Glasgow I love you. My only regret is that I haven't got a driveway for Big Elvis to refurbish. 😂

#Grayday 2026

Signed copies anyone? Have teamed up with @portybooks.bsky.social & am chit chatting about why signed novels are spesh here: facebook.com/sheridanwrit... Just want to get on with it & order? This way please: bio.to/TheJewelKeep... 😂 Ahem... @hodderfiction.bsky.social @jennybrownagency.bsky.social

She's the pretty sister. ❤️ a bit of Edinburgh.

Long read on FB this afternoon about location, location, location in fiction. www.facebook.com/sheridanwrit...

Annie Rie, contemporary stained glass artist inspired by the UK countryside #womensart

Good morning. Today a thread of brilliant Scottish medical women who contributed during WWI. Here are some of my favies 👇Flora Masson was awarded a Royal Red Cross 1st class & became a sister at Rosewell Hospital. She also wrote several biographies. /1

Last chance saloon to get the #WPreorder offer from @waterstones. It's 25% off till midnight : www.waterstones.com/book/the-jew... Enter “FEB26” at the checkout. Go on, it's Friday!

Wee bit obsessed. 😂 Preorder discount still @waterstones.bsky.social 25% off preorders this week : www.waterstones.com/book/the-jew... Enter “FEB26” at the checkout to get it cheap. #WPreorder

Drumroll pls... Presenting the cover of The Jewel Keepers. Woo hoo! PLUS @waterstones.bsky.social is giving 25% off preorders this week here: waterstones.com/book/the-jew... Enter “FEB26” at the checkout to get the discount #WPreorder Hooray! You like the cover, right? I ❤️ it - so chuffed.😊

I’m honored that The New Yorker has published a feature on my book by @samknightwrites.bsky.social examining the monarchy’s historical entanglement with slavery — and how patterns of exploitation and institutional silence echo into the present. Read here: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Long-posting on FB today about (the dreaded) edits: www.facebook.com/sheridanwrit...

Misspent youth came in handy today.

One of our faves as well. We worked on her Wikipedia article. She was a woman of many names! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mo...

Interesting piece on Andy Goldsworthy's Gravetstones art work on the BBC website. It's an "exclusive first look" apparently. I offered it to a national newspaper last year but they turned it down. I ended up writing it for my Substack. smallfinds.substack.com/p/small-find...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

On another note, I recently finished On Starlit Seas by @sarasheridan.bsky.social – her books are SO good. And this one features not just a strong 19th-century female protagonist but also chocolate… I love all the historical detail.

View from the gig

It's St Brigid's Day so... a thread of fabliss Scots/Irish historical women. First up, Margaret Skinnider from Helensburgh, who supported the Republic by becoming a sniper under the command of Countess Marckiewicz. She smuggled detonators in her hat, Some quine. /1

Louise Welsh's book launch tonight . ❤️📚

Absolute magic last night at The Red Shoes. 💕🩰

This is insane, but expected thanks to all that “clarity.”

This simply isn't how democratic politics works. Want *near-term* stability? Invest in an autocracy. Just don't be shocked when your pension evaporates 20 years down the line.

Happy Burns Night everyone. My evening was all about haggis quesadillas and whisky cocktails. Fancy Burnsian japes? I wrote this radio play last year. Walk this way: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Still reading. Faves so far: fiction: The Wren, The Wren, by Anne Enright. Non fiction: Effie Gray by Suzanne Fagence Cooper. Longer chat about it on FB: www.facebook.com/sheridanwrit...

Loving this ❤️

Definitely attending this. 😂

Whit???

My long read on Burns ahead of our upcoming national celebration of the bard ... looking at his views on sex, slavery, sectarianism and Scotland

Enjoying this today by Chris McQueer - languishing way too long on my TBR. 💕📚 Gawd.

I'm over on FB today talking about how excited I am about starting something new over the next few weeks. Something uncommissioned. The time between books is always a ride. www.facebook.com/sheridanwrit...

For #LGBTplusHM26 I will be running queer history tours of the British Museum. My goal is to cover a blitz of identities, stories and people... with ALL the messy bits left in! Would be a delight to see you on the 6th and 27th Feb or 1st of March! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-to-s...

Having a good trouser day. 😂

There is no tea on this train from London and Anne Enright is all that's keeping me going.

Hi London. More than 2 hrs late cos there was a bird on the line. No joking Valiant train crew served free tea to stave off the revolution. 😂

Just preordered The Jewel Keepers by @sarasheridan.bsky.social because what better purchase can you make than a book?!? Join me by buying yours here uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Over on FB today about this beauty. Hello wee proof copy. Here's the tea: facebook.com/sheridanwrit... No FB? Aww. Feel free to pre-order: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-... amazon.co.uk/Jewel-Keeper... Gaun. It makes such a difference ❤️ @jennybrownagency.bsky.social @hodderfiction.bsky.social

Queen's Park Greenhouses. I didn't know they were there. Just walked in and had a botanical adventure. #Glasgow

I’d bought these two books weeks apart a few years ago, and, because of the coincidence of the titles, decided I had to read one after the other. Being sizeable books, it’s taken me a while to get to them, but they were worth the wait! @sarasheridan.bsky.social

My 2025 in review. January ran away to Amsterdam, Barcelona and then to Tenerife. Read a lot. 11/10

The pro delivery of a novel - long and over on FB today: www.facebook.com/sheridanwrit...

Iconic at sunrise. #Glasgow

Meantime Dotty has indeed made some new year resolutions. More sofa time for a start. Being even cuter. Promises to stop barking when the doorbell goes (she'll never do it). 🐾♥️

Women Who Dared from @edinburghup.bsky.social - collated from 2017's Dangerous Women Project, with lovely inclusive intro by @sarasheridan.bsky.social & essays by pals of PWOW, featuring Scots like Mary Barbour and Sophia Jex-Blake & international herstories we should know better 🥰 I rec'd 2 copies!

To celebrate the new year A THREAD of successful female Scottish writers. Here's too us. Let's start here 👇 Hugely popular Mary Brunton's second novel, Self Discipline inspired Jane Austen's Emma. She sold TONS of books. I 💕 her /1

My 2025 tips Fave books: Objects of Desire by Neil Blackmore/How to Kill a Witch by Zoe Ventidozzi & Claire Mitchell Fave film: Bugonia Fave TV: Duster Health: 15mg bovine collagen a day Beauty: Neal's Yard Bee Lovely All Over Balm Perfume: Pony Boy by Jorum You're welcome 💕

Dancing at the Sunset Club, a jazz and calypso club, situated at 50 Carnaby Street - December 1951

Spilling the beans on toxic Xmas relations over on FB today 😂🎄💕 www.facebook.com/sheridanwrit...

The Art Nouveau embroidery of Ann Macbeth (1875 - 1948), Scottish artist and member of artistic group known as the Glasgow Girls #WomensArt

Darwinian Christmas