Infinite Monkeys
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A home for fiction writers and readers, screenwriters and viewers. All the intel and advice they never tell you. From Mark Chadbourn - novelist, screenwriter, journalist. Here: https://infinitemonkeyshq.substack.com Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn
Science: big health benefits for kids and adults from the simple act of reading a book you like, including a significantly reduced risk of cognitive decline.
The Surprising Health Benefits of Reading a Book — TIME
When was the last time you sat down with a good book? Over the last couple of decades, the number of Americans reading for pleasure has been steadily dropping, with one large study finding that only 1...
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Apple TV’s Slow Horses has been renewed for two more seasons, just as season six launches.
Penguin Random House (PRH) Children’s has appointed Cate Augustin as publisher at Rachel Denwood’s new imprint. Read more 👇
PRH Children’s appoints Cate Augustin as publisher at Rachel Denwood’s new imprint
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Anyone thinking about #writing needs to read this. It was Mark's talk about the business of writing that kickstarted my writing career and he is absolutely correct about the three-legged stool analogy for writing full-time; I am a writer, journalist, editor, events organiser and games master.
Infinite Monkeys@infinitemonkeyshq.bsky.social · 3d agoNew Age, New Opportunities. #booksky
I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.
Nancy Jane Moore@nancyjane.bsky.social · 5d agoI have mentioned it before, so maybe, but I know others liked it too. Hooray for word of "mouth" (or post) for getting it seen.
“In her nineties she wrote 120 new novels, totalling six million words, or five times the length of Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu.” Review of what seems like a must-read biography. The bon mots are hysterical.
The mad life of Barbara Cartland, the Queen of Romance who hated women — The Times and The Sunday Times
Every element of the prolific author’s life was bizarre, comical or grotesque – and often all three. Matthew Sweet’s The Great Dictator is a gem of a biography
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GIVEAWAY, with @blackcrowbooks.bsky.social: one lucky UK reader wins COFFIN MOON by @keithrosson.bsky.social, his blood-soaked reinvention of the vampire novel. To enter: Like, Share and Comment on this post. UK only. Winner drawn at random on [closing date]. Good luck, and mind the moon.
“The desire to understand ourselves is engrained in our very nature. It’s powerful and addictive and everyone needs it. You can’t feed that yearning with slop.” #booksky
AI Won’t Replace Writers
One simple fact the Techbros don’t get
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Just about to start The New Iberia Blues by James Lee Burke.
Just finished The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson. First time I’ve tried any of his work and thought it was great. As brutal as you’d expect but a brilliant exploration of the mind of a psychopath.
@lunabelle.bsky.social What was the name of that US crime novel you recommended recently? I thought I’d made a note of it, but typically can’t find it.
When someone asks you to read their work: “If it’s bad, I’ll hate it. If it’s good I’ll be envious and hate it even more. Never ask a writer to read your work.” - Ernest Hemingway, Midnight in Paris
Slightly reversed my view on Stuart Fails To Save The Universe. Episode 5 is a solid satire that will get MAGA people spitting.
It’s funny that they’re always asking if there’s *enough* working class people in publishing, acting or the arts generally but they never seem to stop to wonder if there are *too many* posh idiots?
Science fiction, Quatermass, Doctor Who and the secret magic of writers who open the door to ghosts.
The King of Hauntology
A celebration of screenwriter and novelist Nigel Kneale
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Scribe has won a four-way auction for Oxford Prof Jan Rosenow’s “urgent blueprint for post-fossil-fuel era”: Electrostates: How the Race to Electrify Will Redraw the World. It’ll be published in May 2028.
The first episode of this was very good. A crime drama with female rage directed at the Epstein Class.
Jack Reacher author Lee Child has turned his back on Trump America after decades in NYC and returned to England. “ I’m intensely sad my American dream is over — that mythic, legendary postwar America is definitively gone now.”
Lee Child: ‘Moving back home as an older person is a nice feeling’ — The Times and The Sunday Times
The Reacher thriller writer has swapped Trump’s America for the Lake District. He talks about the joys of the local chippy and turning down Bond
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What makes good writing is the ability to take the person you are inside and project it on to the screen in front of you. That’s why AI can never do good writing. All it’s capable of is copying your style. #booksky
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US audiobook giant RBmedia has acquired the award-winning commercial fiction independent Boldwood Books.
