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Anthony Kane Evans

@anthonykaneevans.bsky.social

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Two-bit writer, doc film-maker. From Manchester, now based in Copenhagen. Novelette: The Cripple Club (Alien Buddha Press; Feb 25). Words in London Magazine, The Antigonish Review, Mystery Magazine, Mystery Tribune, Litro, New Pop Lit, Punk Noir.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · May 25

I have a short story up in The Hooghly Review today, so, if you have a couple of spare minutes, click in and give it a read.

Thanks to @ankitrajojha.bsky.social‬ and the @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social‬ crew!

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Frank’s Hair Fetish – THE HOOGHLY REVIEW

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 3d

Seek and ye shall find. And, you know, if you aren't attracted to any of the penguins who apply, you can always just become Platonic friends and watch a crap ton of horror movies together.

Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 3d

Great! Well, one never knows. From his writings he sounds great. How was he in reality?

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 5d

Just got my flu and Covid booster jabs. Glad to report that there have been no negative side-effects so far. In fact, I'm feeling rather funky.

Photo shows a rather funky-looking alien from the film Phantom Planet (1961).

Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 8d

A great read. Still don't understand why T. didn't use some of the stuff in there. Esp. one very T.-ish scene in a warehouse full of weapons.

Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 8d

That's bad!

Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 8d

Good luck! I hope it goes well.

Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 8d

Finished a first read-through/edit of a detective novel I finished writing two years back. Needs a hell of a lot of work on it, but there are around 380 pages so I can throw a lot out and still keep it at novel-length.
Hope my writer friends are getting the words down.

Photo shows Eclipses luminarium by Cyprian Leowitz, 1555. Collection Bavarian state library. Basically, you have the face of the sun during an eclipse. It's a bit hard to explain really. You'll need to ask somebody to sit down next to you and tell you what is going on.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 9d

Believe me, I shifted it over to the other arm during the walk home.

Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 10d

Also, carrying books home from the library.

Picture of me in front of local library with rather a large tome.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 10d

I did exactly this. It's very useful. For example, when you get tired of writing with one hand, you can just shift over to the other.

Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 17d

Oops! Should be Bluesky writer pals, natch! That's the problem when you're on too many social media platforms!

Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 17d

We had some good weather today so I ended up writing in a cafe on the lakes here in Copenhagen. To the left, the inner city. To the right, the neighbourhoods. Hope my Twitter writer pals got some work done today.

Photo shows a table in an outdoor cafe located on a lake. Well, the cafe is both indoor and outdoor, but I'm sitting outdoors because we have a blue sky and the temp is up at around 15 or 16 degrees C, with very little wind. You see the lake in front of me, a couple of boats moored to the kind of pier that I'm on. On the table is my notebook, my pen, a bottle of carbonated water, a glass and my sunglasses.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 21d

Such a great film. As to Salome, I guess you've seen the 1922 film version with Alla Nazimova. If you haven't I'd def. rec. it.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 22d

I don't either. I saw a woman reading a book outside the South Bank in London and thought it looked interesting. I asked her how it was. Great, she said. I bought a copy. In the back it had a crap ton of questions for the book club. The book was terrible. A kind of YA retelling of an ancient myth.

Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 22d

Some books actually have questions for the book club in the back of the book.

Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 22d

Well, I just received my annual royalties for a short story - Fox - that I had published back in 2021 by Short Édition.

Click link to read.

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Fox

i. Rob and I were down the pub, drinking Guinness. There was a woman in there with a face like a fox. The whiteness of it, along with the red hair, only strengthened the impression. She shot out

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 22d

Christopher Walken in New Rose Hotel (98).

Photo shows Walken in a restaurant. He's saying (sub-titled): Waiter! Coleslaw for everybody!

Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 24d

My kids say I'm not allowed to charge it more than 50 per cent. I'd say I make that about 50 per cent of the time. The rest it hits 100 because I forget it in the charger.

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Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 24d

Gerda Maurus in Spies (G. 28. Lang). A silent film I re-watched yesterday. Maybe one of Lang's best German films.

Photo is a screen-grab of the actress, looking at camera, a cigarette firmly planted in her mouth. She really does smoke her way through this movie. Never seen so much cigarette smoke!

Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 24d

In the lit stakes, I'm currently reading: The Lost Musicians (50).
Heinesen was a Faroese writer who wrote in Danish. However, I'm not reading this in Danish, but in an English translation.
Plot concerns some musicians up on the islands at the beg. of the twentieth century.

Cover shows the book cover of The Lost Musicians by William Heinesen. A very nice cover, showing some musicians playing trumpets with an island in the background. In the foreground a thatched house and a couple of onlookers. The colours are black, white and orange.

Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 27d

... is watching Late Autumn (Jap. 60. Ozu).

Photo shows still from film. The daughter of the house - whom a whole bunch of people are trying to marry off - sitting at the dinner table. In front of her a red bowl.

Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · 29d

Well, 11th September and I can still go down to the park café and set up my office! Did a spot of reading and writing, after having spent part of the morning editing at home on the old PC. Hope my Bluesky writer pals are getting some work done.

A round table outside in the local park café, full of the things you might find on your writing desk. Coffee, a book, three notebooks, a pen, a yellow highlighter. A mostly eaten scone. Work in progress.

Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · Sep 10

In the non-fiction stakes, I'm moving from The Contemporary Cinema (63) - yes, I'm right up-to-date on contemporary cinema, any questions, fire away! - to We Have Received a Complaint (2024), which looks into the pros and cons of workplace investigations.

Photo shows two book covers. The Contemporary Cinema by Penelope Houston (with Jeanne Moreau on the cover) and We Have Received a Complaint by Matt Malone with Newton's Cradle on the cover, and next to that a little bomb.

Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · Sep 8

Great! Hope it goes well.

Anthony Kane Evans @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social · Sep 6

Actually, the coffee shop is great! An independent. I have a few that I move between, depending on the weather!