George Walkley
@georgewalkley.com
Chairman @midascampaigns.bsky.social, board @bdspublishing.bsky.social, @brisunipress.bsky.social, policy @independentpublishersguild.com, advisor @xigxaguk.bsky.social, MBA, 48% centrist dad. Opinions on strategy, AI, books, games, etc my own.
Feels like a long overdue moment for readers, authors, peers, @thebookseller.com et al. to ask publishers still using X (at least 3 of Big 5 in last month) whether it is really a platform they want to be associated with. Same goes 10x for journalists and government, btw. Delete your accounts.
This does seem just a little bit bad! Idk the sort of thing you’d think politicians might distance themselves from or something!
January 2, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Feels like a long overdue moment for readers, authors, peers, @thebookseller.com et al. to ask publishers still using X (at least 3 of Big 5 in last month) whether it is really a platform they want to be associated with. Same goes 10x for journalists and government, btw. Delete your accounts.
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(Imagine the landscape of Withered Hill coming to you. And no, you can’t leave. You were always there…)
(Imagine the landscape of Withered Hill coming to you. And no, you can’t leave. You were always there…)
While I've got you, and before you start on the booze... would you mind checking out the Kickstarter page for THE DEVIL'S SOUND? It's launching in a week and is an immersive audio project in the world of WITHERED HILL. I'd love it if you'd sign uo for updates.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
Coming soon: The Devil’s Sound
A 6 episode immersive audio folk horror experience, set in David Barnett's Withered Hill universe.
www.kickstarter.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Endorsed by the man. Go on, sign up for updates.
(Imagine the landscape of Withered Hill coming to you. And no, you can’t leave. You were always there…)
(Imagine the landscape of Withered Hill coming to you. And no, you can’t leave. You were always there…)
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While I've got you, and before you start on the booze... would you mind checking out the Kickstarter page for THE DEVIL'S SOUND? It's launching in a week and is an immersive audio project in the world of WITHERED HILL. I'd love it if you'd sign uo for updates.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
Coming soon: The Devil’s Sound
A 6 episode immersive audio folk horror experience, set in David Barnett's Withered Hill universe.
www.kickstarter.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
While I've got you, and before you start on the booze... would you mind checking out the Kickstarter page for THE DEVIL'S SOUND? It's launching in a week and is an immersive audio project in the world of WITHERED HILL. I'd love it if you'd sign uo for updates.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
Last dog walk of the year, fog like a John Carpenter film.
December 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Last dog walk of the year, fog like a John Carpenter film.
Early 1992, my first visit to America and first experience of MTV. This was on rotation.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWK...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWK...
December 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Early 1992, my first visit to America and first experience of MTV. This was on rotation.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWK...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWK...
Months behind everyone else, but completely floored by A House of Dynamite on Netflix. Incredibly tense, well acted, thought provoking.
December 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Months behind everyone else, but completely floored by A House of Dynamite on Netflix. Incredibly tense, well acted, thought provoking.
Youngest is watching what is, I think, the penultimate episode of Stranger Things, which I missed, but it seems fun and now I’m wondering if a 40+ hour investment of time is a good idea or not.
December 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Youngest is watching what is, I think, the penultimate episode of Stranger Things, which I missed, but it seems fun and now I’m wondering if a 40+ hour investment of time is a good idea or not.
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Husk by husk, crumb by crumb, pinch by pinch. The trail to follow was laid years before, and left for you and you alone. To another’s eye, it was never there.
#12daysofyule
#witheredhill
#thedevilssound
#12daysofyule
#witheredhill
#thedevilssound
December 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Husk by husk, crumb by crumb, pinch by pinch. The trail to follow was laid years before, and left for you and you alone. To another’s eye, it was never there.
#12daysofyule
#witheredhill
#thedevilssound
#12daysofyule
#witheredhill
#thedevilssound
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The ability to survive, and even thrive, in a new environment, is immediately tied to one’s facility for adaptation and rapid reevaluation in the face of a changed worldview.
