Hope everyone had a wonderful Autism Awareness/Acceptance Day yesterday. So many lovely messages, people sharing their experiences...and the obligatory piece in a right wing newspaper bemoaning increasing diagnosis rates and suggesting that people are "incentivised" to label themselves autistic.

This Passover, I shall be mostly honouring the start of my people's journey out of slavery in Ancient Times by eating matzos...and also complaining constantly about how much I hate eating matzos.

On holiday in a beautiful cottage, I decided that the laundry cupboard was my happy place. I did some editing in there, beside the spare pillows and Christmas decs. Welcome to life as an autistic writer!

Doing a spot of Mama & Baby outfit matching to liven up my day...

It's Jewish Book Week, so I am taking a second to think about all the wonderful Jewish writers who shaped my life and writing, from Judith Kerr onwards. Currently in my Anita Brookner phase of life...

'Some of the happiest moments of my life have been spent writing. As a writer you lead a thousand lives. As a writer you can become a person of any age whenever you want. You can make it rain or snow. I know it's the only kind of life that has ultimately made sense to me.' Norma Klein.

When your Frenchie has finished her hamburger and chips, and wants to get down from the table...

What was the highlight of my little Paris trip? Wandering around sleep/nightmare/death themed artwork at the Musee Marmottan's excellent exhibition. I am a closet goth - who knew?

I spent the day trying to think about something almost unthinkable, and mourning family members I never knew.

Listen now! I was lucky to be invited by Andreia on her fabulous Neurodiverse Voices Podcast. We discussed my own experience of Autism, Autism in literature, Autism and Judaism, Autism and the future...all things Autism, basically! linktr.ee/neurodiversevoicesproject

A human, A Frenchie, A cuddly gargoyle with specs. The perfect book club is born! We are reading and loving Elsa Morante...

A trio of festive looks from Loretta as the festive season continues...

My thoughts were with the Bondi Beach attack victims as I lit my first candle of Chanukah this year.

Writing Jewish jokes to go into my crackers right now....

My episode of Write Club Podcast is now live! Chatting about the impact of a late autism diagnosis on my work, misunderstood protagonists, and there's a book recommendation from me too! Listen here: writersonline.substack.com/p/writing-as...

How are Loretta the Frenchie and I spending our Sunday evening? In the best way: chatting to online book club Bookscape Books about witchy things, autistic things...all things Evie. Join the club at www.bookscapebooks.org

I had an amazing experience at Maggie Hambling's War Requiem at the Snape Maltings today...unsettling and powerful and beautiful all at the same time.

When your Frenchie loves coffee-shop life more than you ever could...

There are worse ways to spend a Sunday afternoon...

From an autistic point of view, so many of us struggle to find and keep a job. For any group who face discrimination and face hurdles to employment, diversity and inclusion is a chance, not a "woke agenda".

Just an autistic girl house sitting, then realising that she left her earphones behind, because despite the silence indoors, it is a different type of silence to the one she is used to...

If anybody asks me whether I had a good time in Paris, this is what flashes through my mind. I mean, there were walks and museums and shopping and a concert, but, this....

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A poem for Shabbat from my Great Great Aunt, Nina Salaman.

As an English Jewish woman, whose family have lived in England for generations and loved living here, I am spending Yom Kippur - our holiest day - watching the news of a terrorist attack in a Manchester Synagogue unfold with absolute horror.

Lovely to see my article in the Sylvia Townsend Warner newsletter...from Lolly Willowes to Evie Edelman, talking about female outsiders.

All the problems in the world that the US administration could and should solve...yet they choose to spread misinformation about "cures" for a vulnerable group of people. I think that Autistic people deserve better.

The electrics tripped in my kitchen and sitting room today. So I just took my shortbread-making operation upstairs to my bedroom. Nothing gets between me and biscuits!

My favourite birthday gifts: some novel cover art related jewellery!

Couldn't agree more with The National Autistic Society on this. Fear mongering, false claims and blatant disrespect towards autistic people should not be tolerated.

Lovely homemade mulberry jam, plus the weird "scum pot" full of random stuff skimmed off the top. For every jam batch, there is a scum pot. There's a metaphor in there somewhere....😂

I am heading to FolkEast this Friday: find me on the sofa in the Lit Tent at 1pm, in conversation with Ruth Leigh and Abbie Clements! Signings after.

Thanks for having me on The Northern Connection Podcast! Link to listen to my chat about my novel, northern literature and female autism. Link below: linktr.ee/thenorthernc...

I had a great time on my panel at the Northern Literary Festival this weekend, discussing witchcraft, neurodivergence and feminine power. Thanks to all who came! 💝

I went secondhand-vintage-kitsch and light with my summer reading this holiday...except for the Sagan, which I am assuming will be deeply philosophical and pack an emotional punch despite it's tiny size...

Morning Womble! I am enjoying The Magickal Summer of Edie Edelman which is a combination of Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willowes, neurodivergency, a talking ghost and a small dog called Peggy. Very well written, fun and deep. 💙📚

My dad is also my Frenchie's personal butler...

In this episode Craig is in conversation with @autieharriett.bsky.social, autistic writer and author of "The Magickal Summer of Evie Edelman" Listen now>> www.leedsautism.org.uk/podcast-epis... #podcast #autor #actuallyautistic #harriettdemesquita

Well, the swimming season has finally arrived and I am wading into the North Sea, glamorous until you get to the jelly shoes on my feet to protect against weever fish...

When your Frenchie matches your novel cover...

Come and see me at The Northern YA Literary Festival in July! Fun and books, ticket link below: www.lancashire.ac.uk/events/listi...

Out now! Join Evie as she leaves behind everything she knows to set herself up as a friendly village witch in 1980s Yorkshire, navigating the reappearance of her first love, her own autism, and the friendly ghost of her Aunt Mim materialising to give advice at inopportune moments... #newnovel

Could not agree more, especially when at a Textiles: Art of Mankind exhibition! 👍😊

Last night I managed to have a bad book review related nightmare (novel not even out yet) AND pull a muscle in my calf, whilst asleep. Positively the last time I eat profiteroles before bed. (NB it will not be the last time I eat profiteroles before bed).

This beautiful weird thing was in my garden this morning! I fed it cheese...

What an amazing lady Margot Friedlander was. Let's hope her message of tolerance continues.

So this is not the most kosher lunch in the world. However...

My dog this morning...I genuinely wish I was her, sometimes! 😊 #frenchie

My heart goes out to every Autistic person in the US right now.