Talking to my best mate about her job and the uni essays she has to read and grade is fascinating. Author must be the only profession to whom the word counts these students are complaining they’re struggling to hit sounds like cruel and tortuous shackles 😅😭

Some days all I can think about is the fact that my friend’s mum is called Merlin and her Aunt (Merlin’s sister) is called Joan OfArc (OfArc is her middle name)

This crashed & burned about a week after lmfao men. laborious as fuck.

I've been so bad at keeping up with Blue Sky. Or any socials. Or any book marketing. Or writing n general. Or just anything. Just being an adult. Just existing. Does it ever get any easier?! At newly-33 i'm starting to fear not

Come sit around the campfire as we ask @amiescool.bsky.social all the questions! What’s her writing style? What's up with the tunnels under Manchester? 👀 Is she team Edward or team Jacob? 🔎 Can she spill the secrets about book 3? 🤫 #CampYA campya.org/campfire-cha... @chickenhousebooks.bsky.social

A hot guy has just correctly used ‘laborious’ to describe something, and I’m not sure if it’s simply testament to how bad the pickings are on hinge in your 30s that this could be the hottest thing that’s happened recently? But we have to get married now. (He doesn’t know it yet.)

📚🏆We're thrilled to share the first of two blog posts in celebration of Branford Boase Award's shortlisted authors and editors. 👀📖 YA author @amiescool.bsky.social shares what it's like to work with @chickenhousebooks.bsky.social editor, Rachel Leyshon 👇 paperboundmag.com/2025/06/07/b...

niche, but as a heavily tattoo'd woman and a writer, I really would love someone to commission me to write an article analysing the various reactions or comments I've received regarding them. Specifically men, and why they only ever seem to pick certain ones to point out & start a conversation on.

Happy Publication Day to ALL THE LOST SOULS by @amiescool.bsky.social 📚 The sequel to All the Hidden Monsters! This razor-sharp YA romantasy has an addictive slow-burn romance, twisty crime and heart-warming friendships. Perfect for fans of Cassandra Clare, with a touch of Rivers of London

book 2 pub day tomorrow taking me out of debut author into regular author with multiple books. Absolutely metal life update for that 8 year old girl that used to sit in her bedroom writing stories just to escape mundane reality in which magic didn't exist

CONGRATULATIONS to @amiescool.bsky.social and to her fantastic editor for being included in this incredible shortlist for the 2025 #BranfordBoaseAward! 📚🎉 This brilliant award celebrates the most talented debut Children’s writers and their editors ✨ #AllTheHiddenMonsters #Debut

asked on insta why Good Friday is called such in reeeally bad faith just to make a cheap joke this morning & the amount of people replying it stands for 'gods only offspring dies' is making my practicing-christian-albeit-a-rebellious-perhaps-even-offensively-so eye twitch😭 Stop being so stupid 😂

Ngl it was actually a very nice night, they were all women in heavily male dominated fields and so they were very self aware 😅

Kidlit colleagues, just a reminder that JK Rowling *funded* this challenge over the definition of women at the Supreme Court. Every time you choose to work with her, platform her, take a stance that aligns with her, buy her books, nominate her for more awards, she uses that and funds hate.

long story how I got into this situation in the first place but tomorrow I'm going to dinner with a group of strangers, I know their nationalities & work sectors but that's it til I get there. And it's just me and a load of people that work in 'tech' 😂🤦‍♀️ (one, I think, works both tech & 'services')

Don't know why submitting my self-employed tax returns makes my heart pound 😅 not like my meagre income that I have spreadsheeted down to the last penny is ever gonna flag me as a massive tax fraudster so WHAT even scares me so much 🤦‍♀️😂

@jonezyboy.bsky.social returns with another comprehensive round up of the best in YA and MG Horror books. Featuring books from @lindsayncurrie.bsky.social @mrfournet.bsky.social @amiescool.bsky.social gnofhorror.com/top-8-ya-and... #kidlit

Such exiting post today! ✉️ I may have let out a gasp on opening this one! Very, very excited to see this, @amiescool.bsky.social Massive congratulations ❤️📚 Thank you @chickenhousebooks.bsky.social

Presenting my new book how men present fish. Out May 8th - pre order now.

