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School's Out! Big Party with the Velvet Underground - Be Ready For Hours of Fun!

'The reviews were true ... what a barnstorming first novel!' - ✭✭✭✭✭ - 'Toric', Amazon Time's running out to catch 'How Soon Is Now?' for just 99p on Kindle, so you'd better be quick ... unless you can track down The Nostalgia Club... www.amazon.co.uk/How-Soon-Now... #BookSky #BookDeals

💫Released on this day 1993💥 #musicsky #recordingsky #recordingstudiosky #musicchallenge #musicmoments #musicthread #musicproduction #onthisday #nowspinning #vinylsky #vinylrecords #postpunk #indiepop #britpop #newwave #punk #synthpop

If you're anywhere near Glasgow and looking for something to do with your kids in the next couple of weeks, me and Dotty are doing the Wee Write festival at the Mitchell Library and would love to see you there. Tickets are just £3 from www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the-... - all shares appreciated!

I've started a new site where I'll be writing periodically about TV, films, music and the like. To begin with, ahead of the 100th anniversary of his birth: Kenneth Williams and 1980s television - a story of commitment, triumph and upholstery. nearertotheend.co.uk/2026/02/15/k...

BBC political journalists are currently racing to each other to be the first to report what number in line to the throne Nigel Farage is.

I've made a few updates to my website - including adding a shiny new shop where you can (if you're in the UK) order stylish signed copies of my books. Why not take a look - and even let me know which of the zillion glitches I've fixed three times already have sneaked back in? www.paulcarnahan.com

“A brilliantly told and long overdue account” @nivenj1.bsky.social ‘Stay Alive: The Life and Death of Stuart Adamson’ by @scottrowley.bsky.social is out 26th March

I've made a few updates to my website - including adding a shiny new shop where you can (if you're in the UK) order stylish signed copies of my books. Why not take a look - and even let me know which of the zillion glitches I've fixed three times already have sneaked back in? www.paulcarnahan.com

If you haven't read 'Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York' by Andrew Lownie, there couldn't be a better time. It's a jaw-dropping portrait of a spoiled, cruel, greedy, self-obsessed man (and the vulgar buffoon riding on his ermine-trimmed coat-tails).

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We're up to number 13 in Amazon's 'Time Travel Romance' category (and back up to number 20 in 'Time Travel Science Fiction')! Find out why readers are calling 'How Soon Is Now?' 'exceptional', 'insanely good' and 'mind-bending' – for just 99p on Kindle! www.amazon.co.uk/How-Soon-Now... #BookSky

Some twat on LBC just said he's grateful that the Queen isn't alive to see this. SHE WAS INVOLVED IN THE COVER UP, FFS!

I’ve decided to promote my event at @urmstonbooks.bsky.social tonight with an old photo, as the image of me in a pram meeting a squirrel monkey on an east coast promenade during the late seventies is more interesting than any photo I could take of myself today. p.s. Stop looking at my mum’s chest.

The royals are going to send him on a sightseeing tour of Parisian motorway tunnels before this gets to trial, aren't they?

Texts from my wife while she waits at the optician:

Britain's far right elite don't just despise foreigners, people of colour, gays and trans folk - they despise *everyone* who isn't exactly like them, and that includes people who aren't insanely wealthy and in positions of power. All those poor saps cheering them on are in for a big surprise.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Bedford CC dealing with the bigots like an absolute boss.

One week until SBLM’s revised publication date! It would mean the world if you were to preorder a copy, or to reserve one at your local library 🩵🤖

My favourite recent review of 'How Soon Is Now?' came from a younger reader who declared that 'the ending really got me feeling some kind of way,' which I think is ... good? Anyway, it's 99p on Kindle this month. Go grab it so that you, too, might feel some kind of way. ;) #BookSky #BookDeals

More odds and ends. Syd related. I put this on FB some time ago and always intended to do some more but never did. Snapshots of some of the most enjoyable interviewing I ever did.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

@stuhennigan.bsky.social has a new book out called Keshed, last year he updated his author q&a on the Big Bearded Bookseller blog where he talked about this as a work-in-progress #AuthorQ&A #AuthorInterview #BookSky 💙📚 bigbeardedbookseller.uk/stu-hennigan...

