David Wake

Then delete your browser history, change your name and live off-grid, abroad.

I was going to buy a 'Make America Go Away' hat, but it was shipped from the US. That doesn't seem right. And aren't MAGA hats made in China?

YouTube video by Morgen Bailey Self-Pub Fest Monday Mini-Fest #1 - Moderators

The Self-Pub Fest has started some Monday night panels. First up were those who moderated earlier panels. Here we are talking about our #books and #writing and #nanowrimo. #booksky #skybrarian
youtu.be/dZj6CyAgRFQ

YouTube video by Morgen Bailey Self-Pub Fest #1 Jan 25th 2026 - 5pm Science-fiction, Fantasy and Horror Panel

Another Self-Pub-Fest panel, this one about Science-fiction, Fantasy and Horror. Appropriately, I’m in a room resembling the quarters on Star Trek TOS’s Enterprise, :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rax5...
#sf #fantasy #horror #selfpublishing #booksky #skybrarian

YouTube video by Morgen Bailey Self-Pub Fest #1 Jan 25th 2026 - 1pm Ideas Panel

I was part of the Self-Pub Fest recently and moderated the panel on ideas. Here’s the YouTube video. (I’ve not plucked up the courage to watch it yet.) #books #booksky #skylibrarian #writing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU7L...

I use all the letters, just not necessarily in alphabetical order.

#Reading Challenge for 2026: That’s it, all done and here’s the summary. I’m not going to go through the numbers and Greek letters. I’m surprised there are so few cheats in these letters and #books.
#booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: Z is for Zombies, a pandemic of #zombies appear in the #romzomcom #book Dawn and Dave of the Dead.
#booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: Y is for Year, the Derring-Do Club and the Year of the Chrononauts is the second #book in the series.
#booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: X is for X-word, as a crossword will feature as a clue in the upcoming #cosymystery or #cozymystery, The Murder Clubs of Conky Whallop.
#booksky #skybrarian

I'm desperately writing the X-rayed Xylophone Man.

#Reading Challenge for 2026: W is for Way, The Raven’s Way will be the final #book of the Daughters of Égraine #trilogy.
#booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: V is for Venice, which #Birmingham has more canals than in my #shortstory in New Street Stories, the New Street Authors #anthology.
#booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: U is for Unicorn, because one appears in A Dragon in the Title, the recently published first #book in the Dragon Sword Trilogy.
#booksky #skybrarian

A new series, Prisoner, set in Wales. Be seeing it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#Reading Challenge for 2026: T is for Trilogy, The Return of the Trilogy will be the final #book in the Dragon Sword #Trilogy.
#booksky #skybrarian

Soon.

#Reading Challenge for 2026: S is for the Sword and the Sequel, #book 2 in the Dragon Sword Trilogy.
#booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: R is for Roninko, a revenge #thriller set in #samurai Japan.
#booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: Q is for Quest, which the Deering-Dolittle sisters will be going on in The River of Death. It’s the next #book in the series and I’m just over 70,000 words through the first draft.
#booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: P is for Plus Sign, the third #book in the Thinkersphere #SF #policeprocedural series.
#booksky #skybrarian

#Reading Challenge for 2026: O is for Other, the Other #Christmas Carol, which is a #novella.
#booksky #skybrarian

Written ≠ Published, true, but Written > Procrastinating.

Mark, the whole trilogy is a) written and b) takes the... er... mentions the lack of finishing trilogies.

Surprisingly, I'm over halfway through and there are only two cheats like that. (Did you spot the other?) Others stretch the letter to word link, but I'm hardly going to write a novel just because 'X' and 'Z' (and others) are tricky.

@markslater.bsky.social – thank you. And I suspect Smuzz is against social media.

#Reading Challenge for 2026: N is for Non-Fiction, Punk Publishing, co-written with Andy Conway, is a guide to #indiepublishing, explaining why and how you should #selfpublish.
#booksky #skybrarian

Er... that's worth a mull.

It's on its way. :–)