@tobyschmitz.bsky.social
Here Lies Toby https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Toby-Schmitz-Empress-Murders-9781761069192
Go Crow.
01.08.2025 01:08 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@tobyschmitz.bsky.social is one of those guests who makes you laugh, think & want to re-read Hamlet. Actor, playwright, novelist, Shakespeare tragic, Stoppard obsessive, don’t miss him in Grief is the Thing with Feathers at Belvoir.
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Thrilled! 🚢✨
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23.06.2025 10:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In trying not to rubberneck a current race to the bottom I am reminded of a Martin Amis phrase:
‘This is species shame.’
Smashing title.
29.05.2025 04:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘The Empress Murders is a violent book: nobody here is dispatched with a nip of arsenic in their camomile tea.’
#TheEmpressMurders
‘Brilliant, bonkers and bloody - The Empress Murders is what you get when you let a mischievous thespian schooled in Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, and Agatha Christie loose on the crime genre.’
#TheEmpressMurders
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Melbourne cats: I’m going to be talking about my debut novel at Readings in Carlton this Thursday night at 6pm (and signing books if that floats your boat.) Do come. @ReadingsBooks #TheEmpressMurders 🚢🏴☠️ readings.com.au/events/toby-sc…
20.05.2025 03:13 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0You’ve made my day.
Thank you, Molly.
Welcome aboard.
Hi, Timmy! Have another go? Other than that you know full well I am technically incompetent. Bless you for tryin’ though. X
27.04.2025 23:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ahoy, blue sky miners.
My book is coming out soon.
It’s a thriller. Though we all get our thrills in different ways…
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You can pre-order it here:
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#TheEmpressMurders
‘To resist was fatal, and it was impossible to fly.’
(Edward Gibbon)
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A gentle reminder that the ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ soundtrack is a gift of gentle brilliance. A balm.
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14.01.2025 21:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You may be unsurprised to hear the term has been bandied.
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And I’d be nuts not to tip my childhood chapeau to Dante’s ‘Explorers’.
06.12.2024 07:51 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Skeleton Crew Episode I:
Opening sequence giving ‘Black Sails’ on a flashback level.
One of those school jackets, please, Santa?
Out-goons Goonies.
I’m so in.
Agent emails for ‘MAN’ in car commercial.
Do you drive?
No.
All good, they say they can work around that. Do you have, or can you grow, stubble by tomorrow?
No.
All good, they just want you to know it’s now their unsleeping desire that you never work in this or any other town again.
Sydney likes to forget it rains. River-streets
Fed by unsuited gutters and sopping pedestrians
Nary an umbrella, shrugging up in water
Pelting straight down, feining surprise.
For me Roger McGough’s a poet who fizzes.
And you won’t find the bugger for free online.
I’ll always regret not smuggling his lean editions out my parents’ bookcase.
When I left.
Coz they don’t come in often.
