Mike Brooks

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That Audible-bestselling, British Fantasy Awards-losing SFF author with the hair. Guitarist, singer, occasional DJ. (d)eaf, queer. He/him.

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If you've ever had any desire to see me play with my punk band Interplanetary Trash Talk, you can do so on Weds 31st July at The Old Salutation Inn in Nottingham! We're on first at 7.30pm, supporting a bill including South Korea's Rumkicks, and Spain's Deaf Devils!

Pre-orders for the "standard" (i.e. non-special edition) hardback of Lelith Hesperax are go! www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/l...

Lelith Hesperax: Queen of Knives (Hardback)www.warhammer.com A back-stabbing, action-packed Warhammer 40,000 drukhari novel

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Cached US Kindle giveaway on mastodon: 10 copies of @mikebrooks668.bsky.social's The Black Coast (The God-King Chronicles Book 1), over at wandering.shop/@kithrup/112... #KindleBookGiveaway

Sean Eric Fagan (@[email protected])wandering.shop Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of @[email protected] by The Black Coast (The God-King Chronicles Book 1), which I have as of a few minutes ago but have not read yet. So if you read it, ...

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HOLY CATS is this ever a creepy, delicious, dreadful tale. The Butcher of the Forest has everything I love in a book - novella length! dark forests! truly uncanny creatures! vaguely familiar and disturbing folklore! Thank you for creeping me out @premeemohamed.com !

You want Drukhari? We got Drukhari! One specific Drukhari, in fact: Lelith Hesperax, Queen of Knives, is coming to regular hardback, ebook, and audiobook with pre-orders this Saturday! Also, books from @robertrath.bsky.social, Guy Haley, and John French! www.warhammer-community.com/2024/07/07/s...

Sunday Preview – A Black Library Bonanza - Warhammer Communitywww.warhammer-community.com What’s coming up next week?

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This is one of the best epic fantasy series of the last few years - full of high adventure and mysterious prophecies and dinosaur-riding samurai but also a story about understanding, acceptance, finding your place in the world, and sword husbands.

My US publisher @Solarisbooks are having a late #Pride sale, so my American followers can get my epic fantasy trilogy (and many other titles) for .99 from rebellionpublishing.com/sale/ until 14th July!

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So to confirm, now we have near-final numbers: Every time 19 Tory MPs get a bit grumpy this parliament and stick their letters into the 1922 Committee... ...it'll automatically trigger a leadership contest.

Worth remembering, for the next five years, that the Tory party rules ASSUME they'll have a large number of sitting MPs. e.g. to automatically start a leadership context only 15% of tory MPs have to put in letters. 15% of 130ish seats is... not a lot.

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It just felt right little guy was going bonkers for it #warhammer #skaven #warpstoned

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apropos of uhhhhhhh everything, reposting this again

As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

The solution to going a goal down is DEFINITELY to pass it back and forth across the back four.

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I know smut may seem like a frivolous thing to be upset about, but crushing it is part of fascism. Controlling all forms of sexual expression is fascism. Only allowing certain kinds is fascism. Smut peddlers are always canaries in the coal mines.

The scene in Fellowship with the goblins climbing down the pillars but they’re all doing the vocal breakdown from Freak On A Leash.

Ah, the pleasant feeling of waking up from my alarm, rather than waking up from the feeling of being the tortoise on its back in the desert in the Voight-Kampff Test.

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Neologisms have to pass a very high bar with me. I have just encountered 'brogrammer' for a certain subspecies of IT professional. I'll allow it.

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people complaining about how times used to be simpler just don't understand that things were bad then, they were just either unaddressed until the bubble burst, or you had privilege that you'd never had to think about before

Given that I’m half-deaf, and forty-two to boot, it seems markedly unfair that I can apparently still hear the “crowd dispersal” screamers in public stairwells…

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Hi new folk! :-) I'm an author who debuted this year when Black Library gave me the chance to write 40K, a setting I've loved since I was a kid. The result has been tears & terror (from both me & readers) + Tyranids 😂 I also 🖤 birds & cocktails but sadly neither feature in Deathworlder.

The newest recruit for my Cawdor gang: the Zealot, Odium. I had enough creds to equip him with something vaguely sensible... or I had enough to give him an autopistol and incendiary charges. Guess which I picked. #necromunda

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The Pines.

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I was the only person there who had published multiple books, but I was systematically excluded from everything they were doing -- group writing, crit sessions, even just people going into other people's studios to ask questions, brainstorm, bounce ideas. It was a pretty lonely three weeks. :\

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As an archaeologist of 40 years, and an occasional activist I note that this has knocked the election off the top of the news and it's being reported internationally. Sure there are problems with JSO (find me an org without them) Can we talk about the climate emergency?

As both a professional archaeologist of 10 years and a political activist, this is fucking dumb, but if this is the thing you're mad about just know that if the A303 judicial review fails this year we're going to dig a 2 mile long tunnel through the site and get it stripped of World Heritage status.

Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil protesters - BBC Newswww.bbc.co.uk The move comes the day before celebrations for the Summer Solstice.

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You could never make The Transformers: The Movie today because, typically, animated movies take several years to complete and therefore allocating a single day is highly unrealistic.

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Netflix was roundly mocked for releasing their ridiculous shark film as 'Under Paris' instead of the obvious Shark de Triomphe. So they've just released these alternate posters, which I love. #UnderParis

I’m in a recording studio somewhere in the West Midlands. Went to get lunch from a chip shop and they had three types of curry sauce available: chip shop (fine), Chinese (okay), and… Irish. If you have any idea what Irish curry sauce is, please let me know because I am… perplexed.

At Warhammer World, and someone else has an Ufthak!

“Somewhere between happy and total fucking wreck” - Rise Against, ‘Survive’ (my wedding song, as it happens)

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This has done me in

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really not enjoying this whole "you purchased something from us, please tell us how we did" email thing whenever I buy anything nowadays. I just wanted some socks, I'm not gonna do fuckin homework about them

Shaving the sides of my head while someone is strimming their lawn out back is an interesting cognitive experience. I keep thinking I’ve hit a stone.