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. Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:04:03 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 db357b2feb2f856d56c8b3516817118c Blog: If Books Could Kill, Kate Eberle from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/10/If_Books_Could_Kill__Kate_Eberle.html Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:04:00 +0100 2026 romance and more. Roxie Mitchell is happy working temp jobs to
save up for wild excursions, and reading romance novels with her book
club between times. But […]

]]> 0 ecd47f486ac06a5aaaf0ef0052164497 Matthew Brown edited the blog post I'm checking up on a small bug in the group Help and Support https://dev.authorbuzz.co.uk/2026/09/28/im-checking-up-on-a-small-bug/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:19:18 +0100 I'm checking up on a small bug There appears to be an issue with ActivityPub on some blogs, including Author Buzz HQ. It should not break the site (as far as I can tell), but it […]

]]> 8fa6e0bae267c209b2e6c43135ebeeb1 Matthew Brown edited the blog post Fediverse Book Fair (#FediBookFair) in the group Author Buzz HQ https://authorbuzz.co.uk/2026/09/28/fediverse-book-fair-fedibookfair/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:59:27 +0100 Fediverse Book Fair (#FediBookFair) A social media book fair is being organised on the Mastodon (and ActivityPub) social media network. It is free to participate, but you may, if you wish, […]

]]> 4f5fcf4f9742d7341950ece828d24b55 Blog: Ice by Anna Kavan from Dogwood Tales in the group Book Reviews by Dogwood Tales feed https://dogwoodtales.blogspot.com/2026/09/ice-by-anna-kavan.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:53:46 +0100 Well, this wasn’t quite what I was expecting. It opens conventionally enough with an unnamed narrator driving through an unseasonably harsh ice storm, looking for a […]

]]> 1 fc78c281e2223f871061954a6f3769bb Blog: The Innocence of Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/09/The_Innocence_of_Father_Brown__G__K__Chesterton.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0100 1911 collection of 1910-1911 short stories, first of the Father
Brown anthologies. Father Brown is an unassuming priest with a solid
understanding of human nature.

]]> 0 364517ee3dba677da932a51a3972db46 Matthew Brown edited the blog post Keeping Your Side Characters Distinct - Brandon Sanderson's Writing Lecture (2025) in the group Thanet Creative: Writers https://thanetcreative.co.uk/2026/09/keeping-your-side-characters-distinct-brandon-sandersons-writing-lecture-2025/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:12:58 +0100 Keeping Your Side Characters Distinct – Brandon Sanderson's Writing Lecture (2025)

]]> af90f653db11f17dd42a94164d30c256 Blog: Last Chance to Save the World, Beth Revis from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/09/Last_Chance_to_Save_the_World__Beth_Revis.html Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:02:00 +0100 2025 science fiction novella, last of its trilogy. Ada must sneak in to
not-SpaceX headquarters and hack the nanites that will fix Earth’s
ecosystem so that they […]

]]> 0 2fc7971122e90d77d86d09f63ed6fb71 Blog: One Good Knight, Mercedes Lackey from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/09/One_Good_Knight__Mercedes_Lackey.html Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:01:00 +0100 2006 fantasy, second of its series. Princess Andromeda (she prefers
"Andie") has her mother Cassiopeia’s brains, but not her beauty, and
is determined to be useful […]

]]> 0 06a7823adf8fbf259a6678e69fa6da1b Matthew Brown commented on the post, What book do you wish you could read again for the first time?, on the groupblog Shall we talk? https://chat.authorbuzz.co.uk/books/what-book-do-you-wish-you-could-read-again-for-the-first-time/#comment-858 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:29:13 +0100 The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks.

]]> d5bb06e849bdf460d9ada33a5c5e22e9 Blog: Dead in the Frame, Stephen Spotswood from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/09/Dead_in_the_Frame__Stephen_Spotswood.html Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:03:00 +0100 2025 mystery, fifth in its series. As cliffhangered at the end of book
4, Pentecost has been arrested for murder.

]]> 0 ee2ef3583f2aa40d6b58ba96ffd58e0a Blog: Blood and Treachery, J D Kirk from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/09/Blood_and_Treachery__J_D_Kirk.html Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:01:00 +0100 2019 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, fourth in the Jack
Logan series. The Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team gets a shout, and
finds a body, but not the one they […]

]]> 0 1a5fb1433187e046dba346d1ec4820cc Sam Smith wrote a new blog post What book do you wish you could read again for the first time? in the group Shall we talk? https://chat.authorbuzz.co.uk/books/what-book-do-you-wish-you-could-read-again-for-the-first-time/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0100 3b027b03dcebdd38d707be0851ccaca3 Blog: The Cafe at the End of the World, Helen Comerford from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/09/The_Cafe_at_the_End_of_the_World__Helen_Comerford.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0100 2026 young adult modern fantasy, first of a pair of books. Lydie is
the daughter of Death (now retired), but she just wants to work at and
eventually take over the […]

]]> 0 c0651f554843a5dc80489fe7417fe743 Matthew Brown edited the blog post Did Baroness Benjamin just classify forums as social media? in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek https://lordmatt.co.uk/reflections/law-and-legality/did-baroness-benjamin-just-classify-forums-as-social-media/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:33:53 +0100 Did Baroness Benjamin just classify forums as social media? It is entirely possible that Baroness Benjamin has placed Author Buzz UK on the chopping block without meaning to. I grew up watching Floella Benjamin […]

]]> afdc2f7ca5cc3fc4ce31610f9d21f500 Blog: Sentinel, Anthony J. Melchiorri from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/09/Sentinel__Anthony_J__Melchiorri.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:05:00 +0100 2021 military SF, first of a series. Cole Shaw signed up because the
alternative was waiting to die on his failing colony planet. Now he
drives a mech.

]]> 0 7eab3ef4ad57bf8cc0f91902747bf3de Blog: Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore, Emily Krempholtz from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/09/Violet_Thistlewaite_Is_Not_a_Villain_Anymore__Emily_Krempholtz.html Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:02:00 +0100 2025 fantasy. The Evil Mage has been killed, and presumably his
minions too. And there’s no reason for anyone to link Violet, the
newcomer in town who just wants to […]

]]> 0 f91d76604d0322391902f394af4dbd94 Blog: Midlife in Gretna Green, Linzi Day from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/09/Midlife_in_Gretna_Green__Linzi_Day.html Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0100 2022 modern fantasy, first of a series. Niki McKnight has been widowed
for a year when her witchy grandmother dies and leaves her her house
on the Scottish borders. […]

]]> 0 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!!

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