“Mimi. I love you.”

🤣🤣🤣* *It’s late. Am I overtired?

Join us TONIGHT for a special #WeeknightWriters chat about the trials and tribulations of writing our #FirstDraftFall projects!

Based on the final promise alone, I’M IN #YoureTearingMeApartLisa

So delighted to attend the online launch of @amdassu.bsky.social's beautiful new children's book #WildJourney. Az wrote this illustrated story especially for young readers, to make reading a real treat. Grab your copy now for the curious child in your life 🤗 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

I’m off to my local village choir tonight to rehearse some carols for our Christmas concert

About bloody time, Britain 👏 leapsports.org/news/CoE-int...

I was just listening to this podcast about that! I think the take-home message was that we all try to find the pattern to make sense of the publishing industry, when the reality is, it’s basically unpredictable chaos, and we have almost no control over anything!🤣 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

I'm so excited to be giving a poetry reading as part of Hannah's Bookshelf's (North Manchester FM) Poetry Special on Saturday! You can listen live from 2 pm via the radio if you're based in Manchester, or online if you live elsewhere 🦉 hannahkate.net/north-manche...

Ooo!

Oh crap 🫣

When you got a good blurb and you want to show it off. cc @nickharkaway.com!

It’s time for progressive movements to ask a serious question: how do we keep using platforms that actively undermine democracy and concentrate wealth in the hands of the very few, while claiming to fight for equality? cc @greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social @owenjones.bsky.social

The job adverts for EHRC Commissioners (4 posts) are finally out. Deadline: 1st December. If you, or anyone you know, feels brave enough to apply, please do consider putting in an application! apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9026?b...

I'm doing a Loki signing along with some MASSIVELY famous authors on Dec 6th at @booksellercrow.bsky.social in South London. Come and get Christmas signed books as presents for bookish friends and family of all ages. www.thebookseller.com/news/the-boo... #KidLitUK #Booksky #UKKidlit

Art Nouveau stained glass dome from 1908 at the Palace of Catalan Music, a concert hall in Barcelona, designed by painter and glassmaker Antoni Rigalt (1850-1914)

riting iz hard

Thank you! It was indeed one of those days

Love this!

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

I’ve had four novels successfully published. I’ve also written four full novels that (in all likelihood) will never be published. Three of those were written since my debut. It’s not so unusual. Some books work, some don’t. Some sell, some don’t. #KeepWriting.

Counting down the days now... a massive day of Gothic fiction and ghost stories incoming, with a superb array of British talent taking part! WINTER HAUNTS runs on the 15th November... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-hau... #writers #writing #workshop #workshops #talks #fiction #gothic #ghoststories

Plotting out two new novels right now, and this week both of them ended up in a bit of a cul-de-sac, annoyingly. Never mind. Back up. Dig out. Try again.

Photo by Thierry Ardouin. A clematis seed in flight.

Shout out to everyone who desperately wants to work on their #FirstDraftFall WIP but is too exhausted because they had a Very Busy Weekend and now need another weekend (It's me, I'm the one who wants to work on my WIP but is utterly exhausted)

#WeeknightWriters Time for our #FirstDraftFall check-in! How did your writing go today? Enjoying these nightly check-ins? Want even more support? Join our Pro Discord for writing sprints, virtual write-ins, voice socials, and more! ko-fi.com/weeknightw...

It’s Non Binary November! 💛🤍💜🖤

Innit

Ouch, even nice writing rejections sting a little bit, don’t they? Still:

#WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall Happy November, everyone! Will you be starting your new draft today? Have you already started? Do you need a couple more days to finish planning?

#AuthorInterview by @portybelle.bsky.social #Festive #ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions with Sue Moorcroft #author of A Christmas Gift | #BookSky @suemoorcroftauthor.bsky.social #AvonBooksUK

This is a great initiative 💗💗💗

ATTENTION INDIE BOOK READERS The Indie Ink Awards are open for nominations! Authors can't nominate their own books, so it's up to you to make sure your faves get their shot. #booksky #indiebooks #IndieInkAwards

Loving this latest episode of #FictionWritingMadeEasy, all about how Save The Cat Writes Horror. Brilliant genre tips in here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

Oh—and if a Lib Dem asks how we can know already what’s in the EHRC Code, it’s because they published the draft here: www.equalityhumanrights.com/equality/equ... There is very little reason to think anything has significantly changed post-consultation.

I’ve looked into where Lib Dems are coming from with their bizarre messaging about publishing the EHRC Code ASAP and I’ve done a kind of briefing statement in response. This might be helpful to get the message across to the Lib Dems about what is actually needed right now. Feel free to use & share!

Congratulations to all the British Fantasy Award winners recognising some really brillliant work in SFF and horror!! It was such an honour to be nominated this year, and it's been a great weekend to be around such talented writers and friends 🎉✨️Now off to enjoy essential convention karaoke!

My #RecentRead* #WalkMeToTheCorner by #AnneliFurmark *books I’ve really liked/loved

This one time, at our old house, our garden was so unkempt that we had a 🍂massive pile of dead leaves 🍂 next to the front door, and some little kids came trick-or-treating, and their mum said they really liked the spooky pile of leaves we’d made for Halloween 🎃 and Ellie & I were like

FRIDAY!

Me putting holds on library books: Ahahaha yes Me receiving all the holds at once: oh n o

Happy Halloween, everyone!

This is still just under five bucks for your favorite digital reading device, and I don't know why, but if I had to guess, it will stop being this price after today. So if you want creepy family dynamics and alternate reality horrors and maybe-haunted-house funtimes, THE BOOK OF ACCIDENTS awaits.

Please do respond to this consultation about CYP gender services if you possibly can. @tacc.org.uk have put together a guide to help you, as we know doing these kinds of consultations can be really difficult, including emotionally. Thank you to everyone who has already filled it in. 🏳️‍⚧️❤️🏳️‍⚧️

www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/10/31st... Hot on the heels of the Longlist here’s the shortlist of 20 as selected by judge @kazbarwrites.bsky.social for our 31st Award. Congratulations to all!

Congratulations!

#WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall How does your MC's character arc tie into your story's theme? These questions are from our First Draft Fall worksheets! For the full worksheets, join our membership program at ko-fi.com/weeknightw...

My #RecentRead* #TheOdessaFile by #FrederickForsyth *books I’ve really liked/loved