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thedecentbrief.bsky.social
Creator of the best-selling Amazon No 1 Charles Holborne legal crime series published by @saperebooks.bsky.social. Www.simonmichaelauthor.com.
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submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

When you come back from a fab few days in Paris, and find this over your garden. “There’s no place like home… there’s no place like home.”

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I found this very persuasive. Put simply, expecting reason to work with Trump is a waste of time. He will say anything - and be perfectly happy contradicting himself - to justify his actions. Emmanuel and Keir are on a hiding to nothing. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

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Audio drama is to be cut from Radio 3, the only platform for 90-minute full-length radio plays. Write or love radio drama? Then sign the petition supported by Equity, the Writers’ Guild and @societyofauthors.bsky.social Many great playwrights & screenwriters started on BBC drama. chng.it/RQhtxfyVK4

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

Off tomorrow to newwritingnorth.com/event/screen... to meet TV movers and shakers (and many wide-eyed naïfs) armed with option promises, “The Brief” pitchdeck, an elevator pitch and unrealistic hopes. Wish me luck!

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

We get some gorgeous sunsets up here, but this one’s particularly lovely. Time for a G&T methinks.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

getabookdeal101.com/chfbinsider/?

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

This reminds one of 1939s Germany. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/h...

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Thinking about a new T shirt. What do you think?

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Published and Unpublished authors are invited to enter the Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition. With a £500 cash prize, what do you have to lose? Deadline: 6.00pm February 28, 2025. Details here: https://buff.ly/4gN0sfG

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Oh, yes! I’d give a year’s book royalties to charity if @kitharringtonig.bsky.social were to play Charlie. Imagine Rumpole meets 1960’s Michael Caine! (But can he do Cockney?)

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

Just caught Radio 4’s ‘Crossing Continents’ when the OH announced that she dislikes it or, more specifically, it’s title. “What’s the matter with it?" I ask, puzzled. “I feel sorry for all those cross incontinents. You wouldn't want a show to highlight your incontinence. No wonder they're cross.'

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

For those who asked (you're so sweet!) book 10, provisionally entitled "The Fall Guy", is finished, with @saperebooks.bsky.social and due for pre-order on Amazon on April 7th. And TV series hopes still alive.

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk is inimical to democracy and I can't in conscience continue using his platform. I'm off to bsky.media, handle thedecentbrief.

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Hi. Elon and I are no longer on speaking terms. I give the bros 3 months max.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments