You want crime, wine, and conversation in a small independent bookshop in the Cotswolds? I thought so. Woodstock (Oxfordshire), Sunday 28 September, 5pm. If you've enjoyed the book (@josephinequinn.bsky.social and @drdeininger.bsky.social?) please spread the word!

Sometimes people are kind.

Loved this conversation - a real meeting of (biographical) minds!

Clock ticking (my fault entirely) - you have a couple of hours left to listen to me talking about 'Death of an Englishman' on The Book Show, Talk Radio Europe. I'm on at about 7.20pm (BST)! www.talkradioeurope.com/on-demand/

That should have said 'no four-letter c-words here'.... Never try to be clever, Beer.

Audiobook - done! Death of an Englishman: an Oxford mystery available on the usual platforms. Click here for eight and counting hours of gentle, clever crime fiction. (No c-word here...) bookguild.co.uk/bookshop/cri...

Madrid! Cirencester! My local church hall! Hitting all the big venues. (No idea whether I am reaching anybody on here, so if you want to know more about this mini author tour, throw me a like.)

If you’re in Oxford on 8 June, join us in person as we welcome @annabeerauthor.bsky.social - and otherwise join us online. This will be fun! www.some.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

A heads-up for anyone in the States who wants to read my new murder mystery, Death of an Englishman. Ebook isthe way to go. Here's the link for Amazon, Apple, Google and Kobo. bookguild.co.uk/bookshop/cri...

Josephine Quinn showing how it's done. Death of an Englishman is now required reading on any train ride, don't you know.

One of the many things to ♥️ about Caper Bookshop is it (literally) advertises Grown-up Events. So, come and hear me in conversation, in a thoroughly grown-up way*, with fellow Oxford crime writer, Simon Mason. 27th May. checkout.square.site/merchant/ML2... *no promises, there may be some giggling

www.instagram.com/anna_beer_au... more to follow!

And while I'm here - a tactful post about the PEN awards. www.instagram.com/anna_beer_au...

Hello people of bluesky! Do you an escape from too much reality and/or some intelligent fluff? Of course you do. So, read my new murder mystery: 'Death of an Englishman'. www.instagram.com/anna_beer_au...

Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8

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What makes a great writer? Great nails. Thanks to Freya at Tao Beauty in Oxford, I at least have great nails. #manicure #writer

TOMORROW!!! www.ticketsource.co.uk/oxford-liter...

What a longlist! Honoured to be a judge for @penamerica.bsky.social - every one of these books shines a light on lives which may have been misrepresented, misunderstood, or missed entirely. Now, more than ever, we need good biography. #biograpy #penamerica #awards

Oh. TFW you realise you are just a sheep. No spoilers, but the victim in my new murder mystery is called..... David. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

#catsofbluesky #kittens #kittensinperil #cute Yes, I will do ANYTHING to sell my book

You know, I think the kitten-in-peril market is HUGE, and I might have missed a trick.

You know when you suddenly decide to change direction, take a leap into the new, and become a beginner again? Well, I do. And it's been wonderful: challenging but oh so satisfying. The result? My first novel, out next month. More to follow, but for now - I'm just going to enjoy this moment!

The quote in my last post is from the BBC article below. See. Sources. (But now I suppose I had better check it...) #Sundaymorningfun

AI history creator of viral content: "It would be cool to make it totally accurate using the right sources, but it's just me on my own making these videos and it takes 8 hours to make each one." Grumpy scholar: "it can take 8 years to make a book. Because accuracy and the right sources matter."

Not going to lie. A green onyx is a bit of rock. End of. But the kindness and perceptiveness of the gift? Now that is magical. Social anxiety, it's a thing. And this will help.

Kemi Badenoch speech to the culture warriors convention today in London is extraordinary. She warns of “the poisoning of minds through higher education.” What next? Struggle sessions and degree holders being sent down to the countryside? Hardly know where to start.

