@eekhaut.bsky.social
Writer of crime books and thrillers, speculative and fantastic fiction and the weird. Winner Hercule Poirot Award, and nominated for several others. Please no DM except professional offers.
I have a couple of assistants like that too...
02.03.2026 19:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Obsession...
The good kind.
Just got a reply from a (Dutch) publisher whom I proposed two short novels: excellent books, with a dash of humor, really nice -- but he won't publish them because they are the kind of stuff his public will not read.
Speculative fiction/ literary fantasy, that sort of stuff.
As always, Tom Gauld...
02.03.2026 14:37 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
You know what this all is...
02.03.2026 11:50 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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One damn good piece of advice...
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Thinking of Angela Carter and her fairy tales...
Maybe pigs do really fly.
02.03.2026 08:41 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Someone posted this somewhere (Facebook actually), but I take no responsibility for it being true...
02.03.2026 08:38 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
And so, there he is again....
28.02.2026 19:05 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Antwerp, yesterday evening: presentation of the translation of Juan Gabriel Vasquéz' new book (in De Groene Waterman bookshop).
Started reading right away, and it got me hooked from the first page.
So there we are: he started another war.
And what? He expects a medal for that too?
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Doorgaans niet als hun primaire bron van inkomsten.
26.02.2026 16:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I'm so very much tired of him...
25.02.2026 18:14 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Not gonna work...
24.02.2026 18:12 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Otis has my sympathy....
24.02.2026 17:54 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Borrowed this one...
24.02.2026 15:09 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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There is, it seems, light at the end of the tunnel...
Or whatever....
Don't complain, or laugh at him. At least he's ready.
24.02.2026 14:48 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Even the dragons are evil.
23.02.2026 12:49 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This one will be a classic...
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That's how it is done: writing in your car, like Vladimir Nabokov used to do. Cars were much bigger, certainly on the inside, than today.
It's not the same taste because the ingredients are slightly different.
21.02.2026 19:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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That's what I mean...
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I'm reading, more or less at the same time, Samuel Delany and Henri Miller. There's no excuse for such hubris. But still I do it.
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Currently working on background for a 1945 mystery/thriller situated in Berlin, where Hitler might or might not be dead, and the Americans are gathering up scientists for their own military projects, all while the new war (the cold one) is about to start.
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Currently reading.... but it is hard going....
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Don't diss fact checkers.
I wonder if he was actually a nice guy. I doubt it. Still, he might have been right here...
18.02.2026 21:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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It used to be absinthe. I've written a novel with that title, but it had hardly anything to do with the drink.