I am once again going to the post office to post a book.
perhaps you would like a book?
if so, you can get one at the link below and I can add it to the shipment.
"one of the best cyberpunk books I've read in years" @starkholborn.bsky.social
"a unique experience" @runalongwomble.bsky.social
This government will throw money at any business person who says their dodgy product is going to fix every problem, but ignore actual evidence and experts when it comes to investing in welfare.
This week on the Game Narrative Kaleidoscope Podcast:
Historian and game writer @hollynielsen.bsky.social talks about building plausible deniability into your world-building by pinning lore on sources.
Check it out here:
www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...
... or any-podcast-place!
Two game Dev friends In a bar
Me at Tower Bridge
Tower bridge
Over the next 2 days @starkholborn.bsky.social and I will have SIXTEEN meetings with publishers at the @londongamesfest.bsky.social
Wish us luck with our wee game! And if you're there too, come say hi. We're not hard to spot.
Had a blast speaking at AdX last year! Go for it, narrative friends ๐
went to check out the techno rave outside Parliament and I don't think I have the data allowance to share a video from it but let me tell you: there sure is a techno rave outside Parliament right now, celebrating Orban getting ousted
Here's something nice: VIANNE on Kindle UK for just 99p till the end of April! www.amazon.co.uk/Vianne-irres...
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Morning Womble! I just started The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich - a hard read but mind bogglingly good
It was taken in 1971 as part of his series Where Time Has Vanished. The motion of a car's shadow across the landscape
Shadow of Car Driving through Desert, Arizona.
Ikko Narahara, 1971
Ok who's at London Games Festival next week? (specifically the GFM?)
Wave and I'll try to find you and say hi!
24th May - @starkholborn.bsky.social will be returning! Novelist, games writer, film reviewer and author of books with fabulous names like Triggernometry and Nunslinger, there's never a shortage of things to discuss with Stark on the show!
Celebrem l'enรจsim gol del Barรงa acabant la lectura de Vuit de Hel, de @starkholborn.bsky.social publicat per @chronos.cat i traduรฏt per @annallis.eurosky.social โค๏ธโค๏ธ Quina saga tan divertida! Western a l'espai, en una lluna amb unes formes de vida molt especials โค๏ธ
Released TODAY! ๐
"A cracking page-turner of a thriller" - @dakegra.bsky.social
Get your copy now โฌ๏ธ
shorturl.at/G6YL0
#ThePeoplesRepublicOfLove #SeenVsReal
@julieacrisp.bsky.social @srlpublishing.bsky.social
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@stephenking.bsky.social
@penguinlibros.bsky.social
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Sometimes, in narrative design, you have to embrace the chaos - that's how you know you're doing something ambitious.
Check out the full conversation with @starkholborn.bsky.social here:
www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...
Haha, a sub genre of one is still a sub genre! (And me too, thanks again)
Nuclear waste!
I had an absolute blast recording this! Go check it out - you won't see me waving my hands about wildly but just know that I do a lot of it ๐
I'm so confused about what that means for who or what owns ly copyright (me or the ltd company) - it's on me to figure out but blasarghhhhhhh
but I don't WANT to make my tax digital
Yes, UK authors; just sign up, enter your books, - also articles, audiobooks etc - and let the ALCS pay you. It really is that easy.
Against a red velvet curtain background, the front cover for THE HAUNTING OF AVIS LOVELOCK by MK Hardy.
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Feast your eyes on @mkhardywrites.com's forthcoming supernatural Victorian mystery - THE HAUNTING OF AVIS LOVELOCK - revealed by The Nerd Daily!
Setting sail in August 2026. Preorder now https://geni.us/avisl
Cover by Black Sheep Design.
Picture shows For the Road by Stark Holborn. A green book with a chain; a hand; and a heart.
Aha look what arrived @starkholborn.bsky.social!
Ahhh awesome! Thank you ๐
I have an essay in this! But even if I didn't I'd urge you to pick it up; a fascinating, fun way to explore narrative concepts in games ๐
Our wonderful visiting lecturer on Interactive Digital Narrative @starkholborn.bsky.social wrote a piece for this!
Great looking collection, can't wait to add it to our library!
bloody love em. epistolary me up. (not related to my general output and latest novel at all, nope no)
loads of great books out last year that should be nominated for this but I'm waving the flag for @caspargeon.bsky.social's PKD Award nominated The Immeasurable Heaven: properly original, imaginative science fiction
www.waterstones.com/book/the-imm...
Promo for the event, which says: AWARDS SEASON SCIENCE-FICTION BSFA NOMINATED STARK HOLBORN PHILIP K DICK AWARD NOMINATED CASPAR GEON 6:30pm, Tuesday 10th March Star of Kings, near Kings Cross, London Free! (Donations welcome)
It's awards season in UK science fiction - come and meet BSFA nominee @starkholborn.bsky.social and Philip K Dick nominee @caspargeon.bsky.social - readings, chat, Q&A
Free! srfcmar2026.eventbrite.com
