“Why does everyone pout so over the children?” Cosca called after him. “They’ll turn out just as old and disappointing as the rest of us.”
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Joe Abercrombie
@LordGrimdark
Writer of the First Law and Shattered Sea books. Part-time Witch King of Nihilism.
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World book day! Children all over the globe will be dressing up as Inquisitor Glokta, Judge, and Stranger-Come-Knocking.
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Gameplay's a little clunky and repetitive, but the city itself is amazingly realised, beautiful at times, and the design, personality, and expressiveness of the characters still seems class leading to me, right down to individual body language.
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Played Cyberpunk on my PS5 recently, having played it right after launch on my PS4. I actually quite enjoyed it back then, despite the bugs and missing features, but I thought it was great this time around. 1/2
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Will wonders never cease? I have published a progress report on time.
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I really love the artwork Taras Kopanskyi is doing for these books. Awesome stuff.
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Ukrainian edition of "Half the World" by @LordGrimdark will be released very soon. And here are some sketches of illustrations for the book by Taras Kopanskyi.
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Just planning out the action climax of this book and it is truly ludicrous in its extent and complexity.
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Seems a bit crass I just sign books for em. twitter.com/KaylaChowShow/
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Heh.
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My email fucked up for no apparent reason this morning and I spent two hours squinting at the settings and finally solved it! Now I feel like the hero of a William Gibson novel.
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Research apparently shows there are 28.5 million streaming subscriptions in the UK. Surprisingly low, given that I personally seem to be subscribed to about 4 million services these days.
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The limited hardcover of Best Served Cold with some of the craziest sprayed edges you ever did see…
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January’s Sub title ‘Best Served Cold’ has entered the building and looks absolutely incredible 😍
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It’s a valid interpretation.
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Attention! Our vision (furry version) of characters
of the The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie @LordGrimdark.
Sphynx Inquisitor Sand Dan Glokta and his practicals - Black Cat Severard and Bullterrier Frost
#thefirstlaw #farart #furry #furryart #joeabercrombie #sanddanglokta
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I’m a professional writer. So yes.
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Do you hate writing?
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Hoist by my own petard…
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Better to do it than live with the fear of it. I guess
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I was very much hoping I'd receive an email overnight that meant I could put off writing the next part of my book. Sadly, that email did not arrive.
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Os dejamos por aquí los cubrealarmas que os darán la bienvenida al Templo de la Fantasía y la CF durante las próximas semanas 😉
Son las cubiertas de las ediciones ilustradas que Alianza Runas está publicando de la obra de (obras de y ).
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Happy Birthday to me! My review of the year is up on the blog...
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I am producing a quantity of phlegm unprecedented in human history.
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These poor broken people, at the mercy of the cruel gods of the writers room, for whom there can never be any rest but the clomping boot of cancellation.
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Sometimes I'm watching a TV series and think - oh, no, the interest here for the writers is that these characters should never get what they want, or settle their rivalries, or requite their hidden passions, because then the drama runs out. And I feel sad for a moment.
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Cross that one off the bucket list…
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I have been interviewed in a giant fish tank.
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I am doing an Ask me Anything over on r/books, so if you've ever wanted to ask me a question and have the piss taken out of it or be entirely ignored, NOW IS YOUR CHANCE. redd.it/zdar5u
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Your progress report for November '22:
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I live in Bath, lives in Austin, just ran into each other in an LA hotel lobby. Life is crazy sometimes…
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We are so pleased to reveal our subscription exclusive editions of The Great Leveller Collection by @LordGrimdark 
We would like to thank team @gollancz for their incredible work on these beautiful books! 
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Age appropriate.
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It's important to get them reading young, eh @LordGrimdark ? #BookTwitter
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Realise I got the address wrong. It is apparently @LordGrimdark@mstdn.social. Jeez when we gonna get an edit button up in here etc etc.
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Oh, and lest we forget, if Twitter dies you can find me ON THE SHELVES OF YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE MOTHERFUCKERS!
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I’d hate to plough energy into some new platform, with all its teething troubles, only to find it’s some other handsome farm boy who turns out to be the promised heir to social media land.
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I did sign up a couple of weeks back. I believe I’m LordGrimdark@mastodon.social but I haven’t used it yet, and may never. It’s like asking a man who had his kidneys stolen on a tinder date to get on a new dating app the next morning. twitter.com/jvanrhyn/statu
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Honestly don’t see a platform that suits my purposes. I have an uninspiring presence on Facebook but yuck. I’ll probably wait and see if some new platform achieves the critical mass to serve as a replacement. I doubt a break will do all that much harm.
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Do you think you'll be getting on another social media site like maybe Instagram? I'll pay attention to your site, but having a social media account where I can get notifications from you is really useful and I'm gonna miss it if you don't have plans to go to another site.
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Not sure I need his input. I’ve managed to fly it into a mountain on my own.
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What would Elon do with it though?
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Though you can also find me at joeabercrombie.com, of course, a place that billionaires are unlikely to buy, and where I will be posting a great deal more frequently than I have been (honest).
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If Twitter goes down you can find me sitting on a shadowed hillside with a faraway smile, watching the stars wink out one by one…
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Real end of days vibes on Twitter this morning. My timeline is an onslaught of friends and neighbours saying where they can be found in the event of the heat death of the universe.
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