A really fun and varied show.

It's Friday! The day to catch Sherry's Shorts on @highlandhradio.bsky.social at 12 noon UK time--featuring short stories with a connection to the Scottish Highlands. Listen anytime via the Mixcloud link⬇️ Thanks to @ruralunease.bsky.social @veewalker.bsky.social & Keely O'Shaughnessy for fab stories.

The April episode of Sherry’s Shorts with @highlandhradio.bsky.social is now available! Featuring fantastic stories from Highland writers @veewalker.bsky.social & @ruralunease.bsky.social as well as Keely O'Shaughnessy. Here's the link to listen: www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...

Still some copies of my collection Things Grown Distant available from @confingopublishing. Here's my favourite review: manchestereviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/t...

So... my funny short story Front Page News, based on a real incident, is set in Fortrose on the Black Isle in the early 2000s. One character mentioned is real, but which? It's the second story read, about 15 minutes in, free here - thanks again, Sherry! 👇 www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...

That'll do, Black Isle. That'll do. ☀️ #BlueSky

Great #scotwriterpitch2025 entertainment here today, thanks and welcome to all new followers... and 👏👏👏 to @peterurpeth.bsky.social and team 🙏

I'd read this!

One young woman put to death, another trying to keep her alive #scotwriterpitch2025

And finally... still 1919. Joe is the only son of Mary and Henry. They are my paternal grandparents. But Joe is not my father. 📚 Anyone fancy a long, immersive, escapist read about two real families, one of them Indian/Irish and royal, the other Canadian/British - and my own? #scotwriterpitch2025

Writers! Keep them pitches coming! Publishers & Agents! Follow the hashtag #scotwriterpitch2025 for some very good book ideas!

(Cont'd.) These two books based on real events. Mary and Henry are my paternal grandparents. Joe (pictured here as a boy with Mary) is Mary and Henry's only son. So... if Joe fails to return to Vancouver from India in 1919, will I ever be born? 😳 Saga/Historical Fiction/autism #scotwriterpitch2025

Just curious, fellow #scotswriterpitch2025 folk. Did you set up your account just in order to do this event? I've had a BlueSky account here for a while but found it hard to fathom at first. Have been more active on Threads since leaving TwiX last year. Enjoying today though!

(Cont'd) Will strange, courageous Mary find her missing son Joe as she travels through India? And what is the shadowy connection between Joe and the court of the Maharajahs of Patiala? Will either Mary or Joe ever see Henry, or Vancouver Island, again? (TBC!) #ScotWriterPitch

(Cont'd). 1919. Mary and Henry's only son Joe grows up on Vancouver Island, just as strange as his over-protective mother. When he runs away to India, only to vanish feared dead, Mary leaves philandering Henry and travels to India alone to try to find him. (TBC!) #scotpitchwriter2025

Two young women separated by a century but united by a quest for justice. A biography/memoir. #scotwriterpitch2025

(Cont'd...) C19th child bride Mary is cut off from the family fortune that dodgy husband Henry was relying on to shore up his fortunes. And Mary is pregnant, with no idea what childbirth will mean. Shamed and broke, will Henry choose Canada or India for their new life? (TBC!) #ScotWriterPitch2025

On her 30th birthday, a small-time reporter suddenly finds that every time she asks someone a question, they tell her the truth. Excellent news for her career, less so for her personal life. Truth hurts... Yellowface x Really Good, Actually Speculative/book club fiction #scotwriterpitch2025

Kingussie, 1901: When a patient gets murdered in a TB sanatorium, Nell, a foreign nurse, with three days to investigate, discovers deception in the small community of patients and staff. What will she do when her own secrets start coming into the open? Inspired by real setting #scotwriterpitch2025

I had a hoodie crow who could imitate my car alarm!

Strange Mary Southgate is locked up for most of her childhood. She bites, paces carpets, shatters wax dolls. When she siezes her only chance to escape, eloping with dubious lawyer Henry, what could possibly go wrong? (TBC!). C19th - C20th. Two-novel historical fiction/saga #scotwriterpitch2025

Good luck to all writers pitching their work today in the Bluesky Writers’ Pitch 2025 - don’t forget to include the all important tag: #scotwriterpitch2025

Could you fill this bookcase with new books? If so, what with? Today is #scotwriterpitch2025, here on BlueSky for the first time after dumping toxic Twitter, hurrah,so please follow the hashtag, then repost and like according to the book pitches which catch your eye. @peterurpeth.bsky.social

Dear @europesheila.bsky.social start following #scotwriterpitch2025 today and liking and sharing pitches and you'll find a different vibe altogether!

Anything by Fran is worth reading! #ScotWriterPitch2025

Hello! I've set up shop on #Threads rather than here on #Bluesky - but - a literary pitch event I enjoyed supporting on TwiX before I left has now been moved to Bluesky. As an author, what bookish delights am I missing here? Any advice? Pic of blue sky with mimosa. #Books #Writing #Editing #author

Bonne année 2024 from Nice! Soggy morning when the Promenade des Anglais precisely mirrored this equally soggy Matisse. Palm trees have grown a bit though and I expect they enjoy the occasional deluge!

Sigh. I don’t think everyday folks quite realize the connection between the gutting of legacy media, with all its failings, and the rise of fascism.

Michel Faber's new book about music, published by Canongate is out on 19th October. Everything he writes is worth reading. Here's an extract about tinnitus in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/books/2023/o... #music #tinnitus #books #WritingCommunity #readercommunity #writing #writerscommunity

Excited to have launched CannyEdit with @HighlandWriter last night @HighlandLIT 📚 We're aiming to support Highland writers with a wide range of services ranging from mentoring to developmental editing, first chapter impact reviews, synopsis/'query' letter polishing and proofing 📚 😎

I visited the Royal Engineers Museum in Kent on a research trip this week where I spotted these tiny phials of #WWI poison gas, complete with a cheery poem by which to remember the smell of the different kinds. The heartbreaking normalisation of warfare from 100+ years ago. So little has changed 💔

Tom Gauld on the shocking truth about what’s happening in public libraries – cartoon www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...

Frankly custard alone would have been enough for a repost, Jeroen...

Someone had to be first, so thank you, kind @euterpe35.bsky.social who quotes Shakespeare to ducks - this is for you. www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/ducks

So true.

Hello Bluesky. Anyone out there? Expect posts about #authors, #books, #editing, #culture, #museums, #heritage, #nature, #food, and #foraging from me. Will randomly repost clever and interesting stuff, especially if it makes me laugh. Local #BlackIsle #Bluesky pic 😎