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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"Age is a ruthless caricaturist . . . with the years, we all become parodies of ourselves." — Ray Russell, THE CASE AGAINST SATAN (1962)

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Currently reading (the racism is sickening but the characters are amazing):

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

In 1997, my niece, Jo, was given the anti-malarial drug Lariam. The severe neuropsychiatric side effects have stolen what should have been the best years of her life. Read more here: www.tumblr.com/markhodderau...

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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · This photo of Jo, my niece, was taken when she was 21. I remember her as a charismatic young woman, the kind who would blaze her own trail and make a unique mark on the world. Exce…

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Remember all those old horror novels and movies where terrible things happen in a place because it’s built on an Indian burial site? Well … just a reminder … America is built on an Indian burial site.

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I just read THE SEVEN DIALS MYSTERY by Agatha Christie (1929). Like a cross between P. G. Wodehouse and John Buchanan, this is good humoured, but far from Christie's best. www.tumblr.com/markhodderau... #bookreviews #bookworm #booklover #bookbloggers #booksky 📚💙

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

WRITING UPDATE: The final final FINAL version of THE METATEMPORAL DETECTIVE book 1: THE ALBINO'S SECRET by Michael Moorcock and Mark Hodder has been delivered. Publication date: 14 Oct 2025. JOB DONE! #Authors, #Writing, #WritingCommunity, #WriteLife, #WriterLife, #WriteSky, #WriterSky

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I just read EVEN IN THE BEST FAMILIES by Rex Stout (1950). The 17th in the wonderful Nero Wolfe series ... and the best so far! www.tumblr.com/markhodderau... #bookreviews #bookworm #booklover #bookbloggers #booksky 📚💙

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Emma Jameson @msemmajameson.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

If you haven't read the Burton & Swinburne books, what are you waiting for? Book 1 contains the most GENIUS version of Spring-Heeled Jack ever!

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I just read A SOUR APPLE TREE by John Blackburn (1958). A wartime traitor has become a telepathic menace! Wonderful stuff! www.tumblr.com/markhodderau... #bookreviews #bookworm #booklover #bookbloggers #booksky 📚💙

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I just read for the #MyNovelLife challenge: THE BLACK DAHLIA (L.A. Quartet 1) by James Ellroy (from 1987, when I was 25). Based on a real unsolved murder case, this novel is as brutal as they come. www.tumblr.com/markhodderau... #bookreviews #bookworm #booklover #bookbloggers #booksky 📚💙

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

WRITING UPDATE: I have been sick these past 3 weeks, so no work done, but I'm feeling a little better now and am attending to the copyedit of THE ALBINO'S SECRET. The final pass-through before it goes to print! #Authors, #Writing, #WritingCommunity, #WriteLife, #WriterLife, #WriteSky, #WriterSky

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Canada, UK and the EU should offer a huge infrastructure and investments package to Greenland. Mining but with ecological care. A guarantee of independence. A massive trade deal. Sideline Agent Krasnov's AmeriKKKa. Show him the art of the deal (hint: it doesn't include thinly veiled threats).

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I want to see a new alliance of true (at least -ish) democracies. I want to see "naval manoeuvers" by Canada and EU countries around Greenland. I want to see new economic channels opening between Canada, the EU, South America, and Australia. I want to see the USA sidelined as hostile and toxic.

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I just read DRAY PRESCOT 1: TRANSIT TO SCORPIO by Alan Burt Akers (Kenneth Bulmer) (1972). Standard "sword & planet" fare but good fun if you are in the mood for this sort of thing. www.tumblr.com/markhodderau... #bookreviews #bookworm #booklover #bookbloggers #booksky 📚💙

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I just read THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE WORLD 3: WARDENCLYFFE by F. Paul Wilson (2018). Nikolas Tesla's experiments allow Lovecraftian monstrosities to break into the world! www.tumblr.com/markhodderau... #bookreviews #bookworm #booklover #bookbloggers #booksky 📚💙

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Of all my novels, only one has not been published. A DARK AND SUBTLE LIGHT was commissioned & purchased by Rebellion Publishing. They "changed their plans" & decided not to release it. They refuse to give (or sell) it back to me. Thus, it is suppressed. Coincidentally(?), it's about fighting Nazis.

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

BOOK REVIEW: I just read SPACE 1999: BREAKAWAY by E. C. Tubb (1975). www.tumblr.com/markhodderau... #bookreviews #bookworm #booklover #bookbloggers #booksky 📚💙

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The plot is transparent. Ukraine is damaging Russia’s power supply infrastructure, on which the Russian economy depends. So, Putin agrees to 30-day ceasefire re. attacks on energy infrastructure. Ukraine, in refusing the proposal (which offers little), will be made to look uncooperative.

