Leo McBride
@leomcbride.bsky.social
I'm Leo McBride and Altered Instinct is my #fantasy #scifi and #horror blog. Irishman in The Bahamas. Journalist by day. Geek all the time.
Why is it some people interpret "I can't talk right now, I'll call you back" as an invitation to unburden themselves of every moment since childhood?
September 29, 2023 at 3:12 PM
Why is it some people interpret "I can't talk right now, I'll call you back" as an invitation to unburden themselves of every moment since childhood?
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To celebrate the forthcoming release of our anthology - NORDIC VISIONS ed. by Margrét Helgadóttir - we're running a special anthology e-book sale! bit.ly/3ng219P
Just 0.99 for NEW SUNS, NEW SUNS 2, SOMEONE IN TIME, MADE TO ORDER, SINOPTICON or THE DJINN FALLS IN LOVE! (29/9-2/10)
Just 0.99 for NEW SUNS, NEW SUNS 2, SOMEONE IN TIME, MADE TO ORDER, SINOPTICON or THE DJINN FALLS IN LOVE! (29/9-2/10)
September 29, 2023 at 12:03 PM
To celebrate the forthcoming release of our anthology - NORDIC VISIONS ed. by Margrét Helgadóttir - we're running a special anthology e-book sale! bit.ly/3ng219P
Just 0.99 for NEW SUNS, NEW SUNS 2, SOMEONE IN TIME, MADE TO ORDER, SINOPTICON or THE DJINN FALLS IN LOVE! (29/9-2/10)
Just 0.99 for NEW SUNS, NEW SUNS 2, SOMEONE IN TIME, MADE TO ORDER, SINOPTICON or THE DJINN FALLS IN LOVE! (29/9-2/10)
Considering writing something on duality and a perfect quote popped into my head for it, and I'm presently considering whether the attribution should be "by the noted author and screenwriter JM Straczynski" or "as in the Babylon 5 episode Whatever Happened To Mr Garibaldi?"
September 27, 2023 at 11:38 PM
Considering writing something on duality and a perfect quote popped into my head for it, and I'm presently considering whether the attribution should be "by the noted author and screenwriter JM Straczynski" or "as in the Babylon 5 episode Whatever Happened To Mr Garibaldi?"
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Have you heard about my 2023 debut novel, Exit Ghost?
It's modern witchy girl Hamlet at the Jersey Shore!
books2read.com/ExitGhost
It's modern witchy girl Hamlet at the Jersey Shore!
books2read.com/ExitGhost
September 26, 2023 at 11:33 PM
Have you heard about my 2023 debut novel, Exit Ghost?
It's modern witchy girl Hamlet at the Jersey Shore!
books2read.com/ExitGhost
It's modern witchy girl Hamlet at the Jersey Shore!
books2read.com/ExitGhost
Having a weird day with a series of mildly posh crises. I have engaged a beekeeper to attend to a hive that has decided to settle upon Our Grand Estate* and relocate them somewhere more fitting. And my workmates were called out to attend my car battery's decision to stop working.
* back garden
* back garden
September 26, 2023 at 11:21 PM
Having a weird day with a series of mildly posh crises. I have engaged a beekeeper to attend to a hive that has decided to settle upon Our Grand Estate* and relocate them somewhere more fitting. And my workmates were called out to attend my car battery's decision to stop working.
* back garden
* back garden
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Shout out to Colonel Petrov who on this day stopped Armageddon without the help of a time travelling robot.
September 26, 2023 at 8:17 PM
Shout out to Colonel Petrov who on this day stopped Armageddon without the help of a time travelling robot.
When someone reaches the age of 90, it's hard to be too sad when they part ways from ours but I did feel my heart skip a few beats when I heard David McCallum had died.
Brilliant over decades, but to me Sapphire and Steel is the most memorable, terrifying me in shivers to this day.
RIP, sir.
