Henry Coles

What with all the life that's been happening, I believe I may have forgotten to mention a few incredibly exciting things. 1. I Have a book deal 2. It's with @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social !!!!! 3. Traitor's Magic is out January 14th 4. You can pre order everywhere now henrycoles.com/traitors-mag...

Looking forward to this so much!

Proof copies have arrived! #ukkidlit

Starting the week with some good news. Traitor's Magic has been picked as a top ten preview title for January in the Bookseller! Thank you to everyone at @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social for getting me there. #ukkidlit

And now there are FOUR adventures into history!

A book can be the most dangerous magic of all... 📚✨ Set in a richly drawn alternative Britain, this is a gripping rivals-to-allies middle grade fantasy by @pitest.bsky.social, a compelling new voice in children's literature. Enchanting cover art by Violet Tobacco 🎨 @jennybrownagency.bsky.social

🚨 BIGGAR LIBRARY FREE EVENTS! 🚨 Catch me at Biggar Library on 14th November, with some STICKY MILDRED malarkey for smalls, and I AM WOLF action for older kids… More 👉 alastairc.com/events/20261... @librariessl.bsky.social @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @nosycrow.bsky.social #IAmWolf #StickyMildred

🗓️ The winners of the 2026 Diverse Book Awards will be revealed tomorrow evening, Thursday 22 October. Here's a reminder of the shortlists ahead of tomorrow's announcement - congratulations to all the authors and illustrators 💐 #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/seventh-dive...

✨📚 SUBMISSIONS CALL for children's manuscripts 📚✨ The Bath Children's Novel Award 2026 is a £5,000 prize for emerging writers everywhere. Literary agent Chloe Seagar is judging and we're looking for every genre of MG, YA, CB & PBT. Closing date 30th Nov. bathnovelaward.co.uk/childrens-no...

Oh good, a vibe coded pull request.

Am I hearing correctly that one of the compromised eMudhra private keys was "4" ????

EDINBURGHers - if you’ve ever enjoyed a show/ gig/ the pub at Summerhall, there’s a simple online consultation open UNTIL FRI where you can tell the developers if, SAY, you have concerns about how massive a chunk is proposed to be demolished & turned into student flats summerhallconsultation.co.uk

There's a traffic jam down the hill but its ok, an SUV driver is solving it by repeatedly sounding their horn.

Book Launch in Dundee. We're launching Kirsti Wishart's The Pocketbook Guide to Scottish Superheroes in Dundee on 5th Nov. Kirsti will be in conversation with MK Hardy. There will be readings, signings and hot drinks. Free entry - please book your spot. www.shorelineofinfinity.com/book-launch-...

Like most people, I am almost always looking for "affordable SEO solutions". My preferred method for finding these is looking in my spam folder, because that is where I know I will find reputable organisations that I can trust.

Paperback incomingggggg!

Help needed for a student. They are looking for any recent MG novel that opens not with the main character but with an adult. Like Rooftoppers, but more recent. Any ideas? RT very welcome! #ukkidlit

Many years ago, i had a serious mental health crisis and was hospitalised for it. The care was actually really good and that week on a womens ward did in fact save my life. Had i been treated as the nhs now says i should be, i would have in fact, only been pushed deeper into my suicidal crisis

I have received good news that I will now mysteriously not talk about for a little over a week.

Ok, this is very cool - Big Thief have all their live shows online. Reminds me of happy days when gdlive dot com was still a thing. archive.bigthief.net

After an epic battle, a small new pitest release is now available. github.com/hcoles/pites...

Nothing gives quite the same warm glow of confidence as a maximum password length on a financial institution's web app.

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

Published today. Book, ebook, and audiobook. www.amazon.co.uk/What-was-lik...

Today was a 'docker system prune' day

Disability doesn’t care how old you are. Specialist food is no cheaper if you’re 19. Employers don’t lose their prejudice if you’re 21. This is blatant intergenerational inequality from Labour. Younger disabled people of all severities deserve better. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

People now send me pictures of lathes they encounter. This is probably normal.

Was about to hit e-bay to find an old passively cooled video card as the fan on my current one was getting annoying. Instead I've blown the dust out of the existing one and applied some new thermal paste. Temp has dropped by a massive 20c and the fan is now silent.

TOMORROW

It seems there is a lot about George Formby that I don't know. I now feel good about having quite liked him when I was a kid in the we-only-have-3-channels-so-have-to-watch-whats-on era.

Thank you @jetbrains.com for the renewed licence pack. One of the best perks of the java champion programme. #java

This will either be brilliant or will tarnish a treasured series. Either way I'm watching it.

Whenever someone I don't know uses the phrase "fellow writers" I find myself tensing because 7 times out of 10 it seems to mean "I have been generating slop with chatgpt and now demand that you respect me".

Started watching Blake's 7 for the first time. In the first two episodes Terry Nation kills a surprising number of people who looked like the might have become characters. Good to know that it will somehow all work out happily in the end.

Just pushed out a new release of our android mutation testing plugin. We've been quietly working on this whilst getting feedback from some of our favourite friendly customers for a while now. It's still in beta, but now ready for a wider audience docs.arcmutate.com/docs/android... #java #android

Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer... Arguably it was the ZX81 I had for three months, but realistically the first one I really *used* was the Amstrad PCW8256.

I can remember almost nothing about it except that I watched it and it had a cute robot.

Two days until the hardback edition of Solitary Agents is released in the US! Available from all good bookshops and retailers.

Picking up my WIP for the first time in a while, and I still think the opening line is pretty decent. Three weeks before the end of the world, the sea was calm and still. #ukkidlit