James Benmore

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

Continuing my weekly series featuring books from my collection that need to be read & deserve to be shouted about, they are all fantastic reads, hunt them down, This week lets go back Dickens and the Dodger series by James Benmore #BooksYouNeedToRead @jamesbenmore.bsky.social

I'm so sorry to hear this, Joanna. You don't know me but I feel I know you through your podcasts and I love what you do. I so hope you recover and fast xxx

Oof. Watching Interview with the Vampire for the first time in decades. To say it’s problematic is an understatement with its slave-owning protagonist and paedo subtext. And Brad Pitt is so uncomfortable in his stiff role. Cruise is having fun though.

YouTube video by Novel London James Benmore Reading From 'Hauser and The Vultures'

A pleasure to have read from my work-in-progress novel 'Hauser and the Vultures' for Novel London at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith the other night.
It's on Youtube if you'd like to check it out! 📚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW-4...

Weird that there's a country singer called Keith Urban.

YouTube video by Novel London James Benmore Reading From 'Hauser and The Vultures'

A pleasure to have read from my work-in-progress novel 'Hauser and the Vultures' for Novel London at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith the other night.
It's on Youtube if you'd like to check it out! 📚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW-4...

This is such a compliment coming from Andy. I’m so glad people remember my Dodger books fondly and that they still find readers. Thanks AW!

From the files of Mance & Tyler Investigations
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just saw a video of someone who works from home who gets up really early to commute to a gym. Some of you will never escape the prisons of your own minds

From the files of Mance & Tyler Investigations
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Me at the Regents Park Slow Horses bench

Tomorrow I’m giving away another FREE preview chapter from my upcoming eighties goth rock thriller HAUSER AND THE VULTURES through my newsletter. For your VIP tickets to come backstage and meet the band, subscribe at James-Benmore.com

Me at the Regents Park Slow Horses bench

Took my detective novel for a London walk earlier James-Benmore.com

Took my detective novel for a London walk earlier James-Benmore.com

Missing person?
Cheating spouse?
Mystery killer?
Ask for Mercy
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I don't understand why Obama isn't giving daily instructions to the Resistance while wearing a beret already.

One of the more fun jobs I do is pre-reviewing books that include trans characters and storylines - and I've particularly enjoyed doing it for authors like @jamesbenmore.bsky.social, @margrettryggva.bsky.social and Elísabet Thoroddsen. So if you or someone you know needs a review, hit me up!

Love it

Reading the Marvel story where Doctor Doom becomes president and I've got to be honest, he's doing a better job than Trump.

Editing chapter 4 of Hauser and the Vultures

It’s a shame that actions taken by toddler-minded populist twats to deal with “problems” in their batshit imaginary universe have effects in our real universe, where the rest of us have to live.

Can’t we build them a fake “wheel” for government like kids have in the back of cars?

Really good Smershpod episode celebrating David Lynch’s often maligned but strangely glorious Dune

Happy belated birthday! 🎂 By the way, if you don’t like buying from Amazon then all my books are available through Waterstones.co.uk but in the older covers. But if your mother prefers the current covers she’ll get them quicker through Amazon. Just a thought

Thanks!

I’d have gone with ‘Mudrer, She Mispelt’

“Your outie posts Severance parodies on TikTok despite never having seen Severance.”

Missing person?
Cheating spouse?
Mystery killer?
Ask for Mercy
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