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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Currently reading this novel by Julian Maclaren-Ross. It's very evocative of late 1930s Britain, a rather grubby stuffy place. But I am even more pleased to have picked up Arnold Bennett's most famous novel yesterday. Bennett is one of my favourite early 20th Century British authors 🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Two years ago I sent my last copy of one of my books to a reviewer who was keen to review it. But they never reviewed it, so I took the unprecedented step of asking for the book back. And it arrived today (with a dog ear in page four). It's a collection of horror and dark fantasy stories 👻 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Came back home after a little holiday to celebrate my 60th birthday and I found a package waiting for me. Inside were copies of the latest issue of NIGHTMARE ABBEY with my story 'Whipping Ghost' included 👻👻👻 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just finished reading this. It's not quite like other Simenon books. It feels as if he took greater care to be more 'literary' and his prose as a result is somehow less fluid. But it's still magnificent, of course. In tone and style, Simenon's 'roman durs' often resemble the work of Camus #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My two MEGAPACK collections from Wildside Press. Both are fairly hefty collections. 48 stories in total, which is about 4% of my total short story output to date. There will be a third volume at some point 🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Publication Day... My first MEGAPACK® collection was published four years ago. There will be three in total. This is the second and I think it's the best of them. The nicest thing for me about the MEGAPACK® series is appearing alongside Ray Bradbury, Fritz Leiber, Fredric Brown, etc #booksky 🙂

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The story I wrote for the tribute anthology to Charlie Chaplin has been accepted. My tale concerns Chaplin when he was a Music Hall star. He played the Palace Theatre in Swansea. I took this photo of the venue. TRAMPS, SEDUCERS AND DICTATORS will be published by Bedford Square Publishers 🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I am doing a poetry / fiction reading tonight in Swansea. These are the three books I will be reading from... My most recent poetry collection; my most recent short story collection; and my most recent novel 🙂:-) #booksky facebook.com/events/s/tal...

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Happy First Anniversary to a pair of my books, published exactly one year ago by Eibonvale Press. ROBOTS IN LOVE is one of my very few stories set in outer space. THAT OTHER EGYPT is a linked series of fictions themed on Egypt. Ten stories in total, though one is actually a play. #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Many thanks to Dave Mitchell of Incunabula Press for arranging the show last night and for inviting me to do a reading. It's always a pleasure to read with a good PA system. I read extracts from the three Knick Knack novels and also poems from my Songs Gone Wrong book 🙂🎶🎵 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Today I will be attempting to promote the three volumes of the "Knick Knack Trilogy" in an art gallery. I have no idea how that's going to work out, but I will find out in due course 🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Starting tomorrow, all three volumes in my "Knick Knack Trilogy" will be free ebooks for a few days... 🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I have embarked on a mission to read all the short fiction of J.G. Ballard. This will involve re-reading many stories, but others will be new to me, including the story I have just finished, 'Myths of the Near Future', both a self-parody and a genuine expansion of Ballardian obsessions #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Arrived all the way from Brazil yesterday, courtesy of Raphus Press. An anthology of stories based on Hasan-i Sabbah, founder of the Nizari Order of Assassins, including my story 'Caliph of Chaos', written very much under the influence of Barthelme 🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Maithreyi made biscuits for me, and unlike the ghost in my new novel, I didn't have to steal any of them 🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Four years after my first Megapack was published by Wildside Press, I am proofreading the second collection. The second Megapack doesn't have a cover yet. So here's the cover of the first (again) :-) #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

My most recent poetry book, SONGS GONE WRONG, published a couple of weeks ago, has a few poems that reference bananas. This one, for instance 🍌🍌🍌🍌 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Happy Publication Day! #booksky One year ago I finished writing ODDITY O'CLOCK and today it has been officially published. The "KNICK KNACK TRILOGY" is complete! * TRUMPET FACE, intro by Michael Moorcock. * THE UNFAIR DINKUM, intro by Brian Evenson. * ODDITY O'CLOCK, intro by Paul Di Filippo.

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

TALLEST STORIES - ebook FREE until August 6th. #booksky A collection of linked fantasy stories arranged in three sets, all centred around a pub called 'The Tall Story', a tavern crammed with eccentric and sometimes supernatural characters. www.amazon.com/Tallest-Stor...

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Exactly five years ago, my first poetry book was published. What I mean is that it wasn't self-published (unlike three previous poetry books). BUNNY QUEUE didn't do very well despite being trad published. I don't think any of my poetry books have done well. I guess that's not unusual... 🐰🐰🐰 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Copies of my new novel (published yesterday) make a nice mosaic 🙂👻 This is THE BISCUIT THIEF from Telos Publishing... #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

THE BISCUIT THIEF was officially published today! I will talk more about it in the coming days. In the meantime, I'll just say it's a speculative romp through an ironic version of the 1970s, complete with adventures in both time and space, not to mention the ghostly dimension 👻😊🎶🎵✨️ #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Bill Oddie RIP. My new poetry book contains riffs on popular songs and Oddie's 'Funky Gibbon' is one of the songs 🎶🎵 I loved The Goodies when I was young #BillOddie

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Last day to get the ebook edition of SONGS GONE WRONG for free 🙂 #booksky www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9XVTR78