I grew up with only girl cousins so Jasper was a shock to the system for all of us anyway really but this kid has pulled out two of his own teeth this week that were wobbly bc he 'couldn't be bothered waiting for them to fall out of their own' boys are truly unhinged ???

someone's just tagged me in a review that was 4* and opened with saying they loved the book, but then the whole review was just a list of things they didn't like 😂😭 Is this... is this the new way to get round the 'don't tag us in bad reviews' rule 💀

can't stop laughing at jasper telling me his mate was upset school declined a 4 week holiday request, but then half an hour later tells me completely unrelated that kid has been off sick for 3 weeks now and he hopes he's okay. Absolutely not put 2 and 2 together there😂🤦‍♀️

my laughter is getting more and more unhinged as I try to edit this manuscript down to under 100k 😂

out at dinner last night my mate's husband pronounced Henry Cavill's surname like Cruella DeVille and now I fear I will never be able to call that man anything else again

absolutely thrilling today to have a classic 'can I ask you advice on how to get published' chat with a man who instantly argued back against the advice I gave when it wasn't what he wanted to hear 😂😂

Absolutely deceased at my 11y/o son(went to my mum's after school but they just parked on my path to walk into town to see a show)who just ran in for an umbrella & told me at 10x the average speed of speech the deets on my mum's recent fallout with her bff then ran back out. Alright Gossip Girl xoxo

YA romantasy author here, just laughing hysterically to herself because she managed to pun her editor's name into 50 Shades of G-Rachel in an email about wordcounts 👍

ngl you've got to respect those last bastions of the left still hanging on over on twitter, relentlessly sharing edits of JD Vance looking progressively fatter as the days go on. You just know that terminally online eyeliner man will be freaking out 😂

upon reaching out to pass on my congratulations, I learned today that the translator for one of my foreign editions died a few weeks ago after a very short illness. She just missed publication & all the wonderful reviews I'm reading praising the writing style, which is much more on her than me. 1/

ah, a sad day.

I honestly don't know what sales callers think they're going to get out of arguing on the phone when you declined whatever they're trying to offer you. Like, 'Oh yes, your bad attitude has actually made me disregard all the reasons I originally said no'??

Zelensky must have been surprised. He went to Whitehouse and ended up speaking to Kremlin.

ATHM hitting US bookshelves in 3 days!!!

got one chapter to write that I just can't face and I don't know why. I know what needs to happen and why, and it's not even really a bad chapter - it's just subtly info giving to the reader. I don't even know why I can't face writing it. I both love and hate this job.

Absolutely cannot cope with a girl I went to school with that has been posting pics from a hospital bed with cryptic ‘now the road to recovery begins’ captions and thanking people for get well soon messages… turns out hun has just had a boob job 😂😭

Feel like I’m back at school sat here having to explain to my 11yr old how girls play boys off against each other as he’s sat here upset about some girl he took to the cinemas on Friday who has told another boy she thinks he’s annoying but told him she thinks THAT boy is annoying 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

But 'you shouldn’t always take things Donald Trump says absolutely literally' isn't dissent is it? It's making excuses for him just like Johnson did. Spineless arselickers, all of them.

This makes so much sense

I've been trying so hard to stay off social media whilst I've got deadlines to meet and a manuscript to finish but I'm too sick with a chest infection to get out of bed and sit at my desk today so lucky us. I'm here to pointlessly shitpost all day x

Seems weird on the surface they voted trump but I just saw a girl's jokey FitCheck vid in a hospital gown before going in for an amputation & got thousands of comments like 'but why would you do this' like ANYONE would do this unless it was medically necessary?? guys they're just fucking stupid

do you finish all your 'important jobs' for the day early so spend the rest of the day feeling anxious about the fact you now have nothing to be anxious about... or are you normal?

feeling such a fatigue working on my deadline project that I just want a few days off working on something without so much pressure. But this feels counterproductive and I feel like someone needs to give me permission to do this so if someone could that'd be great

maybe life is just moving horrifyingly fast but I swear it feels like there's about 4 superbowls a year. Do they legit only do that thing once per annum?

When your mate’s husband is just some kind of 3D printer wizard and makes a whole lamp out of your book?! 🤯

Just got the dreaded ‘does that book have a title yet’ email and I never expected this to be my least favourite part of being an author but it is 😭

ClearScore are def taking the piss telling me one of the ‘monitor’ points that could be affecting my credit score is that I don’t have a mortgage when half my generation can’t even afford one until a relative fucking dies on us and leaves some inheritance 🤦🏻‍♀️

really really pleased with something i've just settled on for this draft of book 3. know this is a pointless statement without explaining. but I just would like to tell someone. really pleased. really witty.

I wear sunglasses into town even when it's not sunny bc there's so many canvassers/people trying to get you to sign up to stuff & I realised they tend to pass you over if they can't make eye contact to get your attention but it's also very funny how it's only ever certain types of people that 1/

Why does every man between 25 and 65 have a podcast, who listens to all these podcasts, do they know there are other hobbies than recording podcasts?