Paul Carroll

I hate that these are the only options

Ah, there's Red Books Wexford using AI for social media again.

I don't understand how a bookshop can artists so much.

I'm really happy with the design of this. Double-sided. (This is just a screenshot from Illustrator)

I'll post pics when they're back from the printer!

And this is why I have been disappeared all day.

Things I am preparing for Dublin Comic Con:

1. Flyers for upcoming @limitbreakcomics.bsky.social projects (including Bump in the Night!)

2. Prints of my two main characters in The Black Pages, Ben and Kurt

3. Bookmarks for The Black Pages (yes, it took this long to do it...)

And now a feast

Belated birthday escape room. We didn't get murdered!

So marketing, so wow

Y'know what, I'm putting them in my newsletter on Wednesday.

You wanna see my new art for Ben Cooper and Kurt Crane (the protagonists of my books), you gotta sign up!

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Is it too late at night to show off art I did of my own characters?

YouTube video by Regina Spektor Regina Spektor - "How" [Official Music Video]

And my big heartbreak song is Regina Spektor's 'How', because apparently I am allergic to joy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mBf...

YouTube video by Lord Huron Lord Huron - The Night We Met (Official Audio)

My Big-Sads-and-Yearning song is Lord Huron's The Night We Met. Coincidently just rewatched the episode of 13 Reasons Why that introduced me to the song.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktlg...

YouTube video by triple j Wallows cover The Marías’ ‘No One Noticed’ for Like A Version

My most recent sad-boy song is Wallows' Like a Version cover of 'No One Noticed'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv_d...

I have listened to it repeatedly the last few days.

If you are planning to visit Ireland, assume that rain is a possibility.

If you get a trip without rain, it's a bonus.

I was right. Just about got in right before it started lashing.

On a stupid walk for my stupid mental health (medication)

It looks like it's going to rain again, because this is Ireland.

My comfort music is songs about yearning and heartbreak.

12. Headphones to block out the sounds of other people’s thoughts

13. An island of immortals is also their prison

14. Sudden fame forces someone to isolate

15. A town starts rising on a giant platform, trapping its residents miles in the air

(Newsletter only uses text for the prompts!)

8. Dark magic curses a land, changing everything there into something beastly

9. Broth that puts hair on your chest

10. Coffee that invigorates for six hours

11. An imaginary friend becomes real, because it befriended so many people

4. An evil wizard uses automatons as soldiers, takes over entire countries in days

5. A new illness makes people allergic to water

6. A new god is born out of people’s desire to escape mundanity

7. A room in a house that acts as a time machine/portal

For those that need text:

1. A cheerleader hypnotises people with dancing

2. Chillies that force the truth

3. The majority of a town’s people live in a single tower block of apartments, which includes all their amenities and shops

Hey, did you know I have a free writing prompt newsletter?

Every Friday at noon (Irish time), I send FIVE PROMPT FRIDAYS.

Here are some of the random prompts from back when I started in July.

Sign up here (and tell your friends!)
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This is what happens when I post a demon clown while walking home at night 🙈

Behold: a twink

Accidentally left what turned into the top comment on Jacques Ze Whipper's latest IG video, and I've never been so grateful that the app doesn't notify for every like.

Oh, and there's a dragon disguised as a man about 20 feet away who had to walk through my cloudkill. He's pissed.

I have almost died.

I only have one more higher level spell.

We are still kind of surrounded.

I have a 6th level cloudkill murdering a bunch of people.

Also, if I die but there's loads of combat left, the Party are in trouble.

I'm the only one with revifify. And most of our healing capabilities.

Big welp.

If Pan dies tonight, I think I'll actually be upset.

All of this because I wanted to rescue our favourite NPC, Kronk. (Yes, he sounds like that too.)

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