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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 1d

"Once more on to the breach dear readers, once more
And geeks of the local area sat at home shall hold their personhood cheap that they did not geek with us on this Saint John de Brébeuf day..."

if they want to

Anyway, Sunday I am at Barnsley Comicon with @katebaucherel.bsky.social doing books

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 1d

an update on this project.
it is going well,
too well...

I fear this may all be gibberish

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 5d

A new Harvey Anthology has joined the family...
A return to Dark/Urban Fantasy
There are no bonus points for guessing out who came up with the title for this one

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FV3HRRVG/

#newbook #urbanfantasy #newreads #amreading #fantasy #horror #SpookySeason

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 3d

warning, may contain political commentary
also involves mild cat jeopardy
#blog #politics #reads #cats
markhayesblog.com/2025/10/14/f...

Feline Economics

Feline economics. The cat lives if you can afford the cost of keeping it alive, otherwise, good night fluffy, and this nice woman in the lab coat is going to help you go to sleep.

markhayesblog.com

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 2d

That's good as you are on my list of those I plan to ask to beta read the book when i eventually finish it

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 3d

Todays task, write a 1500 word introduction to a book on paganism and quantum physics...
I may have broken my self imposed word limit #pagan

'Now, importantly, while I have my back to the fire, I can feel its warmth, and I have checked for lions.'

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 3d

warning, may contain political commentary
also involves mild cat jeopardy
#blog #politics #reads #cats
markhayesblog.com/2025/10/14/f...

Feline Economics

Feline economics. The cat lives if you can afford the cost of keeping it alive, otherwise, good night fluffy, and this nice woman in the lab coat is going to help you go to sleep.

markhayesblog.com

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 5d

A new Harvey Anthology has joined the family...
A return to Dark/Urban Fantasy
There are no bonus points for guessing out who came up with the title for this one

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FV3HRRVG/

#newbook #urbanfantasy #newreads #amreading #fantasy #horror #SpookySeason

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 9d

A new Harvey Anthology joins the family...
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FV3HRRVG/

'To the waters and the wild...'
#newbook #booksky #urbanfantasy #newreads #amreading #fantasy #horror #spookyseason

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 9d

'Aliens', sure....

Have you heard the good news about our lord and savior Drakon btw?

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · Sep 2

Three turns windleshin's
Around the Lochfa'ston
Three turns windleshin's
an' call the other’s names

Three turns windleshin's
a'fore the moon does rise
Three turns windleshin's
And fear not the dark

Three turns windleshin's
Around the Lochfa'ston
Three turns windleshin's
For she is devine

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 9d

The daily quote thing, mostly from sci-fi writers or philosophers* (which are often the same)

#quotefortheday #quotes #scifi #fantasy #amwriting #quotesky

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 19d

Widdershins is an old Scottish word
meaning to circle something in the direction opposite to the sun or anti-clockwise. To turn widdershins is considered to be bad luck
So why did we name a book 3 Turns Widdershins
#pagan #folklore #books #booksky #newreads #blog

markhayesblog.com/2025/09/29/t...

Turning Widdershins

Three turns windleshin’s Around the Lochfa’ston Three turns windleshin’s an’ call the other’s names

markhayesblog.com

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 9d

Oi! Clegg

If the AI industry (or any other) can only survive through theft, it should not survive

I am not sure how you anyone with any basic morality could think otherwise.

Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 9d

A new Harvey Anthology has joined the family...
A return to Harveys urban fantasy roots
There are no bonus points for figuring out who cam up with the title for this one

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FV3HRRVG/

#newbook #urbanfantasy #newreads #amreading #fantasy #horror #SpookySeason

3 Turns Widdershins: A Collection of Dark and Urban Fantasy Stories (Harvey Duckman Presents...) : Duckman, Harvey, Hayes, Mark, Connelly, R. Bruce, Errington, Keith, Sawyer, Ben, Sacks, Davia, Watts,...

www.amazon.co.uk

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 9d

you would be greatly missed, the world would be a lesser place without you. There is darkness, but you bring light.
You may not see the light, but that is because it is shining from you

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 9d

A new Harvey Anthology joins the family...
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FV3HRRVG/

'To the waters and the wild...'
#newbook #booksky #urbanfantasy #newreads #amreading #fantasy #horror #spookyseason

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 10d

so as not to offend her, yes
the potion might not kill me
An offended forest witch almost certainly would

Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 10d

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 10d

I have no words....
#slothsocks

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · Nov 28

We need better carbon storage Books are an excellent way to store carbon long term, as books are about 96% carbon 3% ink and 1% blood . So buy more books...

Here's some books you could buy

#books #scifi #spectulativefiction #reads #steampunk

www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Mark-...

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · Feb 10

A post Newtonian Magic Victorian Urban fantasy
In Kindle, Paperback, or hardback
#newbook #scifi #steampunk #urbanfanasy #booksky
#magicalrealisum #newreads #kindleunlimited #amreading

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DWMWJ927

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 11d

The daily quote thing, mostly from sci-fi writers or philosophers (which are often the same)

#quotefortheday #quotes #scifi #fantasy #amwriting #quotesky

Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 12d

I am having a odd brain day... I do which the werewolf and the zombie would quieten down so I can go back to Morgan LeFae's great (many times removed ) grand daughter. struggling with the GCSE's in Teesside

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Mark Hayes @markhayes.bsky.social · 12d

a rather serious case of a bot fly infestation a few years before had cost him a large amount of his stomach lining, and one of his kidneys, before he managed to pick all the magots out.

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