“Applying for Arts Council England funding” @ldcomics.bsky.social are running an online workshop tomorrow - book here. Please share. #comics #ukcomics #britishcomics #ukcomicscreators #manga ldcomics.com/product/ldco...

I'm really and truly back on social media when I've discovered a new game. Gamescrolling. The way to go. Connections Puzzle #613 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

1/ Heard Fanny Mendelssohn's Hiob last night at Festival Hall. Lovely, but a Bach pastiche. She then stopped (depressing reasons) composing big works. BUT for solo piano she kept writing, developing an authentic voice in relation to (not drowned by) Bach - the genius of Das Jahr is proof of that.

this is niche, but trying to buy a wooden train set for small family members and it seems all the figures are white and that all the people in uniform are white males. I'm new to this (not had many small people in my life for a while) but...help? #sexism #racism #trains #toys

Someone is ABSOLUTELY going to be m*rdered at this conference, but this is a risk I’m willing to take because this is the coolest conference I’ve ever seen. 🚂 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...

@clavisandclaustra.bsky.social product placement time! Wild night out at an Oxford college - lots of lovely food and interesting people to talk to. Good to see new portraits on the walls (women! blimey!)

Hello (again). What do I do? I work with people to help unleash their creativity. In part, because that helps me as well, and not only as an author. Check out my website (for mentoring) or thespeakersagency.com/speakers/ann... for speaking #publicspeaking #writinglife #creativity

Hello (properly). Frying pan to fire = my social media history. Hoping this place is different? better? kinder? Going to post a few things and see what happens. For now, for anyone who needs it, here's one of the most beautiful, peaceful places on the planet: Song Kul in Kyrgyzstan.

This week, 8/3 7:30pm at The Storey, we're celebrating #InternationalWomensDay2024 with @annabeerauthor.bsky.social and EVE BITES BACK: an alternative history of English Literature. In person or online, live or on 30 day catch up! Free/pay what you can (£5 recommended) https://geni.us/IWD24

youtu.be/JVV3pFxbDp0?... You know what you need to do people... @lauriestras.bsky.social @sarahfritz.bsky.social

Almost miss the other place because I would be screaming loudly about this - PLEASE search #LetHerMusicPlay, follow on youtube, and let's smash a world record (and, ahem, the patriarchy)

icamebytrain.com/my-pledge/sh... a drop in the ocean, but still...

James Merrill’s undersung AIDS elegy that is at once the perfect persona poem, a darkly tongue-in-cheek concrete poem, and a kind of beautifully ended haibun that captures the whimsical sadness of Christmas like a John Williams score. Imagine writing something this masterfully on the edge of death.

Just spotted UCL's Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery setting up on Bluesky (cslbs.bsky.social ). If you're not familiar with their database, maps, estates ownership browser etc, you can find them open access here: www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/

Palaeography folk: ‘Votes at Grocers Hall’ or ‘Notes’? I think the former.

Authors: what's your best unused title? Mine is "Nuns with Guns II". I’d told a friend about music-making nuns, who worked in dangerous conditions. The ‘II’ is inspired, hinting at a successful "NwG I", and with potential for a gaming tie-in nuns with guns II | shadowofthecourtesan (wordpress.com)

I call this one "The Vanity of Authors". I really don't know what's more exciting - to be considered thought-provoking or to lie next to Alan Rickman. Thank you, Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford, for both.

A reminder that at Bristol we are hiring a Lecturer in Early Modern History... closing date 12th Jan. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DET180/l...

I've made a Christmas Book Tree. If you say it's just a pile of books, you're wrong. Completely wrong.

Intrigued by this. Anyone who has worked on Hamlet with me will know I am fascinated by Ophelia's apparently stunted language - thoroughly humbling (and thrilling) to see someone transform limitation into powerful expression.

For you @drgipps.bsky.social (and anyone else feeling it)

Sunshine! Small but perfectly formed trains! A recumbent penguin! Yes, it's another gratuitous train pic (from March this year, in Donostia/San Sebastian). It keeps me happy while awaiting the rush of new followers that will surely come here, escaping the other place.