James Alistair Henry
@jamesbluecat.bsky.social
Surrounded by yowling, nebulous forms. Writer: Green Wing, Smack The Pony, Delivery Man, Piglets, my first novel Pagans out now: https://www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/james-alistair-henry/9781916678064
Pinned
Just realised that, brilliantly, my pinned tweet for ages has been for the exclusive edition of Pagans that sold out some time ago, so here's a link to the other one. www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...
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Been wanting to get @jamesspackman73.bsky.social’s guide to pitching for ages and I finally did. Have only had a chance to flick through it so far and have already laughed out loud twice and learned three genuinely career-changing bits of advice. Essential reading. www.bookpitchdoctor.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Been wanting to get @jamesspackman73.bsky.social’s guide to pitching for ages and I finally did. Have only had a chance to flick through it so far and have already laughed out loud twice and learned three genuinely career-changing bits of advice. Essential reading. www.bookpitchdoctor.com
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GET NATE CROWLEY WRITING YOU STUFF HE'S WELL GOOD
Folks it pains me to ask so bluntly, but could anyone use some work doing by me? I've got to find income for three months until my next royalty payment, and I'm not having much luck.
November 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
GET NATE CROWLEY WRITING YOU STUFF HE'S WELL GOOD
Only just discovered Pagans got into the Waterstones Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror of 2025! GO PAGANS! www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...
The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror of 2025 | Waterstones.com Blog | Waterstones
From R.F. Kuang to Brandon Sanderson, here is the science fiction, fantasy and horror we've loved this year.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Only just discovered Pagans got into the Waterstones Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror of 2025! GO PAGANS! www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...
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"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years
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As @flyingrodent.bsky.social has pointed out repeatedly, the Harvey Weinstein scandal directly challenged the elite impunity and degeneracy that Jeffrey Epstein typified, and the response was a deranged, all-channels backlash to make clear such uppity behaviour wouldn’t be tolerated from the plebs.
Extra maddening because we are currently living through the backlash to #MeToo, which was attempting to address precisely behaviours and attitudes like this! We are living in the reaction to a movement that attempted to confront this mysterious behaviour head on!
November 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
As @flyingrodent.bsky.social has pointed out repeatedly, the Harvey Weinstein scandal directly challenged the elite impunity and degeneracy that Jeffrey Epstein typified, and the response was a deranged, all-channels backlash to make clear such uppity behaviour wouldn’t be tolerated from the plebs.
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Times top ten bestseller, sure, but also 9 times requested at @biggreenbooks.bsky.social on #buyastrangerabookday! Great stuff from @jamesbluecat.bsky.social and @moonflowerbooks.bsky.social. Have preordered the paperback at my local bookshop, despite the fancy edition being mouthwatering. #booksky
We couldn't be happier to share the pre-order link for the @waterstones.bsky.social special edition of PAGANS in paperback. With a beautiful foiled cover, red spredges and an exclusive short story, it is a treat. Limited numbers, so pre-order now if you want it! www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Times top ten bestseller, sure, but also 9 times requested at @biggreenbooks.bsky.social on #buyastrangerabookday! Great stuff from @jamesbluecat.bsky.social and @moonflowerbooks.bsky.social. Have preordered the paperback at my local bookshop, despite the fancy edition being mouthwatering. #booksky
Just got to use the phrase, 'a mixed portfolio, gods-wise', so I think I can call it a day now.
November 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Just got to use the phrase, 'a mixed portfolio, gods-wise', so I think I can call it a day now.
Local pub where I used to play pool while listening to The Grid's 'Texas Cowboy' on repeat on the jukebox has burned down to some extent.
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Local pub where I used to play pool while listening to The Grid's 'Texas Cowboy' on repeat on the jukebox has burned down to some extent.
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Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
They'd instantly ruin it with Celebrity Bin Day specials, although that said, a Tom Hollander Bin Day would be amazing.
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
They'd instantly ruin it with Celebrity Bin Day specials, although that said, a Tom Hollander Bin Day would be amazing.
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
Pagans in paperback early next year! With RED SPREDGES!
We couldn't be happier to share the pre-order link for the @waterstones.bsky.social special edition of PAGANS in paperback. With a beautiful foiled cover, red spredges and an exclusive short story, it is a treat. Limited numbers, so pre-order now if you want it! www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Pagans in paperback early next year! With RED SPREDGES!
