Murderer of journalist avoids arrest with the aid of convicted felon. www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/p...

For this week's Waiting on Wednesday, I highlight a particularly awesome upcoming fantasy novel with Mortedant’s Peril @rjbarker.bsky.social. An intriguing read that will a dark magic city setting with conspiracy and murder, this is going to be an epic book. unseenlibrary.com/2025/10/31/w...

Out on December 9, available to preorder fromNewCon Press now. Do you believe in miracles?

Passing thought brought on by sales figures & a book that had a dearth of official publicity: do you guys even know that Gods of the Caravan Road is a five-novel series, not four? Were you left hanging after Gods of Nabban? Moth's story continues! The Last Road. Grim. Dark. www.kvj.ca/last-road.html

Back to intensive writing retreat now. Winter is grumbling around us and I don't get my snow tires on till next week.

"..the first known human H5N5 infection has captured a good deal of attention, but the `other' flu story we've been following this week has been the rapid spread of a new seasonal H3N2 subcade (K) virus, which emerged in the Southern Hemisphere" afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/11/cdc-...

I have Glen Cook's Lies Weeping, with its excellent cover by Raymond Swanland. Should I save it as a treat for when Raven is finished?

Checking briefly. Hey, writing is happening! This holiday from off-farm-job is letting me get real work done at last. (Unfortunately, Chores and Errands have piled up and may be about to swamp me.)

Now I'm really going away to write. Let there be book. And to be ready for the conclusion of the duology of this high fantasy, you can buy The Wolf and the Wild King at all the usual places, print and ebook, and especially through your favourite indie. www.kvj.ca/wolf.html

😂🤣 He MAD!😂🤣 DON'T GET MY WAY! #NAFOflorks #NewTeamMember The #Owl knocked down a #RussianDrone in #Ukraine #WaytoGo

I have some time off from the OFJ and am making a big push to see how close I can get Raven to being finished. 100,000 words and counting, think it's going to hit 130, though possibly not in the next week and a half. Still, doing my best. See you when I get back from the Forest ...

Thank you to all National Trust members who voted to support the Trust. The hostile venture capitalist backed ‘Restore’ plc have been defeated for another year. But with a lower turnout this year, it’s not over yet. Expect the same next year.

I need a "... days since we had to fix my mother's wifi" sign.

If you want a nice lighthearted movie made with skill and care and attention to detail, I can recommend Shaun the Sheep: Farmaggeddon. We laughed a lot and also had to keep rewinding to look at, "Wait, no, what?" details. Possibly we should just have watched it twice. Also, watch to the very end.

"Overheard in an Oslo cafe, in which Mamdani was described as an American politician who “finally” sounded normal. “Normal." “Here, (in Norway) taking care of one another through public programs isn’t radical socialism. It’s Tuesday.” True in most of Europe, especially Nordic countries

Moon's Artifice is just 99p/$1.49 at the moment because it never found enough readers when it was published so why not? UK: www.amazon.co.uk/Moons-Artifi... US: www.amazon.com/Moons-Artifi...

Meanwhile, in that fretful state where I don't know what I want to read for my lunch at off-farm-job book. Needs to be either familiar or lightish (or both), for reading under those conditions.

Hey if it wasn’t for ideology there’d almost be a lesson here for #canada but I’m not a fucking economist so what do I know

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

We often wonder why we never encounter alien species. Perhaps it's because every species fills their orbit with space junk and imprisons themselves on their planets.

'this was an experience. I feel like I’ve read my way through a fever-dream. I am exhausted and fulfilled and happy'. Adrian Collins @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social reviews A SWORD OF GOLD AND RUIN www.grimdarkmagazine.com/review-a-swo...

I don't think I'll ever write a better first chapter than Chapter 1 of Endlords. Read it for free at Grimdark Magazine. www.grimdarkmagazine.com/excerpt-chap... @torbooks.bsky.social @orbitbooksuk.bsky.social @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social

Same thoughts for Canada: not useless, but being wrecked.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Your quick reminder that the reason the NHS is in this state is specifically because of what politicians have done. The NHS isn’t useless. The model isn’t defunct. Politicians have actively under-resourced our public healthcare system. It’s a travesty. 🚨 www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Where is Raven at right now? Well, a battle is imminent and Mairran and Lannesk are on opposite sides. Also opposite sides of a flooded river, which is making the whole thing rather interesting, logistically.

