Tom Cox
@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Decided to not have a bio and just say "read this" as it will be a better guide if you're trying to decide whether I'm worth bothering with: https://www.tom-cox.com/the-village-message-board-2/
My week so far is best described as "yn hollol cach" 🏴, but thanks to @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social it's now vastly improved.
Thanks to everyone who shared this. Winner was @josally53.bsky.social - signed book and hare on its way to you this week, Jo. P.S. I forgot to say that the other condition of the comp is that everyone else has to buy the book. See you in a couple of weeks. Cheers!
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 7h agoCOMP. If anyone would like a signed book and a lovely hare postcard just repost this & pop a reply below. I'll choose the winner in about 30 minutes. If you'd prefer to purchase & help some niche weird fiction survive, you can get it here with free delivery: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
September via @breakthroughbook.bsky.social (already available for pre-order) www.tom-cox.com/my-next-book...
My Next Book!
I've just finished writing and editing another book. It's a surreal collection of short - sometimes extremely short - stories and I've called it Curious Events Lately Occurring In This Neighbourhood. ...
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Robin@robingissing.bsky.social · 6h agoPs. When does your short stories book come out? Very much looking forward to that.
COMP. If anyone would like a signed book and a lovely hare postcard just repost this & pop a reply below. I'll choose the winner in about 30 minutes. If you'd prefer to purchase & help some niche weird fiction survive, you can get it here with free delivery: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
And if you want to know why I'm pushing it so hard, or have made your assumptions about why, without looking into it, do read the whole thread. It's not a normal situation, and involves thousands of pounds of lost earnings.
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 7h agoCOMP. If anyone would like a signed book and a lovely hare postcard just repost this & pop a reply below. I'll choose the winner in about 30 minutes. If you'd prefer to purchase & help some niche weird fiction survive, you can get it here with free delivery: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Finished Villager last week and really enjoyed. Still thinking of the woman in the house with the doll in the wall.
tom i started reading this book this morning and im living the way you are slowly revealing the nature of one the protagonists. keeping it vague here for obvious reasons. can’t wait to go to bed to get back into it.
You should enter this comp, and then when you don't win, just buy the book. It is great.
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 7h agoCOMP. If anyone would like a signed book and a lovely hare postcard just repost this & pop a reply below. I'll choose the winner in about 30 minutes. If you'd prefer to purchase & help some niche weird fiction survive, you can get it here with free delivery: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Also available on Kindle (i am one of those ppl who has given up on paper) - to my delight. I hope this works well for you, too?
It is! The original illustration was done by my mum, Jo, for the chapter Old Big Bum from my book Ring The Hill (2019). Ring The Hill and Old Big Bum are both old English terms for hares. Ring The Hill isn't a book *about* hares. But it is definitely a book that is haunted by them.
Tal@taldragon.bsky.social · 7h agothat hare is beautiful!
I’ve said this so many times. Wood pigeons, too.
Bouba's Delivery Service@fernmonkey.bsky.social · last wk.If gulls were rare, people would never stop talking about how beautiful they were.
Almost every day, someone tells me this is their desert island book or their favourite book of the year or that they're on the their 2nd read of it but there is still a feeling that it is not enough. I feel done with promoting it now but I thought I'd give one more copy away before drawing the line
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 7h agoCOMP. If anyone would like a signed book and a lovely hare postcard just repost this & pop a reply below. I'll choose the winner in about 30 minutes. If you'd prefer to purchase & help some niche weird fiction survive, you can get it here with free delivery: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
COMP. If anyone would like a signed book and a lovely hare postcard just repost this & pop a reply below. I'll choose the winner in about 30 minutes. If you'd prefer to purchase & help some niche weird fiction survive, you can get it here with free delivery: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
I've never heard that before, appropriate👍. There was the Peasedown Scarecrow: on the sides of a stack of baled hay wrapped in black plastic, a farmer had painted 'FUCK OFF CROWS'.
Is there an equivalent term for black bags of dogshit decorating trees?
Signed ones still available with free international delivery, btw: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 8h agoI can’t think of many rural terms I like more than “witches’ knickers” - to describe black polythene snagged in fences, hedgerows and trees.
Ok. I’m not saying that when I saw this picture I made a very unmanly noise. I might have done. But I’m not saying that.
It's a thing in our house now, since I read 21st-Century Yokel. We always refer to them as 'Witches Knickers' when we see them fluttering and flapping in the wind.
It was such a special privilege to get to know Denise, who is one of the UK’s last surviving wild pandas.
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · last mo.
The other Beach Boys are feeding the goats. Mike Love, however, is suspicious of the goats. Mikes got some treats in his pockets, which he *could* give the goats, but, because he’s greedy and likes Mike Love far more than he could ever like goats, he’s decided to keep the treats for himself.
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a hugely overrated album! Revolver is loads better!"
WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 17h ago60
Today I am this sheep (read the at text).
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · last mo.I've decided to compile a definitive thread of photos of the best sheep I've photographed during my walks in the countryside, together with supporting biographical information. I will put the vital story associated with each sheep in the alt text, since some of it is a little long to fit in a post.
My first, the best, the peak of guitar band genius.
WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 17h ago60