#12daysofyule
#witheredhill
#thedevilssound
#12daysofyule
#witheredhill
#thedevilssound
December 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The ability to survive, and even thrive, in a new environment, is immediately tied to one’s facility for adaptation and rapid reevaluation in the face of a changed worldview.
#12daysofyule
#witheredhill
#thedevilssound
#12daysofyule
#witheredhill
#thedevilssound
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The message that underscores all encounters with the land, with the older ways, is that there are rules you have forgotten. The consequences of which will exact a price.
#12daysofyule
#witheredhill
#thedevilssound
#12daysofyule
#witheredhill
#thedevilssound
December 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The message that underscores all encounters with the land, with the older ways, is that there are rules you have forgotten. The consequences of which will exact a price.
#12daysofyule
#witheredhill
#thedevilssound
#12daysofyule
#witheredhill
#thedevilssound
I worked on the UK publication/marketing of this book back in the day and reread it last year—farsighted on technology and society, great characters, a damn good thriller.
Supergood dystopian science fiction of the surveillance state. Hard to believe it was written in 2007 because it accurately depicts where we are now
@cstross.bsky.social
@cstross.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I worked on the UK publication/marketing of this book back in the day and reread it last year—farsighted on technology and society, great characters, a damn good thriller.
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Inside the deep midwinter, when the days are narrow, we see our footprints, piled one on top of the other. We have travelled these roads before.
#12daysofyule
#witheredhill
#thedevilssound
#12daysofyule
#witheredhill
#thedevilssound
December 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Inside the deep midwinter, when the days are narrow, we see our footprints, piled one on top of the other. We have travelled these roads before.
#12daysofyule
#witheredhill
#thedevilssound
#12daysofyule
#witheredhill
#thedevilssound
Hard to reconcile recent Guardian piece on the decline of non-fiction—and parlous numbers I hear from some authors, agents and publishers—with the feeling that qualitatively we’re in a golden age of non-fiction. So many good books in Foyles, could have spent hundreds more without any difficulty.
December 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Hard to reconcile recent Guardian piece on the decline of non-fiction—and parlous numbers I hear from some authors, agents and publishers—with the feeling that qualitatively we’re in a golden age of non-fiction. So many good books in Foyles, could have spent hundreds more without any difficulty.
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We begin, appropriately enough, at the end. Where everything is revealed and some things are put to rest.
#12daysofYule
#thedevilssound
#witheredhill
#12daysofYule
#thedevilssound
#witheredhill
December 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
We begin, appropriately enough, at the end. Where everything is revealed and some things are put to rest.
#12daysofYule
#thedevilssound
#witheredhill
#12daysofYule
#thedevilssound
#witheredhill
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a little update from @davidmbarnett.bsky.social, @georgewalkley.com and I as we reach for the weekend.
Tomorrow, we start 12 Days of Yule…
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
Tomorrow, we start 12 Days of Yule…
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
Update 2: A Teaser... · The Devil’s Sound
Thanks to everyone who has followed us here, and shared or commented on our posts on social media. We know it's largely a leap of faith, because we're making something here that defies easy descriptio...
www.kickstarter.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
a little update from @davidmbarnett.bsky.social, @georgewalkley.com and I as we reach for the weekend.
Tomorrow, we start 12 Days of Yule…
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
Tomorrow, we start 12 Days of Yule…
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
Well, the one advantage of that ridiculously misspelled surname is that it’s easy to find the posts about it.
December 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Well, the one advantage of that ridiculously misspelled surname is that it’s easy to find the posts about it.
That feeling when you watch your important seasonal DHL delivery count down online: 4 deliveries to go, 3, 2, 1, — then the van drives off to the other side of the city and the status just says, we're running late.
