💛💛💛 #DaddyBlackbird #MentalHealth #Hope 🐦‍⬛

A nice article in Devon’s best free magazine @ONEmagdevon 👏👏🙏

To my reader friends! Simon at @biggreenbooks.bsky.social has set up a club, where we can all give just £1 a week and Simon will spend it on books for disadvantaged kids who need them. As membership grows, the more books he can send out - please join in! www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-bo...

A wee sale on my Pennan, Aberdeenshire painting. £25 off of my website price, see link below & do let me know.☺️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎨 #localhero #scotland #art louisemcintoshartist.com/shop-1?pgid=ip…

Help! Amazon have taken almost all copies of my new indie book GIRLS TO THE FRONT as stock & it’s a fortune to re-print so we need to sell them! So if you fancy a 90’s found footage feminist revenge thriller w/a cover designed by Chris Bigg (4AD) pls stick a pre order in Out NEXT WEEK. Link below

Trick or treat? Kwik taster of our upcoming take on the Dusty classic.... ❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚

“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.” Glenn Close A reminder today… even if someone’s carrying it well, it might still be heavy… You are not alone. 🧡 #kindness #MentalHealth #WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD Image: @joyfulsmolthings

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Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Everyone, get your claim in now.

🐟 The Girl With the Gills: Author Talk & Storytelling Workshop A magical event with Becca Rogers, where young readers can invent their own underwater creatures & worlds! Ages 8–12 (with colouring for young siblings). 📍 Exeter Library 📅 Mon 11 AUG 🕧 12:30–1:30pm 🎫 Free: www.eventbrite.co.uk...

My latest artwork of the delectable Robert Smith is now available as a lush A4 art print via my Etsy shop! #robertsmith #thecure #art www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

After the Salt Path saga, I am reposting this again to say if anyone wants an excellent, true, historical, factual, and entertaining story about walking in Cornwall, this is it. A proper job. #kernow #cornwall #books #blueskybooks #nature #outdoors 💙📚 〓〓‬

“If we didn’t care quite so deeply, we wouldn’t notice the things we do. We wouldn’t connect in the way we can.” You may feel things in high definition. You also love,connect, and bring more care into the world. That’s not a flaw. It’s a gift. 🧡 #kindness #connection Art by @joyfulsmolthings

A polite request on behalf of our garden critters. In this hot spell, please consider popping little bowls of water around your garden. I’ve got half a dozen of these dotted about, and have seen my cat, birds, and wasps drinking from them so far. Kindness can just be a simple things ❤️

The queen of all queens @maryannehobbs.bsky.social back on @bbc6music.bsky.social right now ... my weekend made!!! x

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Thanks to Fairfield Books for such a great book launch for me & Scott Oliver also to Dan Norcross for a fabulous interview & to ALL of the huge number that came to support us & sent lovely messages. It was a wonderful if surreal experience & I greatly appreciate it.

SO excited to announce my new rom-com Sink or Swim is being published by HarperNorth next spring. #booksky #books #iamwriting @harpernorth.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/rights/harpe...

It’s my book launch on Monday 28th April (5 days) and so I’ll be posting a bit about it for the next week or so! Nervous, excited, overwhelmed- I’m all of these things plus a few more. @FairfieldBooks_ thenightwatchman.net/buy/cricket-ch…

So this is my little elevator pitch about When Sally Killed Harry that my publisher asked me to do 😀 I’ll be at Waterstones Swindon with Katy Brent on 13/05 & @tim-burgess.bsky.social #MerchMarket with @davehaslam.bsky.social & @serenitybookshop.bsky.social 28/05 chatting about it and my music fic

Hundreds of US protesters demonstrated outside the Milwaukee courthouse in solidarity with Judge Hannah Dugan, who was arrested by the Trump regime for standing her ground against ethnic cleansing. #3E (‪ 📹@marcofoster.bsky.social )

New paintings!

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” Aesop Every single time we show kindness, it matters – more than we’ll ever fully know. 🧡 #kindness #positivity #ripple Picture by joyfulsmolthings

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🎶THIS SAT🎨 Our Crafts & Music #LibraryLates kicks off at 7pm this Sat. Enjoy Clay Model Making and Sweary Pebble Painting while listening to bands 🎶 KÊMBANG (folk) and 🎵 HIBISCUS (neo-soul). It's going to be a lovely chilled out evening in the foyer. 📆 22nd March 🎫 www.eventbrite.co.uk...#LibraryLates

New mini paintings. ‘The Bestselling Trilogy’. Postcard size. A6. Acrylics with a watercolour flavour on Khadi Handmade Cotton Rag paper, 150gsm. Unframed. To be sold as a three - £90 plus P&P. Available to buy worldwide. Spring is upon us. #art #spring #flowers #interior #decor

Friday , First coffee 🙃

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to read books, drink tea, and eat pastries in a humble seaside cottage during a raging storm?

Would you rather look at art in a museum or on Instagram? We know what we'd answer... 😉 #Dartmoor A Radical Landscape is on at RAMM until Sunday 23 Feb. If you haven't popped in yet, visit rammuseum.org.uk/whats-on/dar... to book your tickets. 🎥 Josh Pratt

Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll refused a DOJ order that he assist in the firing of agents involved in Jan. 6 riot cases. Ultimately the FBI caved and handed Trump more than 5,000 employee details, including employee ID numbers, job titles and their role in the Jan 6 investigations

I know how important Amazon and Goodreads reviews are to indie author book sales. So I hope my review of this particular item has effects on sales. Negative effects. www.amazon.co.uk/review/RBNQ3...

These bad boys should be everywhere for all the times I forget my book! #EmergencyBook 💙📚 BookSky

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Happy 5th "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" anniversary! #Geology ⚒️

If it looks like a nazi, swims like a nazi, and quacks like a nazi, then it probably is a nazi.

US Oligarch Elon Musk does Nazi salute after being gifted "government position" by US Oligarch Donald Trump. (2025)

Nick Grimshaw getting a show on 6Music.

You folk have two weeks--JUST TWO WEEKS--to dust off your amazing stories and send them in to the Bristol Short Story Prize competition! Prizes, publication, and great publicity all await our shortlisted authors! Full details: bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” 🧡🧡🧡 #kindness #KindnessMatters #BeKind

Happy Publication Day to me! Thank you to Kathryn, Oliver & Kate for this fabulous opportunity, all at Storm Publishing for their hard work, the book bloggers for their fabulous reviews, and YOU, my wonderful readers! UK: amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B... USA: amazon.com/gp/product/B... #CozyMystery