Mike Brooks
@mikebrooks668.bsky.social
That Audible-bestselling, British Fantasy Awards-losing SFF author with Very Tall Hair. Guitarist, singer, occasional DJ. (d)eaf, queer. He/him.
All queries to @losbennett.bsky.social at Liverpool Literary Agency
All queries to @losbennett.bsky.social at Liverpool Literary Agency
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Neil Gaiman is crawling out of his bog two years after sexual assault allegations to play the sweet old fantasy uncle again -- complete with name-dropping that book you like & his twee "make good art" catchphrase -- all in order to (of course) sell you his upcoming book. Don't you dare fall for it.
February 2, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Neil Gaiman is crawling out of his bog two years after sexual assault allegations to play the sweet old fantasy uncle again -- complete with name-dropping that book you like & his twee "make good art" catchphrase -- all in order to (of course) sell you his upcoming book. Don't you dare fall for it.
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It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
February 2, 2026 at 7:06 AM
It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
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Thread up, and especially this part. No one in a creative field should be using gAI in *ANY* way. You don't get to sell out other creatives just b/c it's not "your" field. No gAI writing, art, narration, music, etc. Just. Don't.
The use of generative AI in one form of the creative process is an implicit support for its use in all forms of that process. Solidarity is not conditional.
February 2, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Thread up, and especially this part. No one in a creative field should be using gAI in *ANY* way. You don't get to sell out other creatives just b/c it's not "your" field. No gAI writing, art, narration, music, etc. Just. Don't.
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This is a great *paid* opportunity for larp designers from @makeascenemn.bsky.social!
Submit a short pitch and if selected get $300 to write the scenario. First-time designers and BIPOC are especially encouraged to pitch – and you can be from anywhere!
Submit a short pitch and if selected get $300 to write the scenario. First-time designers and BIPOC are especially encouraged to pitch – and you can be from anywhere!
Submit a Scenario | MAKE A SCENE!
Calling all scenario authors, past, present, and future! We are seeking brand new live-action roleplaying scenarios exploring the festival theme of Tempo to premiere at Make a Scene in August 2026! We...
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February 2, 2026 at 5:49 PM
This is a great *paid* opportunity for larp designers from @makeascenemn.bsky.social!
Submit a short pitch and if selected get $300 to write the scenario. First-time designers and BIPOC are especially encouraged to pitch – and you can be from anywhere!
Submit a short pitch and if selected get $300 to write the scenario. First-time designers and BIPOC are especially encouraged to pitch – and you can be from anywhere!
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This is the Mail.
Both the Times and the Mail spend a lot of time and money telling us regularly how much they care about women and girls in sport.
Just only when a trans person is involved, it seems.
Both the Times and the Mail spend a lot of time and money telling us regularly how much they care about women and girls in sport.
Just only when a trans person is involved, it seems.
February 2, 2026 at 8:53 AM
This is the Mail.
Both the Times and the Mail spend a lot of time and money telling us regularly how much they care about women and girls in sport.
Just only when a trans person is involved, it seems.
Both the Times and the Mail spend a lot of time and money telling us regularly how much they care about women and girls in sport.
Just only when a trans person is involved, it seems.
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In a Downton Abbey/Gossip Girls mash-up, Bunty Cutler would be an absolutely fantastic pen name for the mysterious source that’s all over the society pages revealing juicy secrets from inside the house.
February 2, 2026 at 10:01 AM
In a Downton Abbey/Gossip Girls mash-up, Bunty Cutler would be an absolutely fantastic pen name for the mysterious source that’s all over the society pages revealing juicy secrets from inside the house.
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Febyuree
February 2, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Febyuree
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Writers of Bluesky! I'm currently organizing a set of workshops for *next week* that'll fundraise for Minnesota food banks. Shoot me a DM or comment here if you're interested in running a workshop--signups will be open soon.
Reblog this for visibility! (But reply to THIS skeet so I can see you.)
Reblog this for visibility! (But reply to THIS skeet so I can see you.)
February 1, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Writers of Bluesky! I'm currently organizing a set of workshops for *next week* that'll fundraise for Minnesota food banks. Shoot me a DM or comment here if you're interested in running a workshop--signups will be open soon.
Reblog this for visibility! (But reply to THIS skeet so I can see you.)
Reblog this for visibility! (But reply to THIS skeet so I can see you.)
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Astonishing that the tech sector response to a deep text processing tool that also has an autocomplete function is to hand over control of vast sections of their lives to it, and then start bugging the rest of us to do the same.
February 1, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Astonishing that the tech sector response to a deep text processing tool that also has an autocomplete function is to hand over control of vast sections of their lives to it, and then start bugging the rest of us to do the same.
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Americans will really use anything but the metric system (complimentary)
I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep
January 31, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Americans will really use anything but the metric system (complimentary)
Gaming community, I come to you cap in hand.
