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Discobedience!
Discobedience!
COVID-1984
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Signing sheets for Dark Harvest
Dark Harvest
Signed a bunch of book plates for the limited edition hardback of my short story collection Dark Harvest
Speculative fiction short stories
Dark Harvest
My short story collection, Dark Harvest, is available to preorder from Newcon Press! Hear me discuss the book and a bunch of other stuff on The Coode Street Podcast.
Training for the parrot Olympics!
Parrotpalooza!
… continues at Chez Cat & Rob. Not a lot of writing going on during lockdown, but you can never have too many parrot photos — right?