Yay, “Wonderlands”! My #StarTrekDiscovery book about what Burnham did on her gap year in the far future. It’s like a mini-series entry before S3. You should definitely get it and maybe even read it too.
Launching soon! Beautiful annotated facsimile manuscript edition of M.R. James's classic ghost story 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'. Thinking about it? Sign up for notifications here:
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BROKEN VEIL II
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NO MORE GREY RAINBOWS I may not understand you in your entirety (who does of any of us?) But my inability to totally comprehend Doesn't mean the end of empathy And I find your identity easier to conceive Than the hatred you engender with your gender Always space within the papers For rumours of a trans rapist Not so much for the cis male abuser After all "it was his right to use her Not his fault she wouldn't comply At least he's a normal guy" "Church lets little boys wear tiaras!" Such children should be beaten by their fathers Time spent best defining women Not defending People who never used to care about the condition of a jail Now obsessed with the incarceration of the improper female Better to make a trans child hide Better death by suicide Than the offence of being beyond your imagination We shrink the world with pointless hate Stand up Embrace Enlarge the possibilities of palettes in our personalities Conceive more colours And with this new lens Find rainbows in our side
Cover of Let The Quiet Ones Rise
A poem for #transdayofvisibility - I travel the UK and I find far more love and acceptance for trans people than fear and suspicion. Sadly, this is not reflected in our media and our politics
Review for A Fragile Thing: Ellis's depictions of Victorian East London in A Fragile Thing are so vivid that you absolutely believe you are there, wandering the gas lamp laden streets with the alarmingly driven, obsessive Isaac Bercow. From the strange, dark theatrics of the book's first scene, through the ways in which Bercow seeks to profit from the strange gifts he is given, it was impossible to put this down.
If you're thinking about A Fragile Thing, perhaps this review from @kevharrison.bsky.social might persuade you ...
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The cinema gods must be feeling generous today
We'll be discussing Spinach by E F Benson LIVE on Substack (please join us) on the 30th, not the 31st, just so you know. That's Monday the 30th of March, 9pm (UK time), live on Substack linktr.ee/haunted_book...
It felt like ours was going to start throwing trivia questions at us between screens as we went through the steps of the process.
Our next oven is going to have a sundial!
I've been reading Emmanuel Carrère's biography of Philip K Dick, I Am Alive & You Dead.
It's fascinating stuff, but blimey it's bleak in places. Which isn't a surprise when you think of PKD's stories.
It's felt similar to reading The Life & Death of Peter Sellars. That inevitable sense of doom ahead
We just tackled that in our house. Spent so long getting the hours right that the minutes were wrong.
Comic Peeps.
This will sound dumb.
I can outline a story fine, but how do you break it down into issues/chapters for Webcomic/Ongoing Series or Mini Series?
Do you just pluck beats and flesh them out as you go issue by issue, or do you outline the whole thing down to each issue individually?
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Hello Lunchtime Crowd! A feast of SF for you today!
A lot of Nirvana t shirts at the garden centre today.
"There will come a time when the rich own all the media, & it will be impossible for the public to make an informed opinion"-Albert Einstein ("HAPPY 2015", 6ftx9ft, charcoal&graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton")
I read my first Miss Marple this week, They Do It with Mirrors. I was really surprised by the pace of it. At times, Marple almost becomes a background character in her own book, but there's no doubt she's always watching every character.
Very different to the Poirot I've read, but just as excellent
I did that with Rivers of London. Loved the 1st two and left it too long. I tried a few of the audio books, but I know I need to go back and start them again soon.
Walking into a small port town with a mine full of evil & a mayor who might've killed his way to the top is one thing. Turning my mushroom bard's triangle into a gem encrusted mage weapon is something else.
And it's all just another night in Daggerheart.
Photo of a copper coloured coin featuring the profile of a male head which has an indented message across it stating 'Votes for women'
Suffragette-defaced Edward VII penny with subversive political graffiti for the UK women's suffrage cause - 20thC, via British Museum #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth
UK #DEAL ALERT! One clickers untie because CITY OF LAST CHANCES @aptshadow.bsky.social is on #sale on #Kindle UK for today only!
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Just out exclusively for my wonderful, beautiful Crowley Time supporters, a new episode of BEHIND THE TIME where @odinnoh.bsky.social and I go over our joys, our struggles and some cut material from the recent Episode 42! Sign up at patreon.com/crowleytime to get it! 🗣️💬
Three book covers at bottom of graphic: The Wild Dark, Where the Soul Goes, Undead Folk. Found poem to the left: Cleansing Chaos echoes with wolves of death, a purgatory of damnation, human floods of ash and ghost, a harrowing cleansing. Connected to Hell, the road is choked by darkness.
#WiHM Today's found poem is for @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social
(NB. Agents should be lining up for her work!)
In anticipation of SNL UK, a lot of people are asking whether British sketch comedy can be good. And of course it can. It always has been. Just look at... Crowley Time with me, Tom Crowley.
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Pay me to write hairy monster stuff. Factual or fictional or anywhere in between. Thanks.
Sounds like it's going to be an amazing time!
My event on the Fringe website
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A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon.
This week: Credits in the Straight World, featuring Young Marble Giants, Hole, death and taxes.
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Terry Pratchett in a blue jacket and Akubra hat holding a young owl for release.
Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️
In Orbit Every Wednesday! Dan Abnett & INJ Culbard join the show to talk about Brink -- the sci-fi comic you SHOULD be reading! 🌕
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Next week has been stressful
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