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Unboxing video (again). This is a book I am especially pleased with. I mean, all my books are books I am especially pleased with, but this is one I am particularly especially pleased with... 🙂🎶🎵 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Maithreyi and myself did a reading today as part of the UNESCO City of Literature celebrations in Aberystwyth. Maithreyi read from her poetry book, SKINNY DIPPING IN TIGER COUNTRY, and I read from two books: poems from SONGS GONE WRONG, and flash fictions from IMAGINARY HOTHEADS 🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

An unboxing video for SONGS GONE WRONG, copies of which turned up today. This is my book of performance poetry and I will be reading from it at the Ystwyth Books sponsored event on Saturday in Aberystwyth, as part of the ongoing UNESCO City of Literature celebrations 🙂🎵🎶 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It seems that SONGS GONE WRONG has been officially published today. I just received my copies. This poetry collection is the third Mission Creep Press book. I put it together on the basis that it contains only poems I am comfortable reading aloud in public 🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

One of the things I have been doing is replacing substandard covers of my previously published books with better covers. This a new cover for an ebook-only set of stories about Detective Inspector Ynch Short of Scrofula Yard. You can compare it with the old (yellow) cover at your leisure 🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Exactly 13 years ago my novel about an apeman test pilot, STRINGENT STRANGE, was published. 13 years! Crikey. It was going to be the first in a long series of novels but I only wrote one sequel. At some point I will have to continue the adventures of the hairy hero! 🍌🐵 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Cover reveal time... This is ODDITY O'CLOCK, the third part of the "Knick Knack Trilogy". The book should be available for purchase soon. It's a detective story, a philosophical romp, and a speculative comedy, with an Introduction by the always gracious Paul Di Filippo 🙂🎵🎶 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The evolution of my cover design abilities... Three years ago I put together an ebook sampler collection. I was never satisfied with the cover, but only now have I redesigned it... This gives me a chance to promote the collection again over the next few days 🙂🎶🎵 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

My novel THE PERCOLATED STARS is still a free ebook and is free for another three days. Here's the link for British readers 😊 #booksky www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H6GMHVV3

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

No foreign travel this year but I am doing two events here in Wales, in Aberystwyth on the 25th of this month, and Swansea on the 20th of August, and I really ought to do more events in general... 🎵🎶 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The second Mission Creep Press book has just been published. It's a reprint of my first published novel. Some people say this is the best novel I ever wrote. It's dark and strange in a way I don't do anymore. Anyway... THE PERCOLATED STARS is out and about once again :-) #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

My latest collection, IMAGINARY HOTHEADS, is free to download until July 3rd. www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6LSRF43 I have published many collections of flash fiction over the years, but I think this is the best one to date 👻 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Three poetry books I am currently reading. I am a prose man but I do try to read poetry. However, I nearly always understand whatever prose I happen to be reading, whereas some poetry (a lot of poetry actually) leaves me baffled #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

My attempt to draw a cat a couple of years ago. Yes, I know... 🐱

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Copies of the first Mission Creep Press book arrived today. It's good to examine the physical object and see where future improvements can be made. One of the pieces utilises a pale grey ghostly font in order to match the theme of the text and it doesn't really work. I will change that 🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The fifth anniversary of the publication of MY RABBIT'S SHADOW LOOKS LIKE A HAND. Although I have written 1000+ stories in my career so far, this one stands out for me. I see it as most representative of everything I hope to do in literature. Published as a chapbook by Eibonvale Press 😊🐇🐇🐇 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I have decided that THE PERCOLATED STARS is going to be the second Mission Creep Press book. My design efforts are definitely improving. Most other covers will be simpler, but the lettering and the geometry will always be the main focus :-) #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Exactly one year ago I finished writing 'Hannah and her Cisterns', which ended up as a section of my book IMAGINARY HOTHEADS, published recently by Black Scat Books. It's not a novella in the ordinary sense but a set of linked flash fictions, as are the two other novellas in the book 😊 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The main logo of Mission Creep Press was designed by the artist Chris Harrendence, who illustrated my Tartarus Press book ORPHEUS ON THE UNDERGROUND many years ago. Chris is one of my favourite illustrators ever 🎶🎵👻 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Day two of promoting the first book released by Mission Creep Press. Why did I choose such an unpopular literary form as the prose poem for the first book? The ebook is free from any Amazon outlet for the next four days. Look for an ebook entitled "He Felt a Ghost so He Stole It" :-) #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

With luck, the first Mission Creep Press book will be published tomorrow. A collection of my prose poetry, HE FELT A GHOST SO HE STOLE IT. And so the publishing venture begins. I intend to do my very best with it :-) #booksky #prosepoetry #flashfiction #poetry #smallpress

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is the week that the first Mission Creep Press book will be published. The first of many, I hope. Certainly the first of 100, as that's how many paid ISBN numbers I have. After that it depends on whether the press is a success or not... 🎶🎵 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Exactly one year ago, my book of linked flash fictions, THE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT, was published. Exactly two years ago, the third volume of my DABBLER WITH DRABBLES project was published. Neither book did well in terms of sales or reviews. But they exist and that's something, I guess 🎵🎶 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Coming soon from Hybrid Sequence Media 😊🎵🎶 #booksky

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