Now Available - cover of DUNGEON CRAWL AT THE HAUNTED MALL by Jendia Gammon. Features an old 80s mall with 3 kids and a warlock.
At last! DUNGEON CRAWL AT THE HAUNTED MALL, my very own @chooseadventure.bsky.social book, is now available! Enter a spooky, abandoned 80s mall overtaken by a warlock from another dimension, if you dare! Perfect for fans of Stranger Things and Dungeons & Dragons! Get it from your favorite bookshop!
He was buggered from the moment he tried to take that unnecessary red. Could have gone 5 up. 5 up! But inexperience got him in the end. Great talent, though. He'll be back, and stronger for it.
Oh, no argument there. Our national lack of investment in the game is shocking.
Zhao was only 28 when he won it last year, to be fair. Not a teenager, but far from a fogey
Day trip to the beautiful lake-and-forest region of Trakai national park, to visit the 15th century island castle on Lake Galvė. Loooots of walking 😅 but worth it!
Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.
my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Come to Lithuania, see the, uh, cherry blossom? 🌸😮
(For the explanation, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_... )
Quirky retro cafes, national heroes, cathedral crypts, and weird bunny sculptures in a wheelbarrow. Yep, sounds like a day out in #Vilnius ☕🐺⛪🐰
(We came here last year on our train vacation across Northern Europe, and liked it so much we decided to visit again. Beautiful city 🇱🇹)
After an 0330 start (not a typo!) we find ourselves at last in Vilnius, the city whose founding mythology says that Grand Duke Gediminas dreamt of a howling iron wolf to which his pagan priest naturally said: "That means you should build a city here". None more metal 🤘
Oh, they have learned from it. They’ve learned to license that stuff out, thereby avoiding having to do it themselves.
A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.
A screengrab of the Scrivener progress tracker for the fifth Dog Sitter Detective book. It shows 1,617 words written this session, totalling 48,431 so far with a final target of 70,000 words.
Interrupted by travel and other commitments over the past few weeks, and now I’m off on vacation 😓 Still, not a bad place to leave things till I get back. Progress is progress 🐶🔍
The news is out - Blue Fox are publishing @paulcornell.bsky.social's fantastic new novella 'Last One Out in Lychford' - sign up link to the Kickstarter below!
And not just Scotland. Do this everywhere. Zero downside.
I've already written some! Two of my earliest graphic novels were rom-coms 😂
All dressed up to host Can You Solve the Murder? Live at the Agatha Christie Festival dinner tonight. Good luck to everyone taking part! 🔍
(Suit: Kathryn Sargent, shirt: Rhodes Wood, Tie: Thin Red Line, lapel pin: The Incomparable 🎙)
Pre-Festival pic with Agatha Christie Festival organiser Matt, @antonyjohnston.bsky.social, and The Swinging Christies themselves, Mark Aldridge and Gray Robert Brown!
Mine too! 😭
A phone that looks like an old-style rotary handset, but actually the numbers are buttons to push. The phone is a deep aqua colour, on a white hotel nightstand
Bedside phone at an almost brand-new hotel. That’s not a rotary dial – the numbers are push buttons – but still, I wonder how many youngsters this thing will baffle 😅☎
Off to Torquay to host Can You Solve the Murder? Live 🔍 at the Agatha Christie Festival Spring Gathering tomorrow. Today’s gonna be a loooong day of #TrainLife 🚆
I started writing cosies 😂
That's why I thought he was pulling my leg! But sometimes the industry has a short memory…
Totally 😂
Inspired by Ruth Ware over on Threads, a career in headshots 😅 Starting with two sessions with Charlie Chu (2008, 2009), then Chad Michael Ward (2017), and my most recent by Sarah Walton (2023). Watch me get slightly more cheerful over the years 😂
To be clear, he wasn't endorsing this, just reporting on the trend.
Thinking of following it up with one about a sickly prince who sells his soul to a cruel god in return for a sword that restores his strength when he fights with it
I had lunch with my editor last autumn and he told me the industry was starting to call it “Mantasy”. At first I thought he was pulling my leg 😂 But I’ve now seen it used in earnest a few times since…
