J.S. Watts

A flat landscape of fields broken by hedgerows of bushes and trees. On the horizon, higher land is darkly visible. the ski is cloudy with patches of pale blue

A view from yesterday when there was some blue amongst the grey.

Better title or better casserole?

I ❤️ Emma Thompson.

A photograph of the hardback edition of Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust, Volume three - The Rose Field. In shades of pink, yellow and orange, the cover image depicts two riders on camels crossing an empty desert plain edged by a rocky escarpment. Text is in white or yellow. On the D of Dust is a pine marten looking up. On the second O of Book a ginger cat looks down towards the pine marten.

This weekend's purchase. No spoilers until I've read it, please. #BookSky

the re-set button on my cat didn't work either :-(

Will somebody please tell my brain that it's an hour earlier than it thinks it is...

Photograph taken at dusk. At the front a low, pale brick wall runs diagonally left to right. From it a wooden fences veers diagonally right to left culminating in a pale blue-grey metal barn. Above, electricity cables run diagonally left right across a pale blue sky. On the left hand side of the photo a dark metal barn wall runs steeply diagonal towards green trees.

Yesterday's angled dusk on phone camera.

‘It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read Bloodthirsty ghosts, sadistic supercomputers, creepy childhood games ... Mariana Enríquez, Paul Tremblay, Daisy Johnson and others on the tales that kept them up at night

‘It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read

As we are all on a social media site, its seems apposite to re-post this.

Want to know J.S. Watts' Top 3 Books of 2025? J.S.'s top 3 reads of 2025 include Is a River Alive? and two other amazing books. Discover what makes these books unmissable!

So yes, I know it's still only October, but, as is the way of things, here are my top 3 reads of 2025 (or, at least, January - October 2025). shepherd.com/bboy/2025/f/... #BookSky

A wee piece of advice to book marketing scammers: when writing to me, do make sure the book in question is one of my books, and, if it is, do try to get the title right...

Red brick, end of building wall visible over a paler, yellow brick wall. The chimney is sharply delineated red brick. Either side are scalloped red bricks. Two diamond patterned windows are either side of the chimney and there is a plaque in the middle of the chimney, making (possibly) two eyes and a nose. Black leading, visible above the lower wall, makes a potential mouth.

Pic 37 in my brick wall series. Ornate South Cambridgeshire brickwork (or it may be a face) #brickinthewall

'It turns out the most important part of creativity is not the having done, but the doing. That’s the human part.'

Excellent news. Good luck!

‘Next great leap’: grassroots movement to wild East Anglia goes national Set up by three ‘eco-anxious’ farmers, WildEast has created UK-wide version of pledge to encourage people to restore nature

‘Next great leap’: grassroots movement to wild East Anglia goes national

Still an issue for many - be aware.

A road runs straightforward towards a pale building. At the edges of the road and down its centre are fallen yellow leaves. The road is lined with low green hedges and yellow-green trees, their black branches beginning to show through the thinning foliage

Autumnal Cambridge view from yesterday afternoon.

David Harewood returns to Othello: ‘I don’t just want to open the door but kick it down for the people behind me’ He first played Othello in 1997, when the role was still synonymous with white thespians ‘blacking up’. Now, nearly three decades on, he, Chiwetel Ejiofor and other Black actors discuss how best to tackle Shakespeare’s formidable tragedy

David Harewood returns to Othello: ‘I don’t just want to open the door but kick it down for the people behind me’

I've just, belatedly, come across PinkSky. Can anyone explain its purpose to me? Is it an automatic Instagram equivalent of Blusky? And why?

Scams! Photo by NIC LAW on Pexels.com It sometimes feels like the social media world is a shark pool. A while ago I joined Bluesky – a nice, welcoming, we’re-all-friends-here-not-like-in-the-o…

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It sometimes feels like the social media world is a shark pool. I joined Bluesky – a nice, friendly place - and followed some bookish people - nice, friendly people.

But then I had a DM.

I wrote an article about it…
#writerscommunity

Not my photo, but a worthy addition to my growing collection of brick wall photographs #brickinthewall

This is another of my starter packs. It's growth has been rather slowed by the fact that many of the publishers and magazines who have published me don't appear to be on BlueSky :🙁#BookSky go.bsky.app/FbCTiqm

I'm a fan

This has been growing slowly but surely. You might want to check it out. go.bsky.app/G75Kbmc

A sequel to the garlic-focused article I shared a while back. #booksky

I know I'n not the only writer they are targeting, but really book marketeers, three or four emails a day is three or four emails too much. I'm ignoring you for a reason.

Happy World Bookshop day! #bookSky #writingandbooks

Eeeew to garlic-mayo scented books, but an entertaining, non-aromatic, article.

A one minute, flash-fiction read for the Halloween month.

I was hoping to announce a new piece of flash fiction by yours truly today, but it doesn't seem to have gone live yet. The complications of different timezones. Feel free to check back tomorrow to see if my writing has crossed the dateline...