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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I’ve been helping my parents move from a 5-bed Victorian detached house to a 2-bed new-build condo. They’ve lived in this place for 54 years, so they’ve built up a lot of stuff. For example this is a mere fraction of my mother’s collection of empty used jars. 🧵

I have been in the US for three weeks and last night I made tater tots hot dish. Have I changed

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

Sort of interesting that my spellcheck doesn’t flag up the word ‘shitbaggery’

Can they have a future when only one of them remembers the past? My evocative, emotional novel PARADISE is published today by Orion books! It’s about memory, found family, friendship, love and sexuality, set on a lake in Maine. Get it here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/para...

Well thank fuck for that

This ladybird has been hanging out with me every day as I write the last chapters of my book. Her name is ‘Psycho Killer Qu’est-ce Que C’est’

I saw a meme recently that said everyone who owns two cats has one cat who is a brainless doofus and one cat who is an evil genius. I present to you: my parents’ two cats.

I saw this Good Dog on Sunday. Her name is Rosie

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

I’m on 5

I have a story in this week’s My Weekly magazine. It is a prequel to my novel EAT SLAY LOVE and it details the exploits of Godzilla the hamster. The illustration is epic, 10 out of 10, could not ask for better.

This morning I was walking the dog when I saw a man just off the towpath with his hands down his trousers. Last spring, a man exposed himself to me on the same path. So I stopped dead. My instinct after last time was to snap a photo and call the police. Instead I called ‘What are you doing?’

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

My plotting dilemmas at the moment are all like, yes this person is a psychopath killer but would doing this or this or that make them TOO MUCH of a psychopath killer??? @benwillisuk.bsky.social