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Lauded on the latest @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social newsletter just fyi

It’s been a lovely week chatting with you all about #Writing! Up next on the #WomenWriersNet account is the marvelous @valeriavescina.bsky.social! Do stay tuned!

#SundaySarton “…it is time the warm nurturing powers, usually taken for granted in women, now be called out of men in equal measure.” — May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude, 1973

Remembering Louis L’Amour’s birthday, I #amwriting so that I may make some small contribution to understanding what it means to be human. 📚💙 More: Louis Dearborn L'Amour, award-winning American #writer and #poet - Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. www.louislamour.com/aboutlouis/b...

Today on the blog I'm shining the spotlight on Christmas in Castleby by J.M. Simpson as part of the blog tour hosted by The Write Reads! #BookSky #BookBlogger

I love this. Reminds me of the saying, "If they give you lined paper, write the other way." It's attributed to William Carlos Williams and Juan Ramon Jimenez.

Just my two books hanging out in the local author section of the wonderful San Diego Library Foundation store. Support libraries! Support indie lit! @stanchion.bsky.social @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social

Good news. I wonder if all the social media posts about planting milkweed and other similar flora that monarchs like have helped boost their numbers.

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Son by Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger @JoGustawsson @EngerThomas @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours liveanddeadly.net/2026/03/23/s...

Son by Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger @JoGustawsson @EngerThomas @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours Source: Review copyPublication: 26 March 2026 from Orenda BooksPP: 300ISBN-13: 978-1916788589 I am delighted to reprise my review of the awesome SON by Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger, which is…

MR & MRS KAN (Lloyd Corrigan, 1936) A loose adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man, in which a retired San Francisco detective (Sessue Hayakawa) is reluctantly drawn into a murder mystery by his irrepressible heiress wife (Anna May Wong).

Good morning and welcome to marvellous marmalade Monday Are your goals truly yours or shaped by what others think you should be doing? Don't be afraid to start over. This time you're not starting from scratch. You're starting from experience.

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I'm live on Start the Week this morning on BBC Radio 4 at 9am with two other fantastic guests, being interviewed by the legend that is @naomialderman.bsky.social!

New on the blog today, I've written about the final books in Olivia Manning's superb semi-autobiographical FORTUNES OF WAR series. A richly imagined insight into lives lived on the advancing edges of war as the Germans closed in on North Africa. #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/03/22/t...

It’s #LiftToTheSky Monday. Share a poet, press, or project you trust. Your recommendation matters.

If you are in BERLIN this week, come explore the city's rich literary history with us and @marcelkrueger.bsky.social Friday AND Saturday www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/literary-w...

Come walk the streets of Berlin with me - 2 really nice small groups of writers will be there too Join us!

Our newsletter is out, and we're going to AMSTERDAM! Join us there in June or online or in Madrid. We can't wait to meet you ✨️ europeanwriterssalon.substack.com/p/your-next-...

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You can read an extract of Sweep the Cobwebs Off the Sky my @maryodonnell.bsky.social on the @rte.ie website. If you like what you read, the book is available from your local bookshop, as ePub or direct from us. www.rte.ie/culture/2026... #epoquepress #books #bookrecommendations #booksky

On the Ramblings today, I go on a bit of a #Colette binge with the final three #Claudine books! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/o...

New on my blog - Paperbacks to Look Out For in April 2026: Part Two alifeinbooks.co.uk/2026/03/pape... #BookSky

Six Little Words by Sally Page | #bookreview I am a huge fan of Sally Page's writing and was very excited to read her new book. Her writing is always heart-warming and uplifting and that was true for this book. My thanks to the publishers for my digital review copy from Netgalley. Six Little Words…

It’s a new week, which calls for a new book. - Michael

Free international delivery from @blackwells.bsky.social in case anyone else wants to give it a go: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

You can find Longbarrow Press at the following book fairs in the coming weeks: States of Independence, Leicester, Saturday 28 March Free Verse: Poetry Book Fair, London, Saturday 25 April Book Market, SIBFest, Sheffield, Sunday 26 April Free, all welcome. Further info: longbarrowpress.com/events/

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Are you looking for work in #publishing? Then do explore our popular jobs board, one of the industry's go-to destinations for publishing vacancies 👉 bit.ly/2Zt85SE You’ll find some great opportunities in a variety of roles, sectors and locations. See thread below for current vacancies #booksky 👇

We know this prize doesn’t matter in the grand scheme. Neither does prestige. But cash and care do — and you showed both, shoulder to shoulder. #TheBrokenSpineAward #ByPoetsForPoets #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky

#BookChallenge for March post a book by a woman author every day, in no particular order. It has to be a book you've read. It has to be a book you've enjoyed. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #WomenWriters #Books

April is #ReadIrishWomen, the perfect time to discover more about Eva Gore-Booth. Kicking myself I didn't think to get a photo when Sonja was in (as has become apparent by the number of typos I've posted this week, my brain has been somewhat over-taxed by all the... stuff happening)

#PromptCombo has a new host, the very brilliant Jan. Show him the love #PromptCombo crew❤️ this week for his #Nothing them. Use the hastags & tag @janpsolivagant.bsky.social to get involved

Penguin Michael Joseph has acquired two new titles from bestselling author Fiona Valpy 👇 #BookSky

The #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 aims to highlight the great range of women writers in Ireland, past & present. Don't miss the anniversary edition of @sonjatiernan.bsky.social's biography of the Irish radical poet, rebel & reformer Eva Gore-Booth. Available from all good bookstores & online! #booksky

2021 #51 Another of the wonderful Cities in Short Fiction from @commapress.bsky.social , this time we're in Tehran, and I wonder about what hand fate has dealt those who wrote these stories in recent days. More info in the alt text as usual, a fine collection. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🖋️📚 #booksky

Pssst, are you a teacher? We've turned some of our best short stories into lesson plans for Grade 9-12. Vocabulary words, learning theories; everything to keep your school happy! buff.ly/fuQNxBk

Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Submissions for Issue 14: Traditions & Rituals are open until April 10th! Send us your kidlit writing and art about all the big and small traditions that bring joy, connection, and meaning to your life.

You can find us at the States of Independence one-day festival and book fair in Leicester on Sat 28 March. Other stallholders inc. @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social & @leafepress.bsky.social, and there's a programme of talks & events. 10am-4pm, all welcome, admission free.

No books sold in the last hour. We're still on 26 #ghmbist

Via James Montgomery: St James’s Park #London this #spring morning. As you can see, London is an absolute hellhole.

Over on Substack, I do weekly roundups of new reads. And if you'd like to get them in your inbox, you can subscribe for free! open.substack.com/pub/matteris...