@mark-n-drake
Author - mostly horror. Before that: research physicist & university manager. Flits between rural Co. Durham & south of France. Check out www.markndrake.com for news/info. Free story for you at https://dl.bookfunnel.com/kn2xszai89. Please follow & say hi!
New story day! I’m SO proud of this one. “The Cold Burning Light of Her” is a flash fantasy released in this month’s issue of Lightspeed! Click below! 👇 🌙
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
Book cover with title Multitude by Marie Vibbert image of tentacles rising from a calm sea with stars behind small print cover design by Mikio Murakami Silent Q Design art by Robert CarterCracked Hat Illustration
Cover Reveal!! Pre-order my first-contact story about empathy, hope, and carnivorous squid, Multitude here: https://www.apexbookcompany.com/products/multitude?_pos=1&_psq=mult&_ss=e&_v=1.0
We still had a Comet 4C at Farnborough when I worked there. Though with a Nimrod's tailfin, as far as I can recall.
February Writing Round-Up
Read on for the stats, the updates, and the forthcoming news! I've got a few books in Itch bundles coming up, there's the Smashwords eBook sale 01-07Mar to look out for, and I've set out a round-up of all my writing this month.
If you'd like to support the publication of my forthcoming Darkisle novel 'The Collioure Coincidence' (or just browse my shop) then do please check out my new Ko-Fi page - it would be much appreciated! #booksky #horror
ko-fi.com/markndrake
If you'd like to support the publication of my forthcoming Darkisle novel 'The Collioure Coincidence' (or just browse my shop) then do please check out my new Ko-Fi page - it would be much appreciated! #booksky #horror
ko-fi.com/markndrake
A good way to end a Sunday, folks!
Pretty good list! I'd have to have Kate Bush in the mix somewhere. And probably Iain Banks. I might need more than 3...
So a night in the Cross Keys went down the rabbit hole of kids TV when I was a lad - here's the trajectory: Casey Jones, Champion the Wonder Horse, Swap Shop, Saturday Superstore, Live & Kicking, The Banana Splits, Arabian Nights, the 3 Musketeers, Double Deckers, Belle & Sebastian, White Horses.
And copyright expiry laws vary! Your post made me double-check my use of 1926's 'Bye Bye Blackbird' lyrics. Yes I'm ok under the 95 year rule but that's only the USA! The rule in UK/EU is 70 years after creator's death and one of the writers lived to a ripe old age, damn him! Revision now made...
I do love a tram
Fancy some free horror? Here's a promo running for all this month. Check out my stories, 'No Crime in That'/'Kisses From the Sun'
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The most shocking thing about the Epstein email files? Not so much that our lords and masters are parasitic spongers cosying up to any sleazebag with a bit of cash - that's a given. No, what gets me is that, after years in the most elite boarding schools on the planet, they can't even fucking spell.
I reference this a lot on my Co-op shifts at Beamish. Crumpsall was the first manufacturing site of the Co-operative Wholesale Society.
A quick reminder that today is the final day you can get the first novel in my Lovecraftian noir series for FREE as a Kinde download. #booksky
www.amazon.com/dp/B08B45XRM9
It's called 'The Collioure Coincidence' and it's finished, bar revisions in editing.
Just letting you know that 'The Gathering of Shadows' (1920s Lovecraftian noir) is FREE on Kindle until 31st Jan. #booksky #lovecraft #horror
www.amazon.com/dp/B08B45XRM9
Hi Kee! Yes, it was my first novel, back in 2020. I have the sixth in the series due out in a couple of months, so I thought I'd run a few promos in advance of that.
Just letting you know that 'The Gathering of Shadows' (1920s Lovecraftian noir) is FREE on Kindle until 31st Jan. #booksky #lovecraft #horror
www.amazon.com/dp/B08B45XRM9
Headshots of C.M. Rosens and Suzan Palumbo, Dark Fiction Author, for the podcast interview graphic.
Listen to award-winning author Suzan Palumbo @sillysyntax.bsky.social talking about her short fiction collection, SKIN THIEF, out with @neonhemlock.bsky.social.
🌈📚😱🩸📚💙 #BookSky #AmReading #ReaderSky #Horror
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Look after yourself ok?
Well, finally finished the Difficult Sixth Novel, more with a sense of relief than a sense of triumph. Now to take a day or two and then the fun of editing can start... Expect a new Darkisle book sometime this spring! #booksky #cosmichorror #Lovecraftian
Little did I know, growing up in Chesterfield, that the strange abstract shape in front of the Royal Mail building was one of her sculptures.
The good thing about working at Beamish Museum is the little details you keep spotting. Here's my new favourite one. Say what you like about the British Empire, nobody else would have given the world the Machine Gun Camel.
One for you, maybe? @cmrosens.com
Sales still on! Queer Fiction.
- #Smashwords End of Year Sale #EOYSale - all my books 50% off: www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
And one book free: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...
- Ko-Fi Box Set sale - RRP £29.90 to buy 11 eBooks individually, the bundle is £9.99 ko-fi.com/s/811fa7d3b0 🌈📚💙😱📚
An illustration in dark green - A woman's face on a monitor. She is gripping headphones to her ears and her face shows alarm, even fear. There is a hand resting on the monitor. In the background a man looks up at the ghost of a screaming servant girl.
Spooky Advent Day 17: The Stone Tape by Nigel Kneale. An ancient evil is unleashed by an electronics research team working in a renovated Victorian mansion with much older origins, apparently haunted by a maid falling to her death. Broadcast as BBC Ghost Story for Christmas in 1972.
Photograph of DE McCluskey, an author attending Liverpool Horror Book Con
Chapter 4: Liverpool Horror Book Con is going to be freaking massive 👻
Join 45 indie horror authors from the UK and Europe on 11 April for a day you won’t forget!
We are delighted to announce
@demccluskey.bsky.social as one of our attending authors.
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Nobody said WHICH New Year...