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Brian M. Milton

@munchkinstein.bsky.social
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Short, rumpled Scotsman. Has a terrible pain in all the diodes down his left hand side. Not on social media as much as he used to be but if he is, it will be occasional writing and a lot of stupid bollocks. He/Him munchkinstein.co.uk

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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 10h
I'd yeet this straight into the sea, but that would annoy the Sea Devils. So let's yeet it into Professor Stahlman's borehole instead.
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 15h
This post for my story was kindly shared on Facebook where my wife noted the AI option to find out more about me. Let's just say she is not the only one surprised to hear I have a Guinness World Record. No one sent me a certificate.
A Facebook AI answer to Who is Brian M. Milton.
It goes: Brian M  Milton is a British author, journalist and record-breaking adventurer who writes mainly about aviation and 'new aviation ' sports 

Who he is

This is the writer mentioned in the Glasgow SF Writer's Circle post.
Award winning adventurer and aviation historian, former journalist.
Holds the Guinness World Record for the first circumnavigation of the globe in a microlight aircraft in 1998
Founded the British Hang Gliding League and won the Prince of Wales Cup for beating the Americans 
Works as a nonfiction author and ghostwriter since 1998, specialising in aviation history and adventure accounts

What he writes

He's best known for aviation history and adventure nonfiction, but the post you're reading mentions new fantasy work.
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you can't wait for #Haverin for some new Brian M. Milton, why not check out his new tale 'Island in the Fog' in the 2026 edition of Fall Into Fantasy? Brian has promised us anxious holiday homers and lots of fae mischief, and you can get it now at the link below: @munchkinstein.bsky.social
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Fall Into Fantasy: 2026 Edition
Fall Into Fantasy: 2026 Edition - Kindle edition by Press, Cloaked, Jenkins, T. A. , Brown, Clifton, Stuckless, Sandy R. , Foster, Rab, Minns, Alex, Milton, Brian M., Winchester, Avery, Young, T. J., Erickson, Laurel. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Fall Into Fantasy: 2026 Edition.
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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Event News! #Haverin, celebrating 40 years of the GSFWC, comes out this October. Join me at the launch parties at Fantasycon (9th October) and Waterstones Sauchiehall ST (21st October). Click below for all the details: ruthbooth.com/2026/09/have... @britfantasysoc.bsky.social #GSFWC40
The cover of Haverin, the GSFWC anthology, which features a red-haired girl reading while surrounded by books and a cat in a green space. Text reads: Featuring: Neil Williamson, E.M. Faulds, Christopher Caldwell, Eliza Chan and many more. Haverin, Edited by Brian M. Milton, Peter Morrison and Heather Valentine.
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
The three vampires from Doctor Who: State of Decay. Basically three folk, one woman, two men, in cod medieval dress with pale faces who are cod-Shakespeareaning as hard as they can.
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh grief, less than a week to go. My poor legs!
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peter remote morrison @remotecore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Haverin is an anthology of 43 stories from writers who have been a member of the GSFWC at some point in the last 40 years. My fellow editors are @munchkinstein.bsky.social and @hexthervvv.bsky.social and cover art is by @jennicoutts.bsky.social #GSFWC40 #HAVERIN #booksky 💙📚
A pile of 3 books, anthologies by the GSFWC in the last 10 years. On top Haverin, then Gallus, and on bottom the 30th anniversary Thirty Years of Rain. Cover artist Jenni Coutts studies a test copy of the book, ensuring that she is happy with how it looks. Brian hitting the big order button having had Jenni's approval. Author Elsie WK Donald, a little grey haired woman. One of the earliest members of the GSFWC and still a regular. She is holding a copy of Haverin, in which she has done the foreword as well as having a story.
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Morning, gone in a gallivant. This morning is quite fancy, the rest of the weekend will be less so.
The main street of Inverary. Two rows of two storey Georgian buildings, pained in  Black nd White running up to a church in the centre.A big, BIG, fireplace with ornate scrollwork on the wooden surround and a mirror in the centre above the cast iron grate. There are corner seats attached.
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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’d forgotten I’d plugged The Submission Grinder in this interview. It always amazes me that so many people still don’t know about it. It’s run by @diabolicalplots.com. Definitely check it out if you’re a short fiction writer, whatever the genre.
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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 24/09/2026
This is me, a writer of modest means, asking you, a brilliant person, if you want a Zoom webinar? I'm a writer and web designer. Let me jam some useful knowledge into your brain!
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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 24/09/2026
The Shape of Monsters is finally out in print and ebook from Tor UK! If you're here for a dark gothic fantasy with all the broken people, twisted dynamics, mages, murder and monsters then you have gone through the correct door Get it now from your favourite bookshop
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Luckily I have nothing going on at the moment and can fully appreciate that I have a new story out! It's a tale of holiday homers on a wee island over-reacting to some standard fae nonsense and is in the anthology Fall into Fantasy. Kindle link here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKV41QMF Paperback to follow.
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Fall Into Fantasy: 2026 Edition
Fall Into Fantasy: 2026 Edition - Kindle edition by Press, Cloaked, Jenkins, T. A. , Brown, Clifton, Stuckless, Sandy R. , Foster, Rab, Minns, Alex, Milton, Brian M., Winchester, Avery, Young, T. J., Erickson, Laurel. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Fall Into Fantasy: 2026 Edition.
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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"I didn't see that one" "Not many people have, it's probably a bad reference."
22.00 NEWS AT TENET TA SWEN
Overly confusing current affairs round-up directed by Christopher Nolan, which you don't understand but suspect is very clever.
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Squeezing a long run in amongst other stuff can get annoying, but it does give the opportunity for some pretty morning skies.
A view of deep blue, lightly cloudy sky above shading into orangey dawn light with a dark scene of indeterminate trees and buildings in shadow below
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How long do you reckon it will be before they're refusing to be called British, because that was those dodgy Strathclyders from Dumbarton? Twits.
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#Haverin TOC reveal alert! Find out what's in our 40th anniversary anthology, including tales from Christopher Caldwell, Eliza Chan, Hal Duncan, E.M. Faulds, Elaine Gallagher, Gary Gibson, Cameron Johnston, Neil Williamson, and more. Check out the Haverin TOC at the link below: #GSFWC40
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GSFWC 40th Anniversary Anthology
Haverin is a Scots word that means talking nonsense, babbling or chattering. Often that is how stories start, in the nonsense, the babbling, the chattering of writers inspiring each other to keep g…
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of the weirdest episodes in Glasgow's history began 72 years ago today. On the 23rd of September 1954, rumours began circulating amongst local school children in the Gorbals area of the city that a seven foot tall vampire with iron teeth had kidnapped and eaten two local boys. Cont./ #glasgow
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 23/09/2026
The actual best website on the internet by a country mile.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 72nd anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives, and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth
Daily Mirror front page shows grainy image of horde of children in a cemetery, and the headline “Amazing scene as hundreds of children rush cemetery”
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PictCon @pictcon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
111 tickets sold. Just 6 to go to pass the total for pre-con sales last year.
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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The first episode of WORZEL GUMMIDGE (1979) sees the loveable scarecrow come alive for the first time, and it's directed like a scene from an Italian zombie film. Lucio Fulci would approve!
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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New issue of Cthonic Matter Quarterly! There I am with other very talented writers: chthonicmatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/c...
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Dark Offerings
Chthonic Matter Quarterly #15 — Vol. 4, Issue 3  (Fall 2026)> Order Paperback via Publisher> Order ePub via Publisher> Order Paperback or Kindle via Amazon Table of Contents:”Green A…
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Very much the sort of day where I get to remember where the Victorians buried the drainage access hatch in my garden. On the plus side, not only got to buy a drain unblocking tool, but used it effectively.
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Hell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 22/09/2026
you have two brains inside you...
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I live beside a crematorium, I have a scythe, I am available for a modest fee.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Wide shot of the BRITISH MUSEUM. There are suggestions of fascism around the streets - tanks, barricades, an Orwellian 'Big Brother'-style poster on a wall. A voice of a TOUR GUIDE emanates from the museum:

