A.J. O'Toole

This iceberg was once the biggest in the world. Now it has just weeks left - BBC News A23a was once twice the size of Greater London but now its 40-year journey is coming to an end.

Interesting article

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

a pint of Beamish

Rare find here.

Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte Millesime 2018

This is the reward bottle for getting this short published. Thanks to Literary Garage, hat tip to the Big Man.

literarygarage.com/the-big-man

SUBS OPEN NOW! 🚨 It’s also my birthday, so humor me. The window closes at midnight!

bulbregion.com/Submissions

I can't get DMs to work on here but drop me a mail ajotoolewriter@gmail.com and I'll get back to you there.

China has pandas Australia has kangaroos What does your country have?

Staffies

Four panel comic Panel 1: a bird onstage says "whales" Panel 2: audience member yells "Boo! Get better material!" Panel 3: bird looks through note cards in a sweaty panic Panel 4: note cards say "sperm whales cooler than humpback whales" "white whale = scarier than normal whale" "whaling is most dignified sailing profession"

Moby Dick (Melville, 1851)

Bojack and Diane. "I'm responsible for my own happiness? I can't even be responsible for my own breakfast!"

Year of the Horse is a good excuse for start to finish Bojack Horseman rewatch

Apologies - didn't see this reply until just now. Let me sort something out and get back to you!

I've used occasional screenplay style scene headings to break up text in the novel I'm writing, and the chapters are S1E01, S1E02... it's about the rise and fall of a guy who works in TV so I think it fits, and test readers seem to like it.
INT. PUB - DAY is the most common.

a pint of Murphy's

St Practice Day

No mention of the Christmas party... surely there's a story in that.

Love Life review – light romcom glides by on Anna Kendrick's charms There is nothing very deep or challenging to find in this tale of a 20-something’s romantic New York endeavours. But the comic writing is effortlessly good

Been watching this over the last week or so - worth a go if you're looking for something in half hour chunks. Very NY, made me miss the place, will we ever get to go back?
(And an absolute banger of a needle drop in the final scene)

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Rise and fall of the right hand man to an acerbic TV personality, told after a crash landing back to his home town.
Could send you first couple of chapters if you're interested?

Thanks! It's contemporary fiction, lots of dark jokes, a sort of flashback memoir, very meta.
Hoping to get it out there on e-book at least this year.

There's still a mummified cat on display at the Atkinson in Southport, up the coast from Liverpool, amongst some other Egyptian artefacts.

Iain Logie Baird doing a talk on 100 years of television.

"TV. It’s a nepotistic industry. Here’s as close as I get to a nepo story, although it skipped a generation - my Grandad built his own television from a mail-order kit and spare parts he borrowed from work."
First lines of my novel.
A hundred years of nepotism.
#amwriting #indielit

small wooden models of the Harland & Wolff cranes

wee Wee Yellow Cranes

Springbank single malt, and the fact it's become hard to find, plays a part in the short I'm currently writing. So when I saw it in a pub earlier I had to buy a shot. Coincidences, eh.

Underrated banger.

Used to think about one of these jobs a lot...
Wonder what the Xmas party is like.

"Guys like Morton were front men for the wiseguys, who couldn't have their names on the liquor license."

Been using that for a while, it's great.

At CDG airport in Paris. Two irate customers at Pret A Manager demanding to speak to the (obviously non existent) manager. Why not ask to speak to Charles de Gaulle himself?

Mr Qwerty has a lot to answer for. Like me typing 'busty' instead of 'busy' at last half the time.

In the old days, good writers got famous for selling books.
Nowadays, bad writers sell books by being famous.

That's Hedley!

Nine Locks under snow

Life imitating art

Look, all I’m saying is that why are there so many black, Asian, and indigenous characters and homoeroticism forced into a story set in pre-Civil War America that drills it into us that the villain is white?

"While other children were learning that A is for apple and B is for banana, little Philbert soaked up words like circulation and dermatitis and elephantiasis."

Eloquent, elegant fiction from @EmmetHirschMD | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/emme...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social