If you’d like to stay in the winter season just a little bit longer, check out our fascinating guest blog post with GHOST author, Finbar Hawkins: ‘Why We Tell Our Darkest Stories in the Darkest Season’. ❄️🖤
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A stylized, animated zombie character stands in front of a shadowy, cityscape background. The text reads, "We're coming to GDC." The zombie has green skin and is wearing a suit with a badge.
YOU vs Zombies is making its public debut at #GDC in the Google Cloud lounge 🧟
Describe any hero, watch The Ritual summon them in seconds, then hurl them into the zombie apocalypse
🗓️ Book a demo slot:
https://google.jifflenow.com/external-request/gdc2026/meeting-request?token=af4443b4fe1d6bcc74cf
Signing and selling my books tomorrow 11am-3pm at Bath Library with many other author fellows - come bag a book or three!
I've been having a blast writing for this new game releasing later this year - now we're looking for playtesters! 👇👇👇
The cheese rage is real 😭
Dry January and 100 Push Ups a day challenge to raise money for Cancer Research. Come on 2026! Just done first batch (another 100 later to make up for false start yesterday!). Anything donated is hugely appreciated!
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A THREAD, which I am calling 'Some Of The Many Reasons Lichen And Moss Are Fucking Brilliant'.
1. They make public seating super comfy.
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Extract from Rob Reiner's Wikipedia Filmography 1986 - Stand By zme 1987 - The Princess Bride 1989 - When Harry Met Sally 1990 - Misery 1992 - A Few Good Men
Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Hurrah! Thanks for the lovely piece for Literary Review and in such fine company too @philipwomack.bsky.social
Thank you, Helenka! 🙏❤️
GHOST featured in Irish Times' YA round up. Many thanks for this review! @chennessybooks.bsky.social Next book set in Ireland, so a good omen...
Hurrah! Thank you for featuring GHOST! 👻
Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would This week’s column by Stewart Lee on the bbc in crisis
Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
This is the new image I meant to put as main pic. It shows the change in Thiel's holdings. Those letters NVDA stand for Nvidia and the words next to it are self-explanatory "SOLD ALL".
Thiel, the closest thing that Silicon Valley has to a bond villain, has pumped & dumped. So...what happens next?!?
That's wonderful. So Xmasy
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
The Two Ronnies (15th November 1980). Swear box.
It's been a grand launch week for GHOST with lovely reviews in @theobserveruk.bsky.social and The Telegraph. Today GHOST arrived in the top 5 Amazon/YA Historical nestled between @philippullmanreal.bsky.social and Robert Louis Stevenson 👻😍👻
Skipping about the place that GHOST, out this week, is featured in @theobserveruk.bsky.social best YA books for Autumn in illustrious company with authors @tiafisher.bsky.social and her ‘Not Going to Plan’ and Manjeet Mann’s ‘Roar’ Thank you, Fiona Noble, day made!
'All Along the Watchtower' obvs
Thank you so much, Helenka - do hope you enjoy it! X
A very Happy Book Birthday to @finbarhawkins.bsky.social whose wonderful novel GHOST is out today 👻😍👻
Thanks a million, Debbie. That’s so lovely to hear!!