Brilliant over decades, but to me Sapphire and Steel is the most memorable, terrifying me in shivers to this day.
RIP, sir.
September 26, 2023 at 3:56 AM
When someone reaches the age of 90, it's hard to be too sad when they part ways from ours but I did feel my heart skip a few beats when I heard David McCallum had died.
Brilliant over decades, but to me Sapphire and Steel is the most memorable, terrifying me in shivers to this day.
RIP, sir.
Brilliant over decades, but to me Sapphire and Steel is the most memorable, terrifying me in shivers to this day.
RIP, sir.
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ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT A NOVELLA ANNOUNCEMENT
Psychopomp will open to novella submissions Jan 1st 2024 - April 30th 2024.
we wanted to let you know about it now so you can start writing, if you're interested.
full guidelines + what we want below.
pls help spread the word to your favorite writers!
Psychopomp will open to novella submissions Jan 1st 2024 - April 30th 2024.
we wanted to let you know about it now so you can start writing, if you're interested.
full guidelines + what we want below.
pls help spread the word to your favorite writers!
Novella Guidelines | Psychopomp.com
We are looking for otherworldly novellas between 20,000 to 40,000 words. Read the guidelines and learn how to submit your novella.
psychopomp.com
September 18, 2023 at 5:04 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT A NOVELLA ANNOUNCEMENT
Psychopomp will open to novella submissions Jan 1st 2024 - April 30th 2024.
we wanted to let you know about it now so you can start writing, if you're interested.
full guidelines + what we want below.
pls help spread the word to your favorite writers!
Psychopomp will open to novella submissions Jan 1st 2024 - April 30th 2024.
we wanted to let you know about it now so you can start writing, if you're interested.
full guidelines + what we want below.
pls help spread the word to your favorite writers!
One of my favourite people I've found out here in social media land. Do give Christina a follow!
Tiny intro: it's me, Christina, looking for any of my Twitter pals who didn't make the jump to Mastodon. How much I engage will likely depend on how many people I find.
September 18, 2023 at 9:27 PM
One of my favourite people I've found out here in social media land. Do give Christina a follow!
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PLEASE read Alasdair's Powerwasher Simulator essay it's so good
It starts off as a review and then turns into a discussion of how changing tactics can lead to renewed creativity its just so good
It starts off as a review and then turns into a discussion of how changing tactics can lead to renewed creativity its just so good
#thefulllid - 15th September 2023 - We're cleaning up the town in @powerwashsim, wandering through the beautifully spooky landscapes of @leemadgwick and we get played out by the amazing @tomcardy. mailchi.mp/758f3e63f961...
September 15, 2023 at 7:30 PM
PLEASE read Alasdair's Powerwasher Simulator essay it's so good
It starts off as a review and then turns into a discussion of how changing tactics can lead to renewed creativity its just so good
It starts off as a review and then turns into a discussion of how changing tactics can lead to renewed creativity its just so good
Reposted by Leo McBride
Good selection of books from our EiC!
The "know me" booklist:
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- The Silver Sword
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Sharpe series
- Shakespeare. All of it.
- A Fire Upon The Deep
- Earthsea
- The Legacy of Heorot
- Good Omens
- And the works of @theinklingspress.bsky.social and the authors within of course!
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- The Silver Sword
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Sharpe series
- Shakespeare. All of it.
- A Fire Upon The Deep
- Earthsea
- The Legacy of Heorot
- Good Omens
- And the works of @theinklingspress.bsky.social and the authors within of course!
The "know me" booklist:
-The Dragonlance Chronicles
-An Unquiet Mind
-The Night Circus
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower
-The Three Musketeers
-The Vampire Lestat
-The Beat Book: Poems and Fiction of the Beat Generation
-The Coldfire trilogy
- The Hobbit
- The Crocodile on the Sandbank
💙📚
-The Dragonlance Chronicles
-An Unquiet Mind
-The Night Circus
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower
-The Three Musketeers
-The Vampire Lestat
-The Beat Book: Poems and Fiction of the Beat Generation
-The Coldfire trilogy
- The Hobbit
- The Crocodile on the Sandbank
💙📚
September 13, 2023 at 3:29 PM
Good selection of books from our EiC!
