I’m an immigrant to the UK and everyone who voted Reform has basically told me to go f*ck off. So thanks for that.

The AI spam book marketing emails are really ramping up. I used to get one a day, now I’m getting five or six, offering to promote every book I have ever written and several that I haven’t, including books that have been out of print for five years

Pat Butcher-inspired red carpet looks, a thread.

In a SHOCKING TWIST THAT YOU DIDN’T SEE COMING I will be teaching sessions on how to plot your novel at Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival this July. harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/event/creati...

Entering my slutty little glasses era

EAT SLAY LOVE is 99p on Kindle… The story of three women with nothing in common, except for the man they’ve got tied up in the basement.

Spent a lovely afternoon in the Med with Katy Brent. Except it was in Basingstoke.

Apparently it is National Bubble Tea Day, and one is obliged to celebrate.

Yesterday @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social told me I must get back to Bluesky, so here I am. With my dog

This is such a fabulous class and what amazing guests! Join us!

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When life gives you wild garlic, make wild garlic salt

Meg and I took a trip to @bertsbooks.bsky.social in Swindon to sign copies of BODY COUNT. Meg was most interested in following Michael around to make sure he was shelving books correctly, but she took a moment to do a publicity shot with Bert. She is such a pro. @zaffrebooks.bsky.social

Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models. Titled Don’t Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. 🧵

UK #DEAL ALERT! Calling all one-clickers because BODY COUNT @juliecohen.bsky.social is on #sale on #Kindle UK until the end of the month! amzn.to/47rxjob #BodyCount #ad #amazonuk

I gave in the first half of my PhD thesis draft yesterday and today I am checking my email every five minutes like a hyperactive Muppet.

FUCK YEAH PUT EM IN JAIL

Home decor question: Should I paint over the caulking between my tiles and the wall?

I FINISHED MY REVISIONS which means that this weekend I can PAINT MY KITCHEN in between writing to my elected representatives for the 3000th time (PS f*ck 🧊)

Tell me again how nobody cares about theatre, how the arts are elitist, how Shakespeare belongs in the past…

I identified 20 different bird species on my walk today 🐦 🦢 🦆🐦‍⬛🪿

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Oh hey if you want to read a book about a woman killing terrible terrible men whilst wearing amazing shoes, my novel BAD MEN is currently 99p on Kindle for today only www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0C1...

This is the face of a dog who knows that I made friends with a cat this weekend

Have I reached Peak Sapphic

In December, I helped my elderly parents move to a friendly 55+ community in southern Maine. Today, fucking ICE turned up and arrested the construction workers.

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babybel implies the existence of scarybel, sportybel, gingerbel and poshbel

I’m walking to my physio appointment and I think I just saw a man in a velvet coat carrying a bag of live pigeons

"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope...realists of a larger reality." Ursula K. Le Guin

Doing some reading for my PhD and who do I see quoted but @davidmbarnett.bsky.social! (Genre Worlds by Wilkins, Driscoll and Fletcher, 2022)

"Why joining the local library is the best thing you can do in 2026" H/T: @j2bryson.bsky.social

I have had a LOT of new followers over the past weeks…are you real, or are you bots? If you are real, say hi! What book are you reading? I’m reading Chasing the Dark, by Ben Machell.

HEY! Did you know you can buy someone a gift subscription at Bert's? It's the PERFECT present - just choose from 3 months, 6 months or 12 months and we'll send the first books out next week! bertsbooks.co.uk/product/gift...

Oh dear, what a shock, she says, not at all shocked www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...

Trans rights are human rights, in the most profound and fundamental way.

Yesterday I sat in front of my Christmas tree and read a book for my PhD. And it was so nice that today I’m going to do exactly the same thing.

Meg.

Rob Reiner directed my favourite film of all time. Sleep well and thank you, Mr Reiner. As you wish.

Mass shooting at my Alma mater, Brown University, yesterday. My heart breaks for the victims and their families. I can’t imagine the agony. The only lesson from these senseless deaths, again and again and again, is that the US government cares more about guns than innocent people.

'Every good novelist is a reader first' 📚 Award-winning author @juliecohen.bsky.social shares her thoughts on genre classifications like 'commercial fiction' and 'women's fiction' as well as her top tips for budding romance and commercial fiction authors. Read the full interview:

Such a loss. Maddy/Sophie was a champion of her genre, generous to fellow writers and all around a good egg. apple.news/A8YcuwrK1QjG...

In my next book, my serial killer Saffy poisons everyone who does not give her enough chips

Today, my parents are moving out of the house where they’ve lived for 54 years (it is across the street from the house where my dad grew up). There are a lot of stories. Here is one:

Statement from @transactualuk.bsky.social about the GG and WI exclusions.

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