@mbrown007
Friendly writer of thrilling SF, Fantasy, Horror. Screenwriter/Novelist. TTRPG enthusiast. Architecture/Design nut. Biography and history fiend. All around lover of art. Shouldering the burden of one massive TBR!
#ShortStory writers and readers in my neck of the woods and environs keep your eyes peeled next week for news of a mega event i'm doing at work for @leedslitfest.bsky.social in June. @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social devotees watch out too for another one the same week 👀👀👀🤐🤐🤐
LONDON FOLKS INTERESTED IN TOP DRAWER FICTION THAT WILL RIP YOU APART, AND BOOK EVENTS THAT WILL STEP OUTSIDE SAFE 'INDUSTRY' SOUNDBITES, SHOULD BE GOING TO THIS. TOMORROW. #GetKeshed
www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...
"$63,000 million" ?
Congrats!
Meet the “golden triangle” at the top of the British state.
They run Keir Starmer’s office, the king’s business, and the civil service.
In moments of crisis when the politicians can’t cope, they run Britain, too.
🔗 politi.co/3NmaATA
If you're scared of protesting or a general strike because you could lose your job, healthcare, and housing, or even go to jail, now you understand why the US has no universal healthcare or housing and no guaranteed parental leave, but DOES have the largest prison and police system on planet Earth.
Some reader will appreciate you being there.
Meanwhile, I got paid £800 for Keshed, and by the time you factor in 2 days off work on top of train, hotel, tube, food etc, I'm spending 75% of it coming to London to do a gig tomorrow with no fucking clue how many people are actually gonna turn up.
Currently available for sale on our website: The Jewel in the Crown. It's used, $6.99, and historical fiction set in India.
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‼️Join the Revolution!
We're looking for GMs to playtest the forthcoming Wolfenstein TTRPG. If you think you can handle blood, bullets, and big ol' blasts, sign-up via the NDA form on the Modiphius website by April 30th!
📨https://buff.ly/2ssxCch
#wolfenstein #Bethesda #machinegames #ttrpg
A judge threw out Columbia's expulsion orders last week, and this week, a court has ruled that students can sue the shitty little organisation that defamed them. hellgatenyc.com/group-that-c...
12 monkeys.
Haven't watched yet. Thanks for the reminder.
Popping out of my semi-social media hibernation to say: You should absolutely give this a watch. It's been bonkers and joyful and everything that's fun about Invisible Sun. Players overflowing with energy and creativity! (Bonus surprise foley work from Mother Nature, well timed!)
An Art Nouveau seahorse-shaped staircase banister in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
An Art Nouveau seahorse-shaped staircase banister in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Gotta love.
Haitian lives are as grievable as any of ours, and so often forgotten.
Please find my book review below for The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne written for FanFiAddict. A superb, gut-wrenching opening to The Bloodsworn Saga, a viking inspired #darkfantasy #grimdark #fantasyseries of truly epic scope. Brilliant. fanfiaddict.com/review-the-s... #fantasybooksky
“What we’re seeing right now is the culmination of decades of cultivated mistrust on the part of both Big Tech and the government,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @TheHill.com. “In a more perfect world, you have entities that you trust with your data.”
thehill.com/policy/tech...
Half of the places for our Madrid Salon in September are sold already.
Don't miss out! Still bursary places left too.
Join us!
I recently sat down with Gold and Gunpowder for a wide-ranging interview about art, pirates, copyrights, and my classic Captain Morgan artwork.
Love this cover.
What, and I mean this most sincerely, The Absolute Fuck?
By default, Grammarly’s new “Expert Review” feature uses users'/writers' names to give its AI suggestions credibility. And it's opt-OUT not opt-IN. And they didn't tell anyone they'd started doing it.
EFF has joined a brief in the Anthropic-DOD case explaining why forcing companies to alter their technology to facilitate surveillance violates the First Amendment.
If the KING CONAN film does not open with this exact same shot, the director has failed to understand the assignment.
Also a big batch of Robert McCammon books, including most of his Matthew Corbett series. (McCammon's one of my favorite writers.)
UK democracy in action.
Thousands of unpaid carers prosecuted for inadvertently breaching benefit rules.
No Post Office exec prosecuted for false prosecutions of postmasters.
In 2017, 72 people died in Grenfell fire. Execs “deliberately concealed” the fire risks of cladding. No one prosecuted.
This isn't exactly a surprise
“I believe that unions are about hope. That a better world is possible if we only have the courage to stand together and fight for one another," says WGAE Executive Director @samwheeler.bsky.social at Sunday's Writers Guild Awards.
Watch the full speech:
I’m incredibly curious about this and I’m going to try to catch it this weekend.