Author Buzz | Adam Bassman | Group Activity https://authorbuzz.co.uk/members/admabassman/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Adam Bassman is a member. Sun, 13 Sep 2026 02:25:50 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 3562350bf24c82c75144fd1e5c7bbfeb Arves Corral started the topic His pet peeve about writing in the forum Brandon Sanderson Fans https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/brandon-sanderson-fans/forum/topic/his-pet-peeve-about-writing/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:40:05 +0100

]]> 45cb05da69072f420f32e8b058336dbd Blog: Beneath These Stones, Ann Granger from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/09/Beneath_These_Stones__Ann_Granger.html Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:04:00 +0100 1999 mystery, twelfth of Granger’s novels of Chief Inspector Alan Markby
and non-detective Meredith Mitchell. The wife of a local farmer is
found stabbed to death […]

]]> 0 ec31802a38b6e5dab386ccf66c46b42a Bob Bobson started the topic Sanderson on getting famous in the forum Brandon Sanderson Fans https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/brandon-sanderson-fans/forum/topic/sanderson-on-getting-famous/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:41:37 +0100  

]]> 8c98221d8e3e988beff4f652b3a3ab0e Charles Maxwell replied to the topic Hey, who's about RN? in the forum General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/general-chat/forum/topic/hey-whos-about-rn/#post-5296 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:03:43 +0100 Phone call done. I’m very glad that’s over with.

Thanks for chatting with me.

]]> f8cff5e98c8c310fb7275203cdc47eb7 Matthew Brown replied to the topic Hey, who's about RN? in the forum General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/general-chat/forum/topic/hey-whos-about-rn/#post-5290 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:04:10 +0100 I get it. It happens to me like that sometimes.

]]> d3348e2cd7e41d83a37995914608e180 Jason Latnar joined the group Beans in Dungeons https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/18993/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:01:12 +0100 0 1c828dfb11fa24b3c235e91ba39f8eda Charles Maxwell replied to the topic Hey, who's about RN? in the forum General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/general-chat/forum/topic/hey-whos-about-rn/#post-5289 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:59:51 +0100 My doctor. Nothing scary just have a question to ask.

I can never do anything when I’m waiting for a call. My brain gets blocked by the waiting. Probably an ADHD thing TBH. Thing is, I got The Martian on my table half read but I have no ability to can.

]]> fad2dbb7ce47934c310cf1a4e2760923 Matthew Brown replied to the topic Hey, who's about RN? in the forum General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/general-chat/forum/topic/hey-whos-about-rn/#post-5288 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:52:01 +0100 I’m online, what’s the phone cll you are waiting for?

]]> e424e42060419ee34e0eecdfcce37e95 Charles Maxwell started the topic Hey, who's about RN? in the forum General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/general-chat/forum/topic/hey-whos-about-rn/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:33:04 +0100 It’s so boring waiting for a phone call. Who wants to start a chat about something?

]]> 08ce51d33726fb271d43cc46c968d60d Blog: Moss'd in Space, Rebecca Thorne from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/09/Moss_d_in_Space__Rebecca_Thorne.html Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:02:00 +0100 2026 science fiction, first of a planned series. Torian Razner has
been saving up for years to buy a starship and move her sister out of
the bad-quality air that’s […]

]]> 0 a8a96c48e4500d8d497bcf8c9c2a88b6 Sam Smith edited the blog post What are you reading? in the group Shall we talk? https://chat.authorbuzz.co.uk/books/what-are-you-reading-3/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:04:37 +0100 What are you reading? What books are keeping your bookmarks warm right now?

]]> e8b62d736884266173aa5a9890e476f9 Toni McHadden started the topic Yes, you can - don't forget that in the forum Self care and motivation https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/self-care-and-motivation/forum/topic/yes-you-can-dont-forget-that/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:39:05 +0100 You’ve got this.

Maybe you’ve got this in unsteady baby steps

Maybe you’ve got this in giant leaps

Maybe you’ve got this only by hoping for tomorrow

However you’ve got this: You’ve got this!

