This thread by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social is not only brilliant but also a fabulous example of why adding ALT text to photos can make a world of difference. Enjoy!

Mood. #WriterLife

Buy a recipe, support an author! Now available in my @kofi_button shop, my much-requested recipe for DISCO FUDGE - lovely, chocolatey, no-cook fudge topped with a funkalicious rainbow of chocolate Smarties... 💃🏻🪩🕺🏻 Link in thread below ⬇️ (1/2) #WurdyBakes

Stuff it, I made FRIDAY BROWNIES. ☺️ Chocolate Brownies, to be exact, warm, chocolatey and just a little bit soft in the middle. Perfect for curling up with as a storm rages outside. Question is, on their own, or with cream, ice cream or custard? Kettle's on, lovelies. Any takers? #WurdyBakes

Just a hint, fake book club promoter, but if you're trying to flatter my ego (and the love letter to the Cornish community I wrote as my latest book) to get me to fall for your AI generated author scam, "ugly smiling into your mug like a weirdo in a Cornish café" is not the phrase to choose... 😳

Stuff it, I made BANANA LOAF. Chocolate chip Banana Loaf Cake to be precise, warm and comforting with a hint of cinnamon, a sugar crust and a whole packet of chocolate chips. Just out of the oven and smelling fiiiiiine. Kettle's on, lovelies. Any takers? ☺️ #WurdyBakes #Baking

Hi, lovelies! It's Publication Week for my sixth Cora Lael crime-thriller, #TheStolenDead, so expect lots of squeaks, posts and book treats... If you can help spread the word with reposts, mentions and perhaps a cheeky preorder, that would be fab! ☺️ #CrimeSeries #BookSky 💙📚

Bumblebees, butterflies and bugs are in crisis. You can help by adding your voice to the Big Insect Rescue Plan by 31 October! 📢🐝 ⏰Take 1 minute to answer this quick survey: https://ow.ly/r58L50Xg852 Butterfly Conservation Buglife #InsectDeclines #NatureRecovery

LOOK! The finished paperbacks have arrived of my sixth Cora Lael crime-thriller, #TheStolenDead and they are GORGEOUS! Cover designed by the brilliant Head Design. It's Cora's darkest and most personal case yet. Out on 6th Nov. Grab a preorder now (link in next post) I'm so proud of this book! 💙📚

Book fair bobbins! Much giggling! And some actual wisdom that snuck in when @thatcraighallam.bsky.social and I weren't looking... It's the book fair week special episode of #WritersOffTopic podcast (link in quoted post below) Enjoy and share, lovelies! 🎙️ #WritingCommunity

Lovely #writers, if you've been bombarded by relentless Frankfurt Book Fair deal news, find comfort, giggles and - shockingly for us - some actual sanity in this episode of Writers Off Topic, as @thatcraighallam.bsky.social and I tackle BOOK FAIR BOBBINS... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

Happy #StorySharerWeek! Follow @booktrust.org.uk for lots of brilliant ideas to share your love of reading! 💙📚

THREE WEEKS to go! My sixth Dr Cora Lael crime-thriller, THE STOLEN DEAD is out on 6th Nov and it's Cora's most personal case yet. Lovelies, can you help me spread the word? I am so proud of this book and I would love it to find readers. Cheeky reposts most welcome! ❤️ Preorder link below! 💙📚

A little bit of a giggle for #WorldMentalHealthDay... One of my favourite scenes from my fourteenth novel, #ThingsWeDoForLove, which still makes me laugh when I read it. Enjoy! 💙📚

What a star Dame Jilly Cooper was! An inspiration to so many writers; a wry, funny, welcoming friend to readers; a brilliant, big-hearted and wonderfully wise person who made the world sparklier and lighter. She will be hugely missed. Big love to all who loved her. #JillyCooper

Book promo scams aimed at authors are now getting to the stage where they are trolling themselves. BUM process, anyone? 😂 #WritingCommunity

One of the greatest gifts you can give yourself as a #writer is PERMISSION. This week's #WriteFoxy Foxy Notes look at why and how to do it. (Link in next post). Read it for free, subscribe from free, pass it on! Follow writefoxybymirandadickinson on substack or click the link in the next post.

IT'S A BESTSELLER, BABY! I'm thrilled to share that #AndThenThereWasYou is Number One in Romantic Comedy in the Amazon Kindle chart and 24 in the overall chart! The ebook is just 99p for a short time, so treat yourselves to a beautiful story! (Link in next post) Chuffed! @hqstories.bsky.social

My personal TV theme song Top 5: Paddington (original Ivor Wood directed version) The Wombles (Mike Batt) Gilmore Girls (Carole King & Louise Goffin 'Where You Lead') The Racoons The Legend of Prince Valiant (by Exchange)

Come and join the fun! @waterstoneswton.bsky.social

This Saturday! Come and celebrate my new book with me at the fabulous @waterstoneswton.bsky.social from 1pm! 💙📚

So, here it is. My 15th love story (and 20th published novel), #AndThenThereWasYou is out today in paperback, ebook and audiobook. Hundreds of hours of work. All of my heart. Set in my favourite place on earth, flying out into the world to find readers. And now, it’s yours. Fly high, lovely book!