TOUR GUIDE:
So the Tapestry tells acrucial chapter of our nation's history...

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[Cut to interior of museum. A long Bayeaux-style TAPESTRY is on display, and the Tour Guide is speaking to a tour group]

TOUR GUIDE [smiling]:
How modern fascist Britain was created. 

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TOUR GUIDE:
The Tapestry begins here with the 2008 Crash, then austerity, then the AI Crash...

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TOUR GUIDE:
...and by the end of the room it's just full-on fash. 

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CHILD IN TOUR GROUP [gesturing to the tapestry]:
What's this middle bit?

TOUR GUIDE:
This is the 2026 Battle of Legitimate Concerns 

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TOUR GUIDE:
[show a reporter standing next to the Dover protests]
Here's the media saying the government have got to do something about the legitimate concerns...

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CHILD:
...About the failure of capitalism?

TOUR GUIDE:
No about brown people on boats

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CHILD:
[pointing at boats crossing the sea on the tapestry]
Are these boats the mega-dinghies?

TOUR GUIDE:
Not all of them

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[we see one of the boats  is a giant yacht]
TOUR GUIDE:
That one's a superyacht,
carrying money from the American fascists to the British ones.

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TOUR GUIDE:
You see really it's as much a story of convergence as it is of conflict.

[An alarm sounds in the museum]
DING DING DING DING 

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TOUR GUIDE:
Ok, tour over everyone 

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TOUR GUIDE:
It's time for the Two Minute Hate!

