The good people at www.instagram.com/shorterstori... and cultureunderground.ie have published my short story, "A Night on the Town". It's launched tonight on the trail called "Shorter Stories of Dublin life" at the StoryTeller pub on Grand Canal Street at 7pm #speirgorm #stories #flashfiction

Dear Bookreaders I am making my second novel available free again tomorrow, 17 May, on kindle for some favourable criticism online. If you like this post, I can @you tomorrow as a reminder when its live. Kind regards Cal #speirgorm #books #booksky #kindle #freebies www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSQR4RYK

I don’t know who needs to hear this:

There used to be a quote in computing: "Computers never get it wrong, if something is wrong then its the instructions that are wrong" Ai has made that pearl of wisdom obsolete

I don't think anything goes viral on social media anymore. It has achieved it's ambition of being succinct to the point of everything becoming immediately historic (from a time perspective). And now we transition to Ai where, like in 1984, history is rewritten by the ministry of truth ...

Last week, I picked up a flattering review in Canada of my second novel which was recently published on Amazon. In an effort to solicit more complimentary reviews, it is available again tomorrow (Sunday 3rd May) for free on Kindle. www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSQR4RYK #speirgorm #booksky #books #kindle

My last read of April was A Response to a Quote on a Bus by Cal Sanderson. A good read that left me feeling thoughtful. I connected with the character’s emotional journey dealing with bullies, a difficult neighbor and the general apathy around him. #booksky

Enjoying this at the moment @karlwhitney.ie #speirgorm

When writing music, people will feign an interest by inquiring who your influences are or what kind of music is it? However in literature, people just don’t feign interest. If they’re interested they will ask what the story is about…

OK, World's smallest violin story incoming: I publlished another novel a month ago and only one person has bought it (my mother, who hasn't and probably won't, read it) Utilising the only opportunity I have to get it out there, it's free tomorrow on Amazon #defeated www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSQR4RYK

If you’re on the #speirgorm network and you use kindle, my book is free today. Suffice to say; It’s a study of the madhouse… www.amazon.com/Reflection-S...

The next Nobel prize for literature…

Tomorrow I am promoting this tome again in so much as it is free on Kindle for a day (all I ask is a review if you enjoyed it) www.amazon.com/Reflection-S... #speirgorm #booksky #leabhair

I see goodreads is rolling out a “Did not finish” rating. Isn’t it great that once again, the internet deprives you of having your own opinion

In other news!! I have just hit the publish button on a new novella. It should be available online and in print shortly. Called "Response To A Quote On A Bus", it speaks to shitty neighbours, toxic work, spirituality, telepathy, wandering culminating in redeption. It's a Dublin story. #speirgorm

Can one contain their anger as an author knowing they have been regularly rejected by Penguin, thinking they are the saviors of literature ...Only to learn they publish Randi Zuckerberg's soccer mum literature It's not what you know, it's who you know! as they say @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

Free on Kindle today from my good friend Oliver #speirgorm www.amazon.com/Tales-All-Fo...

One thousand three hundred and thirty one words today. Paper never refused ink!

Free tomorrow on Kindle (Grammatical brevity - I know) #speirgorm www.amazon.com/Tales-All-Fo...

Another rejection came through from a publisher. In a way its a good thing because at least they responded and didn't leave me hoping, though it did take three months to reply.

When the last person left on earth is on their death bed, what are they going to wish they would be reincarnated as?

Social media makes you want to think you have something to say. "Get your oar in", so to speak But what's left to be said?

I created this account in November and since then 86 of you BlueSkyer folk have agreed to digitally befriend me. So Happy New Year to you good people and I hope 2026 will be a bundle of craic for you!

Ambitions are what’s left when the dream is over

The price of progress is community. The price of community is greed.

In the spirit of creating a hashtag on here for Irish and Irish related books, I'm going to tag this with #leabhair I can see it has only been used twice before in 2024 #speirgorm www.amazon.com/Tales-All-Fo...

The beauty of writing, is that you can't do it properly with a radio, internet or TV on beside you. So you are free to open your mind and let your own thought be your guide ...

Scrapp is to peace making what all the US Presidents are to war ... www.amazon.com/Tales-All-Fo...

In employment terms in the 21st century, productivity is a measure of how much an employee is discommoded and disenfranchised

Reposting this with a week left to go and limited tickets left ...

Enough is never enough until you have had enough

The written word is a metaphor, the spoken word is your interpretation of it.

Delighted and honoured to be a part of this ... @firedoortheatre.bsky.social www.ticketsource.com/firedoor-the...

There’s no such thing as free speech Ask Eve and Adam

Politics was never about managing society

When you finish a chapter in a good book you look forward to the next chapter. If it happens to be the last chapter, you look forward to another good book. Or as Newton put it, energy can neither be created or destroyed...

A posthumous print of poeticy poems by a poetic genius has just arrived... #patingoldsby

I present my first self published novel to Bluesky .... www.amazon.com/Reflection-S... #books #selfpublished