The view from where I buy the morning newspaper ain't bad, y'know.
September 16, 2023 at 2:54 AM
The view from where I buy the morning newspaper ain't bad, y'know.
When Bahamian history lands on your desk.
Starting up an office reference library and my desk is filling up already thanks to a donation courtesy of Eric Wiberg, author of Mailboats of The Bahamas and Warplanes in The Bahamas: Lost and Found.
I feel like it's Christmas.
Starting up an office reference library and my desk is filling up already thanks to a donation courtesy of Eric Wiberg, author of Mailboats of The Bahamas and Warplanes in The Bahamas: Lost and Found.
I feel like it's Christmas.
September 8, 2023 at 6:37 PM
When Bahamian history lands on your desk.
Starting up an office reference library and my desk is filling up already thanks to a donation courtesy of Eric Wiberg, author of Mailboats of The Bahamas and Warplanes in The Bahamas: Lost and Found.
I feel like it's Christmas.
Starting up an office reference library and my desk is filling up already thanks to a donation courtesy of Eric Wiberg, author of Mailboats of The Bahamas and Warplanes in The Bahamas: Lost and Found.
I feel like it's Christmas.
Ah, that magical time when I've cleared room in the day for a meeting but the meeting hasn't happened yet so I can do what I like.
I CAN DO WHAT I LIKE.
As I run free from the office and down the meadow surrounded by butterflies and laughter.
I CAN DO WHAT I LIKE.
As I run free from the office and down the meadow surrounded by butterflies and laughter.
September 8, 2023 at 4:38 PM
Ah, that magical time when I've cleared room in the day for a meeting but the meeting hasn't happened yet so I can do what I like.
I CAN DO WHAT I LIKE.
As I run free from the office and down the meadow surrounded by butterflies and laughter.
I CAN DO WHAT I LIKE.
As I run free from the office and down the meadow surrounded by butterflies and laughter.
Back to school with a bump - eldest off to hospital for an X-ray after a tumble in the school yard.
Sigh.
Sigh.
September 7, 2023 at 10:23 PM
Back to school with a bump - eldest off to hospital for an X-ray after a tumble in the school yard.
Sigh.
Sigh.
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In my 3rd Tempest Blades novel I explore a bit more that side of two of my characters: on is bi, one is pan. They are in love with each other and also with a third person who reciprocates, so part of their plotline, is solving that romantic triable into a throuple:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/62...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/62...
September 7, 2023 at 6:10 PM
In my 3rd Tempest Blades novel I explore a bit more that side of two of my characters: on is bi, one is pan. They are in love with each other and also with a third person who reciprocates, so part of their plotline, is solving that romantic triable into a throuple:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/62...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/62...
Today's movie on Framed reminds me that I absolutely still have to see that movie.
September 7, 2023 at 6:31 PM
Today's movie on Framed reminds me that I absolutely still have to see that movie.
I have absolutely no idea about this so just putting it out there, but a friend was going through some old books and found about 150 copies of Analog magazine dating from 1950 to 1980 and was wondering if they had any value.
Anyone have any idea if so? (I'll check eBay etc too)
Anyone have any idea if so? (I'll check eBay etc too)
September 7, 2023 at 5:15 PM
I have absolutely no idea about this so just putting it out there, but a friend was going through some old books and found about 150 copies of Analog magazine dating from 1950 to 1980 and was wondering if they had any value.
Anyone have any idea if so? (I'll check eBay etc too)
Anyone have any idea if so? (I'll check eBay etc too)
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The "know me" booklist (in no order):
-The Slayers Light novels
-Kitchen Confidential
-Guards! Guards!
