Why the hell is Russell Brand speaking. Straight to jail

It’s silly to complain about writers promoting their work online. Hello! We’re writers. I don’t have a marketing plan & publicity strategy to talk about my books & my publishers don’t boss me around to talk about them. I talk about them because they matter to me more than anything & make some money.

A bookshelf showing books by Vikki Patis/Victoria Hawthorne

A moment for the yellow spine 😍

A paperback of GIRL, LOST by Vikki Patis on a shelf

My author copies have arrived! Isn't she stunning?

Exactly, there's no contract at submission stage. As if authors don't already have enough to worry about 💀

Genuinely though, how do we avoid this?? Have a clause written into the manuscript?

@vpatis's March 2026 reads: Some Body Like Me There Is No Antiemetics Division The Wives of Herrick Hall We Had To Remove This Post Several People Are Typing The Diverging Lives of Bethany Raven Helpmeet Trad Wife The Husbands Japanese Gothic

March 📚 Loads of bangers, loved them all tbh

one of the best feelings I get is when I walk into a bookstore and see multiple books by friends on the shelves and get to feel in a very deep way that I'm living an adult life that my teenage self dreamed about

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Every day, there are more reasons to loathe transphobes.

Don’t fall for their bullshit.

The book cover for GIRL, LOST by Vikki Patis

Girl, Lost is back and better than ever! A bestseller in 2020, this is a brand new edition coming on 30th March. Perfect for fans of Ask For Andrea and The Night She Disappeared.

Some secrets don't stay buried...

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The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧵 1/5

Queer Mystery Coming Attractions: March 2026 by Matt Lubbers-MooreThe history of crime fiction is filled with trailblazers, but few figures represent as many firsts or as much quiet influence as Nikki Baker, creator of Virginia “Ginny” Kelly, th...

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Oh thanks so much!

Vpatis's February 2026 reads: WOOL MONSTRILO THE STARVING SAINTS FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC THE ECHOES HIDDEN PICTURES THE FIRST GIRL

February was a month for mood reading. Some bangers, though Monstrilio wasn't quite what I was expecting, and there were too many Harry Potter jumpscares in Hidden Pictures for my liking.

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran.

Iraq lessons must be learned.
Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe.

Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

Pearl smiling and crying at the camera

Me every time I read the news

Jellyfin is also a great option for your own media streaming!

Out now! In paperback, hardback, ebook and audio!

Gorton & Denton by-election, 2026 Source: Britain Elects SIAIS r EFTIES Green GAIN from Labour 40.7 28.7 25.4 1.9 1.8 Grn 427.5 Ref 414.6 Lab 725.4 Con 76.0 Lib 72.0 1.4 Oth 78.9

Starmer:

“If you don’t like our policies you can leave.”

Voters:

Waterstones event poster: Lucy Lapinska in conversation with Vikki Patis at Waterstones Aberdeen. Saturday 14th March at 5:30pm

Hardback of Some Body Like Me by Lucy Lapinska on a bookshelf

V excited to be interviewing @ldlapinski.bsky.social about their excellent new book in just a couple of weeks! My hardback copy arrived today and she is STUNNING. I'll be first in line at the signing table! Be there or be square 😘

Can he please be charged for the noncing too

what is a writer? a miserable little pile of unpublished secrets.

Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years

And a truly abysmal one at that

Watched Predator Badlands today. What in the male loneliness epidemic was going on there?? Disneyfied nonsense.

Far-right thug Tommy Robinson flees UK after police warning over terror threat Far-right thug Tommy Robinson took to social media this evening to proclaim himself a 'priority target' for ISIS, adding he had fled the UK after receiving a call from Bedfordshire Police

Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

A cream golden retriever lying on a bed, close up of her face

A cream golden retriever sitting in a garden with an orange and blue ball in her mouth

Vikki, a white plus size woman, leaning down to kiss Ivy, a cream golden retriever

A cream golden retriever puppy lying in a garden, snuggling a cat toy

Ivy is 6 🎈
Happy birthday to our sweet, gentle, mischievous girl 🤍