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Latest book is the alt-history novel, Funny Money, published by Sea Lion Press following a British agent in an alt Cold War.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/John-A.-Hopkins/author/B091TWB9D9
Latest book is the alt-history novel, Funny Money, published by Sea Lion Press following a British agent in an alt Cold War.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/John-A.-Hopkins/author/B091TWB9D9
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FUNNY MONEY | Sea Lion Press
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I am excited to share the news my new novel, Funny Money has bean published by the team at Sea Lion Press. This is the follow up to Atomic Secrets, an alternate history espionage thriller.
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Interesting list. Thanks
Originally published in "Never Was" magazine, Nick Ottens looks at " #Countries that almost existed". #AlternateHistory #Counterfactual #WhatIf www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/countri...
Countries That Almost Existed
By Nick OttensThis article was first published over here by our friends at Never Was Magazine and is shared as part of our partnership with Never Was. For more articles like this please check out thei...
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October 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Interesting list. Thanks
An excellent last film of the #LondonFilmFestival last night - #Giant, the story of #PrinceNaseemHamed and #BrendanIngle.
I also highly recommend #Tuner, the #SurpriseFilm - a interesting crime thriller with #DustinHoffman and #LeoWoodall.
And finally, #APrivateLife, #JodieFoster.
#movies #LFF
I also highly recommend #Tuner, the #SurpriseFilm - a interesting crime thriller with #DustinHoffman and #LeoWoodall.
And finally, #APrivateLife, #JodieFoster.
#movies #LFF
October 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
An excellent last film of the #LondonFilmFestival last night - #Giant, the story of #PrinceNaseemHamed and #BrendanIngle.
I also highly recommend #Tuner, the #SurpriseFilm - a interesting crime thriller with #DustinHoffman and #LeoWoodall.
And finally, #APrivateLife, #JodieFoster.
#movies #LFF
I also highly recommend #Tuner, the #SurpriseFilm - a interesting crime thriller with #DustinHoffman and #LeoWoodall.
And finally, #APrivateLife, #JodieFoster.
#movies #LFF
An interesting look at prequels and #JamesBond.
Like Mr. Anderson, I rather like the three Horowitz Bond books. I love the original books and re-read them all the time, so it was good to have something more like #IanFleming than the other continuation writers.
Like Mr. Anderson, I rather like the three Horowitz Bond books. I love the original books and re-read them all the time, so it was good to have something more like #IanFleming than the other continuation writers.
Tom Anderson's #PrequelProblems article series (about the challenges of writing a #prequel) returns with a look at the 1950s #JamesBond #OriginStory "Forever and a Day" by #AnthonyHorowitz. #BookReview #SpyFiction #Retro www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/prequel...
Prequel Problems: Forever and a Day (James Bond)
By Thomas Anderson.This is the first article I’ve penned in my “Prequel Problems” series for quite a while, so it may be worth briefly recapping the purpose and goal behind these articles. As a voraci...
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October 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
An interesting look at prequels and #JamesBond.
Like Mr. Anderson, I rather like the three Horowitz Bond books. I love the original books and re-read them all the time, so it was good to have something more like #IanFleming than the other continuation writers.
Like Mr. Anderson, I rather like the three Horowitz Bond books. I love the original books and re-read them all the time, so it was good to have something more like #IanFleming than the other continuation writers.
What a fantastic day at the Women's Rugby World Cup Final on Saturday. Two fantastic games, and the #RedRoses emerged as #WorldChampions - congratulations
#WRWC
#WRWC
September 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
What a fantastic day at the Women's Rugby World Cup Final on Saturday. Two fantastic games, and the #RedRoses emerged as #WorldChampions - congratulations
#WRWC
#WRWC
Cracking start - looking forward to next week.
A new #SerialSunday, this one by @cepmurphy.bsky.social - #AlternateHistory #horror at the dawn of #TonyBlair and #NewLabour in 1997. #Fiction #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/serial-...
