A very good piece on Reds:

And long overdue

"An unputdownable police procedural containing wonderfully constructed characters engaged in deception and political maneuverings within a pulse-racing plot.” —Best Thriller Books FALLEN STAR is coming OCT. 14! https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0D9PBSFZP/lg-facebook-20

Doctor Who. The very spirit of two planks and a passion.

The very definition of ‘unviable’

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Drama and English, joint honours. I’ll have my 30 years of staggering taxes back, please. Not sure what to do about the jobs created along the way

You can get my book Borderlines in electronic form for an amazing 99p at the moment; at a time when politicians are fetishising borders, why not look at them in a bit more detail, and get the view from Europe’s borders? www.amazon.co.uk/Borderlines-...

Iain Lee - Imposter Syndrome worked last night and I think it is something very special. I play the Rondo Theatre in Bath in February but looking for more venues across teh country. Ideally holding between 80-120. Do you work for a venue that would like to book me? Or know any? [email protected]

Chaned my profile pic. Me and Vesuvius. Closest I’ll ever look to cool

I reiterate: every single person, regardless of the year they were born, has to make a conscious effort not to shit on the following generations the moment they realize they themselves are approaching middle age or older. It’s not just boomers and X that are susceptible.

Short thread. Back in the 90s my then-agent, whom I love to this day, threw a launch party in her flat for two of her authors. I was one of them, down from the north and alone. The other guy was more lit-fashionable than me, and brought friends. The guy was OK, I think. His friends were arseholes,

Like a Roomba, but for your teeth

The small things that can give you pleasure. My oldest bookmark in continuous use

why are West Midlands police allowing flag hangers to block a public highway, exactly

The Anthropic settlement list is up. Authors, check here to see if your books are included: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

National campaign to create a less ugly wheelie bin, since we're stuck with them on show f*****g everywhere

A book I just ordered came print-on-demand from a major publisher. The type's nice and clear but it's chunky, heavy, and the cover's badly printed. Every other technology pushes steadily onward but it's like 10 years ago POD went, "That'll do," and gave up

Since I’m awake… hi there, #UK friends! I’m coming to you on book tour for THE INTERMEDIARIES, a timely history of science, #transrights and the LGBTQ+ fight against Nazis. This thread has the events, and here is the full list on my site: brandyschillace.com

Just had to abandon a story halfway through on realising that its key premise wasn't an original thought. It's been done before, and done well, and my take on it wasn't sufficiently different. On the upside, it's left me with some homeless story elements that I can draw on some other time

Storing all the remaindered copies of The Art of the Deal

Post a fictional comedian who definitely would accept an invitation to the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

A VHS favourite. Eccentric, hilarious, relentless and cheap. Wouldn’t have been half as good with twice the budget

No one?

Here is the latest episode of the ReBuged Rebooted podcast. In this episode I will be reviewing the Bugs episode Assassins Inc (S1 E2). podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/r...

This is the most complete information I've seen about the Anthropic copyright settlement — dates of when things are likely to happen, what to do now, and what it all means for different types of writers. nwu.org/anthropic/

Coming soon to Netflix: The Sarcastic Detective in, "Murder, My Arse"

Right folks, I'll be at the British Library on Sunday at around midday for an hour or so, doing an impromptu/gonzo signing of whatever books of mine they have in stock.

A fantastic development. A coworker had the gene and had to leave her job at a young age. A desperately poignant departure.

BORDER NERDS: BUY THIS BOOK

We should all post on Tuesday about seeing friends and neighbours ascending. Then they’ll think it happened as expected, but they weren’t chosen

ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE has arrived!! It looks *amazing* Desperately in need of money at mo so am selling 5 signed and dedicated copies for £25 plus postage. If you want one, a month before it's released, let me know and I'll DM you.

Finally caught up with Mike Flanagan‘s Fall of the House of Usher, and binged it in a week. Took me awhile – I’d loved Hill House but not cared so much for Bly Manor. This one best described as an ingenious take on several of the works of Poe within the Usher framework

The BBC is welcome to contact me, someone who was on the ground and witnessed the mob of screaming white English people break through into Trafalgar Square, swarming, screaming at us, trying to catch individuals alone, then after we group up, pelting us with beer bottles and cans for hours

Christiane's saying I have to buy it again

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

Only really took it out for Alien: Earth

Cancelled my Disney+ sub. Set to renew in November and now it won't. To be fair it was a Tesco voucher freebie and I was going to cancel anyway, but now seems like a good time to be in the stats.

Trump thinks world leaders treat him with respect when really they're just behaving the way you do when a toddler picks up a loaded gun

Men p*ss*ng up a wall while draped in a St George's flag doesn't seem that far behind.

Nothing says Great British Values more than a crowd of wifebeaters screaming at frightened people from outside a run-down hotel

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

Thank God we don’t have the cancellation of satirical comedy in this country. I can’t wait to see how they deal with the Trump visit on The Mash Report, Mock The Week and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order!

“Our words have made you rich.” Should be in Latin under the various worldwide writers’ guilds’ logos. The audience doesn’t (only) want cowardice, formula, timidity, boredom, branding, caution. You take the money, you deal with the fallout of people talking openly to one another.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Sound of Cinema - Hammer. Repeated today on 4 Extra. "Featuring horror scores by composers James Bernard, Tristram Cary and Benjamin Frankel, as well as music from Hammer's highly successful comedy films and only space western..." No point in resisting. I couldn't... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

@nicholasroyle.bsky.social Do correct me if I'm wrong about your putting me onto the Behm novel; I'm 100% sure about you steering me to The Disappearance/Echoes of Celandine, slightly wavery as to whether it was you or Maxim on the other... or don't correct me, and take the credit...

Rocket Dog #dog #cartoondog #anthropomorphicdog #flyingdog #rocket #drawing #illustration

I think this is a beautiful painting and I believe the inspiration for ‘Warriors Gate’ Monastery Graveyard In The Snow - Caspar David Friedrich

FOR SALE: Original Dutch poster artwork (r?) for HUMAN BEAST (BETES HUMAINES) - no idea if this is the Jean Renoir film? £350. DM if interested. Sale goes towards my new music system!