The first author in attendance for our mini Crime Literary Festival is LV Matthews 🥳 For over ten years L V Matthews worked both in domestic and international sales for major UK publishing houses, before leaving to pursue a career in writing. To Love a Liar is her latest book ( 2025)

ITS WORLD BOOK DAY ! We still have plenty of every title We look forward to seeing your costumes 😍 Please treat our little yellow bookcase with kindness – it has taken a real battering over the last four weeks 🤭

Happy world book day! If you like you could celebrate by reading this short free ebook. #booksky #worldbookday mybook.to/unearthing

Portsmouth Bookfest workshop successfully delivered. I am absolutely exhausted today. Can't rest long though. I have a self publishing workshop to write for eastercon.

Authors, do you have books which are currently free to download (totally free- not just in KU etc). Tell me and I'll repost. #booksky #writingcommunity #freebooks

My blog has links to free to enter writing competitions and other opportunities every week. womagwriter.blogspot.com If you're running a free or looking for submissions and don't have reading fees, please get in touch to be featured.

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More free entry writing competitions. #writingcommunity womagwriter.blogspot.com/2026/02/what...

The Kettle is on! patsycollins.co.uk/the-kettle-i...

🌼Mothers Day is coming 🌼 Why not get mum a Book box - only £13 Or upgrade to luxury to include a box of chocolates Or to a premium box that included chocolates and a bouquet of flowers from Lee on-the Solent Florist 💐 We will deliver on Mother’s Day ( local post codes only )

Free entry writing competitions. womagwriter.blogspot.com/2026/02/thre...

Book 2 of the Seashimmer Chronicles is now out. Books2Read.com/u/bpvyg9

Weekly double! patsycollins.co.uk/weekly-double/

wow. I wish I did.

Free download from Amazon to celebrate Chinese New Year 🧧🎆🎈🎆 Wednesday 18 February for 24 hours only! The Curse Of The Jade Mirror by Martin Dench Book One of The Jade Mirror Chronicles "An epic mythology for the modern age." #Glasspunk

can identify with this. Watercolour is a medium I haven't really used, because... See below.

Got a cosy crime available on KU? #Booksky Reply with a link and I'll download as many as I can.

Would you like a nudge to get you writing? #writingcommunity getbook.at/AYOI

Free entry writing competitions womagwriter.blogspot.com/2026/02/happ...

On ThisMorning AGAIN today … the importance of books 2 in 5 children are falling behind in vocabulary development It is more important than ever that children have books! Continuing with our campaign after the This Morning segment on the 22nd January Come and get your free kids books !!!

Thank you to those who've borrowed my books from libraries! I love knowing some of them are there on the shelves*, just waiting for people to read them – plus I get a small payment when they do. *If you can't find them, you can request they be stocked. #booksky

You never know who you might meet ♥️♥️♥️

Simply splendid snowdrops #flowers

Happy hellebores! #flowers

Good morning! What fun things are you doing this fine Monday?

Beautiful Algerian iris flower, picked in my garden today.

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Free to enter writing competitions and a call for submissions. womagwriter.blogspot.com/2026/02/dead...

Acting Like A Killer by @patsycollins.bsky.social is a fun engaging read with lots of twists and turns and currently only 99p / 99c #booksky

Free to enter writing competitions and a call for submissions. womagwriter.blogspot.com/2026/02/dead...

will be enrolling my ebooks for this

My romantic murder mystery, Acting Like A Killer, is currently on sale for 99p / 99c - dead cheap! #booksky mybook.to/ALAK

Why can't #comicbook #writers come up with something better than "I..." when a character doesn't finish a sentence? I swear I read one issue where it happened FOUR TIMES!!!!

My romantic murder mystery, Acting Like A Killer, is currently on sale for 99p / 99c - dead cheap! mybook.to/ALAK

Today I will definitely be writing LOTS and not getting distracted very much at all. #writingcommunity

#vss365 #pain #emoetry #rejected There's freedom In embracing Pain It crawls inside Infects, becomes, erases Bleached coral bone Film from the darkroom Exposed to the light Shards of fractured pottery Growth beneath decay When the fraud In the mirror: rejected Script redrafted Redefine 'me'

Do @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social have a plan to help save UK zoos? BBC News - 'You can't cut costs with animal welfare': The British zoos fighting for survival

Pop in and say hi! Plus, grab a free child’s book whilst you’re in store! Let’s get Books in the hands of children! 

Good morning! What are you writing this week? #writingcommunity

#emoetry #over-emotional

Books to read with #kindleunlimited #booksy books.bookfunnel.com/kuunlimited/...

I think this is a Gold Crest. I don't think he's happy!

My photo may not have made it to the ad (don't scare the punters!) but I'll still be there (Southsea Library) on Saturday 7th March with all my books AND I'll be talking about how the hell I got to this point, bookily speaking (and other stuff) at 2pm. I'd love to see you there #Portsmouthbookfest