I’ve had the most amazing debut publication year. Now working on book two but please add #DontMakeMeLaugh to your TBR pile if you’re interested in the many trials/investigations of comedians guaranteed to be in the news a lot again this year. #MeToo #BookSky Out now in paperback.

Too posh to push? Fewer men than ever passing kidney stones naturally buff.ly/bhBLE5N

Everything going well.

Half Ma’am Half Brisket

oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003

I SCREAMED www.instagram.com/reel/DSaex-X...

Ah that's a nice worst kept secret in publishing you have there, sure would be a shame if it was revealed just before Christmas

BOX SET DEAL! 😱📖 Get the FIRST SIX books in @dougjohnstone.bsky.social's addictive & darkly funny #TheSkelfs #Series in one GREAT-VALUE Box Set. £2.99 on #Kobo! Catch up before bk 7 #GhostNotes lands next summer! You really don't want to miss this deal! ⚰️ bit.ly/4rZySlZ #BooksSky #CrimeFiction

I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.

Eighteen years after the events of Wuthering Heights, Catherine rises from her grave to tell her story, and seek redemption. #Catherine a retelling of #WutheringHeights by @essiefox.bsky.social publishes 12/02/26 We can't wait for you to revisit the Moors! 🕯️ 🖤 bit.ly/3KlDp11 #Books #Heathcliff

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

I'm currently immersed in The Night Stairs by the always-fabulous @mserinkelly.bsky.social who's pretty keen on The Drowning Place 🧡 #thedrowningplace is out in April from Harvill // preorders via the links in my bio

The Skeleton Key by the excellent @mserinkelly.bsky.social was inspired by and also celebrates Masquerade in full.

Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer

This year's debut Venice Noir generated 28 newspaper articles, 72 web articles, numerous social media posts and 14 TV interviews. I'd upload the proof but the media report doc is 75mb! Well done everyone!

If you want to know what Venice Noir was like take a look at our new Youtube channel www.youtube.com/@VeniceNoir We have a short video of the festival up there at the moment but please subscribe because there's more to come including interviews with our authors.

'Nothing is off the table as long as it’s done well' Bestselling novelist and tutor of our six-week online Writing a Psychological Thriller course, @mserinkelly.bsky.social, shares her tips for aspiring psychological thriller writers 🔎

I have spent so long researching a fictional death that the algorithm is serving nothing but therapy adverts

Its PUBLICATION DAY for MURDER AT MISTLETOE MANOR! Please rush out and buy my Christmas cosy crime... I hope you'll love it. Here's me and Ellroy (till he gets bored) unboxing. 🎄🎄🎄 www.instagram.com/reel/DPlZAL4...

Chatting with Winnie M Li about her new book What We Left Unsaid ☕📚 In this clip, she answers: “Have you ever hit the wall?” Listen to the full Coffee Break episode or watch on YouTube. Links in bio. 🎧✨

When I was 10 I went to a holiday Chess camp with everyone playing 20 games over 5 days. I lost 19 and drew 1. I got a trophy as a "participant". When I got home I told my mum I'd won the tournament and she proudly displayed the trophy. It sat there on the mantelpiece for years.

September 30th October 1st

For a mere 99p you can read the book that inspired the TV show that’s now on Netflix (did I mention that before?) www.amazon.co.uk/Killing-Kind...

The Venice Noir extras are coming... and here's the first. A cocktail reception with Ian Rankin in the lovely Ca' Pisani boutique hotel next to the Accademia. Just 30 places available, 30 euros for cocktail and cicchetti. davidhewson.com/a-cocktail-e...

Two months till the launch of The Burning Grounds, the new Wyndham & Banerjee novel! I'll be going round the country, chatting with some stellar writers. There'll be laughs, tears, wine, more tears and murder (possibly). It's gonna be great! Hope to see you there!

Write a twisty, suspenseful thriller that readers won’t be able to put down on our six-week online Writing a Psychological Thriller course with bestselling novelist @mserinkelly.bsky.social 🔍 Course starts 11 Sept: www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/writi...

