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Philip Clive Minty

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* I write books and cleave to the minority opinion that they’re great. * I read and review 19th & 20th century fiction. * Sometimes I spout gibberish. Say hello at https://philipcliveminty.com/

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Sep 5

Fabulous progress, well done. Good luck with the bulk.
My unsolicited opinion is keep the bulk really short and then cut some more. You have plenty of muscle and at say 195- 200 you'd really see that some more. Every time I cut, I have people telling me I've put size on.

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 26

That's magnificent.

Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 26

Hugo's masterpiece about a lovable curmudgeon, 'Mr. Les Miserables'
The medically themed, 'The French Lieutenant's Woman's Psoriasis'
Faulkner's more explanatory work, 'The Very Irritating Sound and the Fury'

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Ian Lahey @ilahey.com · Aug 24

Let's mess up a book title by changing or adding a word. I'll start: "Frankenstein's Wi-fi" #writing #booksky

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 26

Graham Greene's lewd sequel, 'The Power and the Glory Hole'
Jean Rhys's equine follow-up, 'Wide Sargasso Seabiscuit'
Adam West's reworking of Woolf, 'To the Bat-Lighthouse!'
Ishiguro's bad holiday experience, 'Never Let Me Go Camping

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T.E. Bean @tebean.bsky.social · Aug 17

Big news. Book deal! My debut novel, INFINITE NIGHT EYES, will be published by Black Spring Press (UK) and available via Simon & Schuster (USA, Canada). Coming to a bookstore near you in autumn 2026 💥

#infinitenighteyes #bookdeal #publishersmarketplace #literaryscifi

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 23

Thanks v much. I just found out the real dude is well known (I'd never heard of him, but he is), BlueSky isn't mentioned on his website. There's zero possibility he's interested in my welfare. Account reported & blocked. What a pair of knob-ends - me for being naive, him/them for being nefarious.

Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 23

Yep, three 'connects'. I will see if I can find out about the bsky account. Thank you!

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 23

2/2 He says it's a matter of getting eyes on your book. Can I pass my name onto his publicist, who has done wonders? Responses seem v fast and AI-like.
I mean, unless he's awfully nice, it seems fishy. So, is this a well-known modus operandi? Has the author's identity been stolen? How does it work?

Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 23

1 of 2. Can someone explain this to me?
Friendly DM received from an author who wanted to chat. Asks about my work, suggests we swap book links to Amazon. He has a gazillion reviews on Amazon, I have one (!)...

#writingcommunity #writesky

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 23

Wow, that's great.

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 23

Pectastic. Looking good. I'm carrying more adipose on one love handle than you've got distributed over your whole upper body.

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 23

Ha ha, that's fabulous! Impressive commitment. You must rattle when you walk.

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 23

V nice, well done!
I find keeping decades of lifting records enables me to visualise in depressingly scientific detail my age-related deterioration. At 49, I was benching 337 x 6 or 265 x 12. Now at 63, I can just about manage 265 x 3 (and I'm seeing Jesus on the third rep).

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 22

Here's my true boiler man story. About three years after we had a new boiler fitted, British Gas told us that regs now meant that, due its location, it needed better fireproofing. We got a tradesman. He took one look at the set-up and said, "Cah, who fitted the boiler like THIS?"

Answer: "You did."

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 22

I had the same reaction, and I think you've identified the reason: our self-selected samples.

Utterly depressing.

Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 22

I'm there too. So far, I've found that guessing at indistinct letters and digits, and a truly awe-inspiring amount of cursing, are seeing me through (so to speak). But it's only a matter of time.

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 21

Bless them for that - just when I thought it was absolutely inescapable.

Everywhere I turn, there's another bandwagon-jumping megacorp cramming AI down my throat.

Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 21

That's not really 'the planet' though, is it?

[It's OK, understand it's fury-induced hyperbole] 😉

Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 21

Most have them also seem to have an advanced qualification in Leaving My Engine Running So You Can Inhale My Particulates Because Turning the Key Off And On Is So Much Effort.

F88kers.

Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 21

I have seen 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' 30 times. And '12 Angry Men' well over that.

Singin' In The Rain, Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Ben-Hur, Life of Brian, Fargo, Amélie, The Big Country, Predator - all many many times.

Variety is overrated.

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 21

Best of luck, chap. Is that done over the Intertubes, or would you have to relocate?

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Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 21

Curse her bones for her treatment of Ingrid Bergman and Charlie Chaplin... amongst others.

On the plus side, she did pick a satisfying name for herself.

Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 21

Hitting thirty is the pits. So much worse than subsequent milestones, for me anyway.

Philip Clive Minty @philipcliveminty.com · Aug 21

It solves the problem of what to do with the three items bought on the last day of the ironmonger's closing-down sale.