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

BOOK REVIEW: I just read POMPEII by Robert Harris (2003). I really enjoy novels set during the height of the Roman Empire, so had high hopes for this one. Unfortunately, it didn't quite deliver. www.tumblr.com/markhodderau... #bookreviews #bookworm #booklover #bookbloggers #booksky 📚💙

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

WRITING UPDATE: I'm in the midst of a massive writing slump. I simply cannot get the words out. Time for my unconscious to take the wheel. Ideas simmering in the dark recesses (I hope). #Authors, #Writing, #WritingCommunity, #WriteLife, #WriterLife, #WriteSky, #WriterSky

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I just read THE STRANGE CASE OF MR. PELHAM by Anthony Armstrong (1957) for #marchmysterymadness. A rather dated tale about a man whose life is taken over by a more accomplished doppelgänger. www.tumblr.com/markhodderau... #bookreviews #bookworm #booklover #bookbloggers #booksky 📚💙

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I just read FABULOUS HARBOURS by Michael Moorcock (1995)—a collection of 11 interconnected short stories, four of which I have read before, and two of which Mike and I are rewriting for a forthcoming project. www.tumblr.com/markhodderau... #bookreviews #bookworm #booklover #bookbloggers #booksky 📚💙

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

WRITING UPDATE: These past few days, it’s been a struggle to write even a sentence. It’s not writer’s block. I know exactly what I need to be writing but my tank is empty. No worries. Time to rest and refuel. #Authors, #Writing, #WritingCommunity, #WriteLife, #WriterLife, #WriteSky, #WriterSky

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This is how we rebel now. Protest marches are ignored, and frequently, protestors are assaulted. But the enemy is vulnerable to economic action and WE CAN ALL PARTICIPATE WITHOUT PERSONAL RISK. Consume with your conscience. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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‘Buy Canadian Instead’: businesses vow to fight Trump’s tariffs across the border

Large signs in shops exhorts Canadians to shun US-made products in looming trade war between allies

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

How long, I wonder, before Europe declares the USA a hostile state?

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

BOOK REVIEW: I just re-read CENTENNIAL by James Michener (1979). My third visit to this magnificent epic, one of my all-time favourite novels. www.tumblr.com/markhodderau... #bookreviews #bookworm #booklover #bookbloggers #booksky 📚💙

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What Zelenskyy just endured was horrendous beyond belief. Krasnov (aka Trump) is the worst enemy the USA has ever faced. He is a Russian operative (whether he knows it or not) intent on destroying the country and its allies. WAKE UP AMERICA. THIS IS PEARL HARBOR 2025. DO SOMETHING.

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

WRITING UPDATE: Chapter 12 took a day to write & a day to finesse & can be considered done. One of those that just flowed out & left me thinking “Yup!” Chapter 13, by contrast, wants to be complicated and painful. #Authors, #Writing, #WritingCommunity, #WriteLife, #WriterLife, #WriteSky, #WriterSky

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Let us never forget that the British English translation of "Trump Musk" is "Pungent Fart Odour." This should be mentioned in all future studies of President Krasnov and his Nazi minions.

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I'm halfway thru James Michener's CENTENNIAL and loving it just as much as the 1st time I read it (1980) & the 2nd (1999). Truly epic, it tugs at the heartstrings in so many ways. The massacre of the "Indians" destroys me every time. #bookreviews #bookworm #booklover #bookbloggers #booksky 📚💙

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

WRITING UPDATE: The existing 11 chapters are revised. I remain dissatisfied with bits & pieces. They’ll do for now. Time to press on. Wrinkles can be ironed out later. Spit & polish is unnecessary at this stage. #Authors, #Writing, #WritingCommunity, #WriteLife, #WriterLife, #WriteSky, #WriterSky

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Is anyone here using BOOKWYRM as an alternative to GOODREADS? What do you think of it? Any tips? I feel like it has lots of promise but haven’t the time right now to explore it as deeply as it seems to need. bookwyrm.social #bookreviews #bookworm #booklover #bookbloggers #booksky 📚💙

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

WRITING UPDATE: the revision of chapter 2 is complete. Much improved. Also shorter by approx 500 words. I’m now speeding through the rest, making the Moorcock-suggested tweaks. I’ll start on new material this weekend. #Authors, #Writing, #WritingCommunity, #WriteLife, #WriterLife, #WriterSky

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Trump and Putin are preparing to oust Zelensky so they can install a puppet president. They will then lay claim to Ukraine’s minerals, carving out a share each. Ultimately, Russia will renege on the deal with Trump and get it all. It is PAINFULLY predictable. #America #politics #ukraine

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

WRITING UPDATE: Taking Mike Moorcock's feedback into account, I have decided to completely rewrite Chapter 2. In addition, a few tweaks are required here and there before I start on new material with Chapter 12. #Authors, #Writing, #WritingCommunity, #WriteLife, #WriterLife, #WriteSky, #WriterSky

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Of course, British residents style themselves as "expats" as if it is something quite different, but I don't and it isn't. I'm an immigrant, and proud to live in this welcoming and enlightened (by comparison to most) country. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar

As immigration has increased, GDP has surged and unemployment has fallen to lowest level since 2008

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

WRITING UPDATE: Publication of THE ALBINO'S SECRET by Michael Moorcock & Mark Hodder has been set for October 14th! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Al... #Authors, #Writing, #WritingCommunity, #WriteLife, #WriterLife, #WriteSky, #WriterSky

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Mark Hodder — Author @markhodderauthor.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

WRITING UPDATE: Feedback from my collaborator Mike Moorcock received. Everything from line edits to vast conceptual additions. The man's a genius! Now to re-work chaps 1 to 11 before continuing with the next. Fun! #Authors, #Writing, #WritingCommunity, #WriteLife, #WriterLife, #WriteSky, #WriterSky

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