December 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
That feeling when you watch your important seasonal DHL delivery count down online: 4 deliveries to go, 3, 2, 1, — then the van drives off to the other side of the city and the status just says, we're running late.
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Please check out the Kickstarter pre-launch page for THE DEVIL'S SOUND, the new immersive audio horrorexperience in the world of WITHERED HILL. Nobody wants your money (until next year!) but if you could sign up for updates, that would be absolutely fabulous.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
Coming soon: The Devil’s Sound
A 6 episode immersive audio folk horror experience, set in David Barnett's Withered Hill universe.
www.kickstarter.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Please check out the Kickstarter pre-launch page for THE DEVIL'S SOUND, the new immersive audio horrorexperience in the world of WITHERED HILL. Nobody wants your money (until next year!) but if you could sign up for updates, that would be absolutely fabulous.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
Really excited to be helping @tomabba.studio and @davidmbarnett.bsky.social get this story out into the world. It's going to be a fabulously creepy bit of folk horror. Like Tom said, please sign up for updates on Kickstarter so you get notified and help our follower count. And please repost/share!
Massive news!!!!
The Devil’s Sound - a six part immersive audio series, set in @davidmbarnett.bsky.social’s Withered Hill universe, is coming to Kickstarter January 9th.
Sign up for updates:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom... Follow the Devil’s Sound Instagram:
www.instagram.com/thedevilssou...
The Devil’s Sound - a six part immersive audio series, set in @davidmbarnett.bsky.social’s Withered Hill universe, is coming to Kickstarter January 9th.
Sign up for updates:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom... Follow the Devil’s Sound Instagram:
www.instagram.com/thedevilssou...
December 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Really excited to be helping @tomabba.studio and @davidmbarnett.bsky.social get this story out into the world. It's going to be a fabulously creepy bit of folk horror. Like Tom said, please sign up for updates on Kickstarter so you get notified and help our follower count. And please repost/share!
As a small business, there’s no worse Christmas present than a much larger, multinational client announcing the day before an invoice is due that they are applying their standard payment terms, not following what was on the invoice. 😩
December 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
As a small business, there’s no worse Christmas present than a much larger, multinational client announcing the day before an invoice is due that they are applying their standard payment terms, not following what was on the invoice. 😩
This may be peak Times picture/caption.
December 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This may be peak Times picture/caption.
First half hour to myself after a long and difficult week. Relaxing with a drink and Sweary Dallas.
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
First half hour to myself after a long and difficult week. Relaxing with a drink and Sweary Dallas.
Really interesting piece by @andrewtghill.ft.com on the winner of the FT/Schroders Business Book of the Year. “Nervous excitement” probably undersells the reaction of a room full of publishers and writers to the idea of AI inside a book. But it’s an interesting concept.
as.ft.com/r/7aa36214-e...
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![In the meantime, Witt is happy to use the tools Huang and Nvidia’s customers have built. In his award acceptance speech, he sent a ripple of nervous excitement around a room full of traditional publishers with a vision of the book as a constantly evolving, AI-fuelled project.
In the interview, he wonders whether “the book could respond to the reader, meet the reader in the middle in some way, understand where the reader’s at in their own knowledge, and then, on the fly, using AI, generate a unique bespoke text that speaks directly to their concerns”. In this world, “the book moves from being a static printed object to maybe a more dynamic [product], almost like a knowledge database, and I can even use feedback from readers to go do new reporting and answer reader concerns”.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gyjvyuzht4gvknwzyn2gq6vb/bafkreibojkk7pp4wmyjnx6ah2wzoiiext7rstk2e3vhrzuqrsy7mxo3a2i@jpeg)
December 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Really interesting piece by @andrewtghill.ft.com on the winner of the FT/Schroders Business Book of the Year. “Nervous excitement” probably undersells the reaction of a room full of publishers and writers to the idea of AI inside a book. But it’s an interesting concept.
as.ft.com/r/7aa36214-e...
as.ft.com/r/7aa36214-e...
