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Character prompt no. 17 #characterization #writingprompt

Wow! Just watched "Hamnet". ConGRATS to Jessie on Oscar win. SO WELL-DESERVED. Fabulous.

Just re-upping this in case it's been a tough week.

Cancer and Alzheimer’s disease have an inverse relationship: Cancer patients have a lower risk of Alzheimer’s, and vice versa. A Comment article in npj Aging suggests that exploring this link may lead to new insights and treatments for both conditions. go.nature.com/4eReoHB #medsky 🧪

Mini podcast time! If you enjoy learning about how best-selling authors have grown their career over the past 2 decades (and a journey from non fiction to fiction) check out below! substack.com/home/post/p-... @johnironmonger.bsky.social #books #author

Happy Furrowed Middlebrow Friday! 🥳🎉 Can I tell you how happy I am that Dean Street Press has republished TWO MORE of D.E. Stevenson's warm and wonderful novels?? Yipppeee! I'm in heaven! I've read this duology three times and it's just SO good—Wooo! babsbelovedbooks.blogspot.com/2026/07/bel-...

📚💙 @thebookerprizes.com : Summer reading special - what to read in the weeks ahead open.substack.com/pub/thebooke...

The Therapeutic Uses of Writing | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/walk...

apnews.com/today-in-his... Today in History: July 10, the Battle of Britain begins

Applications for our Memoir Bursary Scheme are now open. Our bursary scheme offers eligible underrepresented writers a free entry to the Bridport Prize Memoir Award. 📝 No proof of income required 📝 Open to underrepresented writers worldwide Find out more and apply: buff.ly/NW4NImh

Five on Friday with May Rinaldi @mayrinaldi56 jillsbookcafe.blog/2026/07/10/f...

#Booksky So we have a book festival in St. Paul tomorrow, an author talking to a book club next Saturday, one of our books making an appearance at SDCC, a library reading of award winners and a vendor fair at a new geek space in Circle Pines the week after. Also: a newsletter! queenofswordspress.com

Know the warning signs as temperatures are expected to be HOT for the next couple of days due to the heat dome

We’re BACK! Tune your sets to BBC Radio 4 for 9am on Thursday 30th July. The BBC Sounds podcast will go up the same day. Series 12 Episode 1 is Alexandria: The Science, with guests Islam Issa and @adamrutherford.bsky.social! 🔬📚 #NatalieHaynesStandsUpfortheClassics

A new biography of Lawrence Durrell by the world's foremost expert, covering his time in London, Paris, Corfu and Alexandria. #Larry by Michael Haag is out in paperback now!

Am enjoying the straightforward storytelling punch of this so far. Funny, wily & bawdy. There's something so refreshing about contemporary Chinese literature. It's clever, mischievous, insightful about human nature, but without the self-conscious smugness of novels that piss on their own characters.

What Is Dystopian Fiction & How Do I Write It? - Explore dystopian fiction and learn why readers love this genre. Discover its elements and get tips for writing dynamic dystopian stories. #dystopia #writingtips #writingsky #booksky

Born on 9 July 1945, Dean Koontz is an American bestselling author known for his thrilling novels that blend horror, science fiction, mystery, and satire. In this post, he shares insights on overcoming self-doubt. #deankoontz #botd #writingsky

Thinking about Brian Moore because of nonsuchbook.bsky.social and because he is finally up next for me, 6 years after the Nov 2019 library sale when I bought many of his books. At the time ds228.bsky.social teased me that I wouldn’t get to the M shelf for 3 years. He massively overestimated me.

Morning all! Another day with our lovely grandson but I'm hoping he'll have a nap this afternoon so we can watch Fery play. I love the Wimbledon fortnight. Are there times in your year when you'd willing give up writing to pursue another interest?

#PoemsAbout #PowerCut is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.

Happy Publication!!

Good morning. From Hebden Bridge to the world. Bluemoose Books translated into: French. German. Spanish. Dutch. Italian. Slovakian. Czech. Russian. Turkish. Hungarian. Bulgarian. Polish. Greek. Arabic. @thebookseller.com @yorkshirepost.co.uk

....in which I *finally* get #hoteldulac #anitabrookner #20BOS26 Book 9 kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/i...

