Tom Carlisle

@tjcarlisle.bsky.social

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author, visionary, dreamweaver. Less John Steinbeck, more R.L. Stine.

my debut novel BLIGHT is out with Titan Books, October 2023.

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I needed this today @alt-text.bsky.social

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Obviously there are games that are hyper-literate, thoughtful and text-heavy. Disco Elysium comes to mind. But the point of World Book Day is - or at least should be - obvious, and it's getting people to read books.

Perfect. No notes. #worldbookday

Um, no. No he didn't.

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Blessed are the content creators, For something something something

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Still laughing hours after I read this. So true so true

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So, Blight, by @tjcarlisle.bsky.social, is a pretty damned good read. amzn.eu/d/1lDRdPE

Stupid sexy starmer

Blessed are the content creators, For something something something

This post brought to you by Lottie Hazell's PIGLET, a messy girl lit fic novel which also came out in hardback recently and is on every table in every bookshop everywhere. FWIW I've not read it - I'm sure it's great - but how can one book come to be pushed so heavily in shops and another buried?

A friend had a book published by Penguin last week. Big advance, great blurb, reviewed in the Times. For a full week I've searched every bookshop in Bristol trying to find her book. It's nowhere: not on a single shelf. What chance does she have? What did she do wrong?

I thought it was just bad luck when I couldn't find my (mid-level, niche) debut novel on shelves at first. Now I'm starting to wonder about publishing/bookselling more widely. How much of your book's placement is down to good timing, or politics, blind luck? Does anyone even know?

Latest novel is finally turning from half-digested mush into something people might actually want to read, thank goodness. A mystical, inexplicable process, but one of life's great joys.

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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome [All Beastie Boys] DECREE Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man, down to a [Beastie Boys] SUNLESS SEA

Distinct lack of engagement on my Proust tweet, what gives

This is like that time I read the first volume of Proust and wanted to tell the whole world how great it was, but at least Proust used full stops

is Jon Fosse's Septology a masterpiece, yes, very possibly it is, but can I realistically recommend it to anyone I know, no, no I can't

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it’s time to burn the incense, it’s time to slay the sheep, it’s time to wake the muppets, from a thousand years of sleep. it’s time to raze existence, it’s time to banish light, it’s time to call the void in, on the muppet show tonight.

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My neurodivergent headcanon for the 60’s Batman series is that Bruce Wayne’s parents hired a troupe of eccentrics on retainer to keep him entertained, in the untimely event of their death.

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for real tho

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Auto Mechanic: I can’t fix your car until you find me 3 iron ingots, 5 machinery components, and Engine Blueprints (Level 2). Why not look in the sewers? Lots of things wash up down there

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Your first four essential horror novels of 2024 have arrived. Sad men, cold men, angry women, troubling goblins, local witches and so so so many crabs. Pre-order now, tell your local bookshop, scream from your bedroom window, summon the book demon...

Delighted to announce I've got another book due out later this year. It's a bloody, unhinged romp through the Scottish Highlands, centred on a commune with something truly dreadful growing in the margins. Pre-orders go live soon - if you enjoyed BLIGHT then you won't want to miss MARGINAL.

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2024: The year we bury the culture war iandunt.substack.com/p/2024-the-y...

2024: The year we bury the culture wariandunt.substack.com Getting back to the politics of what you want, not who you are

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Babe wake up there’s a suit that runs over children then bursts into flames

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My friend @tjcarlisle.bsky.social took me out of my comfort zone with his novel Blight. Some thoughts on my blog! www.stuckinabook.com/blight-by-to...

Blight by Tom Carlislewww.stuckinabook.com One of the interesting and fun things about friends writing books is that they take you in all sorts of places you wouldn’t necessarily expect. Would I have picked up a novel described as fol…

POV: it's your work Christmas party and you've not had a holiday since August but etiquette demands you dance

My brain, upon lying down to sleep: