#Reading Challenge for 2026: Q is for Quest, which the Deering-Dolittle sisters will be going on in The River of Death. It’s the next #book in the series and I’m just over 70,000 words through the first draft. #booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: P is for Plus Sign, the third #book in the Thinkersphere #SF #policeprocedural series. #booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: O is for Other, the Other #Christmas Carol, which is a #novella. #booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: N is for Non-Fiction, Punk Publishing, co-written with Andy Conway, is a guide to #indiepublishing, explaining why and how you should #selfpublish. #booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: M is for Murders, more precisely, The Murders of Conky Whallop is a #cosymystery or #cozymystery #comedy book. #booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: L is for Large Print, The Murders of Conky Whallop comes in the large, #dyslexia friendly #lexend font, so you want miss any of the twists and turns of this #cosymystery. #booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: K is for Kali, who appears in the fifth Derring-Do Club adventure #book, the Sisterhood of the Death-Goddess. #booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: J is for Jackdaw, Jackdaw’s Choice is the first #book of The Daughters of Égraine trilogy. #booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: I is for I, the sentient phone in the SF #novel, I, Phone. #booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: H is for Hastag, the first #book of the Thinkersphere series. #booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: G is for Grey, the third Derring-Do Club #adventure #novel. #booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: F is for Future, the complete set of near-future SF police procedurals #ebooks in one #boxset. #booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: E is for Empire, the first #book of the Derring-Do Club adventures. #booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: D is for Death, the fourth #book of the Derring-Do Club adventures. #booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: C is for Crow, the second #book of The Daughters of Égraine trilogy. #booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: B is Bridge, a stand-alone pub crawl of a #novel. #booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2025: A is for Atcode, the second #book in the Thinkersphere series.

Should books have spoiler warnings? e.g. SPOILER WARNING: This cosy mystery gives away the identity of the murderer near the end.

The obligatory 'holding a box upside down' to show that all these #books were sold at the #ArmadaCon book launch of 'The Crow's Law'.

I've read headlines: ‘Trump’s historic peace deal for DR Congo shattered’, ‘Thailand-Cambodia fighting continues after Trump says countries agreed to ceasefire’ and, of course, the Ukraine peace plan didn’t happen. Will he give his FIFA Peace Prize back? And is there an Ig Nobel Peace Prize?

J. R. Steel and I, launching our book, a comic fantasy, called A Dragon in the Title. Named after our t-shirts.

He’s so good at this!

A Dragon in the Title – available from a portal near you...

My Derring-Do Club series is now available in hardback. They made Gary happy. #writing #books

A Dragon in the Title – available from a portal near you...

The second book out now is the second book of The Daughters of Égraine trilogy. Follow Mara's struggle now...

I've pressed the button, it's out there! My latest novel, A Dragon in the Title, written with J. R. Steel.

I've just blogged about forthcoming releases and faffing with things. davidwake.wordpress.com/blog/

Join @authordjmunden.bsky.social, @erinwrightlv.bsky.social, @davidwake.bsky.social, and myself at my Author Joy as an Act of Resistance Panel on Saturday, November 15th! #author #panel

My interview with ZSA, the makers of the Ergodox keyboard, has just been published. Here's a link: people.zsa.io/david-wake/. (Maybe I should use that image as a new author picture.)

How many books is it reasonable, do you think, to launch at a single event? #writing #publishing. I'm writing four at the moment (which is dumb), and a couple might reach the end of the conveyor belt at the same time.

I've had two books I've updated rejected because the edition number doesn't match the interior. I think they're spotting the print key (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer...) and not understanding. But a printing makes no sense with print-on-demand, so a 'POD key' instead, maybe? Any ideas? #pod

I was watching Star Trek: Voyager. “Computer,” Captain Janeway said, “analyse the genetic markers and search Earth’s fossil record. Identify any ancestors common to both humans and the alien in sickbay.” “I’m sorry I can’t help you with that,” said my Echo Dot. Ah, to be living in the future.

I've written about #writing and #biscuits across at my website (and nibbled a malted milk). So, if you have a ginger nut after writing, then perhaps you shouldn't. davidwake.wordpress.com/blog/

Gary ran a role-playing game at the UK Expo games convention with an adventure based on my Derring-Do Club series. I popped in to say, "Hi", only for us to be held up at gunpoint as guards being captured. It was quite weird seeing my characters up to things without having to do any typing.

This is easy if you are writing a fantasy; half the unique words are made up. #writing.

While I'm on the general subject of "AI," let me just say that it's a real dickheaded maneuver to tell an actual artist that their work "looks like AI." Their work doesn't look like "AI" because they're aping what "AI" does; it looks like "AI" because the "AI" company fucking stole from them.

I've just finished the first draft of a novel – phew. Just phew. And phew again. This one seems like it was a long haul. #writing.

How far in percentage terms should enough clues be available for the reader to be able to solve a cosy mystery? #writing #cosymystery.

Once I start rewriting, my Grammarly score always jumps. #writing. #rewriting.

Just created the PDF for the first beta-reader of my work-in-progress. It's a cheat, just the first half, but it is a sign of progress. #writing #publishing.

The Business of Publishing panel now in progress at the Eastercon 2025: Reconnect. ✨📚✨ @davidwake.bsky.social @lunapress.bsky.social @easterconuk.bsky.social #Eastercon #SpeculativeFiction

David Wake talking about self-publishing at the Business of Publishing panel at the Eastercon 2025: Reconnect. 📚 @davidwake.bsky.social @easterconuk.bsky.social #Eastercon #SpeculativeFiction #SelfPublishing #IndiePublishing

A great conversation with @davidwake.bsky.social !! #marketing #authors #podcast #writing #publishing

I've been updating my website and Wordpress has the most unintuitive interface of all time. It's a 'swearing at, look up instructions on Google, where is the button?' sort of a mess. Ho hum.

Let's go!

The UK, a place I love, a place that has given me my career, is a global powerhouse of culture and IP. Film, TV, radio, theater, music, publishing- a river of money and soft power. Yet the actual human beings who provide all that might as well be invisible to knobs in suits, 99% of the time.

Death in Paradise tends to have 4 suspects to keep things simple, Agatha Christie usually had 9 suspects to make it harder to solve, and my work-in-progress has 14 – I don't recommend 14. #writing #cosymystery.

Author @ajwestauthor.bsky.social at the Meta protest 🔥

Arrgghh, the editing job came in and I've not finished the first draft of my current work in progress. #writing #editing