Absolute adore the first #read of 2026 - strong women, magic, the role of tales and change, and how important every story is 😍 I have many feels - beautiful writing and a fantastic character cast in an intricate tale of tales about the knight and the witch ❤️❤️ Highly recommend #booksky #fantasy

Happy New Year! Celebrating having hit my target of 40 submissions for my debut novel in 2025 (competitions and agents), completing my MA with distinction, taking on the most impactful work project I’ve ever done, and coming to grips with an ADHD diagnosis. Here’s to what’s next in 2026!

If you’re missing seeing someone this Christmas, just ask if they’re free and make a plan. Brought to you by listening to some relations complain about not seeing other relations despite not extending an invitation, because ‘they have an open invitation’. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Finally listening to Hogfather from my TBR list and wondering whether this was meant to be a Christmas themed gift from an Uncle… or more likely they were having fun with me becoming an auditor 🧐

When @illumicrate.bsky.social announces another subscription and you foresee your future TBR pile 🫣😍

Finally got a new car and think it may legitimately be smarter than me. I don’t even get to be in charge of turning main beams on and off on the country roads.

Conducting an unintentional experiment into the impact of a late afternoon mocha… So far mocha > half a guide to good project management when it comes to trying to sleep. This is all good stuff but it’s basically a hardcopy text book 😭 please brain, I have no other cheats for you.

This was my introduction to the heroine I didn’t know I needed - have been warmly recommending all over! Been saving the sequel as my post-dissertation reward (also a gorgeous illumicrate edition).

Obliged to buy this purely based on the title. (It’s my dating profile headline.) TBR count 267 🤫 #booksky

When the ‘final proof read’ turns into ‘let me completely edit this again’ #amwriting #writersky

Those days when the cat sitter relays that Luna robbed Kira’s dinner from the microchip enabled feeder, then settled in for celebratory snuggles after her felonies. Face of a criminal mastermind right here.

#Caturday - when you sit down at the top of the stairs to scroll your phone and your supervisors turn up ❤️

When you spot @jocallaghankat.bsky.social in the wild on one of those tougher days and take it as a sign from the universe that kicking butt in consulting and writing is feasible. Thanks Jo 🙏🏼

I feel like these wind-down, sleep improvement apps that recommend reading before sleep fail to adequately advertise the riskiest side effect to the prescription: the ‘one more chapter’ hex.

The problem with staying up 4 hours past bed time finishing your latest fab read, say The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson, is that sometimes you need to catch a 6am train the next day 😵‍💫😴😵 Worth it though #booksky

Happy #Caturday from the Kira kitten - seems to be going from strength to strength.

As achievements go, I don’t know if it’s more impressive to have finally figured out how to put the Vauxhall Corsa into reverse, or how long I managed to keep using it without ever having to know. 🤔

Tesco, I’m just saying that five different types of fake eyelashes and no hair bobbles would not be my choice in a little express. Think of the hair getting caught in those eyelashes! Boots better not let me down tomorrow.

Not sure what I did to earn the vet’s displeasure, but if I succeed in nothing else today, I already managed to get three sets of medication into one very resistant kitten. Iykyk. #cats #catsofbluesky #catsky

#caturday with my tiny but mighty Kira, just out of hospital and on the mend but good wishes welcomed. #catsofbluesky #blueskycats

Today’s cat excitement involved hurrying Kira to the vet where she was prescribed an enema. Lesson learned: beings this cute can still be full of **** 😅 (She is now fine, but walking like a cowgirl) #catsofbluesky

How is the writing going today you (didn't) ask? I deleted an entire chapter (3k). 😬 Now I'm re-writing it. #AmWriting

Majestic Luna ❤️ #Caturday

#ThrowbackThursday to the day Luna arrived. The wanton vandalism was a sign of things to come. #cats #blueskycats #kitten

I feel like given the typical financial position of most aspiring authors, £170 worth of UK novel competitions all having entry deadlines end of May is potentially prohibitive. (I know entering early can be a thing, but then you can’t do that final tweak!) #Writing #AmWriting

That moment after you do the early sign up for a half marathon in 2026 and remember: 1) this will be over two hours continuous running at your best speed 2) you can currently do about two minutes

What now? Trying to wash! #caturday

The SECOND Genre Creators for Trans Rights auction is now live through June 7th, proceeds this time to Gender Intelligence UK and Gender DynamiX in SA. bit.ly/genrefortrans. We've got some very special things incoming, and if you'd like to donate, get in touch with me or @ngjeannette.bsky.social

My beautiful tiny girl who is frequently too poorly lit for good photos ❤️ #blackcatproblems #catsky

Now that pretty book subscription research has met pension research, I’m on the waitlist for all the book subscriptions and have decided future me can live in a house made of books whilst the cats catch critters if my pension let’s me down.

Why is my algorithm giving me cheerful bank holiday reading about needing retirement savings like: Age 30: 1 x income Age 40: 3 x income Age 50: 6 x income Age 60: 8 x income This is meant to be a day of non-working joyful escapism not staring into a financial abyss. 😭

Two and a bit hours left til our first auction closes. We're sitting on £18300! Imagine we cracked 20k for trans rights in the UK and SA. Bit.ly/genrefortrans

Sunday morning cuddles vibe ❤️ #catsofbluesky #catsky

It is an absolute bargain right now, and they are some amazing things that you can bid for. And it's for a very good cause.

Some days I am a rational, competent professional. (If you’re a client, all days!) Other days, none of my available (255) TBR books will do. I will spend an hour searching the house for a different book I’m 90% sure I bought, and eventually discover it in a stack of cookery pamphlets.

Four days off with the goal of writing something (maybe my assignment?). Instead, I have walked 37k steps, cleaned the house, done gardening for the first time in 18 months, read two books, assembled a Lego set, watched two TV series and deleted/filed 3,000 emails. 🤫 #writing #procrastinating

One thing you need to understand about me is I don’t have a TBR pile or even shelf. I have two TBR bookcases with 260 books. So when I don’t seem excited about the book you’re recommending, it’s not that I’m not excited, it’s that my reading average around work since 2019 looks like this! #Booksky

Nothing gives #maincharacterenergy like realising the couple at the next table have stopped talking and are just listening to you and your mate (aka🍸&🍷). (Hinge may have been mentioned.) What would your gossip be? 🕵🏻‍♀️

Amongst my superpowers: going for ‘milk’ and having to remortgage the house by the time I get to the checkout. I don’t think it’s just inflation…

New game - writing date with fellow writer where you see how long you can just make random conversational sounds amidst their monologue of figuring it out by themselves before they actually notice what you’re doing. Looking at you @siobhanmaher.bsky.social 😘

Am I the only writer with a Google docs preference who occasionally taps on the short cut to ‘Drive’ instead of ‘Google Maps’ when needing to navigate home after a long day?

When the author-speaker did not have you in mind for the audience: ‘You could’ve gotten a pensionable career in finance’ 🤫🤣🫣 #thisaccountantwrites #writing

Thrilled to see my novel on this longlist (albeit belatedly!) - thanks for a lovely start to 2025 @retreatwest.bsky.social