-Soul Music
-The Three Musketeers
-Jurassic Park
-Lord of Light
-The Silmarillion
-I’m from Ireland
-The Alexandros trilogy
-The Dunwich Horror
-The Queen of the Damned
-Revenge of the Sith
-The Slayers Light novels
-Kitchen Confidential
-Guards! Guards!
-Soul Music
-The Three Musketeers
-Jurassic Park
-Lord of Light
-The Silmarillion
-I’m from Ireland
-The Alexandros trilogy
-The Dunwich Horror
-The Queen of the Damned
-Revenge of the Sith
The "know me" booklist:
-The Dragonlance Chronicles
-An Unquiet Mind
-The Night Circus
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower
-The Three Musketeers
-The Vampire Lestat
-The Beat Book: Poems and Fiction of the Beat Generation
-The Coldfire trilogy
- The Hobbit
- The Crocodile on the Sandbank
💙📚
-The Dragonlance Chronicles
-An Unquiet Mind
-The Night Circus
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower
-The Three Musketeers
-The Vampire Lestat
-The Beat Book: Poems and Fiction of the Beat Generation
-The Coldfire trilogy
- The Hobbit
- The Crocodile on the Sandbank
💙📚
💙📚 the "know me" booklist:
Brothers Karamazov
War & Peace
Wuthering Heights
Gravity's Rainbow
Beloved
Play It As It Lays
Terra Nostra, C. Fuentes
Doomtown, G. Blackwell
Enchantress of Florence, Rushdie
Afterlives, Gurnah
The End of the Story, L. Davis
Borges, Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Duras, K. Agirre
Brothers Karamazov
War & Peace
Wuthering Heights
Gravity's Rainbow
Beloved
Play It As It Lays
Terra Nostra, C. Fuentes
Doomtown, G. Blackwell
Enchantress of Florence, Rushdie
Afterlives, Gurnah
The End of the Story, L. Davis
Borges, Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Duras, K. Agirre
September 7, 2023 at 2:51 AM
The "know me" booklist (in no order):
-The Slayers Light novels
-Kitchen Confidential
-Guards! Guards!
-Soul Music
-The Three Musketeers
-Jurassic Park
-Lord of Light
-The Silmarillion
-I’m from Ireland
-The Alexandros trilogy
-The Dunwich Horror
-The Queen of the Damned
-Revenge of the Sith
-The Slayers Light novels
-Kitchen Confidential
-Guards! Guards!
-Soul Music
-The Three Musketeers
-Jurassic Park
-Lord of Light
-The Silmarillion
-I’m from Ireland
-The Alexandros trilogy
-The Dunwich Horror
-The Queen of the Damned
-Revenge of the Sith
The "know me" booklist:
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- The Silver Sword
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Sharpe series
- Shakespeare. All of it.
- A Fire Upon The Deep
- Earthsea
- The Legacy of Heorot
- Good Omens
- And the works of @theinklingspress.bsky.social and the authors within of course!
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- The Silver Sword
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Sharpe series
- Shakespeare. All of it.
- A Fire Upon The Deep
- Earthsea
- The Legacy of Heorot
- Good Omens
- And the works of @theinklingspress.bsky.social and the authors within of course!
