@tomeaton.bsky.social
Author, screenwriter, columnist. My new novel 'An Act of Murder' is now available at all good bookshops. Penguin Random House SA. tomeaton.co.za tomeaton.substack.com
"Finally got Karoline to Burn that South Park episode onto a CD so I could Watch it and I am DISGUSTED & OFFENDED & SHOCKED that they would show Satan not wanting to have sex with me." Some extracts from the journals of the powerful...
anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/the-power-...
For years the global north has told itself that corruption looks like a dark-skinned man in a sunny, faraway country. Thanks to that racist trope, it can't see that white men in expensive suits are bringing the banana republics home. anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/the-banana...
24.07.2025 11:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I hope the new #Superman movie makes a pile but I'm afraid my relationship with the Man of Steel was ended almost 40 years ago by a superhero insect and his sidekick, an inanimate doll called Cheeks The Toy Wonder. (Free to read) anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/superman-s...
18.07.2025 08:56 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
You’d think Stephen King would be the ideal chronicler of current American politics, from the hold Donald Trump has on his disciples to the picture-perfect towns of the hinterland revealed as incubators of sadism. My latest, free to read anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/stephen-ki...
10.07.2025 08:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'I can’t tell you for certain that Thomas Magnum, the greatest floral-noir detective, ever looked at the Hawaiian sunrise and murmured, “Another day in paradise…”'
In which I welcome you to a new free-to-read column. Get in. It'll be fun. anotherdayinparadisewithtomeaton.substack.com/p/coming-soon
"As we end the session reminiscing I feel quietly proud that Mary Watson and I have managed to insert Stefano DiMera, satanic levitation and space twins into the country’s leading literary festival..." Some Sunday thoughts on a bookish month. tomeaton.substack.com/p/notes-on-a...
08.06.2025 10:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hello Bethany! I'm delighted that you're enjoying it.
28.05.2025 12:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Packing my winter woolies for a reportedly chilly Joburg and looking forward to tomorrow night's launch of 'An Act of Murder'. If you're near Sandton, pull through to Exclusive Books at sixish and come and say hello.
21.05.2025 15:22 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Johannesburg! Arnold Prinsloo is coming home as we launch ‘An Act of Murder’ next Thursday in Sandton*, and it would be grand to see you there. I'll be chatting to the excellent Michelle Constant, so both you and I will be in safe hands.
* OK technically Arnold lives in Melville but close enough...
Surprised and delighted to discover that @news24southafrica.bsky.social has run an extract from 'An Act of Murder' today. So, if you want a little taster, here you go! www.news24.com/life/books/e...
10.04.2025 10:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I know they appreciate it greatly.
20.03.2025 14:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some brief thoughts on book launches, and why I'd be delighted if you came to mine. tomeaton.substack.com/p/launching-...
20.03.2025 09:45 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Friends! 'An Act of Murder' is arriving soon, and I'd be delighted and honoured if you'd come to one of its launches, whether at the Book Lounge in Cape Town on 10 April or the Oude Leeskamer in Stellies on 16 April. (I'll also be in Joburg in May, but more of this anon.) All details below.
19.03.2025 08:59 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0All will be revealed very soon...
05.03.2025 12:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you, and yes, it will definitely be an ebook too. I'll post the details as soon as I know them.
05.03.2025 12:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hello world!
It’s only hitting the shelves on 1 April but I couldn’t wait any more because JUST LOOK AT IT!
Thanks again, Penguin Random House SA. I couldn't be more delighted.
ICYMI: Candide urged us to cultivate our own inner gardens, and for the last two years I’ve been trying to cultivate mine, largely via the writing of my first novel in almost two decades. tomeaton.substack.com/p/let-us-cul...
20.02.2025 16:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Not today, Satan. A new post, in which I wonder about the purpose of spiky writing, and announce some booky news. tomeaton.substack.com/p/let-us-cul...
19.02.2025 14:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not long now...
17.02.2025 16:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Page proofs done, with a pencil carefully covering a massive spoiler. Watch this space...
17.02.2025 11:13 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
ICYMI: How do we stay in touch with each other as as the big social media platforms go goose-stepping away into the darkening distance? tomeaton.substack.com/p/there-and-...
26.01.2025 17:50 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
25.01.2025 11:04 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
It's worth preparing to take a couple of steps back (or at least away) from the current setup. A website is a good start.
24.01.2025 13:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It's probably time to go. There are termites in the beams. There’s rising damp in the basement. The landlord is a billionaire who’s started waterboarding you with disinformation. You know. The usual.
A short piece in praise of an unexpected hero. (No, not him.) tomeaton.substack.com/p/there-and-...
Fun fact - the "roman salute" is a myth.
There is no mention anywhere in Roman literature or iconography of such actions.
We think otherwise because of films and 19th-century art ... oh yes and the Italian fascists and Nazis who pretended it was a thing.
One might even call it "Fake history".
This episode. Was it even an episode? A memory of a fever dream? What an artist. Thank you, David Lynch.
16.01.2025 19:23 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In case you missed my tale of pitiable tech woe yesterday, just a quick reminder that I am (back) on Substack after a self-inflicted absence. Looking forward to sharing some good things this year. tomeaton.substack.com
15.01.2025 10:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In which I return to Substack after far too long and make a rather startling discovery. (To everyone who subscribed to me back then: please read this, witness my shame, and then resubscribe...)
tomeaton.substack.com/p/coming-soon
I've not ventured onto Instagram before now, but next year is promising some exciting things, so here I go...
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