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ICYMI, a new publication day event in Carlisle has been added for THE FINAL VOW 🖊️ 📚

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Whilst I wait for my signed proof for @mwcraven.bsky.social’s #TheFinalVow to arrive from taking part in the Focus Group (thanks Mike for taking the time to sign and personalise them that was really kind of you🥰) I shall be face planting straight into the e-arc 🥳

I cannot even explain to you how excited this has made me 😍 I absolutely LOVED. and Adored #RiverSingMeHome by #EleanorShearer so to see she has a new book coming after such an amazing debut is so fantastic 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @headlinebooks.bsky.social who do I beg for early copy consideration please 🙏🏽🥹

My #PoeAndTilly re-read is almost complete in readiness for #TheFinalVow coming 🥀 The Mercy Chair is currently underway 😁 can’t wait for The Final Vow @mwcraven.bsky.social

Meet Thomas, Gabriel, and the mollies of Olde London… @ajwestauthor.bsky.social‬’s beautiful, brutal, and utterly epic #TheBetrayalOfThomasTrue is out THIS JULY in stunning sprayed edge #Paperback! 💜 https://bit.ly/44FyXSK ##Historical #Mystery #ThomasTrue #BooksOfBlueSky #QueerFiction

Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil by #VESchwab Absolute perfection as always! How is it that in just a few short lines I am so deeply immersed in a book? Schwab’s writing is like musical magic - woven to pull you deep within a dream of a story 😍 Full review: www.instagram.com/reel/DK39lpz...

A brew, some books and some blossoms 🥰 Happy Thursday everyone ☀️

I’ve shared my review of #GradyHendrix’s #WitchcraftForWaywardGirls over on Instagram! Please go and check it out! Such a fantastic book and astounding that it was written by a man as it’s so perceptive on the female perspective 🥰 www.instagram.com/p/DI_zu6ZIpr...

🎉 COVER REVEAL 🎉 for the god tier of series 🎉 THE FINAL VOW BY @mwcraven.bsky.social Just look at it 😍😍😍 I cannot wait to read the next #PoeAndTilly book Get this bad boy pre ordered IMMEDIATELY 💨 #TheFinalVow #TillyAndPoe #MWCraven #CrimeAuthor

Can’t wait to read this 🤩

Mr @mwcraven.bsky.social PLEASE can we get a brief funny conversation between Tilly and Poe to tide us over? I beg 🙏🏽🥹 I miss them terribly 🥺

Thanks to @tracyfenton.bsky.social Phoenix Books & @katekemp.bsky.social for my copy of #TheGrapevine and for a great read!! 🐜Please check out my full review over on Insta: instagram.com/p/DHBJyyYI4Mq/… The Grapevine releases on Thursday 13th March so there’s still time to preorder!! 🐜

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Time for a bit of reality - a thread. Sales in the shop are doing well, but we're reliant on sales on the website to help pay the bills. The website is reliant on social media, particularly twitter. Since September, we've seen a big decline in people seeing our tweets.

@bryonypearce.bsky.social #Aphrodite published by @uclanpublishing.bsky.social is now available to preorder from Amazon & I suggest you get right on that because I’ve read it & it kicked off my most fab reading month in YEARS! Here’s the link: amzn.eu/d/9mc0n89 trust me it is truly brilliant!!

Publication week is here for #SpellsStringsAndForgottenThings by @houseofrandall.bsky.social ✨ 🔮Witchy romance 🏠Small town setting ❤️‍🔥Enemies to lovers 👯‍♀️Stories of sisterhood Coming this Thursday 🌙

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

Well, that’s it 😭🥹 it’s over now till August ❤️‍🩹 never fell so hard 🥹 what a fantastic series 🥰 #TillyAndPoeTillIDie❤️ @mwcraven.bsky.social And now I need to do a review because I’ve spent the last 10 days reading 8 books and not written a bloody review for any of em 🤣🤦🏽‍♀️

@mwcraven.bsky.social I’ve just listened to Chapter 65 of #TheMercyChair 3 times 🤣🤦🏽‍♀️ I can’t stop laughing I literally LOVE Tilly and Poe 🥰😍💞 #DonkeyDick #iykyk

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey:

It’s the beginning of the end 😩 well until August anyway….. Nico is at Muay Thai and I considered sitting here doing nothing…… but I can’t help it 🤦🏽‍♀️ what am I going to do between now and August once I finish? It’s been the best week @mwcraven.bsky.social @littlebrown.bsky.social 🤩

After my #StarterPack of writers seeking an #agent I made a waiting list. It got huge. So instead I've done Pack 2, adding other people #querying Please repost to help them out. If you want one of the few places left, please follow the instructions at the end of the thread #booksky #writingcommunity

Another 3 bites the dust as of today 🤩 (apparently I keep forgetting to update here 🤦🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️) Only 2 more to go & then I will be in limbo until the next is released in August and I can only imagine how bereft I am going to be without #TillyAndPoe 😢🥺 @mwcraven.bsky.social has created something special

from today's post — please read the whole thing, thanks! link is here: bit.ly/41irHtM

