Jonathan L. Howard's Blog, page 10

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Wed, 15:00 : I ignore Xmas songs usually, but "Do You Hear What I hear?" makes me want to torch December and then ride, laughing, across the ashes. Wed, 16:56 : Very proud to have a fable in this rather handsome volume: http://t.co/zfjhLfNV Wed, 19:47 : Yay! It's been over a week since last time, and I've missed it, but Amazon have just tried to sell me my own books, again. Wed, 19:52 : @Danacea Good to see your cat's doing #Movember Wed, 19:58 : RT @ProResting: Three actors walk into a bar. That's your night out ruined. Wed, 20:39 : Mmmm, hotdogs... http://t.co/syKY6mAS I especially like the "Wotcha doin'?" expression of the guy in the stall. @Devo Thu, 10:22 : Haha! I've got my protagonist in an inescapably fatal situation and... blimey, that really is inescapable. Damn. Okay, rewriting. #NaNoWriMo

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Tue, 12:35 : Just caught myself meowing "A Bicycle Made for Two." For Christ's sakes, Howard, get a grip. Tue, 15:24 : Gratified to see that Amazon UK have another low stock warning on KATYA'S WORLD. Second time since launch I've noticed they've sold through. Tue, 15:35 : I knew there was something dodgy about women taking an interest in geeky things. Beware! http://t.co/WdlLgcQC Tue, 15:59 : RT @LucyKnisley: Photo: Here is the sketch I made (and left) by Wilde’s tomb today. The fairly recent addition of the ugly... http://t.c ... Tue, 20:15 : RT @FakeNNWMTips: Don't give up! Don't make us wonder how Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes will save Equestria! #nanowrimo Tue, 20:20 : I have a couple of characters in my #NaNoWriMo who are missing, possibly dead. Nobody knows which. Not even me. Schr�dinger characters. Tue, 21:53 : What? HarperCollins and SImon & Schuster now? Oh, for heaven's sake, just cut to the chase, combine them all, and call it ConglomoBooks. Wed, 10:29 : RT @waltydunlop: Warners post the Fleischer Superman cartoons on YouTube. Some of these are absolutely beautiful. http://t.co/PCp5ytF2 Wed, 10:31 : The Fleischer Superman cartoons, particularly the early ones, are remarkable and well worth a look. Mad ideas and beautiful animation.

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Mon, 15:12 : My #NaNoWriMo protag is in control, focussed, a man with a plan. In short, he was having it too easy. So... I just ruined his life. Mon, 15:13 : RT @thebookseller: Indies tell customers: 'We pay our taxes': Booksellers across the country are displaying... http://t.co/55YkDeWY Mon, 15:28 : Yes, hate and fear me, protagonist. For I am the hand of capricious Fate, come to make your life more interesting in a third person stylee. Mon, 20:33 : You know what films with strong female leads are for? TO POLLUTE YOUR MANLINESS. Honest. http://t.co/dQ0CDUC4 (via @the_marysue ) Mon, 21:10 : Watched JACKBOOTS ON WHITEHALL. I honestly don't know what to think. Mon, 21:13 : Excellent voice cast, and enthusiastic enough that I couldn't hate it, but stupid enough that I couldn't like it. Never felt so ambivalent. Tue, 10:08 : RT @brooligan: I just heard that Boris Strugatsky died. If you're into SF and that name means nothing to you, you're not into SF.

