AMAZING!!! Thank you Emma and Louie xx

Left UK with heavy anxiety, feeling like I will never sell/write another book. Scribbling in notebooks in the sun with no expectations is how writing used to feel. Fun! Really hoping this trip is going to leave me inspired and refreshed in spite of catching a head cold. #marrakesh

Days like these make the howling winter winds worth the move west.

This is weird, they've left the woman out of the picture again?

"Using stories to discuss emotions and identity - online workshop for kinship carers - 11am-12pm, 26 March; 11am-12pm, 27 March." Plus the logos of Kinship and BookTrust and the front covers of some of the books on offer.

We've teamed up with Kinship and @drlisacherry.bsky.social to bring kinship carers workshops all about using stories to discuss emotions and identity - and there are free books available for attendees! 📚

Book your free spot:

📅 26 March: bit.ly/4k1JmNG
📅 27 March: bit.ly/3QkPkeY

I think this is going to be my book of the year. Just exquisite. I could underline every sentence. Don’t know whether to seethe with jealousy or just bow down and worship. Andrew Miller. Genius.

I seem to have started a Starter Pack to my surprise - please join if you wish - let me know:

Have some sunshine in your day.

Thank you!

A stage in the British Library, with a screen projection announcing the SOA Translation Prizes.

Translation is an art.
Translation is creation.
Translators matter.
Translators deserve to be celebrated.

There’s a Turkish phrase about the upside of hitting rock bottom being that things can’t get any worse. It goes göte giren şemsiye açılmaz and it means “an umbrella up one’s ass cannot be opened”

I’m so proud that The Things We Leave Behind is on the Carnegie longlist!! Thank you @carnegiemedals.bsky.social I’m honoured it’s there alongside a spectacular selection of books 🤩

Children's books build empathy, compassion, and understanding. They can transport readers to whole new worlds and back again, all without leaving your sofa. They can comfort, they can delight.

They are magical.

#kidlituk

Interesting re: dolphin. Ancient Greek for a grey seal is hook-nosed sea pig: Halichoerus grypus.

Happy Chinese New Year! Here’s a list of translations (some loose) of Chinese words…

Coyote = suburb wolf
Burglar = gentleman in the rafters
Penguin = tiptoe goose
Diabetes = sugar piss disease
Dolphin = sea pig
Kangaroo = bag rat
Owl = cat head eagle
Potato = dirt bean
Porcupine = heroic hog

Every real story is a never-ending story ...even memoir

The never-ending story of memoir - and grief. Mum’s death day today. acwilsonwriter.substack.com/p/every-real...

A list of authors that have become adjectives (or should do)…

Kafkaesque
Dickensian
Orwellian
Byronic
Woolfish
Dickish
Mannly
Poetic
Remarqueable
Austentacious

AI & Your Copyright..
If you have a moment, please do fill in the @societyofauthors.bsky.social survey on AI
'Working with, not for, artificial intelligence' - here
societyofauthors.org/2025/01/21/w...

Spot on then! 🤣

Editing = playing school with myself = 😍😍😍

Have you met my family? You seem to know them well… 😂😂

Oh yes. Totally this too! 🫣😂

“If we held a minute of silence for every Holocaust victim, we would be silent for eleven and a half years.”

― Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Today marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

#HolocaustMemorialDay | #HMD2025

Me: “The family has read my novel and loves it!”
Also me: “Yeh, but they’re family, so….”

A moving Reading Round session this morning at Hypatia Trust in Penzance today. Doggy host seems to have thought so too.

Ep 7 of Uncloaked is best so far. (I don’t have much going on in my life right now. 😬)

Aha! I have not tried that … yippee! More Traitors! Thanks for the rec.

Adding my own plea to Fleur’s. I thought Cathy had started a new account as it had photos I recognised. There is too much of this going on. Protect yourselves by checking before following and changing your own passwords frequently. And yes, report the f***ers.

There are many fake accounts appearing across all SM. Today I found a false Cathy Hopkins on Insta, (it's the one with the 11 in their name) and despite her best efforts, @juliesykesbooks.bsky.social is struggling with a fakester over on FB.
Please check accounts before following, please report.