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As those who read my recent Guardian column on the subject will know, I like scarecrows, and have been wanting to make my own and finding excuses to put it off for some time now. Yesterday, however, I finally got down to business, with the help of my friend Jo, a vacuum-packed bag of straw, [...]Read More...| Tom Cox
A violent storm raged here in the early hours of yesterday morning and my bedroom window, which I keep open at night in all but the absolute coldest weather, twanged off the catch, crashed against the wall and almost smashed. Outside, in a strange cold blue light, the trees moved like enthusiastic metalheads [...]Read More...| Tom Cox
I’m writing another novel – my third. You can find out a bit about it – and help with its funding – here. [...]Read More...| Tom Cox
Hello! As most of you probably know, I’m now posting my new writing on Substack, but perhaps a few of you don’t, so I thought it worth a little update here. There have been LOADS of new things up there in the last few months, including this piece I wrote the other day about the [...]Read More...| Tom Cox
You might have noticed that, while I am still posting new pieces of writing on this site, I’m posting them first, and more frequently, on my Substack page. My plan is to continue this and make it the main portal for my new writing, because it’s great and is rescuing writers all around the globe [...]Read More...| Tom Cox
It never gets any less amazing, the speed at which time flashes by, as you get older, and perhaps this is the main reason that I find it almost impossible to believe that it is now over 113 years since I was living in Edwardian Britain. I remember the day it ended like it was [...]Read More...| Tom Cox
Today I feel more tired of social media than ever before and more thankful for Substack than ever before. Yesterday I deleted my Twitter account, having been briefly drawn back there for the usual reason: the desire to give books I’ve put every ounce of myself into the best chance possible of surviving in the [...]Read More...| Tom Cox
I have been feeling a little down for the last few days. Here, six and a half big hills away from the south Cornish coast, the weather feels like it’s been dishwater grey and soggy since a few days prior to forever, plus there’s the whole subtly nagging issue of the world being about to [...]Read More...| Tom Cox
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