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Neil Willcox, Looking For The Other 98 Saints
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Neil Willcox, Looking For The Other 98 Saints @neilwillcox.bsky.social · Dec 14
It's sadly that time again; a post of other places I can be found on the internet if you're thinking of leaving the site.

1. My blog, Night Of The hats, which I update most days, is on blogspot because I have never moved it /1
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Night of the Hats
Lowering the quality of the internet since 2006
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I watched The Crow: Salvation in which Alex Corvis, unjustly executed, returns from the dead to wreck vengeance. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/01/i-wa...
I Watch Films: The Crow: Salvation
The Crow: Salvation Alex Corvis is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Lauren; he maintains his innocence right up unt...
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January 28, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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I would have only charged $14,999
adamroberts.bsky.social Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 20h
Roughly $200,000 in today's money.
The screenplay for the 1962 war film The Longest Day was composed by an international team of writers to reflect the various nationalities that appear in the film. James Jones, who handled the Americans, had finished his work and was vacationing in Yugoslavia when producer Darryl Zanuck sent an urgent wire asking him to correct a small piece of late dialogue. “How much for it?” Jones asked. Zanuck answered “Fifteen thousand dollars.” Jones wrote, “Okay, shoot.” The line, which had been written by an Englishman, was “I can’t eat that bloody old box of tunny fish.” Jones changed this to “I can’t stand this damned old tuna fish.” In The Literary Life and Other Curiosities, Robert Hendrickson calls this the highest word rate ever paid to a professional author. “The chore of deleting two words and changing four words came to $2,500 a word.”
January 28, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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"Goblins are humanoid creatures who can be found across the wide world. They are reluctantly differentiated by gender, size, profession, class, and grotesquery. They are sometimes confused for gnomes, to the disgust of both sets of creatures." worldstar.miserytourism.com/index.php/Go...
Goblins - Worldstar
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January 28, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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[I step forward and everyone whose seen this before groans, knowing what I'm going to say]

I only charge a $24 reading fee
diabolicalplots.com Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 13h
From a guidelines:
"Please note that there is a minimal $25 reading fee to help cover our costs."

LOL, to "help" cover our costs seems to say it costs that publisher more than $25 in expenses to read a single submitted manuscript? Man, how you reading it? Printing it out on dollar bills?
January 28, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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Just overheard outside my office: “It takes a very oblique understanding of goblins.”
January 28, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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NeCROWmancy is that anything?
January 28, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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St Winefride had her head lopped off by a brutal prince annoyed she'd rejected his advances. Where the head fell, a spring of healing water emerged. Later the holy well at Holywell, Flintshire, was built round it. Winefride's uncle, St Beuno, kindly put her head back on again.
#WyrdWednesday #legend
Illustration by Gustave Dore of the head of a beautiful woman flying from her body. Her hands are held as if in prayer and glow emanates from her neck. A sword blade can be seen: the head has just been struck from her body.
January 28, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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[I step forward and everyone whose seen this before groans, knowing what I'm going to say]

I only charge a $24 reading fee
diabolicalplots.com Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 13h
From a guidelines:
"Please note that there is a minimal $25 reading fee to help cover our costs."

LOL, to "help" cover our costs seems to say it costs that publisher more than $25 in expenses to read a single submitted manuscript? Man, how you reading it? Printing it out on dollar bills?
January 28, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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It's #goblinweek and here's my story For Sale, Creator's Throne, Never Used in Misery Tourism miserytourism.com/for-sale-cre...
January 28, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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for Poe's birthday (which was on Monday the 19th) i decided to write about Robert Bloch's fantastic story "The Man Who Collected Poe" from 1951 over on the ol' blog. Check it out, why dontcha?
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The Man who Strained Pulp #45: “The Man who Collected Poe” by Robert Bloch, Famous Fantastic Mysteries v. 12, n. 6, Oct 1951
January 19th, which was last Monday, was Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday, one of the high holy days for weird fiction! Poe, of course, is hugely important, not merely as an antecedent to what woul…
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January 22, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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Arriving at the remote Avanc Station the locals demand proof you are not robots from an automated ship. Although you are able to convince the authorities, some groups continue to doubt, and begin protesting against spyborg infiltration.
January 28, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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"Watch out! I know Crane stance kung-fu!"