Serial Sunday: The Galton Horror I
By Charles EP Murphy.A mere handful of people in Britain watched the Shackleton 1 probe launch into space back in 1996. Gunnar Glass had been twelve, portly and mousy-haired and learning to avoid the ...
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September 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Cracking start - looking forward to next week.
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Today's #SaturdayShowcase of past SLP #AlternateHistory #books: the #USCivilWar is over and the South has won. But what happens to #BleedingKansas? Mark Ciccone tells the tale of of an ordinary cavalryman who just wants to go home. #Kansas #CivilWar www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...
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September 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Today's #SaturdayShowcase of past SLP #AlternateHistory #books: the #USCivilWar is over and the South has won. But what happens to #BleedingKansas? Mark Ciccone tells the tale of of an ordinary cavalryman who just wants to go home. #Kansas #CivilWar www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...
Nice summary - I agree there was a drop in quality in the 2000s. I would add Craig Thomas to the list - his #Firefox (turned into a Clint Eastwood movie) is often mentioned as the 1st techno-thriller. The follow-up Firefox Down, and my favourite Winter Hawk are terrific.
Colin Salt examines the emergence and #history of the #technothriller #genre in the 20th century. #ColdWar #TomClancy #MilitaryFiction #Writing #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/boom-bo...
Boom Boom Goes the Tank: A Brief Chronology of The Technothriller
By Colin SaltSo with my strange love-hate relationship with World War III fiction and technothrillers in general, I should start this series by giving a brief, opinionated chronology of the genre with...
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September 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Nice summary - I agree there was a drop in quality in the 2000s. I would add Craig Thomas to the list - his #Firefox (turned into a Clint Eastwood movie) is often mentioned as the 1st techno-thriller. The follow-up Firefox Down, and my favourite Winter Hawk are terrific.
In August I decided to set myself the (potentially stupid) target of hitting 1,000,001 at #darts. Self-imposed rules:
- Play 501 legs
- Maximum 30 darts per leg as there is no point taking 20 darts to hit double 1!
I am clearly a poor darts player, so curious to see if I actually improve!
- Play 501 legs
- Maximum 30 darts per leg as there is no point taking 20 darts to hit double 1!
I am clearly a poor darts player, so curious to see if I actually improve!
September 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
In August I decided to set myself the (potentially stupid) target of hitting 1,000,001 at #darts. Self-imposed rules:
- Play 501 legs
- Maximum 30 darts per leg as there is no point taking 20 darts to hit double 1!
I am clearly a poor darts player, so curious to see if I actually improve!
- Play 501 legs
- Maximum 30 darts per leg as there is no point taking 20 darts to hit double 1!
I am clearly a poor darts player, so curious to see if I actually improve!
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In today's #SaturdayShowcase of SLP #AlternateHistory #books, it's Jared Kavanagh's #SidewiseAward nominated "Walking Through Dreams", in which #indigenous #Australians have the crops to found #urbanised #civilisations before #firstcontact with #Europeans. www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...
WALKING THROUGH DREAMS | Sea Lion Press
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August 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
In today's #SaturdayShowcase of SLP #AlternateHistory #books, it's Jared Kavanagh's #SidewiseAward nominated "Walking Through Dreams", in which #indigenous #Australians have the crops to found #urbanised #civilisations before #firstcontact with #Europeans. www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...
100% - every little bit helps.
August 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
100% - every little bit helps.
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#SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) looks at #NASA 's little-known post- #Apollo plan to send #astronauts to - or at least past - #Venus. #SpaceRace www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/apollo-...
Apollo Goes To Venus: The Manned Venus Flyby
By Matthew KresalHalloween 1973.A Saturn V rocket sits on Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On top of it, three astronauts await lift-off. The journey they will soon be embarking ...
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August 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
#SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) looks at #NASA 's little-known post- #Apollo plan to send #astronauts to - or at least past - #Venus. #SpaceRace www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/apollo-...
Is it just me or is the #Amazon #Kindle getting worse? My first one, with an actual keyboard, lasted for about 6 or 7 years.