To celebrate the amazing @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social’s appointment as our new children’s laureate, how about we use this week’s #KidsBooksFriday to share books that embody her message of community and belonging. #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit

Long ago now. Long ago. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain… But not just yet… The film’s moments are so powerful of course because they’re physical moments, people, sets, a vision of future horror, replication, automation, tech, caught on celluloid, without CGI, without AI

It Could Have Been Her by Lisa Jewell @lisajewelluk @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social #ItCouldHaveBeenHer bluemoodcafe.com/2026/07/09/i... via @bluemoodcafe.bsky.social

First watch: The Room in the Tower (2025). The most recent instalment of the A Ghost Story for Christmas strand, based on the E.F. Benson short story. Effectively creepy for the most part, although the BBC sound department needs to take a chill pill. 1/4

Home away from home… #BookSky

Country Music Legend Dolly Parton's Autobiographical Musical Exploring Her Journey From East Tennessee Will Hit Broadway This Winter www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/c...

The publishing industry views Bluesky as some tiny unimportant island out somewhere in a far-off ocean. It's not worthy of their attention like Amazon Algoland or The Republic Of Instagram Influencer Collaborativepost is. What they don't realise is just how much the island's inhabitants love books.

As promised to link to my first actual Hookland book. It is only small, but covers a lot of the ghost soil. If enough of you buy it and like it there will be a Volume Two. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123 It will also be available in an actual bookshop soon.

Any conversation about contemporary British fantasy and folklore that doesn't include Hookland is fatally flawed. It's an essential part of the landscape.

Huge congratulations to the AMAZING Patrice Lawrence, who's just been announced as the new children's laureate. This is such a brilliant choice.

Could not be more pleased to reveal my 10th book, a microfiction collection about staying in hotels by myself. It'll be published in late September by the mighty No Alibis Press complete with gorgeous illustrations by Rory Jeffers. Pre-order #NoVacancy now on the No Alibis website.

Delighted to announce the shortlist for our Annual John McGahern Book Prize Congratulations to ✒️ Gethan Dick ✒️ Seán Farrell ✒️ Liadan Ní Chuinn More on the shortlist in @irishtimes.com: www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... @tramppress.bsky.social @newislandbooks.bsky.social @stingingfly.bsky.social

"[Blood Money is] a striking examination of how a democratic society surrendered itself to authoritarianism through ordinary human passion rather than extraordinary evil." @publisherswkly.bsky.social review of Anna Seghers's Blood Money, which comes out on 9/22, in a translation by Lucy Jones.

New Interview with Bryce Oakley - free on our Patreon.  Find out - what't the best pizza - why every hotel should have a library with more than horror books - writing stand alone vs series books https://f.mtr.cool/zitxmsfshw

Are you in London this weekend? Then here's your schedule: Friday Night - @goshcomics.bsky.social - @julesscheele.bsky.social Orlando signing. Saturday 11-6pm - @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social - @odpomery.bsky.social at the Avery Hill table! Sunday 11-5pm - A.R.C again - see various AHP creators!

When I was a youngen and the Guardian for some reason felt it appropriate to give me a newspaper column, I wrote a piece about what it means to be a Welsh woman - inspired by Bonnie Tyler www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ah no, Bonnie Tyler has died. I interviewed her a few years ago and she was reliably great: www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

Bonnie Tyler, chanteuse galloise à l’inimitable voix éraillée, est morte à l’âge de 75 ans

Welsh pop singer Bonnie Tyler, famed for 1980s power ballads such as ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ and ‘Holding Out for a Hero,’ has died aged 75 reut.rs/4pczsff

This has really made me so sad. Bonnie Tyler was iconic. She embraced that song and unafraid to enjoy it (she has so many other great songs too). I'm so glad we went to see her this year. Her live show was everything I wanted it to be and belting out Total Eclipse with hundreds of others was joy.

Rest in peace, Bonnie Tyler, died unexpectedly and too soon but forever a glorious voice of Wales. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

Our condolences to family & friends, she will be missed. Welsh music icon Bonnie Tyler has died aged 75 after being hospitalised in Faro Portugal, where she had owned a home since 1988 Best known for her songs ‘Total Eclipse Of The Heart’, ‘Holding Out For A Hero’ & ‘It’s A Heartache’ #Euronews: