CONGRATULATIONS to the writers who have been selected for the CATEGORY SHORT LISTS in the 2026 HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY’S First Chapters Competition! Visit hns2026.com for the full lists #historicalfiction #hnsfirstchapterscompetition

#BBCNews and #Newsnight are embarrassingly unwatchable - the lack of balance, the right-wing bias, the failure to challenge outright lies - this is not journalism, this is propaganda. 🤢

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

A truly humbling reception at #BAVS2025 where I presented a practice-based paper that combined making and creative writing, using a Pattern of Perfection from @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social , on a panel with the exceptional Anouska Lester and Catherine Archer-Richardson. A wonderful, warm conference 💗

I came off Twitter a while back but I *really* hope ‘Lord’ Daniel Hannan is being ripped a new one over there today. #BrexitDay #Brexshit

In trying times, I find embroidery very therapeutic. Pleased with this one.

They have so much in common, after all.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Congratulations to BRIT winners Charli XCX (Bishop's Stortford College, £38,319 per year), AG Cook (King Alfred School, £27,747) and The Last Dinner Party (Bedales, £52,075) for showing that people from ordinary backgrounds can reach the top in pop music, that most egalitarian of art forms.

🚨BREAKING CROSSPOST AFTER DDOS ATTACK Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman www.bylinesupplement.com/p/breaking-c...