Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Eight. That’s why Terry looks so concerned. 051
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026That’s what happens when we all move on afterwards to the pub. 010
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to this! Well, I could. But then I’d be forced to resort to lots of grandiloquent adjectives quite out of keeping with the world of Doctor Who novelisations. 1141
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Oh, I hope you won’t need the audio drama at all! Have fun with the book and thanks for being so kind! 020
Reposted by Robert ShearmanLauren (LJ) McMenemy @laurenwrites.bsky.social · 26/08/2026We're gathering at Writing the Occult: Time & Place to talk about just this sort of thing - how you can nail time & place in speculative narratives. Mark joins Una McCormack, Rob Shearman & Simon Guerrier on a very special panel talking about using the TARDIS to make time and space infinite, too. 🧵⬇️ 172
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026That wasn’t my breakfast, sadly. Lunch, tea time snack and high dinner. It’s how I keep my physique so trim. 020
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Very possibly only me - and I’m very flattered by the comparisons! 010
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026So good to meet you at last, Nadia! Looking forward to a proper chat later! 140
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026How did I break the deadlock? I hope it was because you picked up my book from the shelf with enormous anger and heft and threw it into the bin! 120
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Very wise! You can explain to me what on Earth was going on in them! :) Looking forward to seeing you, Nadia! 141
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Maybe we should do it on the anniversary? Perhaps the hundredth? :) 130
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I’m very genuinely looking forward to seeing what you think…! I had such fun writing this one. 270
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Oh, I love Chicago Tardis - and I love Chicago itself! If I’m wanted there, I’ll fly over in a heartbeat! 030
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Thanks. Luc! Fingers crossed you like what I’ve done with it…! 110
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Let’s just say I had an awful lot of fun with it! I hope you give it a try and have fun with it too. 110
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I did a lot of microphone roaring. I gave it tons of welly. In post-production it was felt that my performance was a bit one note, so that in many scenes my roars were replaced by Alistair Lock’s. So we continue a tradition - the pantomime horse gets played by two actors, with me at the back end. 0181
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Congratulations, Alfie! Really looking forward to it! 130
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Is if going to cool down soon, Ms Flamingo? I think part of my brain melted this afternoon and now I’m worried it might have been my most intellectual bit. 120
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I thought we’d agreed to stop calling the entire editorial team at BBC Books that. 080
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Hurrah! I’ll be going to that! I want to randomly subject people to my theories about Philip Hinchcliffe’s version of The Keys of Marinus. 1243
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Oh, brilliant! I shall be getting that. Always love your work! 110
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026It’s true. And I have become very much older since we last met up. There are now parts of my body that look so elderly they would cause Carl Sagan to recalculate the age of the universe. 020
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Oh, thanks, Mondy! I shall give it a listen! I remember I was just about starting to write the first stories for that in the summer of 2006 - twenty long years ago. Dear God. 120
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026What a hugely kind thing to say! Thank you, Ellie! That message is a lovely gift to me too. I hope you have fun with Chimes! 010
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026And besides, I don’t think Chris Chibnall ever went. Russell certainly didn’t. I have no memory of Mark Gatiss. It wasn’t a “group” at all. It was just a place London based fans would congregate to drink crap beer, swap the odd fanzine, and laugh at The Androids of Tara. You would have been welcome. 030
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026It really wasn’t, you know. It was just a pub, and every month hundreds of fans would go. It was very welcoming and about the least exclusive thing you can imagine. Inevitably some people who later worked on the series went - but actually most didn’t. You make it sound like a secret fraternity. 140
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Trust me - I’d only lose them down the back of the sofa like I do all my other keys. 030
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026That’s lovely. Like most things you write, it’s often hard to imagine anyone enjoying it at all, let alone that it’ll cross the world and have such a long future! The young Rob would have been amazed - the old Rob is just very grateful. Thank you! 010
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026That’s very kind of you! Just for that, you get the desk nearer the window. The drawer sticks a bit, but you get a much better view of the Cardiff car parks. (I’ve grown very fond of those stories too - they’re so old now! Thank you for remembering them!) 110
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026We could do it together! We needn’t be in the office at the same time if you’d prefer. I could run the show Wednesday through Friday, and you could do the rest. :) 110
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Hurrah! So happy to be sharing book space with you - looking forward to reading your story, Jes! 110
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 25/05/2026But would I be qualified? I think I’d be a very odd choice for a foreword. 150
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Very odd, as you know, is my bread and butter! It sounds right up my decidedly off-kilter street. 010
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 22/05/2026That looks wonderful! I shall order that! 110
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026I’m so pleased you enjoyed it! And Marcheto is wonderful - I am so lucky she wants to translate my work and bring it to a Spanish audience! 140
Reposted by Robert ShearmanMarcheto @cuentosalgernon.bsky.social · 23/04/2026You can now read the Spanish translation of "Beneath the Diaphragm, the Gut Itself", by the terrific @robertshearman.bsky.social. First published in "Bound in Blood", edited by @johnnymains.co.uk. Enjoy it! cuentosparaalgernon.wordpress.com/2026/04/23/b...cuentosparaalgernon.wordpress.comBajo el diafragma, las mismísimas entrañas, de Robert ShearmanCelebramos el Día del Libro con un nuevo relato, y nada más y nada menos que de nuestro queridísimo Robert Shearman. En esta ocasión nos visita (y ya por sexta vez) con una historia con los libros … 172
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Thanks for persevering! Writing it was an act of masochism, but a very gleeful one! I hope you found a bit of glee too reading the whole thing. 120
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Happy birthday! You have excellent taste! :) 010
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026I suspect there was a bit of mutual suspicion for a while - there were lots of self-conscious references to ‘trad’ and ‘rad’ writing which now seem a bit limiting! But I don’t recall any real hostility. I remember some very amiable chats with Lawrence, and everyone knew Alien Bodies was beautiful. 130
