13 years customer service experience, a BA, a MA, experience in facilitating events and managing staff, and not only do I not even get an interview for a part-time assistant librarian job, I don’t even get an email to say so until I reach out.

Congratulations

Congratulations! 🎉

And so we’re off! BSFA Awards are go 🚀 Watch live: Https://www.youtube.com/@bsfachair2284/streams

Huge congrats to my honorary con-daughter @emilyinkpen.bsky.social on winning a BSFA award for Dex Legacy at #Eastercon!

My contribution to the internet last night was making a whole room full of people Google “who the hell is Stephen McGowan!”

Blood In The Bricks wins the BSFA Award for Best Collection!

Me, when I get home, being an absolute creative energy vampire sucking up all the literary energy from EasterCon

A different perspective. Always helpful.

Brilliant evening co-hosting the @bsfa.bsky.social awards at @easterconuk.bsky.social Congratulations to all the winners. Love to all the Nominees. Heartfelt thanks to all the presenters. #bsfa #bsfaawards

I love that so much was made in the early Ragnar books about how important the Spear of Russ is. Then it’s made very clear in the last book, and in books since, how much he hated it. The 13th company laughing about how Russ would see how far he could throw it when he was drunk.

Happy to all that follow

On my way to @easterconuk.bsky.social Should be there for about 4pm. Pippin didn’t want me to go.

Making Age of Sigmar objective markers. Might resin the fish one to look under the sea.

I’m currently 3 years and 6 months into a waiting list for it. It’s painfully obvious but my area won’t allow private or right to choose diagnoses

If there’s two traitor primarchs I feel sorry for it’s Angron and Peturabo.

After a couple of months of adhd and depression related procrastination, returning to my manuscript is a good feeling.

Michael (14)’s second game of Warhammer Age of Sigmar. Victory to the Idoneth! 24 to 8

Lunatic Calm, Rammstein, and Rage against the Machine on one album? There is no spoon

Project Hail Mary was very good

My favourite part was when people complained about Omar Souleyman because they are thick gammons who only Know the Gorillaz from two songs. Omar was cool.

Great night in Manchester last night watching #Gorillaz with their support act Omar Souleyman. One of my top ten live shows, maybe in the top five.

Off to see Gorillaz in Manchester. She wants me to ignore her on the bus in case she gets travel sick. Quiet journey then…

AI jokes aren’t for everyone. They’re for some people. I don’t have one. I have a couple.

Three rejections this week, one a pretty major one being my PhD application. Pretty knocked back by it all to be honest.

The cats are playing a game where Pippin hides a Jack finds and chases him. Pippin is not a master of stealth…

I officially can’t stand the LinkedIn and Instagram posts that tell you how to reframe your responses to awful managerial requests. Here is how it should go. Manager: I know it is 5:30 but I need this report done by tomorrow. Me: No. I finished 30 minutes ago. I will do it tomorrow.

More GP news. So, I called this morning and the test I had on Monday, the one they said would take 24 hours, still hadn’t come in. I asked about my antibiotics because it’s recommended 10 days for strep but the pharmacist could only give me 5. They reiterated that it was probably not strep.

In further GP mess ups. The test they did on Monday that they said would take 24 hours and they couldn’t give me any meds until it was done…hasn’t come back yet. So I’d have been getting gradually worse if I hadn’t gone to the pharmacy.

When your 14 year old plays his first game of Warhammer and beats you.

Today, the master hunter has defeated a mighty beast

Further to my rant this morning, and with added Pippin pics… I have an illness that is is contagious and very tiring. After nearly a week of it, I called the GP to get help and they directed me to call back Monday morning at 8am…

Very unwell and getting worse every day but having to spend 25 minutes on the phone at 8am to get a telephone appointment from a receptionist who clearly does not give a shit. I’ll never forgive the tories for what they’ve done to the NHS over a decade of underfunding.

My two cents as it were. The situation at the BAFTA’s is entirely the fault of BAFTA. They should have explained thoroughly to everyone involved what might occur and why. They should have specifically had a conversation with Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan knowing the probability of that tic.

Academic types! Any tips for writing abstracts for an article?

Apparently I’m a cat tree

Ok, you’ve been transported back in time to the days of Shakespeare and you decide to write plays to rival the Bard. Which movie series do you write to get both the people, and the nobility on-side with you and your genius? For me it is a toss up between Shrek and Fast and Furious.

Blade but the rave is all dancing to VengaBus. Blade can’t help but join in, and Quinn sneaks out the back. He doesn’t lose his hand so doesn’t feel the need to show off to blade later and blade doesn’t escape in time.

I agree but how many of these meetings could have been an Space email?

Read my review of A Hole in the Sky by Peter F. Hamilton. A YA novel that would be at home in the adult fiction - and thats a good thing. "Oh Guano!" www.shorelineofinfinity.com/a-hole-in-th...

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! was an amazing movie and deserved a sequel.

Good Morning BlueSky.

Honoured to announce I’ve just been voted in as the Membership Officer of the @bsfa.bsky.social Looking forward to working for the membership and with the fine people on the committee. I unfortunately cannot be at EasterCon this year but I will be with you all in spirit. Thanks everyone.

Me, getting rid of the mutant potatoes from the bottom of my veg box…

Was at a funeral yesterday. It’s the only time I see some family members these days, which is really sad considering when I was little there was always some family gathering or something and we went on big family holidays every year. I spoke to an uncle of mine.

When you give nary a murmur when GW retcons entire global campaigns out of existence, when it retcons entire books of old lore, when it kills off old characters only to have them reappear, but you have serious issues with female space marines and custodes. I see you. I bloody see you.

Image by Daniel Warren Johnson. Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.

Lt Commander Data saying what we’re all thinking.

My elder cat Jack(20) going about his day in a house with a 6 month old kitten Pippin. youtu.be/FbUD7FRStbY?...

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: Hello! I’m the instrumental rock band The Shadows.