Jon Hillman

I pondered the relevance of a face like this in a kids playground today, as my daughter gave attention to every element bar this Gollum-esque statue.

Redrafted my distance spanning poem while considering what the journey looks like via my photos of Scotland.

That is stunning!

Oddly excited to have had Ingstadt pen a poem that forms a montage between the two halves of The Unspeakable Awaits.

The end of this story is dark and a left-field ditty didn’t really fit. So “The Tale Retold” is a halfway summary!

Real and tasty!

Burns Night.

Not in Campbeltown as planned, but at home with an excellent bottle, veggie haggis, and IT Chapter 2 🤣💀

Over the course of the last week I managed 10k words to The Unspeakable Awaits. Idea was to clear my head.

No.

Now all of the questions the new sections generated are vying for attention!

Today was to be the rescheduled Springbank distillery visit, which was previously cancelled because of Storm Bert. Storms are at it again, Éowyn has put paid to the journey.

The visit was a November post hospital trauma treat 😭

Contemplation

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Romantasy seems to be a thing now. But can I interest you all in a crumb of… Necromantasy?

No?

Anybody?

…No?

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Daughter helped me set this up.

Very evocative!

Raven, perched on a pile of very old books in a gothic library of epic scale.

This piece ( Cover art for Library stories for @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social ) was another pivotal piece for me. I was determined to do something better than my usual and I was able to. All following work had a new standard. Giddy time.

A home-grown Purple Hairstreak. Rescued as an egg from a fallen oak in February last year, and nurtured (along with five others) to adulthood. Ended up with three male and three female.

This is one of the females. A stunning insect!

Rumiruna, room to lose ya, Rumiruna, room to lose ya.

Drink tonight, till morning light.
You've soaked your head, you'll find your bed.
Cheaper here, cheaper there, cheaper just atop that stair.

Eat your meat, find your feet. Another street to meet your sweet.
Was she yours or are they whores?
You want some more? Then close that door.

That bloody poet has been at it again!

There were two kings, they had three rings.
A city of stone, a city grown.
A place for fun, you’re never done.

Streets and cobbles, inns and hovels.
Hawkers and wares, the crier blares.
Iron and silver, all to pilfer.

Rumiruna, room to lose ya.

Well, I'm sold. I'll pick up the first one!

Cover for The World-Maker Parable

Covers for Vultures and House of Muir

Hey #booksky, do you like:

-twists and turns
-drugs
-sad people
-emotions and trauma
-short books about gods, dead cities, alternate realities, and subverted tropes
-Dark Souls or Malazan

If so, try:

-The World-Maker Parable
-The World-Breaker Requiem
-Vultures
-House of Muir

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John Business, ready to close some deals.

Family are out, I’m home. Time to get some writing done. Marigold and his group are on the road to Norfingerton!

It’s not the most pleasant of roads.

A hard days work adding an expansion set to the bothy.

The happiest!

It’s -6°c, it’s crisp, it’s white and blue out there, and a pale red is creeping over the horizon.

I’m stuck waiting on a car service.

Here’s one I took earlier.

The good news is it actually is out, and was 22nd December 2023! I’m just a bit lax here, clearly 🤣

No power since Tuesday because of fires. Had to chuck literally everything in my freezer.

Please buy my books. 😪

Tentatively poking my head out on a new venue…

I’ve posted a few things before, but quick summary:

- I write dark fantasy, five books 📕
- I love butterflies 🦋
- I enjoy whisky 🥃

Does exactly what it says on the tin (btw, are there also no notifications here?)