You did indeed. And it has been lovely to see you - hopi g ti see you in the bar in a wee while. I will be engaged in Project Optimal Caffeine. ;)

At Eastercon for the day. Please do say hello.

Thank you so much to Stephanie Burgis, who popped in this week to sign her book!

Wooing the Witch Queen is our Welsh Book of the Month for February; the opening instalment in a delightful cosy romantasy trilogy, which finds a feared sorceress falling for a dark wizard

“Is this thing on?” is wonderful. Bravo Bradley Cooper, Will Arnett and Laura Dern.

Oh, nice tip! Will definitely read that. Thank you.

Morning, Womble. I’m currently reading “A Comic’s Life Born Standing Up by Steve Martin”. Very good. He is an excellent writer - whether trying to be funny or not.

Why do 90% of video clips on the internet/social now all come with these beige inane explainers clearly written by AI?

A promotional image for the Barnes and Noble preorder promotion: it shows the cover of the novel The Survivor by Andrew Reid and that Barnes and Noble are offering 25 percent off preorders until the end of January the 1st.

Bit of self-promotion to kick off the New Year: there is one day left to preorder my new book THE SURVIVOR at bn.com. You get 25% off with code PREORDER25.

This discount is only available to B&N members, but free memberships are available - learn more at barnesandnoble.com/membership/

a close up of a man wearing a pirate hat and a ring on his finger ALT: a close up of a man wearing a pirate hat and a ring on his finger

Happy New Year, all. Let’s get after it and make it a good one.

This. All of weary this.

Another year, another #WaveOfLight2025. Doesn’t feel like the 13th but it is. Sending love to all the other parents reflecting on loss this evening.

Cover of Charming by Jade Linwood (Gaie Sebold - purple surrounding a dark towel with various magical / fairy tale swirliness going on : a wolf, a pouch (of gold?) A fairy and a sword. Much better cover!

Gaie also writes as Jade Linwood. If feminist retelling of fairy tales are up your alley (and why wouldn't they be?) I recommend you pick up a copy of Charmed or Beast?

Gaie is a terrific writer and I've had the pleasure of working with her several times.

Slightly cheesy cover of Babylon Steel, a white lady (she's not white in the book) wearing silly armour and carrying a big sword. The quote from Mike Carey says "Ingenious, gripping and full of pleasure on every level. Exceptional."

Genre fans - our lovely friend Gaie Sebold deserves a boost right now. May I recommend Babylon Steel, a book where the cover absolutely fails to do justice to a story of found family and dimension hopping gods, all set in a brothel? It's an excellent book.

I love to go to Chat GPT 5 with its alleged “PhD level expertise” and an ask it about my MA thesis work and see that it really cannot do that level of academic work whatever. It can do a SIMULACRUM of that work, which might fool you if you did not have any expertise.

This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace.

It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.

They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.

Elon Musk @ X @elonmusk Follow We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors. Then retrain on that. Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data. 09:02 • 21/06/2025 • 13M Views @ 13к 17 12K 087K

This should worry everyone.

Got locked out for a period. Back now. Y’all good?

Any word on the cause of that fire need Heathrow!

Jendia Gammon holding a copy of her upcoming novel, ATACAMA

Stacks of Jendia Gammon’s novel ATACAMA

Stacks of books showing the front and back covers of the novel, ATACAMA by Jendia Gammon

The paperback front cover of the novel, ATACAMA by Jendia Gammon

It’s #unboxing day for ATACAMA, my speculative #thriller book out May 13 from @sleyhouseeditor.bsky.social! 36 interior illustrations by me! With cover art by @scribeofhades.bsky.social! PREORDER NOW!
#Unboxing #horror #scifi #booksky #comingsoon #books

Honestly this is the whole thing. While there are some professional bigots who will never change, I truly think a ton of everyday people who have been brainwashed by the hate campaign against trans folks would stop after meeting and learning from real trans folks. That's why they wanna silence us.

Can’t beat a full Welsh. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Some lovely people I don’t see enough of having fun👇 Go read their stuff!

Seeking to amplify good and positive news. If you can’t work out why *gestures west* *gestures east* *flounces off*

How are the general public in the US reacting to the Friday Whitehouse incident?

Adrian Tchaikovsky and Gareth L. Powell in Bath at Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath

Lovelies who are able to get to Bath, UK, on the evening of March 5th, I will be compering an event at Topping Books for the lovely authors @aptshadow.bsky.social and @garethlpowell.bsky.social . If you'd like to come along, you can book tickets here: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/bath/...

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

Wise thread 👇

Fair. It all has the sense of a powder keg waiting to go off.

What happens when the penny drops for The Orange One?

Migraines suck. Stay tuned for other hot takes.