Mark Baker 🇪🇺 (@[email protected])

Latest writing status update for "Ghost Ship" and beyond. markbakeruk.net/2025/06/17/wri…

Latest writing status update. "Ghost Ship" is slowly getting closer to complete first draft status, further plotting for the "Wandelaar van de Duisternis" series, and ongoing research. markbakeruk.net/2025/05/20/wri…

The big New Year's Day cooking blitz has begun, preparing the Venison Wellington

It's that oliebollen time of year again

A new blog post on my current writing status - markbakeruk.net/2024/12/18/wri…

In Amsterdam for the day, waiting for my appointment at the lung clinic. Then a day in the city before the Amsterdam writers group this evening.

Remember that Friday is the last day to order books as Christmas gifts, if you want time to read them before wrapping them

I do find it frustrating that in 2024 so few trains have mains power for laptops or even phone charging sockets

de definitieve bevestiging dat ik Nederlander ben, en weer EU-burger

Latest addition to the menagerie, a very Dutch grey wolf keeshond called Cooper.

I'm trying dutch Bakbloedwurst for the first time in a late breakfast butty with egg and cheese... it's more spicy than I'd have expected, which isn't really necessary in a blood sausage, but quite tasty

@wim_vds Er wordt al een uitje naar Volendam gepland voor de "officiele" foto's.

@Mark_Baker Waar zijn je klompen dan? 😅

Het is officieel. Ik ben een kaaskop. 🇳🇱🎉

ik heb de afspraak voor mijn naturalisatieceremonie bij de gemeente: vrijdag 22 november om 9.30 uur ik word nederlander

And in other news: ten days without a cigarette is making my head implode.

I think my body clock is almost back to normal after returning from holiday in Vietnam. Slowly picking up again on my writing after that three week hiatus: "Ghost Ship" is at 70k words, and the novella-length "Spirits of the Hunnebed" is at 12k words.

@giveupalready @mark Copy/pasted from my profile page, so it should be correct

@Mark_Baker @mark Can't find you, sure you got the handle right?

So I've also set up an account on Bluesky social - @mark-baker.bsky.social - and will be gradually winding down my use of TwitterX.

Hopefully when I return, I'll have a letter from the gemeente waiting about my naturalisation, and I'll have enough hand-written notes to complete my short Novella "Spirits of the Hunnebed"

Tomorrow I go dark for three weeks. Three weeks vacation, without a laptop to write, without limited wifi and phone connectivity... no writing for three whole weeks, except the traditional pen and paper approach for making notes ready for when I return. 😱