Author Buzz | Matthew Brown | Group Activity https://authorbuzz.co.uk/members/lordmatt/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Matthew Brown is a member. Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:09:02 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 a7825d083d7dec89503ab579b1b7dda2 Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Humans always wore encounter suits with mirrored visors, but on day two-hundred and six of the thirteenth-hundred cycle of Vark by the Baralian reckoning, Tharg learned exactly why. It all started when… in the group Writing prompts and inspirations https://muse.authorbuzz.co.uk/prompts/opening-lines/humans-always-wore-encounter-suits-with-mirrored-visors-but-on-day-two-hundred-and-six-of-the-thirteenth-hundred-cycle-of-vark-by-the-baralian-reckoning-tharg-learned-exactly-why-it-all-started-whe/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0100 Humans always wore encounter suits with mirrored visors, but on day two-hundred and six of the thirteenth-hundred cycle of Vark by the Baralian reckoning, Tharg learned exactly why. It all started when…(first blogged here)

]]> 17bc59eaf6da4438fc7cd09d63645c33 Arves Corral joined the group Thanet Creative: Writers https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/18276/ Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:32:35 +0100 0 4a389fa266482ce04d2e06d57b839d3e Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Please, dear HFY writers, no more stories starting with "Bob sat on the bridge of the Earth Ship Big Birtha" in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek https://lordmatt.co.uk/reflections/writing-and-storytelling/please-dear-hfy-writers-no-more-stories-starting-with-bob-sat-on-the-bridge-of-the-earth-ship-big-birtha/ Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0100 Please, dear HFY writers, no more stories starting with "Bob sat on the bridge of the Earth Ship Big Birtha" Why do so many HFY stories start with the OC standing somewhere waiting for the opening thing to happen? I’ve lost track of the stories I’ve listened to or […]

]]> f3ea133d917e1d0772a8b7948ba2123e Toni McHadden started the topic Just do a little in the forum Self care and motivation https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/self-care-and-motivation/forum/topic/just-do-a-little/ Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:00:56 +0100 When doing the thing feels too much, give yourself permission to do a tiny bit. If that is all you do, you have done infinitly more than if you did nothing.

]]> 0 5884a77c39653963770c42f56fccaf6e Jason Latnar joined the group I love poetry https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/18272/ Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:39:21 +0100 0 6742b5494c004504a1d1047fca042543 Matthew Brown edited the blog post Fixing my ActivityPub and WebMention comments to make them play nicely. in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek https://lordmatt.co.uk/technology/coding-and-development/fixing-my-activitypub-and-webmention-comments-to-make-them-play-nicely/ Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:39:32 +0100 Fixing my ActivityPub and WebMention comments to make them play nicely. I was struggling to get both comments and replies to post while only showing “facepile” for likes and boosts. I had no one to blame but myself as I coded […]

]]> bcdce69065ca67d877e3fde161d715e3 Jane Smith joined the group Thanet Creative: Writers https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/18267/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:38:48 +0100 0 03cb2d844399713303ede17d058e6572 Blog: Hidden for more than 100 years, this Edith Wharton story is finally being published from The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/edith-wharton-world-war-one-story-b2990323.html Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:02:58 +0100 Titled ‘The Men Who Saved the World’, the previously unpublished work will appear in The Strand’s new issue

]]> 0 c1acd7bfdbe39c8c039a5664dfa35313 Adam Bassman joined the group Self care and motivation https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/18265/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:36:49 +0100 0 c7a1798807f028b5ce088cf97e8a3041 Blog: Their Mind Control Serum Was Perfect, Until They Used It On Humans from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill https://soft-scifi.isbrill.com/narration/2026/their-mind-control-serum-was-perfect-until-they-used-it-on-humans/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:53:44 +0100 0 77068723bb8eb4c87c75a48e7675bd22 Matthew Brown edited the blog post The email, social media, and IndieWeb Node I need (that will probably never exist), that I think authors would love in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek https://lordmatt.co.uk/technology/the-email-social-media-and-indieweb-node-i-need-that-will-probably-never-exist-that-i-think-authors-would-love/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:40:30 +0100 The email, social media, and IndieWeb Node I need (that will probably never exist), that I think authors would love I need a special blend of stuff that might never exist. This is my attempt to dream out loud in the hope that this is the idea someone steals and runs […]

