Took can of soup to work for lunch. Left soup cup and bowl at home. Tuesdays… 🙃🙃🙃

Is this not the hardest 500 words to write in a new project?! However it's thrilling to be drafting once again!

Oh, and before anyone comments...

One of the nicest comments I got from a friend in response to this post when I put it on Instagram 🥰 (First picture was May 2025; other photos with books were February 2026)

Everything post-Windows 7 is such a massive downgrade. Always disable that hideous search box, the widget "clutter" and get those icons back on the left where they belong on any new machine I use!

I sometimes receive post intended for the previous occupant of my address. I received an envelope last week. “Jenny & Andrew” have moved house. The previous occupant moved out in 2013(!) Even strangers understand the courtesy of informing people when they move. He didn’t.

"Can we get rid of this ayatollah T-shirt? Khomeini died years ago." "But, Marge, it works on any ayatollah-- Ayatollah Nakhbadeh, Ayatollah Zahedi. As we speak, Ayatollah Razmara and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power." "I don't care who's consolidating

This is good. Some big-name authors tend to really suck up all the "oxygen". Can we get a "fantasy written by literally anyone other than Brandon Sanderson" display, too?

Forget solar power - we just need to plug into some of these airhead "influencers": the main character energy is off the charts!

An update on Ray of Light's publication! (I will be updating my website / Amazon later!)

Book marketing… 🤣

Here we go again…

I think we all know the real reason they’ve turned the replies off…

Spent most of this week doing some planning for an upcoming editing run I have to do, but today managed to do about a chapter and a half on my "disaster movie" novella project. Was good! I will be updating my blog tomorrow with a progress update! #AmWriting

As someone who lost his mum some years ago, the most annoying thing about Mother's Day has to be the cavalcade of "Mother's Day marketing opt-out" emails. I'm not "triggered" by them but can see why some would be bothered. Like "trigger warnings" - completely counterproductive!