Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

New year, new pinned post! Here are all my published books so far. Check them out. patricksamphire.com/books

This week's Tuesday snippet comes from my cozy-spooky romantasy A Waltz of Sinister Import, which is out now in ebook and in paperback, completing The Supernatural Adventures of Lady & Lord Riven! Snap it up now: books2read.com/waltzSinister #romancelandia

Glad I didn't bother to switch to Proton Mail @proton.me after all.

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

Imagine having to spend even five minutes in a room with that lot.

this has to be the worst photoshoot i have ever seen, i think they just gave up

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 25-year-old Argentinian biologist Pilar Ferrer has developed an injectable gel that helps repair damaged heart tissue after a heart attack

Monstrous beyond all reckoning. The US is using remote sensing *designed for humanitarian purposes* for the opposite purpose, potentially drowning civilians en masse. Trump hates Somalis. His troops appear to be exploiting the weather to help slaughter them. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Scab.

Damn. RIP.

This week's Monday snippet comes from my fantasy rom-com Enchanting the Fae Queen. Preorder the gorgeous UK paperback: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/step... Or grab any of the other editions that are already available: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen #romancelandia

This quilt is done. What do you think? I call it "reflections on the lake". #artquilt #pieced #original #abstract #landscape

This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.

Time's running out for the latest SPFBO finalist sale! ⏳📚 SPFBO is an annual contest run to select some of the best independently published fantasy books. Find the sale for the finalists by looking up "ML Wang finalist sale." May your TBR toppleth over! #booksale #fantasy #fantasybooks #spfbo

It's the last day of the SPFBO finalists' sale. If you're looking for fantastic fantasy novels, all for $2.99 or less, go grab a couple and try them out. Find a new author! Shadow of a Dead God is part of the sale, of course! The sale: mlwangbooks.com/spfbo-finali... books2read.com/ShadowGod

How it feels right now

Hey Gemini what is my kid's name and what does she look like, I'm at her school play and I can't figure out which one it is

Hi. I, a trans woman, am the Executive Producer of this show. I wrote the question. He called trans girls men. He has now said it in three different places in the past week.

I don’t know how people could say that programming and art are completely different disciplines when both workflows involve going ‘This will never work, I’m a failure’, changing one thing, then thinking you might be the smartest person alive

I know it's fun to celebrate whales and orcas sinking yachts, but sadly these yachts are not the the yachts of the super-rich, the tech bros, the JKRs, and other billionaires. Those are too big. They are small boats, for the most part, owned by reasonably well-off middle classes.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

A sneak peek at the gorgeous interior of the new May Day Special Edition, designed by Talli L Morgan. You can sign up now on BackerKit to be notified the moment this project goes live: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/j...

My friend Soad in Gaza needs your help. When an unbearable situation continues for many years, you HAVE to bear it but that doesn't make it less of a daily horror. Can you donate a little to help lighten her load today? Medicines and food and vitamins are so expensive. chuffed.org/project/1838...

Here's an idea for editors, let's do a little roleplay. Writer: "I have a contrarian take!" Editor: "Is it fucking stupid?" Writer: "Well yes, but it bucks the consensus. No one else is saying it." Editor: "Is that because the consensus is correct?" Writer: "... yes but... " <hang up>

Imagine having this little self-awareness.

For just a couple more days then not again this year, Shadow of a Dead God is on sale. Get your dose of a snarky fantasy mystery. books2read.com/ShadowGod #fantasynovel #SPFBO #booksale #fantasy

London's clean air has been Sadiq Khan's greatest achievement. It takes real political balls to stick with something that was so widely unpopular in the early days. Lives saved, people healthier, better and faster public transport.

We hear plenty about young people struggling to find work. But what about the over-50s? Nearly 3 million people below pension age are out of work, education or training – and many want to work. Why are they getting so little attention? @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Christ alive. (Great thread.)

The SPFBO Finalists Sale returns! 50+ books written by some amazing authors are on sale for $2.99 or less. Go check it out and pick up some bargains! mlwangbooks.com/spfbo-finali...

Israeli settlers steal sheep from Al-Rihaniya in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.

An autistic potter has only just realised that she has been conducting an intense love affair with a ghost for the last three months, and not just teaching him about creating earthenware, it has been announced.

Asking for a few friends: does a 'distinctly British' approach to AI include paying for the use of our work? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This week's Sunday snippet comes from my cozy-spooky romantasy novella A Waltz of Sinister Import, the 3rd & last in The Supernatural Adventures of Lady & Lord Riven. Snap it up now in ebook or paperback: books2read.com/waltzSinister #romancelandia

For just a couple more days then not again this year, Shadow of a Dead God is on sale. Get your dose of a snarky fantasy mystery. books2read.com/ShadowGod #fantasynovel #SPFBO #booksale #fantasy

The Nazi-supporting Daily Mail and the other extremist British media need to be reigned in by the government before they drive anyone else to their death. Because they will, repeatedly and with no regret.

I've been too fucked to promote the SPFBO finalist sale, but my SPFBO finalist book, The Thirteenth Hour, is currently on sale for 1.99 on Amazon and Kobo... for the next day 🤣 mlwangbooks.com/spfbo-finali... Also happy to recommend other books in the sale!

I don’t think anything sums up how cancerous our media is quite like Janet Murray and the Daily Mail - not being content enough with having harassed Beth Upton out of the country - now harassing her in her new place of residence. They will genuinely not be happy until she’s dead.

As I've said before, it's only once I became a professor that I realized the entmoot, a meeting that goes on for three days and three nights, was a professor's joke about faculty meetings.

Back from Bristolcon. It's only an hour from where I live, so a very convenient convention indeed. I had loads of fun, chatted to lots of cool people, and went to very many panels and events. It was slightly smaller than usual, but that worked in its favour in many ways, IMO. Back next year.

I don't know what it's for, but I need it

For just a couple more days then not again this year, Shadow of a Dead God is on sale. Get your dose of a snarky fantasy mystery. books2read.com/ShadowGod #fantasynovel #SPFBO #booksale #fantasy