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Finally fixed on my New Year’s resolution for 2025. It’s a tough one. I’m giving up doom scrolling. Not sure how long this will last.🙄

I’ve found myself in a fragile elderly parents - baby grandchildren sandwich. Time and headspace is precious as priorities change. It’s meant I’ve barely noticed coming off X. Feel so much better without.

Well I believe you!

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My 11 week old granddaughter can raise one eyebrow. I am so jealous. Always wanted to be able to do that.

Exciting!

These are the two books I’ll be bridging 2024-2025 with. On Audible #ComeAndGetIt by Kiley Reid which I absolutely adore. Brilliant narration by Nicole Lewis. And #BeMine by @bylizzybarber.bsky.social Have just begun this and am completely hooked!

Going on my birthday list😁

I like the sound of this!

Exciting Christmas Book post from Datura Books. Be Mine by the fabulous @bylizzybarber.bsky.social Can’t wait to read it. 🤗

Trying to figure out my card reader but failing and my tech support has gone out.🫤

Last talk of 2024 this afternoon, in Sunbury where @janicehallett.bsky.social and I will be discussing how to craft a thriller and giving a broader look at the challenges of writing compelling crime fiction. Really looking forward to rounding off a lovely year with this.

Ouch. But also fantastic!

😁 cushions from Mexico City 🇲🇽

Precisely!

I don’t mind a bad review, it’s part and parcel of being an author who is sadly unable to please everyone all of the time. What I do object to is when the reviewer gets all public spirited 😇 and warns others not to waste their money on this pile of💩That is trolling. I see the rot in your hearts😉

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Looking forward to getting together with the West London Authors this evening. We’re a word-of-mouth & friend recommendation group from a vast swathe of West London. Authors, journalists, biographers, screenwriters. If you consider yourself a WLA & would like to be invited next time send me a DM. 😁

Just passed a beauticians offering ear candling. I don’t know what that is but it sounds gross.😬

It’s so good, Nikki. And I loved the ending. So satisfying!

I don’t normally cry my eyes out watching the six o’click news but the latest news out of Afghanistan is devastating. Those women and girls 😪. It’s unbearable.

A gorgeous cover for an incredible book! You're all going to love this one next year

Another fantastic thriller from @nikkismithauthor.bsky.social.
They Had It Coming⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Those of you who know me will know I’m very fond of an exotic holiday-themed thriller, because I don’t much like holidays. And this one didn’t disappoint.🏝️ things going badly wrong in Bali! 😱

Ooh!

That’s interesting! Thank you.

Lovely job for someone!

How delicious!

I do make up streets in real places.

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Readers do you care whether a location in a novel is real or made up?

Our thoughts on the AI in publishing debate; we think there'll be uses for it, in the background, with the mundane, non-creative gubbins that any large industry engenders.

But it should have no place in anything creative or nuanced; not proofreading, editing, designing or narrating.