Rick Danforth - No Longer on X

I'm officially a finalist for the @BSFA award for short fiction! I have no idea how I managed to get this far in a very stacked category, but thank you for whoever voted for me! And thank you again to @hexagonmagazine. Now I need to celebrate with a large drink. Or five.

@mruthrobinson You're absolutely crushing it 🙌

#questpit #SF #A #T #W #MY DEATH ON THE NILE x TITANIC + cyberpunk aesthetics + the spirit of Lincoln Child & Crichton novels. The whole world watches the AI cruise ship Thalassic's maiden voyage from Neo Mumbai to the Maldives. Nothing can derail her itinerary. Not even murder.

@AllenJStroud It's going to be nice to have you in our neck of the woods. I'm excited for it :)

Doing a thing in late November. Really looking forward to it.

@Humber_SFF @CHUGGCOFFEE @northodoxpress I'm gutted I missed. So happy it was a great event for everyone though :)

📚🚀✨🐉Wow! What a great night. New faces, old friends @CHUGGCOFFEE great food! & @northodoxpress smashed the #publishing myths! #scifi #fantasy #horror #eastyorkshire Thank you to everyone who came along! It wouldn't happen without you!👏 Let's do it again 22 Nov!

@ryanpatrickauth Between work, kids and writing it straight out angers me how much you fit in 😂

Might be the best year I've had for reading since 2020 - thanks to COVID, I read *128* books. Probably not hitting that number this year but at least I'm ahead!

@DavidGreenWrite @BritFantasySoc Honestly I'd love to hear people talking about recent and upcoming releases. It's awesome we live in a great time for fantasy lir but I can never keep up with it!

@hexagonmagazine @pansybeast @mjj_writes @jex_ewizabee @shelleysghoul @sophiam_weaves @kit_calvert @ESichr That cover is beautiful.

I have a new story out today with @ManawakerStudio! A fun little flash inspired by automation in the cleaning industry and will people turn to human cleaners as the posh option.

@ryanpatrickauth That's actually fantastic

As requested by @Rick_and_Write - my favorite mug! When it heats up, it says "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot" 😃.

@Humber_SFF @northodoxpress @VHEY_UK @WhatsOnHull @BritFantasySoc @BSFA Genuinely gutted I'm away for this :(

📚🤖👻🏰We're back: Friday 25th October from 6.30pm- with none other than @northodoxpress !!!! Join us at Chuggs Coffee House, Railway Street, Beverley. buytickets.at/humberspeculat… @VHEY_UK @WhatsOnHull @BritFantasySoc @BSFA

@ryanpatrickauth Picture of the mug!

Spilled coffee all over myself (out of my prized Star Trek mug no less!) during a meeting...

@Rick_and_Write 😭😭 ...maybe?

Really itching to write that story about what happens to older women when society discards them and people stop noticing them (cannibalism? yes/yes).

The assistant editor is not being quite as helpful as he thinks he is by blocking me getting to the keyboard. But he's doing his best!

@ryanpatrickauth @AuthorFranWong But when else could conversations ever occur? 👀

@AuthorFranWong @Rick_and_Write would say I have too many 😆

Do the characters eat in your books? I've just realised, I starve my characters. They hardly ever eat, or meal times are implied but not seen.

@millymollymo @Joannechocolat @natasha_pulley @jasperfforde @Frances_Writes @VHEY_UK @BSFA @BritFantasySoc Hyped.

@Rick_and_Write @Joannechocolat @natasha_pulley @jasperfforde @Frances_Writes @VHEY_UK @BSFA @BritFantasySoc Their SFF genre day is Saturday 19th October

East Yorkshire's Festival of Words program has landed. Libraries doing what libraries do best! Guests include @joannechocolat @natasha_pulley @JasperFforde, Sarah Brooks & @Frances_Writes festivalofwords.co.uk/whats-on/detai… @VHEY_UK #fantasy #ScienceFiction @BSFA @BritFantasySoc @HumberSFF

This week in Danforth's shower thoughts that he turns into flash fiction, your mean grandma goes to sell her memories!

@northodoxpress I'm not sure I agree with the map. If it's below Sheffield it's practically France 😉

Day 3 of subs, and we feel it's time for a gentle reminder that we exclusively take on writers either born or living in the North of England at the time of submission. We've had several international and midland people so far, and we won't read them before them rejecting!

@DAndrewswrites You're still a menace!

Throwback to 13 years ago when this little thing wasn’t a total menace 😂