Today's post is free but on the off chance you'd like to support my writing you can do so here, at a price of your choice from £10 per year, or via a one-off donation here. My dad has come to an arrangement| Tom Cox
Today's post is free but on the off chance you'd like to support my writing you can do so here, at a price of your choice from £10 per year, or via a one-off donation here. Picture it: that classic, timeless scene, the newlyweds in| Tom Cox
I'm poorly at the moment so I've decided to take a few more days working on the new piece I was originally planning to post today. Instead, because it's now a mere TWENTY DAYS until Everything Will Swallow You comes out, I wanted to| Tom Cox
Thanks for joining me here, away from the noise of the Substack app, on my renovated newsletter. It's pretty much the same as the old one, except I'm keeping everything unpaywalled for now, and have set up a selection of subscriber options, from £1 per| Tom Cox
“I saw a frog!” a girl or boy might say. So that day we would learn about frogs, and draw, or even make, frogs.| Tom Cox
Never expect anyone to read your book, even if you sent it to them for free.| Tom Cox
Ralph| Tom Cox
You can listen to me reading this to you out loud here if you’d like to:| Tom Cox
Here we see a very, very normal morning scene in rural Devon, UK: a writer gets up, makes himself a coffee and finds a crow in his living room, striking theatrical poses and showing off to the less privileged birds who have to make do with living outside.| Tom Cox
The big mistake people who’ve never had writer’s block usually make in their assumptions about writer's block is thinking that it must be about having no ideas.| Tom Cox
a new short story| Tom Cox
Thoughts On The Advice Pandemic| Tom Cox
An extract from my upcoming third novel, Everything Will Swallow You| Tom Cox
At last the painful wait is over, and I can reveal Joe McLaren's brilliant cover design for my third novel.| Tom Cox
Much has happened to me over this past week, but perhaps the place to begin is that last Thursday afternoon I saved a French kitten’s life by grabbing it from between the jaws of a ravenous dog.| Tom Cox
Something I wrote a short while ago about the Beatles, the Get Back documentary, and what time does to art| Tom Cox