My latest is now refusing to retain charge just a few months after the 2 year warranty run out.
I've hundreds of books on it, and they now cost close to £100! What happened?
My latest is now refusing to retain charge just a few months after the 2 year warranty run out.
I've hundreds of books on it, and they now cost close to £100! What happened?
August 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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"Behind every great #seventies #movie is a terrible seventies #book." Colin Salt looks at the differences between the book and film of the world-changing #blockbuster, #Jaws. #FilmHistory #Adaptation www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/not-so-...
Not So Killer Shark
By Colin Salt.Of the theory that behind every great 1970s movie is a terrible 1970s book, none hold truer than Jaws. When Steven Spielberg adapted the book in an infamously difficult production, he re...
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August 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
"Behind every great #seventies #movie is a terrible seventies #book." Colin Salt looks at the differences between the book and film of the world-changing #blockbuster, #Jaws. #FilmHistory #Adaptation www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/not-so-...
Well done to the #RedRoses in the first game of the #RWC25.
A call out to #HannahBotterman. Absolutely fantastic to watch this young lady - a monster in the MOST positive sense of the world. Really loved watching this performance and fingers crossed things get better and better for #England.
A call out to #HannahBotterman. Absolutely fantastic to watch this young lady - a monster in the MOST positive sense of the world. Really loved watching this performance and fingers crossed things get better and better for #England.
August 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Well done to the #RedRoses in the first game of the #RWC25.
A call out to #HannahBotterman. Absolutely fantastic to watch this young lady - a monster in the MOST positive sense of the world. Really loved watching this performance and fingers crossed things get better and better for #England.
A call out to #HannahBotterman. Absolutely fantastic to watch this young lady - a monster in the MOST positive sense of the world. Really loved watching this performance and fingers crossed things get better and better for #England.
A fine conclusion to this detective story set in alternate London. There is no exposition, just old fashioned police work to catch a killer. Lovely.
#WritingCommunity #writersky #fiction #AlternateHistory
#Counterfactual #WhatIf
#WritingCommunity #writersky #fiction #AlternateHistory
#Counterfactual #WhatIf
The final part of Paul Leone's ( @paulleone.bsky.social ) #story " #Murder in #Hackney " is now available as part of our #SundaySerial series on the SLP #AlternateHistory magazine blog! www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/serial-...
Serial Sunday: Murder in Hackney, Part IV
By Paul Leone.Keziah was just finishing the paperwork for a search warrant application when the phone on her desk rang. She answered it with “Carter, Murder and Manslaughter.”“This is Constable Deeks ...
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August 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A fine conclusion to this detective story set in alternate London. There is no exposition, just old fashioned police work to catch a killer. Lovely.
#WritingCommunity #writersky #fiction #AlternateHistory
#Counterfactual #WhatIf
#WritingCommunity #writersky #fiction #AlternateHistory
#Counterfactual #WhatIf
Just tremendous. Remember learning Fortran at University and COBOL in my first job. The trainer told us if we wanted we could make a career out of it.
Go Voyager.
#space #exploration
Go Voyager.
#space #exploration
August 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Just tremendous. Remember learning Fortran at University and COBOL in my first job. The trainer told us if we wanted we could make a career out of it.
Go Voyager.
#space #exploration
Go Voyager.
#space #exploration
Interesting summary, especially for someone who has chosen to write #alternatehistory.
#writing #whatif #counterfactual
#writing #whatif #counterfactual
Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) asks a simple question with a complex answer: why write #AlternateHistory ? The ins and outs of AH as a #literary device and tool of historical analysis are discussed. #Writing #Counterfactual #WhatIf www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/why-wri...
Why write Alternative History?
By Gary OswaldSea Lion Press is built around producing Alternative or Alternate History content and implicit in that goal is the assumption that there is value in Alt History literature. But obviously...
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August 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Interesting summary, especially for someone who has chosen to write #alternatehistory.
#writing #whatif #counterfactual
#writing #whatif #counterfactual
Just caught up with this - a very good story so far.
