So excited to be featured in Folk Features today, a #Norfolk & #Suffolk online Good News stories site 😊 folkfeatures.co.uk #goodnews #books #kidsbooks #historyforkids #womenshistory

Hello & happy Solstice! Whew it's hot! Yes, I have to talk about the weather, I'm British 🤣 Hope everyone's having a wonderful Saturday.

Great advice from Joanne Harris!

#Booksky 📚 💙 I am so excited! My book, History's Heroines, is now out! For ages 8 to adult, meet lesser known women & famous women from across the globe. With maps, illustrations, & interesting facts 😊

AND it's out! History's Heroines is now available on Amazon *happy dance* I'm hoping it will also be available in #bookshops. So if you like #women #History from the ancient past to 1800s, this #bookforkids 8+ - adult is a perfect choice 😉 #booksky #Historysheroines

#Booksky 📚💙 My book is being released in just over a week! The impatience is mounting 😆 Coming 30.5.25 #indiebooks #indieauthor

Went to the our local #Norwich #Indiebookfair today, and met up with fellow local author Amy Orrell, who was thete with her debut #sci-fi book, Tomorrow Was Beautiful Once. Of course I bought a copy. Hope to be a trader here next year!

Got my final FINAL proof today & it looks SO GOOD 😍 My #newrelease book for kids is COMING SOON! - 30.5.25. Meet History's Heroines- women from 4,000 years ago to the 1800s. Pirates, warriors, rebels, writers... and more. #women #history #kidsbooks #booksky 📚💙

Awesome book. The Assembly of the Severed Head is an imagining of how the old #Welsh (Celtic) stories came to be written down by 13th C monks. The stories of the #mabinogion are retold in the story, through the last surviving bard. Great #storytelling. Recommend 😊 #greatbooks #reading

YEAH! At a time when the arts are under massive pressure, my city opens its annual performing arts fest, starting with a free outdoor rock concert. Open to all, no auditions, just come & play or sing. And it didn't disappoint... & the crowd was insane, & supportive. Rock on! #arts #rock #music

Hello to all the new followers who've landed here. Not sure where you've all come from, but welcome! About me: UK based. Introvert. Messy. Unfiltered. Love writing & reading. Love ancient history, myth, imagination. Don't love early mornings, injustice, intolerance. So... hi! 👋 😄

Donkeys! Because who doesn't need donkeys?! We have a fantastic animal sanctuary that I & family love to visit. Good for the soul 😊

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My new book - for children 8+, History's heroines, is due for release at the end of this month. So excited - 2 years from writing to ready for publishing, can't wait to see it out in the world 🤩 #booksky #booksforkids #historyforkids #womenshistory

It's #indiepress day. Support indie presses, #indie authors and, of course, our wonderful local #indiebookshops that have so much to offer.

Blessed Beltane ☀️ This book is stunning. Highly recommend x

Current Read. An African History of Africa, by Zeinab Badawi. Highly recommend. Accessible, engaging, interesting... full of fascinating history. 😊

My proof copy arrived! Little bit happy 😂 #writer #writerslife

Just ordered the proof copy of my upcoming kids book, & I'M SO EXCITED! 😄 Now have to wait patiently for it to arrive! #author #writer #newbook #comingsoon

Spring Equinox 🌞 Yay!

I have spent so long working on this book. All the research, the writing, the everything... and she is almost ready to fly! Getting #excited! #booksky 📚💙 #kidsbooks #comingsoon

Currently tucking into this absolute gem of a book. The Cleopatras - The Forgotten Queens of Egypt, by the fantastic Lloyd Llewllyn-Jones. #books #reading #nonfiction #cleopatra #history

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Intro post! Hi from Norfolk, UK. I'm a writer & I self-publish. Always loved reading, faves are Fantasy & feminist myth retellings. I'm an introvert. I love ancient history, myth & travelling, & nature. I published my first book at 42, finally achieving my childhood dream. Never give up! 😊

I've written over 80,000 words on my next book! But I'm only about halfway through the story. This is going to be cut to hell in editing or it's going to be 2 books. This is my current #wip as my kids' book #Historysheroines edges closer to publication. #writing #writingcommunity #firstdraft

To counteract the heaviness, dark & grim of these times, we need to see the GOOD NEWS, the positive spaces, the communities working for & with each other. Let's counteract the dark with #support & #love #standtogether #hope

3 books, different genres. But one theme: #empowerment Non-fiction, kids' non-fiction (history, soon to be pub'd), & current #wip is adult fiction. I write what impassions me. #books #booksky #writingcommunity

Had a sad day yesterday. So took a walk at lunch today to get some #nature in. Earth, air, fire & water... #restorative. Always has a positive impact on my #mentalhealth. #onedayatatime

#fabulousfriday Not feeling so fabulous. It's felt a long week & I'm tired & grumpy. But seeing these potato floofs when I get home does make me smile!