]]> a2b37a6a8fff23220c0799f1fb012b50 Charles Maxwell joined the group Author appearances and events https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/18257/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:39:43 +0100 0 cccb7ebefa4414024360179e23a0c754 Charles Maxwell joined the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/18256/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:39:23 +0100 0 d1ebc5b28a7d00ab55aa314255ea1616 Matthew Brown edited the blog post Jukka's blog and email list journey in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek https://lordmatt.co.uk/technology/the-internet/blogs-and-blogging/focus-on-others/jukkas-blog-and-email-list-journey/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:36:40 +0100 Jukka's blog and email list journey Every now and then, I like to share the love by focusing on a blog I have found and enjoyed. Today I’d like to share Jukka’s blog. Jukka is a business […]

]]> 67d01ac03ae4500467306ab3a7197c12 Acorn Boi commented on the post, Writers, tell me about your WIP, on the groupblog Shall we talk? https://chat.authorbuzz.co.uk/writing/writers-tell-me-about-your-wip/#comment-837 Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:18:45 +0100 Just a self-insert fan-fic about being a padawan in Luke’s academy.

]]> 9f9c262f0c60a8c81bf88227024b6c3e Matthew Brown commented on the post, Writers, tell me about your WIP, on the groupblog Shall we talk? https://chat.authorbuzz.co.uk/writing/writers-tell-me-about-your-wip/#comment-836 Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:12:50 +0100 If I can spot the trope and predict the ending too soon, I get bored or disappointed. I long for the excitement of not knowing what will happen next that I had watching and reading when I was young. In other […]

]]> 8f38c228683530bc4c9519238f754de9 Blog: Ambivalence by Brian Dillon review – an odd man out from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/03/ambivalence-by-brian-dillon-review-an-odd-man-out Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:00:46 +0100 The critic’s memoir’s is a portrait in determination to go against the grain and ‘pursue a life in words and ideas’Brian Dillon lost his parents early, his mother […]

]]> 0 b916b6b84275b654443f6e2ae2a231d1 Blog: Wimmy Road Boyz by Sufiyaan Salam review – an electric debut set on Manchester’s Curry Mile from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/03/wimmy-road-boyz-by-sufiyaan-salam-review-an-electric-debut-set-on-manchesters-curry-mile Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:00:44 +0100 Written in breathless multilingual prose, this coming-of-age meets state-of-the-nation novel is an incredible literary performanceThree twentysomethings “drive a […]

]]> 0 d01a14d1eebe463d1630c3266a725c49 Blog: What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in May from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/02/what-were-reading-writers-and-readers-on-the-books-they-enjoyed-in-may Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:39:16 +0100 Madeleine Thien, Sufiyaan Salam and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the commentsLately I have loved […]

]]> 0 256634698a64554a8b99bf2d8f418fd9 Blog: Harbour Street, Ann Cleeves from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/06/Harbour_Street__Ann_Cleeves.html Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:04:00 +0100 2014 contemporary police mystery, sixth in Cleeves’ Vera Stanhope
series. A few days before Christmas, an old woman is stabbed on the Tyne
and Wear Metro. She was […]

]]> 0 95a9326e65d86d47fcd90c0130c98e15 Blog: My Only Boy by Rosa Rankin-Gee review – a darkly funny near-future dystopia from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/02/my-only-boy-by-rosa-rankin-gee-review-a-darkly-funny-near-future-dystopia Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:00:42 +0100 A surprising romance is set against a backdrop of climate crisis, political instability and corporate corruption in this bleak but witty novelRosa Rankin-Gee […]

]]> 0 72e4cc97a2949e86e1d920b85dd96778 Blog: Tonight the Music Seems So Loud by Sathnam Sanghera review – a heartbreaking portrait of George Michael from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/02/tonight-the-music-seems-so-loud-by-sathnam-sanghera-review-a-heartbreaking-portrait-of-george-michael Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:00:40 +0100 This affecting exploration of the troubled genius’s impact is packed with anecdote, sharp analysis and social contextIn 1998, George Michael was arrested for p […]

]]> 0 9d47795c889bee90c5da43fe4b2267a6 Blog: I devoured classic novels as a teenager. In a world of distractions, can I relearn how to read them? from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/02/classic-novels-relearn-how-to-read-distractions-screens Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:00:38 +0100 In less than a decade, surrounded by screens, I lost my ability to read some of the best books ever written. But, inspired by the Guardian’s 100 best novels list, I […]

]]> 0 bcdfa8009242e3c856bc3903a4d2c989 Blog: 22 Dead Little Bodies, Stuart MacBride from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/06/22_Dead_Little_Bodies__Stuart_MacBride.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:01:00 +0100 2015 short police procedural mystery novel, tartan noir, in the Logan
McRae series. Logan’s day starts with a failed attempt to stop a
suicidal jumper, and goes […]