Ah, St Ives, it’s lovely to be back… 🧡 #CornwallROCKS #AndThenThereWasYou

Hundreds of hours of work. My whole heart poured into every page. It isn’t just a lovely orange book. It’s the best thing I’ve written in 16 years as a published author. And it needs to find its readers. Please help me spread the word, lovelies. I want this book to FLY. Link in thread. Thank you! 🧡

Lads! Just had this really tempting email from a marketing bod. Gotta love the “[briefly describe your approach, e.g. “building engaging campaigns that connect your audience with meaningful causes, leveraging your influence to maximize impact"]” strategy, eh? 🤦🏻‍♀️ Lucky old author me! #WriterLife

Waiting is a pain in the bum. That is all. #WriterLife

Who do you think you are? This week’s #WriteFoxy Foxy Notes are about WRITER IDENTITY - who gets to define it, who doesn’t and why it matters. Read free here: writefoxy.substack.com/p/who-do-you... (It’s my most personal post to date. To find out why, read it!) #WritingCommunity

I’m not saying I’m a secret soothsayer or anything, but my lovely ORANGE book is published in two weeks AND has a Taylor Swift-inspired painted piano as a key part of the story (as well as looking gorgeous on the cover). Coincidence? Maybe… 🤔 Treat yourself anyway! linktr.ee/attwy #TLOAS 🧡🎹 💙📚

Ooh, look! Finished copies of my new novel, #AndThenThereWasYou, have arrived - and they are GORGEOUS! My 15th contemporary novel and 20th overall. Seeing it in print for the first time never stops being magical. Out 28th Aug - PB, EB & AB Preorder: linktr.ee/attwy @hqstories.bsky.social

Spotted in our local library - the best book trolley name EVER. 10/10, no notes. #LegoElvis approves… (and #LegoDollyP too!) 😎 #LibrariesROCK 💙📚 #UhhhThankyouverymuch

In hot weather like this, remember to keep an eye on your freelancers. Move them to a shaded spot, indoors if possible, away from ‘people’. Distract them with a computer or some unrealistic deadline. Do check on them, by email, but don’t forget to set yours to out of office in case they reply 🙏

A brilliant piece on the car crash known as Unbound/Boundless from @theobserveruk.bsky.social, showing how authors were lied to, gaslit and outright stolen from. The statements from the former CEOs are a joke. There absolutely should be legal consequences for this. observer.co.uk/news/busines...

“Don’t stop writing.” Also, related: “Ignore the boy.” (The boy you like in your drama class who tells you writing is for babies is an idiot and not a reason to leave it almost a decade before you write again…)

So Unbound scams authors out of their royalties, cancels books, steals supporter money for cancelled projects, bankrupts itself and reopens as Boundless, bullies authors to stay quiet about their owed money and now is ceasing trading today… and they’re not being prosecuted for fraud? Disgusting!

“No-one writes true-to-life people and emotions like Miranda Dickinson. Unmissable!” Chuffed to bits about this gorgeous review of #AndThenThereWasYou from the always wonderful @lindasbookbag.bsky.social in The People’s Friend magazine, out on 6th Aug. Thank you! 💕 @hqstories.bsky.social 💙📚

When you check the proof of delivery photo on Royal Mail’s tracking service and the package you sent appears to have been delivered on… MARS? 😳

IG message: You keep talking about your new crime novel but it isn’t on NetGalley yet. Me: It’s available for preorder, if you’d like to read it… Them: No, I get your crime novels from NetGalley. You shouldn’t talk about it on socials until it’s up there because you’ll lose readers. Me: 😳 💙📚

I posted an update on Instagram about the final stages of the first draft I’m writing and a ‘professional beta reader’ commented saying it will be crap and I should send her the first chapter to ‘check for emotional issues before you edit it’. Er, how about BOG OFF?! #WriterThreads #SayWhat

POV: You’re in the thick of writing the finale of a first draft, you’re tired and strung out and a deadline looms ever closer. Then a lovely, supportive message appears in your inbox… “You know that book you published years ago? I found a typo in it!” *cries into WIP* #WriterLife 💙📚

Behind every article declaring the death of the male novelist is a marketing person pushing the new book by a male novelist. #Publishing #ThingsThatMakeYouGoHmm

Ah, I appear to be at the Bribery By Biscuits stage of getting this first draft written. Every… word… is… painful… Send tea, lovelies! (And biscuits. LOTS of them.) 😭 #WriterSky

#Writers, #artists, #filmmakers, #designers, #creators, if you send files through WeTransfer it’s time to find a different service. They just updated their Ts & Cs so that accepting means you sign away all of your IP rights to the files you send, granting them permission to scrape for AI. Avoid!

Lovely #writers! Imagine a day of writing and inspiration in a magical house surrounded by countryside… Join me for my #WriteFoxy Writing Day at The Timber House on Saturday 20th September! Places are very limited so book early and get £5 off the ticket price! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writefoxy-...

Lovely #writers, what do you think about first drafts? I love them for all their energy and beautiful messiness, but I know I’m probably in the minority! So, how do you love your first messy drafts? This week’s #WriteFoxy Foxy Notes are here to help! writefoxy.substack.com/p/writefoxy-... ✍🏽🦊

A little daft gem in the middle of all the *other* stuff… 🐧 #BookSky

I loved being part of the crime panel at this year’s Repton Festival, with fabulous authors @chrislloydauthor.bsky.social @tommeadauthor.bsky.social @kateagriffin.bsky.social and Guy Hale. Brilliant to talk about our crime novels and have a great natter, too!

Blimey…

A whole summer of love, Shakespeare, enemies-to-lovers and beautiful Stratford-upon-Avon for less than the price of an ice cream? Oh yes, my friends! #ThingsWeDoForLove is only 99p in ebook for a limited time. Grab yours here: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0CR... Enjoy! 🐝 💕 #BookSky 💙📚

Flo: I’ve got the part of the Robin in my school play! I get to use a hand puppet! Me: Fantastic! What’s the hand puppet like? Flo: About that… [frantic search through my craft supplies, one sketch drawn and eight hours of stitching later…] 👇🏼 #Handpuppet #CraftSky

Loving watching Alanis Morissette at #Glastonbury2025. Thanks, BBC! 🎸