Have just discovered Squaredle - it's fiendish!

The Family at Farrshore: Cathryn hopes to escape her problems by working in the north of Scotland, until she meets Magnus who has his own reasons for being there. A romance set in the beautiful Scottish Highlands. myBook.to/Farrshore #scotland

Delighted to have my @edfringe.bsky.social Edinburgh-Festival-Fringe-set cosy crime in The People's Friend Special No 281 on sale now. It's a long short story, in a pull-out 'mini-mag'. In the illustration Briony looks just as I imagined her!

Apple sauce? Can be frozen.

My last (as in last-published, new one coming soon!) People's Friend serial is available to read on their website. That's teacher Sarah with the gorgeous red hair just as I'd pictured her. www.thepeoplesfriend.co.uk/series/foots...

British Railways poster by Alasdair MacFarlane. (c.1950)

In case you've forgotten, this is what pure #goodness looks like. Soccer star Diogo Jota and his brother, Andre, were killed in a car wreck July 3. Liverpool FC announced it will pay the two remaining years of Diogo Jota’s contract in the amount of £14.5 million to his wife and their three children.

Soon to be renamed. Up the Garden Path☹️

Free short stories books.bookfunnel.com/short-story-...

Matt and Flora's story coming soon... (19th June UK; 1st July North America) mybook.to/AKisstoStopa... #Regency #Historicalfiction #Romance

Would you like to win a bundle of really awesome books including my award-winning collection, TURDUCKEN? Spaceboy Books are doing multiple giveaways to celebrate their 8th anniversary, so check it out here: mailchi.mp/84482b74a45f...

Thae laddies in the Celtic shirts, a baker’s dozen lumbering all the way to the summit cairn the hot last Saturday of May as larks trilled and the loch-side braes released their midgies… —Kathleen Jamie, “Ben Lomond” published in THE BONNIEST COMPANIE (Picador 2015)

I think it's about time Mark knew where and when and how long.

Thank you for the shortbread. I haven't tried it yet but was pleased to see the use by date of February '95.

It would be SO easy for @teamlabouruk.bsky.social to help nature in the UK in this small way, but they choose not to. Each morning I watch the sky fill with swifts, and wonder how much longer I have to get a glimpse into their world. Infuriating and wrong. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE BEEN SOBER ENOUGH TO WRITE.

Japanese snow fairy bird 🇯🇵 😃

The 3rd in my short Regency series is available from Amazon as a free ebook this weekend - light reading in all kinds of weather! Here's the link: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F7GDRZRV

Wish you were here to share my misery.

I would struggle to write without semi-colons; they look so lovely on the page. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

I haven't moved into my new house yet. And my wedding anniversary is not till October. Are you confusing me with Dorothy?

The last bottle of lemonade is nodding in the rock pool, keeping cold. A childhood, put away for later. I’m too busy to notice the sun is going, that they’re packing up, that it’s almost time for home… —Robin Robertson, “A Childhood” in SAILING THE FOREST #poem www.panmacmillan.com/authors/robi...

I have a beastly cold.

On your supermarket and newsagent shelves today 😊

I love my shoes and wear them a lot.

Feeling so excited and overwhelmed and grateful on launch day for 💐 THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET! 💐 Have been listening to the wonderful audiobook all morning in between writing the next in the Austentatious series (The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley)! 👗🥂

You know it must be #WorldPenguinDay if we're posting our Book Penguin made of Penguin Books. 🐧

Please, if your are able, please support Independent publishers. Here are a few who live and die by books sales. They do an enormous amount of heavy lifting in finding great new stories. @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @galleybeggars.bsky.social @saraband-books.bsky.social Thank you.

Brilliant review! The comparison with the Ealing Comedies is apt - congratulations @olgawojtas.bsky.social !

Our friends at #Edinburgh 's SF lit festival, @cymerafestival.co.uk , have just posted this year's programme, lots of fabulous authors and events to look forward to! www.cymerafestival.co.uk #books #livres #Edimbourg #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror

It would really mean the world to me if people would share details of my event for THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET, Tuesday 29th April in Glasgow! If you have queer friends, tell them! Or if you think you'd enjoy a book which kills Mr Collins off, come along! www.waterstones.com/events/lindz...

To celebrate the publication of the latest book in the Miss Blaine’s Prefect series, author Olga Wojtas has written a guest blog post - Shona McMonagle’s Desert Island Discs saraband.net/2025/04/01/s...

Look forward to catching up with Shona!

I'm delighted to say that I won the short story competition 2025. 'All Change at Leamington Lodge' will be published in (BP Society newsletter) Green Leaves later in the year and on their website thereafter.

Aaaaand we just hit 2,000 followers on Bluesky! 🫶 Help spread the word to fellow writers!

The world is busy, Katie, and tonight the planes are playing, fine, alright, but soon the folk behind those blinks will nap, sleep tight, as you will too, beneath a nitelite moon… —Richard Price, “The world is busy, Katie” on @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social poetryarchive.org/poem/world-b...

🤞 it would make a wonderful film!

Capital Collection: A dozen short stories from four Edinburgh writers: including the separately-available Capital Christmas Stories. www.amazon.co.uk/Capital-Coll... www.amazon.com/Capital-Coll... #shortstories

Amazing how one breakfast conversation can change everything. Had an idea for a book pootling about in my head, spoke it aloud and now it is a thing and I have dashed off the plot between Glasgow and Perth. Even with Scotrail though, will probably not have actually written it by Inverness.

Happy birthday!

Join me in Glasgow on Tuesday 29th April at the launch of THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET! 💐💜 Get your tickets here:

There's a Goodreads giveaway for THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET, my sapphic regency romance which murders Mr Collins in the first line & gives Charlotte Lucas a 2nd chance at ❤️! THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET will be available in print, ebook & audiobook on 29th April from Harlequin/Atom.

Every year on #PancakeDay we make a Peter Pancake.

Sorley MacLean: The Poet as Historian 24 April @natlibscot.bsky.social – free Prof Hugh Cheape looks at the poetry of Sorley MacLean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain, 1911–96), his sources of inspiration in landscape & community, & his inheritance of Hebridean tradition www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sorley-mac...

Congratulations!

Scotland's writers' pitch event has a new home. We are now Scotland's BlueSky Writers' Pitch, and the pitch date is Friday 28 March. Full details at link below...open to all writers living in Scotland www.peterurpeth.com/bluesky-writ...

Roses are red, a glance is a look. We've made you a heart, from a reference book. ❤️ Happy #ValentinesDay to all our followers but especially YOU because you're our favourite. 💕 #LoveLibraries