]]> 0 c998bb0681444d6c4a29d14e04efd1d3 Blog: Land by Maggie O’Farrell review – an ambitious story of mapmaking in Ireland from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/01/land-by-maggie-ofarrell-review-an-ambitious-story-of-mapmaking-in-ireland Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:00:09 +0100 Set in the aftermath of the famine, the Hamnet author’s family saga folds in myth and folklore‘His father was ever a man of few words,” begins Maggie O’Far […]

]]> 0 8bf3fb938d60d0e949447d719bf5dc76 Blog: Are ‘mind children’ the future of reproduction? from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/31/are-mind-children-the-future-of-reproduction Sun, 31 May 2026 11:00:47 +0100 Forget dirty nappies. In Silicon Valley, there’s increasing chatter about virtual offspringA few months ago, an AI researcher from Europe attended a dinner party i […]

]]> 0 181460e75c4e31d973e967d180a367d4 Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post The sewer elves are causing trouble again in the group Writing prompts and inspirations https://muse.authorbuzz.co.uk/prompts/the-sewer-elves-are-causing-trouble-again/ Sat, 30 May 2026 19:00:00 +0100 6c0b4777cc50ae326f8e384027aa5bb3 Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post What are you reading? in the group Shall we talk? https://chat.authorbuzz.co.uk/books/what-are-you-reading-2/ Sat, 30 May 2026 17:00:00 +0100 What are you reading? Tell me about your currently open book(s). Would you recommend it/them?

]]> e6c59cb9321f1b1fe484ec231fae5a1f Blog: The Folded Sky, Elizabeth Bear from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/05/The_Folded_Sky__Elizabeth_Bear.html Sat, 30 May 2026 08:01:00 +0100 2025 space opera, third in its loose series. Dr Sunya Song has
travelled to the edge of the galaxy to work on the investigation, and
evacuation, of the Baomind, a […]

]]> 0 c280e1911861b4525730962da57b9486 Blog: Intergalactic Battles (3 short Sci Fi movies) from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill https://soft-scifi.isbrill.com/films/2026/intergalactic-battles-3-short-sci-fi-movies/ Fri, 29 May 2026 21:00:00 +0100 0 96c4114de9d60d8370628d939ab1c162 Blog: Virginia Evans: ‘I loved books about things that can’t exist’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/29/virginia-evans-i-loved-books-about-things-that-cant-exist Fri, 29 May 2026 09:00:46 +0100 The Women’s prize-shortlisted novelist on taking inspiration from John Steinbeck, Joan Didion and Jhumpa Lahiri, and weeping through Little Women in her 30sMy e […]

]]> 0 33464b2bba7d2fac879e47817f0d99a0 Blog: The best recent translated fiction – review roundup from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/29/the-best-recent-translated-fiction-review-roundup Fri, 29 May 2026 08:00:45 +0100 Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami; All Flesh by Ananda Devi; The White Desert by Luis López Carrasco; The Home of the Drowned by Elin Anna LabbaSisters in Yellow […]

]]> 0 85d084ef0f3b4a2c165e9225ee323fb0 Blog: Visible from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill https://soft-scifi.isbrill.com/films/2026/visible/ Wed, 27 May 2026 18:00:00 +0100 0 c2ed925e497e62615d7ea07f093cb397 Blog: The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/05/The_Tainted_Cup__Robert_Jackson_Bennett.html Wed, 27 May 2026 08:01:00 +0100 2024 fantasy mystery. A high-ranking Imperial officer has been
murdered, in a particularly grotesque way. But why was he even staying
at a house belonging to one of […]

]]> 0 9337ffc059d2db9afa19a5bc31f7afe4 Blog: An Impossible Impostor, Deanna Raybourn from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/05/An_Impossible_Impostor__Deanna_Raybourn.html Tue, 26 May 2026 08:02:00 +0100 2022 historical thriller, seventh of its series. A Missing Heir has
shown up. Well, maybe. Veronica knew the real man back in the day, and
is asked to see if she […]

]]> 0 2ee3fe7440df3394ae725541e53c9ab0 Blog: Flicker from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill https://soft-scifi.isbrill.com/films/2026/flicker/ Mon, 25 May 2026 21:00:00 +0100 0 025a29a87ced8a7ad4b4ea95df8cd587 Blog: Star Patrol from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill https://soft-scifi.isbrill.com/films/2026/star-patrol/ Sun, 24 May 2026 19:00:00 +0100 0 7a1399403bac489e0f91e41471a0dae3 Blog: The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares from Dogwood Tales in the group Book Reviews by Dogwood Tales feed https://dogwoodtales.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-invention-of-morel-by-adolfo-bioy.html Sun, 24 May 2026 17:27:30 +0100 This is a remarkable short science fiction novel written in 1940 by Argentinian author Adolfo Bioy Casares, originally published in Spanish and translated into […]

]]> 0 3e7bad4fd96da1b61d6bd0ef8f1d804f Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Your new house has a series pixie infestation in the group Writing prompts and inspirations https://muse.authorbuzz.co.uk/prompts/your-new-house-has-a-series-pixie-infestation/ Sat, 23 May 2026 19:00:00 +0100 0dd61e40fe15623af582aa02c8eb0332 Matthew Brown commented on the post, Writers, tell me about your WIP, on the groupblog Shall we talk? https://chat.authorbuzz.co.uk/writing/writers-tell-me-about-your-wip/#comment-832 Sat, 23 May 2026 13:41:23 +0100 I do enjoy a story that goes somewhere I was not expecting.

]]> 26f978c32e6e68d0a89dddc99f0d9f65 Jason Latnar edited the blog post Writers, tell me about your WIP in the group Shall we talk? https://chat.authorbuzz.co.uk/writing/writers-tell-me-about-your-wip/ Sat, 23 May 2026 07:50:42 +0100 Writers, tell me about your WIP No, really, tell me about your Work In Progress. I want to know.

]]> 116e6caa24ca1bee340e69268ef6866c Blog: Multiverses (Sci-Fi Compilation from DUST) from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill https://soft-scifi.isbrill.com/films/2026/multiverses-sci-fi-compilation-from-dust/ Fri, 22 May 2026 13:00:00 +0100 0 f5f59b4e97eada305f035849be6ab876 Blog: Scarper, Jenny Schwartz from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/05/Scarper__Jenny_Schwartz.html Fri, 22 May 2026 08:02:00 +0100 2023 SF, second of its series. OK, now we know some of what’s going
on. What should we do about it?

]]> 0 9bb892c0c4025cd473ce2141be423bda Acorn Boi joined the group Writing prompts and inspirations https://authorbuzz.co.uk/activity/p/18207/ Thu, 21 May 2026 16:14:33 +0100 0 25a41aa71cbba2f38212e20c50918f5e Jason Latnar replied to the topic Added a STP podcast to the group in the forum Fans of Sir Terry Pratchett https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/fans-of-sir-terry-pratchett/forum/topic/added-a-stp-podcast-to-the-group/#post-5242 Thu, 21 May 2026 16:09:57 +0100 Approved!!

]]> 0 fab49a288c24949300ab4da5a8a0805a Matthew Brown started the topic Added a STP podcast to the group in the forum Fans of Sir Terry Pratchett https://authorbuzz.co.uk/groups/fans-of-sir-terry-pratchett/forum/topic/added-a-stp-podcast-to-the-group/ 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.

]]> 0 a44ed13c85ead18ce5b92a56042be534 Blog: Paladin's Faith, T Kingfisher from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/05/Paladin_s_Faith__T_Kingfisher.html Thu, 21 May 2026 08:00:00 +0100 2023 romantic fantasy. Marguerite the spy has heard of a new invention
which will change the shape of the world’s economies. Unable to trust
any old friends or […]

]]> 0 8080236a5bfedaa2cf786c50f4522728 Blog: Half Dead, Annabel Chase from RogerBW's Blog: reading in the group Book Reviews by RogerBW feed https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/05/Half_Dead__Annabel_Chase.html Wed, 20 May 2026 08:02:00 +0100 2025 paranormal fantasy, last of a nine-book series. Lorelei is in
supernatural prison, and her boyfriend is being tortured by Lucifer in
person. How to give […]

]]> 0 9cd8bd3aff9606148ea4f83b835a47b9 Blog: Down to Earth from Soft SciFi in the group Soft Sci-Fi is Brill https://soft-scifi.isbrill.com/films/2026/down-to-earth/ Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0100 0 18403384b3190090e25d9034cf55ea92 Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Something just escaped from your computer game in the group Writing prompts and insperations https://muse.authorbuzz.co.uk/prompts/something-just-escaped-from-your-computer-game/ Tue, 19 May 2026 20:00:00 +0100