Mark Brandon

Writer, lifter, DM, occasionally political, LGBT. #SFF #fantasy #steampunk #DnD

[Mark Brandon @authorbear2]

The Colossus of The Thames & Other Tales: 12 steampunk storie... https://t.co/ErJbGUP3HU #Amazon

[Leicester Writers' Club @leicwritersclub]

Congratulations to member @ErinGreenAuthor on publication for "Retreat to the Lakeside"!

[Mark Brandon @authorbear2]

@CW_Stagg Well done Chris! 👏

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

How does he turn these around so quickly? �

[Mark Brandon @authorbear2]

I entirely identify with this kind of thought pattern!

[Helen Cooper Writer @HelenCooper85]

My Darling Boy is 99p on Kindle!

Best friends Alice & Chrissy are torn apart when one of their sons kills the other’s. When the killer is released from jail & then disappears, suspicion falls on Alice, the victim’s mother. But what will it cost Chrissy to find out the truth?

[Mark Brandon @authorbear2]

Great review of ‘Tales of the Gothic’, in which my story ‘Her Last Text’ resides…

Thanks @Ed_Hartland glad you enjoyed the collection!

@RedCapePublish

[The Independent Horror Society @IndieHorrorSoc]

'Ten gothic short stories which feel like they should be best savoured sat by an open fire in a draughty cottage in some remote part of the British Isles, and a whisky close to hand.'
-@Ed_Hartland reviews Tales of the Gothic - curated by @CW_Stagg

https://t.co/7MPsaumcWI

[Mark Brandon @authorbear2]

@BeardofDarkness @JLWORRAD @RoboftheHayes @dedbutdrmng @queenofgrimdark I loved ‘The Keep Within’.

It is superbly written, goes like a train and is thoroughly engrossing.

[Mark Brandon @authorbear2]

Love this

[Mark Brandon @authorbear2]

@RodDuncan @leicwritersclub It’s great!!

[Mark Brandon @authorbear2]

I hate this stuff about childless politicians being unfit to serve.

Doing the right thing isn’t about doing stuff for your own kids.

It’s about doing stuff for other people’s kids. All other kids.

[Rod @RodDuncan]

The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter was published 10 years ago. So much has happened in my life since then that it feels like far longer ago. Thanks to @Marc_Gascoigne and @literarywhore for helping to usher it into the world. @angryrobotbooks

[Mark Brandon @authorbear2]

So this arrived, the D20 rules for Call of Cthulhu.

Dark, deadly and horrific. The polar opposite of D&D 5e.

And I love it. 😻

[Mark Brandon @authorbear2]

@garethlpowell Let’s hope it’s not another ‘Covenant’. Or ‘Prometheus’.

[Mark Brandon @authorbear2]

(I should point out that I have more or less converted Mum to reading @guardian (“so interesting!) from having been a Daily Mail reader for years.

She stopped the Mail after a particularly poisonous Peter Hitchens rant.)

[Mark Brandon @authorbear2]

Quote of the day:

Mum: “I never noticed before how rabidly Conservative the Telegraph is!”

[Mum just returned from secret Mars mission…]

[Roaring Spring Productions LLC @RoaringSpringPR]

Introducing Roaring Spring Productions, LLC. Our first imprint, @stars_andsabers, is now live. Follow our team @jendiagammon and @garethlpowell. Visit Stars and Sabers Publishing at https://t.co/3Q59V7x5bd

[Mark Brandon @authorbear2]

Hard agree with this. Give me solo mode every time.

(and isometric bc FPS etc make me travel sick! 🤪🤣)

[Mark Brandon @authorbear2]

@timmckay52 Check out E F Benson (‘Mapp and Lucia’ Et al).

He head-hops continuously and masterfully, sometimes between three characters.

Honestly I never noticed it until I knew what head-hopping was.

(And the novels are wonderful.)

[Mark Brandon @authorbear2]

Last night’s @leicwritersclub meet set me thinking about the POV of exposition.

I’d *never* considered it before.

Writing is an obstacle course, but oh, the learning!

#writingcommunity #authorjourney

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Akira Kurosawa's advice to young writers.