I enjoyed @paulleone.bsky.social 's In and Out of the Reich, and this is similarly atmospheric.
#Counterfactual #WhatIf #AlternateHistory #WritingCommunity
I enjoyed @paulleone.bsky.social 's In and Out of the Reich, and this is similarly atmospheric.
#Counterfactual #WhatIf #AlternateHistory #WritingCommunity
Paul Leone's ( @paulleone.bsky.social ) #SerialSunday series, " #Murder in #Hackney", continues with part 3. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/serial-...
Serial Sunday: Murder in Hackney, Part III
By Paul Leone.The question of the hour – “Who on earth is Clifton Reeves?”The answer, at least the official answer contained in the bowels of the Records Section, wasn’t hard to find.Clifton Jonathan ...
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August 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Just caught up with this - a very good story so far.
I enjoyed @paulleone.bsky.social 's In and Out of the Reich, and this is similarly atmospheric.
#Counterfactual #WhatIf #AlternateHistory #WritingCommunity
I enjoyed @paulleone.bsky.social 's In and Out of the Reich, and this is similarly atmospheric.
#Counterfactual #WhatIf #AlternateHistory #WritingCommunity
Is #TheBear the best written show on TV at the moment? Realise this is maybe not the right question in the age of streaming but I've just finished series (season) 4 and WOW!
Brilliant characters, engaging storyline - just F****** great.
#TV #writing
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Brilliant characters, engaging storyline - just F****** great.
#TV #writing
www.imdb.com/title/tt1445...
The Bear (TV Series 2022– ) ⭐ 8.5 | Comedy, Drama
34m | TV-MA
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August 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Is #TheBear the best written show on TV at the moment? Realise this is maybe not the right question in the age of streaming but I've just finished series (season) 4 and WOW!
Brilliant characters, engaging storyline - just F****** great.
#TV #writing
www.imdb.com/title/tt1445...
Brilliant characters, engaging storyline - just F****** great.
#TV #writing
www.imdb.com/title/tt1445...
A good days cricket #TheOval yesterday to watch England India D4 of the #testmatch. Rather disappointing end to the day, and not sure I dare turn on the radio this morning.
Seems strange the test match summer is over on the 4th day of August. #Cricket is still a summer sport, right?
Seems strange the test match summer is over on the 4th day of August. #Cricket is still a summer sport, right?
August 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM
A good days cricket #TheOval yesterday to watch England India D4 of the #testmatch. Rather disappointing end to the day, and not sure I dare turn on the radio this morning.
Seems strange the test match summer is over on the 4th day of August. #Cricket is still a summer sport, right?
Seems strange the test match summer is over on the 4th day of August. #Cricket is still a summer sport, right?
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Good morning, creatives! Here we are on the cusp of another weekend already. I'm looking forward to a little downtime and plan to read as well as write.
#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting
Smoky Mountains, TN
#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting
Smoky Mountains, TN
July 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Good morning, creatives! Here we are on the cusp of another weekend already. I'm looking forward to a little downtime and plan to read as well as write.
#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting
Smoky Mountains, TN
#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting
Smoky Mountains, TN
Very much enjoyed an early round of #golf this morning. New course, so the ball ended up in some unexpected places, but I think it's the contours rather than the player.
July 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Very much enjoyed an early round of #golf this morning. New course, so the ball ended up in some unexpected places, but I think it's the contours rather than the player.
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July 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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What would #AlternateHistory - and #fantasy - #books be without a #map of an unfamiliar world? Alex Richards' article series on #cartography for beginners continues with part 3.
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So You Want To Make A Map: Part III
By Alex RichardsWhile the question of audience forms the bedrock of mapmaking, and the question of programme is, naturally, the first that must be answered; it is the question of base-maps that is, al...
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July 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
What would #AlternateHistory - and #fantasy - #books be without a #map of an unfamiliar world? Alex Richards' article series on #cartography for beginners continues with part 3.
www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/so-you-...
www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/so-you-...