📚 April Reads!
- Stephen Fry in America (Stephen Fry)
- A Season with the Witch (J. W. Ocker)
- American Housewife (Anita Abriel)
- Scar Tissue (Anthony Kiedis)
You can find all my ratings on my Goodreads, (link in bio), and mini reviews on my IG page (also linked!) 😊
It's definitely one that sticks with you! My daughter is currently studying it at school so I'm glad to be able to her assist her a bit, as I think it's quite a tough book for kids now. Definitely preferred my Adrian Mole at that age!
📚 March Reads!
Another month of good choices!
- Clown in a Cornfield (Adam Cesare)
- 11/22/63 (Stephen King)
- The Only Good Indians (Stephen Graham Jones)
- Poe-Land (J.W. Ocker)
You can see my reviews on my IG @sbookywriter and ratings on Goodreads:
www.goodreads.com/sbookywriter
The #TwentyBooksChallenge!
Completed this today, so I thought I'd take a look back at the twenty books I chose which have influenced me, or stayed with me.
I suppose then, these are the books that have shaped me. Quite an eclectic selection 😄
Who said writing books for children was easy?!
The Platypus, by Me 😃
Available for FREE now on the link above 🙃⬆️
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I hope you all enjoy this updated version.
I write poetry purely for enjoyment, but this book genuinely took me around 3 years to mould into what it is today, and I really just want it to make people smile, and have fun whilst reading it! 🪡🧵
Perfect for 4-11 year olds, (but apparently appeals to grown ups too!), with a good mix of interesting words to learn and talk about, and it's had some lovely reviews which have blown me away! 🪡🧵
I wrote The Platypus for my daughter when I was an SEN teaching assistant, with influences from Roald Dahl, Julia Donaldson and Spike Milligan.
It's a nonsense rhyming story about kindness, friendship, and acceptance, no matter how strange you are! 🪡🧵
Morning!
Yesterday, I picked up an old friend, The Platypus, and made some improvements, so now it has a shiny new cover and better internal layout!
Better yet, The Platypus is now FREE to all until Sunday and FREE on KU for always 💙
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amzn.eu/d/g14UoCr
#vss365
We've always liked Menorca and this year we found a villa with an #infinity pool and a sea view. I like to do a few lengths before breakfast and got up early on Sunday. The first length normally takes a bit longer while I get warmed up, but it's Wednesday now and this is getting ridiculous.
📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 17/20
#Bookthreads #twentybooks #favouritebooks #bookchallenge #bookstagram #bookstagramuk
Five chapters into my first draft. It's only taken about 15 years to get back to writing this, but I feel like I might actually finish it this time!
My biggest concern right now is all these words, and all this story so far... will it be worth it?
Can I even write?
Only time will tell...
📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 16/20
#booksky
40 days until the world gets a dose of something sad and spooky at the same time
#Booksky #Horrorsky
📚 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 15/20
#Bookthreads #twentybooks #favouritebooks #bookchallenge #theshining #bookstagram #bookstagramuk
📚 Now Reading: 11/22/63
✍️ Stephen King
Started reading this at the weekend and I'm glad this was my next pick, because I'm really enjoying it so far!
#nowreading #readersofinstagram #readingtime #bookstagramuk #bookstagram #stephenking #horrorbooks #horrornovel
Tuesday- March 4, 2025
Yesterday's responses to balustrade were wild! Great work, guys!
Your #vss365 #prompt is out:
Some of us reside in the #penumbra of our dreams.
Current host for #vss365, March 1-15 is
@ha-ok.bsky.social
Give Camila a follow, if you haven’t already!
📚 February Reads! 📚
- Unexplained (Richard MacLean Smith)
- Mortal Ties (Graham Galloway-Chapa)
- Another Brooklyn (Jaqueline Woodson)
- The Crash (Freida McFadden)
- American Cosmic (D.W. Pasulka)
- Stonewall (Martyn Duberman))
- Destination Death: A Short Indian Horror Story (Abhijeet Kumar)
James (Jay) Bryhan
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Show-reel 👇🏼
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‘That’s it! Thanks to #vss365.’
‘What?’
‘I was having trouble coming up with a title for my piece covering the first month of the new administration - but the prompt today gave me an idea.’
‘And the title is?’
‘Pride & #Petulance’
Did you hear about the Italian chef? He pasta away.
Get it? I'll be here all week.
Don't forget to tip your waitress.
Are you a writer or reader of the fantasy genre? Join these great indie authors who also write and read fantasy at the Horror Genre Indie Authors Starter Pack!
If you wish to be included in the starter pack, reply here.
#writingcommunity #authorsky #writersky #horrorwriters
Welcome to #vsspic. This week we visit the woods. What will be conjured in the dark woods?
📚 Now Reading: The Only Good Indians
✍️ Stephen Graham Jones
Finally got around to reading this! Need to catch up on so much this week, but at least I managed to get some decent reads in 😊
#booksky #nowreading
Lone wolf at the back
The pack's true protector
Spots his offspring ahead
An unbridled jester
Atones for packs fool
Dines with frustrating
Cites the joker he was
Knows a warrior in waiting
Thursday's #vss365 #prompt is #unbridle
Image: Sunniva Myster
Circling my car around the reservoir polluted by capers and running on vapors
#Reservoir
Circling my car
around the reservoir
polluted by capers
and running on vapors
#vss365 #poetry 50/365
So WHITE ON WHITE: A LITERARY TRIBUTE TO BAUHAUS is now live again on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXMVJ8J...? I have a couple of horror tales in this anthology and can't wait to read it. Although the collection features poems, essays and non horror pieces also #horror #horrorsky 🙏😊
A mother lioness & her Cub
Aspen trees photo converging with a woman’s face & an infant dressed in a Pooh Bear Outfit…copyrighted by AFite Quote Reads, “Cub, This is for You~ You AreThe Greatest Poem! I love you, Mom”. ©️ @Write2Fite X & @AspenBrave (BlueSky)
Not Shared Before, But This Week
My Cub & I Will Hopefully
Celebrate More Laps
Around The Sun
♓️
Both Pisces, we swim
in the #reservoir of #poetry
always believing
in the power
of love
🤟
Thanks for
A Safe Door
To Our World
🥳❤️🥳
Happy BDay To
Cub & Me🫣
#BraveWrite #vss365
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Good morning!
I must catch up on my vss365 prompts today 😬 Been slacking a bit this week!
A Wordle a day is also back. I figure if I surround myself with words, they might actually make it on to a page in some sort of orderly fashion at some point 😅