Can anyone help me? Some of you may have noticed it's taking a long time for the promised republication of Mars Evacuees and Space Hostages to come through.
The issue is we'd like to reuse the original covers. The artist has generously agreed. We CANNOT get an answer from Harper Collins UK.
For anyone with outstanding Audible credits (cough, hint)
The Dream Team failed. Total shock. We sent two of our most mediocre real estate developers and a fraud. Who could’ve guessed this outcome?
Your regular reminder that the US had a pain-stakingly negotiated and workable deal with Iran when Trump came to power, but he tore it up. He's now desperately trying to secure a deal much worse than the one he set aside.
Just because a President announces he’s agreed to a two week ceasefire moments before he threatened to commit war crimes, does not mean he is suddenly fit to serve. #25thAmendment
The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon
But he is probably 100% accurate…..
Sign on freeway overpass in Los Angeles.
Football, and sport in general, will be in a better place without #FIFA.
The whole world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will smash you with a hammer. But first they must catch you.
2026 so far...
April Fools!
No? For real?
Fuck.
#Aprilfools
This is what the current President of the USA, having taken his country to war, chooses to discuss via his social media account...
May he burn in hell.
I've always appreciated the career of the late Stuart Gordon because while he was certainly worked with a lot of budgetary limitations, his movies never FEEL like they've been compromised. They're always outsized visions - as gruesome and silly and weird as he can swing them.
Pete Hegseth’s broker tried to line up a multimillion-dollar investment in defense companies just weeks before the US –Israeli attack on Iran.
Now it’s blowing up on Hegseth.
🚨 Today House Oversight opened an investigation & wants answers from Hegseth, plus execs at Morgan Stanley and BlackRock.
David Dimbleby labels King Charles’ US visit ‘an embarrassment’ - urging ministers to call it off
BBC presenter says he feels sorry for monarch having state dinner with leader who ‘goes out of his way’ to insult Britain, UK troops and Nato
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Start with Tesla.
A French private members’ parliamentary bill to help protect creators’ copyright from being used by artificial intelligence operators is on its way as planned 👇 #BookSky
ICYMI - Samuel L. Jackson (!!) narrated this powerful video for Saturday's No Kings rally about the strength of Minnesotans protesting ICE:
"When your neighbors are being attacked and your communities are being targeted, you don't give up. You don't look away. You don't back down. You showed up."
Tuesday
Never thought I’d see the President of the United States threatening to commit blatant war crimes on social media, but here we are.
RUBIO: “Imagine if Iran spent billions on its people instead of weapons... They’d have a much different country.”🤔😕
Unreal. @marcorubio Do you even hear yourselves? Your shameless hypocrisy is killing us
Signing the Jitterbug special edition
I never used Grammerly, because it never did really understand the point of grammar and just...used a bunch of rules. Grammar (and punctuation and even spelling) is actually really squishy and alive and changing.
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 21: There is no excuse for using gen. AI. None at all. If Jean-Dominique Bauby could write THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY using nothing but determination, brainwork and his eyelids, then you can manage without cheating.
Jonathan returns to a favourite author today as he reviews Aliya Whiteley's THE MISHEARD WORLD, out now from Solaris:
"a triumph of speculative fiction"
Read more: tinyurl.com/28cjxkwj
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
The more noise is made about this, the better for all #authors and #artists. No, it's not right to use #AI to write your books. #Writers need to show integrity. We peddle fictions, after all. Our #authentic writer-selves are the only facts that are, and always should be, real.
The release of a horror novel, “Shy Girl,” was canceled after allegations that the author had used A.I. to write the book.
Over the last few years, American tech oligarchs have become the greatest argument against their own existence.
The sheer scale of their erratic behavior and political interference proves that extreme wealth concentration is a structural threat to society
Ossoff: "The American people need to know that the president is fundraising for his political campaign and his PAC using images of American service members killed in action, and it's a disgrace"