]]> 16837780ce05c9197247ca5a4e5b6e8f Blog: Death Around the Bend, T. E. Kinsey from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/09/Death_Around_the_Bend__T__E__Kinsey.html Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:02:00 +0100 2017 mystery, third in its series. Lady Armitage and her maid Florence
go to Lord Riddlethorpe’s estate for a week of parties and motor
racing. But death soon follows…

]]> 0 8fa1e58c17d0a5727383a89e7cd67d15 Matthew Brown edited the blog post Brainstorming: New uses for Webmention - books, sports, debates, votes, bands, and more in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek https://lordmatt.co.uk/technology/the-internet/brainstorming-new-uses-for-webmention-books-sports-debates-votes-bands-and-more/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:31:51 +0100 Brainstorming: New uses for Webmention – books, sports, debates, votes, bands, and more Webmention is a great idea. An idea that could be used for even more things than it is used for right now. These are some wild and unfettered ideas I had […]

]]> 3312094d9279ec5c476ed11e087e51e0 Matthew Brown edited the blog post Having a disability NEVER became cool, Poppy; being cruel did. in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek https://lordmatt.co.uk/replying-to-things/having-a-disability-never-became-cool-poppy-being-cruel-did/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:32:20 +0100 Having a disability NEVER became cool, Poppy; being cruel did. So, I saw a weird headline on social media today: “How having a disability became cool”. Oh dear lord, here we go again. Another author of “news” that is […]

]]> 245e07e472583e7c2ce017de664061e8 Blog: Bitter Waters, Vivian Shaw from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/09/Bitter_Waters__Vivian_Shaw.html Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0100 2024 urban fantasy novells, part of a series. Dr Greta
Helsing is relaxing with her husband (Varney the Vampire) when a
newly-turned and abandoned vampire comes to […]

]]> 0 55f10a28e0cdd44d6519350118c59f2c Blog: How To Steal a Galaxy, Beth Revis from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/09/How_To_Steal_a_Galaxy__Beth_Revis.html Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:05:00 +0100 2024 science fiction novella, second of a trilogy. Ada is back on the
job, infiltrating a museum gala in order to do… something.

]]> 0 05de61eb264976bbb3e9909f0e8bed7e Blog: Thornhedge, T Kingfisher from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/09/Thornhedge__T_Kingfisher.html Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:04:00 +0100 2023 fantasy novella. The fairy has been guarding the wall of thorns
around the keep where the princess sleeps, and then the knight
arrives.

]]> 0 83ea51b66e385596e0089ce9e3555177 Blog: Ode to the Half-Broken, Suzanne Palmer from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/09/Ode_to_the_Half_Broken__Suzanne_Palmer.html Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:02:00 +0100 2026 SF. Forty years ago the world fell apart. Our narrator, who
remembers it, just wants to be left alone to study ants. But someone
has stolen its leg…

]]> 0 2e21e9fa02f24f668a0bb55619fe76f7 Blog: Hornblower and the Hotspur, C. S. Forester from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/09/Hornblower_and_the_Hotspur__C__S__Forester.html Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:02:00 +0100 1962 Napoleonic naval fiction, tenth written and third by internal
chronology. It’s 1802, and the Peace of Amiens is breaking down;
Commander Hornblower is given a […]

]]> 0 74b7183b3cc8e9f1fa07d675b590f31f Blog: This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me, Ilona Andrews from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/This_Kingdom_Will_Not_Kill_Me__Ilona_Andrews.html Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:02:00 +0100 2026 fantasy, first in a possible series. Maggie Haley went to sleep
one night and woke up naked in a ditch in her favourite fantasy
series. She has nothing but a […]

]]> 0 a6931b7788bc5017b9f3e3f4ea3b9213 Blog: Nao-Cola Yamazaki’s October 2026 Events from Daunt Books Publishing in the group Daunt Books https://dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/nao-cola-yamazakis-october-2026-events/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:50:40 +0100 After a successful participation at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Japanese sensation Nao-Cola Yamazaki will be back in October for an extensive and […]

]]> 0 92832ebf2bd64ba81debbb49edf4c4dd Blog: Anjan Sundaram at Daunt Books Cheapside from Daunt Books Publishing in the group Daunt Books https://dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/anjan-sundaram-at-daunt-books-cheapside/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:50:01 +0100 We’re excited to welcome author and journalist Anjan Sundaram to London in September, to discuss his recently reissued books, Bad News and Stringer, now part of our […]

]]> 0 1c7b66c24260ffdab1c9c3c64bd460b5 Blog: Anuradha Roy at Kendal Mountain Festival from Daunt Books Publishing in the group Daunt Books https://dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/anuradha-roy-at-kendal-mountain-festival/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:49:32 +0100 We’re delighted that award-winning author Anuradha Roy will return to the UK in November to speak at Kendal Mountain Festival about her captivating memoir, Called […]