Immigration-obsessed Reform voters are like those unfortunate kids in 1970s public safety adverts, so fixated on the ice cream van on the other side of the road that they don't see the enormous truck bearing down on them.

Massive thanks to David for reading and for a fabulous quote! THE BONE MOTHER is also included in this weeks #waterstones pre-order sale which means 25% off if you order online. @orendabooks.bsky.social

I often wonder how his fans make sense of Farage, the alleged scourge of Tories, having a party full of Tories, or Farage the man of the people being an ex-private school banker. A quick look at The Other Place reveals the answer...

Don’t miss it - 99p on Kindle throughout February! www.amazon.co.uk/How-Soon-Now...

A haughty, sneering response probably isn't the best way to go after a question about being out of touch because you all went to private school, Mr Man Of The People.

How it started/ How it's going.

Mr Bhatti wants us to believe we made trade with our nearest neighbours permanently more costly and complex with absolutely no damage to the economy. I'm going to assume he's not a fool, so ... why would he present such a preposterous proposition?

Chocolate bars for every mood. 🍫 Some are warm and familiar, some are a little unexpected. All of them are handmade in small batches using ethical ingredients, because chocolate should feel good inside and out.

Another #AI scam targeting #authors It will never end. We all need to fight against it.

It’s the 60th anniversary of Glasgow Airport and I’ve illustrated the original design by Basil Spence. Completed in 1966 with distinctive concrete arches which can still be seen from the interior of the current airport. Have a look up at the roof the next time you’re checking in ✈️

What a quite frankly amazing cover by Eric Fraser for the Christmas 1949 edition of the Radio Times! I just stumbled upon a battered but complete copy of the magazine for but a few pounds. It was well worth it.

Thanks, Company Name! I'm so excited to be joining the team at [fill this shit in later] and can't wait to get started on this mysterious new job. I hope you'll stick your [insert body part here] into a [insert name of farmyard machinery here] and never bother me again. Yours, [also John Smith]

I’m giving away copies of my second novel, ‘End of a Century’, to mark its first birthday. One hardback will be winging its way to @nootpinguwalda.bsky.social and a paperback each goes to @canerdiangirl.bsky.social and @originalemily.bsky.social. DM me with names and addresses, please!

Claims he's going to set up a base on the moon. Can't even spell 'Scots'.

Nearly forgot the annual reminder of the world's most romantic sales promotion.

Last call...

Still time to win copiesof this fabulous Britpop-era romantic comedy/mystery. I'll draw the winners later today. #BookSky #BookGiveaway #FreeStuff

My second novel, the Britpop-era romance 'End of a Century', is one year old today – Valentine's Day! To celebrate, I'm giving away one hardback and one paperback copy. Just retweet this post and I'll pick the two winning retweeters at random tomorrow. ❤️ www.amazon.co.uk/End-Century-... #BookSky

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

My second novel, the Britpop-era romance 'End of a Century', is one year old today – Valentine's Day! To celebrate, I'm giving away one hardback and one paperback copy. Just retweet this post and I'll pick the two winning retweeters at random tomorrow. ❤️ www.amazon.co.uk/End-Century-... #BookSky

Brexiters continue to lie about this basic truth of Brexit: Making trade with our nearest neighbours more costly and complex forces EU customers to opt for the cheapest, easiest option - ie EU over UK. It’s not just ‘a bit of paperwork’. It’s a death blow for many UK firms, who simply can’t compete.

For just 99p bag yourself over 300 pages of: 90s gigs, Manchester boozers, Salford contrarians, Teenage Kicks (and punches), the word ‘cock’ as an extreme form of punctuation, militant trade unionists, a Ghost of Christmas Past, a Road to Nowhere, and heavy sarcasm. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DDCGL2MG

Was Squeeze really that badly received? Sure, there were a few reviews which were scathing but a majority were of the opinion it was somewhere between not bad to pretty good. Which I think is a far fairer assessment of what it really is.

Everywhere, advice on how to write faster. A novel in 4 months, a blog post a day, Substack longform in an hour. This essay argues for something else. Speed doesn’t just change how we write, it changes what can be written at all. kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-writin... #WritingCommunity

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