Toe chicken 🪶

@pratchatpodcast.com months or years after I finished this, “the laddering horror” clicked in my brain and I had one of those “Damn it, Terry” moments. What obscure pun, joke or reference really got you in here? #pratchat94

@pratchatpodcast.com listening to the latest, I’ve had this on my phone for over a decade and traced it back to at least 2013ish on Tumblr. I swear I never heard it before i saw this and it was everywhere shortly thereafter. Jumping on a shitpost to embed something in folklore sounds peak Aussie.

It never really went away, but HIDDEN CITY is back in a new edition and I would love it if you gave it a go or helped me spread the word! You can learn all about it here: alanbaxter.com.au/hidden-city-... Thanks!

Missing my fur babies this morning. Here’s Milly facing into a chilly Winter’s evening a few years back.

Very compelling, sergeant. But what you and Mr Karbasian get up to in private is your own business.

From as little as AU$5 a month (which is like three bucks American) you can find all kinds of fiction and other writing from me not available anywhere else. And it's a huge support of my continued writing as well. Just fyi... 🖤 www.patreon.com/alanbaxter

Just posted a brand new short story, inspired by three random prompts. Find it here:

New books out today, if anyone has a hankering (paperback only) for my latest two offerings of Titan-based SF/crime. Edited and cover-arted by the illustrious @causticcovercritic.bsky.social. Available at BookFace Gungahlin and, well, everywhere if you order nicely.

It's my birthday this weekend. I'd love it if you helped me celebrate by buying yourself or a loved one a book of mine. Or two. 🎂 🖤

Australian monochrome eye-collector serenading us 🪶

please enjoy these classic Moon Tweets™

I set up this free ebook called Shadow Bites as a sampler of my work. It includes "Out on a Rim" (the opening novella from The Gulp), three complete short stories, and the opening chapters from six of my novels. Please feel free to share the link with anyone. Thanks! dl.bookfunnel.com/2ug895z1m2

Any help spreading the word about this series of unashamedly Australian horror would be massively appreciated. Thanks! 🖤

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

TOMORROW! The Rise, third volume in the Tales From The Gulp, arrives on Friday 13th. It's all been leading to this. There's never been a better time to visit the dark and strange harbour town of Gulpepper. Locals call it The Gulp, as it has a habit of swallowing people. #WelcomeToTheGulp #Booksky

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Can I get another 15 pre-orders before release day on Friday? It would make a really nice round number of pre-orders... 🖤 www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2PWLZ7P

Post a banger that’s not in English. Babymetal remains one of the best live shows I’ve ever seen, even if it was in a crowd an order of magnitude smaller than this one. m.youtube.com/watch?v=zTEY...

One week to go until THE RISE: Tales From The Gulp 3 is out. Get your pre-orders in (they really help small fry like me get noticed by the evil alcoriddims). I'm also doing special bundles of all three (print and ebook) through my website. Please help me spread the word! 🖤 #WelcomeToTheGulp #Booksky

The awesome folks at Thunderstorm Books did an amazing limited edition of The Gulp and The Fall, which sold out very quickly. Now that The Rise is coming out, if any publishers out there are interested in doing a limited hardcover special edition of all three together, call me!

It’s 44 degrees here at the moment - that’s a Bilboesque 111 degrees for the Muricans out there. Watching 2/3 of America experiencing the next ice age while that is going on here, all I can say is, and climate deniers: go move to somewhere low-lying.

If any publisher out there wanted to talk about a fancy hardcover omnibus limited edition of all three books... well, that would be a fine conversation. 👀

Apropos of something: Fuck cancer.

Large parts of my state (and the wider Australia) are under a catastrophic bushfire risk warning today. We have long since stopped being subtle in our warnings here. This will not be a fun day for many, many folks.

Well there’s a thing. Little St. James Island (nowadays known as "Epstein Island") was historically part of the Danish West Indies. It was sold to the USA in 1917, and as part of that agreement the USA declared that they would have no objection to Denmark extending sovereignty over Greenland.

Melbournians: remember to put some cold water in a tray (or ice block water) out for chickens birds etc

If you straight up admit to a mistake: 1. It really catches people off-balance and often stops them in their tracks mid-rant. 2. You will find many people are unexpectedly willing to help you fix a thing afterwards.

Watched a storm come over followed by an absolute cracker of a sunset last night. Small pleasures.

Trying to take down and pack Christmas lights by myself and I think I’ve discovered a new form of quantum entanglement.

From at least 8 years ago. As an Aussie, I’m pretty up with the lingo, and I’d never heard this phrase before this post. It was nearly universally adopted shortly thereafter because this post speaks absolute truth about Aussies.

Buffnugget says “I’m considering removing your arms if you come closer”. #straya

#Straya says “good morning”.

Nice way to round out the year, getting acquainted with Jeremy the kookaburra at a friend’s place 🪶

I don't want it, Sam Alt Man

I've set up a direct pre-order for signed paperbacks of THE RISE through my website. The only way I could do it was to charge now and then the books will ship in February on publication. But if you wanted to secure your signed copy, please and thank you here: alanbaxter.com.au/my-books/the...

With the sadly infrequent exception of Big Bag of Money Mail, Book Mail remains the best mail. I just received part 3 of @alanbaxter.bsky.social’s Indigestion Trilogy* several months ahead of release because I frequently patronise him**. Support artists! *Not a Real Thing **Actual Patreon perk

My good fiends, THE RISE: Tales From The Gulp 3 is coming in February and is available for pre-order at all good bookshops now. I hope you'll give this next installment a go! All the details here: alanbaxter.com.au/my-books/the...

I got the first proof copy of THE RISE. It looks great! In this video, I see it for the first time and talk a bit about the series and this new book in particular. It'll be available for pre-order soon. Releases Friday 13th Feb '26. I hope you'll give it a go! #WelcomeToTheGulp #Booksky

Official release date: Friday 13th of Feb '26. Seems like an auspicious date. Pre-orders coming very soon. I'm excited!

This is partly why I’m not quite fully invested in using AI just yet.

Far better than ordering from the big river, although some caution is advisable. Lucky for me I did really enjoy this.

The manuscript is back from the editor, which means I can go through the edits and then get both print and ebook ARCs up within the next week or two. So if you're one of those awesome review folks and you'd like an early read, please hit me up! Pre-orders will be up soon too.

Once again, I'd like to point out that an edit button on a platform like this is a terrible idea because anyone quoting or even liking your post can be manipulated. If you make a mistake, just copy, delete, paste, correct and post again. It's really simple.

Top points for this #Halloween installation.

Change one letter, ruin a candy Spittles

This comment implies that I, even after watching this half a dozen times, have any notion as to how this works. But holy hell that’s an amazing skill!

My neighbours are not mucking about this #Halloween