Happy pub day @guymorpuss.bsky.social. I loved this - so clever. Superb fun!

They made a whole channel just for me 🥳 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Happy your kids are too old to dress up for World Book Day to those who celebrate (living my best life now)

Forgot how much I love the Solitude Standing album. Straight back to 1987…

Everyone should read Helen Garner. Brilliant writer www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

God there’s something miserable about unpacking from a really good holiday when it’s raining outside…

Something to be said for not rushing books - this chimes a lot (ie no I am not starting a new book any time soon!) archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

Such a lovely event superbly chaired by Harriet Tyce. Thank you all so much for coming! You can watch it back on the #GraniteNoir livestream ☺️

Never been a huge PD James fan, but thus erudite panel may have changed my mind. @harriettyce.bsky.social @samblakebooks.bsky.social

read this every time I see it, it never disappoints

Brilliant session at Granite Noir, with @harriettyce.bsky.social and Nilesha Chauvet. Well facilitated by Fiona Stalker.

Reminded again how good a writer PD James is. Always a pleasure to return to her work

A thing linking the Traitors edit process to the work of David Lynch. And how creators existing in a separate timeline to the audience makes weird shit just happen. The usual. open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...

Happy February! Delighted that Hunted is Waterstones’ Thriller of the Month! Get it here: www.waterstones.com/campaign/boo...

I am not a serious person…

Happy pub day @annamazz.bsky.social ! I’ve managed to squeeze in reading this around edits and it’s excellent - razor sharp writing, a gripping plot and a level of authenticity that comes straight from years of legal experience right at the coal face. Highly recommended

Forget blue Monday I’ve just handed in my edits and I’m happy as Larry

I love this interview. Hard relate to the comments about plotting twists and not even understanding your own endings sometimes… Meet ‘Freida McFadden’, the doctor hiding her secret life as a bestselling author www.thetimes.com/article/dbb0...

Coffee? At this time? Why yes I am on deadline

Editing fuel. The broccoli really isn’t going to offset the burger, is it…

Not exactly mastermind level these questions

It’s been a week from hell but my son has just recovered his laptop from a spoons in Victoria station and I’ve managed to pay for a visa application after about 10 attempts so today is looking more positive 🥳

What an extraordinary, devastating essay. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Very much looking forward to this

Bored of lists now. Just call me a NY Scrooge

omg a student somehow accidentally wrote an email addressed to a faculty-wide NYU listserv and my inbox is now a master class on who understands the difference between a listserv and an email chain

Michel Foucault: Even when the Elf is not on the Shelf, you are never free of it. You carry the Elf within you, monitoring your own conduct for Naughtiness. You hold yourself prisoner within a self-surveilled snow globe of Santa’s making.

Conclave was great who would have thought a convention of cardinals to have so much tension in it

How have I lost the sellotape while in a stationary position?

Given that Maggie O’Farrell has eschewed all other forms of social media I find it highly unlikely that Bluesky will have won her over…

Ghostwriting is the breeze on the cheek felt the day before the AI hurricane sweeps in.

Great article @thetimes.com by @sathnam.bsky.social on the media's tendency to promote the celeb rather than the ghostwriter. (Ofc, some ghosts don't want to be acknowledged, but having celebs on TV pretending they wrote a book disrespects the craft.) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

A Kaleidoscope of Heroines moderated by the greatest of them all @jackycnoir64.bsky.social at @toonlibraries.bsky.social @harriettyce.bsky.social @marietierney #newcastlenoir

Really looking forward to this. I’ll be reading an extract from my next book which won’t be published till 2026 🐦 🔪

Hope that’s not actually Miriam Toews who I’ve just blocked

Big if true

First book pimping on Bluesky (possibly). Anyway my latest novel is 99p on kindle which for the amount of editing it had makes it a real bargain! amzn.eu/d/iTIf0sF

Everyone go support THE SEVEN. It’s a brilliant, fast paced, ingeniously plotted legal thriller perfect for fans of Jane Casey. I’m so proud to be working with the lovely @robyndelvey.bsky.social who is an exceptional writer, and also happens to be a lovely human being.

I won’t be offended if anyone brings me a bottle of olive oil

Disrupting the publishing industry by cooking lunch for 50 instead

Ah the old binging Masterchef while eating a cold chicken drumstick and 4 chocolates for dinner

I hope your writing week is working out better than Wittgenstein’s.

Heavy is the head

Well hello there! Been a while since I logged in but looks as if it’s a LOT busier now. Nice!

10,000 Vintage Recipe Books Are Now Digitized in The Internet Archive’s Cookbook & Home Economics Collection www.openculture.com/2022/10/1000...

New book next April. Starts in a prison then goes on a very weird journey 🐞

I’m cooking recipes from the Guardian and the New York Times while listening to the Rest is Politics - any delusion I might hold that I’m not yet middle-aged needs to die (the caponata smells great though 🤷‍♀️)