Tom Lloyd

I'm delighted to say that DEVIL INSIDE finally has an audiobook edition! It's narrated by a talented actor called Tessa Chalmers and you can get it here: UK: www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0H1JX9Q3... US: www.audible.com/pd/B0H1JQ488...

anyone I know familiar with police procedures in the US? If there's a non-suspicious death, how is it treated? I think in the UK there's an inquest process for all deaths but is there a standard equivalent in the US or does it vary hugely by state?

Just finished Scuttler's Cove by @davidmbarnett.bsky.social and loved it. Really good folk horror, immediately engaging and interesting - I've already bought the others and given that ending I need to see how they all tie in together!

BBNYA 2026 SEMI-FINALIST SPOTLIGHT: Devil Inside by Tom Lloyd @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social @bbnya.bsky.social. irresponsiblereader.com/2026/10/27/b...

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Ebook sale for Breath and Bone on this week at all the usual places, including www.amazon.com/Breath-Bone-... www.amazon.ca/Breath-Bone-... www.amazon.co.uk/Breath-Bone-...

In unrelated news, the sequel to The Wolf and the Wild King (The Forest duology) will be coming out next year, possibly June although the exact date isn't set yet. The Wolf is high fantasy perfect for the dark decline of the year. Read it to be ready! www.kvj.ca/wolf.html

The eye of the old gods, keeping watch from the shore.

This is just all fucking insane. How are these two things placed together and no one in power seems to care? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I don't think Wolfcub was expecting a rant that went all the way into why HP printers suck, but she asked me how I listen to music and she's very patient with her old dad at least. The Chosen One might well have just walked away halfway through.

And yet, the actual plastic 2 inch ww2 soldiers I played with as a kid were so well used by me. I could dump them in a bag and take them on holiday too. Far more sturdy than plastic 40k mini, far cheaper so I had loads. My son would love them too but clearly you can't buy stuff like that any more.

You probably know about the Jaffa Cakes VAT thing, but here are a bunch of others compiled for your tax nerdy pleasure by @timharford.ft.com www.ft.com/content/2b77...

We're doing some rearranging in the house and have come to the inescapable conclusion that we need to be rich enough to have a dedicated library. There really is nothing else for it.

Struggling for motivation today while the rain hammers on my roof. Still, I've got standing in a field for hours tomorrow to look forward, then tennis in 40mph gusts on sunday...

why do people call LLM training on public website data “AI Copyright Infringement” when “six finger discount” is right there

I hate how evergreen this is.

Am I even a fantasy writer if I've never done a trilogy?

I'm delighted to launch the 2026 Trilogies bundle today! Get a whopping 27 books/9 complete trilogies+bonus chapbook! Plus donating to @locusmag.bsky.social! storybundle.com/trilogies It's the deal of the century! Fantasy! Cyberpunk! Space opera! Horror! Tamil pulp fiction! Re-posts appreciated!

Lovely, ten mins of drills last night and any progress my ankle's made over the last month or so seems to have been undone. Almost like the exercises the physio gave me were never going to be enough.

This is private equity, this is what it does. Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Ugh, this damn cold won't go away. Pretty sure it's not covid, but it is leaving me knackered and queasy by the end of each day. Ibuprofen has helped but even by my standards I've taken a lot of those in the last few weeks.

"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

Astonishing they've decided closing 4 extra is the way to save much money.

If closing surely the least expensive radio channel the BBC has (run by a tiny number of people, broadcasting the work of mainly dead people), bothers you, then why not sign this petition you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

important to remember that this was manslaughter, not just some natural accident. it was caused by lazy management trying to save money by dumping mining waste in the wrong place #aberfan

World must cut emissions by 18% in four years ‘to find our way back’, UN says

Devil Inside - a contemporary British fantasy of magic, spies and a young woman just trying to escape her past. Out now: www.amazon.co.uk/Devil-Inside...

NEW BOOK ALERT Presenting my latest 'In the Name of the Devil: An Immersive Guide to the History, Folklore, and Rituals of Samhain & Halloween' Link to buy: payhip.com/HauntYourHis...

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

Another Oxford college is converting its lawn to a wildflower meadow. Jesus College says that watering the lawn is no longer sustainable given the increased frequency of summer heatwaves and droughts. Seeds will be sown this month in order to bloom next summer. www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/second-quad-...

Imagine what a weapons-grade piece of shit you’d have to be to pull what Ramaswamy is trying here. Truly despicable, even by the standards of the Republican Party in 2026.

Why does every website want me to come up with a pin passcode to log in? How is a 6 or 7 digit number going to be safer than my usual 11 or 12 digit mix password that I can't even remember most of the time?

Given they're a bunch of weird satanists who look all proper metal an' stuff, it's fun how Ghost sometimes sound very similar to 70s era Camel

"Oh our system is designed to reject invoices that don't quote an entirely separate postal address to either of the ones we quote on paperwork, despite the fact you're emailing it to us anyway." A sentence intelligent people are forced to come out because companies are frequently a bit insane.

Asking my followers to please, take a minute out of your day and drop a public comment at the link that supports continuing to count Long Covid and ME in this survey. This is vital to people like me. Please help!

largely seamless transition to new phone, but I'm buggered if I can get the MS authenticator to log in.

1) I thought we all knew that bird people are even worse than horse people (and only slightly behind gun people) in this department. Beware. 2) Editor is not the same role as fact-checker. 3) What a shitty thing to say when his editor has probably stopped him showing his arse a hundred other ways.

BARGAIN OF THE DAY: The ebook of SCUTTLER'S COVE is down to 99p but for one day only. You have until midnight... Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Scuttlers-Co... Kobo: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... Google Play: play.google.com/store/books/... Apple Books: No idea how to link to them, but it's there too

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

OK, I'm willing to admit that maybe sleeping well at any point this last week might have been beneficial to my tennis. I'm still pretty cross at myself for how feebly I slumped today however.

I did suggest that France might not be the perfect place for a last minute city break for my elderly in-laws but was advise to pipe down and now worry them. So there's that.

Belatedly getting into s3 of Colin from accounts and loving it. Reminds me that TV execs often just need to give money to clever people with a weird idea and leave them to it.

Good morning

Useless royal mail. They leave a card because they need a signature. Follow details on card to learn that they automatically try to redeliver the next working day. Why not write that on the card?!

Here's the link from the bookseller article docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...