Our latest #bookreview: THE SKELETON KEY by @mserinkelly.bsky.social - an intriguing page turner involving a treasure hunt, a complicated friendship, two families completely entwined, and ... murder! A full FIVE STARS and a highly recommended from us. medium.com/illumination...

Back to school my arse. Three inset days then 'staggered' returns. I pine for my manuscript like a fisherman's wife standing on the shore

Write a twisty, suspenseful thriller that readers won’t be able to put down on our six-week online Writing a Psychological Thriller course with bestselling novelist @mserinkelly.bsky.social 🔍 Course starts 11 Sept:

'I don’t believe thrillers have to be formulaic' 📊 Bestselling novelist @mserinkelly.bsky.social, shares her advice for writing with sensitivity, her favourite psychological thriller writers and what she loves most about teaching on our six-week online Writing a Psychological Thriller course.

@cbcreative.bsky.social were such a huge part of my own writing story, it’s a thrill to be speaking at their masterclass this year with my incredible publisher, Venetia #writingcommunity #writingsky

on the move www.thebookseller.com/rights/erin-...

I would date this man if I were single

Hands up if you know what 'flensing' means thanks to Blubber by Judy Blume

There will come a time when I stop begging people to read Jane Casey’s Maeve Kerrigan series but we are not in that time period yet. So third book in the series (that can be read as a standalone) The Last Girl is 99p for Kindle. Buy it. Read it. Love it. amzn.to/462zHSt

I was today years old when I realised that Alex Lawther and Laurie Kynaston are not the same person 🤦‍♀️

this is a novel

not to objectify but i could stare at jonathan bailey's face for weeks on end. maybe i will

new word: HONGRY. Like HANGRY but it's too hot to eat anything apart from ice lollies, I've got sweaty knee-backs and my blood sugar is all over the place, fuck off the lot of you

From Daphne du Maurier’s #Rebecca to the contemporary novels of Liane Moriarty, psychological thrillers have been keeping us on the edge of our seats for decades. If you’re writing your own thriller, our Writing a Psychological Thriller course with @mserinkelly.bsky.social starts tomorrow!

'Nothing is off the table as long as it’s done well' –‪ @mserinkelly.bsky.social‬ Bestselling novelist and tutor of our six-week online Writing a Psychological Thriller course, Erin Kelly, shares her tips for aspiring psychological thriller writers 🔎

I wasn't asked to participate HOWEVER I did watch a woman on horseback in full 1200s costume 'behead' a watermelon on a pike and buy myself a long blue wool cape with a pointy hood which I will be wearing TO DEATH during The Night Stairs promo. A day well spent. #barnetmediaevalfestival

I'm going to see a LARP re-enactment of the Battle of Barnet (1471) today! There is a mediaeval fashion show! I have braided my hair into a coronet and am wearing a tapestry jacket from Free People. Fully expect to be hauled onto the runway with the rest of the wenches

Write a twisty, suspenseful thriller that readers won’t be able to put down on our six-week online Writing a Psychological Thriller course with bestselling novelist @mserinkelly.bsky.social! Course starts 19 Jun:

absolutely brilliant series

this is excellent advice for the grizzled old-timers (ie me) as well

I feel sick

Today on the blog Mandie shares her review of The House of Mirrors by Erin Kelly Link in bio @erinjelly @hodderbooks @mserinkelly.bsky.social @mandie163.mg #bookthreads #books #bookstagram #bookreview #booksofinstagram #thehouseofmirrors

Write a twisty, suspenseful thriller that readers won’t be able to put down on our six-week online Writing a Psychological Thriller course with bestselling novelist @mserinkelly.bsky.social 🔍 Course starts 24 Apr: www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/writi...

Late to the party, but I'm breaking my mid-edit social media exile to declare @mserinkelly.bsky.social's House of Mirrors a straight up BANGER. If you've read The Poison Tree - and even if you haven't! Though you should - it's an absolute treat. Biba! Karen! Rex! Classic EK twists! 10/10 no notes 🏠🪞