[They all leave the museum]

[ends]
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It occurs to me I've been posting multiple things about events and dates of late and that's exactly the way to confuse, so here is a summary thread of it all by date. October 4th: Glasgow Half Marathon. I'm running, if you'd like to sponsor me, here is a link: www.totalgiving.co.uk/mypage/brian...
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Brian's Glasgow Half Marathon 2026
Brian is raising money for Community Renewal Trust & Caledonia Funeral Aid. Donate at https://givi.ng/8n4p
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good morning. Going to start this week on the positive note of discovering the new Shooglenifty album just came out. youtu.be/K7yqIzB8WWI?...
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UP THE MCFUD FINAL CUT HD
YouTube video by ShoogleniftyScotland
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you like decorative glass, I'd recommend checking out the Scottish Glass Society's annual exhibition, which is on at the Trades Hall on Glassford Street in Glasgow until Wednesday. Cont./ #glasgow #stainedglass #design #scottishglasssociety #decorativeglass
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 20/09/2026
One for #StandingStoneSunday
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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Important thread
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Whenever I think of Mara I imagine the evil snake that lurks in the dark places of the mind and destroys civilisations. I see Scottish Labour are in no hurry to make me change that opinion.
The Mara from Doctor Who: Kinda. A giant plastic snake puppet in shades of pink and yellow. In this case surrounded by RADA loincloth wearers holding mirrors.
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 18/09/2026
Oh that's terribly sad news. She was absolutely wonderful in everything she was in.
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In yet another demand for your attention, I'm here to tell you I'm running the Glasgow Half Marathon again this year. If you have any spare pennies and would like to encourage me and support a Glasgow charity, then here's a link. www.totalgiving.co.uk/mypage/brian...
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Brian 's Glasgow Half Marathon 2026
Brian is raising money for Community Renewal Trust & Caledonia Funeral Aid. Donate at https://givi.ng/8n4p
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thread du jour-
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
god this is good
flight of the concords scene with murray, brit and jemaine. 

"How's this, then? Ed Sheeran, beloved by all, left without an opening band at present. Enter you two."

"What if we want a free Palestine, Murray?"

"I reckon you'll get lots of things for free when you're proper rockstars. This might be your ticket."
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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Come to the launch of the anthology I'm an editor on! It's been a real labour of love from everyone involved to put together over 40 stories from members new and old of our local writers' group.
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Haverin copies for sale at Fantasycon have arrived! Huzzah, that's a huge weight off my mind. Now to just worry I didn't order enough.
An open cardboard box filled with paperback copies of Haverin, a green coloured book with a woman and her cat on the front.
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Fascinating on the evolution of a song.
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
a) I keep reading this as Piddlington, as in a Piddling little town b) If England wants to split up into numerous little racist enclaves then fair play to it. Would solve the whole Scottish/Welsh/Norn Irish independence thing and they could probably pick up some nearby, not too bad bits.
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Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you're in Glasgow on October 2nd you definitely want to get along to this. The Shape Of Monsters is such a magical book, and CL Hellisen is a star!
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Obviously this is solely because my wife works there.
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
See if I get my free movement in Europe back because of my Dad being born in Canada, I'll laugh like a drain. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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European Union opens door for Canada to become first associate member
Commission president says partnership will create ‘common prosperity’ based on shared democratic values
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A repost for the morning crew. Yes, it's our Waterstones event. Tell your friends, make them buy tickets and books. If you're local to Glasgow, like speculative weirdos and not going to FantasyCon, this is the one for you.
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#Glasgow Haverin is nearly here! 'Mon and celebrate 40 years of the GSFWC with our book launch on 21st October at Waterstones Sauchiehall Street. Grab yourself new stories by Christopher Caldwell, E.M. Faulds, Neil Williamson, Eliza Chan -- and maybe some homemade tablet too! #Haverin #GSFWC40
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Celebrating 40 Years of the GSFWC | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Celebrating 40 Years of the GSFWC today.
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Daleks are inevitable and you're foolish to think otherwise, certainly from all the job adverts I'm seeing.
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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This morning’s First Edition: why the Celtic leaders’ Cardiff meet-up was more than just good optics www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Tuesday briefing: How to understand Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland’s joint call for change
In today’s newsletter: Plaid Cymru, the SNP and Sinn Féin have signed an agreement for greater powers, as pressure grows on Westminster over the UK’s future
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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Alan Moore is one of the greatest comedy writers in comic book history. I’ll prove it to you! I’m reading Alan Moore’s Future Shocks today, with art from Ian Gibson, Brendan McCarthy, Dave Gibbons, Bryan Talbot, John Higgins and many many more. Let’s change the false narrative around Moore >>
The cover for Alan Moore’s Future Shocks
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Back in early August I did a blog post with my thoughts on being in the GSFWC as it celebrates its 40th anniversary. And I promised more. Well, finally, I've done so, it is all about the fun of being an anthology editor, and you can find it here: www.munchkinstein.co.uk/index.php/20...
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On editing an anthology: A haver – Brian M. Milton, SF&F writing and nonsense
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Brian M. Milton @munchkinstein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Today's job advert nonsense: Served a job advert in Hamilton that sounds interesting. Read in, have a think, check company website, confirm it is Hamilton, Bermuda, not Hamilton, Scotland. Sigh, go and make tea.
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