the birds this evening, the hobby is a sqeaky thing!! back & forth, squeak squeak squeak :) v happy to know what it is, i hadn't id'd it before #merlin #birdsong

There must be (some number!) of other good writers of long form prose in the UK who cannot get their work published. I don't mean, tossed into the dead space of the carnivores, Amazon/Kindle & co. I mean *published*. Where are they? How to find them?

Wow! What a fantastic bookshop!Libreria Rosario Castellanos CDMX fondodeculturaeconomica.com

Diego Rivera at Belles Artes, CDMX

Nope. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Even if this was a reasonable policy - which it isn’t - are you really going to trust the Americans only to fly defensive missions from the bases? What are they going to say? ‘Scout’s honor?’

UK will allow US to use its UK airfields for "defensive" attacks on Iran, says the Guardian headline. I nearly wrote "Iraq". How did that one go, remind me? I can only assume Starmer is trying to completely destroy the UK Labour Party @labouruk.bsky.social once & for all

#Iran It's the final bankrupcy of Europe. How can we talk about Russian atrocities in Ukraine while poodling to America & Israel's carpet bombing of Iran? I feel absolute disgust with Starmer, Macron & friends

This one's for Holly, obvs @hollygramazio.bsky.social Comme un Roman, rue er, Paris, & fab bookshop www.comme-un-roman.com

Bugey, Mâcon, High Water Everywhere, that lovely Charley Patton song

Fab to see snow in the mountains

Tuesday's Le Monde, front page, below the fold. #goodbyeamerica says it all. Gaza, Venezuela, Greenland, ICE, Ukraine. Brute power, money, corruption, extraction, piracy, murder, genocide. What an unbelievably ugly story

I'm looking forward to being a peasant again, if only briefly, after weeks in the city

Modane & a little bit of snow, like Muswell Hill in a rare December. Sure. Carry on

The mountains look like snow was a once upon a time fairytale dream. All ripe for extraction, no doubt

@rmcunliffe.bsky.social just enjoyed your #ns twitter 1 year after piece on my long train journey, yeah it was fun a long time ago, but quite a *long* time ago :)

A beautiful late afternoon coming through Savoie, sun & blue sky, barely any snow to be seen. But this is (or was) the ski train

Books going out, news sheet to bookshops, the other side of writing life! #partisan @thiefpress.bsky.social

Partisan is published! Most of the supporter copies have now been posted, and if they haven't arrived they should be with you soon.

(pigeons have been joined by three green parakeets, but they are a longstanding local anomaly!)

i've got two kissing cuddling pigeons outside my window. very sweet, but i'm not sure they should be feeling it's *spring* quite yet?! problem, houston. it's absurdly mild in london? xx

Soft proofs approved, cover and text! Phew! PARTISAN is at the printer's, finally :)

@bigjosh84.bsky.social Thx for the follow!

On the train, little wintry scattering of yesterday snow as we come down between Chablis & Chalons

it's been ages since i was here, that's books for you!

@doorisajarmag.bsky.social thx for the follow back :)

@akscotland.bsky.social thx for the follow back!

#windows is such a #dogsbreakfast of an OS but i'm quite fond of it these days despite myself

@beckettreading.bsky.social fab, thx for the follow!!

Travelling

Should read "dead or injured"

50,000 dead Palestinian children. The equivalent of every child in the Haringey triangle. Imagine that #stopthegenocide

#haringey #now

@miverraswriter.bsky.social Thx for the follow!

@litficandromance.bsky.social @birdwriterwrites.bsky.social 6 hits on bsky for hashtag #litfic. 1 null, 1 clearly not, 1 dormant but doubtful, 1 didn't seem to be about books, which leaves two!! hope springs eternal :)

@barcelonacodeschool.com thx for the follow back!

@marjoleinrotsteeg.bsky.social Thx for the follow back. Wow for the haiku :)

@barcelonacodeschool.com thx for the like :)

Gaza's Health Ministry says the Palestinian death toll in Gaza has surpassed 59,000.

@nylarene.bsky.social This is one of my OC's :) My skills are basic & my tools trad, but I have fun anyway! He's the Englishman, from my novel:

@nylarene.bsky.social and your model & anim stuff is #unrealengine ?

@nylarene.bsky.social love the portfolio!

#Pavese (left) - Leone #Ginzburg - Franco #Antonicelli, first to publish Primo #Levi in an edition of 2500 copies, some of which sold - Carlo #Frassinelli - editors, publishers, writers in the days before publishing became just another content business. From Vento di guerra sulle Langhe

@emmadmiller.bsky.social Hey Emma, thx for the follow! Writing, tough gig!!

@vintageobscura.net Thx for the like :)

@wendysacksjones.bsky.social Thx for the follow back :)

It really is the LAST DAY of the crowdfunder for my novel, Partisan, which weaves together a #war-story, a #coming-of-age story, and a #mid-years-of-our-lives story, unfolding together against the backdrop of these wild hills in the north of Italy. #partisan2025 #storytelling

Cockerel woke me this morning from a #royalist dream, not my usual thing. Young #King of #England with a baby in a bicycle cot. I was raving about people who cut down trees. He fell asleep. The King was very clearly the young #HughGrant. What can you do?

And we're fast approaching your last chance to see your name in print, in the book, in the rollcall of honour, listed in the BIG BIG thankyou to supporters :) #partisan2025 There's just a day to go. If would be fab if you took the plunge www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/partisan2025

That next reading from Partisan. I do hope some of you are enjoying these! 4 mins of your time if you'd like to listen :) This is Crabbe, the Englishman and #SOE agent, boarding the submarine which will land him on his mission. #warstories #worldwar2 #partisan2025 And obvs, crowdfunder, blah blah