Mike Brooks

@mikebrooks668

That freelance Audible-bestselling, British Fantasy Awards-losing SFF author with Very Tall Hair. Guitarist, singer, occasional DJ. (d)eaf, queer. He/him. All queries to @losbennett.bsky.social at Liverpool Literary Agency www.mikebrooks.co.uk

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Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· 27d

The High T Department of War.

Liam Neeson as High T in Men In Black: International.

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· 27d

A reminder that my band Interplanetary Trash Talk is playing THIS SATURDAY at The Chapel (upstairs at The Angel Microbrewery, Stoney St) in Nottingham. Slight line-up change means that us and Fighting Evil Is Cool! are now joined by Rhythm Eaters! £7 advance, £9 otd. tinyurl.com/3f2n2v5y

A gig poster giving the above information, with the band logos.

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jul 8

ALSO, coming up on Saturday 25th July, I'm doing an event in my hometown of Ipswich! www.waterstones.com/events/autho...

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jul 8

Now my book's out, it's time to get back on this: my band Interplanetary Trash Talk are playing The Chapel in Nottingham on Sat 18th July! Tickets are here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interplane...

A poster for a gig advertising 'Interplanetary Trash Talk' (Melodic Punk), "Fighting Evil Is Cool!' (Ska punk), 'Diaspar' (Post-rock soundscapes) and 'The Royal Deficiency' (Punk metal), £7 advance, £9 on the door, 7.30pm Sat 18th July, THE CHAPEL, 7 Stoney St, Nottingham, NG1 1LG

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jul 7

It’s publication day! THIS IS WHERE THE FUTURE BLEEDS is out today!

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jul 6

Pippin and Merry from the live-action Lord of the Rings, captioned 'We've had one, yes, but what about second schism?'

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jul 4

A classic #Necromunda ‘95 Bounty Hunter I picked up off eBay this week and painted this afternoon! One advantage of being an adult is I can pick up a couple of the minis I couldn’t really afford as a teenager, the ones I wanted because they were cool but needed to spend my money on other things…

The boltgun/bolt pistol bounty hunter miniature from 1995, painted in light blue and burgundy, with the name ‘Lucky’ painted on the base.

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jul 4

BRUH

An email titled “your book would be a great fit for our 3,000+ reader challenge” and which begins “Hello Mike, I hope you’re doing well! My name is Official Nicholas Consultant” and then goes on into standard AI-generated author scam email. I’ve underlined “Official Nicholas Consultant” in red.

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jul 3

Completely failed to take *any* pictures from my time in York yesterday, so thanks to @noahmedlock.bsky.social for a) coming to the event at @portalbookshop.bsky.social, and b) taking this picture of us! And thanks to Portal for hosting!

Mike and Noah, two white people. Mike has a black mohawk, a rainbow maille necklace and a black vest, Noah has fluffy brown hair and glasses and a possibly-brown T-shirt (I’m colourblind so can’t be sure). They are standing in front of various Pride flags in a bookshop.

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jul 3

i got u bestie

"you wouldn't feminize a twink' in the 'you wouldn't steal a car' font and background

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jul 1

Big thanks to everyone who came to the launch event for This Is Where The Future Bleeds at Nottingham Waterstones last night! And thanks to Waterstones for organising, @johnfrench.bsky.social for the question, and Emma for this photo!

John French (white, bald, check shirt, jeans, trainers) is sitting in a chair talking to Mike Brooks (white, black mohawk, navy tank top, shorts, DMs with rainbow laces) in the cafe at Nottingham Waterstones. They have a table between them on which their respective books are displayed. Nearby Nottingham rooftops can be seen out of the windows behind them.

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jun 30

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jun 28

My Necromunda Venator gang’s newest recruit, Cooking the Ratling! He took out a Squat leader with a headshot in his first game, so well done Cookie. I don’t think the slapchop style worked quite right - his face didn’t get enough Wraithbone undercoat - but we live and learn.

A Ratling with a lasgun from the Kill Team set, painted in light blue and burgundy.

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jun 27

Brierley Hill Library, 1pm today! I’m being interviewed about my new book, and writing in general! It’s not *quite* as nuclear outside as it was earlier this week! I think they have aircon! (if they don’t I might lead a mutiny and a quest to the nearest place that does)

Mike, a white person with a black mohawk and shoulder tattoos, in a black vest top, in front of a window which shows a very bright, sun-drenched garden.