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This is unbelievable. Just a complete lack of belief in objectivity. And the BBC fucking caved to it
Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This is unbelievable. Just a complete lack of belief in objectivity. And the BBC fucking caved to it
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Can anyone recommend any academic essays (that are publicly available online or that you could send me) exploring the parallels between Loki and Ulysses expanding on Snorri's slightly throwaway lines on the topic. Or failing that, general explorations of Troy-as-Asgard? #MedievalSky #ClassicsSky
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Can anyone recommend any academic essays (that are publicly available online or that you could send me) exploring the parallels between Loki and Ulysses expanding on Snorri's slightly throwaway lines on the topic. Or failing that, general explorations of Troy-as-Asgard? #MedievalSky #ClassicsSky
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Rage against group think, writes Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times, by reading out a paragraph of what *I* think at the beginning of every BBC editorial meeting.
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Rage against group think, writes Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times, by reading out a paragraph of what *I* think at the beginning of every BBC editorial meeting.
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boosting this again because honestly I am proud of this near future and very political sf story, the illustration by Juan Bernabeu is exceptional, and big shout out to the editor Oliver Dougherty for having such a keen eye.
An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.
This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.
Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.
Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
November 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
boosting this again because honestly I am proud of this near future and very political sf story, the illustration by Juan Bernabeu is exceptional, and big shout out to the editor Oliver Dougherty for having such a keen eye.
'“Critics say” is the tell, and does it ever go on telling.'
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
'“Critics say” is the tell, and does it ever go on telling.'
Ooh, I wrote the script for this (based off Tom Fleetcher's excellent story concept), so that's nice, innit? www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
BBC Children in Need’s Pudsey brought to life in CBeebies animation based on story by Tom Fletcher
In an exciting first, Pudsey will be brought to life in a magical and moving animation, coming to BBC One and BBC iPlayer this December
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Ooh, I wrote the script for this (based off Tom Fleetcher's excellent story concept), so that's nice, innit? www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
I KNEW I'd write 'Tom Felton' instead of 'Tom Fletcher' (mainly because I just read an interview where he says people always call him the former) and then I went and did it anyway. Will repost when the burning guilt has passed.
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I KNEW I'd write 'Tom Felton' instead of 'Tom Fletcher' (mainly because I just read an interview where he says people always call him the former) and then I went and did it anyway. Will repost when the burning guilt has passed.
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Help to get a nationally-important monograph printed. A pledge of £34 will get you a print copy of the Rhynie book + UK shipping if the full £10k is raised. A bargain price for what will be a very detailed account of this major Pictish site and its environs. (The ebook will be free.)
CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN LAUNCH: ‘Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland’
Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...
Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Help to get a nationally-important monograph printed. A pledge of £34 will get you a print copy of the Rhynie book + UK shipping if the full £10k is raised. A bargain price for what will be a very detailed account of this major Pictish site and its environs. (The ebook will be free.)
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Book update.
I used to use a UK printer called Inky Fingers to print my books & they were always really good.
When looking at making my latest book, I went back to them to find they were bought out by a larger print company.
OK, I thought they seem to run things similar & still affordable
But...
I used to use a UK printer called Inky Fingers to print my books & they were always really good.
When looking at making my latest book, I went back to them to find they were bought out by a larger print company.
OK, I thought they seem to run things similar & still affordable
But...
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Book update.
I used to use a UK printer called Inky Fingers to print my books & they were always really good.
When looking at making my latest book, I went back to them to find they were bought out by a larger print company.
OK, I thought they seem to run things similar & still affordable
But...
I used to use a UK printer called Inky Fingers to print my books & they were always really good.
When looking at making my latest book, I went back to them to find they were bought out by a larger print company.
OK, I thought they seem to run things similar & still affordable
But...
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X is designed to radicalise people.
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
X is designed to radicalise people.
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.
Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Mamdani is the most Leslie Knope-assed American politician in a decade.
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Mamdani is the most Leslie Knope-assed American politician in a decade.
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Honestly TELL THE STORY. Won’t someone just tell the fucking story of how Brexit created this economic hardship, how a Muslim immigrant just saved the lives of those commuters on that train, won’t someone in politics or even media just connect the fucking dots and TELL THE STORY. IT’S RIGHT THERE
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Honestly TELL THE STORY. Won’t someone just tell the fucking story of how Brexit created this economic hardship, how a Muslim immigrant just saved the lives of those commuters on that train, won’t someone in politics or even media just connect the fucking dots and TELL THE STORY. IT’S RIGHT THERE
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A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants