Will Maclean

Can’t believe the producers of the movie “Whalefall” didn’t get Adele to do the theme tune

I believe it was John Keats who wrote those beautiful lines about the change of the seasons: “When summer’s promise yields and autumn’s sweet decay its toll inflicts/it’s high fucking time to listen to Heads Will Roll (A-trak remix)”

Driving Away from Home by It's Immaterial was on the radio earlier, and it set me thinking - what are the haunted songs? Where something macabre could be going on, or it could be perfectly fine, and that tension makes the song almost unbearable? Any others? (The Day Before You Came, also, obvs)

new tingler 'NOT POUNDED BY THE SENTIENT TESLO FLYING CAR BECAUSE IT’S OBVIOUSLY FAKE BUT I’M SURE PEOPLE WHO THINK THE PIRATES AT THEME PARKS ARE REAL AND BIRTHDAY PARTY MAGICIANS ARE ACTUAL WIZARDS ARE PUMPED.' out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNHXRGJ2/ and patreon www.patreon.com/chucktingle/...

Trying to think of the worst band to have a pinball machine and @willmac23.bsky.social and I have decided it’s The Proclaimers.

Here's me talking about my "process" - no wait, come back! - here's me talking about the best way of destroying a blameless notebook, in service of writing a book like Solace House, with the good people at Lithub lithub.com/will-maclean...

Happy US publication day to Solace House! Please be careful in there. Students enter at own risk. Huge thanks to @groveatlantic.bsky.social for making all this possible!

Ruin a book by adding a word Nicholas “Chopper” Nickleby

“Do, do, do, the funky—-“

Can someone just give Gabby the Pulitzer NOW

The excellent @bobfischer.bsky.social interviewed me about Solace House, Broken Veil and, um, 90s monastery pop pioneers Enigma, for the Haunted Generation website. and here it is! hauntedgeneration.co.uk

Well the Call My Agent movie was superb. And the ending was perfect. And I love all of them.

Today's schedule is already packed to the rafters so I could really do without my mysterious green orb going missing. Anyone seen it?

Precisely this.

This is why working with Joel is great. We are very much on the same (pre-designed) page on these things. Visualisation is a basic magic but it DOES work

Guys Penda’s Fen is on BBC Four at 10.15. If you’ve never seen it, you are in for a revelatory experience. If you have seen it, why not watch it again, to remind yourself of the extraordinary things television can do

Absolutely loved Coyote Vs Acme. Great Pepe le Pew joke in there too. And who’d have bet on Looney Tunes Peter Lorre making a comeback?!

Yes!! Solace House is coming to the US in October!

Melt in the bowl like Chockula/isn’t the view spoctocular

Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you've seen live: 1. Huge Chris 2. Cucumber Gnomon 3. Stacey and the Wanks 4. LobSTARR 5. Mint Bingo 6. Whose Knee Is This 7. The Opposite of Pirates 8. Battenberg! 9. Six Cubic Pigs 10. Chris de Burgh

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: The staff of an Antarctic research station encounter some bumps in the road after adopting a dog

This is out NOW! Or maybe it’s just the Planet Venus? (IYKYK)…

“It was the day I signed a million-legged faster-than-light invisible striker who embodied the concept of “football” in eleven dimensions when I first realised that I, and the other people in my Fantasy Football League, apprehended the word “fantasy” very very differently”.

The Proclaimers walk 500 miles. Then they walk 500 more. On the way, they run into Vanessa Carlton, going the other way. Slight nod of the head of acknowledgement, slight flicker of a smile. Then back to the walking.

Absolutely, absolutely, this.

I KNEW IT

Siouxsie second only to Robert Smith as a guaranteed way to make my dad angry and confused #totp

The sad cluster of balloons on the studio floor, like the end of a child’s birthday party, producing in me the same abstract sadness they did 40 years ago #totp

That’s my job interview outfit KC’s wearing #totp

People bang on about the effect of punk, but I Feel Love is such an alien artefact, landing from nowhere, utterly strange and totally addictive. #totp

HAHAHA

This is great news. America! Solace House is coming for you...

It’s TRUE. For a limited time, you can buy the critically lauded second season of Broken Veil, for a one-off payment. Immerse yourself in the strange.

Don't come to book club and say "no spoilers please, I haven't finished it yet." The whole point of the evening is to discuss the book and you're only on chapter 5? Piss off!

Let’s not have a repeat of the 1962 match against Argentina where Borges, playing midfield, opened up an infinite library which contained every possible book ever written, pushing the game into some serious extra time. I’m *so* the natural audience for sport it’s amazing

Just a quick reminder that I’m at Crouch End Waterstones TONIGHT, talking though all things Solace House with the excellent staff there. Come along if you can!

While we have the Bayeux Tapestry, I think we should bring it up to date, adding all the events that have happened since then to it. The Renaissance. All the wars. Nasty Nick getting kicked off Big Brother 1. “Sweet like Chocolate” by Shanks and Bigfoot. Cat Bin Lady. It’s the least we can do

BROKEN VEIL II soundtrack available NOW Digital download or limited edition CD (a few copies left)... brokenveilpod.bandcamp.com

If you want to know how a singer's career is going, check the celebrity fragrances on sale in B&M. It's not looking good for Nicki Minaj.

Nobody did it better

Do YOU live in or near Cambridge? Are YOU free on the evening of Thursday June 25th, ie, this Thursday? I will be at Heffer's Bookshop, talking about Solace House, weird geometry, storytelling and all of that good stuff. Come along!

Just a reminder that my novel Solace House is the perfect read for what I’m dubbing “Unsettled Reader Summer” and is currently ONLY 99p on Kindle. Which is a steal, frankly. Here’s a copy with an oyster mushroom growing from it

Dance like nobody’s watching Realise everyone is Relocate to the Midlands Live the rest of your life under a false identity

Wow! Thanks David! So nice to see the title card of this, after all these years!

HELLO EVERYONE WHO HAD MEETINGS WITH US ABOUT BROKEN VEIL AND THEN NOTHING HAPPENED. HELLO. IS THIS THING ON?

This is just, as an author, the most marvellous thing you could hope to read. Just wonderful to know someone loves your work like this. theupstairswindow.substack.com/p/will-macle...