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116. Greek Gods & Monsters from 'Clash of the Titans' w/Adam Marek This episode, Kalid and Joe are joined by science-fiction writer, Adam Marek to "release the kraken!" Or, rather, discuss the 1981 Greek fantasy flick, Clash of the…

⭐️ New Episode! ⭐️

Sci-fi writer, Adam Marek, joins us to chat some classic Greek mythology and some similarly classic Ray Harryhausen creature effects in CLASH OF THE TITANS from 1981!

Find our episode through the link below or wherever you get your podcasts!

Catch @adammarek.bsky.social on the latest episode of @frankenpodcast.bsky.social chatting Harryhausen & Adam's new collection: The Universe Delivers the Enemy You Need 👇

📻: www.frankensteinspodcast.com/116-greek-go...

Happy (belated) ‘Oswald Mosley coming to Manchester & getting his head kicked in’ day to all who celebrate 🥳

From MCR to Cable Street & the Spanish Republicans before them, there’s only one thing to do when Fascists march.

¡No Pasarán!

📗 commapress.co.uk/books/resist

Visited the National Gallery over the weekend. Loved this Eva Gonzalez painting but my rotten gen-z brain just sees that one scene in First Reformed 🫠

An Interview with Comma Press Earlier this year, I reviewed Collision: Stories from the Science of CERN, an ambitious collection from Comma Press that brought together fiction and physics.The Manchester-based press has built its r...

Interview with George Forster from Comma Press: we cover short stories, northern publishing, breaking into the industry, challenges facing the publishing industry, and much more.

Make sure to check it out!

@commapress.bsky.social
@gforsterwrites.bsky.social

Read Comma press officer @gforsterwrites.bsky.social's interview with @northernbooksblog.bsky.social where they talk current reads, favourite Comma books and the Northern publishing scene! 👇

Great talking with you James!

This guy would have Holmes’ top 5 antagonists behind bars without so much as blinking

I will never financially recover from this 🫠

SOLOLAND by Hassan Blasim publishes tomorrow! 📚🥳

This 3-novella collection from 'the most important writer of Arabic fiction alive' journeys from Isis-occupied Mosul to Scandinavia as it explores the devastating dislocation of exile.

📕Order now commapress.co.uk/books/sololand

#OnThisDay in 1958 The Havana Hilton opened to the public, shortly after the imposition of harsh US sanctions. The hotel quickly became a HQ for the revolutionary govt...

📙For more on Havana
commapress.co.uk/books/the-bo...

📕For more on US intervention
commapress.co.uk/books/the-am...

@mjohnharrison.bsky.social's 'Settling the World' now available in Spanish via the fine people at Interzona 👽

But #WhoWoreItBetter 🤔

From the winner of the '20 Goldsmiths Prize.
NOM'D Best Single-Author Collection at the @sjacksonawards.bsky.social '20

📘 UK Ed.
commapress.co.uk/books/settli...

DISSECTING MANCTOPIA 🐝

📍 Feel Good Club
🗓️Mar 20, 7:30-9pm

🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/dissecting...

The Book of Manchester explores, celebrates & critiques the city Manchester was & the one it's becoming...

🍻 Join us from 7 to grab a drink & settle in for an evening of all things Manchester!

Not Adrianna going on the right-wing grifter cruise 🫠

DISSECTING MANCTOPIA 🐝
Readings & Ramblings from Book of Manchester Authors

📍 Feel Good Club, MCR
📅 Mar 20, 7-9pm

🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/dissecting...

What does Manchester mean to you? Join as we explore, celebrate & critiques the city Manchester was, and the one it has become...

🌹 WRITING THE GOTHIC
Writing Course w/ @bronteschiltz.bsky.social

📅 Starts 27 March
📍 Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies

From haunted mansions to modern terrors of the screen age, learn the craft of gothic fiction & get published in a Comma eBook 👇

🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-th...

Manchester book people we’re launching 2 cracking new collections tonight @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social be there or be square 👇📚

COMMA BLOG✍️
Dark Underbellies: w/ Ross Raisin

Award Wins, what-the-bloody-hell-is-this? moments, and an ill-fated 2-piece kop band... The 2024 BBC NSSA winner chats about the win, his story in The Book of Bradford & memories of the city.

🔗 commapress.co.uk/blog/dark-un...

We all need a Lynch shrine in our offices to turn to in times of artistic hesitation, I feel 😂 I need to do a proper rewatch of his filmography - think I was too young when I first watched his stuff but I’ll always be a Dune ‘84 apologist!

Not been this sad about a celebrity death since Steve Irwin. Not even the biggest Lynch fan but his approach to art and storytelling was so pure and earnest

Very excited to be arranging this with @hangsawoman.bsky.social 👇

Freshly minted 3rd edition of Jane Rogers’ award-winning Hitting Trees with Sticks, alongside its brilliant cli-fi follow-up Fire-Ready: commapress.co.uk/books/hittin...

A mega resource for anyone interested in supporting great indie publishing here in the North 👇

Writing the City: Bradford Short Story Course
📅Starts Feb 11 📍City Library Bradford

Learn the craft of place writing with author @davidmbarnett.bsky.social and have your work published in a Comma Press eBook! ✍️

🎟️Tickets just £65
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-th...

Join us @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social on Feb 24 for the launch of Gaia Holmes' He Used to Do Dangerous Things and Jane Rogers' Fire Ready 🦌🔥

Characters in these stories adopt ingenious methods to fight the darkness, from loneliness to the climate crisis.

🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gaia-holme...

Who else is making #ReadingResolutions this year?📚🥳

Whether you're trying to beat last year's total or looking to tweak your reading diet, let us know your 2025 reading goals down below 👇

Went to the cinema and they only showed one film trailer

Having a dry NYE so you know what that means

Received moisturiser unprompted from three separate relatives