Latest haul #books #reading #librarygirl #booksky

#stilllife writer’s cat on pillow in front of TV fried by tropical storm (and not missed).

I’m writing about a middle age muse-mistress exploring the dark side of Bohemia - and herself. I took art lessons to paint this photo encapsulating the story. Left: photo Right: my oil painting #muse #mistress #midlife #shadowtheory #Jung #art #oilpainting #WritingCommunity #writerslife

Leah Gardner, contemporary Chicago-based oil painter #WomensArt

Lisa Benson, contemporary printmaker based in Somerset, UK #WomensArt

Reading right now - fabulous! #books #reading

“…she’s prepared to look ignorant, grumpy, petty and small if that’s in pursuit of emotional truth. She makes us all work harder and stay braver.” A great survey here by Rochelle of the work of the very special person that is Helen Garner

Settling down to continue my edit: choral sacred music playlist and sandalwood oil perfume for calm. Outside, a random purple flowered bush waves tendrils in the breeze, light green butterflies flutter by, above is a deep blue Queensland sky. #writing #writinglife #writingcommunity #Queensland

Please buy and read this book. I'm glad I read it if only to bear witness 🙏 Where are Epstein’s secret videos? When will the powerful clients/abusers be arrested? ❤️🙏 RIP Virginia Giuffre - It took too long for people to listen 😞 #justice #believeher #epstein #arrestthem #releasethefiles

I cut 3776 words today! and began aligning my novel with 'Save the cat' 15 beats for novels, to ensure the pacing works. Am up to beat 8 - it's aligning well so far. Tomorrow I’ll identify the bloated sections 🎉 #writingcommunity #savethecat #amediting #amwriting #fiction #writer #writerslife

My favourite author - so well deserved!!

Heart tree - our island’s latest ‘tactile graffiti’ 🏝️🌸💕 #islandlife #crochet #yarnbomb

So, writers, there’s hope for your rejected manuscript! Never give up! 🤩 📚

What a great idea! Please share!

I used to collect hearts, coral hearts, from the seashore. Then one day walking home I looked up and saw the gum outside my front gate… it’s a heart tree! 💚 #heart #NatureLovers #NatureIsAmazing

The power of words. Virginia Giuffre 1, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor 0 www.bbc.com/news/live/cn... #writing #memoir #believeher #publishing #voice #raiseyourvoice #BookSky

I'm learning how to kill my darlings as I edit Novel 2 - it has an embarrassment of hooks and X-factors - the only trouble is, it's WAY TOO LONG. I cannot wait to see this novel's shiny svelte self when I'm done! #optimism #grit #killyourdarlings #writing #writingcommunity #BookSky

Fabulous work! Thank you to everyone who contributed to this outcome 🙏

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Visiting family I came up with a fabulous idea for what will be my third novel - and researched comps to see if it’s been done - I came up with Lionel Shriver’s A Perfectly Good Family - not in stock 😞 but I DID find these - I’d like to write as ferociously 📚 #booksky #writing #fearless #famiily

#Sydney #birdlife #rainbowlorikeet On a brief visit to Sydney to see my Dad. The colourful locals are very friendly!

This is amazing news! #kidlit #uklidlit www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

Heading to Sydney to visit my ye olde Dad - I bought #NobodysGirl because Virginia Giuffre matters. She mattered when she was alive. She matters now. #justice #believeher #BookSky

🏫 It was a delight to welcome the school captains from The Aldgate School as recipients of our Young Readers' Fund! Through the fund, pupils come along to the shop and pick up a book to take home and keep! ❤️ If you'd like to learn more about it and donate, please follow the link in our bio.

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Latest library haul - themes are midlife, love and marriage, and an island book club that struck trouble - Mabel is the obvious exception, but the premise and reviews are so good I couldn’t help myself! 💙📚 #reading #BookSky #books #beachreads

On the weekend ABC Radio National counted down the Top 100 Books of the 21st century as voted for by listeners 📚💙 … abc.net.au/listen/radiona…#booksk#bookpublishingn#BookSkyky#WritingCommunityty

Another #moneysaving #tip for #writers on the poverty line ... I've started using a cheap reddish-brown lipstick as blush and eyeshadow. It works! (Works best as blush, go easy with the eyeshadow 😂) #writers #writinglife #savings #poverty #writingcommunity

It's a lazy Sacred Sunday and a writing kinda day ... I've got my favourite relaxing playlist on, breeze is flowing through my little island cottage. I'm editing, rewriting as I go. I hope your Sunday is peaceful and if you're a writer - productive! 🏝️💙📚 #writing #Sunday #islandlife #writinglife

The most interesting about Trump springing George Santos from prison is that Trump is still in the Epstein Files.

Australia’s Top 100 Best Loved Books! Great reading here! Congratulations to the writers on this list - and the writers whose moments in the sun are yet to come. Never give up 💙📚 betterreading.com.au/news #WritingCommunity #readers #BookClub #writers #publishing #booksky

What has America land of the free become? Am loving the sense of humour of the peaceful protestors but I can’t imagine how terrifying it must be to live in that imploding country right now 😞🙏 🐸

Money saving tips for writers on the poverty line #1 Home haircuts! Love from a writer on the povo line 🥰 #homehaircut #frugal #savings #povotip #writerslife #WritingCommunity

I'm interested in your thoughts: does #bohemia have a dark side and if so what is it, especially for women? . . #bohemian #hedonism #polyamory #infidelity #midlife #midlifecrisis #ethicalpolyamory #freelove #art #muse #artists #creativity #creatives

#writers - have you gone into a #jail #gaol to research and understand with all your senses what it's like for someone to be incarcerated and what it's like for visitors? I'm about to organise my research visit. I'd love to hear about your experience. #writingresearch #writingcommunity

Any #childless #midlife #fiction #writers here? I'd love to #connect! Writing is a lonely business - imagine doing it at 58, #single, childless, on a tiny #island! Yep, oodles of time to write... yep, #loneliness is a thing. You too? No shame in admitting it. Let's connect🥰🏝️📚 #writingcommunity

Writers, how much time do you give yourselves to decompress and transition after finishing one manuscript and starting the next? I gave myself two weeks and it kind of feels like enough... kind of... #trilogy #writers #writingcommunity #debutauthor #amquerying #contemporaryfiction #midlife

Have a writing deadline but I live on a subtropical island and it's high tide - to swim or to write - my always dilemma! #quandry #distraction #procrastination #sealover #waterbaby #amediting #writers #writingcommunity

If you’ve never read poet Hilda Doolittle and you love the sea you are seriously missing out - I was looking for a quote for Act 3 of my contemporary fiction manuscript and found Hilda. So grateful! #poetry #poet #womenwriters #hildadoolittle

I haven't read this yet - until I got to BlueSky I didn't know a new Deborah Levy book existed! Thanks writers and readers for the heads up!

My first ever polished contemporary fiction manuscript has been submitted to an agent! 48 chapters 357 pages 94,084 words Now readying Book 2 for full sub in February by request. #writing #writer #fullsubmission #querying #publishing #debutnovel #amwriting #writingcommunity #Booksky