During this week, I have booked 2 coaching sessions, one about book promotion with #LucyRycroft and the other on using social media with #JasonSmith. What advice do you have for me?

Copies of ‘Past and Present’, my book of short stories, some historical and some contemporary, landed on my doorstep yesterday. Exciting! Thank you @gillj.bsky.social…. that’s my editor, Gill James… and Bridge House Publishing. #bookstagram #bibliophile #booklover And yes, available on Amazon.

Chekhov's Gun: Does Your Story Have a Forgotten "Gun"? annerallen.com/2025/06/chek.... This is advice I do try to follow. #anne_allen

My granddaughter and I went to Linton Zoo last week. I NEVER post pictures of my grandchildren on social media, so here is a photo of a giant tortoise we saw there. No GDPR considerations for tortoises!

Some interesting responses to #jacquie_lawson invitations I sent out yesterday. Digital native youth couldn’t open it. Another (mature) friend texted to ask if I’d been scammed!

I wish my iPhone would not attempt to ‘categorise’ my Google emails. Apple hasn’t a clue what I consider important and what I don’t. And now I’ve lost about 20 emails which I didn’t manage to open yesterday. They’ll be on my big, old fashioned, desktop Windows computer, I suppose.

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde fictionfanblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/t...

Really excited to see the cover for 'Past and Present', a collection of my short stories, to be published by Bridge House Publishing this summer.

The benefits of blogging challenges suestrifles.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/t... Some thoughtful observations about blogging. Leads on from More Than Writers post morethanwriters.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...