It would be smashing if the "unbiased" BBC got a legal expert to report on legal cases involving trans women rather than people with almost no understanding of how legal judgments work but a very firm gender critical view on trans women.

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

They are to access further snooker coverage.

It feels odd to be talking about personal, writerly type stuff while the world burns, but isn't that part of the problem? Everything is flooded by grimness, by murder and fascism and environmental collapse, by corruption and hatred, that if feels odd, somehow, to be personally reflective.

I Carry A Torch For You*

Delete X. Get rid of it. The entire existence of that company has become an obscenity.

Keep seeing this meme so on behalf of all non Americans…

I've decided to restrict my cover design commissions to just 12 next year. £300 flat rate includes ebook and print cover, and whatever iterations might be needed (within reason) to find the design you want. Four are already taken, so if you are interested let me know asap. Examples of my work here:

Done a blog post with my favourite stuff of the year. Not sending it out by email because I'm not sure people who want to hear about my books need to hear how much I love the Callous Daoboys record, but please do check it out if that's your bag. open.substack.com/pub/thehollo...

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

I started writing The Sunset Chronicles as a NaNoWriMo novel back in 2015 (I think). Now, a decade and 765,000 words later, I finally got to write this.

Oh sure kids, the Greens SOUND cool, with their "no more war" and "hey everyone, let's smoke a doobie", but they're not living in the REAL world. in the real world, we starve children and ban trans people from Girl Guiding because the Daily Mail told us to. it's called MATURE GOVERNMENT

Congrats everyone, we are officially at “circle back in the new year” o clock, we have survived the year, good work team

Managed to narrow down my top 10 albums of the year to a mere 56.

🤔

Boing boing.greg.technology

It's the time of year when people are putting out lists of best books of the year. So why not tell an author you've loved their book this year? Because not being on those lists makes many authors sad. You can make them happy!

New from me: New Sunset, a severe price drop (okay that's putting it mildly), and at least two Staind references.

oh my god

This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Good morning to everyone who won the North London derby yesterday. ☕️

🎶"... Someone to hear your prayers, he's filled with air."🎶

Found out I accidentally deleted my entire website while trying to be sneaky on renewal costs with my hosting company. Trying to restore it and I'm now having conversations with an AI bot that might as well be in an alien language. Isn't technology fun!

Every ad now

Christ I wish Labour would just skip the foreplay and get rid of the useless prick.

Fuck it, I'll play. Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want. (This is the opening lines from Blood on the Motorway, available now in all evil bookstores, and the good ones too)

I suspect they know no one actually gives a shit about continuity in Bond films but they now have thousands of people taking about Bond films

lots of funny ha ha responses to this but to me the solution is blindingly obvious - I always assumed in my head that James Bond is as much a title as 007, the two are the cover given to the agent when they join the service. It's why there's been 6 entirely different people who are Bond.

Lieutenant, don't jerk me off!

Starting the day off listening to Swans so either I'm gonna fuck this day right up or end up rocking back and forth on my chair, weeping. Can't wait to find out!

Couldn't help but read this in a very particular voice

A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.

Went to see the Inside Number 9 stage show last night — if you're a fan at all, I HIGHLY recommend it. Laughed so much my sides ache this morning.

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

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Back to normality after a week in Canada, but I've got a cold, I slept like shit, and my to-do list looks like the fucking Declaration of Independence.

Holy shit, new Conjurer, new Psychonaut *and* a surprise new Rolo Tomassi ep all dropping the same day? In this economy?

I never realised how small sumo wrestlers were

Of course women don't like the Cybertruck. Women only want one thing, and it's a car that goes really fast and gets really shitty gas mileage

can we as a community normalize this

My working definition of "successful book"

If I see this on here, I repost it, very simple

I ran a silly music website that gave me such good friends that two of them travelled for miles to meet me for the first time at my actual wedding. I learned about self publishing which allowed me to publish 5 novels and have a random person in Alabama call me their favourite author ever.

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚 #amindofmyown

"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"

Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered, bought, shared, talked about and reviewed #Pyres on its first weekend. It's been a great start! Have you stared into the flames yet? #HorrorBooks #BookSky #IndieAuthor 📚😱 books2read.com/pyresnovel

If you see this, QTP with a gif of a vampire, that isn't Dracula. 🦇

I’m trying to write some fiction for the first time in a month and boy howdy is it hard going