Exactly. Once upon a time WHS shelves were the only advertising you needed. But what do you do when the billboards have gone?
03.03.2026 09:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Exactly. Once upon a time WHS shelves were the only advertising you needed. But what do you do when the billboards have gone?
03.03.2026 09:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We need mags in bookshops. Digest format. Compilation quarterlies with margins worth promoting. Lifestyle not so much, but sport, hobbies, entertainment, history could all work.
03.03.2026 08:47 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0If it's one of the Paddy Russell episodes, it's No Such Thing as a Vampire! (The other PR exists.) SHRIEK!!!
02.03.2026 17:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Well that's made my day. So glad you liked it.
02.03.2026 14:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cover art for DOCTOR WHO THE IMPOSTERS from Big Finish
JL2 The Imposters. Like the brilliant Kaleidoscope, this has a fun, bold, comic-book feel to it, that both captures S11 & brings its own wildly imaginative, witty, & eccentric style to it. Too many highlights to list in full; plot, ideas, twists, performances, production, all outstanding. Loved it.
02.03.2026 01:22 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The road to hell is paved by well-meaning cranks, as the saying almost goes.
27.02.2026 08:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nothing more hilarious than handing Putin Europe on a plate by abandoning our independent nuclear deterrent, literally the only thing that makes us remotely significant in modern geopolitics. I despair. Often.
27.02.2026 08:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Economy of storytelling is the reason why Tintin remains hugely popular, and has translated so widely. Left to right, action carrying you from one panel to the next. Nothing flashy, nothing very close, largely flat with no clever angles. It's so simple, but so brilliant.
25.02.2026 09:59 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 1
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
Bless you. I really enjoyed writing Witches - my only Adric!
19.02.2026 09:26 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I've often thought the world needs an index of pop video directors, locations, everything.
18.02.2026 12:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This one is bonkers even by my "standards".
17.02.2026 09:20 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Blimey, checked the BBFC website myself and the memory does indeed cheat. Certain it made me very uncomfortable on my own - and it only lost 18 seconds, so I daresay a lot of the sex and violence was still there!
16.02.2026 05:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0... and we didn't even HAVE a phone.
15.02.2026 13:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I remember accidentally seeing this at the Barnet Odeon in February 1981, in a half-term matinee double-bill with Battle Beyond the Stars. I was 11. I hadn't realised it was a AA when I went in, I was genuinely terrified they'd phone my Mum when it finished.
15.02.2026 12:59 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I was reading a load of your archived Buffy episode guides just last night! (I've been watching Season 2 on for the first time...)
11.02.2026 21:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Also I'd like a book token please.
10.02.2026 12:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Had to finish the thing, after... how many years?
7a. CRECHES
10a. DEPARTED
1d. FREEDOM
3d. RESTLESS
One of those days when I remember I didn't leave X just because it was full of terrible right-wing politics. Terrible lefty-liberal politics is just as boring and exasperating. Why can't these places ever be an escape?
09.02.2026 08:43 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0
Having a sort out. Found a thing. 1989. When, will I, will I be famous?
07.02.2026 13:18 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0TRUTH
06.02.2026 11:58 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0In which it is revealed that 11-year-old Lucy W was watching Warriors of the Deep, like all sensible young people in 1984.
05.02.2026 17:10 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The surprise on the third page of Corruption of the Daleks in the new DWM actually made me gasp out loud with delight. @senrabnala.bsky.social has played a LONG game...! Delicious! This is the good stuff...! #DoctorWho #DWM #DoctorWhoMagazine
04.02.2026 19:32 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Yes, I've been sitting on that for a while...! 😀
04.02.2026 21:53 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I don't take it personally, obv. 😀
04.02.2026 17:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's just a bit depressing, TBH. It was a decent piece that I put a lot of effort into. But inevitably there'll now be letters revelling in a slight oversight that could have been so easily fixed. 😞
04.02.2026 16:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I had no idea. It doesn't actually change the counterfactual I set out. But still, I'd have phrased it differently had I realised.
04.02.2026 16:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Comic book artist Frazer Irving is having a tough time. He’s asking people to help by making a purchase from his shop.
It’s gorgeous stuff! I see original pages from Klarion the Witch Boy that are far too cheap…
frazerirving.bigcartel.com
Coming 12th February
Doctor Who Chronicles: 1984
From the makers of Doctor Who Magazine comes the latest in the series focusing on an iconic year in the history of the show
Ordering details to follow, but will be available from all the usual outlets including Panini online