Thrilled that @flaroh.bsky.social agreed to do a new "red-figure vase" inspired cover for my revamped telling of a story from Virgil's #Aeneid! Short, violent and tragic, this book is perfect for reluctant or busy teen readers, especially those studying Latin GCSE. www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...

I've been deep in Life Admin this week & writing, writing, #writing. Social media taken a back seat. But did manage a mini walk with some #nature which is always good therapy!

For book lovers who have recently come over here, an easy way to join the conversation is with a starter pack. I made 2 and am in the process of making a 3rd, so if you’re a UK-based publisher, agent, bookseller, writer or blogger follow and let me know. 2nd pack follows… 💙📚 go.bsky.app/MjnUSwF

Curtis Brown Creative offer a series of breakthrough scholarships, bursaries, courses and mentoring for new writers, writers of colour and writers on low income and others. Details in the link. Please share :)

I was going to go for a nice walk in the countryside today but decided it was too cold. Stayed home & wrote 5,0000 words of my #wip instead. #writing #writerslife #firstdraft

#Fabulousfriday What could be more fabulous than BOOKS! These beauties picked up today from my amazing local #indiebookstore @thebookhive. Both are to do with the #mabinogion, the Welsh myths & legends. Cannot wait to get stuck into these! 📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #books #welshmyths #supportlocal

It's Friday afternoon, which means it's FOLKLORE FANART FRIDAY Today's picture is called 'Stormhound' and is by @pj-richards.bsky.social Follow this account and come here each Friday at 3pm for more folklore art by my followers. Do please share the wonderful art on, too and support the artist

Love the evening sky, when it's changing twixt day & night. Nothing more #beautiful. #nature #eveningsky

Between everything else, I've found time to disappear down a #comparativemythology research rabbit hole! Fascinated by this subject. Myths are stories of our ancestors, reaching back through #history. Bought these rather old but hopefully fascinating books to dig into. Maybe a new #wip coming! 😂

My children's book #HistorysHeroines is SO CLOSE to being finished I can almost taste it 😂 I am so looking forward to seeing this in actual print! #kidsbooks #comingsoon #booksky 📚 💙

45,000 words on my WIP. 100 pages word doc. This will be my first novel, so excited to be this far in, know exactly what's coming, & on a roll. BTW, this is the book AFTER my not-yet-but-so-close-to-publishing children's book, 'History's Heroines.' #writing #booksky #wip

Radical publishing notion, right here: if your publishers are making a living from publishing and selling your books, then you, the author, should be making a living from writing them.

Who's idea was this working for money thing?! I just want to spend my time #dreaming & #creating stories & #writing. I have soooooo many ideas, & not enough time to write them all!! #Ijustwanttowrite #toomanyideas #stories

Reason #2 why I love #notebooks... A line NEVER gets deleted. Crossed out, yes, but once on paper, it stays. This means that at a later point in time, flicking through, I might decide THAT line, or paragraph, or dialogue, is not rubbish, or fits somewhere else. I love that! #writing #nomistakes

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Been reading this & loving it. #Myth, #storytelling #culture & #history - Goddess with a Thousand Faces weaves it all beautifully. Especially liked info on Vodun - what the West calls Voodoo. Great read. #books #booksky 📚 💙

The perfect read ahead of #ChineseNewYear celebrations next week. The #GuardiansOfTheNewMoon series by #EricHuang is action-packed and perfect for readers who are developing in confidence. 🐀 illustrated by #PhùngNguyênQuang @littletigeruk.bsky.social

Always a joy to see Hwyfar and Anna finding their way to the right reader. ✨✨✨

I still love #writing in notebooks for outlining ideas, research, plots, mindmaps. When I'm too tired to stare at a laptop screen, I can still write in a #notebook. There's something comforting about pen & paper 😊

I really want a #book app version that's as cosy & comforting as the book magazine that used to come round at school! #bookapp #cosy