NEW EPISODE Happy first book birthday to emilyhughes.bsky.social ✨ - who joins me for a conversation about HORROR FOR WEENIES. We talk about the movies that scared her away from the genre, which brought her back, and what she learned from dissecting them. All pod platforms / link below

I would give anything to be at this premiere. Just to see them dance… #TheLifeOfChuck

Loved it. Inhaled it in two days. One chapter in the final third broke my damn heart (yes, that one about “taming the horses”). Now onto Daniel Mason’s NORTH WOODS

One of my favourite ever books (you MUST read it, whether you think you like westerns or not) - and now it looks like a pretty great movie.

I went to sleep and the world tilted a little.

Mrs Talking Scared in her ancestral homeland

The heat is killing my book as fast as I can read it. But this is a glorious American story. If anyone knows Daniel Mason, tell him I’ve had a great day, and thanks.

Who are these mad bastards clapping their lives away at Venice?

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Massive admin day means I get to do my favourite thing - binge listen to Talking Scared Podcast and make books. Gabino Iglesias' episode is an absolute banger so far, and I've got a ridiculous list of Trevor🍉 Adam Cesare Anna Bogutskaya and emilyhughes.bsky.social ✨ coming up. Blimey.

There’s a sentence in NORTH WOODS that may be one of the saddest things I’ve ever read. “He was Robert. Because one needed friends to be a Bobby or a Bob”.

American horror publishers - send your writers to the UK and I will interview the hell out of em for you. Send ‘em. Book the venue. I’ll be there, questions in hand.

Here’s me complaining about a lack of UK horror author events, whilst being utterly unaware of a great one on my (relative) doorstep.

Found this nifty pair of King novellas in a Sicilian bookshop. I like how they’ve reclaimed the Stranger Things font

I … [cough] … I don’t know … [splutter]… sorry, WHAT?

Last quote from NORTH WOODS I promise. But one I plan to live by: “The only way to understand the world as something other than a tale of loss is to see it as a tale of change”.

Happy birthday to a very cool guy. Phil Nobile Jr.

Went to the beach today. Came back the colour of Thanos.