Stark Holborn 🔜 AdventureX

Hey Womble! I finally finished A Place of Greater Safety (phew) and am reading Jelly Roll by Luke Sutherland (amazing dialogue)

I'm so glad! :)

Foto dels llibres "Vuit de Gel" , "Titans" i "Guia avançada per pringades espacials" editats en català per l'editorial Chronos.

Vaig guanyar el sorteig que feien a @chronoscat.bsky.social i ja he rebut els llibres. Quina meravella, moltes gràcies, pel sorteig i per la feina que feu.

Vaig descobrir a @starkholborn.bsky.social gràcies a ells i quin descobriment, per a mi s'ha convertit en una aposta segura.

:) :)

Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review – dark tales with a sting This collection of macabre stories set across England explores class, hierarchy and the enduring nature of inequality

Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review – dark tales with a sting

Get your short film shown on the biggest screen in Bristol!

Submissions for our 2026 Shorts Showcase are now open.

filmfreeway.com/fwfilmfestival

A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006

A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....

I'll drop you a DM!

And they are an absolute delight!

Spaghetti-Western + (a)cute maths = Triggernometry

(See also
Spaghetti-Western + space mysticism = Ten Low & Hell’s Eight)

Ahh cheers mate!

Stark Holborn Stark Holborn is a novelist, games writer, film reviewer, and the author of Ten Low, Hel’s Eight, Ninth Life, the British Fantasy Award-nominated Triggernometry series and Nunslinger. Stark is current...

your semi-regular reminder that you can grab all three ebooks in my satirical maths-western Triggernometry series via Payhip for a non-amaz*n, DRM-free alternative:

payhip.com/StarkHolborn

3 people with Adventure X lanyards. I'm in the middle, trying to conceal my exhaustion. Stark is on the right, with a gorgeous red shirt. George is to the left, with a witcher medallion on.

Had a lovely/exhausting time at AdventureX. Mostly forgot to take photos of all the great people, but her's me and @thewizardlockwood.bsky.social and @starkholborn.bsky.social (who gave an excellent talk).

RIP Udo Kier - so good in personal faves Swansong and Bacurau

Agh sad I didn't get to say hi properly!! (And thanks!)

Great to see you!

Realised I didn't copy properly for the alt text so the slide says:

"Real characters at the centre of the story, making bad decisions that feel emotionally true in a sequence that satisfies the audience by connecting events in poetic ways"

Slide with "7 fundamentals of a great story" in lecture hall

Great keynote talk on the fundamentals of storytelling by @antonyjohnston.bsky.social at the ever-brilliant AdventureX

Love this from @starkholborn.bsky.social ’s talk about Shadow of Doubt - about making sure you‘re putting story absolutely *everywhere*

+1 @starkholborn.bsky.social and I talked about this so much when we were working on it (for years 😅 ). Burying narrative/meaning/theme into every corner. Making strong connections between disciplines, mise en scene etc. etc. A privilege to be on a project where that was rewarded, encouraged.

Incredible archive of Byte magazine. The covers. THE COVERS.

👋

Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.

We need your help.

@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.

Please read on for more information

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...

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Triggernometry Finals Triggernometry Finals eBook : Holborn, Stark, Harris, Philip: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

www.amazon.co.uk/Triggernomet...

Thanks all!

For The Road [hardcover] by Stark Holborn A NOVELLA by Stark Holborn CATEGORY Acid Western / Fantasy PUBLICATION DATE August 2025 COVER ART Ashni Wilson PAGES 62 EDITIONS Unsigned Jacketed

It's award nomination time (I'm looking at you, BSFA) and I have not one but *two* things eligible for a Best Shorter Fiction nomination, namely my acid-western novella, FOR THE ROAD and my, ah, maths western TRIGGERNOMETRY FINALS. Links below!

pspublishing.co.uk/for-the-road...

Look alive detective! Our second game update of the year is LIVE 🚨
Change the way you play with 8 new game modifiers!
From scurrying around as a Rat Detective 🐀 to ambient greyscale gumshoeing 🩶 to facing your fate in the form of your Snail Nemesis 🐌...🏃‍♂️‍➡️ Play now 🕵️‍♂️

Morning womble! Just finished an ARC of Heaven's Graveyard by Grace Curtis and it's a banger! Howl's Moving Castle vibes.

(Also I've *nearly* finished A Place of Greater Safety - had to put it down for a bit while finishing a first draft of my own novel)

i've been working up to it all day so far

a man sits at a desk with papers and a green lamp that says evil Alt: dylan moran in black books shouting at his tax return

it's the most wonderful time of the year

For anyone in Bristol at a loose end this evening, I'll be doing a TedX talk! On human creativity in the age of AI (spoiler: GenAI gets trashed) tickets here 👇

www.tickettailor.com/events/tedxb...

We are down to last tickets for #AdvX25! We added a few more single-day tickets, but they're flying fast.

The ticket sale will close on midnight 19 Nov (or earlier if sold out). So make sure you get yours before they're gone!

adventurexpo.org