]]> 0 47767b15dc0e31638cb4f827f0243531 Blog: A Sinister Revenge, Deanna Raybourn from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/A_Sinister_Revenge__Deanna_Raybourn.html Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:04:00 +0100 2023 historical thriller, eighth of its series. Several university
friends, mostly not in touch for years, are being murdered one by one.
One of them is Stoker’s […]

]]> 0 7eaa9831d503b797da98d392f851efdf Blog: Darksight Dare, Lois McMaster Bujold from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/Darksight_Dare__Lois_McMaster_Bujold.html Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:02:00 +0100 2026 fantasy novella in the World of the Five Gods (formerly known as
Chalion). A hedge-sorcerer is dying, and the Temple has a use for her
demon, if the demon […]

]]> 0 087982e9f553d33a3cd4339f46b7d8ad Blog: Spring 2027 Preview from Daunt Books Publishing in the group Daunt Books https://dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/spring-2027-preview/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:05:26 +0100 JANUARY The Old Fire by Elisa Shua Dusapin | Tr. Aneesa Abbas Higgins | Fiction | Paperback | £10.99 | 27 January 2027 Coming out in paperback in 2027, The Old […]

]]> 0 17b3ee49a1ab80a8e84fad26def87839 Blog: Cold Days at Castle Drax, Charlotte E. English from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/Cold_Days_at_Castle_Drax__Charlotte_E__English.html Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0100 2024 short horror-fantasy novel. Castle Drax is falling apart, and the
only way for the family to survive is to sell it, though nobody wants
to.

]]> 0 6f7c5b6b8e2704ccd2fdcb0b92516056 Blog: The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri from Dogwood Tales in the group Book Reviews by Dogwood Tales feed https://dogwoodtales.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-shape-of-water-by-andrea-camilleri.html Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:45:55 +0100 When Silvio Luparello, a respected local politician is found dead in his car from a heart attack with his trousers down at a local dogging site, Inspector […]

]]> 0 6450be68f185bf00d86dc005423eadcc Blog: The Moth Catcher, Ann Cleeves from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/The_Moth_Catcher__Ann_Cleeves.html Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0100 2015 contemporary police mystery, seventh in Cleeves’ Vera Stanhope
series. In rural Northumberland, the house sitter for the local Big
House is found dead beside […]

]]> 0 43b583e1fa23db77a5d00b69c20ab83f Matthew Brown replied to the topic My status is vanishing in the forum Help and Support https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/help-and-support/forum/topic/my-status-is-vanishing/#post-5273 Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:11:27 +0100 Something flagged it as spam. I’ve unspammed it.

]]> 186b70d6db78043b74ad995c009e19a8 Matthew Brown replied to the topic My status is vanishing in the forum Help and Support https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/help-and-support/forum/topic/my-status-is-vanishing/#post-5272 Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:04:56 +0100 It shouldn’t do that.

Leave it with me, I’ll try to figure out what went wrong.

]]> cacea5ae25b42c364716770e37c39590 Sam Smith started the topic My status is vanishing in the forum Help and Support https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/help-and-support/forum/topic/my-status-is-vanishing/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:03:38 +0100 I’ve posted about my new book twice, and it is gone. Twice. Help!!

]]> 27eb8e4e1b17d4926b1e657e0cc65efe Matthew Brown edited the blog post Is my idea good enough? in the group Thanet Creative: Writers https://thanetcreative.co.uk/2026/08/is-my-idea-good-enough/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:58:11 +0100 Is my idea good enough? As you sit down to write that story that’s been burning in your mind, it is not unusual to ask, “Is this idea any good?” As questions go, few others […]

]]> 27e1004865901720b42e85d96515e655 Charles Maxwell replied to the topic How's the weather where you are? in the forum General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/general-chat/forum/topic/hows-the-weather-where-you-are/#post-5265 Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:26:59 +0100 You can say that again.

]]> 2159baf8df56bfc1f35fd7645eff85a1 Charles Maxwell joined the group General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/18710/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:26:41 +0100 0 15cfdb0999e078c4531c6c4b30234b36 Toni McHadden replied to the topic How's the weather where you are? in the forum General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/general-chat/forum/topic/hows-the-weather-where-you-are/#post-5264 Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:38:58 +0100 Far too hot here too

]]> 00bc5246e8d62efe2dd29879ed89d743 Matthew Brown posted an update in the group Author Buzz HQ: We've got a lot of forum groups with very little activity. I […] https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/18708/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:36:57 +0100 We’ve got a lot of forum groups with very little activity. I was thinking that I should maybe fold some forums into general chat for now. Thoughts?

