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Keith Brooke
@keithbrooke.co.uk
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Makes up shit. Eloquently. Crime & SF writer, editor, photographer... Author of alt.human/Harmony, The Accord, half of Wormhole, and other stuff. Writes as Nick Gifford for teens. www.keithbrooke.co.uk
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Autumn shadows, Bury St Edmunds,, Suffolk.

#OutdoorPhotography #landscape #landscapes #LandscapePhotography #trees #shadows #autumn #ricoh #gr3 #ricohgriii #monochrome #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography
funky tree shadows
November 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Available now: Hindsights
A collection of the final seven collaborations between Eric Brown and Keith Brooke.
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#scifi #sf #ScienceFiction #ShortStories #ShortSF
Hindsights
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Scheduling has just been confirmed for some new Eric Brown books! Hindsights, to be published on 21st November 2025, is the second collection of short stories I wrote with Eric, including one previously unpublished novelette.
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Detail of a fossilised scallop shell, found in the coralline crag that comes to the surface in this part of Suffolk.

#fossil #scallop #shells #paleontology #nature #NaturePhotography #OutdoorPhotography #macro #CloseUp #raynox #SuffolkWildlifeTrust #swt
close-up view of a fossilised scallop shell
November 3, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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The sea from Bawdsey, Suffolk.

#coastal #landscape #landscapes #seaside #sky #skyscape #skies #LandscapePhotography #OutdoorPhotography #suffolk #bawdsey #monochrome #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #boat
boat on a sparkly, sparkly sea
October 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Beech leaf. Captain's Wood, Suffolk.

#OutdoorPhotography #beech #landscape #landscapes #LandscapePhotography #CloseUp #nature #IntimateLandscapes #StillLife #autumn #fall #trees #leaves #leaf #woodland #WoodlandPhotography
beech leaf on dead leaves
October 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Whitley Bay beach. One of my favourites from our recent trip to the north-east.
Ghostly figures on the beach.
September 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Trying to capture the movement in the trees with multiple exposures.
blurry trees
August 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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A trip to Southwold this week.
arty photo of Southwold pier and beach
August 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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I've never really done much portrait photography, but I had a go this week.
Portrait of man in a churchy setting
July 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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The latest from our remote part of coastal Suffolk.
Patterns and Cycles
Time for the latest monthly blog post, six months after the last one… Timings – we started out with the best intentions of making this a regular thing, but sometimes it’s just not…
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July 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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New: the July issue of the Dead East newsletter, a free monthly email offering news and exclusive mystery and crime fiction content: deadeast.substack.com/p/dead-east-...

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July 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Published today: the first issue of the Dead East newsletter, a free monthly email offering news and exclusive content from crime authors based in East Anglia, in the UK.

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#mystery #CrimeFiction #crime #suspense #writing #publishing
Dead East
June 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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We’ve just sent out the first issue of the Dead East newsletter: news and exclusive content from crime authors based in East Anglia, in the UK. open.substack.com/pub/deadeast... #mystery #CrimeFiction #writing
Dead East: May 2025
News and features from the Anglian Crime Authors Collective.
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May 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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House in the Clouds, Thorpeness. With windmill.

#buildings #architecture #UnusualBuildings #thorpeness #suffolk #LandscapePhotography #OutdoorPhotography #monochrome #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography
tall house, short windmill
March 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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My favourite line when I'm fleshing out plot notes: "More stuff happens..." #amwriting
March 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Yes. You want to support musicians? BUY their work. Buy their merchandise. They need money to live! Streaming gives them almost no money! Musicians make more awesome music for you when they aren't literally starving!
sarahpinsker.bsky.social Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · Feb 4
I make $20 every six monthsish on the combined streams of all four of my albums on all streaming sites. At Bandcamp I make about $10 every time I sell an album, physical or download. Use Spotify if you want, but if you like living artists making a living, buy something from them where they get paid.
hawaiiworms.bsky.social JingleWorms @hawaiiworms.bsky.social · Feb 4
Who would have foreseen that by effectively stealing music from artists by stopping paying out on songs that have less than 1000 streams in the past 12 months would result in a first ever annual profit for Spotify?

In related news: PLEASE USE BANDCAMP
February 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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One of our regular garden hares. Gedgrave, near Orford, Suffolk.

#hare #BrownHare #mammals #GardenWildlife #SuffolkWildlifeTrust #swt #nature #NaturePhotography #OutdoorPhotography #orford
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brown hare chomping on the grass
February 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Almost afloat.

#coastal #landscape #landscapes #seaside #LandscapePhotography #OutdoorPhotography #suffolk #woodbridge #monochrome #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #boats
A boat struggling to rise above the water. Failing.
February 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Gateway to/from the Broom.

#SelfSufficiency #seymour #FatOfTheLand #gardening #gardens #orford #suffolk #green #sustainability #JohnSeymour #GreenLiving #LandscapePhotography #OutdoorPhotography #monochrome #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography
misty gateway
January 31, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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"No, I don't want MS, or anyone else, trawling unasked through my work to train its 'AI' models to put me out of work ..."
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Pretty Damned Good, But No Longer
Over on his excellent blog, Tony Ballantyne recently explained why he’s dumping Microsoft Office, and I started to write a comment, but it became a bit too long, so now it’s here, down …
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January 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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It's been a while, but we have a new post at the Big Outdoor Office blog: thebigoutdooroffice.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/c... #writing #creativity #art
Chasing the Muse
Creativity is a funny thing. I’ve always tried to avoid being precious about it — you’d never catch me getting all pretentious and talking about the Muse, for instance. Yes you need inspirati…
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January 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Ooh - just spotted one of my photos on BBC News (5th down the following page):

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Your pictures on the theme of 'fluids'
A selection of pictures sent in by our readers on the theme of "fluids".
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December 16, 2024 at 7:10 AM
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Finished DuoLingo French the other day, so now I've started on Russian. It might be useful, the way things are going.
November 20, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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First use this winter of the heated footrest. Writing is so rock'n'roll.
November 20, 2024 at 9:18 AM