Apparently Daleks are into donk #emfcamp

More than enough books to keep you reading new things all summer in the @smashwords.bsky.social sale. Try Wiz Duos 2 = my cosy queer fantasy novella 'Song, Stone, Scale, Bone' + @emfaulds.com's awesome 'Bring Me Home', 25% off all July! smashwords.com/books/view/1945655 #SWSale2026 #Smashwords

It's Book Quote Wednesday & this week's word is "change". Cade probably won't be getting any dinner... #bqw books2read.com/Song-Stone-Scale-Bone

Things I discovered this weekend: if stung by a (UK) jellyfish, the best treatment is soaking it in hot water, as hot as you can stand; running a shower on it also works. You can repeat this later on too. (probably Lion‘s Mane or compass in my case - it was quite ouchy & the others are milder.)

Love novellas? How about two in one book? Wiz Duo #2 contains stories by Juliet Kemp & E M Faulds wizardstowerpress.co...

2026 Pride Bundle, the Twinks are in you! A genuinely incredible bunch of books for $30: An Oz masterpiece from Geoff Ryman, books by @chazbrenchley.bsky.social & @fozmeadows.bsky.social, brilliant releases from @neonhemlock.bsky.social @wtpress.bsky.social @wctracy.bsky.social, and MORE. 💙📚🌈📚

Buckethead was a publicity stunt, which, to be clear, I respect. Binface is also a publicity stunt but the publicity is stuff like House of Lords reform and Thames Water re-nationalisation and stopping arms sales to oppressive regimesand also fixing that one fucking hand dryer in that one pub

Ebook pre-orders are now open for the new Chaz Brenchley Mars book. Print coming soon. wizardstowerpress.co...

Passed right over my head earlier while I was planting things in the garden!

Knee update: still sore (physio coy about telling me exactly what I tore but I think PCL? Not badly though), still walking fine, still irritated that I can't climb yet. So much so that I have started going to the climbing wall to use the stupid weights for upper body stuff as a stop-gap. UGH.

Wiz Duos 2 = my novella 'Song, Stone, Scale, Bone' - a grieving knight, a ghost, surprise catacomb-dwelling dragon, and a war to stop - & @emfaulds.com's awesome 'Bring Me Home', is in the @smashwords.bsky.social sale. 25% off all July! smashwords.com/books/view/1945655 #SWSale2026 #Smashwords

Enjoyable things on the tube: - a/c on the Circle line - the person on the Westminster Station PA doing the platform announcement in his best ”howdy, partner” drawl then finishing off with ”have a lovely jubbly day”.

Want to try something different? How about a heartwarming tale of a boy and his dog in a very unusual post-apocalyptic Britain? The Jicker Man by Ben Mears, 25% off in the Smashwords July sale: www.smashwords.com/b...

The fig tree is really VERY HAPPY with the return of the heatwave. I am less happy about it but the warn sun-ripe figs are bloody lovely (and I don't even usually like figs).

Are you at #emfcamp this year? Do you want to change your name? Call us on NAME (6263) from a DECT or site phone and we’ll meet you with the paperwork and witnesses to make it official!

It's Book Quote Wednesday & this week's word is "after". Cade is problem-solving. #bqw books2read.com/Song-Stone-Scale-Bone

From 1 July my novella "Song, Stone, Scale, Bone" (half of Wiz Duos 2 with @emfaulds.com's "Bring Me Home") will be in the @smashwords.bsky.social Summer Sale. 25% off all month! Dragons and bone-mages, cults and the space exodus: two awesome novellas in one. #SWSale2026 #Smashwords

16 very queer and DRM-free books for just $30? Don't mind if I do. Check out the 2026 Pride StoryBundle, featuring Chaz Brenchley, Geoff Ryman, Melissa Scott, JB Lemberg and many others: storybundle.com/pride

I am not happy about this weather but the grape vines and the fig tree are LOVING it.

I’m going to Japan in September! Anyone have any good recommendations for things to do in Tokyo specifically? (Other than the 13+4 floor stationery shop which was the first thing to make it onto the spreadsheet :D )

When a book is done being edited: when I am sick fed up of it and just want to see the back of it. (Nearly there with the very-non-binary urban fantasy.) (apart from writing query package which is of course worse.) #amwriting #amediting

Guess I should start shouting about this! PRE-ORDERS NOW OPEN!! Official launch date is 29th of May 2026, but you can get a limited edition hardback if you're quick! This is my 2nd SF / Fantasy / Spec Fic story collection and yep, it contains the Godzilla one. www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

I guess I wouldn't be climbing this week anyway due to The Weather, but I'm still finding it deeply annoying to be out of action due to injury (foot on one side, knee on the other). I am a long way from exercise-enthusastic but I do get twitchy when I do a lot of sitting around.

It’s a while since I finished writing the Marek books but I’m still very fond of the world & indeed the series. It began with a confused no-longer-deity and magic under pressure, & branched out into refugees, political representation, grief, and how people cooperate. julietkemp.com/books/marek/

Sir Cade didn’t expect a guiding job to end with sneaking a client across a border to avert a war, a bored dragon in tow, and her dead best friend haunting her. Grief, ghosts, bone mages, and political intrigue (plus a whole different second novella from E M Faulds!)

It's Book Quote Wednesday & this week's word is "never" #bqw books2read.com/Song-Stone-Scale-Bone

Writing today: Final Final Line Edits This Time I Really Mean It on the urban-fantasy-ish novel featuring a non-binary semi-deity and the question “how much, and who, would you sacrifice to fix the world”.

today's PSA: do not fall off your bike, it is uncomfortable. (This was Saturday, and my bruises by today are Impressive. no serious harm done though and thankfully L was not on the back of the tandem at the time.)

We visited the Lost Gardens of Heligan earlier this week - highlights included seeing two hummingbird hawk-moths zipping around the flowers, LOADS of swallows zooming across the grass, and this amazing sculpture (made from a fallen rhododendron tree).

“sooner you than me!” said the friendly lifeguard as we went into the (admittedly quite chilly) sea this evening for the last bodyboarding session of the holiday, but despite wind being windy and sea being hella messy, it was still great 🌊

I loved this sharp, funny short story by R. S. A. Garcia about bots, corporate land-grabs, and problem-solving

The Sandgrada Familia, as constructed by L yesterday.

ICYMI: this story of mine about futures and grief and community came out in The Future Fire last year & I really like it.

It is that time of year again. The 2026 Pride Storybundle contains 16 DRM-free books which can be yours for just $30. And it contains a wonderful book by our very own Chaz Brenchley. Full details at: storybundle.com/pride. The offer runs from June 3 to July 2

It's Book Quote Wednesday & this week's word is "several" #bqw books2read.com/Song-Stone-S...

A few nights ago it was so hot I was sleeping with the window wide open & still overheating. Now I’m sitting in a park shivering and the sun’s not even all the way set yet. Pretty evening though!

The Drama Neem likes the heatwave 👍

…BANACH TARSKI!

The Drama Neem is returning to life! (It was in a draft for a couple of days over the winter and immediately dropped all its leaves and reverted to stickhood.)

Yesterday's editing challenge of my space-race book: create a more plausible version of "flying through asteroids !". Today's editing challenge: make the bad guy more egregiously bad. Might be on the home straight?

In solidarity with the teenager, the whole household did a maths GCSE non-calculator paper. The teenager has forgotten fractions; I have forgotten the sin/cos numbers; @doop.bsky.social has forgotten basic arithmetic.

If I enjoyed The Pitt & have now run out of it, what else is currently good to watch? (Or historically. I’m not averse to catching things long after everyone else did.)

I have done something to one of the ligaments/attachment points on my foot (not plantar fasciitis but similar deal in different place) and wow but it is annoying. Mostly because it only hurts *sometimes* and only a *bit* which means I am terrible about remembering not to use it.

Well this is cool: someone is working on a Matlab real-physics imaginary star system generator.

Read this week: All Hail Chaos by Sarah Rees Brennan, sequel to Long Live Evil. A bit messier than the first one (in trad mid-trilogy way), but basically if you enjoyed that you’ll enjoy this. Entertaining, self-aware, meta-fictional, playing with ALL the YA tropes.

Spent the last two days doing line edits and it is probably for the best I have a day of teenager-wrangling instead today because my wrists are tired.

Yes this is very true. I have definitely got my money’s worth out of mine (especially now I am taking Scouts camping 4 times a year).

Read recently: KJ Charles' "How To Fake It In Society" -- delightful M/M historical romance with sweet hero, scoundrel romantic interest, & absurd premise which KJC successfully sells by being a deeply entertaining writer. UK release today (US was Tuesday, obv).

British Museum today: ravens and geese! (Ireland, late Bronze Age, 1090-900BCE)

I am quite fond of the London Marathon (which goes past the end of my road every year), but I am unconvinced that it will be improved by having twice as many days of it, even as a once-off. Plus it makes no sense to just do that in a random "eh how about now" year rather than at 50 yrs or similar.