The "know me" booklist:
-The Dragonlance Chronicles
-An Unquiet Mind
-The Night Circus
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower
-The Three Musketeers
-The Vampire Lestat
-The Beat Book: Poems and Fiction of the Beat Generation
-The Coldfire trilogy
- The Hobbit
- The Crocodile on the Sandbank
💙📚
-The Dragonlance Chronicles
-An Unquiet Mind
-The Night Circus
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower
-The Three Musketeers
-The Vampire Lestat
-The Beat Book: Poems and Fiction of the Beat Generation
-The Coldfire trilogy
- The Hobbit
- The Crocodile on the Sandbank
💙📚
💙📚 the "know me" booklist:
Brothers Karamazov
War & Peace
Wuthering Heights
Gravity's Rainbow
Beloved
Play It As It Lays
Terra Nostra, C. Fuentes
Doomtown, G. Blackwell
Enchantress of Florence, Rushdie
Afterlives, Gurnah
The End of the Story, L. Davis
Borges, Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Duras, K. Agirre
Brothers Karamazov
War & Peace
Wuthering Heights
Gravity's Rainbow
Beloved
Play It As It Lays
Terra Nostra, C. Fuentes
Doomtown, G. Blackwell
Enchantress of Florence, Rushdie
Afterlives, Gurnah
The End of the Story, L. Davis
Borges, Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Duras, K. Agirre
September 6, 2023 at 11:29 PM
The "know me" booklist:
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- The Silver Sword
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Sharpe series
- Shakespeare. All of it.
- A Fire Upon The Deep
- Earthsea
- The Legacy of Heorot
- Good Omens
- And the works of @theinklingspress.bsky.social and the authors within of course!
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- The Silver Sword
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Sharpe series
- Shakespeare. All of it.
- A Fire Upon The Deep
- Earthsea
- The Legacy of Heorot
- Good Omens
- And the works of @theinklingspress.bsky.social and the authors within of course!
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Looking to connect with more fantasy writers!! If you write fantasy of any kind, say hi & tell me a bit about your WIP or most recent release
I'll share your posts too - let's get some friendships happening here!
I'll share your posts too - let's get some friendships happening here!
September 6, 2023 at 9:03 PM
Looking to connect with more fantasy writers!! If you write fantasy of any kind, say hi & tell me a bit about your WIP or most recent release
I'll share your posts too - let's get some friendships happening here!
I'll share your posts too - let's get some friendships happening here!
Piggybacking off my own question, my favourite books linked to an IP are probably:
Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster
Tears of the Singers by Melinda Snodgrass
Delta Green: Rules of Engagement by John Scott Tynes
XCOM: UFO Defense by Diane Duane
What's on your lists? :)
Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster
Tears of the Singers by Melinda Snodgrass
Delta Green: Rules of Engagement by John Scott Tynes
XCOM: UFO Defense by Diane Duane
What's on your lists? :)
I just finished an... okay... book that was tied in to a popular TV show. It wasn't great, redeemed at the end by a twist that many readers might have not reached because of so many unlikeable characters on the way.
But I wondered... what's the absolute best book you've read tied in to an IP?
But I wondered... what's the absolute best book you've read tied in to an IP?
September 6, 2023 at 8:32 PM
Piggybacking off my own question, my favourite books linked to an IP are probably:
Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster
Tears of the Singers by Melinda Snodgrass
Delta Green: Rules of Engagement by John Scott Tynes
XCOM: UFO Defense by Diane Duane
What's on your lists? :)
Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster
Tears of the Singers by Melinda Snodgrass
Delta Green: Rules of Engagement by John Scott Tynes
XCOM: UFO Defense by Diane Duane
What's on your lists? :)
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Hi, I'm Lawrence. I write a mix of fantasy and horror, but have been really into Gothic/Jamesian weird recently. This month I have a few shorts in the work and want to gather prompts for my personal October flash-a-day challenge.
Hello! I am Matt, pen name MG Mason and I write mixed genre fiction with a lot of horror. This month I hope to complete the first draft of The Small Bronze Carriage on the Mantelpiece, a short gothic ghost story.
#HorrorWritersChat
#HorrorWritersChat
September 6, 2023 at 6:18 PM
Hi, I'm Lawrence. I write a mix of fantasy and horror, but have been really into Gothic/Jamesian weird recently. This month I have a few shorts in the work and want to gather prompts for my personal October flash-a-day challenge.
I'm definitely going to have to get used to skeet as a term, sounds terribly rude :D
September 6, 2023 at 6:06 PM
I'm definitely going to have to get used to skeet as a term, sounds terribly rude :D