A good time to pick up The Wolf and the Wild King, if you'd like mythic high fantasy with a troubled assassin-prince investigating a sacrificial murder and an outlaw fighting in a war against dragon-worshippers. www.kvj.ca/wolf.html

I've hit that point where suddenly the remainder of the book (sequel to The Wolf and the Wild King) has all come together and it should be a mad downhill run to write it all.

I'm having fewer insomnia nights now; this is really helpful when it comes to writing. Mind seems functional again.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

A reminder: AI is a bad translator--it will give you in a pinch the meaning (if it doesn't get hopelessly confused) , but i will not create something that reads like a book. That's why we have professionals. (And everyone who's reread ai translations knows that it's faster going to rewrite them)

Homo Sapiens emerged about 300,000 years ago. Imagine you gave an early Sapiens $9,000. And they looked at you and said “the fuck is this?” But anyway, you piled up $9,000 Every Single Day since the first Sapiens walked the Earth. You still wouldn’t have a trillion dollars. Capitalism is fucked

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Our politicians did more to regulate Prince and Twisted Sister songs than glacier melting chatbots that promote suicide

Videos of a crying Ukrainian "conscript" have flooded European social media networks, particularly in Germany and Hungary, this week. The clip, however, appears to be created with help from Sora, OpenAI's new tool.

“While federal investment in artificial intelligence soars in the budget,” notes author Kim Fahner, Chair of The Writers’ Union of Canada, “what’s missing is the crucial understanding that AI depends on humans and our valuable creativity.” 💯 writersunion.ca/news/real-in...

Such a great series. If you haven't yet read it, you really should give it a go, and I think Midnight, which I read before any of the others, remains my favourite.

This is a good time to read this trilogy if you haven't already.

Budgets aren’t just numbers; they’re a reflection of what we stand for. And #Budget2025 shows #Canada turning away from the world when humanitarian needs are rising. Our reaction: https://ow.ly/ISuF50Xnu7o#Budget2025#Canada#cdnpoli

The UCP government pretty clearly tried to artificially suppress demand for COVID-19 vaccines by forcing people to pay out of pocket for them. It didn't work. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If you've been waiting for the right time to jump into The Eidyn Saga, now's your moment! The Lost War is just 99p all through November on Amazon. It's a #Scottish #EpicFantasy #mystery #conspiracy #thriller found family road trip with a #DnD vibe and a twist. Go, go, go! #FantasyBooks

We had the pleasure of interviewing @jeremyteg.bsky.social ahead of the release of The Tower of the Tyrant (pub @gollancz.bsky.social). We talked about his writing process, his previous series and the ideas behind TTotT. Full interview: jamreads.com/interviews/s... 💙📚

Meanwhile, trying to get a small advance force secretly over a flooded, rapid-filled gorge. I have a plan. Lannesk tells me it's a ridiculously fiction-only plan unlikely to succeed and impossible to effect in one night, full moon or not, and he'd like a more realistic one, please.

Saga of attempting to contact public health re measles vaccine continues. In our last episode, you'll recall, it was revealed that the office (which has neither answering machine nor receptionist) is open "every other Tuesday" but nobody knows which Tuesday is every other. [thread]

My editor: 'Congrats. This book is timeless.' Me: 'Really?!' My editor: 'Yes. You've missed every deadline we set.' New one - The Burning Grounds - is out next week. Order a signed copy now and I'll stop the jokes. waterstones.com/book/the-bur... #TheBurningGrounds

Tall Pine Mary Wrinch n.d.

I have a book dropping from @torbooks.bsky.social on Tuesday (The Nameless Land, the 2nd book of The Witch Roads duology, so if you're waiting for the entire story, it is here) THEN a near future sf novelette ("Barnacle") dropping on Wednesday at @reactorsff.bsky.social so brace yourselves, peeps.

Autumn is a good time to start reading The Wolf and the Wild King. It's an autumn book, the dying of the year cycling into winter: www.kvj.ca/wolf.html A land of forest and a great lake, an assassin sent to investigate a murder, a mysterious warrior reborn from a place of sacrifice. Also a dragon.

Battle is now a lot of notes, two whiteboard maps, and reading some things and writing more notes. Have consolidated battles; you're only getting one, sorry. Second one is now replaced by a dramatic one-on-one confrontation.

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