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Colin the Copywriter
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Author of debut SF novel, Exo, available NOW | A quarter of a century writing UK publishing jacket copy | 5,000+ blurbs | Talking the cover stories that persuade readers to buy | A few mine, mostly others' | Also find me here colinthecopywriter.com
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Deformed animals.
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Bruno Pontiroli Tests the Boundaries of Familiarity in His Uncanny Wildlife Paintings
Bruno Pontiroli's absurd paintings explore the sometimes grotesque tension between the familiar and the uncanny.
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February 6, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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Blurbs in the wild (1/2): @panmacmillan.bsky.social know how to have fun with a funny book. First, we have two increasingly ridiculous lists – the first asking a question and the second list (deliberately over-deploying the word mysterious) answering in an unilluminating but also intriguing way.
Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Blurb and quotes: What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over two hundred years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza have in common? Apparently not much; until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder, assisting a mysterious professor, unravelling a mysterious mystery, and eating a lot of pizza – not to mention saving the entire human race from extinction along the way (at no extra charge). To find out more, read this book (better still, buy it then read it) – or contact Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. 'A thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic' - Douglas Adams
February 6, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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'Edwardian Hunt Breakfast' - what else?
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A Major Survey in Paris Chronicles Leonora Carrington's Esoteric Surrealism
The Musée du Luxembourg chronicles British-Mexican artist Leonora Carrington's remarkable, eight-decade career.
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February 6, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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Blurbs in the wild: (1/2) @faberbooks.bsky.social reissue of Kay Dick's unsettling THEY has a blurb that is having great fun with its title. Making the perfectly ordinary word THEY sound increasingly sinister & ominous, the blurb, through a series of lists describes how THEY change the world ...
Kay Dick's They Blurb: This is Britain: but not as we know it. THEY begin with a dead dog, shadowy footsteps, confiscated books. Soon the National Gallery is purged; eerie towers survey the coast; mobs stalk the countryside destroying artworks - and those who resist. THEY capture dissidents - writers, painters, musicians, even the unmarried and childless - in military sweeps, 'curing' these subversives of individual identity. Survivors gather together as cultural refugees, preserving their crafts, creating, loving and remembering. But THEY make it easier to forget ...
January 21, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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Man with book talks about writing book.
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'There is a certain amount of necessary self-delusion in anyone committing to writing a novel’ - Jersey Evening Post
Two decades in the making, Exo is the debut novel of Colin Brush, who spent his childhood and teenage years in Jersey. A highly original sci-fi murder-mystery set in the distant future, the novel was ...
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January 16, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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(1/4) @theodoragoss.bsky.social and @tachyonpub.bsky.social brilliant Letters from an Imaginary Country does what is says on the tin. These remarkable short stories take you places you didn’t know existed. The book’s blurb is a three parter:
Theodora Goss's Letters from an Imaginary Country plus magnetic alphabet letters Blurb: Roam through the captivating stories of World Fantasy and Mythopoeic Award winner Theodora Goss (the Athena Club trilogy). This themed collection of imaginary places, with three new stories, recalls Susanna Clarke’s alternate Europe and the surreal metafictions of Jorge Luis Borges. The infamous girl monsters of nineteenth-century fiction gather in London and form their own club. In the imaginary country of Thüle, characters from folklore band together to fight a dictator. An intrepid girl reporter finds the hidden land of Oz―and joins its invasion of our world. The author writes the autobiography of her alternative life and a science fiction love letter to Budapest. The White Witch conquers England with snow and silence. Deeply influenced by the author’s Hungarian childhood during the regime of the Soviet Union, each of these intricate stories engages with storytelling and identity, including Goss's own.
January 15, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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Rivers and pools of light.
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Dennis Lehtonen's Aerial Views of Remote Greenland Villages Illuminate an Evolving Land
Dennis Lehtonen uses a drone in an ongoing project focused on documenting all the inhabited places in Greenland.
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January 12, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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This houses has holes.

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Step Into a Uniquely Cavernous House Installation by Japanese Art Collective 目
"Space II" sits in a neighborhood of a city renowned for its natural hot springs, known as onsen, which attract visitors to local resorts.
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January 12, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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(1/2) Plotless, dreamlike, meandering, Joanne McNeil’s and @fsgbooks.bsky.social Wrong Way is the mid-21st-century work novel par excellence. The blurb on the back, like the book it describes, is a long no-nonsense straightforward explanation of what you’re going to get. No hard sell. No hooks...
Joanne McNeil's Wrong Way and Princess Peach toy car Blurb: For years, Teresa has passed from one job to the next, settling into long stretches of time, struggling to build her career in any field or unstick herself from an endless cycle of labor. The dreaded move from one gig to another is starting to feel unbearable. When a recruiter connects her with a contract position at AllOver, it appears to check all her prerequisites for a “good” job. It’s a fintech corporation with progressive hiring policies and a social justice-minded mission statement. Their new service for premium members: a functional fleet of driverless cars. The future of transportation. As her new-hire orientation reveals, the distance between AllOver’s claims and its actions is wide, but the lure of financial stability and a flexible schedule is enough to keep Teresa driving forward. Joanne McNeil, who often reports on how the human experience intersects with labor and technology brings blazing compassion and criticism to Wrong Way, examining the treacherous gaps between the working and middle classes wrought by the age of AI. Within these divides, McNeil turns the unsaid into the unignorable, and captures the existential perils imposed by a nonstop, full-service gig economy.