Does anyone have a link to an editable pdf (or similar) of the mob roster for Gorkamorka?
Does anyone have a link to an editable pdf (or similar) of the mob roster for Gorkamorka?
February 1, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Gaming community, I come to you cap in hand.
Does anyone have a link to an editable pdf (or similar) of the mob roster for Gorkamorka?
Does anyone have a link to an editable pdf (or similar) of the mob roster for Gorkamorka?
Well this is lovely news to wake up to on a Sunday morning with a slight cold! Thank you, Goonhammer readers, congrats to all other winners and runners-up, and indeed nominees!
2025 GOONHAMMER BOOK AWARD WINNER
Congratulations to @mikebrooks668.bsky.social for winning the @goonhammer.com Best Warhammer 30K/40K Novel for 2025 with the big hit, "Voidscarred."
www.goonhammer.com/the-2025-goo...
#Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary
Congratulations to @mikebrooks668.bsky.social for winning the @goonhammer.com Best Warhammer 30K/40K Novel for 2025 with the big hit, "Voidscarred."
www.goonhammer.com/the-2025-goo...
#Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary
February 1, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Well this is lovely news to wake up to on a Sunday morning with a slight cold! Thank you, Goonhammer readers, congrats to all other winners and runners-up, and indeed nominees!
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I was following this guy, I just saw this racist horror, so I unfollowed and blocked. A PSA for anyone else who might be following Evul
motherfucker I never forget what you did.
block block block. show him he's unwelcomed.
block block block. show him he's unwelcomed.
January 31, 2026 at 1:28 PM
I was following this guy, I just saw this racist horror, so I unfollowed and blocked. A PSA for anyone else who might be following Evul
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January 31, 2026 at 12:02 PM
If you're in the mood for nonsense, whimsy, and fake violence, tune into my friend's Twitch stream at 10pm GMT tonight when we launch our new, entirely simulated (via WWE 2K25) wrestling federation, consisting of community-created wrestlers.
It will be very silly.
www.twitch.tv/kingannalise
It will be very silly.
www.twitch.tv/kingannalise
January 30, 2026 at 6:56 PM
If you're in the mood for nonsense, whimsy, and fake violence, tune into my friend's Twitch stream at 10pm GMT tonight when we launch our new, entirely simulated (via WWE 2K25) wrestling federation, consisting of community-created wrestlers.
It will be very silly.
www.twitch.tv/kingannalise
It will be very silly.
www.twitch.tv/kingannalise
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If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.
January 30, 2026 at 5:28 PM
If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.
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Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
January 30, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
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OH DANG I'd totally read that
Holy wow, any new @premeemohamed.com pub news is cause for celebration, but this sounds especially fantastic/my jam and it’s a two-book deal, yay, sign me UP.
January 30, 2026 at 4:06 PM
OH DANG I'd totally read that
Django 'How To Become The Dark Lord And Die Trying' Wexler's birthday is in January, which as we all know is the best month for birthdays. He's also doing a new thing: if you have complained about it being January, or January being too long, you are legally obligated to go check it out! (it's free)
Today's my birthday! And I'm launching a new thing, which is a bit scary and I need your help to spread the word.
So! Today THE THIRTEENTH GOD, my new military progression fantasy magitech Mad Max x Final Fantasy x Gurren Lagann serial starts over at Royal Road!
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1472...
So! Today THE THIRTEENTH GOD, my new military progression fantasy magitech Mad Max x Final Fantasy x Gurren Lagann serial starts over at Royal Road!
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1472...
The Thirteenth God
Taking down a god isn’t easy…
In order to escape a prison at the edge of the world, con artist Kalsis Chiroptera agrees to do the impossible: overthrow the Princeps, the immortal ruler of all mankind...
www.royalroad.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Django 'How To Become The Dark Lord And Die Trying' Wexler's birthday is in January, which as we all know is the best month for birthdays. He's also doing a new thing: if you have complained about it being January, or January being too long, you are legally obligated to go check it out! (it's free)
New blog post! www.mikebrooks.co.uk/2026/01/ghos...
GHOST LEGION, and its reading list - Mike Brooks
I was absolutely delighted this week when Ghost Legion was announced! This is the second novel featuring Solomon Akurra of the Alpha Legion, after Renegades: Harrowmaster in 2022(? Probably?), and it ...
www.mikebrooks.co.uk
January 30, 2026 at 3:52 PM
New blog post! www.mikebrooks.co.uk/2026/01/ghos...
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"The UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that, whatever its long-term potential, contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs."
archive.is/hvRv2
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January 30, 2026 at 9:02 AM
"The UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that, whatever its long-term potential, contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs."
archive.is/hvRv2
archive.is/hvRv2
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january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing
January 30, 2026 at 9:42 AM
january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing
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"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.
Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI'
The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.
www.pcgamer.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:45 PM
"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.
