Just realised, on the back of placing in the top 100 for @TBLaunchPad Prose Writing Competition, We Keep Our Own has also made the @Coverfly Red List.
Which is just amazing news.
#writing#amwriting#WritingCommunity
#Stoker is such a gloriously weird and under-appreciated movie that really gets under the skin. It’s a properly disturbing and creepy watch
And Mia Wasikowska and Nicole Kidman are both incredible.
I’ve just finished #reading#StationEleven by Emily St. John Mandel.
I’m not sure why it took me so long to get around to this, but it did not disappoint. Fundamentally, it’s high concept stuff, but beautifully written with nuance and complexity hardwired in. Really incredible read.
Currently #writing with this as my soundtrack.
I’ve recently got into Wa-Jazz in a big way and this, #InTheGroove by #HiroInagaki really suits the scene and my mood.
It’s a #RSD Japanese exclusive for those who are interested - and a total banger.
#vinylrecords#nowspinning
I’ve hit a solid 15k words on my new novel and reached a natural break point. So I’m pausing the #writing & instead editing - mostly to check it’s coherent & makes sense.
And I’m #listening to Japanese #jazz, which is currently my favourite kind of jazz, while I do so.
#vinyl#NowSpinning
I know, I know, two Sydney Sweeney movies in one week, but #Immaculate was so good.
This is what #horror should be: smart, knowing, unsettling, & unflinchingly nasty where it needs to be.
I don’t want to give more than necessary away, but let’s just say it delivers.
I’ve just finished #reading Deliver Me by Elle Nash and really is something special: propulsive, poetic, and properly nasty (in the best possible way).
And that ending will stay with me for quite some time... #readingcommunity
I finished this a few weeks ago & it’s stuck with me.
You know the adage, “never judge a book by its cover”? Well, I picked this up on the strength of the cover (& what a cover btw) & so had no idea where it might go.
Beautifully written, surprising, & with teeth.
#reading#amreading
I’m #writing scenes of violence & #SonnyRollins is bringing a necessary & manic vibe.
I love Rollins and I especially love live Rollins from this period - just as he’s coming off hard-bop & heading somewhere new.
And this is the best #TonePoet imo.
#vinyl#nowspinning#jazz#amwriting
I know, I know: I’m ridiculously late to this, but #Beef really is top draw. Blackly comic and admirably savage all the way through to that final scene.
And Steven Yeun and Ali Wong are a class act.
I had the first edition of this, but it was destroyed in a flood (don’t ask). So I’m delighted that I’ve now got the 3rd edition in my hands, courtesy of a late birthday gift.
I genuinely find this work endlessly fascinating.
#readers#Shakespeare
This arrived today on the back of a Twitter recommendation: I’m excited to start reading it.
I love discovering new authors - and I strongly suspect this might well be my bag.
#reading#readersofbluesky
Busy #writing my next thing, 12k words into a speculative Sci-Fi/horror thing. But I’m listening to this while I write.
Such a great album and it’s never sounded better than the #VMP pressing.
#WritingCommunity#Vinyl#VinylRecords
Part way through Leaving Las Vegas by John O’Brien and I’m wondering why it’s taken me this long to get around to it.
Stark, bleak, horrific, and yet also strangely beautiful and moving.
#BookRecommendations#Reading#JohnOBrien#LeavingLasVegas
Just discovered that my debut novel, We Keep Our Own, has made it through to the second round of the Launch Pad Prose Competition.
Great news for a Friday night.
#Writing#AmWriting#CoverFly#LaunchPad
It’s a Bank Holiday in the UK, which means a day of #writing & #jazz.
This, #MyFavoriteTune, by the incredible #RyoFukui is a favourite at the moment.
#WeReleaseJazz has done an incredible job here: quality sleeve, impeccable pressing, & dynamic.
& the song, #MellowDream, is really beautiful.