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Sun, 15:04 : If you've never met one, you may think literary agents are earnest, bookish types. This is the reality: @stubbleagent http://t.co/Rjnz9LjM Sun, 15:37 : RT @mattstaggs: They Cracked This 250 Year-Old Code, And Found a Secret Society Inside | Danger Room | http://t.co/SDjIjUvG http://t.co/ ... Sun, 17:10 : @timmaughan Just looked at your timeline and, man, sorry, I had to laugh. It's like watching someone in a minefield of explosive idiots. Sun, 17:11 : @timmaughan Still, you have all these selfless folk who are willing to adjust your thinking, because your brain's not working quite right. Sun, 19:33 : RT @HenryRothwell: Water mains work unearths Roman cemetery in Somerset - http://t.co/6D7tFHA6 http://t.co/SNJXvlDo Sun, 19:58 : Is it bad of me that I can't look at this image without "Yakety Sax" playing in my head? http://t.co/i2Yrfzd0 Sun, 20:18 : RT @kwjeter: Please RT! Last day! Get your copy of @kwjeter THE KINGDOM OF SHADOWS @ Amazon. http://t.co/qGTqR8bJ &UK http://t.co/NP ... Sun, 20:22 : Really, people, if K.W. goddamn Jeter wants to GIVE you his work for free, why would you not oblige him? If you have a Kindle, just do it. Sun, 20:52 : Off to watch the new BBC haunted house thing, "The Secret of Crickley Hall." Not expecting great things, but we'll see. Sun, 21:14 : Dear BBC, please stop putting big strings on everything. It's a ghost story, not the sodding "Onedin Line." Mon, 09:45 : Author copies of KATYA'S WORLD have arrived. Me: "Yay!" Wife: (Looking at stack of sundry Cabal boxes in the corner) "Oh, god. Another box." Mon, 09:50 : RT @johnshuttlewrth: I just met a lady called Rowena - a retired butcher who now spends her time distressing furniture. Lovely!

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Sat, 15:26 : RT @kwjeter: Doing me a favor if you retweet: My novel THE KINGDOM OF SHADOWS free today at Amazon http://t.co/mfjTmVaS #kindle #ebook ... Sat, 18:15 : @timmaughan You can certainly tell Libdelhof came from comics. His script reads like a parody of Stan Lee. Sat, 18:30 : Planned a #NaNoWriMo scene with no idea how to resolve it. Just realised I'd already foreshadowed the solution. Well played, subconscious. Sat, 19:59 : RT @volewriter: Bloody hell. http://t.co/bFLR6YvG Sun, 11:51 : RT @worldofagwu: since IT'S ALAN MOORES BIRTHDAY TODAY, here's a dodgy drawing i did of him 4 @Russell_Willis's free online mag INFINITY ...

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Fri, 12:35 : RT @Schtaples: 'Do you have A Chocolate Orange by Anthony Burgess?' Fri, 12:51 : Steady, Bond... http://t.co/q6wvTvoL Fri, 14:12 : @AnneBillson Ever seen this before? http://t.co/9zuTH3fZ Fri, 14:43 : Nobody's died an ugly, brutal death in my #NaNoWriMo for two or three days. Well, that simply won't do. Fri, 16:05 : Bemused that the Tories argued bitterly against proportional representation for general elections, then blithely use it in the PCC elections Fri, 19:24 : Who looks at a Hostess truck and a mirror and thinks, "Photo session"? @Devo do, that's who: http://t.co/9tP6uCnK Sat, 03:02 : RT @Gwenda: "MTV has put in development Blackwood, a drama from Lionsgate Television and Kelsey Grammer’s Grammnet..." http://t.co/ld8Qnzqr

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Thu, 12:33 : RT @Waterstones262: Thunderbirds are Go! 8th of December: Graham Bleathman, illustrator of the Thunderbirds Haynes manual will be drawin ... Thu, 12:35 : Re: last retweet. Graham Bleathman did the aeroship and entomopter drawings for "Johannes Cabal the Detective." He's a great chap & artist. Thu, 18:08 : Lord McAlpine says it was "terrifying" to find himself "a figure of public hatred." As a former senior Tory, surely he's used to it? Thu, 18:57 : RT @jacques_aih: Don't blame it on The Schumann. Don't blame it on The Chopin. Don't blame it on The Saint-Sa�ns. Blame it on Debussy. Thu, 20:01 : At #Nanowrimo in Bristol. There are people! Talking! And beer! I like it here. Thu, 20:20 : The temptation to dance on a table singing, "I'm a published writer, me!" is intense. Must... resist... #NaNoWriMo Thu, 22:02 : This place serves porter! Yay! Can't help thinking I came here to do something to do with writing. Meh. #NaNoWriMo Thu, 23:57 : RT @Richard_Kadrey: Bone Pistol Set http://t.co/aHDot9lS Fri, 08:29 : Bristol to be invaded by giant Gromits: http://t.co/up4Rrl6h Fri, 09:13 : Good to see the exploits of @cdr_james_bond are back. I, for one, feel safer knowing he's out there, protecting us from Jehovah's Witnesses. Fri, 09:36 : RT @Miss_Macabre: BBC News - The strange art of death http://t.co/jGg4owUl Fri, 09:44 : RT @EmmaK67: Is this the greatest letter of all time? The answer is YES http://t.co/gG5mW7Bb Fri, 11:24 : Daydreaming up a plot that would serve to reintroduce the Zarbi to "Doctor Who." This isn't doing anything for today's word count.

