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I’ve had a few messages over the last week about unusual stuff in the RSS feeds for some of my less-used URLS – chiefly, bobbins.horse and destroyhistory.com. I let all my niche sub-site URLS go a couple of years ago. If you subscribed to those feeds, just delete them. The only up-to-date RSS feed I have ever used is the Badmachinery.com one, no matter which poorly thought out URL I might have been putting my comics up at.
This is my last word on really simple syndication (RSS), extensible markup language (XML), and irresponsible domain name purchase (IDNP) for the forseeable future.
My Gumroad page (where you can download DRM-free PDFs of my various books) has been updated. I’ve added Solver Volume 1 (which includes the Circus Windows mini), Savage Sword of Susan, Giant Days: Snooker Could Be Better, and the Murder She Writes 15th Anniversary Edition. Plus, there are three new multipacks – one with everything in it, one with just the Scary Go Round collections, and one with everything new, for anyone who bought the old 2024 ‘EVERYTHING’ multipack. I think I have covered all possibilities!
(If you bought Murder She Writes in the past, the new edition has been added to your Gumroad Library).
I have a few in-person events (in the UK) coming up:
Saturday June 27th – MACC-POW, Macclesfield
Saturday July 11th – Big City Reads: Meet The Authors, Nottingham Central Library 4-6pm.
Wednesday August 5th – Big City Reads (John Allison in conversation with Laura Snapes) 5.30-6.30pm
Saturday October 10th – SCARF, Sheffield (free entry!)
Sat/Sun November 14-15th Thought Bubble Festival, Harrogate
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The two Nottingham events have to be booked in advance, but they are both free.
Comments on comics will be closed Monday-Thursday until the autumn. They’ll open every Friday, for the weekend. This is not down to anyone’s bad behaviour, just a need for me to reduce the noise around the work I make. For the same reason, I won’t be monitoring social media replies and DMs any more. You can still contact me via email and the Patreon – I try to reply to every message I get.
In better news, my sabbatical is over and I am writing again and preparing to start drawing. I feel a lot better, and hopefully I will stay that way! You’ll get a short story (a vignette?) after the Murder She Writes rerun, then something longer.
A few people have been experiencing 431 errors when trying to view the site. I think this was a problem with cookies that one of this site’s plugins (Comments Like Dislike) was creating. I’ve deleted the plugin and added code to clear its cookies automatically. But that’s why you can’t “thumbs up” comments any more. Comment below if you’re still having issues and I’ll look for what else might be causing the problem.
