Using this woodland goat I photographed today to let you know that the GOAT historical fiction writing course, taught by me for @faberacademy.bsky.social, has new dates available to book from today! Run don’t walk. Or do whatever goats do. Scamper? More info here: faberacademy.com/product/writ...

@bethunderdown.bsky.social ‘s two historical novels really tick all the boxes for me. Her characters are particularly great—thorny, complex, believable to their time.

NEW EVENT! Join us in Stockport on Thurs 27th March for a deligtfully dark and macabre evening celebrating the release of two brilliant new horror novels - Susan Barker's OLD SOUL & @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social's THE LAMB! Susan & Lucy will be discussing their work with @bethunderdown.bsky.social

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Die hard fan, but still snorted

Joined @societyofauthors.bsky.social and rejoined @historia-hwa.bsky.social which had lapsed because I want to be more connected to other authors next year 💚

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My friend and mentor @bethunderdown.bsky.social is teaching a historical fiction course for Faber in January 🤩 snap up these places!

Hello! I wrote a little something for the @faberacademy.bsky.social site on how to go about writing historical fiction! If you’re a historical fiction writer, I’d love to hear which bits of this resonate for you: faberacademy.com/how-to-write...

AS IF you get to be taught by both these powerhouses at once

**Black UK PhD students** This is the programme you want! It is all the bells and whistles, full fees and stipend, any subject, industrial experience offered, 50 other Black scholars already on board and administrated in an environment of care. **Tell everyone**

Writing tip: Kill your darlings. Bake them in a pie and serve it to your editor at a grand dinner. When she compliments the chef, say, "Oh, do you like it? Aren't you curious about what meat it is?" and empty a sack onto the table. It is your darlings' decapitated heads!

Hello, Bluesky! 👋 We’re thrilled to join this vibrant community and continue championing incredible stories, authors, and ideas in this exciting new space. 🎉

Fiction readers, a little help? What are books that switch POV, each POV telling the next bit of the same story/plot but none of the POVs recurring (except maybe one)? I’m thinking like Mrs Dalloway, although even then really the different POVs are telling different stories… Reposts appreciated!

This is a great alternative to muting loud posters 😂

Still reeling from this announcement yesterday: my debut short story collection Monstrous Longing has made the Edge Hill Prize shortlist!! Huge congrats to the other shortlisted writers, and thanks as always to my powerhouse indie publisher Farhana Shaikh of Dahlia Books 🦍💚

Never been prouder of my friend @afahynes.bsky.social and her wonderful MONSTROUS LONGING 💚🩷💚

Ok, my first spicy-hot Bluesky take is: I’m not LOVING The Mirror And The Light. (I say this as somebody who highly respects the wonderful actors and makers involved in the show, and who’d have let Hilary Mantel drain all the blood out of my body and use it as ink if she’d fancied doing so)

Hello! I teach fiction, I write literary historical fiction, I sometimes try to write for screen, I read lots more kinds of fiction. I’m intending to use Bluesky for i) jokes, ii) spicy-hot takes, iii) curious thinking and talking about writing, iv) self-promotion (cf photograph of existing books)

Please be better than threads

Do you have a very high waist to hip differential? Do you long for jeans that are comfy and will stay up without a belt? Then might I recommend these: www.newlook.com/uk/womens/cl...

HEY. We need more journalists & news orgs on Bluesky. I'll be doing my bit w/ my contacts & at my journalism school, but here's the email to share for press invite codes. The Discourse thanks you 🙏

So we can get a Manchester-Birmingham cycleway now, yeah?

Did anybody else cry loads at the last episode of Derry Girls?