Jeevani Charika / Rhoda Baxter
@jeevanicharika.bsky.social
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Contemporary romance writer, KDrama fan, Canva nerd, cake and Lego enthusiast.
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I write ownvoices romcoms and women's fic featuring (some)
#SriLankan
characters. I also write as Rhoda Baxter. If you want to try a sample of my writing, you grab the short story Pat's Pantry from free from most ebook retailers:
books2read.com/u/3RByxL
about 1 year ago
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I've read this book and it's EXCELLENT. You should definitely buy iy
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about 17 hours ago
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If you're looking for short Christmas books to read this week, here are three of them reduced to 99p each. Enjoy!
books2read.com/SnowIn
books2read.com/CforC
books2read.com/u/bxqar6
about 18 hours ago
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The Bookseller
5 days ago
In May, Simon & Schuster announced a new award for unpublished authors of colour which included a two-book deal with six-figure advance 👇
#TheBooksellerMostRead
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New Simon & Schuster award for unpublished authors of colour includes two-book deal with six-figure advance
https://ebx.sh/vtlR4y
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And Gen X.
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7 days ago
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Shane Anderson 🏳️🌈
9 days ago
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." -
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social
with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!
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Tade Humbuggin' Thompson
9 days ago
-Comes into your space uninvited, without permission -Greedily uses up resources preferentially - Forces a new mode of existence on you -Steals your own shit to sell back to you -Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings AI or colonialism?
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How to use Canva (free) to make really pretty email designs.
youtu.be/EYfHfaKGb_Q
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Design beautiful emails using Canva (and send using your usual email service)
YouTube video by Jeevani Charika's Canva Tips For Authors
https://youtu.be/EYfHfaKGb_Q
9 days ago
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Bella Osborne
9 days ago
To all the fabulous readers and bloggers if you’re doing lists of 2026 releases I’d be over the moon if you included my quirky little rom com. Thanks in advance!
#2026books
#upcomingbooks
#anticipatedbooks
#mustreadbooks
#mustreads
#BookSky
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John Scalzi
11 days ago
This is the sort of contract that if you were entertaining signing it, your friends should smash through a window, do roll on the floor, leap up in a feral pounce and slap it out of your hands
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Jan Jones
12 days ago
*Triumphant fanfare* Christmas book is UP on kindle!
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G7G2R1HX
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Tied Up with Tinsel
Tied Up with Tinsel eBook : Jones, Jan: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G7G2R1HX
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Here's my review of Night Rider by Sloane Fletcher. A thought provoking book with interesting character who have real depth.
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Book review: Night Rider by Sloane Fletcher
When I first got an ARC of this book, I wasn't sure what to expect. I don't read much in the way of cowboy romance and it was billed as 'spicy cowboy romance'. I dived in anyway and I'm really glad I did. Nina is hiding away at a luxury ranch while she's recovering from the trauma of sexual assault. It's entirely possible that her attacker would ruin her career (on top of attacking her!).
http://rhodabaxter.com/2025/12/17/book-review-night-rider-by-sloane-fletcher/
11 days ago
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All my friends on the chat group at watching Strictly. I am not. It's incomprehensible, but sounds like lots of fun.
14 days ago
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Alina Lee Writes Sapphic Short Stories
14 days ago
Buy some books! Feed the giant lizard. You know you want to.
#booksky
#booksale
#readsky
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David Green
15 days ago
If you haven't read Magic, Maps, and Mischief yet, then now is the perfect time to pick up a copy! Read for found family, fully fleshed out characters who rarely get their moment to shine and a story filled with kindness and hope. Shares welcome! Https://mybook.to/magicmapsandmischief
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Joel Morris
15 days ago
It’s weird how there’s always moves to make fiction more “interactive” with different endings etc. It’s like these people have never seen the same film twice a few years apart and had a completely different reaction. All fiction is interactive. That there’s an audience is the interactive part.
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Joanne Harris
15 days ago
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 186: You are never too old, too experienced, too successful to take advice. The moment you think you're beyond taking advice is the moment your work starts to suffer.
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How to use
#Canva
to capture email addresses
#tutorial
.
youtu.be/3d-k2590AZ4
Note: This is just how to collect the email addresses. GDPR compliance is up to you.
