Leo McBride

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I'm Leo McBride and Altered Instinct is my #fantasy #scifi and #horror blog. Irishman in The Bahamas. Journalist by day. Geek all the time.

Over on the blog, I review issue one of Thunder Child, by Matthew Hardy and his happy crew of Martian enthusiasts.

Full review here: http://www.alteredinstinct.com/2023/08/review-thunder-child-book-one-plus.html

REVIEW: Thunder Child book one - plus Kickstarter details for book two

Thunder Child book one by Matt Hardy (writer), Rob Jones (writer/letters/design), Kevin Castaniero (artist), Simon Gough (colourist) and Fre...

Beach day yesterday. #Bahamas

I'm looking for TV show recommendations - but... slightly specific.

I like sci-fi, fantasy, horror... but what I'm after is a show that can be on in the background without needing to watch tooooo closely for flashy effects and such. More SG-1 than Expanse, say.

Ideas?

Generation gap in full effect in the newsroom today - the younger staff having no idea who Paul Reubens is, the older staff having no idea who Angus Cloud is. RIP, both.

Okay, here's my overdue #introduction post...

I'm a #JavaScript developer by day and a #fiction writer/editor by night (mostly #SF, #dreampunk in particular). I have a master's in #linguistics and taught in #Japan for a while. I love #art, #cooking, etc.

I'd like to connect with the #writingCommunity here, particularly since I seem to be making a habit of compiling #shortFiction anthologies. The first was #MIRRORMAZE, and a follow-up called #SOMNISCOPE is on the way.

https://cliffjonesjr.com/mirrormaze

Cliff Jones Jr.

The online home of Cliff Jones Jr.

I love my Kindle.

Sadly, so do my kids so my view of it is often as it disappears off into the distance as they skip away to use it to play Minecraft rather than in my hands reading the new @mariahaskins book I want to read.

They're getting early bedtime tonight, I tell ya...

A columnist for tomorrow's edition wrote about the need for sexuality education, so now I'm boppiing around the office singing Billy Bragg's Sexuality in my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xsv9iZPYwE
Billy Bragg – Sexuality (Official Video)

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New #WriterBeware blog post: Multiple reports from writers about months-long contract, payment, and communication delays at the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction #WritingCommunity #amwriting https://writerbeware.blog/2023/07/25/contract-payment-delays-at-the-magazine-of-fantasy-and-science-fiction/
Contract, Payment Delays at the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - Writer Beware

With its first issue published in 1949, and publishing continuously since then, the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&SF for short) is one of the oldest and most prestigious short fiction markets in the field of speculative fiction. For authors at every stage of their careers, a story, poem, or novella in F&SF isRead More

Writer Beware
Some days are fun. Some days are paperwork. So it goes.

Disney is releasing a discless steelbook of Wandavision.

Discless.

And I'm over here like Brad Pitt in Seven shouting "What's in the box?!?!"