@SJ_Watson
Hi. I too am a writer in a movie although I work in a completely dark attic room lit only by a small pool of weak light from my desk lamp. I have a cigarette between my lips which never goes out. I work all night and it’s always night. I never smile because writing is serious.
I can announce this now! Yeah, it's all about the Fifth Doctor meeting Cicero, but look further down. There's me! Writing for Doctor Who! A dream come true and a labour of love. Feast your ears on it this autumn!
Can we be clear on one thing: only psychopaths and congenital idiots colour coordinate their bookshelves. The correct way is to put writers alongside each other that you think would get on well at a dinner party. Don’t @ me. You know I’m right.
We know this will not solve every problem facing our culture sector, and that more support is needed. But I hope this £10m will be a lifeline for theatres - and also send a signal of how important we believe arts and culture are, not just to our economy, but to our wellbeing too.
The Daily Mail tells women to get rid of books to make them attractive to men. I prefer the wise words of John Waters: “If you go home with someone and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ‘em!”
My fellow human women, aren't you glad we have life coaches to tell us where we're going wrong in love? I knew my copy of Slaughterhouse-Five was putting men off!
In 2020 I had to stand outside a care home window trying to make myself understood to my dying mother while that smirking cunt Johnson and his chums partied away in the sunshine. I'm beyond angry about this. If he was in front of me now he wouldn't get to walk away.
Well, that might have been the best
@HarrogateFest
so far. So good to meet up with old friends and make new ones after so long on our own. Yes we talked about murder all weekend, but it was also the most life-affirming of experiences.
Sitting stripped to the waist at my desk with my antique fan blowing, thinking I'm Hemingway in Cuba or Greene in Sierra Leone and not Martyn in Exeter.
I know I’m wanging on about my new book, THE OLD RELIGION, and there’s more to come, so if you’re sick of hearing it please feel free to mute. But it’s my first original novel under my own name for nearly a decade and I’m rather thrilled about it. So bear with me ...
@amandalees
@BettyGranville
A mate of mine actually took a builder up on that. He whistled at her as she walked past so she went onto his building site, up the ladder and joined him on the scaffolding. Told him to come on then, if you're brave enough. He wasn't, surprisingly . . .
@BenPBradshaw
I also feel genuinely upset over the Labour MEPs and yourself. You’re the best MP I’ve had everywhere I’ve lived but the party is rotting from the head down and something needs to be done. Until Corbyn and his hateful acolytes are gone this ont be the Labour Party.
Absolutely gutted not to be at this year’s
#TheakstonsCrime
at
#Harrogate
. I was supposed to be there from yesterday until Sunday and doing a couple of events on Saturday. But ill health has stopped me. Can’t say how devastated I am.
@SarahGPerry
This is Finn. We got him from Battersea after being found on the tube. He was a fireball when we got him, waiting in the hallway to attack us at night, etc. Look at him now. He’s the most gorgeous, affectionate cuddler and we couldn’t imagine life without him.
Here's me doing my best Elvis Costello circa This Year's Model look to talk about my shiny new novel,
#TheOtherPeople
, and my shiny new name, C B Everett!
Piss Jugman is here until 6pm today to teach truckers proper pee disposal. Jugman is "pissed" at all the jugs he's found laying in the parking lot. "Urine trouble" if you don't dispose properly.
Kids can get their picture taken with Piss Jugman for only $5 from 4-6pm today
I’ve just finished readin
@spookypurcell
’s latest The Shape of Darkness. Wow. I think it’s her best one yet and that’s saying something. A story or a woman haunted in every way possible, I reckon it’s a future gothic classic.
RIP Peter Wyngarde. You made me believe crime writers led such an adventurous and flamboyant life. In your honour today I’ll wear a cravat with my kaftan, drink scotch for breakfast and get into a fistfight with some thugs. And type a few words.
I’ve posted a lot of stuff on here recently about the appalling shit happening in the US and I’ve lost followers as a result. Fine. Those people have shown themselves up for what they are.
#Blacklivesmatter
Thirty four years ago tonight I was watching Bruce Springsteen at St James Park, Newcastle. It's still one of the best gigs I've ever been to - or ever will go to - and can still remember the set list. Glory days indeed.
@BenPBradshaw
I voted Green but with a heavy heart, Ben, as a lifelong Labour voter and sometime member. And I will continue to do so, I’m afraid. I don’t recognise this Labour Party any more.