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Wed, 22:14 : RT @tordotcom: KATYA'S WORLD "towers above most contemporary attempts to invoke dystopia." A review of @OspreyPress' new novel: http://t ... Thu, 09:54 : For the morning crowd, the @tordotcom review of KATYA'S WORLD http://t.co/WV7jfRuZ Thu, 09:55 : RT @hannah_mariska: REVIEW: KATYA'S WORLD http://t.co/noPeFCa6 Thu, 11:47 : RT @Des_maxfield: Homosexuality was still classified an illness in Sweden in 1979. Swedes protested by calling in sick to work, claiming ...

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Tue, 13:37 : RT @redwaspdesign: The Cthulhu Bundle is Live! Pay what you want for Call of Cthulhu The Wasted Land, the Cthulhu Christmas Calendar... ... Tue, 15:01 : "Cabal had thought the Pok�dex a poor substitute for the Necronomicon, but in this he was mistaken." http://t.co/8hEMmQFa (via @Digitkame ) Tue, 23:49 : Well, this is good company to be amongst: http://t.co/XQDGrL51 #KatyasWorld Wed, 00:43 : RT @WelshToy: Incidentally, out of the 650 MPs, only 17 bothered to attend the Child Sexual Exploitation debate in the House of Commons ... Wed, 08:16 : Good morning. Ever feel like following Ray Milland around, whistling "Molly Malone" just to freak him out? No? Just me then. Wed, 08:47 : RT @paul_duffield: Don't ask me how to wrap a Sari, I just tried to learn by drawing it, and this is what happened http://t.co/0RiqjLRb Wed, 09:16 : RT @wes_chu: LOL, espn NFL Kickoff show tried to put in as many #princessbride quotes as possible into the show. http://t.co/F9WXnaDA Wed, 09:46 : A gratifyingly positive review for KATYA'S WORLD from Publishers Weekly http://t.co/bEiZmupA Wed, 10:22 : RT @jpsmythe: I have just been sent this video by @stubbleagent in reference to his "editorial" skills. I SEE. http://t.co/lGgLaagx Wed, 10:26 : RT @historyweird: 2012: Victorian school history exam depicts a BattleTech Marauder robot fighting with Bolshevik revolutionaries in 191 ... Wed, 10:37 : My #NaNoWriMo has moved onto Chippenham, a town I've only seen from the train. Perhaps I should go there to research. That'll be fun.

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Mon, 13:40 : @garethlpowell Have just spelt the plural of "roof" as "rooves." This baby's coming back if I have anything to do with it. Mon, 13:52 : RT @mattstaggs: Clowns face off with KKK http://t.co/PahMBhgt Mon, 13:52 : I want a Clowns vs Nazis movie, and I want it now. Mon, 16:32 : RT @matociquala: Today's XKCD is the greatest thing since Uncleftish Beholding: http://t.co/pczJAhlN (Uncleftish Beholding: http://t.co/ ... Mon, 16:38 : If anyone's interested, I shall be at the Velo Lounge in Bath for the #NaNoWriMo write-in today. I doubt I shall be writing. They have beer.