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tyburntree.bsky.social

...I am Fortune's fool. Author of The Jesuit Letter, Black Dog and Thieves' Castle. Marketer, writer, cat wrangler, walker of bear-dogs.

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[Exit King.]

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

Hah! Thought you had me, didn't ya! Wordle 1,455 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Had a beer with Yaphet Kotto at a hotel bar once.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Trying to decide if I keep pursuing potential book agents, or indie publishing the new Tyburn Folios book SORCERER STREET. Thoughts?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Impressed myself. Wordle 1,452 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Your astonishing artifact this week is a 3,400-year-old statuette of a horse on wheels pulling the sun. 🏺🧪

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth. From Saturn. We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.

submitted 12 days ago • 439 comments

I was checking out a livecam of Venice (as one does when one is planning a trip) and caught this gorgeous view.... Can't wait.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Watching the Elon/Trump X-slap fight escalate makes me wonder: Just how high can you pile stupid upon stupider before the Everest of idiocy collapsed upon itself?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe, this brief period of human history during which we mainly relied on science, evidence and factual-based decision-making is the aberration. The clock has now been re-set to an age of vibes, feelings, conspiracies and paranoia. Maybe the demon-haunted world Sagan predicated is the real one.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Good potential book title... But not my genre.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

And who hasn't had a cheat day like that?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Damn. Sold another book. Two days in a row. I'm on a spree!

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Hidden (but cool) Elizabethans: "Cutting" Ball - notorious London cutpurse, infamous enough to have a ballad penned about him (unfortunately lost to time). He is known largely due to his sister Em, mistress to Robert Greene, the playwright & Richard Tarleton, play-actor & clown.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Most iconic tree in the neighborhood came crashing down last night. Sad, but after more than a century, time caught up to it.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Time for another #Shakespeare @ The Movies! So let's dive into one of the most famous (and fabulous) of Shakespeare's works - the rousing Henry V (1989).

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Damn. Sold a book. Yay me!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

[Exit King.]

Hah! Thought you had me, didn't ya! Wordle 1,455 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Had a beer with Yaphet Kotto at a hotel bar once.

Trying to decide if I keep pursuing potential book agents, or indie publishing the new Tyburn Folios book SORCERER STREET. Thoughts?

Impressed myself. Wordle 1,452 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Your astonishing artifact this week is a 3,400-year-old statuette of a horse on wheels pulling the sun. 🏺🧪

If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth. From Saturn. We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.

I was checking out a livecam of Venice (as one does when one is planning a trip) and caught this gorgeous view.... Can't wait.

Watching the Elon/Trump X-slap fight escalate makes me wonder: Just how high can you pile stupid upon stupider before the Everest of idiocy collapsed upon itself?

Maybe, this brief period of human history during which we mainly relied on science, evidence and factual-based decision-making is the aberration. The clock has now been re-set to an age of vibes, feelings, conspiracies and paranoia. Maybe the demon-haunted world Sagan predicated is the real one.

Good potential book title... But not my genre.

And who hasn't had a cheat day like that?

Damn. Sold another book. Two days in a row. I'm on a spree!

Hidden (but cool) Elizabethans: "Cutting" Ball - notorious London cutpurse, infamous enough to have a ballad penned about him (unfortunately lost to time). He is known largely due to his sister Em, mistress to Robert Greene, the playwright & Richard Tarleton, play-actor & clown.

Most iconic tree in the neighborhood came crashing down last night. Sad, but after more than a century, time caught up to it.

Time for another #Shakespeare @ The Movies! So let's dive into one of the most famous (and fabulous) of Shakespeare's works - the rousing Henry V (1989).

Damn. Sold a book. Yay me!

“You show me how to control a wild fucking gypsy and I'll show you how to control an unhinged, pig-feeding gangster.” it's been that kind of day.

Pompeii is pretty awesome.

This.