@mrjamesob
But they won't take any action. Because they'll be cut off from Downing Street if there's any backlash. Or doing their jobs, as we used to call it.
Stop press! Have you seen the news?
#QuayWords
has a new writer-in-residence. We are thrilled to announce that acclaimed crime writer
@MartynWaites
is our first ever digital writer-in-residence 🎉.Find out more and book your place for his first event, here
I can finally mention this! Three more stories featuring the brilliant Fifth Doctor and companions, one by
@ak_benedict
, one by
@sarahrward1
and one by me! This is one of the most exciting things I’ve ever written because I get to say ... EXTERMINATE!
Many happy returns for the Fifth Doctor! What better birthday gift than a new
#DoctorWho
box set?! 🎁🎂 Click here: to pre-order The Lost Resort and Other Stories NOW!
It’s time for my TV event of the week: The Rivals Of Sherlock Holmes on
@TalkingPicsTV
. Yeah, I could watch the whole thing on a box set but I like waiting for it and looking forward to it every Sunday. Like people used to do in olden times.
I have known Lady (Susan) Hussey since I was 18. She is definitely not a racist. When she first heard my geordie accent she sang the whole of ‘You shall have a fishie on a little dishie to me’ at full volume.
If you follow this to its logical conclusion, only a drug addict can play a drug addict, only boxer can play a boxer, only an actual Greek deity can play Thor. The world just got a tiny bit more stupid.
I am beyond excited about everyone getting to hear this at last! I couldn’t be more proud of anything I’ve ever done. Brilliant team, brilliant cast, brilliant production.
Wish the bear had ripped this cockless cunt to pieces then posted a selfie smiling over his dismembered remains. That would have been an “awesome stalk”. Next time.
Alright folks, here is my Mountain Grizzly! We put an awesome stalk on him but he spotted us at about 75 yards. Instead of taking off he turned and came right at us. It was very easy to tell this boar owned the valley we were hunting in and wasn’t scared of anything! When he…
Here's me,
@MarkBillingham
and Simon Kimmel at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville for John Prine's 70th birthday gig. What a wonderful night. So, so sad to hear about his death.
Every night of this campaign, my election posters have been stolen, taken down, vandalised, or destroyed.
This is a clear attack on our democracy, but voters in Welwyn Hatfield will not be intimidated by these tactics.
We won't be discouraged by these undemocratic actions from
Today’s book post and I am so excited by this. Mick Herron is one of the best British writers currently operating and a new novel from him is always a cause for joy. If you’ve not read him, remedy that now. You can thank me later.
This is abhorrent. It’s. Is more difficult to find positive signs of policing than negative ones. Everyday racism. And they either can’t or won’t see it.
Woken up with a strong urge to have chips for breakfast. I know you can break the rules at Christmas but does the run up to Christmas count?
And for any Americans reading, chips means chips. Not crisps. Just to clear that up.
Going to Newcastle to see my oldest friend. Thinking fondly of her mother who died a year ago. She always called Ming vases Minge vases and no one ever had the heart to tell her.
‘Bloody thrilled’ to have been interviewed by
@davidmbarnett
about the British horror revival for The Observer
@guardian
🧛♀️🔪🩸🧟♂️
I could’ve written a (terrible because not a writer) book about the subject
Pres Trump declined to answer questions at the end of the announcement. Was asked to reflect on the legacy of Sen. McCain, but declined. Sat silent and cross-armed as press pool herded out of the Oval Office.
@LiamWhy53455121
@BelfastAgmt
Yeah. Good job she’s not the Foreign Secretary, or something. Then she might make herself look like some semi-literate over-promoted moron.
@richardosman
That would be genuinely brilliant. I’ve managed to mention Homes Under The Hammer in just about every novel for the last fifteen years. It doesn’t get the appreciation it deserves.
Every time I see Liz Truss I always imagine a Cabinet meeting where the rest of them are sitting around with reports in front of them and she's been given some colouring in to do.
#OnThisDay
1981: The television adaptation of The Day of the Triffids was first broadcast.
Pictured are Emma Relph as Jo Playton, John Duttine as Bill Masen and a Triffid as itself.
I was in Lithuania just after they split from the Soviet Union. They pulled down all the Communist statues and looked for replacements more representative of who they now were. They came up with, of course, Frank Zappa. Here it is: