This blog has been vacant a while but 2023 has been one of my most productive. I began the year finishing my commentaries on Occupied, the comedic protest novel set in Belfast.
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In January, a poll went out on what readers wanted to see. They chose activist art, like the 5-track poetry EP…
Fun with MS Paint…
And a film about my life as an activist.
From a visual standpoint it makes the grade.
The poll set me to making Coastlines: After Dark, a series of short stories based on everything from Baywatch Nights to Garth Mahrengi’s Darkplace. The book is 2/3 done. Look out for the published collection in Autumn 2024, with a big-name introduction!
In April I began Half Baked Alaska. It’s the tale of a deepsea fishermen getting closer to an unusually large sea monster, which is in turn getting closer to them.
Oh, Discworld, Discworld! 2023 began with a look at ‘Sourcery’, and ended with ‘Witches Abroad’. Scriptwriter PJ Hart has read a lot of Discworld and I haven’t read much. We manage a near-monthly podcast (and videocast) talking about the books.
January of this year was extra special. You see, PJ and I have been in contact over 20 years but had never met. So you can see that meeting and an interview with Pratchett biographer Marc Burrows over here.
One of my goals for 2024 is to re-launch on YouTube with 200 seconds reviews on Always Sunny in Philadelphia. There are twenty episodes behind the Patreon paywall, a public debut on March 17th, St. Patrick’s Day.
Please subscribe to my YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/andrewluke. Please. I’m so lonely.
In April I’ll be posting reviews of the new Doctor Who.
And now, I’m off to work on Another Time, a YA novel by Holly Miles about life in an anti-choice Ireland. That’s scheduled for a January 2025 release. I hope we’ll talk before then.
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Andy
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