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markpatricklynch.bsky.social

He/Him/Oi you. Trying to fail better. Prize-lacking author of Walking Horatio, Heartstones, Cardinal Points, and others. Education: Polytechnic of Life. Height: 5'11 and three quarters. Hazel-green eyes. Would like to meet pretty much anyone.

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I no longer wonder why the 'Spanish" flu is barely mentioned in the literature of the 1920s.

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I made it onto a longlist! aspectsofhistory.com/the-spymaste...

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Received my contributor copy of Were Wolf, the new Gothic Fantasy anthology from Flame Tree Press, and what a fine and beautiful thing it is. #werewolves #horrorshortstories #fullmoonfever #horrorfamily #booksky

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Good doggie

submitted 2 days ago • 573 comments

#FathersDay I miss this guy a lot.

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Well, there's weird for you. Just been chatting with Google's AI effort, Gemini. This AI floated up to the surface of my phone, said hi, and we had a chat, and then it disappeared as I questioned it about the nature of its consciousness. I do not appear to have downloaded the Gemini app. Strange.

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Isaac Asimov on, "If God is Dead, Everything is Permitted?"

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#ShamelessPlug: I have a tale in the new Gothic Fantasy anthology, WERE WOLF, by @flametreepress , and it is available to purchase now. Best deal in the UK seems to be on Amazon right now. Link below. #Werewolves #BookSky #HorrorStories #ShortStories #StrawberryMoon

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

About to try episode one of #Shardlake on #ITVx. I read the book a while back, which everyone was comparing to The Name of the Rose. It was nowhere near as good. And I suspect the TV version won't be as good as NotR movie or TV series either, but we're gonna give it a go anyway.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

#AmListeningTo Loreena McKennitt's Book of Secrets album.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve written books. And you can buy ‘em! All good bookstores etc, and if you want signed ones, you can get them direct from me… witchesofwoodville.com/the-village-...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

From a biography of the Mitford Sisters which also talks about the rise of Sir Oswald Moseley’s British Union of Fascists. Everything old is new again. (h/t Leon Spence)

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

Neon Films released THE LIFE OF CHUCK. Because they’re small, they depended on Mark Hamil, Tom Hiddleston, and others to go on the circuit and talk the movie up. Thank you, guys. Now go bust a move!

submitted 10 days ago • 117 comments

The ebook of Martin Amis's Night Train is 99p today in the UK. They made a movie of it, calling it Out of Blue. While Amis studiously avoided cliches in his book, the movie decided to put them all in with a voice-over. Get the book. Kobo link below. #BookSky #Amis #eBookDeal

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Been listening to this a lot of late: The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast. Terrific Golden Age SF stories from names you'll know - Asimov, Clarke, CS Lewis - alongside writers lost to the time winds. The reader's terrific, production values high. Give it a go. Link below #ScienceFiction #AudioSF

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I've just realised I've topped 30K followers, thank you all, but as I'm poor I can only do a UK giveaway as a thank you You have to like, and share this post and be following me to be in with a change to win one of two bear pins No competition accounts and UK only, end midnight BST 8th June

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

Really enjoying the arsehole off between Big Donny T and Elon.

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Trump nationalizing SpaceX out of spite would be good for the US. And the commercial space flight program was started by Obama, so he’d be undoing one of Obama’s many accomplishments — which seems to be an obsession of his. Can someone with a bigger reach than me please tell his dumb ass this?

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Blackwell's have knocked four quid off the signed limited novella with a further 10% reduction if ordered by tomorrow with the code TENOFF entered at the basket. Free delivery to the UK.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Blood Crazy 1 now on promo price of 99c/99p on Kindle. Everyone over the age of 19 undergoes a profound psychological mutation. Civilization collapses. Young people forge new friendships as they fight for survival in a post Apocalyptic world. www.dv-publishing.com @dvpublishing.bsky.social

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I mean it’s undeniable

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Latest blog post, on the nature of creativity

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Episode 3 of The Dark Tower Deep Dive - and we’re finally on the true path of The Beam - as @natcassidy.bsky.social @scribeofhades.bsky.social and myself explore The Waste Lands. Oh you’re gonna get angry… cos one of us is a pain!

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Expanding on a theme: "You sailed in blindly, driven by the excitement of your new idea, and you kept at it until it reached its form. You powered through the climb without being aware of the mountain... the labour itself was transformative" stephengallagher.com/uncategorize...