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I feel your pain. If we hadn't bought our house when we did, there'd be no way we could raise a deposit now. It's so frustrating to watch. Our government could do so many things to bring house prices down, but...crickets.

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Thanks! I'm a bit obsessed with these solar lights. We've got quite a few sets around our house and garden. The kids (and I) love how they automatically come on at sunset. Our youngest thinks they're magic 🤩

I don't know who was more excited about getting the LFL finished, my kids or me! They donated a bunch of books they don't read anymore and were absolutely stoked when other kids in the neighborhood borrowed them and donated more. I told our eldest that she's the LFL librarian 🤩.

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

By day, it seems to be an ordinary Little Free Library...but at night its true powers are revealed! I finally finished building our LFL! Yes, it's full of kids' books at present (which was not the original plan! 😂), but I'll be adding signed books and a horror section soon! 👻🖤

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If you want to be a successful writer, the most important tool in your box is perseverance. Successful writers aren't always the best writers, but they are the ones who turn up day after day, year after year 🖤.

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You know you're socially anxious when Fitbit recognises your having a conversation as a bout of HIIT 😂 Yes, I can make my active minutes just by having an unplanned phone call. Go, me!

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If AI was so good (and dangerous), it'd be profitable. It isn't. Not even close. I think we can safely plan for civilisation to continue past 2030 🖤

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Here's to all the writers, pacing their offices, repeatedly acting out the action they're trying to describe, in the hope they can summon the word for that action from the dark recesses of their brains. I see you, and yeah, I do this most days 🖤

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hey, you! Yes, you! Would you like a signed spooky book from me this Halloween 🎃? I'm doing a big mail-out at the end of this month. I have copies of REMAINS, THE COCKROACH KING, WHILE I WAS GONE, and BONES. $25 USD per book (postage from Aus 🦘 included). Drop me a DM/comment if you'd like one 🖤

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I haven't seen Labor do the right thing for months now. First there was the gas tax that wasn't, then the gambling reform that wasn't, and now we have the copyright protections that aren't. They could've done so much good this term, but instead they've bowed to lobbyists on every subject.

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's Monday here in Australia, and anything you manage to write today is a bonus. Mondays are tough. Coming off a busy weekend with the kids, maybe bad sleep Sunday night (both for me this week!), it can be hard to get your brain in gear. 50, 500 words - it's all progress, and progress makes books🖤

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I love those! 👻We were at Bunnings at the weekend, but I couldn't get to look at the spooky section as our seven-year-old found it a bit freaky. That said, our five-year-old was straight in there as she loves all things spooky 🤩.

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's spring here in Australia, the time of year when I squint really hard and try to pretend it's actually autumn so I can get into the Spooky Season spirit 🎃👻.

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I spent last week working on a super exciting project I can't talk about yet, with people I can't mention for now, for something...that could have to do with movies. You might feel that no one's reading your books, but you'd be surprised by how far your stories travel 🖤

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It's great to see politicians acknowledging the genocide in Gaza and calling out Netanyahu, but, seriously, how late to the party can you be? The arrest warrant for Netanyahu was issued in November 2024! The ICC had enough evidence 18 months ago, and now pollies are speaking up?

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Me: *sits down to write* "Okay, 500 words today and I'm back on track..." My brain: "That's what you think, buddy." Me: *writes fifteen-hundred-word outline for a new story* Also Me: "Come on, brain!" 🧠 To be fair to my brain, I like this new idea, but now really isn't the time! 🖤

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Watching the soccer here in Australia, and the Bet365 ads are all over the coverage (unskippable ads) 🤢🤮. Nobody wants this. SBS, stop taking the dirty money from betting companies. Here are some stats (first image ironically taken from an SBS News article)... #FuckBet365.

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

If Stock websites ever want to be taken seriously again, they need to distance themselves from AI. Put a REALLY BIG distance between themselves and the slop.

🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Seeing stock image websites offering AI image generation memberships is just totally bananas to me. So, we can buy credits to buy images that cost you nothing to make, were stolen from creators (that's what AI image generation is), and then use those slop images under a limited license? WTF? NO.

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Thanks so much, Steven! I hope everything's great with you!

🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Hey, everyone! It's my birthday today, and (I like to think I don't often ask) I'd love it if you bought, borrowed, talked about, reviewed, or photographed one of my books today. I've also dropped the price of WHILE I WAS GONE to $1.99 through June to celebrate 🎉👻 Thanks for all your support! 🖤

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The monsters have escaped! ENCOUNTERS with cryptids is out now! Get your copy here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4BLN1GR Featuring stories by @slimyswampghost.bsky.social @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social @notmargopecha.bsky.social, @rlmeza.bsky.social @cmlajewski.bsky.social @vilefable.bsky.social and more! 👻

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Sure, a bad project sucks, so do rejections (I hate that term), crappy reviews, and no one reading your work. But you know what sucks more? Giving up before you cracked that fucking awesome book you have in you. Turn the music up, scream, break something, then get back to work. You got this 🖤

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🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Thanks mate, I really appreciate that.

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... first prescribed the treatment. I'm not sure that the switch will cure it for me, but I'll post back with my progress in the future.

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Kev Harrison @kevharrison.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

It's been driving me crazy. I'm a real 'eight hours, or I'm useless' sleeper, and my restless legs have had me pacing the house at 3 am trying to get rid of the aching. I only found out about the side effect from researching online. It's absolutely something that should be raised when you're...

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Huge thanks to Nora for hosting me on The Butchered Writers substack! Awesome questions, and, hopefully, suitably interesting answers 👇🏼👇🏼

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The Devil Takes You Home has been nominated for a #kelvin505 award for best novel in translation in Spain! First international nomination. Bien merecido, enhorabuena y mil gracias al gran Mike Sanz y a La Biblioteca de Carfax por ser mi casa. ¡Y gracias al Festival Celsius 232 por el honor! 🖤

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Awesome! Congratulations, brother! 🖤

This was my favourite part of the article. "Yeah, he's been to space before. Oh, yeah, he paid for it, and it was just for a day, but, you know, that's pretty much the same as going to Mars, right?"

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I'll be taking it day by day for a while, as my withdrawal from one medication is hopefully replaced by some comfort from my new script. If reading this has felt familiar to you, to something you've lived or are living through. I hope it helps to know you're not alone. Thanks for reading 🖤

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You can be doing great in one and struggling in the other. I've always been honest on social media about my mental health because I firmly believe that the more we talk about these things, the more honest we are, the more we can fight the stigmas wrongly associated with mental health.

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