Lavie Tidhar

... i'll put you down as a "maybe"

happy belated book day!

first we take surbiton

so... it's a no from you?

anyone going for that human authored label thing? it feels a bit like those fair trade coffee labels but... and what if a talking cat helped you write?

in even less exciting news i sent off some edits on a short story

godspeed

it's london book fair, which i have not attended in a very long time, but am expecting the usual flurry of "someone you'll never hear of again has just signed a seven figure advance with 47 territories pre-sold!" etc

A cartoon titled "supply chain" showing the traditional pipeline of author to publisher to reader replaced by AI to AI to AI, suggesting the ultimate futility of existence and the fleeting nature of reality

Award winning cartoonist here

fair point!

to misquote donald justice

Men at forty
Learn to fart softly
Into rooms they will not be
Coming back to

"Great Britain has only two days of gas stored"

I am certain I could single-handedly make up that shortfall

romantocyberpunktasy

I wonder if the new Neuromancer show on Apple, if successful, will usher in a new era of cyberpunk novels in its wake

writing novels is for people who can't hack it in short stories

I approve of this shelfie

nice!

Loontown - A Short Film YouTube video by Positronish

Not saying this is the greatest movie ever made, but I AM saying this is the greatest balloon noir movie ever made

if there's no found family i don't even

Judge Dee (a vampire) facing a lady with her face turned, on the docks at night, with bats flying in the sky.

Let's celebrate Vampire Friday with this forthcoming magnificence!

Thank you for asking me to play, Jared & Lavie (@lavietidhar.bsky.social ) !
/ list of those best books here :
endlessbookshelf.net/best-books/

weird to get a royalty statement that doesn't make me want to weep in despair but there you go, there's a first time for everything.

Shelfies #73: Henry Wessells He told me to change one word (he was right), and we were friends for more than 25 years.

If you can believe it, we've reached #Shelfies 78! (or is it 73?). Antiquarian bookseller Henry Wessells shares some of his favourites here, including Kavan, Gilman and Straub. What else can you spot?

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London Book Fair next week, no wonder my inbox is empty

making To Do lists in the vain hope I might actually To Do something

It's my increasing contention these days that some of the gigs I do are essentially free and I only get paid to fill in the forms.

actually frankenstein is the name of the scientist

In the tradition of all great artists, I shall now do paperwork.

Is it me, or is it spring outside? when did that happen?

ooh!!