Getting a frankly disturbing number of mildly positive and highly timely replies back from comics editors this past week. Is someone playing a prank on me? *looks around suspiciously*

Do these AI myrmidons honestly think we're all consciously using things like ChatGPT and Claude every day? Because I barely know anyone who'd touch these things with a scabby donkey's willy.

We should stop giving airtime, especially over on Threads, where it seems endemic, to accounts with about 20 followers who post rage-baiting pro-Generative AI comments.

Real comments from real Patrons! We are doing a Patron Exclusive cover for THAT TEXAS BLOOD: HELL COMES TO ALLISON RANCH #1 and giving away the artwork for FREE! Go check it out at www.patreon.com/condonphillips

My July reads. #Booksky

What are librarians reading? Find out with these #ReadOfTheMonth recommendations! 📖 Hayley S - So old, so young by Grant Ginder 📖 Mike - Scratch moss by David Barnett 📖 Eamonn - The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley 📖 Sarah - Unreliable narrator by Araminta Hall Search: christchurch.bibliocommons.com

✍🏼 David Barnett speaks to Jeff Noon, the sci-fi genius behind ‘Vurt’, whose latest book transports us to another meta-fictional alternate reality

Welcome to Brendleshire: inside the twisty-turny fiction of Jeff Noon

We speak to the sci-fi genius behind ‘Vurt’, whose latest book transports us to another meta-fictional alternate reality

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Evergreen question from Sky News.

Scuse the clickbait headline which i didn't write, but the iPaper asked for some thoughts on the non-listing of Keshed despite huge public clamour. Actually a piece about diversity in publishing and advocating for small presses. This link sans paywall archive.is/QghKz inews.co.uk/culture/book...

The Booker is a shambles - and everyone in publishing knows it

Plenty thought my novel would make the list – it didn't. Here's why I don't give a toss

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Sunset.

It’s about eight weeks to TWISTED PIKE so you’ve got time to get comfortably caught up with the first three books, I reckon. Details and buying links below, apologies for “1970s Satanist” vibes of photo. www.canelo.co/authors/davi...

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About the author David Barnett

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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a whopping all-time high 60% off on Steam until August 18! 💀⛏️🩸 It's the perfect time to check out our folk horror adventure set on the moors of Northern England. The answers lie in the soil...

For @prospectmagazine.co.uk I interviewed @jeffnoon.bsky.social about his fabulous new novel MOON OVER BRENDLE, out now from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7428...

Welcome to Brendleshire: inside the twisty-turny fiction of Jeff Noon

We speak to the sci-fi genius behind ‘Vurt’, whose latest book transports us to another meta-fictional alternate reality

prospectmagazine.co.uk

Happy There Will Come Soft Rains Day to all who celebrate!

It sold!

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The Black Shuck Festival begins today in Bungay, Suffolk, and our son Charlie was selected to display his Black Shuck piece in the Broad Street Gallery festival exhibition, so if you're attending do go and take a look (and please buy it somebody!) broadstreetgallery.co.uk/black-shuck-...

I will always celebrate this. It's Bradbury at his best: sad, subtle, layered and quietly satirical.

Actually lush.

Orbital - Lush 3-3 (Underworld)

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Happy There Will Come Soft Rains Day to all who celebrate!

British v American online writer promotion: Brit: I did this thing... perhaps you'd take a look...? Actually, no, I doubt it's your thing, you'd probably hate it. I can't believe it even actually exists. Bear with, just going to burn every copy. US: Look upon my works ye mighty and despair.

Submitting all further work with this:

Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · yesterday

More on that book, from @thebookseller.com www.thebookseller.com/news/it-was-...

For @prospectmagazine.co.uk I interviewed @jeffnoon.bsky.social about his fabulous new novel MOON OVER BRENDLE, out now from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7428...

Welcome to Brendleshire: inside the twisty-turny fiction of Jeff Noon

We speak to the sci-fi genius behind ‘Vurt’, whose latest book transports us to another meta-fictional alternate reality

prospectmagazine.co.uk

One of the finest musical performances in a film: Shout performed by Otis Day and the Knights in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978). youtu.be/MG7KCOO76Wc?...

Shout - Otis Day & The Knights (Animal House 1978)

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Monkey tennis levels of comic pitching.

Just over two months until the conclusion of my favourite folk horror series of recent years, and we'll be getting tons of this in for the shop #BookSky 💙📚 #FolkHorror #HorrorSky @davidmbarnett.bsky.social #horror uk.bookshop.org/a/140/978183...

Twisted Pike: An utterly bewitching British folk horror novel

‘An agile and compelling storyteller’ NICK CUTTER This could be the end of everything.The remote village of Withered Hill harbors dark secrets. Outsiders are not welcome, but a film crew descends. The...

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Pleasing colour matching in current reads.

I tried to claim on my holiday insurance because the trip was ruined by Ultravox loudly performing outside my hotel room every night, but the company invoked the "Force Midge Ure" clause.

Don’t call us twitchers: birdwatching brings in diverse flock of new devotees The hobby has been transformed by young influencers and celebrities seeking a retreat from a virtual world ✍️ @davidmbarnett.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4cdX9hK

Don't call us twitchers: birdwatching brings in diverse f...

The hobby has been transformed by young influencers and celebrities seeking not only a retreat from a virtual world, but a way to highlight the plight of the UK's depleted wildlife

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When I was 11 I went to see Clash of the Titans at the Ritz in Wigan and got given a free action figure of Calibos. Went to see The Odyssey last night and got shit all. Great film though.

if you like British football, or British comics, this episode of The British Football Comics podcast talks with my dear dad Bob Bond about his time in British Football Comics in the 60s & 70s. youtu.be/UrJ2f7e-8Kc?... He is flipping delightful.

Ep 137: Interview with Comic Book artist Bob Bond!

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*Nobody in the history of human bombing has ever said, "Well, we got bombed, so the veil has fallen from my eyes now. Wow, me, grandma and the kids really deserved this. We totally had this bomb-campaign coming. I'm grateful to be set straight"