Nice one by @jensorensen.bsky.social

In case you were wondering, I have the T-shirt:

Inner library:

And now an editor asks me for a Sherlock Holmes story. Anthology due early 2026. Any sort of story. I might want to invent a Watson-Sim that spills the truth about Sherlock, somewhere in the future. Or what?

Links: QNTM -- Steven Hall (The Raw Shark Texts) -- Nick Harkaway (Gnomon). There's a pattern out there, and I'd like more examples.

Warning!

Life is a drag !

Can't use Hercule Poirot as a character, so I'll call him Simon Dubois, the short Belgian detective. And he finds himself in Buenos Aires in 1940. Guess who else is there. Actually, the series of stories I' m writing, does not start with Dubois...

Let this be a comfort: (Tom Gauld, again)

Needs reminding:

"Everyone has an opinion. Unless the person is an expert it’s a mistake to treat their opinion as very important." (Naomi Alderman in The Guardian). www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Can totally identify with this:

#speclist #scifi&fantasy Writing (or better, translating) another weird story of post-human sentient 'robots' and a confrontation with alien life (of sorts)... I'm not even sure this is anything near a decent description of the whole thing.

#speclist #scifi&fantasy #writingcommunity #mysterywriters I submitted a surreal, weird story about whale hunting to The Berlin Literary Review today. Third submitted story in as many days. One already accepted.

#speclist This is as it always should be done: sending a short story to an editor, and having it accepted a few hours later. Due in an anthology early spring next year.

#speclist #writersandwriting #mysterywriters What's the sense of having so many magazines, and most of the submissions are closed.

#speclist I'm writing a short story about a chaotic garden where the dead roam... for an anthology early next year.

How more Zen can you be?

#speclist About time.... www.thebookseller.com/rights/picad...

Even so late after his best books where published, Barry Malzberg remains an interesting writer, who even managed to describe the sense of our own times: zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-by-...

#writersworld #writerscommunity #amwriting #wip #novella inventingrealityediting.com/2...

#speclist #writersandwriting Mijn superbe verhaal 'Een Visioen van Gras en Bizons' sluit deze bundel sprookjes af...

It happens to me...

Just this:

Is happening, or not?

O, the third season of Tulsa King !!!

#speclist Brighton station, well in advance of the train. First if four trains today.

Congrats to all!

Now the World Fantasy Awards...

Out for a bit in Brighton.

This wonderful writer had signed her equally wonderful book for me....

#speclist The man with the hand-made pens (sitting left). Brighton, wfc. And good pens, too.

Don't you just love them, these empty spaces before the activities start?

I stepped outside of Victoria Station on Wednesday, so technically, I've been in London. And it rained.

They even have a Forbidden Planet in Brighton....

*But WHY do you want to publicly interview a mechanical talking poet from the year 1960: medium.com/p/0b14e511e7b6

#speclist. Except for back problems and the storm, all is fine at the World Fantasy Convention.

Underway to London. But in good company.

While reading China Mieville: the fantastic should always be poetic.

The pressure is on...

Writing crime books is easy?

I wonder what happens next...