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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 14h

I should talk more about this book I wrote on head transplant. I mean the ones that happened. In the 70s. In a weird race against the Soviet Union. It came out during Covid. Would kinda love it if the thing went viral. It’s so… weird and true. #BookSky brandyschillace.com/book/mr-humb...

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The mesmerizing true story of a brilliant and eccentric surgeon and his quest to transplant the human soul... It’s not every day someone hands you a research notebook covered in monkey’s blood. But so...

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 28/09/2026

I have to qualify this old post; they call it ad-free but interrupt your viewing with promos for their own shows that disrupt the experience in exactly the same way

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 27/09/2026

"If you’re a fan of Farscape be grateful that this one didn’t make it, because it’s what you almost got instead" Jim Henson Productions' Space Chase and the Creature Workshop

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 27/09/2026

"If you’re a fan of Farscape be grateful that this one didn’t make it, because it’s what you almost got instead" Jim Henson Productions' Space Chase and the Creature Workshop

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 26/09/2026

Now added, Defenders of Mars. Just the one-pager here for what was actually a highly developed pitch, 10x1hr SF adventure for a young audience. The story of the story comes with an excruciating twist.

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 25/09/2026

At some point I’ll have to add some scripts or pitches from produced work, in case it starts to look like my entire career’s been one of unremitting rejection

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 25/09/2026

My 2001 Midwich Cuckoos pitch, stymied by legal action, is the latest addition to the Unmade Projects downloads. The list so far: The 39 Steps, Dracula, The Saint, The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Birth and History of the SAS, Doctor Syn, and a bonus Warriors' Gate. Code CFX to open the protected PDFs

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 25/09/2026

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 24/09/2026

And an extra for today, DOCTOR SYN, Russell Thorndike's masked swashbuckler as played by Patrick McGoohan in The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. Disney made it, Disney owns it, and there I was, working for Disney. Albeit indirectly.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 24/09/2026

Behold, the prelaunch is open for the graphic novel of The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red!

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Bloody hell, Yodel. Finding my parcel from your delivery photo was an exercise in geolocation based on a scattering of stones by a neighbour's garage three doors away. And no, it wasn't 'signed by Steven'

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doc @docseuss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's Carnivale, quite likely the fourth greatest television show ever made.

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 23/09/2026

Now added, THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO. The classic of Gothic literature, met head-on for television treatment. "One of my most thorough and ambitious pitches that not only broke story but then laid out a plan for tackling casting and production issues."

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 23/09/2026

"This was beginning to feel like a project with legs. The option had a time limit and the clock was ticking. I wrote up my take into the document that follows, and everything moved up a notch. Great, I said, call my agent and let’s get going." I was working on THE SAINT. And then I wasn't.

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 23/09/2026

New addition to the Downloads page. My screenplay for Dracula, commissioned and cancelled unread on the day of delivery by a gullible BBC exec.

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 22/09/2026

Saw this show on a previous tour. Highly recommended

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If so some eason you do choose to work for free (for example, for a charity, or to support a small local enterprise), consider sending them an invoice for your usual fee, and mark it void. That way, they'll know the value of what you're giving them.

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James Goss @gossjam.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Our first talk is very special. A tribute to Justin Richards by his son, Julian. Tickets bit.ly/smallbluebox

Father In The Mirror by Julian Richards

Target Book Club - October 24th, The Abbey Centre, Westminster

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 20/09/2026

Love this movie. Saw it on a long plane journey and kind of wished that I hadn't, so I could reboot my first experience of it under better conditions

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

real art is when you steal illustrators' work, do it worse, and then call it 'pop art'

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lioneltwigg.bsky.social @lioneltwigg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The 1964 Russian version of Hamlet available on YouTube is a feast of gothic visuals and with the best ghost scene I've seen. I just still think Hamlet is a dick however.

Hamlet's fathers ghost with cloak streaming behind it

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 19/09/2026

Last thing from me for Batrman day. The one true Batmobile.

Photooif the 1966 Batmobile with and signed by its designer George Barris

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 19/09/2026

I've added a new feature to my website where I'll make a selection of script pitches, outlines, and early drafts available for download. The PDFs themselves will be password protected in a futile attempt to keep the scrapers at bay, but the code's right there. First up, John Buchan's The 39 Steps

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 19/09/2026

For Batman day, the continuous off-camera footage of Michelle 'one take' Pfeiffer (with the usual side-order of dude saying she didn't really do it)

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Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, whipped the heads off those four mannequins IN ONE TAKE

YouTube video by metrosoft

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Jonathan L. Howard @jonathanlhoward.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Alan Ritchson seems an okay sort of feller.

From Twitter. fattys_revenge writes "Every season of Reacher so far has been great, and I understand why they may be avoiding the earlier novels due to their slightly less standalone nature, but every year I'm sad to learn that next season won't be the book where he kills his way through a white supremacist militia camp"
Alan Ritchson replies, "My favorite book. Fun fact: I had it approved until someone got re-elected."

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Neil Snowdon @neilsnowdon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Alex is the best. The commissioner's dream: incredible writer, a pleasure to work with, and always on time. Passionate, funny, generous to a fault. Physical media folks, you want her on your team/discs. Festivals, you want her working with you. Agents, she'd be a gift of a client!

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Recommended if you want the full picture of the Piddington situation. TL:DR it's driven by a self-aggrandising, attention-seeking, right-wing, white man.

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Might be looking to the Big Finish/Doctor Who people here - are there any audio dramas for primary school kids, or that would be suitable for sharing with primary school kids, especially ones that show how you do action in audio?

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I just saw this commercial on SNF, and I aint gon lie, it had my full attention. Wasnt expecting that

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/09/2026

Donald Trump and Joe Biden at 9/11 ceremonies today. Trump in DC. Biden in NYC. (REUTERS)

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T. Frohock (she/her) @tfrohock.com · 10/09/2026

Quick bit of advice for traditionally published authors: Keep an eye on your sales and the contractual terms of the publisher. Once sales fall below the contracted rate, it might be in your best interests to request a rights reversion and then indie republish your backlist.

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

He called Howard Stern that day to brag his building now ranked as the tallest in Manhattan

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Steven Savile @stevensavile.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm utterly thrilled to introduce A Century of Swords, a massive anthology that gathers some of the very best historical fiction authors working in Europe today. Conn Iggulden, Ben Kane, Giles Kristian, Matthew Harffy, Angus Donald, Gordon Doherty, and SO MANY MORE Pls RT www.centuryofswords.net

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Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Not everyone's train journey is the same.

A lone black woman on a train.
Her carriage is full of masked white men going to march for white supremacy.

Three white women on a train smiling. Their carriage is full of masked white men going to block the port of Dover.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The original of Caspar David Friedrich’s c.1819 painting ‘Klosterfriedhof im Schnee’ was lost during World War II. (Maybe hanging on a pensioner’s wall somewhere in South America...?”) All we now have is (a) a black and white photograph and (b) quite a good copy. blog.smb.museum/das-verloren...

A photo in shades of grey: ruins of a monastery, headstones, gnarled bare trees, snow. Mysterious and Gothic.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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