Think I’ve just missed the Solaris bus*, but I’ll also be heading up to Fcon tomorrow for a couple of panels, looking forward to seeing everyone 🍻 *if it’s anything like the Vengabus, I can hopefully rejoin it in a wide range of cities

Malcolm was my boss for seventeen years and a very good friend for every one of those years. He scaled the heights of mainstream publishing but was always a tireless advocate for, and fan of, SFF. He was constant, gracious, very funny and a brilliant publisher. The genre owes him so much. Go well.

don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit

This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose

Periodic reminder that dropping a note telling a writer you liked a thing they wrote takes like 4.5 seconds and recharges our batteries for 27-28 hours a pop

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

Wonderful, congratulations Adrian! 🍻

A full rundown of my autumn / winter online creative workshops can be found here. Five workshops (2.5 hours) and one talk / Q&A (2 hours), covering both prose and poetry writing, led by a writer with over a decade of experience, including five novels and five books of poetry. Only £28 to book on.

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

Mould and mold will confuse me forever

Brilliant