Alan Trotter @alantrotter@mastodon.social
- oh what a website
- http://greaterthanorequalto.net
I wrote a novel called Muscle. It will be out in 2019 from Faber.
Joined Aug 2018
I am reading old science fiction comics (for research but also fun) and found this, from 1950, which ruthlessly plagiarises Roald Dahl's story The Sound Machine from the year before.
"The one secret chord GUARANTEED to please the Lord that Davids don't want you to know!"
they knew how to world-build in the early 50s
My colleagues dressed Sylvie up all French? Pictured here without the beret, but she did have one https://mastodon.social/media/_ldY8JLBqvAKSf1YgWk
My pride at getting into the top 75 of this game a little diminished by beating out someone called ‘Im2poopy’ https://mastodon.social/media/eoyYo-E-Px5MS3SKHC0
I’m ready to move into a house I own so please transfer me two hundred thousand pounds thank you
My book has a cover, designed by gray318. I’m proud as all punch. https://mastodon.social/media/fBKNKIbh-TsDtpoDC4U
Cheap electronics packaging continues to be good https://mastodon.social/media/5tYfwu56Zy9wzC5te90
I say this from the perspective of working in publishing (and it can therefore be readily dismissed as tedious work moaning) and not from being published (which has so far been nothing but a great experience)
I think maybe I hate everything about publishing apart from books
this is going to sound like a string of words that bounced drunkenly into my head as I fell into a coma, but Ace from the Powerpuff Girls has joined Gorillaz?
Unexpectedly good packaging https://mastodon.social/media/Q7PCx3zRyp-sRk5HL20
Maybe this isn’t the place for stupid jokes but sometimes you think of a stupid joke and you need a way to slough it off
Alan Trotter
boosted
The BBC's short story prize is judged blind (meaning no names or any other information are attached to the manuscript).
For the fifth time, all the finalists are women.
[Mafioso:] I’m telling you boys, something ain’t right. Any way we turn, the cops are two steps ahead of us. Someone ain’t what they seem. So who is it? Who’s a good boy? WHO’S A GOOD BOY??
[Undercover Officer Rusty:] *tail wagging uncontrollably*
bits of story
I'm still adding things to my website which means re-exploring an old story with enforced extreme care.
We've been watching Brooklyn 99 and seeing two prominent black characters talk who aren't criminals really makes you realise how depressingly unusual that is on screen
- oh what a website
- http://greaterthanorequalto.net
I wrote a novel called Muscle. It will be out in 2019 from Faber.
Joined Aug 2018
