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May 07, 2026
Tim Hayes
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I’m writing an ongoing series of urban fantasy novels which I’m tentatively referring to as the Wheel of the Year Sequence. Set in contemporary times and, it’s in a similar vein to series such as The Dresden Files, The Rivers of London, and A Discovery of Witches, depicting a world where magic and the supernatural are real but hidden away from the majority of the population. Largely set in the UK, much of the narrative is centred on London.
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Angela Carter was born on this date back in 1940.
She was known for revitalising fairytales and infusing them with eroticism, making their passive heroines sexier, smarter and stronger.
Carter initially emboldened other literary authors to tackle supernatural themes afresh.
Her approach, duly toned down for mass consumption, became a model for the feminist-lite reinvention of other disregarded genres in print and on screen, in adult and children’s fiction – from vampire horror (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight) to SF dystopia (The Hunger Games) to Disney princesses with attitude (Frozen, Brave) playing a significant part in fantasy’s resurrection and its ascendancy in the bestseller and box office charts since the late 90s.
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@TimHayes@indieauthors.social
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May 05, 2026
Tim Hayes
@TimHayes@indieauthors.social
I’m writing an ongoing series of urban fantasy novels which I’m tentatively referring to as the Wheel of the Year Sequence. Set in contemporary times and, it’s in a similar vein to series such as The Dresden Files, The Rivers of London, and A Discovery of Witches, depicting a world where magic and the supernatural are real but hidden away from the majority of the population. Largely set in the UK, much of the narrative is centred on London.
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Delia Derbyshire was born on this date back in 1937.
Her claim to fame is she was the woman who arranged an electronic realisation of Ron Grainer’s theme of the Doctor Who series in 1963. The rest, as they say, is history.
Probably one of the most well know television themes to be created and produced entirely with electronics.
Grainer attempted to credit her as co-composer but was prevented by the BBC bureaucracy because they preferred that members of the workshop remain anonymous.
She was an English musician and composer of electronic music who worked with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s and has been referred to as "the unsung heroine of British electronic music."
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@TimHayes@indieauthors.social
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May 04, 2026
Tim Hayes
@TimHayes@indieauthors.social
I’m writing an ongoing series of urban fantasy novels which I’m tentatively referring to as the Wheel of the Year Sequence. Set in contemporary times and, it’s in a similar vein to series such as The Dresden Files, The Rivers of London, and A Discovery of Witches, depicting a world where magic and the supernatural are real but hidden away from the majority of the population. Largely set in the UK, much of the narrative is centred on London.
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Alice Lidell was born on this date back in 1852.
This was the girl who would find fame as the eponymous heroine of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
Check out the acrostic poem from the end of the second book spelling her name out in full:
A boat beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July—
Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear—
Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die.
Autumn frosts have slain July.
Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.
Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.
In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream—
Lingering in the golden gleam—
Life, what is it but a dream?
It occurs to me, even if I was writing this on the anniversary of her death, not her birth, this is one little girl who’s never going to die. She’ll live on for ever in the books which tell her story.
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@TimHayes@indieauthors.social
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May 03, 2026
Tim Hayes
@TimHayes@indieauthors.social
I’m writing an ongoing series of urban fantasy novels which I’m tentatively referring to as the Wheel of the Year Sequence. Set in contemporary times and, it’s in a similar vein to series such as The Dresden Files, The Rivers of London, and A Discovery of Witches, depicting a world where magic and the supernatural are real but hidden away from the majority of the population. Largely set in the UK, much of the narrative is centred on London.
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Machiavelli was born on this date back in 1469.
My anonymous Evil Criminal Mastermind in How to Succeed as a Supervillain by Following the Evil Overlord List considers him to be essential reading for all aspiring villains.
He reckons that Machiavelli’s The Art of War, and The Prince, along with General Sun Tzu’s book, also entitled The Art of War, comprise the three erudite Big Books of war, conflict, and dissent.
They’re all books which deserve to be added to the Evil Overlord’s required reading list, and he’s penned an addition to the beloved List which suggests: all those aspiring to wickedness are strongly advised to read, study, and memorise both versions of the Art of War along with The Prince and, once one has done so, read them again until you know them by heart.
Then, and only then, will you be ready to take over the world.
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