Dan Hunt

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Tickets are on sale for our 2025 online conference! Join us to hear best-selling author Abie Longstaff deliver the keynote. Hear papers on ways to engage reluctant readers, to representations of masculinity, social justice in historical fiction & much more. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-writing...

Viking to publish new Penguin Horror series this Halloween Viking will publish a new five-book series this Halloween, featuring literary horror writing of the 20th century.

Oooh - yes, yes, yes, yes... Gorgeous covers, too.

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Comic strip by Stephen Collins, it begins with a nighttime city scene. In the next few panels, a mysterious figure, giant in the moonlight, walks towards us through the skyline. His feet echo "boom, boom" in the empty night. A large title panel declares this character's name: THE TW*T COLLECTOR. He stands, giant, unseen in the empty city night, wearing a big pointy hat on his head, and a sort of long smock. He is carrying a large sack in his hand. Slowly, he raises his arm, his arm extends, freakishly long, longer still, through the open window of a tower block. It reaches inside someone's home, and slowly withdraws, now clutching a protesting, terrified man. The man's wife comes to the window to watch his departure. slowly, the giant raises the little man and inspectes him in his hand. After a pause, the man says "b-but I'm not a tw*t!" There is another pause, after which his wife, calmly from off screen, says "you are a tw*t, dear". The Tw*t Collector summarily throws the man in his bag, which we now see is full of screaming people and is labelled TW*TS, then stomps off into the distance, through the moonlit city.

Sometimes, I long for him

The Mummy (1999) is perfect and I shall be taking no more statements on the matter.

Character, pacing, action, comedy, Brendan Fraser in a dope harness… No notes.

I'm in this one!

My article 'A Guide to Responsible Scaring' features alongside some phenomenally inspiring and thought-provoking pieces written by talented authors.

A huge thanks to the Leaf Journal team for their generosity and time, this was so much fun

Ok, so the character’s got a rifle, they take it out of the crook of their shoulder, spin it round, and hit the car window… oh, what’s that called again? Is there a verb for that? I’ll Google it.

Nevermind.
A butt stroke.

I think @junodawson.bsky.social has me in a headlock and I couldn’t be happier…

Finished Her Majesty’s Royal Coven, immediately downloaded The Shadow Cabinet.

Consumed The Shadow Cabinet, instantly preordered Human Rites.

Now, I’m chomping at the bit for my Queen B reserve on BorrowBox…

Is it an omen to find a dead crow outside your bedroom window on Friday the 13th? Asking for a friend...

May’s been one big surf ‘n’ turf… bit of sea, bit of land, probably too much on one plate but we did it anyway (and now I’m happily exhausted)

An asset demanding Meta stop stealing the work of creatives, featuring #DoTheWriteThing and drawings of people protesting with placards.

#DoTheWriteThing

Sign the Petition Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

Thank you to everyone who has signed our petition, 6,000+! Authors deserve to have a livelihood and compensation from their work, if you haven't signed do so now 👇

Society of Authors to hold protest at Meta's London HQ after 'pirated books used to train AI' Kate Mosse, Tracy Chevalier, Daljit Nagra and other Society of Authors (SoA) members will demonstrate outside Meta HQ after millions of pirated books were allegedly used to train Meta’s artificial int...

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The face I pull looking at the screen thinking I’ve written a good sentence, full well knowing I’ll probably have to delete it in a later edit #amwriting

I now need excuses to write people letters because these stamps are GORGEOUS.

Tell us how much of that 90 minutes was 'No, *you* hang up'

I never want to use Ticketmaster again.

On the bright side, I’m seeing Mumford & Sons in December - whoop, whoop!!

Established authors, if an aspiring writer asked you what you think they need to ensure a long-term writing career, what would you say?

Mine, based on speaking to A LOT of authors, would be - stamina, a thick skin, an openness to learn, enthusiasm for self-promotion & other author friends you trust

Sometimes I consider starting a food account, but some days it’s pretty ramen and burrata pasta, and others (most days) it’s frozen pizza

contemplating a book cull and i found a place in nyc that exchanges your book donations for pickles. and i think that's beautiful

Touched some big rocks in Avebury at the weekend - y’know, the biggest stone circle in the world?! So much cool writing inspiration, highly recommend

Happy World Book Day 🎉

📷 Backstory, London

A spot of star (or should I say planet) gazing at White Horse Hill the other night 🪐

It was freezing cold, but we managed to spot Venus, Mercury, Mars, and Saturn!

The album protesting UK copyright law and AI is ironically really good ambient sound for writing…

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Is anyone out there…? 🕯️

Hello, BlueSky! After a brief hiatus, I’m returning to social media - with a ✨sparkly new platform✨ (Farewell, Elon)

If you don’t know me, I’m Dan - writer of all sorts, currently studying MA Writing for Young People at Bath Spa Uni.