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Feline Charpentier @felinecharpentier.bsky.social · 9d

At that stage of editing where I’m just writing THIS IS AWFUL on every other page

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Feline Charpentier @felinecharpentier.bsky.social · 17d

So chuffed to find this in this weeks @thebookseller.com @louisekenward.bsky.social

Bookseller article listing the top ten paperbacks not to miss in 2025, including moving mountains anthology

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Feline Charpentier @felinecharpentier.bsky.social · 20d

Off on the train to London for a day’s editing course @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social by @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social although I can’t work out if I’m more excited about the solo night in a hotel without children or the course itself… all in all very exciting

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Feline Charpentier @felinecharpentier.bsky.social · Sep 14

Spent a brilliant few hours at #glue book fair at the Institute for Contemporary Art today. So inspired. In that blissful place where I’ve got a million good ideas in my head and some energy to actually do them. Anyone want to start a publishing house with me?

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Feline Charpentier @felinecharpentier.bsky.social · Sep 11

Thinking of starting an onlyfans website but for cats. Onlycats. Lana would earn big bucks I reckon. We could sell her furballs and things she brings in to the house

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Feline Charpentier @felinecharpentier.bsky.social · Sep 8

Something has shifted. I’m setting up a new thing, working with artists and writers and musicians I love. I’m self publishing the novel I’ve had in my head for six years. I’m just doing all the things I’ve waited years for permission from others to do. Feels terrifying, incredible. Watch this space

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Feline Charpentier @felinecharpentier.bsky.social · Sep 1

Honestly don’t think I’ll ever understand parents who say they are sad the summer holidays are nearly over

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Feline Charpentier @felinecharpentier.bsky.social · Jun 21

Finished the first draft of my new novel just in time for the solstice. The story begins and ends and begins again at a solstice party, so that feels fitting… Litha blessings to all who live under this golden sun 🌞

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Feline Charpentier @felinecharpentier.bsky.social · Jun 6

Oh good. the final half hour of my six and a half hour train journey will be soundtracked by the obligatory group of pissed middle-aged men who have just got on at Exeter

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Feline Charpentier @felinecharpentier.bsky.social · Jun 6

Absolutely jiggered after MA summer school @lancasteruni.bsky.social, first time ever spending a few days just ‚being a writer‘. One of many highlights: hearing one of my heroes @jennashworth.bsky.social reading from her forthcoming memoir the parallel path

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Feline Charpentier @felinecharpentier.bsky.social · Jun 2

Also I loved Gallow‘s Down, which was recommended to me by my MA supervisor!

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Feline Charpentier @felinecharpentier.bsky.social · Jun 2

Thanks so much Nicola x

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Feline Charpentier @felinecharpentier.bsky.social · Jun 2

Happy publication day to Horatio Clare and @littletollerbooks.bsky.social book review here: felinecharpentier.com/searching-fo...

Searching for the best in us

As a writer one of my biggest preoccupations is the stories we tell ourselves, the narratives we invent in order to feel good about ourselves, or at least, in order to survive. The human mind is a…

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Feline Charpentier @felinecharpentier.bsky.social · May 30

This is like a hallucinogenic trip down memory lane coupled with an almost trippy advert for my work in progress www.instagram.com/p/DHtXBSHKCR...

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BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught @bookwormvaught.bsky.social · May 1

Thread. It is a great honour to announce the shortlist for the 2025 #Curae prize for unpaid carers

POETRY CATEGORY

Mistletoe. Sam Garvan
Diagnosis. Elizabeth Loudon
Sinkhole. Charlotte Ansell
I Love Him (like salt and water). Emma Wilson
The Shop at the End of a Wave. Ia Kozoboli.
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Feline Charpentier @felinecharpentier.bsky.social · May 2

Overdone it like a rookie. This beautiful book is keeping me company on an enforced bed day: Time for Magic, with Jamie Reid’s artwork and the eightfold wheel of the year described luminously as ever by Philip Carr Gomm. Excellent anarchic stuff.

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · Apr 22

Please sign this, if you've got a moment. It might seem like a token gesture but it's important to make our voices heard. Trans people should be able to determine their own gender and live their lives in peace.

petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Apr 17

The fight for the rights and dignities of trans people is a fight against the thin edge of fascism. It's a hill we are willing to fight and die on. If you'd like to support us with a donation dedicated to trans rights, you can do so here. I am donating £1,000. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

Fighting fund for trans rights | Good Law Project

Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the rollbacks on trans rights in the UK.

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Feline Charpentier @felinecharpentier.bsky.social · Apr 22

With the absolutely offensive guff coming out of the UK govt today, I just want to say that, as a cis-gender middle aged woman, if you are trans and you identify as a woman, in my eyes, you are a woman.

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