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Build a form to capture email addresses to grow your mailing list using Canva free
YouTube video by Jeevani Charika's Canva Tips For Authors
https://youtu.be/3d-k2590AZ4
16 days ago
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Sophie Kinsella's books were a huge influence on my writing. I'm so sad to hear she's died. I shall read Undomestic Goddess and Can You Keep a Secret (my favourites) and think of her.
#RIPSophieKinsella
17 days ago
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Big Green Books
18 days ago
I have another
#buyastrangerabook
offer. After the very sad news about Sophie Kinsella earlier,
@clairedares.bsky.social
is offering to buy someone a copy of one of her books. I've put a selection together, but if there's one you'd like, get in touch. UK only
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This seems like a very valid point.
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18 days ago
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Julie (Mae) Cohen
18 days ago
Such a loss. Maddy/Sophie was a champion of her genre, generous to fellow writers and all around a good egg.
apple.news/A8YcuwrK1QjG...
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Author Sophie Kinsella dies aged 55 — BBC News
The author of the Shopaholic series of novels had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer.
https://apple.news/A8YcuwrK1QjGHojI6_i9PQg
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Here's my review of Magic, Maps and Mischief by David Green. Splendid cosy fantasy. Maps, owls, tea etc.
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Book review: Magic, Maps and Mischeif by David Green
Greton is preoccupied with the question 'what is your heart's desire'. And, incidentally, he needs to flee the city (with no money or clothes or, well, anything). I really enjoyed the peek into Greton's thought processes and the way his obsessive attention to maps often led him to behave in a way that might look odd to other people. I liked the way he had to consider the social norm before he responded to people (which didn't always work).
http://rhodabaxter.com/2025/12/10/book-review-magic-maps-and-mischeif-by-david-green/
18 days ago
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Iron Spike
19 days ago
Every streaming platform and studio WANTS a KPop Demon Hunters. Would KILL for a KPop Demon Hunters. But 99% of them would have never funded the proposal in a million years. That's the big issue now, IMO.
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Mark Stay
19 days ago
Join me TONIGHT with Gavin G Smith on the Creative Differences Livestream on TUESDAY 9TH DECEMBER, 8PM GMT. Gavin's latest novel is ALIEN CULT, set in the Aliens universe and we'll discuss that and his incredible career! Join us on FB:
fb.me/e/9aywRGDAi
Or on YT:
www.youtube.com/live/kCuVPEZ...
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Today I shall start the wrangling and hoop jumping required to active a jacqui Lawson advent calendar when my ipad won't talk to my email properly. (Yes, I know it should be easy. IN THEORY)
20 days ago
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I got an email with the header 'How to Ruin Your booksales'. I deleted it without reading, because I manage to ruin my booksales just fine by being myself, thanks.
21 days ago
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The chillies I put in my omelette were spicier than I thought. And now I have hiccups.
21 days ago
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Oooh. Look at my little book hanging out in cool company!
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21 days ago
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I'm taking some time off from writing. So I've spent today reading Wooing The Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis and it was excellent.
22 days ago
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Ah, I seem to have reached the 'looking at the headlines and muttering swearwords' time of the evening.
23 days ago
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Mark Stay
23 days ago
On the latest Creative Differences,
@jeevanicharika.bsky.social
tells us about her book How Can I Resist You, how oversleeping once led to a breakthrough, and why she enjoys doing funky things in Canva and much more... LISTEN:
www.buzzsprout.com/2399041/epis...
WATCH:
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Emillie Parrish
24 days ago
I don't understand why AI is considered "different". AI-generated content should be held accountable to all existing laws. The AI companies should be held accountable, too.
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Aubrey 💖🏳️🌈
24 days ago
THIS, a thousand times THIS
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WeRateDogs
25 days ago
This is Magnus. He just beat cancer. His family wrote the big news on their car and bought him balloons to celebrate. Magnus got so much love from strangers the whole way home. His human said, "I hope everyone has a Magnus in their lives, who shows them what determination and strength are." 14/10
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Carol Drinkwater
25 days ago
This is inspiring
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Terry Pratchett & Rob Wilkins 👽 🐇
27 days ago
The Roundworld year for 2026 shall be known as [FX Drum Roll] : The Year of the Curious Squid. Artwork by Discworld artist Paul Kidby.
