Simon P. Clark
@sipclark
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Writer. Eren/Tell The Story To Its End | NOT YET DARK out now from @AtomBooks https://t.co/aJs2dPDbKl https://t.co/zrFbzIdGQ9
London, England
Joined February 2010
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Liudmila Kondakova. Notre-Dame et les bouquinistes Paris.
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Before —> during —> after A day spent with one of just three remaining Japanese public bathhouse painters. At their peak there were over 100 in Tokyo alone. When I asked him how many times he’s painted Mt Fuji over his 60+ year career he responded “oh must be 100,000 by now”
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If you happen to see a child reading something they're enjoying - PLEASE LET THEM JUST ENJOY IT! By all means, recommend books you love to kids, but please: never, ever belittle or dismiss their own choices. Reading for pleasure is the heart of #literacy! (Art: Quentin Blake)
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Hot on the pulse of modern discourse, I have started watching Our Flag Means Death. It's good, pass it on
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It's true that my writing took a massive and - at the time - seemingly permanent hit when I became a dad. Almost two years later I'm only just getting back into regular, productive writing. It's a hard one - balancing two things you love dearly, that simply don't mix.
On parenting and writing: "In 30 years time I won’t look back wishing I spent more time on my laptop, but will be grateful for the moments my children wrapped their arms around me". Read more 👇
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Read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and more of that, please
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The San Bernardino County Sun, California, August 19, 1936
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Reading a Reddit thread about a reviewer who gave a glowing 4 star review to a longtime friend's book, and got chewed out by the author and their partner for not being more supportive and giving the 'expected' 5 stars, and I am LOSING MY MIND
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Absolutely one of my favourite series. Currently missing my copy of the first because I lent it out.
It’s nice to see people are still discovering the Railhead trilogy. (I wish more had noticed it at the time, it could have been a decalogy by now.)
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‘A true original’: Katherine Rundell on the genius of Diana Wynne Jones
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Long before Harry Potter went to Hogwarts, Diana Wynne Jones wrote about a school for witches. Fifty years after the author of Howl’s Moving Castle published her first novel for children, Rundell...
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Hemingway and Tolkien both very tired and telling readers to Stop Doing Stuff
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