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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Thanks again for saying hello. It means a lot to hear from people who appreciate the subtext. I hope you enjoy the novels; I keep meaning to write a third Leepus, but life has been, well, complicated these last years...

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Thanks, Lucas; I take your point re Vineland. Fond of Outlaw Nation myself, still disgruntled it got prematurely truncated... 😉

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nice walk in a wood. Couple of amanitas, muscaria and rubescens...? And, I think, a brittlegill. #fungi

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hello, here is your occasional reminder that a whole load of my essays, reviews, short stories and other things can be found HERE, on my web-site, thank you for your attention to this matter. richarddsmyth.com

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Writer for hire. Reviews, essays, features.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

As it happens, the 2020s turned out even worse than envisioned back in 1990-whatever... 😉

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Okay, a new Slow Horses series out, and a CT scan report that says "No immediate cause for concern." A couple of tentative footholds in the quaking global morass of misery... 😉

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A small flurry of orders recently suggests that some kind soul might have given my self-published work a mention. Thanks. It's not been the best of years, so it's nice to be reminded that, even if currently shirking, I am still a slave of the Word. lepusbooks.co.uk

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Five scant minutes of rain this morning, after weeks of continuous sun. Barely settled the fucking dust.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Witting or unwittingly we all feed the mad churn... I muse, with Moore's I Hear a New World on one hand and M John Harrison's The End of Everything on the other. 😉

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I'm pleased if I made any contribution to the genesis of your insights into the County. All my best.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Topping up a pond in a heatwave hosepipe ban to keep your fish alive is an illegal and immoral waste of water... meanwhile, data centres...

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Yes, I bought the paperbacks, but the tissue paper and bible font made it unreadable with my old eyes, so I had to buy the audiobook too.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I wished he'd read the audio for Jerusalem. It needed the Northampton accent.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Burroughs' performances have a similar effect.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

No, perfomed by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobna_H... who does it very well.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Listening to the audio edition of Moore's "I Hear a New World" in garden shade, but a combination of oppressive heat and plump velvet cushions of prose are proving irresistibly soporific.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Beginning to feel we're in one of those wildlife documentaries where forlorn animals cluster despondent around a shrinking water hole...

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Okay... that's enough now. Fuck dignity, I'm putting on some shorts.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

An "adults only" camp site is not what you may suspect... merely an absence of children, replaced by ghastly pampered dogs. Personally, I think I'd rather have the children.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

When first you arrive at your rural UK campsite, the sound of a song thrush calling atop an adjacent tree is delightful; after three days of trilling - non-stop from 03:30 to 21:30 - frankly you could do without it. #birds

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I guess that having your GP practice phone hold music playing as an earworm in your head for 24 hours is a sign you've lately not been well...

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Looks as if the local common lizard colony has survived another winter...

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

As someone just a year behind him, I commiserate...

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Voted. Took small pleasure in ignoring the smug, creepily friendly Reform chump running an exit poll.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Thanks, John. Another year less of having to put up with a world of shit... 😉

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Someone offered me the opportunity and I always found it hard to say no. It was a prose story, a form I was more comfortable with back then. It was a challenge I thought might be fun.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

That was a long time ago... Do I correctly recall an Alaskan setting?

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Weird spring day. Surprisingly warm. Sat in garden lulled by drone of bees. Retired indoors; ate a pleasant meal. Spent the next several hours watching two houses in the terrace opposite reduced by fire to ruins. Thought about instant homelessness. Thought about missiles howling down from the sky

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

All my fucking nightmares come real in the end. It's depressing.

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Jamie Delano @jamiedelano.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Just finished listening to audiobook of Patti Smith's memoir Bread of Angels. She reads it herself. Poetic and soporific. Can recommend if you like that sort of thing...

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Duncan Batey @duncanbatey.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Enjoying Leepus: Dizzy by @jamiedelano.bsky.social of Hellblazer fame. In the ever-present tense of 'Inglund', and the dystopian aftermath of The Reduction, our hero fields unexpected challenges from nearly all remaining powers that be - to his friends, his home, possibly to his own identity...