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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Your new house has a series pixie infestation in the group Writing prompts and inspirations

Sat, 23 May 2026 19:00:00 +0100

Acorn Boi joined the group Writing prompts and inspirations

Thu, 21 May 2026 16:14:33 +0100

Jason Latnar replied to the topic Added a STP podcast to the group in the forum Fans of Sir Terry Pratchett

Thu, 21 May 2026 16:09:57 +0100

Approved!!

Matthew Brown started the topic Added a STP podcast to the group in the forum Fans of Sir Terry Pratchett

Thu, 21 May 2026 16:07:59 +0100

I found a STP podcast on Mastodon. I’ve added it as an external blog feed so new episodes should show up for subscribers to STP’s group.

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Something just escaped from your computer game in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Tue, 19 May 2026 20:00:00 +0100

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post You work as a process server. You must deliver subpoenas to everyone in this photo. in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Mon, 18 May 2026 11:00:00 +0100

You work as a process server. You must deliver subpoenas to everyone in this photo.

Blog: Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell from Dogwood Tales in the group Book Reviews by Dogwood Tales feed

Sun, 17 May 2026 19:12:57 +0100

A classic Nordic noir thriller, featuring the archetypal hangdog detective. Kurt Wallander is middle aged, recently divorced, overweight and suffering from an […]

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post You work as an investigator. Your job is to find ghosts that do not want to be found. in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Sun, 17 May 2026 19:00:00 +0100

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post You work as a process server. You must deliver an injunction to one specific cat. You have until midnight. in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Sat, 16 May 2026 17:00:00 +0100

Jason Latnar wrote a new blog post A story told purely in radio transmissions in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Fri, 15 May 2026 08:00:00 +0100

Jason Latnar wrote a new blog post Can you tell us the story that ties these images together? in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Thu, 14 May 2026 09:00:00 +0100

Can you tell us the story that ties these images together?

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Everywherre you go, you see the same pair of eyes watching you in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Wed, 13 May 2026 20:00:00 +0100

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Your best friend just confessed that she's not from Earth. in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Tue, 12 May 2026 19:00:00 +0100

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post You work as a process server. You must deliver this summons to Death himself. in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Mon, 11 May 2026 11:00:00 +0100

Matthew Brown edited the blog post Next year you will invent time travel in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Sun, 10 May 2026 11:00:00 +0100

Matthew Brown edited the blog post So, it turns out your best friend is a shapeshifter. in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Sat, 09 May 2026 19:30:44 +0100

So, it turns out your best friend is a shapeshifter.They’re missing.

Blog: The Folklore of Announcements from Pratchat in the group Fans of Sir Terry Pratchett

Fri, 08 May 2026 03:20:47 +0100

Another brief announcement from Ben that our Folklore of Discworld episode has been delayed for a third month! We’re very sorry about this. Hopefully we’ll be bac […]

Matthew Brown edited the blog post Survival acid indicator in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author)

Thu, 07 May 2026 21:37:55 +0100

Survival acid indicator I needed to have a character test the acidity of the water without any access to modern technology. Fortunately, there are some fairly common foods that can be used. Red cabbage is the best indicator, but cherry, rose petals, and beets alsoContinue reading“Survival acid indicator”

Blog: Having Spent Life Seeking by Kae Tempest review – painfully earnest tale of trauma and transition from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:00:45 +0100

An ex-offender searches for meaning and beauty in the second novel from the spoken-word performerKae Tempest’s new novel is dedicated to “you”, the reader. It also […]

Blog: This Dark Night by Deborah Lutz review – Emily Brontë’s world from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:00:43 +0100

Tactile details and a no-nonsense approach make this biography a refreshing change from more lurid fareBoth Emily Brontë and her only novel Wuthering Heights […]

Blog: Will Get Starstruck For Consoles from Fully Ramblomatic - the blog of Yahtzee Croshaw in the group Fans of Yahtzee Croshaw

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:22:00 +0100

Time for me to once again remember I have a personal blog so I can post announcements for a couple of things. Both of them this time in the form of videos. First […]

Blog: Zadie Smith: ‘I don’t know when I read men any more’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:30:50 +0100

At a talk on her latest essay collection, Dead and Alive, Smith said she ‘sometimes’ reads male novelists, but more often seeks the wisdom of older female wri […]

Blog: Famesick by Lena Dunham review – when celebrity causes side-effects from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:00:38 +0100

The Girls creator has endured brickbats and breakdowns – but she doesn’t always make it easy to feel sorry for herAt the end of last year, Netflix released Too Muc […]

Blog: The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout review – readers will delight in these new characters from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:00:37 +0100

The Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton author branches out with the tale of a Massachusetts teacher haunted by traumaThe American author Elizabeth Strout famously […]

Blog: #PratchatNAX Notes and Errata from Pratchat in the group Fans of Sir Terry Pratchett

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:10:00 +0100

These are the notes and errata for our bonus live episode “The Snail Trick”, discussing Rhianna Pratchett and Gabrielle Kent’s 2023 Discworld book, Tiffany Ach […]

Blog: #PratchatNAX – The Snail Trick from Pratchat in the group Fans of Sir Terry Pratchett

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:08:00 +0100

Liz and Ben were once again fortunate to be guests of the Australian Discworld Convention – this time in Sydney! In this live recording from day two of Nullus […]

