We really need to fully bed in the idea that the default position of someone wearing the Meta camera glasses is that they are a pervert

Brexit really was the prick Chernobyl reactor going off. That's never getting fixed and sealed, you know. Not in our lifetimes.

The publishing industry views Bluesky as some tiny unimportant island out somewhere in a far-off ocean. It's not worthy of their attention like Amazon Algoland or The Republic Of Instagram Influencer Collaborativepost is. What they don't realise is just how much the island's inhabitants love books.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

Continuing my weekly series featuring books from my collection that need to be read & deserve to be shouted about, they are all fantastic reads, hunt them down, This week lets go back Dickens and the Dodger series by James Benmore #BooksYouNeedToRead @jamesbenmore.bsky.social

Oof. Watching Interview with the Vampire for the first time in decades. To say it’s problematic is an understatement with its slave-owning protagonist and paedo subtext. And Brad Pitt is so uncomfortable in his stiff role. Cruise is having fun though.

A pleasure to have read from my work-in-progress novel 'Hauser and the Vultures' for Novel London at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith the other night. It's on Youtube if you'd like to check it out! 📚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW-4...

Weird that there's a country singer called Keith Urban.

A pleasure to have read from my work-in-progress novel 'Hauser and the Vultures' for Novel London at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith the other night. It's on Youtube if you'd like to check it out! 📚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW-4...

This is such a compliment coming from Andy. I’m so glad people remember my Dodger books fondly and that they still find readers. Thanks AW!

From the files of Mance & Tyler Investigations James-Benmore.com

just saw a video of someone who works from home who gets up really early to commute to a gym. Some of you will never escape the prisons of your own minds

From the files of Mance & Tyler Investigations James-Benmore.com

Me at the Regents Park Slow Horses bench

Tomorrow I’m giving away another FREE preview chapter from my upcoming eighties goth rock thriller HAUSER AND THE VULTURES through my newsletter. For your VIP tickets to come backstage and meet the band, subscribe at James-Benmore.com

Me at the Regents Park Slow Horses bench

Took my detective novel for a London walk earlier James-Benmore.com

Took my detective novel for a London walk earlier James-Benmore.com

Missing person? Cheating spouse? Mystery killer? Ask for Mercy instagram.com/p/DFYZSUQgaQG/

I don't understand why Obama isn't giving daily instructions to the Resistance while wearing a beret already.

One of the more fun jobs I do is pre-reviewing books that include trans characters and storylines - and I've particularly enjoyed doing it for authors like @jamesbenmore.bsky.social, @margrettryggva.bsky.social and Elísabet Thoroddsen. So if you or someone you know needs a review, hit me up!

Reading the Marvel story where Doctor Doom becomes president and I've got to be honest, he's doing a better job than Trump.

Editing chapter 4 of Hauser and the Vultures

It’s a shame that actions taken by toddler-minded populist twats to deal with “problems” in their batshit imaginary universe have effects in our real universe, where the rest of us have to live. Can’t we build them a fake “wheel” for government like kids have in the back of cars?

Really good Smershpod episode celebrating David Lynch’s often maligned but strangely glorious Dune

I’d have gone with ‘Mudrer, She Mispelt’

“Your outie posts Severance parodies on TikTok despite never having seen Severance.”

Missing person? Cheating spouse? Mystery killer? Ask for Mercy instagram.com/p/DFYZSUQgaQG/

Another day, another bookshop vm.tiktok.com/ZNeEc7s2t/

It was the best of crimes, it was the worst of crimes. The Artful Dodger enters his own tale of two cities as he travels to Paris for a lucrative crack. But a politically charged crisis spirals his plans into chaos. The 3rd volume of The Dodger Papers is out now! www.amazon.co.uk/Dodger-Revol...

Brilliant news. In the past two years he’s become one of my favourite authors. Well done Mick Herron #slowhorses #zoeboehm

We were thrilled to join the Mean Streets team to decode about one of our favourite #JamesBond films FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE! So grab yourself a plate of red wine with wish and tune in now ⬇️

After leaving Trump's inauguration] ME: FRIEND: ME: FREIND: ME: FREIND: Lot of rapists for an in - ME: A LOT of rapists for an inauguration

Severance is intriguing but I wouldn’t say it was a good to show to binge while you’ve got a headache

Heartbreaking news for me over on the dating apps

If you’re a cis author writing a story featuring a transgender character then I would definitely recommend hiring Ugla to review your document. Ask for Mercy would’ve been much clumsier without their invaluable feedback and the character of Mercy benefited hugely from those notes

Genuinely surprised by how few people in my life knew who Neil Gaiman was until a week ago today

Tomorrow! There’s still time to subscribe if you want your FREE Hauser and the Vultures preview

Tomorrow! There’s still time to subscribe if you want your FREE Hauser and the Vultures preview

Kill Me First vm.tiktok.com/ZGdS3p9NM/

Kill Me First vm.tiktok.com/ZGdS3p9NM/

Spent today polishing the first 30 pages of my latest novel Hauser and the Vultures. Over the weekend I’m going to be sharing the first chapter with anyone who subscribes to my newsletter. Head over to James-Benmore.com to sign up!

Spent today polishing the first 30 pages of my latest novel Hauser and the Vultures. Over the weekend I’m going to be sharing the first chapter with anyone who subscribes to my newsletter. Head over to James-Benmore.com to sign up!

Die Hard 2 should have been called Dice Hard.

My door is always open if you want to stop by and fix my door

This was a Christmas gift and I thought I might not enjoy it due to my perhaps unfair prejudice against celebrity authors. But Judi Dench’s passion and insight into the many characters she’s played throughout her life has proven scintillating company. Frightfully middle-class yes, but recommended

If you’re a cis author writing a story featuring a transgender character then I would definitely recommend hiring Ugla to review your document. Ask for Mercy would’ve been much clumsier without their invaluable feedback and the character of Mercy benefited hugely from those notes

Not sure who runs this place but please don’t turn out to be a fascist too