January 6, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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UK paperback edition of EXO by @colinthecopywriter.bsky.social is out today!

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Published by @diversionbooks.bsky.social.
Cover for Colin Brush's EXO - a figure runs towards what looks like a thick fog/smoke cloud. The title, in large text, runs down the centre of the image, author's name along the bottom.
January 1, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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Big flames. Little people.
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Alexis Rockman Traces the Unsettling Evolution of a Climate in Crisis
In 'Feedback Loop' at Jack Shainman Gallery, Alexis Rockman presents an inescapable cycle of climate disaster.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Blurbs in the wild (1/3): A war story is a love story. And the quietly subversive blurb sneaks up on you. In @amalelmohtar.com and @maxgladstone.bsky.social Quercus-published This is How You Lose the Time War, the blurb ought to be bleak, filled with the language of anger and violence: . . .
Amal-el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone's This is How You Lose the Time War Blurb: Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Red and Blue, two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions, strike up an unlikely correspondence. But what started as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more: something epic and romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. The discovery of their bond will mean their deaths. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war. That's how war works. Right?
December 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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With 125 Volunteers, Choi + Shine Crochet the 12 Animals of the Chinese Zodiac
Suspended above reflective surface mimicking a dark body of water, Choi + Shine's "Distance" comprises large-scale crocheted sculptures.
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December 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Blurbs in the wild: (1/2) @rfkuang.bsky.social Katabasis' blurb is all problems & stakes. The first paragraph gives the set up: to be a best magician. All else is obstacles in our hero's way: a dead facilitator, a visit to Hell, the rival whose help you need but . . .
Katabasis by RF Kuang Blurb: Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick. But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and – inconveniently – in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him. But Hell is not as the philosophers claim, its rules are upside-down, and if she’s going to get out of there alive, she and Peter will have to work together. That’s if they can agree on anything. Will they triumph, or kill each other trying?
December 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Lovely early Christmas present for Exo, being part of @libraryjournal.bsky.social selection of the Best SF Books of 2025.
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tonimargarita.bsky.social Toni Kirkpatrick @tonimargarita.bsky.social · Dec 6
Congratulations to @colinthecopywriter.bsky.social on EXO making @libraryjournal.bsky.social's Stellar Selections/Best Books 2025 list!
December 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Read an excerpt of Exo over at Frumious Consortium . . .
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Exo by Colin Brush (EXCERPT)
Hello, dear readers! Today, we have a thrilling excerpt for you from a debut novel that expertly melds a future Earth devastated by climate change with a compelling murder mystery, featuring an oct…
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December 1, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Thanks to The Indie View for the interview about Exo . . .
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December 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Q&A with Colin Brush about his new novel, EXO.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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The colour out of space . . .
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Tomislav Topić Meticulously Layers Hundreds of Panels into Prismatic Mesh Installations
One of Topić's most recent interventions, 'Echoverse,' consists of 57 different colors on 451 panels that stretches nearly 100 feet long.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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The skies are full . . .
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Pastoral Landscapes Brim with Patterns in Luminous Paintings by David Brian Smith
Glowing sunrise gradients and myriad vibrant patterns are just a couple of elements comprising David Brian Smith’s otherworldly landscapes.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Little end of the worlds . . .
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Simon Laveuve's Scaled-Down Tableaux Reveal Post-Apocalyptic Lifestyles
Artist Simon Laveuve is known for his meticulously sculpted miniatures rendered in 1/24 and 1/35 scale.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Tbilisi Mural Fest's Dynamic Murals Brighten the Sides of Buildings Throughout the City
Since 2019, Tbilisi Mural Fest has been transforming Georgia's capital city into a giant public art gallery.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Thanks to @athenascalzi.com & @scalzi.com for the chance to talk about a Big Idea involving my novel Exo over at Whatever. It's all about writing adaptability and exploring different paths through the story woods. Because there's more than one way to tell a story.
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The Big Idea: Colin Brush
When writing a novel, a lot of people think of the process as sort of rigid. You have a specific story to tell and it needs to be an unchanging vision all the way through. Author Colin Brush, howev…
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November 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Thanks to @andrewliptak.com for putting my novel Exo on his list of new titles to consider checking out this month. Lots of great titles on that list that you should definitely *LOOK INTO MY EYES* FORGET THEY EVER EXISTED, BUY ONLY EXO . . .
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11 new SF/F books to check out this November
Hidden secrets, uninhabitable planets, secret worlds, and quite a bit more to check out
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November 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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But if you're in the UK/Europe and want a physical copy, you'll need to wait until January . . .
colinthecopywriter.bsky.social Colin the Copywriter @colinthecopywriter.bsky.social · Nov 18
It's been a long journey, but thanks to @jberlyne.bsky.social @awfulagent.bsky.social @tonimargarita.bsky.social & Shannon Donnelly and all at @diversionbooks.bsky.social (not to mention @bookforward.bsky.social & @michelvrana.com ) for bringing Exo out into the world in style.
Happy Publication day, Exo. May you find the readers you deserve. Plus packshots of the novel Exo and as it appears on an e-reader and a phone.
November 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM