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Lawrence Monk @trendylefty.bsky.social · 2h

Social media should be about sharing things you love with others. Horror peeps will love these books from @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social @michaelsellars.bsky.social

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 4m

cheers Lawrence! 🙏

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Ever Dundas @everdundas.bsky.social · 19h

“We create with our bodies… And it takes time, time rarely given, time always political."

The fabulous Haneul Lee has written a beautiful love letter for disabled writers:

disabilityarts.online/magazine/opi...

Opinion - Haneul Lee - A love letter for disabled writers

Disabled writer and journalist Haneul Lee delivers an impassioned call, inspired by conversations with Julie Farrell and Ever Dundas, fellow writers and publishers of the Inklusion Guide, a resource a...

disabilityarts.online

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 1d

The ancient ones performed feats of memory, as their culture required them to commit long strings of numbers to their mind palaces.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

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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E.M. Anderson | the author too hot for BlueSky @elizmanderson.com · 19h

who's ready for a book trailer and cover reveal 👀 cover art by Lucy Rose!

(if you're like please I hate videos! gimme a sec, I've got a static cover reveal too)

THE LORD OF THE WOOD releases from @hanoversquarepress.bsky.social in July 2026

preorder: gatheringvolumes.com/item/44euZQq...

#author

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 19h

work smarter not harder etc etc! this is just good practice 😁

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 22h

hehe thank youuuu 🥰🥰

Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 22h

oh I don’t ‘plan’ until after the first draft, which is why i am currently staring at various added sections i THOUGHT might tie up some strings in the second draft and ruthlessly deleting them 😂 i’m sure this will be fine…!

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 22h

HA! oh I would most certainly read the book that had this in it

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 22h

pro writing tip: if you’re concerned about hitting your deadline for handing in your book just decide that you don’t need a whole section and delete it from your plan and then in a few days you won’t have to write it

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hux | aka Lizzie Huxley-Jones @littlehux.bsky.social · 1d

Tadaa, here’s the cover for my next romcom, Reality Check out April 9th (and available to preorder now!)

On reality tv, what’s behind the scenes will always filter through. It’s f/f, lovers to enemies to lovers, chaotic nonsense with hot disabled babes. 👰🏼‍♀️💓📚🎥✨

The paperback cover for Reality Check by Lizzie Huxley-Jones which shows two women in bridal dresses, facing forward but smirking at each other. One is tall blonde and fat, and the other is small and ginger haired. The background is a bisexual fade with confetti and film camera patterns.

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 3d

mum’s little dog Alfie has always had problems with his teeth and he had to have near enough all of them removed a while ago - now his little tongue is constantly sticking out of his mouth 🥹

A tiny little brown and white terrier dog curled up on a pillow beneath a quilt, staring at the camera with his pink tongue lolling out of one side of his mouth

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 3d

same! i feel like everyone who’s eligible for the flu vaccination should automatically be eligible for the Covid one, but apparently that’s too much like common sense

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 3d

I wish the UK was doing this! It just makes so much more sense (and also doesn’t limit the jabs to people who can afford them)

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 4d

going to be me this year too 😭 i was on the list last year, off it the year before but wrangled by my GP for a clinic one, on it the year prior and off it the one before - now off again! absolute nonsense

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 4d

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 5d

Happiest of publication days to this beautiful book & the possibly-fae @samkhorton.bsky.social 🖤🖤🖤

Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 5d

If you like dark folklore you must check out @samkhorton.bsky.social's Gorse and its sequel Ragwort, which is out today!

Gorgeous inside and out, it's a haunting tale of love, madness, loss, and mysterious secrets, set in Cornwall amid the clash of Enlightenment with the old magical ways

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A banner from Solaris with a picture of the book and a quote from Lorraine Wilson reading "brimming with love for the wild places, for the folklore and for the fallibility and generosity of the human heart. Horton is a storyteller outside of time, I suspect he may be fae"

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 5d

I'm a committed small press author & editor. Small presses are the seed-heads of the books world & they are scorched. Pls read and share this excellent letter on the situation & what's needed in @thebookseller.com, signatories inc Peninsula Press, @cipherpress.bsky.social @silver-press.bsky.social

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK

The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.

www.thebookseller.com

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 5d

look at that soft face - he’s incapable of evil 🥹

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 6d

HE’S TOO MUCH

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 6d

oh i am both here and intrigued for a hopeful dystopia 👀

Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 6d

When There Are Wolves Again is released today!

@catamaroon.bsky.social's new novel is a hopeful but believable dystopia, tackling speculative themes of biodiversity and environmental disaster, pandemic, justice, and our possible future, all explored in a deeply human & affecting way.

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