@elliotjharper
Speculative Fiction Writer, based in York, England. Author of the novel, New Gillion Street, published by Fly on the Wall Press, and independently published short story collection, The Strange Tales of Gillion. www.elliotjharper.com
Why you can’t buy books at London Book Fair - 3 days at LBF as an indie publisher, gather round and snoop on our meetings below!
flyonthewallpress.substack.com/p/three-days... #londonbookfair
IRAN + 100 at Nowruz Festival 🗣️
Now more than ever it’s important to platform Iranian voices. Join us at Lauderdale House with Leila Elder & Navid Hamzavi discussing the Iranian Sci-Fi anthology ‘Iran + 100’ with Comma CEO Ra Page.
📅Mar 24
🕖 7.30pm
🎟️ www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk/whats-on/ira...
I'm obsessed ✨
Day 14: This chapter was a lot of fun to write. It also organically produced a bit of world building for another city in the world that I can see me visiting in another book, if I get around to writing it.
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“AI, like war, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power. But it’s nothing of the sort: it’s just a story, a myth, that’s being imposed on us by a self-interested cohort of unaccountable men succoured by a pliant and incurious press.”
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The public remembers Iraq. Why doesn't the press? By Martin Bright. Pictured: newspaper splashes about Iraq: Evening Standard: 45 Minutes From Attack, The Mail: Now Blair Delivers a Stinging Blow to PM Over War
Seven in 10 Britons are sceptical about UK involvement in Iran, but their newspapers have other ideas. Some of us recall the last time Fleet Street was so disastrously in favour of war, writes former Observer home affairs editor @martinbright.bsky.social
www.thenerve.news/p/iraq-war-o...
Day 13: Todays chapter was a set up for what comes next, so little in the way of activity. I’d say it was a moment of calm, but it was rock bottom for the character so not exactly tranquil 😋
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Day 12: Part 3 for Protagonist 1 is underway. Writing is therapy for me at the moment. I’m going through some tough stuff but I find that 3 hours at the keyboard in the morning is just the pick me up I need. I want to teach myself how to write under pressure, and this is that.
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"The greatest horror writer you’ve never read..." - The Guardian
STAINLESS 🩸 by Todd Grimson is the next addition to the Outsider Classics collection; a noirish, grungey novel set in LA about a chronically ill vampire and an ex-rockstar.
Coming 30th April! Available to pre-order now!
The Devil’s Draper is now available as an ebook!
This cosy crime weaves together crime, justice and the fight for equality for women in the 1920s.
You can buy the book at www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page...
#cosycrime #flyonthewallpress #historicalfiction #ebook
Pre-order DECOMPOSITION BOOK ❤️ here!
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Just a few places left! More info via the link below, or DM us here for a discounted bursary place 🎟️👇
📅 6-8pm (Mar 25 Apr 22 May 20 Jun 17 Jul 15 Aug 19)
📍 SEESAW, MCR
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Day 11: That’s Part 2 complete for Protagonist 1, with a cheeky, brief cross over with Protagonist 2 to end the section. I’m half way through P1s story, which is strange because the whole thing is only at 21k words. On to Part 3 tomorrow.
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‘Whilst the people inside Iran endure aerial bombing and a potential food shortage, many Iranians abroad face a different kind of psychological warfare’ - Iranian translator and Iran+100 contributor reflects on the first week of the war. commapress.co.uk/blog/somewhe...
The Folio Society’s special edition artwork for Perdido Street Station are incredible 🤘🏻
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This is a fascinating read and well worth your time 👇🏻
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Never underestimate the eagerness of our press to abase and disgrace themselves for foreign billionaires
You’ve got to remember for the journos who write these reams of bollocks about the ‘special relationship’ between the UK and US, their concern is not the interests of either country, or really the fate of Starmer or Trump, but ‘will the boss not sack me. Please give me a bonus’
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A brilliant #climatefiction panel this evening at #yorkliteraturefestival with @johnironmonger.bsky.social author of #thewagerandthebear and @amylilwall.bsky.social author of #thewaterthatmaycome #Books
Another book to read for my end of year project.
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Day 10: I finished off yesterday’s chapter and set up the next. I’m a day behind on my schedule but I gave myself 5 days leeway, so no bother. That’s me until Monday now.
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Join @janicewarman.bsky.social to hear from her new collection 'These are the things we have lost' alongside an online open mic on the 12th of March!
us06web.zoom.us/j/8136429670...
Meeting ID: 813 6429 6708
Passcode: poetry
#books #openmic
Day 9: I ran over today and didn’t quite finish the chapter after a slow start. I needed to makes some changes, including the name of the city and some world building details. This means that I need to add more to the chapter tomorrow. I’m a more productive writing in the morning.
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Happy #WorldBookDay 😎
My books, quirky speculative fiction novel, New Gillion Street, published by Fly on the Wall Press, and weird horror short story collection, The Strange Tales of Gillion are available to buy from most retailers.
For more info visit:
www.elliotjharper.com
#booksky #books
NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company
A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Best-selling author Miha Mazzini is coming to Sheffield Waterstones this May! Join us to go on a journey with this chilling thriller about bureaucracy as violence, and one mother’s battle against the state.
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev... #books💙📚
Happy #WorldBookDay 😎
My books, quirky speculative fiction novel, New Gillion Street, published by Fly on the Wall Press, and weird horror short story collection, The Strange Tales of Gillion are available to buy from most retailers.
For more info visit:
www.elliotjharper.com
#booksky #books
Happy Didn’t-Get-Released-Today-Because-Reasons to The Peculiar Journey of Cecil Tabiner.
In a parallel universe, I would’ve been celebrating the release of the book that I’d spent the year promoting…
But alas, it wasn’t meant to be 🤷🏼♂️
So what’s next for the book in this universe? 🤔
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