]]> 0 eee5d887e146a85765bd415f595b6057 Matthew Brown started the topic How's the weather where you are? in the forum General Chat https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/general-chat/forum/topic/hows-the-weather-where-you-are/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:31:59 +0100 I’m too hot.

How are you all doing?

]]> f40118d76168cf0ffe30887731550640 Blog: Radiant Star, Ann Leckie from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/Radiant_Star__Ann_Leckie.html Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:01:00 +0100 2026 SF, set in the same universe as the Imperial Radch series but not
part of the trilogy. The Temporal Location of the Radiant Star is a
pilgrimage site on the […]

]]> 0 d4857e84d7e4387798cc17bf9b194e59 Matthew Brown posted an update in the group Author Buzz HQ: So, I streamlined the front page because it looked nasty on mobile. https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/18675/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:17:25 +0100 So, I streamlined the front page because it looked nasty on mobile.

]]> 0 7beba1120f6d3cf4aa9f35a9fdb661aa Blog: Crisis on Infinite Earths from Dogwood Tales in the group Book Reviews by Dogwood Tales feed https://dogwoodtales.blogspot.com/2026/08/crisis-on-infinite-earths.html Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:30:56 +0100 Back in the day, comic books were straightforward things. Superman or Batman would fight crime, tie up the bad guys and finish the story in twenty or so colourful […]

]]> 0 c8c7939f96be815d35787bfb6ba0b829 Blog: The Cloak and Its Wizard, R. Z. Nicolet from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/The_Cloak_and_Its_Wizard__R__Z__Nicolet.html Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:03:00 +0100 2025 fantasy. The Cloak of Sunset and Starlight is a major
artifact—meaning it has a mind of its own. It’s been sitting in the
vault of the Order of the Open Eye s […]

]]> 0 e490187db51b1fb1d85e885833eb36d6 Blog: A House By Any Other Name, Jenny Schwartz from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/A_House_By_Any_Other_Name__Jenny_Schwartz.html Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:02:00 +0100 2024 fantasy, linked to the Uncertain Sanctuary series. Raisa is a
lawyer who gets tapped as the advocate for a newly-discovered alien
species. By the time she gets […]

]]> 0 28ccf8302ddc8292a6c5dc2f794786a1 Blog: The Chinese Shawl, Patricia Wentworth from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/The_Chinese_Shawl__Patricia_Wentworth.html Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:05:00 +0100 1943 mystery/thriller, fifth in the Miss Silver series. Laura Fane
is newly of age, and in London to take charge of her inheritance. She
meets a smashing young man, […]

]]> 0 3c28111dd6aa65a9394e7806adeaf160 Blog: A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/A_Drop_of_Corruption__Robert_Jackson_Bennett.html Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:03:00 +0100 2025 fantasy mystery, second in the series. On the border of the
Empire, a new member of the mission negotiating with a petty kingdom
has disappeared from his room […]

]]> 0 1ef6ddd304d505b5bfe01be5f05205af Blog: In the Cold Dark Ground, Stuart MacBride from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/08/In_the_Cold_Dark_Ground__Stuart_MacBride.html Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:03:00 +0100 2016 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, tenth in the Logan
McRae series. A missing-persons investigation has just turned up a
body in the woods, killed and […]

]]> 0 fd5bade3a7c5e88c54b24aad58f2ddcb Blog: Nobody's Baby, Olivia Waite from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/07/Nobody_s_Baby__Olivia_Waite.html Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:02:00 +0100 2026 science fiction mystery novella. Dorothy Gentleman, ship’s
detective aboard a starship on a thousand-year voyage, is confronted
with something that simply […]

]]> 0 5b7d706f43208741acbc0a7ca01161ce Blog: Yours Wickedly, Stephanie Burgis from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/07/Yours_Wickedly__Stephanie_Burgis.html Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:03:00 +0100 2025 fantasy-romance epistolary short story. The Wild Witch of the
Withering Woods writes to the Wicked Wizard of the Westering Waste in
order to get back the […]

]]> 0 01e9f18fb5649560b500e30552cd0567 Blog: Cart and Cwidder, Diana Wynne Jones from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/07/Cart_and_Cwidder__Diana_Wynne_Jones.html Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0100 1975 children’s fantasy, first of a loose series but it stands alone.
After the last king died, Dalemark was effectively divided between its
Earls, and the South is […]

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