One major benefit of being a student again is being able to write my novel in the library.

I told you guys

It’s my first meeting with my PhD supervisors today. I have remembered: ✅ Laptop (fully charged) ✅ Notebook (new) ✅ Action plan emailed to supervisors (am a swot) ✅ Two copies of my PhD novel (written by me) (swot) ✅ Reusable cup (for tea) I have forgotten: ❌ Pen

Should I put on makeup to go to the dentist or no

This happened yesterday!

Four people were arrested for an “unauthorised projection”. This is apparently what counts as a crime now www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

JD Vance backs mass ‘doxing’ campaign to find and harass Charlie Kirk critics

Well I dropped The Kid and his orange skull at university this weekend. It’s just me and the dog now

The one irrefutable thing that Charlie Kirk’s murder proves is that America needs stricter gun control laws

I saw BAD MEN for sale in TK MAXX!! Does this mean I have made it? @zaffrebooks.bsky.social

Made pickles.

Update: finished this. Loved it

I had the absolute pleasure of chatting to @juliecohen.bsky.social on this week’s episode of In My Good Books. We talked about her latest novel, Body Count, writing in different genres, and she gave me some great book recommendations! Listen in here: linktr.ee/inmygoodbook...

At the core of transmisogyny is, inevitably, misogyny itself. The viciousness with which some people trash trans women for how they look, or their supposed artificiality, or perceived errors in their behaviour, comes from a fundamental loathing of any women who doesn’t conform to their expectations.

When people say “I want my kids to have things I never had the opportunity to have,” I did not realize they meant measles.

The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.

My kid is going to university in a week and a half and we still haven’t finished our Schitt’s Creek rewatch!! Starting to panic

After much faffing with online admin, I am now OFFICIALLY enrolled at @uniofreading.bsky.social to do a PhD by Publication in Creative Writing and Publishing, starting this month! Woooooooooot!

I was supposed to give blood today but my appointment was cancelled so now I’m just sitting around wondering what to do with all this extra blood

We marched in Reading #Pride and Meg joined the brass band as a singer

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

Okay I have a kid going to university for the first time in 2 weeks, please share your most unusual but helpful tips…stuff to pack, things to do, ways to prepare?

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

I just said on a podcast that I’m on Instagram to share book news and dog and food photos and I’m on Bluesky for ranting about the terrible government and I think that is more or less accurate

I put this on every single elected official that continues to offer thoughts and prayers while human beings bleed to death from gunshot wounds in churches, schools, concerts, night clubs, community parades, and the list goes on.

If your business can’t succeed without stealing then it should obviously fail.

I dreamed I was cooking Thanksgiving dinner for my entire extended family (including Cousin Steve who had many allergies*) and my mother took the turkey out of the oven, cut off the breast, threw it away, and put the rest of the turkey in the fridge so it didn’t cook. What does this mean??

My therapist suggested that I write letters to all the people who have wronged me and then throw them into a big fire. I did that, and I do feel better, but I don’t know what I am supposed to do with all these letters.

I am supposed to be writing about murdering people but I keep on getting distracted by news about fascists

Actually “the Jews” (outside of Israel) are diverse on their point of view about Israel’s actions but even if we were not, we are simply the excuse and the vehicle These Christian Zionists and political Zionists are not enabling Israel out of deep concern for “the Jews” — we are simply their cover

This is APPALLING and a logical next step in the process of AI actively harming real, human artists.

📗📗BOOK REVIEW 📗📗 Body Count By Julie Mae Cohen Full review ➡️ t.ly/pm7rL “A fun entertaining and very enjoyable read.” @zaffrebooks.bsky.social @juliecohen.bsky.social

I love how this devilled egg dish is in the shape of a mother watching her young being devoured

I am now the proud owner of my mother’s Tupperware JEL-N-SERVE gelatine mould from the 1970s. (FAO @basculerascule.bsky.social)

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

I just visited @bertsbooks.bsky.social and signed copies of BODY COUNT while Bert shook hands with my dog Meg @zaffrebooks.bsky.social

New in! Body Count by @juliecohen.bsky.social - signed copies now in stock! bertsbooks.co.uk/body-count

It is publication day for me and also A level results day, so you can imagine the emotional rollercoaster going on in our house

Happy publication day to the deliciously dark Body Count (sequel to Bad Men) by #JulieMaeCohen @juliecohen.bsky.social Review on my book blog mentoringmumof2bookreviews.home.blog/2025/08/14/b...

My ex kindly looked after my house and our dog while I was gone, with the stipulation that he would leave them as clean as he found them. The dog is matted and stinky, the bathroom is gross and the fridge full of gone-off food. On the bright side the dog is still alive and I am still divorced

Back in the UK. Tired. There’s still a terf on the longlist of my erstwhile favourite LGBTQ+ literary prize

UK readers, if you can't afford to buy any of these books, order them from your local library. The authors will see your support through loan figures and PLR. You don't even have to finish reading them if you don't want!

Of all the manufactured crises in the history of crises elevated by authoritarians to justify a power grab, the unarmed carjacking of Edward “Big Balls” Coristine by 15 year olds, in which he didn’t go to the hospital - in a city where crime is down 30% - has to be the absolute dumbest.

Apologies, this is a break from my usual ranting about the terrible US government to inform you that my novel BODY COUNT is out on Thursday and features the murders of r*pists, p**dophiles and generally awful men including at least one politician. Here’s a review in @theipaper.com

Copies of Body Count by @juliecohen.bsky.social are now in! This is a follow up to the big hit Bad Men - Julie’s gonna swing by and sign them on Friday, so if you want a signed and dedicated copy, head to our website: bertsbooks.co.uk/body-count

Welp the country is being run by fascists who want to kill us all but at least the ice cream is cheap and plentiful

Open letter on the Polari Prize longlist and the inclusion of John Boyne, who openly expresses his transphobic and misogynistic views. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Magic.