Blog: ‘It’s still a no-go area’: German author Matthias Jügler on the trauma surrounding the GDR’s ‘stolen children’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:00:16 +0100

The reaction among officials in Germany to his bestselling novel has been hostile. As Mayfly Season is published in the UK, its author explains whyA few weeks after […]

Blog: Do stronger borders ever work? from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:00:15 +0100

Leaders have thrown up walls and barriers throughout history – but their effects are unpredictableFour millennia ago, a Sumerian king, his frontier beset by n […]

Blog: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler from Dogwood Tales in the group Book Reviews by Dogwood Tales feed

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:43:00 +0100

I watched the 1946 adaptation of this a few weeks ago and finished the original novel after getting somewhat bogged down in the plot about halfway through.The film […]

Blog: Joe Dunthorne: ‘Growing up in Swansea, I developed an allergy to Dylan Thomas’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:00:35 +0100

The author on feeling Thomas Hardy’s pain, being duped by Donna Tartt and how reading his sister’s copy of Trainspotting made him want to writeMy earliest rea […]

Blog: A Family Matter by Claire Lynch audiobook review – an award-winning story of homophobia and divorce from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:00:15 +0100

Dual timelines reveal the real reason a mother was forced to leave her daughter in the 80s, in this Nero prize-winning novel inspired by real-life eventsThe debut […]

Blog: Communion by Jon Doyle review – a charged debut about sin and solace from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:01:02 +0100

A man who meant to be a priest is faced with a moral crossroads in this ambitious and affecting first novelJon Doyle’s debut novel tells the story of Mack O […]

Blog: The Fallen by Louise Brangan review – an enraging account of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:00:01 +0100

The horrifying story of the Catholic-run institutions that incarcerated thousands of women and girlsMany readers, and surely most Irish readers, will finish this […]

Blog: When an author says she had to decline a $175,000 prize, what does it say about the publishing world? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:00:02 +0100

Helen DeWitt turning down the Windham-Campbell literary award caused controversy. But her bold act highlights that such prizes aren’t always as meritocratic as t […]

Acorn Boi joined the group Brandon Sanderson Fans

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:05:48 +0100

Blog: Michael Rosen wins Hans Christian Andersen award from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:24:58 +0100

The former children’s laureate missed the announcement of the award in Bologna due to post-Brexit passport rule changesMichael Rosen, the poet and author known f […]

Blog: On Memoir by Blake Morrison review – lessons in life writing from a master from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:00:04 +0100

Don’t be fooled by the A-Z treatment – this thoroughgoing guide asks deep questions about the art of autobiography“I’ve had a life and I’ve also had a life as a […]

Blog: My Year in Paris With Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy review – wonderfully entertaining from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:01:02 +0100

Biography mingles with fiction as Levy explores the avant-garde writer through the story of three female friends in ParisThe narrator of Deborah Levy’s witty s […]

Blog: Tucker Carlson to launch publishing imprint with books by Russell Brand and Milo Yiannopoulos from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:05:26 +0100

Former Fox News host says publishing house Skyhorse ‘looking for books that nobody else will publish’Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is set to launch his own […]

Blog: Ghost-Eye by Amitav Ghosh review – a climate-crisis novel let down by its prose from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:00:39 +0100

A reincarnation mystery drives this exploration of spiritual interconnectedness in a globalised worldWhat happens when a novelist cares more about their plot, or […]

Blog: Walking Shadow by Greg Doran review – Shakespeare’s healing power from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:00:38 +0100

After the death of his husband, Antony Sher, the former RSC director embarks on a quest to see every First FolioThis is really two books in one. The first part […]

Blog: Is AI the greatest art heist in history? from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:00:17 +0100

New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with itIn 2026, its easy to see why generative AI is bad. The internet has n […]

Blog: The Announcement of Folklore from Pratchat in the group Fans of Sir Terry Pratchett

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:08:00 +0100

A brief announcement from Ben that our Folklore of Discworld episode has been delayed another month – but we’ll get you our live episode from the Australian D […]

Acorn Boi started the topic I found this and had to share in the forum Aspiring Authors

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:08:39 +0100

I found this and had to share

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post She fell in love with the man who had murdered her in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0100

Jason Latnar commented on the post, The old man's parrot, on the groupblog The Muse of Last Resort

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:07:04 +0100

Oh man, I have to do this when I get old!!

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post The old man's parrot in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0100

The old man's parrot Ever the prankster, just before he died, the man trained his parrot to say phrases like, “help me, I’ve turned into a parrot” and “don’t tell anyone about the gold”. What happened next?

Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Try these restrictions to challenge your writing in the group Writing prompts and insperations

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0100

Try these restrictions to challenge your writing When you describe the colour of things, never name the colour directly. The narrator is a total liar; the reader should be able to tell. The […]

Matthew Brown posted an update in the group Help and Support: I'm about to live-test something. Possible disruption should […]

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:08:45 +0100

I’m about to live-test something. Possible disruption should last about 5 minutes.

Matthew Brown edited the blog post Website improvements in the group Help and Support

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:40:52 +0100

Website improvements A big old feature update today. The activity feed for the site now runs from the same dynamic system as the rest of the site. Which means: You […]