"Choose wisely, for while the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you." NEW arrival. Inspired by Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade » tinyurl.com/scsv2857

US and Canada! Today is the last day you can get THE CHILDREN OF EVE in e-book format for a mere $2.99 on all platforms: www.simonandschuster.biz/books/The-Ch...

I’d heartily recommend this for anyone who loves crime. Not for the faint hearted and you’ll not look at jars the same way after. Better still, it’s the first in a long series so you’ll have more books to look forward to!

Also the Samuel Johnson novels by John Connolly (The Gates, The Infernals, The Creeps)

If I see AI being used in marketing or communication it immediately makes me feel that the organisation or individual cannot be trusted. They are using AI to cut corners or costs & therefore the product will be low quality or the writing untrustworthy. It’s instant distrust.

I think of it more this way. If they are cutting corners with AI slop in the presentation of their product how many corners are being cut with the product itself?

I find this completely believable. I’m on the top end of gen-Z but I find people in my age group and younger spot AI imagery instantly and it’s often taken as an indicator of corporate insincerity. Meanwhile a lot of older people I know can’t tell the difference and workplace management pushes it.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

I awoke to find snow on the ground this morning. I mean, the poke machines will be on again next week for goodness sake! The weather needs to sort itself out

Happy #WorldBookDay2026 everyone! My booking got cancelled this year so I'll be drawing & pulling silly faces on my own today!

Pulling together a newsletter with Irish event dates for A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD and more. If you're not already subscribing, you can sign up at www.johnconnollybooks.com.

i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist

I looked, and there before me was an orange horse! Its rider was named Death.

US readers can enter now to win an advance copy of A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD (on sale from @atriabooks.bsky.social on June 2!) from Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!

Treat yourself.

Art train! 🚂🚃🚃🚃 4 works 4 tags Next stops: @emilyhare.com @eejits.bsky.social @alexillustrator.bsky.social @paintkatt.bsky.social #artshare 🎨 (Some old stuff (& very old stuff) as I’ve nothing new to share. Hopefully I’ll be able to get back to drawing this year🤞)

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I love research. Love everything about hunting down information & formulating an argument. Absolutely hate the admin *surrounding* research though. It’s so stressful. Haven’t wanted to cry this badly since I was in my 20s. Taking inspiration from @jconnollybooks.bsky.social & David Lynch

UK readers! @waterstones.bsky.social is offering 25% off preorders of A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD, for a limited time — enter FEB26 at checkout for the discount: www.waterstones.com/book/a-river...

Yes Reform, people who can't have kids and have suffered from everything that entails have had it far too easy. Utter fucking scum.

EXT: Day. The grave of Noel Edmonds. A figure lies face down in the freshly dug soil, sobbing inconsolably. CAPTION: GREYFRIARS BLOBBY.

One of the biggest warning signs for me when it comes to new tech, it’s to see whether the people creating and selling it, use it themselves or would allow their own children to use it. AI is only good for pattern recognition. It’s not a human substitute

@daraobriain.bsky.social I desperately need @daraobriain.bsky.social to know that the Irish have a history of spinning people around to get them going again. Check out Dr Hallaran‘s Circulating Swing #Cork #StandUpInDerry

BLOODY HELL, BELFAST👻😱 What a night - Haunting #53 of the Uncanny: Fear of the Dark tour in the lovely Grand Opera House! Can you spot yourself in last night’s #HauntedSelfie? Our next tour date is Glasgow on Thursday at @kingsandroyal.bsky.social🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish #UncannyCommunity hope to see you there?

I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It's going to be "but helmets are good!" all day from people who don't cycle and won't read anything about it, isn't it? People who'll tell you the Dutch and the Danes etc got it all wrong and they should listen to the guy who is thinking about it today for the first time

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day to all who celebrate! I’m Jenn! I love to work. And we need some stupid fun art right now. Stupid and fun is my specialty.

Awww man, not John Virgo. Who’s going to cry ‘where’s the cue ball going?’ when the snooker’s on now?

Great work from our wonderful potters this week . Who knew sea side souvenir sets could be so wonderful. 😊 @potterythrow.bsky.social

Not a huge thing but it actually is to me. After living for decades in my home, I have never seen bullfinches in the garden and this morning I wake up to find two in my cherry tree. Two!!

Remember, if someone tells you that your dream of having a bookshelf with a rolling ladder is "unrealistic", they were never your friend to begin with.

Post the television character with whom you most identify…

Before sunrise on 25th January and the Moon over Ireland tonight 28th January.

I think poverty is the cause of 90% of problems. Living in poverty causes trauma.

Woo hoo! It’s #Shrinking season 3 day!!!

This is a complete waste of public money! It has already been established that AI is grossly inaccurate and has an astronomical cost to the environment. It’s not the job of the UK public to prop up the failed ‘revolutionary’ ideas of tech bros. This whole enterprise reeks of desperation.

i resent my tax money being used for this trash, to prop up tech bros.

3 days left to pick up my classic Back to the Future print from Cover-Versions.com! Orders close 31st January!

As has our no-less-beloved No Alibis Bookstore in Belfast, although they're not on BlueSky: noalibis.com/product/pre-...

UK readers! Our beloved @goldsborobooks.bsky.social has posted a preorder link for signed copies of A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD, on sale May 7: goldsborobooks.com/products/a-r...

Posters out in the wild for Cult Figures next gig Cult Figures / Bona Rays / Dominic Silvani - Live @ The Waiting Room on Saturday 31st January tinyurl.com/5emnzncc

Marking his first Dublin exhibition in seven years, Belfast-born artist Colin Davidson brings us Stranger, an innovative collection of three-dimensional works that redefine the possibilities of paint as a sculptural medium. Colin Davidson - Stranger O’hUiginn Gallery Ends THIS Sunday, 25 January.

It’s the perfect day to find a secluded cottage in the Scottish Highlands and go off the grid for a few years.

We happen to own this print and it’s absolutely gorgeous irl. Looks awesome framed and the colours are sublime. Go on, treat yo’ self!

Discovered a lovely little forest yesterday for a walk. Steep in places but it has a waterfall & lots of wildlife. No facilities but there is a parking area & dog bins. It’s called Muff Glen & is located just outside Eglinton should you be in the area. Don’t forget the Green Cat cafe for a coffee

Applying a mixture of pyrrol red and pyrrol scarlet to the goldfinch's 'mask.' The first brush is loaded with paint, the second, clean water. Watercolour on silk. I should remember to include Customary Scale Penny when filming, too.