Choc-cherry vegan muffin with coffee - black as midnight on a moonless night. Reward for voting. Hooray for democracy!
Voted at 9am (below the line, of course) and feel amazing about our preferential democratic system. Tough going at the end, though. Who to put in *true* last place? The racists? The Trump-lites? The right-wingers?
I earned my #DemocracyMuffin and #DemocracyCoffee today 😘 #AusVotes
My monthly round-up is hitting newsletter subscribers right now, so check your inbox! You can also read it on my website and subscribe to the newsletter so you never miss a swear-filled rant about evil rich motherfuckers and horror books at www.michaelpatrickhicks.com/blog/marchin.... 💙📚 🩸📚
The most beautiful chocolate lab on the planet.
My chocolate lab looking like the regal queen she is - on her 9th birthday!
Happy 9th Birthday to this chocolate bundle of manic joy 🎉🎊 Your chin whiskers may be grey, but you're still a puppy at heart 🐶🥹
Thanks, Keith 🖤
I have a decent break coming up - something I haven't had in years. I want to write again, and read. But I also need to think about my existing books.
RESEMBLING LEPUS is out of print (on sale for $2.99 on Kindle! 🐰). TALLWOOD is also out of print. Two more need homes.
Not sure 3 weeks is enough 😂
Vibrant Melbourne skyline seen through trees. Glossy glass buildings and a blue/grey sky.
A glimpse of Melbourne's skyline on a pre-summer day. First time I've been able to get out and away from the desk at lunchtime in months - and what a sight 😍
#melbs
Devastating story with an incredible score.
Made me giggle 🤭
Cicada husk clinging to tree bark. Side view.
Cicada husk clinging to tree bark. Top down view.
First sighting of the season 💚 Noisy little buggers, but the first sign that summer is truly on its way.
For anyone following at home, you'll know my books that were with Grey Matter Press are currently out of print. Devouring Dark and the Eli Carver books are looking for a new home, but I'll be reissuing my second collection, Served Cold, independently in the next few weeks. Watch this space!
Okay, 2024, let's see how we're going 😬
☠️ Lost 3 trees in a storm - $$$$!
☠️ Severed a nerve in my right arm: had microsurgey. Skin still numb, but have full use of my fingers. Lucky!
☠️ Work this year is a brutal time-suck and mentally draining
🖤 Cat almost 20 (Oct) 🐈⬛
Could be worse, though!
Attention-starved Golden Retriever stealing the limelight from an ancient black cat.
What cat?
Plastic Krampus in the deep dark depths of a Christmas tree. He comes alive only at night 😁
Krampus hiding in the tree.
Now it's Christmas 😈 🎄
Golden retriever with the most downcast and pathetic body language you will ever see from being forced to wear a cone of shame.
Thousand-yard stare....
The Holy Grail of Aussie ice cream - The fabled Golden Gaytime. Now available in Plant Based ice cream and crumbs and be still my heart, I'm going to eat the whole box!!!!!!
OMFG. I didn't know these existed and now I can have my fav icecream for the first time in over 20 years 😋😋😋😋.
Images of the most beautiful black cat the earth has ever known. We are not worthy to clean his tray. Pictured asleep, old with white whiskers, sleeping with dogs (but not getting fleas), and generally being tolerant of those around him. His Majesty: Jackums.
X-posting because he's WORTH IT!
He has been with me for almost 2 decades. His eyes are cloudy, his steps unsteady, and his purr-box stutters & skips. He caterwauls, gets lost & pees 11 times a day. But he loves the dogs, the heater (& maybe me). My beautiful bête noire turns 19 today.
HB, Jack 🐈
A graphic called A Reader's Guide To Alan Baxter showing the covers of all my books and how, in some cases, they go together. There are 32 book covers shown, covering novels, novellas, collections, non-fiction and 8 books co-written with David Wood.
Friends, I got permanently suspended from Twitter for being mean to rich people and the place is dying anyway. I'm trying hard to rebuild something here, because this place is cool. Please help spread the word that I'm around. I write dark books and I think you'll like them. www.alanbaxter.com.au
I've got a few as well, Alan.
One of my dearest friends, @keithgow.bsky.social has his play on in Melbourne right now: "Turn, Turn, Turn."
A wonderful Sci-Fi adventure - a land rush in space - playing with time, complex relationships, and the burdens of tradition.
On until 23 September.
artsreview.com.au/turn-turn-tu...
Here's me talking about what to expect from TURN, TURN, TURN when it opens soon www.theatreworks.org.au/post/in-conv...
It's early yet, but we wanna make sure that all Indie Publishers & Writers have time to get their affairs in order because:
🦑BRAVE NEW WEIRD opens for submissions on October 1st🐍
Info on the sub process COMING SOON.
Here's a peek at some cover doodlings in progress🖤☠️
Congrats to all the nominees for the Ditmar Awards prelim. @alanbaxter.bsky.social is killing it! 👏👏👏
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I love this so much. I'd totally hang that on my wall 😍🌑
So happy to hear that! (Waving from an Imposter Syndrome postcode not so far away) 🖤🖤🖤
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No sugar coating in this terrific overview of book publishing today. Keep writing, everybody 🖤🖊️📝 (not you, AI).
Cauldron mug with feet!
Always coffee, black. Mostly in this 🖤☕
So, my plan here is not to do this very often, but I am very supportive of other writers. I read. I review. I post and I do that because I love to read, and I know how tough it is to get noticed. My most recent book is The Devil's in the Flaws & Other Dark Truths... I'd love readers/reviews.
Resembling Lepus novella cover. Blue with a robotic rabbit on the front.
The DITMAR AWARDS are open for nominations! Any Aussie readers who have a yen to nominate my novella, RESEMLBING LEPUS: my eternal thanks! There were so many terrific works released last year so go vote for all your favs!
Nomination forms and details: https://conflux.org.au/blog/ Closes 14 Aug!