Absolutely smashing through these #TillyAndPoe books by @mwcraven.bsky.social I swear they’re laced with an illegal substance 🤣 finished #TheCurator today!! Another 5⭐️ read 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

#Bookmail Huge thanks to #Bookbreak and @panmacmillan.bsky.social for these two copies of #KristinHannahTheWomen this #GalentinesDay to share with my someone special 🥰 and today is the paperback publication day too! The Women shows us how powerful and healing special relationships can be 💞

Yesterday I finished @mwcraven.bsky.social’s #ThePuppetShow and today I finished his #BlackSummer and so I have been FORCED to buy the next in the series!! Bravo Mike 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Bravo 😜

So after a fantastic time at the inaugural @stockportnoir.bsky.social on Saturday, I’ve already booked my tickets for 2026 and I really recommend you do too so you don’t miss out!! LOOK WHO’S ALREADY CONFIRMED FOR NEXT YEAR 🤩 Get your tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/sto...

🖤Once you enter the gates, will they ever let you leave?🖤 'Full of twists and turns, I couldn't put this down. A taut, claustrophobic thriller that left me breathless’ SIMON McCLEAVE #TheReturnOfFrankieWhittle hits the shelves 8 Feb! #kindle edition available to #preorder here: amzn.to/4hv4v0w

I had a total BALL at @stockportnoir.bsky.social today!! My 1st book festival 15mins from my home!! Met up with #BookishDadReads had a laugh & chatted to ppl & authors, listened to the panels (front row no less) & bought books! @mwcraven.bsky.social gave me a set of bookmarks 🎉 same time next year?

Happy Publication Day to Gabriel Dylan for his newest #ShiverPoint #BeneathTheGhostlyGraves which is the 5th in this fantastic series to epically rival a well known kids series I refuse to name because Gabriel’s is BETTER!! Thanks to @amberivatt.bsky.social @piccadilly-press.bsky.social for my copy

What a lovely afternoon at my children’s old school talking about dinosaurs and miniature dogs! #Authorvisits are one of the best parts of being an author ✍🏼🐶🦖📖🥰

I suggest you all add @bryonypearce.bsky.social’s #Aphrodite from @uclanpublishing.bsky.social to whatever TBR plan you have going 😍😍 Absolutely stunning 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 and I’m not just saying that because the doofus that is Zeus made her the god of Love and Beauty 😜 iykyk

If I follow you on the other platforms please can you give me a nudge (or a slap 👋🏽 🤣) I’m trying to pick up all my old connections in addition to making new ones but people seem to have chosen new pictures 🤦🏽‍♀️

Happy Publication Day to @alexhaybooks.bsky.social for #QueenOfFives ♠️They whisper her name in every corner of town. ♥️The lady with a hundred faces, a thousand lives. ♣️Five moves, five days - for such are the rules of her game. ♦️If you want something to keep you gripped, this is it 😍

SPOTLIGHT POST The Teacher of Auschwitz by Wendy Holden Each year on this date (27th January), Holocaust Memorial Day takes place. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Take a look at my spotlight post here: www.instagram.com/p/DFUsmVSgmz...

Give my girl Danielle a follow for all your bookish design needs 😍😍😍

Made the switch from X. I'll be ranting and raving about books and design over here instead now 💖 My first post is a quick illustration I did today ✨

I just had the privilege of reading @lucynoguerawrites.bsky.social’s #SwöpTheDaringDinosaurDetective which releases on 20th January and if you have kids in KS2 then you need to RUN and preorder now: www.brilliantmonstersbooks.com/shop My full review is on insta: www.instagram.com/reel/DE19-x0...

Proofs... proofed! INTO THE FIRE, coming June 5th. 'He runs into the flames a hero. He emerges from the ashes a suspect' Preorder now ⬇️ amzn.eu/d/bB0qj04

I’m running an end of year giveaway for a special edition of #AddieLaRue over on my Instagram if anyone would like to enter: www.instagram.com/reel/DENXWha... It’s open internationally ☺️

Over Xmas I’ll be sewing 100 book pouches, like in the pic but with different fabric, to go with your pre-ordered copy of #GiveHimToMe. To get one of the 100, simply pre-order from Cole Bookshop coles-books.co.uk/give-him-to-... or Booka Bookshop www.bookabookshop.co.uk/shop/give-hi... x

It’s so lush to be one of the chosen few for my all time fave author 🥰 Thanks @dorothykoomson.bsky.social @edpr.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social Sequel to Dorothy’s last book #EverySmileYouFake, Give Him To Me picks up with Kes in another life or death, death & more death situation!

It’s the 1st of December so I guess it’s about time to “Step Into Christmas” 🎄 Thanks so much to #BookBreakUK for my lovely proof copy of #OlivieBlake’s #Januaries 😍 I am loving it atm!! So far my favourite is #TheWishBridge #QOTD: Do you like short stories? If so do you have a favourite?

Who are your reading buddies? I’ve gained a new one in Tebby 🥰 We’re excited to start #TheDayOfTheRoaring by Nina Bhadreshwar This is Nina’s debut crime thriller set in Sheffield feat DI Diana Walker Now this plot has piqued my interest! I won’t tell anyone why 😂 Out 30/1 you can pre order now!