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Paul Carnahan

@pacarnahan.bsky.social

Writer. Grump. Pet-wrangler. MDANT. New novel 'End of a Century' out now. 'How Soon Is Now?' also available on Amazon and from Audible.

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Travel in time. Fall in love ... or both.
'How Soon Is Now?' and 'End of a Century', out now in print and on Kindle.
'Carnahan has such a gift for writing characters that feel alive and utterly real...' ✭✭✭✭✭

#BookSky

www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Paul-...

07.10.2025 14:34 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Alert: The Stroopwafel Bar is back! Limited batch, first come, first served… if I can manage not to eat them all first 😅

07.10.2025 18:08 — 👍 88    🔁 9    💬 4    📌 1
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a woman in a dark room with the words i say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit Alt: a woman in a dark room with the words i say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit
07.10.2025 19:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Travel in time. Fall in love ... or both.
'How Soon Is Now?' and 'End of a Century', out now in print and on Kindle.
'Carnahan has such a gift for writing characters that feel alive and utterly real...' ✭✭✭✭✭

#BookSky

www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Paul-...

07.10.2025 14:34 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
A sweet-faced black and tan coloured dog looks into the lens over the arm of a chair.

A sweet-faced black and tan coloured dog looks into the lens over the arm of a chair.

Miss Evie from Ukraine. Was there ever a sweeter face?

07.10.2025 14:25 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

07.10.2025 04:03 — 👍 22984    🔁 5581    💬 572    📌 202
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It's amazing what you can do on a ZX81 these days.

07.10.2025 07:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Released on this day in 1979: Transmission, the debut single by #JoyDivision
youtube.com/playlist?list=…

07.10.2025 04:56 — 👍 87    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

That's the way our recently-departed 18-year-old cat, Eli, used to do it. Sprawled out, halfway out of bed, or with one end in bed and the other up a wall.

06.10.2025 21:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A curled up, sleeping cat.

A curled up, sleeping cat.

Sleepy Rosie.

06.10.2025 19:03 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I could’ve done it for them for a very reasonable rate.

06.10.2025 18:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

‘Hello. We’re the Tories and we’d like to be in charge of the whole UK, please.’
‘I see. And do you have any examples of your work?’

06.10.2025 17:54 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Exactly. They're too focused on hating things to stop and understand how anything works.

06.10.2025 15:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A work of art

06.10.2025 12:16 — 👍 769    🔁 236    💬 41    📌 46

This is exactly what would happen with a Reform government.
Huge promises made by numbskulls with no idea how the real world actually works, followed by the inevitable massive cuts and reductions in public services.
And that's not even getting into, y'know, the fascism and all that.

06.10.2025 08:46 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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We had a fight, then got eaten by a shark.

06.10.2025 06:47 — 👍 28    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Lmfao they're slowly backing away from a guy in a frog suit like he's an SCP

05.10.2025 23:46 — 👍 863    🔁 155    💬 36    📌 8
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two pink stuffed animals are standing next to each other with their mouths wide open . Alt: two pink muppets with yellow lips and big eyes are standing next to each other with their mouths wide open singing with a weirdo bearded muppet in glasses

If you are a weirdo muppet dude and you like to interrupt pink creatures minding their own business singing thats called Manamanasplaining

06.10.2025 04:25 — 👍 202    🔁 39    💬 4    📌 2

Jealous! I've been all over the place (central Scotland) and can't find them anywhere.

05.10.2025 21:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Promo image for the novel How Soon Is Now? by Paul Carnahan, featuring quotes from a host of five-star reviews. 'Wow!'. 'Exceptional'. 'Insanely good.' etc etc

Promo image for the novel How Soon Is Now? by Paul Carnahan, featuring quotes from a host of five-star reviews. 'Wow!'. 'Exceptional'. 'Insanely good.' etc etc

If you've read and enjoyed 'How Soon Is Now?', a rating and a few words of review on your book rating/purchasing platform of choice would be hugely appreciated.
If you've yet to read it, today's the day. Or was yesterday the day? It gets complicated...

#BookSky

www.amazon.co.uk/How-Soon-Now...

02.10.2025 11:24 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

I'm not sure I'd call a place where pensioners are arrested for opposing genocide 'madly liberal', but perhaps Matthew has stronger views on these things than I do.

05.10.2025 18:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(too late)

05.10.2025 18:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

When musicians don’t know how to end a song, they just fade out. I think other writers should do that too. Sketch comedy, screenwriting, playwrights. Have everyone talk softer and softer as they slowly sneak off stage.
Novelists can end chapters with gradually shrinking type.

05.10.2025 15:25 — 👍 2473    🔁 235    💬 163    📌 26

Just a splash. For now.

05.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Discovered today from an old school pal that the Begbie of our old high school has given up violence in favour of conspiracy theories and, after starting with Covid denial, is now well on his way to becoming a flat-earther.

05.10.2025 15:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Promo image for the novel 'All Men Have Secrets' by Paul Carnahan, coming in 2026...

Promo image for the novel 'All Men Have Secrets' by Paul Carnahan, coming in 2026...

Staying on track with my October resolution to write 2,000 words every day of my work in progress, a continuation of elements of 'How Soon Is Now?'. A new character demanded to be created and added to proceedings, and he's brightening and complicating things very nicely indeed...
#AmWriting #BookSky

05.10.2025 14:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Fun new author game! What does your book smell like?

Like liquorice, fallen leaves, floor polish and a cheese toastie on the verge of burning.

www.amazon.co.uk/How-Soon-Now...

05.10.2025 08:32 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh, and ‘Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste’!

04.10.2025 21:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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