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SAM BLAKE

@samblakebooks.bsky.social

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No 1 bestselling Irish crime writer (adult & YA) 💙📚 Chair Society of Authors, views my own. Agent: Simon Trewin https://linktr.ee/SamBlakeBooks

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SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · Jan 27

For anyone new to me, I write thrillers (www.samblakebooks.com 😊 #TheKillingSense No 1 bestseller, out now! 🎉) I founded Europe's biggest writing resources website @writing.ie, Ireland's International Crime Writing Festival @murderonefest.bsky.social & run a fab online writers group, Writers Ink 💙📚

Sam Blake on stage at Murder One with the red and black festival banner behind her. She's sitting in a red leather Chesterfield armchair and speaking to the audience. Sam has red hair and tortoiseshell glasses and is wearing a black and white striped shirt.

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 1d

The older I get the more I appreciate when people say "oh I don't know the answer to that" or "actually I was wrong". It's probably the biggest shortcut to get me to trust you tbh.

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Ryan Aw @rawcaptures.net · 1d

Wow - 3 people have placed orders on my store over the weekend!

It’s not a lot, but it’s more than I’ve ever had in one go since opening my online print store

Thank you all so much for the support, and for assisting my mission in promoting wildlife conservation & indigenous rights for Alaska

A photo of the Alaskan tundra in the autumn

Sony A1, Sony 24-70mm f/2.8 GM ii - 5 image panorama

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 1d

This PhD on a reparatory history of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, exploring the legacies of empire is open for applications. It features a great supervisory team (moi, Kerry Pimblott, and Sadia Habib) and fabulous public history opportunities. Please share.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Edinburgh O'Clock @edinburghclock.bsky.social · 13h

Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train.

A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin

@tomduffinphotos.bsky.social.

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Delicious images of Edinburgh from Tom Duffin

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SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · 12h

Starmer's face!

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 22h

The children’s book industry has been misjudging reading levels for decades. It doesn’t pay well, so it’s populated by book lovers – keen readers who produce books for the kids they were: the most capable readers. But those were the minority. The majority read at a lower level, and still do.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · 12h

Woo hoo!! 🎉👏🔥

Louise Kennedy @louisekennedy.bsky.social · 12h

Trespasses trailer. I can’t believe how good it looks. 🙏

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Trespasses | Official Trailer | 4TheDrama

YouTube video by 4 The Drama

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Andrew Wappat @andrewwappat.bsky.social · 1d

Barnacle geese, Marske Stray
90+ heading south-east following the coastline just now towards Saltburn. @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @longnabbirder.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 16h

Come back again and wake me up at about half past May.

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jeffreyford8 @jeffreyford8.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite Halloween time paintings by Fragonard -- The Magician

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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 23h

The ratio of novels with good opening quarters to novels that are properly good the whole way through is 10-to-one. Most books should therefore be choose-your-own-adventure beyond a certain point, to hold attention and disguise the difficulty of sustaining a strong start.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · 12h

😂😂

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 23h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 6d

The Green Man's War is a 99p Kindle deal for October in the UK, for those keen to catch up with the series before The Green Man's Holiday is published on 30th October, with a launch at the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton 😁
www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Mans-W...

The Green Man's War

The Green Man's War eBook : McKenna, Juliet E: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · 2d

These are gorgeous

Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 2d

The @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social has a selection of recently acquired portraits, among them Edna O'Brien, Maeve Binchy, Brian Friel, and the last portrait of J.P. Donleavy.
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SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliant!!

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 2d

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · 2d

Fab event last night at @kildarereaders.bsky.social with the ladies of crime, all these people came out on a Saturday night to hear how we kill people ☺️

And we're doing it all again next week at Murder One!

Authors Catherine Ryan Howard, Andrea Mara and Prof Marie Cassidy with moi, Sam Blake at the River Bank Arts Centre standing in front of a packed theatre - the room was full and there were 135 people on the waiting list!

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 2d

We are back,
Eat the Storms, the poetry podcast, Season 10

with @suefinch.bsky.social @bethbpoet.bsky.social Chris Campbell and Giles Watson

Tune in today on your preferred podcast platform 💙

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Author Krishna Prasanth Guttikonda @krishna-author.bsky.social · 2d

#booksky
#bluesky
#blacksky

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SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · 2d

That's gorgeous!

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2nd event: Packed house for Prof Marie Cassidy, Andrea Mara & Catherine Ryan Howard at the Riverbank Arts Centre. Lots of laughs & fabulous insights into process and quite a lot on murdering people...

1st pic by Ger Holland. Books are on sale via Woodbine Books & they have lots of signed copies!

Sam Blake, Andrea Mara and Catherine Ryan Howard with Professor Marie Cassidy (Ireland's state pathologist, now bestselling fiction writer) against a green wall full of gold signatures

On stage: Sam Blake far left, sitting beside Marie Cassidy, Andrea Mara is laughing. On the far right Catherine Ryan Howard is listening intently . I have no idea what I was saying!

SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · 2d

Two fab events today at @kildarereaders.bsky.social, 1st: debuts w Roisin O'Donnell & Brendan Mac Evilly- Roisin's Nesting was longlusted for the Women's Prize & Brendan's Deep Burn was launched this week! Copies at @woodbinebooks.bsky.social -do order, brilliantly original & beautifully written 🔥

Very blurry photo of Sam Blake, Roisin O'Donnell and Brendan Mac Evilly wearing headset mics, about to go on stage

Cover of Sunday Times bestseller Nesting - a black and white picture of the sea and rocks with a mother comforting a child far right. Title and blurb flashes are in a fabulous bright pink.

Sam Blake's hand holding a copy of Brendan's Deep Burn - the cover is a glorious red and cream chequered board with significant images from the book hand drawn in each square

Deep Burn has flaps! Text inside the cover says: in a small seaside village in South Kerry, Martha Knox develops an unlikely career burning emotionally charged objects and photographing the results. Her clients travel from far and wide with things they want destroyed... buy the book to get the rest!!

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 4d

👇Happening tomorrow!

Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 9d

A fabulous initiative from Blackrock Councillor @marthafanning.bsky.social - next Saturday at Urban Junction (just up the road from us) 👻🎃🧙‍♀️

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Miss Ann Thrope 🇬🇧🇹🇹 @ltellenripley.bsky.social · 4d

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SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · 4d

Ooof.

Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 4d

"Well it was nice while it lasted. We had an unprecedented 10 months of low and stable Covid levels in England - but this is now over. We are seeing a definite, significant wave of Covid infections across England."

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 4d

In 67AD the Emperor Nero entered as a competitor to the Olympic Games. He competed in a number of events, most of which he had made up, and then declared himself the winner of each.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 4d

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

Norwegian Nobel Committee said before Gaza deal was agreed that it had reached a decision about 2025 laureate

www.irishtimes.com

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