Mark N Drake

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Yep, massive outage at Amazon Web Services, has taken out a lot of apps/sites that use AWS, not just Amazon themselves.

YouTube video by Morgan Scorpion The Plot by Mark N Drake.

A great read through by Julia of my short story 'The Plot' from the collection 'Shards of of Shattered Darkness'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SJq...

Cos it's great, duh! :-)

Thank you so much for the mention!

The Crows Audiobook - CM Rosens's Ko-fi Shop The audiobook version of The Crows by C.M. Rosens, narrated by the author. Print version: published by Canelo Horror, 2024 Print version interior i...

~Creepy old houses have feelings too
~Lonely cannibal lad next door
~Doomed woman out of her depth in a dilapidated seaside town
~Locals with secrets

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An orange sun rises over a distant treeline into a hazy summer sky, with a dense bank of mist in the middle distance.

Sunrise this morning at the start of a scorching day's #camping in #Yorkshire. Yes, I said scorching and Yorkshire in the same sentence.

A Kindle reader with woodland in the background

A busy day marshalling an event in the woods. Which to the uninitiated looks a lot like sitting in a camping chair with coffee and a Kindle.

They're the ultimate cyanotype plant, I think!

Four cyanotypes, of ferns and dock leafs eaten by insects

Latest #cyanotype efforts. Love the holes created in the dock leafs (I think by Green Dock Beetle larvae)

The Gathering of Shadows (The Glennison Darkisle Cases Book 1) The Gathering of Shadows (The Glennison Darkisle Cases Book 1) - Kindle edition by Drake, Mark N. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Gathering of Shadows (The Glennison Darkisle Cases Book 1).

Taking a brief pause from writing Darkisle Book 6 at the halfway point. Thought I'd try the self-publicising thing for a change and remind everyone about the first book in the series, The Gathering of Shadows. Do please check it out if you like noir Lovecraftian horror!
www.amazon.com/dp/B08B45XRM9

Now that's a tune.

screengrab of Goodreads showing the pagham-on-sea series of 3 novels, The Crows, Thirteenth, and The Day We Ate Grandad, with 4.39 average rating as a series, and 317 ratings in total.

So this is fun, my 3 novels combined now have 317 ratings on Goodreads! I wonder what it will be by the end of the year...

You can start with any of them but feel free to read chronologically. They're all pretty different though.

Back from work (I was an Edwardian dentist today). Did the Three Mile Walk around the village when I got home (lovely evening!) then sat in the beer garden of the Cross Keys with a couple of pints while working on the next novel.

A photo of two books on a shelf; Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh

I hate it so when books fall out...

Thanks for the opportunity, Rebecca! x

Author Spotlight: Jalen Tallis Meet Jalen Tellis (he/him), an indie novelist & screenwriter, and his books, "Samurai Reborn: The Black Samurai", nominated for several Indie Ink Awards in 2024, and "Incursion".

Meet Jalen Tellis (he/him), an indie novelist & screenwriter, and his books, "Samurai Reborn: The Black Samurai", nominated for several Indie Ink Awards in 2024, and "Incursion". #SciFi #Fantasy #IndieAuthor #AuthorInterview #AuthorSpotlight

Indie Horror Chapter The Biggest Indie Horror Author Events Across the UK

Nice to see the UK's @indiehorrorchapter.bsky.social going from strength to strength... they now have a nice website!

indiehorrorchapter.uk

Now that's a tune.

Beamish: Open-air attraction in County Durham wins Museum of the Year Beamish in Country Durham, which recreates life from bygone eras, is named the UK's museum of the year.

Beamish, open-air 'living museum' in County Durham, scoops prestigious £120k prize. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For those of you who read my Darkisle novels; this is Jack's local.

👻 ARE YOU READY FOR CHAPTER 3? 👻

Weston Horror Book Con, 6 Sep

Join 45 indie horror authors from the UK and Europe for a full day experience you won’t forget!

We are delighted to announce Joseph Sale as one of our attending authors 😱

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So, French house's garden weeded, very nice pasta courtesy of Other Half consumed, much French wine consumed, half a chapter of the next novel written and now playing a Bowie CD. Avec more French wine. No complaints here.

What a great find! A great bloke, I was very lucky to meet him once. Hate the be picky, but it's "Iain".

You really think there'll be an election in 2028?

That is exceptionally good news!

Coming soon: Lovecraft Investigations: Crowley A Lovecraft Investigations audio series delving into the (true) life and works of Aleister Crowley

Was just browsing Kickstarter for no reason and was v excited to see that @juliansimpson.bsky.social and @maybeitwasutah.bsky.social are at it again with their Lovecraft Investigations! #lovecraft #horror #pleasantgreen

Check it out: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cro...

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