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unclekins.bsky.social
Writer/published author/berk. Third book, the sci-fi thriller Parallels, out this May from Deixis Press, followed by It's Hard to Tell You This in September. Also self-publish sci-fi as Ray Adams. https://linktr.ee/unclekins He/him ✝️
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I'm actually making sales. This is unexpected.

Up the Forum for the Independent Book Fair. If you're in Norwich, come say hello!

Find me at the Norwich Independent Book and Zine Fair THIS SATURDAY! Buy books, meet me and Foreword Festival UK co-founder Jackie Carreira, and talk to us about festivals, writing, and what reading means to you. The Forum, NR2 1TF, 9am-5pm. FREE entry! See you there ... 👋 #booksky #norwich 📚💙

Looking forward to this on Saturday! I'll be there with my last few copies of 'Portals', among other things. #poet #poetry #SFFpoetry #specpo #book #books

Here's my cat.

Watching Murder in Reverse? starring William Hartnell. And also... Chili Bouchier. Quite a name, quite a gal.

Yup. That’s the one.

I'm 100% in favor of flunking students who use AI to complete assignments, which is also known as cheating. More importantly, they're cheating themselves. Learn the content, do the work, and earn the grade. If they fail the course, then they fail.

PRE-ORDER NOW! @unclekins.bsky.social's "thrilling ride of a book" Parallels is out on 22 May, but you could have a hardback in your hands direct from the press this week if you're quick about it. (Or pre-order any other format from your fave book retailer.) Order info at linktr.ee/deixispress

I haven't yet reached out to Beachwood Public Library or their community partners--I'll do so in the morning--but I've decided I'm making it my singleminded purpose to ensure they have all the funding they require to replace all 100 books by this Friday.

Art of the Deal!!

Republicans went down rabbit holes to find conspiracies and created a web with red yarn to try to connect Joe Biden to corruption while Trump boards a gifted jet from Qatar to sell his meme coins before he plays golf at his hotel that he charges the taxpayers to guard with Secret Service agents…

Great writeup for @unclekins.bsky.social's Parallels in New Scientist--it's a pick for one of their best new science fiction books of May 2025! (tinyurl.com/parallelsNS). You can PRE-ORDER THIS GEM NOW at deixis.press/books/p/para... or from your preferred bookstore!

Just seen Parallels has made the New Scientist's best new sci-fi of May... www.newscientist.com/article/2478...

Giant sausage.

Absolutely losing my mind at Harry Hill - so good live.

I will be in NORWICH on Wednesday - tickets here bookbugsanddragontales.com/product/INCE...

This afternoon on the Substack I'm talking honest reviews. Make sure you're signed up 👉 unclekins.substack.com

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

I am unapologetically telling you right now that Chicago is going to be insufferable about this, there is still a fading cardboard John Paul II in a Michigan Ave storefront looking out at Grant Park because he spoke there *once.*

Donald Trump can still become pope if Mike Pence has the courage.

It's not just me with a new book from Deixis Press this year. See what my stablemates are up to. open.substack.com/pub/deixispr...

Thought I'd lost my work coffee mug, but somebody obviously thought they were being helpful by moving it up to the windowsill in the kitchen. Right above the sink, like I'm ever going to see it there.

Star Trek TNG: Unification pt 2 Hey, TV guys, if some of your drama relies on the surprise reveal of a certain character, how about not flagging them up in the opening credits?

That's all right, innit

Short novels are dominating awards. Should writers care?, asks James Kinsley 👇 #BookSky

Your boy's in the Independent. www.independent.co.uk/voices/book-...

The new series of Taskmaster - instant vintage. I'm so here for Fatiha El-Ghorri.

Every travesty, every sorry story coming over from America will be repeated here if Farage is given power by the British electorate.

Wait, Darren f___ing Grimes is now a Reform councillor?? Does anyone actually read the names instead of just the party when voting?

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

Every thing Trump is doing to ruin America, Farage would do here given half the chance. And still Reform's share of the vote goes up. We're not a crisis point yet, but it's coming

Trump on Day One: Your costs will be lower immediately. Trump on Day 100: Your kids will now have fewer toys and also you're going to pay higher prices.

Over an hour into this film and I'm still trying to work out if I've seen it before. I am my father's son

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

Oh my word, is there anything more exciting than the start of a new project...

Angellica Bell is on the One Show. I won't lie, she really revs my engine. (We're all allowed one sexist social media post, right?)