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Louie Stowell
25 days ago
Join us for a festival signing session on Satuday in Crystal Palace! Preorders now closed but you can buy Lokis on the day too!
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26 days ago
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Cait Gordon ♿️
26 days ago
Good morning to all the human authors who write using their meat brains. A very happy em dash to you! 🥰
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folukeifejola
27 days ago
The following is a picture essay that reflects on a personal experience that informs my own understanding of what it means to lose your freedom of speech.
folukeafrica.com/losing-your-...
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Losing Your Freedom of Speech
So what does it mean to lose your freedom of speech? Let me tell you a story of what it means to me. I know that having your freedom of speech curtailed is not having people – no matter how m…
https://folukeafrica.com/losing-your-freedom-of-speech/
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Brian Hughes
27 days ago
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Louie Stowell
27 days ago
Just finished a proof of
@rashmiwriting.bsky.social
's new book and it is a marvel! Witty, cleverly-observed, with a charming main character who is also a massive doofus. I love a massive doofus! (Don't tell Hari I think he's a doofus)
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Louie Stowell
27 days ago
After the sudden death of Jonathan Main at
@booksellercrow.bsky.social
, some local authors decided to organise a Christmas signing to help the bookshop make some much-needed ££. If you'd like to help, come on down! And preorder books!
booksellercrow.co.uk/shop-tag/lou...
I'm on at 2pm!
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27 days ago
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GHC Has Gorra Lorra Fings On (the radio)
28 days ago
Suppose we'd better all donate more period products to the foodbank now that a charity that donated them to those who couldn't afford it has closed - an event *checks notes* celebrated by the lobby groups that every aspect of the UK press wants you to know is better at feminism than the rest of us
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Al Jazeera English
29 days ago
Some 44,000 people displaced by flooding across the country as relief operations intensify amid widespread destruction.
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Sri Lanka seeks foreign help as Cyclone Ditwah death toll reaches 123
Some 44,000 people displaced by flooding across the country as relief operations intensify amid widespread destruction.
https://bit.ly/4rqsF2f
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Christina Courtenay
29 days ago
Penultimate day of the
#blogtour
for RIPPLES THROUGH TIME visiting Bookmadjo, Chez Maximka (featuring a unique extract) and Sharon Beyond the Books - thank you all! RIPPLES THROUGH TIME – a
#dualtime
#romance
featuring
#Vikings
,
#buriedtreasure
and
#ghosts
from the past!
geni.us/ripplestime
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A few months ago, someone asked me if you can do colour gradients in text in Canva. At the time, you couldn't. Now you can! Really useful if you want to do metallic text.
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Text gradient colours in Canva!
YouTube video by Jeevani Charika's Canva Tips For Authors
https://youtu.be/UhoI0uwCfLI
30 days ago
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Joel Morris
about 1 month ago
This is an unspooling thread of total joy. A slug of forgotten comedy history. The brilliant female clowns of silent cinema. This might be the most ALIVE thing you’ll see all day.
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Joanne - Portobello Book Blog
about 1 month ago
#Festive
#ThreeTwoOne
quickfire questions with Kirsty Ferry
#author
#ThreeTwoOne
of Christmas on the Isle of Skye | @kirsty_ferry @ChocLitUK @JoffeBooks I'm delighted to be joined by one of my favourite authors today, Kirsty Ferry with a bonus Festive #ThreeTwoOne for this week. Now, Kirsty doesn't have a new…
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#Festive #ThreeTwoOne quickfire questions with Kirsty Ferry #author of Christmas on the Isle of Skye | @kirsty_ferry @ChocLitUK @JoffeBooks
I'm delighted to be joined by one of my favourite authors today, Kirsty Ferry with a bonus Festive #ThreeTwoOne for this week. Now, Kirsty doesn't have a new Christmas book out this year but there are two Christmas themed Kindle box sets available, each containing four of her books, for just 99p - amazing value! I've asked her to tell us about one of the books in the set and she's chosen…
http://portobellobookblog.com/2025/11/27/festive-threetwoone-quickfire-questions-with-kirsty-ferry-author-of-christmas-on-the-isle-of-skye-kirsty_ferry-choclituk-joffebooks/
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