Guido Eekhaut

In case you were wondering, I have the T-shirt:

Inner library:

And now an editor asks me for a Sherlock Holmes story. Anthology due early 2026. Any sort of story. I might want to invent a Watson-Sim that spills the truth about Sherlock, somewhere in the future.

Or what?

Links: QNTM -- Steven Hall (The Raw Shark Texts) -- Nick Harkaway (Gnomon).

There's a pattern out there, and I'd like more examples.

Warning!

Life is a drag !

Can't use Hercule Poirot as a character, so I'll call him Simon Dubois, the short Belgian detective.

And he finds himself in Buenos Aires in 1940. Guess who else is there.

Actually, the series of stories I' m writing, does not start with Dubois...

Let this be a comfort:

(Tom Gauld, again)

Needs reminding:

Don’t argue with strangers… and 11 more rules to survive the information crisis Feeling overwhelmed by divisive opinions, endless rows and unreliable facts? Here’s how to weather the data storm

"Everyone has an opinion. Unless the person is an expert it’s a mistake to treat their opinion as very important." (Naomi Alderman in The Guardian).

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Can totally identify with this:

#speclist #scifi&fantasy

Writing (or better, translating) another weird story of post-human sentient 'robots' and a confrontation with alien life (of sorts)...

I'm not even sure this is anything near a decent description of the whole thing.

#speclist #scifi&fantasy #writingcommunity #mysterywriters

I submitted a surreal, weird story about whale hunting to The Berlin Literary Review today. Third submitted story in as many days. One already accepted.

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This is as it always should be done: sending a short story to an editor, and having it accepted a few hours later.

Due in an anthology early spring next year.

Thank you, I will keep this in mind. Very soon, I hope.

#speclist #writersandwriting #mysterywriters

What's the sense of having so many magazines, and most of the submissions are closed.

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I'm writing a short story about a chaotic garden where the dead roam... for an anthology early next year.

How more Zen can you be?

Picador unveils China Miéville’s new novel, 20 years in the making Picador will publish a new novel from award-winning author China Miéville. The Rouse will be Miéville’s first single-authored novel for an adult audience since 2011.

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About time....

www.thebookseller.com/rights/picad...

REVIEW: By Night In America? Barry N. Malzberg’s "The Last Transaction" is terrifying reading in 2025

Even so late after his best books where published, Barry Malzberg remains an interesting writer, who even managed to describe the sense of our own times:

zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-by-...

Using names of companies, products in a story? There’s a lot of confusion among writers about whether they can use the names of real companies and brands in their stories. Not surprisingly, there are plenty of misconceptions about trademark pro…

#writersworld #writerscommunity #amwriting #wip #novella inventingrealityediting.com/2...

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Mijn superbe verhaal 'Een Visioen van Gras en Bizons' sluit deze bundel sprookjes af...

It happens to me...

Just this:

Is happening, or not?

Great book, great stories. Read it, now!