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jun 25

A sign of an oil can behind the red 'strike-through' symbol.

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jun 24

Canada vs Switzerland

Bart and Lisa doing the “if you get hit it’s your own fault” thing

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jun 23

Happy seven-year anniversary to me having even longer hair, only one chin, and my utter refusal to ever take myself entirely seriously. (in fairness that’s been going for a lot longer)

Mike, a white person with a black mohawk, a black vest, and a pendant necklace, doing a (hopefully obviously) intentionally goofy “MySpace pose” into the camera, beneath text reading “Felt cute, might get published in a three-book deal by Orbit, IDK” and a link to a Bookseller article.

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jun 22

Prime Ministers come and go, but the publicity grind continues. Three events in a week! Sat 27th - Brierley Hill Library, 1pm Tues 30th - Nottingham Waterstones, 6.30pm, w/ @johnfrench.bsky.social Thurs 2nd July - Portal Books, York, 7.30pm w/ @aknighton.bsky.social

A publicity graphic with the above information

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jun 20

It is Saturday my dudes

A frog sitting on a solar-activated fountain in a tub of water with some water plants.

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jun 19

A screenshot of the "no, they're saying Boo-urns" from the Simpsons, captioned "No, they're saying "Bouaddi"."

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jun 19

I forgot I made this:

The "is this a bird?" meme but with Gerard Butler from 300's face and 'a bird' replaced with "SPARTA!!???"

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jun 19

I think this pushes it close tbh

Mike behind a desk of DJ equipment, in front of banks of lights, caught with arms out and head thrown back singing along to the song playing.

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jun 19

Warhammer World let me handle DA KLAW 😁

Mike, a white person with a black mohawk, is standing in front of a wall of Warhammer books with a cardboard Ork power klaw on his right hand. He’s wearing glasses, red flame new rock boots, black shorts, and a black tank top on which are the words “I died for HARROWHARK NONAGESIMUS and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.”

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jun 13

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jun 9

Stopped off in Peterborough to meet up with my dad on the way to @srfantasyclub.bsky.social this evening, the weather was… interesting

A sunlit bridge in the foreground, with dark clouds in the background and dark streaks coming down indicating torrential rain over the city centre not far away.

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· Jun 1

Where to find me over the next month in the lead-up to the release of THIS IS WHERE THE FUTURE BLEEDS on July 7th, BUT early copies will be available at all these events! (I'm also doing @writeopolis.bsky.social on June 21st, but you can't get books there because it's on Discord)

A graphic showing the novel, a picture of me, and the words 'THIS IS WHERE THE FUTURE BLEEDS' UK Events
9 June - Super Relaxed Fantasy Club
27 June - Dudley Writers Festival, Brierley Hill Library
30 June - Waterstones Nottingham
2nd July - Portal Bookshop, York

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· May 29

Don't think Prime has either, although I'm told the movie is horr*ible*...

A Prime screenshot with the heading 'Horror movies' beneath which is Mission: Impossible 2

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· May 29

I have questions, starting with “has Sky ever seen a movie?”

Screenshot from Sky Go on a phone, with Hunt For Red October at the top, and a description, and under “more like this” are ‘Mystery Island: Play For Keeps’, ‘Zu Warriors’, ‘Mystery Island: Winner Takes All’ and ‘The Lost World: Jurassic Park’

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· May 28

My chaos knight took 18 wounds off a Gorkanaut with two shots (rolled two 6s for damage) but it was finished off by my Venomcrawler. My opponent’s Morkanaut avenged its sibling in close combat, but I won on victory points due to a solid Alpha Legion plan of “claim objectives early, don’t die easy”.

The knight in the foreground, looking down the table at a scratch-built Gorkanaut at the far end

The gorkanaut now conspicuously absent, the knight has advanced but there is a morkanaut on the other side of a building from it

Orks flood towards five chaos terminators in a building, with a land raider in the background

The morkanaut and the knight meet in combat (albeit side-on due to terrain constraints)

Mike Brooks@mikebrooks668· May 28

My Alpha Legion have a new friend for this evening’s warhammer 40k game…