Authors in UK: Need a room of your own for writing? The RSL Scriptorium Awards give 10 authors just that for a month! Applications open now, due by 18 July. rsliterature.org/rsl-scriptor...

Out today in paperback in the USA! Read it to escape from today's news into 15th-century (and 16th, 17th, 18th etc) Venice...

I'm midway through UK paperback book tour of The Glassmaker, with some juicy events still to come in Scarborough, Hampshire, Dorset, Shropshire, London and Felixstowe! Have a look and come along: tracychevalier.com/events

Heading to Booka books in Oswestry June 17th to talk Glassmaker. Come! www.bookabookshop.co.uk/events/an-ev...

RIP Loretta Swit, aka Hot Lips Houlihan. A fixture in my childhood. You were way too good for Frank! BBC News - M*A*S*H actress Loretta Swit dies aged 87 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Heading to Scarborough in a week. Will pay respects at Ann Brontë's grave and dig toes into the sand. AND talk about The Glassmaker at Books by the Beach. Come along! www.ticketsource.co.uk/ymcascarboro...

Delighted to announce the winner of the Best First Novel Award 2025, chosen by @tracychevalier.bsky.social from our shortlist of six, is Ferdia Lennon for Glorious Exploits: www.authorsclub.co.uk/best-first-n...

Taking part in a project by Carrie Mae Weems, at Turin book fair. Intense and profound.

UK authors and readers: Please help protect authors' livelihoods from unlicensed use of their work in AI training by signing this open letter to the UK government: chng.it/nn4ZfPyFBN

A rousing protest today at Meta UK HQ by authors angry at having their work stolen to create data for AI. It's illegal and wrong! We should be asked and paid for our work. Where's your morals, Meta? #metabookthieves #makeitfair #societyofauthors My favourite sign there👇🏼

Thank you, sensible Wisconsin voters 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

Sickened that Trump administration is meddling with Smithsonian - museums I grew up. History gets rewritten/reinterpreted all the time, but rarely so blatantly and to such biased, destructive ends😣 BBC News - Trump targets 'anti-American ideology' at Smithsonian museums www.bbc.com/news/article...

Now and always

Can't wait, Stephanie! I want to hear all about that University Challenge triumph!

This sums up where we are in 2025 perfectly. BBC News - Apple AI tool transcribed the word 'racist' as 'Trump' www.bbc.com/news/article...

I'm so chuffed this is on the radio! ♥️ BBC

Any other Europeans starting to feel like we're on a Risk board, counting up our troops and where to mass them 😬

Today's awful crash in DC reminds me of the 1982 plane crash into the Potomac. My dad was a photographer for Washington Post & spent many hours on 14th St bridge taking photos. I remember him describing this heartbreaking boot; I can't recall if he took it. Thinking of the families and rescuers 💔

This is amazing, moving stitching

Dissipation Of race relations Consolation Segregation Dispensation Isolation Exploitation Mutilation Mutation Miscreation Confirmation to the evils of the world If you recognise this, you should listen to The Wonder of Stevie podcast. Excellent.

Very cool. Well done, Gary Johnson, for spotting these. Mary Anning would be proud! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My Woman of the Year. Thank you Gisele Pélicot for your bravery. You have turned the shame towards those who deserve it. Women everywhere salute you!

"People are hungry for someone to root for against the huge, implacable systems they hate, + unless they’ve thrown in with Donald Trump and Elon Musk, they really don’t have many options. The idolization of Mangione is a dark sign of just how yawning the void is." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/o...

Village names don't get any more straightforward than this

Looking for a book to give this season? Some great and fun recommendations here (including by Yours Truly) caroleburns.substack.com/p/the-perfec...

Only today, The Glassmaker is available on Kindle in the UK for just 99p. Blimey! bit.ly/4ijgrnj

Thanks Nick Rennison for choosing The Glassmaker as a Top 10 Historical Fiction 2024! www.thetimes.com/article/0eb3...

For advent we're revisiting a favourite post each day, starting with our very first review 8 years ago! reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2016/07/rema... #AdventBooks #BlueSkyBooks #BSkyBooks #AdventDay1 #Advent ❤️📚 @tracychevalier.bsky.social #MaryAnning #greatwomen #greatreads

Thanks a lot, Tech Bros. Something tells me you don't read. www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...

For a world celebrating the non-binary, We’ve gone pretty either/or. --from Checkpoint of the Mouth by my very smart friend @ronnabloom.bsky.social Whole poem here: ronnabloom.com/news/2024/ch...

Help! Is there a way to bookmark posts on here? I am having to cut and paste and email to self like the old Boomer that I am ...

This list looks SO good, and all sales support the wonderful @britishlibrary.bsky.social !

Looking for a different kind of literary souvenir? Tonight UK charity Freedom from Torture holds a literary fundraiser. Buy online a raffle ticket & you're guaranteed a signed book & bookmark by authors incl Stephen Fry, Kate Mosse & Yours Truly! literary.freedomfromtorture.org/view_lot/?id...

The Woodland Trust has only 10 days left to save this beautiful, vital ancient woodland. Please help! youtu.be/9iPDCZczEBU?...

Just finished first foray into the wonderful Cazalet Chronicles. 4 more vols to go! AND found out the incomparable author Louisa Young (and Elizabeth Jane Howard's niece) is going to continue them! That should sustain me for a while...

Arrived from the Other Place. It's quite refreshing resetting to 0! Feel free to join me. I think about the grey areas rather than the blacks and whites. When in doubt: books.