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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 17h

Does this mean the Cardiff Story museum is going away?

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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Word of mouth is important to a book's success. So, if you'd like to see the authors who wrote your favourite stories commissioned to write more, please keep talking about all the #books you love.

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Bore da!

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 2d

The Tunnels Below is a wonderful book - shades of Neverwhere, but stranger, lovelier and more haunting. A great MG fantasy for these longer, darker evenings. #KidLit #KidLitUK

Claire Linney Author @clairelinney.bsky.social · 3d

Day 12 of my month of Black kids books. This is The Tunnels Below by Nadine Wild Palmer. A wonderful, slightly surreal fantasy adventure set in a hidden world beneath London. Cecilia finds herself working to save her new friends from a tyrannical overlord. Original and brilliant.

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 2d

The Tunnels Below is a wonderful book - shades of Neverwhere, but stranger, lovelier and more haunting. A great MG fantasy for these longer, darker evenings. #KidLit #KidLitUK

Claire Linney Author @clairelinney.bsky.social · 3d

Day 12 of my month of Black kids books. This is The Tunnels Below by Nadine Wild Palmer. A wonderful, slightly surreal fantasy adventure set in a hidden world beneath London. Cecilia finds herself working to save her new friends from a tyrannical overlord. Original and brilliant.

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 3d

Please follow this entire thread: it’s fabulous

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 3d

Mr Brazil starts us off inoffensively enough with a fairly boring suit but my goodness he's selling it with that walk. He does get a bonus point for the suit clearly fitting though, because as you will see that is not always a given...

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 3d

Same here. The advice always used to be, "get into TV and features" but that industry is also currently on fire.

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 4d

Glad you had a good time, Joanne. I took part in the school programme during the week and enjoyed myself immensely. And how lovely is Villa Rothsay?

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 5d

I've met some truly lovely children's authors, organisers and - most importantly - young readers at the Isle of Wight Literary Festival. @iowlf.bsky.social

An Isle of Wight Literary Festival lanyard, labelled P G Bell School Author

P.G. Bell, as good looking as ever, but this time with the added bonus of a blue newsboy cap (he bought it on impulse, is still in two minds about it, and is trying it out), standing in a school hall in front of a projector screen with his own grinning mug on it.

A view across the Isle of Wight coast, with a sweeping bay leading to undulating white cliffs in the distance. Waves crash on the sandy shore and the sky is a dazzling blue.

A view from the window of the Villa Rothsay, looking across the Solent to England. A ferry is cutting through the steel-grey waters.

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 5d

a man with a beard is wearing a polka dot shirt with suspenders

Alt: a man with a beard is wearing a polka dot shirt with suspenders, saying "My eyes can taste it."

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 5d

I've met some truly lovely children's authors, organisers and - most importantly - young readers at the Isle of Wight Literary Festival. @iowlf.bsky.social

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, and Oddity, also on Shudder, if you're after something pared down and creepy.

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 5d

Have you seen Last Cut of the Dead? Tremendous. And the new VHS Halloween just dropped. Not seen it yet, but the VHS series has been reliably entertaining thus far.

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 5d

It turned 60 this week!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 6d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 7d

I'm taking The Big Bad Wolf Murder to the Isle of Wight Literary Festival for two days of school events. I'm told there's a posh dinner in store too. Have packed a (rather dusty) tie. #KidLit #KidLitUK

A view of Cardiff Central railway station.

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 8d

Whaaaaaat?!!!

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 8d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 8d

How on earth did I miss this? Pre-ordering my copy today. #KidLit #KidLitUK

Gareth P Jones @garethpjones.bsky.social · 15d

My first ever book (& the first in a series of 4 books once described as "Raymond Chandler for 7 year olds") is currently awaiting reprint & I think it might help if you were ALL to order one today. Cheers.

www.amazon.co.uk/Dragon-Detec...

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 8d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 10d

And Mark Robert's supposed to be one of the good guys!

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 11d

UK authors submitting claims for the Anthropic civil case; what are you putting in the "Routing Number" field when you're telling them how to pay you? My bank says that we in the UK don't actually have routing numbers! But I don't want to just make one up.

A screenshot of an electronic form. The field reads "Routing Number".

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 11d

Congratulations!

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 11d

Big yes.

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P.G. Bell @pgbellwriter.bsky.social · 11d

UK authors submitting claims for the Anthropic civil case; what are you putting in the "Routing Number" field when you're telling them how to pay you? My bank says that we in the UK don't actually have routing numbers! But I don't want to just make one up.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 12d

In Paris, porcelain plates inside 18 meter pool filled with water create random sound symphony without human interference..pretty cool 😎

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