*accidentally invites two ladies to the same opera on the same night, gooseberrys a meal between my brother and my father's live-in carer*
January 27, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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I watched The Crow: Salvation in which Alex Corvis, unjustly executed, returns from the dead to wreck vengeance. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/01/i-wa...
I Watch Films: The Crow: Salvation
The Crow: Salvation Alex Corvis is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Lauren; he maintains his innocence right up unt...
nightofthehats.blogspot.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:56 AM
neilwillcox.bsky.social
I would have only charged $14,999
adamroberts.bsky.social Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 20h
Roughly $200,000 in today's money.
The screenplay for the 1962 war film The Longest Day was composed by an international team of writers to reflect the various nationalities that appear in the film. James Jones, who handled the Americans, had finished his work and was vacationing in Yugoslavia when producer Darryl Zanuck sent an urgent wire asking him to correct a small piece of late dialogue. “How much for it?” Jones asked. Zanuck answered “Fifteen thousand dollars.” Jones wrote, “Okay, shoot.” The line, which had been written by an Englishman, was “I can’t eat that bloody old box of tunny fish.” Jones changed this to “I can’t stand this damned old tuna fish.” In The Literary Life and Other Curiosities, Robert Hendrickson calls this the highest word rate ever paid to a professional author. “The chore of deleting two words and changing four words came to $2,500 a word.”
January 28, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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Monster Of The Week 307 is BadMap, won't steer you wrong, in many ways a metaphor for modern life in that the directions do not match the terrain, recently raised their rates.
A map with both land and sea, the map having arms and legs, two eyes and a mouth
January 27, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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It's #goblinweek and my story The Beekeeper's Daughter in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social features two goblins, Loblaw and Demi-Farthing kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...
January 27, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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I've already plugged my bee story once today!

...okay then
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January 27, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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CAN YOU NOT
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Wandering skull pursues man.
January 27, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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adamroberts.bsky.social
Ah yes, the fertile "regrowing teeth" subgenre of science fiction. Many classics there.
January 27, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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I have a tiny story up today at @paragraphplanet.bsky.social
An image of typewriter style text within a white box.
January 27, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Why should you read @mynachang.bsky.social's "Graduated Justice"? Lemme tell you why: inkfoundry.net/review/why-y...
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January 27, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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Two fantastic stories from Kaleidotrope are on the short fiction longlist—“The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn” by @trailofleaves.bsky.social and “The Hunting of the Phoenix” by @slharris.bsky.social. If you’re a BSFA member, I hope you’ll consider voting for them by February 19th
file770.bsky.social File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 1d
Second Round of 2025 BSFA Awards Nominations Begins
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January 27, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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A quote from Tolkien's 1961 letter about the inspiration behind the Misty Mountains crossing in severe weather in The Hobbit: his hiking trip at 19 with his brother Hilary, his aunt Jane, and their group that was about the same size as Thorin's company, mostly women. #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday
It was in her company (with a mixed party of about the same size as the company in The Hobbit) that I journeyed on foot with a heavy pack through much of Switzerland, and over many high passes. It was approaching the Aletsch that we were nearly destroyed by boulders loosened in the sun rolling down a snow-slope. That and the ‘thunder-battle’ – a bad night in which we lost our way and slept in a cattle-shed – appear in The Hobbit. It is long ago now... From J.R.R. Tolkien’s letter to Joyce Reeves (4 November 1961) Photograph of Tolkien and his brother, sitting on the ground in a group photo in his walking tour group in Lauterbrunnen. Behind them were seven women. All wearing hiking outfits and wide brimmed hats and holding walking sticks.
January 27, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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Heading to Imperial College to give a guest lecture on the theory of game narrative and interactive storytelling. Excited. Part 2, practice, is tomorrow.
January 27, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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Happy large boulder the size of a small boulder day for all who celebrate
large boulder the size of a small boulder tweet from San Miguel sheriff, dated 1/27/20
January 27, 2024 at 2:56 PM