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Patrick Kincaid

@patrickkincaid.bsky.social

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Doctor of Shakespeare, Master of Writing. Author of THE CONTINUITY GIRL. Novelist, editor, teacher. Never AI.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · Nov 2

Oh, this is a great endorsement of my little debut. Nicolas is preparing a BFI Classics volume on Billy Wilder’s masterpiece The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, the film behind the book. A new edition of The Continuity Girl will be available in 2025. Meanwhile, I’m working on a sorta prequel.

Instagram story from Nicolas Pillai. Image of my novel The Continuity Girl. “Thoroughly enjoyed this charming, clever novel by @patrickkincaidauthor”

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 8d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 4h

Trespassers on the line between Birmingham New Street and Birmingham International.

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Will Scotch do?

Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 8h

Anyway, we’re off to Birmingham Lit Fest to hear @jonathancoe.bsky.social speak about his brilliant cosy/not cosy crime novel/not crime novel The Proof of My Innocence. www.birminghamliteraturefestival.org/book-tickets/

Book Tickets - Birmingham Literature Festival

Every year the festival brings world class writers into the city, champions writers from across the region and showcases wonderful writing in the Midlands. You can book your tickets for the 2025 Birmi...

www.birminghamliteraturefestival.org

Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 9h

First day in a school since July. Voice went within half an hour. I used to have technique…

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 9h

It’s a pretty bad piece; it’s hard to believe that he swallows this weak rationalisation himself.

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Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social · 4d

Monday #morningread
from a newly published cool book by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social:
The Book of Bogs: Stories from a Yorkshire Moor and Other Peatlands

From The Book of Bogs: Stories from a Yorkshire Moor and Other Peatlands, ed. Anna Chilvers and Clare Shaw.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 11h

The main reason why I can’t watch any of these comedians again is that I’ll be thinking about Jamal Khashoggi & his family while they were acting as extremely well-paid court jesters for his killers.
Not really ideal laughter-inducing conditions.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.

www.theguardian.com

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SeaYou 🇪🇺 @seayou.bsky.social · 14h

🫶 Maria Corina Machado 🇻🇪, 🇳🇴 Nobel Peace Prize 2025 👏
#MariaCorinaMachado #NobelPeacePrize #NobelPrize

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iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social @iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social · 13h

Wow! Peru just removed their President!

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 15h

Wars, tariffs , paper, production costs and the battle to get our books seen means there is a crisis in publishing.

Indies do most of the heavy lifting in finding great new stories that the risk averse conglomerates shy away from.

Support Indies!

www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK

The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.

www.thebookseller.com

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 15h

It's important to focus on who won, not who did not.

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 16h

Unbound publishing me felt like a dream come true. Within a year, before it was even published, I was describing it to my wife as a curse disguised as a blessing. So many phantom highs, so many actual lows…

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 16h

How A Publisher Almost Killed The Book I Waited My Whole Life To Write: a thread

My novel Villager came out in 2022. It was published by Unbound, who had little marketing/sales power. But I was excited & proud, since I worked so f-ing hard on it.

Here's an extract: www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...

our cat Charles with Villager, shortly after it was published

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 16h

Yep.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 18h

They should stop polling, and just stick with the big one we had in 2016 that revealed that roughly half of us will believe any old shit.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you! I still love writing — and love its difficulties. Solving those is sometimes like magic, because the subconscious handily steps in while you’re doing something entirely different.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 17h

There’s a bit in Yes, Minister where Sir Humphrey catalogues the great things about Britain and includes “the universities — both of them!” We’ve never left that moment, not really. I don’t think the establishment is ever going to acknowledge the importance of this sector.

Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 17h

If only the university sector - one of the engines of our entire economy - had the same political clout as the fishing industry.

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19h

UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way.

40% of Unis in financial crisis.

Major exporter destroyed by successive govts

Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.

How will the UK compete with other nations?

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Joanna Wyld @joannawyld.bsky.social · 17h

It was revealed at yesterday's staff flute group rehearsal that we won't be playing at the office Christmas party again this year. I'm frankly astonished that my rendition of All I Want for Christmas on the alto flute didn't leave people clamouring for more, but there's no accounting for taste

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Ben Baker @benbaker.bsky.social · 18h

Wonderful to see the Jackie archives appearing on the British Newspaper Archive so we can see which hot to trot hunks the teen girls of 1964 were moistly pinning to their walls.

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 1d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 17h

I spend my nights channel hopping and shouting KIDS PROGRAMME! at the telly like John Cleese when he was on the Goodies.

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Julie Edwards Photographer and Artist @julieedwards.bsky.social · 1d

October's #mk3d - The 5th & final guest on stage with Mark Kermode on 6 October '25 at BFI Southbank was "friend of the show" Mark Jenkin . Rose of Nevada is Mark's latest film, where a mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing.

@kermodedodge @bfi @mark_jenkin

>>> SWIPE >>>

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 18h

One of the things that strikes me when reading books by Gen Z authors is just how much porn they’ve watched. It’s a really obvious, pervasive influence. I guess because it’s been as available to them as tap water.

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Darren Freebury-Jones @freeburian.bsky.social · 1d

As materials are coming in from my fabulous editors for THE COLLECTED PLAYS OF ROBERT GREENE, I thought I would share this fantastic episode ICYMI on 'Shakespeare's Rival', to which it was a joy to contribute for BBC Radio.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Shakespeare's Rival

How neglected playwright Robert Greene offers an alternative history of English theatre.

www.bbc.co.uk

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