New books heading out today, first up “Eleanor”, Alice Loxton’s history of one of our forgotten queens. - Michael bertsbooks.co.uk/product/elea...

What a lovely surprise this was today! It is such an honour to see NEPHTHYS on the @historia-hwa.bsky.social Debut Crown 2025 shortlist. Many thanks to the judges, and congratulations to everyone on this list! 👑

“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. ” ― Virginia Woolf writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

Please, @theguardian.com, stop writing headlines that give credibility to Trump’s baseless medical misinformation. The way you’re reporting this makes you part of the problem.

Solitary rose 🌹 🥀💐#September

Five great writing tips from author and CBC tutor Laura Barnett. ✍️

Have to say I went at the weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it !

Have you downloaded our Author Care: A Toolkit for Authors yet? As well as helping you navigate the industry, this toolkit shows how the principles of good author care can empower authors on their publication journey. We'd love to know what you think. societyofauthors.org/resource/aut...

I’ve pre ordered this book so it’s going to be a lovely surprise when it arrives unexpectedly ! Very much looking forward to it !

'One friend was advised to retire a series because the average rating slipped below 4.2 stars. Every keyboard-licking troll who fires off a volley of one-star ratings for their own strange & probably sad reasons, has the power to affect a writer’s career” www.thebookseller.com/news/authors...

British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Author Jojo Moyes on AI.

We have a desperate shortage of care workers. This has a catastrophic effect on the NHS too. Labour’s decision to close the care worker visa scheme for overseas recruitment is appalling, kneejerk politics that - yet again - will penalise the most vulnerable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I’d read this excellent post before but it was a timely reminder today.

@pierstorday.bsky.social at today’s protest, on the importance of protecting copyright law in light of the Meta’s scraping of unlicensed works to train their AI systems. #MetaBookTheives #DoTheWriteThing

Author @ajwestauthor.bsky.social at the Meta protest 🔥

Coming this Friday to @frazzledlit.bsky.social, my interview with Barbara Leahy @barbleahy.bsky.social about her debut novel REMBRANDT'S PROMISE (Eriu Book), which will hit the shelves in two day's time! Here's a wee taster!

Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates

I love this devastating piece from Andrea Cohen.

AI is profiting from human creativity – isn’t it time creators got their fair share? A fair deal for creators isn’t just about making things right, it is essential for the future of creativity and AI. Find out more: societyofauthors.org #PayTheCreator #MadeByHumans

This looks great!

Saw this picture on X and it prompted a thread! Which I shall now attempt to reproduce here…

Have you ever been told you're too old to do something? Being told you're 'too old for that' isn't part of ageing. It's ageism. Find out more from our @agewithoutlimits.bsky.social campaign: https://www.agewithoutlimits.org/

Award-winning poet Michael Longley dies aged 85 www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Definitely one for the wish list ! 📚📚📚

Birds of a feather ( or not )…

Irish author Colin Barrett’s Wild Houses wins Nero debut fiction prize. judges praise novel for ‘sheer quality of its writing ... brilliant dialogue ... characters ... wit and humour’. Michael Magee won inaugural award last year & Paul Murray won overall award www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Death to the “hooky”, action-packed, in media res first chapter; my kingdom for a vibey, seductive, languid first chapter. Let me sink into the novel like warm bathwater, don't plunge me headfirst into the deep end of the frigid pool.

Sad news . I remember loving David Lodge’s campus novels too. They were so brilliant and funny. Might be time for a reread !

NEW YEAR GIVEWAY! Win an early signed hardback of my legal/political thriller NOTES ON A DROWNING plus a *£20 Book Voucher*. Just follow me and share this post. ‘Pacy, absorbing and smart, with great characters and brilliant dialogue on every page.’ - TM Logan www.waterstones.com/book/notes-o...

Happy New Year all ! 🎉🥂📚

An amazing piece in The Times today on the power of great fiction and ‘the best debut novel I’ve read in years’ — The Names by @florenceknapp.bsky.social

The good old days 😳 Fascinating stuff ! Love these posts.

Congratulations to all the winners - still remember how exciting the whole thing was !

Delighted to have received one of these great mentorships this year. Huge thanks to @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social and Arts Council NI 📚📚📚

We are very happy to announce this year's Support Scheme recipients! Supported by the #NationalLottery through the @ArtsCouncilNI, we have awarded: 20 Course Bursaries 20 Irish Writers Centre Memberships 30 Mentorships irishwriterscentre.ie/announcing-t...

“for someone who loved words as much as i did, it was amazing how often they failed me” — if we were villains by m. l. rio

🤣 I wish !!

Agree! This book sounds amazing !

Happy one-year birthday to my murder mystery musical movie, ‘The Mystery of Mr. E’! On this day last year, it was the London premiere at the Curzon cinema in Soho!! You can watch the movie on Amazon Prime (free!) or Apple TV! You could watch it…on its birthday!

I’m not reposting the article about a bunch of talentless tech bros boasting about ‘disrupting the industry’ by scamming authors out of £5k for AI-crappy vanity publishing. But lovely #writers, for goodness’ sake, start valuing your words. Don’t fall for idiots who see you as starry-eyed cash cows.

“We are a publishing platform. That’s a new concept.” Dress it up as much as you like. This isn't publishing. www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...

“I will always love the sea. It always makes everything peaceful inside me.” ― Albert Camus

This is such a great article - so insightful about the publishing process - about Booker nominated books and even winners who had a very difficult journey to even get published in the first place.

Just seen my first couple of somewhat dubious posts 😬🥹 clearly a few that had slipped through the net

I love this! When I'm mentoring YA writers, I always ask what they think of Twilight, and if they're disparaging, I know they don't get YA *at all*. Twilight is beloved because it speaks directly to first teen love. It takes teen love as seriously as teens take it www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Another day at Bluesky, and it looks like growth is not slowing down! Welcome! We’d like to take a moment to share our stance on AI and user data:

#Castleward looking gorgeous on our walk today.