” came from so I researched it and it turns out it was invented by an evil shadowy cabal trying to maintain secrecy by discouraging inquisitiveness, and now they’ve sent their assassins after me - I wish I had been given some kind of pithy warning

Thank goodness I made the front page of the paper for my novel, not for my CRIMES*! *There are no crimes, don’t look into this

Sometimes I'll just make thumbnail graphics for YouTube videos that don't exist.

I sleep wearing ear plugs: it does wonders for my insomnia. But last night I took out one ear plug because I thought I heard something, then I half-fell back to sleep, and in my half-awake state I felt the ear plug between my fingers and thought it was a jelly bean and ate it so that’s how I’m doing

Always feels weird to promote the silly things I’m doing on the global-horror-sharing app.

1/2 There are still tickets available for tomorrow's "Play Things: Anything Goes" variety show at The Drama Factory in Somerset West, where I'll be running a choose-your-own-adventure horror comedy game called “50 Audience Members Lost In The Woods (Depending On The Size Of The Audience)".

Hey! My wonderfully talented cousin Jo Jackson has arrived on Bluesky! If you’re into yoga, ecofeminism and generally thoughtful takes on things, check out @mellow-belly.bsky.social

1/2 I’m back on the choose-your-own-adventure horror shows! On the 1st and 2nd of February I’ll be on stage as part of @sparkinthedarksa’s “Play Things: Anything Goes” experimental variety showcase.

A sneak peek of the ridiculous soap opera game that I'll be playing with the audience this evening. 6pm, Theatre Arts in Obs, Cape Town theatrearts.co.za/show/play_Th...

This Sunday I'll be with a bunch of funny and talented people making new comedy at PLAY THINGS. Come join me as I pull a ridiculous new soap opera out of thin air! 6pm | Sunday 5 Jan | R100 | Theatre Arts | Cnr Milton Rd & Wesley St, Obs, Cape Town

I’m ambivalent about my own lunacy - I’m out of two minds about it.

Oh don't mind me I'm just ugly-crying in between giggling at this beautiful, funny, poignant @laurenbeukes.com story. JUSTICE FOR TCHAKALAKTSA 😭😭😭🦎

Hey everyone, let’s play a game! Please give me your silliest names for fake crypto-currencies and I will start “trading” them on my “exchange” which is definitely not just a note pad next to my keyboard

Out in France on January 8, just in time to be too late for Christmas!

I won’t do this often, but my publishers will be disappointed if I don’t mention that THE FIRST MURDER ON MARS is a great holiday read that you can get pretty much everywhere www.samwilsonwriting.com/order-now.php

If your first instinct upon joining a new-to-you platform is to whine about the lack of engagement without, say, trying to engage beyond stamping your little feetsees, perhaps you could, instead - and I'm just spitballing here - go and slam your hand repeatedly in a car door.

Here’s a long-standing mystery: Has anyone ever heard of unknown authors selling short stories to famous authors to be published under the famous author’s name?

Cape Town Folk! Thursday! Exclusive Books Cavendish! I’ve made an interactive horror story. Come on down! Title may change based on attendance.

Happy “Sam’s new book is now available in the US” day to all who celebrate! www.amazon.com/First-Murder...

I’m delighted to announce that I’m on the Scalzi blog! whatever.scalzi.com/2024/10/21/t...

Bluesky reminds me of that time in the Wire when the drugs were only being sold in Hamsterdam so the rest of Baltimore turned nice

My daughter has set up a “Halloween Tree” with a sign in its branches that reads “Free Sweets”

This Halloween, I’m doing this! Please come, it’ll be fun and there will be spooooky treats. Don’t forget to RSVP!

Wonderful folk of Cape Town! I have a book launch tomorrow at the Book Lounge. Free wine and canapés. Come on down!

It seems wrong that Henry VIII could never have eaten a big greasy turkey leg, follow me for more great content

I made a game! It’s part of a digital venue accompanying the dance theatre piece “Faith” by Club Guy and Roni , HIIIT and Cie 2k_far. You can play it for free: faith.show/Faithgame. Faster connections recommended.