Tracy Chevalier
@tracychevalier.bsky.social
Author (Girl with a Pearl etc). Maker. Best advice: Less is more.
Website: https://tracychevalier.com/
Website: https://tracychevalier.com/
Griet's father in Girl with a Pearl Earring was a Delft tile painter. Now even he is getting replaced by AI 😒
All fired up about antique Delft – and a surprise brush with AI | The Observer share.google/dYTOXCFbUibq...
All fired up about antique Delft – and a surprise brush with AI | The Observer share.google/dYTOXCFbUibq...
All fired up about antique Delft – and a surprise brush with AI | The Observer
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November 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Griet's father in Girl with a Pearl Earring was a Delft tile painter. Now even he is getting replaced by AI 😒
All fired up about antique Delft – and a surprise brush with AI | The Observer share.google/dYTOXCFbUibq...
All fired up about antique Delft – and a surprise brush with AI | The Observer share.google/dYTOXCFbUibq...
Londoners: I have 2 tickets for Amy Speace on 28 November that I can no longer use. If interested please email me at [email protected]
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Londoners: I have 2 tickets for Amy Speace on 28 November that I can no longer use. If interested please email me at [email protected]
Help us keep a Dorset painting in Dorset!
A rare 15th-century painting has been discovered in Dorset. Can you help @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social buy it so it will be on show to everyone? All donations small and large very welcome!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/VlDoEVE...
A rare 15th-century painting has been discovered in Dorset. Can you help @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social buy it so it will be on show to everyone? All donations small and large very welcome!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/VlDoEVE...
Fund to purchase Sherborne Almshouse Triptych
Help us secure the rare 15th-century Triptych and keep this extraordinary artwork accessible to all.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Help us keep a Dorset painting in Dorset!
A rare 15th-century painting has been discovered in Dorset. Can you help @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social buy it so it will be on show to everyone? All donations small and large very welcome!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/VlDoEVE...
A rare 15th-century painting has been discovered in Dorset. Can you help @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social buy it so it will be on show to everyone? All donations small and large very welcome!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/VlDoEVE...
A new episode of The Power of a Book podcast has dropped! In which Yours Truly interviews Jessie Burton, Patrice Lawrence and Francesca Simon about their favourite childhood books. Thanks to @childrensbooksf.bsky.social for making this happen.
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Tracy Chevalier and Our Esteemed Authors Live In Conversation: Patrice Lawrence, Francesca Simon, Jessie Burton
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November 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A new episode of The Power of a Book podcast has dropped! In which Yours Truly interviews Jessie Burton, Patrice Lawrence and Francesca Simon about their favourite childhood books. Thanks to @childrensbooksf.bsky.social for making this happen.
open.spotify.com/episode/2f0A...
open.spotify.com/episode/2f0A...
🚨 Attention, Authors🚨 Anthropic has agreed to pay authors for having scraped/stolen their books. $1500 per book (another $1500 goes to your publisher). Here's where you can check if your books have been used and the form to fill out:
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
Submit a Claim
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October 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🚨 Attention, Authors🚨 Anthropic has agreed to pay authors for having scraped/stolen their books. $1500 per book (another $1500 goes to your publisher). Here's where you can check if your books have been used and the form to fill out:
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
As a former clarinet player, this gave me all the feels 🥲
BBC News - Woman plays clarinet during four-hour brain surgery - BBC News
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BBC News - Woman plays clarinet during four-hour brain surgery - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Woman plays clarinet during four-hour brain surgery
Denise Bacon, 65, underwent deep brain stimulation (DBS) as Parkinson's Disease has affected her ability to walk, swim, dance and play her instrument.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
As a former clarinet player, this gave me all the feels 🥲
BBC News - Woman plays clarinet during four-hour brain surgery - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
BBC News - Woman plays clarinet during four-hour brain surgery - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Authors in UK: Need a room of your own for writing? The RSL Scriptorium Awards give 10 authors just that for a month! Applications open now, due by 18 July. rsliterature.org/rsl-scriptor...
RSL Scriptorium Awards - Royal Society of Literature
Ten writer residencies presented to professionally active writers in need of a place to write.The 2025 Prize This year marks the inaugural presentation of the RSL Scriptorium Awards, inviting applicat...
rsliterature.org
July 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Authors in UK: Need a room of your own for writing? The RSL Scriptorium Awards give 10 authors just that for a month! Applications open now, due by 18 July. rsliterature.org/rsl-scriptor...
Out today in paperback in the USA! Read it to escape from today's news into 15th-century (and 16th, 17th, 18th etc) Venice...
June 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Out today in paperback in the USA! Read it to escape from today's news into 15th-century (and 16th, 17th, 18th etc) Venice...
I'm midway through UK paperback book tour of The Glassmaker, with some juicy events still to come in Scarborough, Hampshire, Dorset, Shropshire, London and Felixstowe! Have a look and come along:
tracychevalier.com/events
tracychevalier.com/events
Events
Tracy Chevalier - official site
tracychevalier.com
June 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I'm midway through UK paperback book tour of The Glassmaker, with some juicy events still to come in Scarborough, Hampshire, Dorset, Shropshire, London and Felixstowe! Have a look and come along:
tracychevalier.com/events
tracychevalier.com/events
Heading to Booka books in Oswestry June 17th to talk Glassmaker. Come!
www.bookabookshop.co.uk/events/an-ev...
www.bookabookshop.co.uk/events/an-ev...
An Evening with Tracy Chevalier – The Glassmaker - Booka Bookshop
Join us for an evening with Tracy Chevalier, the globally bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring, as we celebrate the paperback publication of her latest novel The Glassmaker.
Venice, 1486....
www.bookabookshop.co.uk
June 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Heading to Booka books in Oswestry June 17th to talk Glassmaker. Come!
www.bookabookshop.co.uk/events/an-ev...
www.bookabookshop.co.uk/events/an-ev...
RIP Loretta Swit, aka Hot Lips Houlihan. A fixture in my childhood. You were way too good for Frank!
BBC News - M*A*S*H actress Loretta Swit dies aged 87
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BBC News - M*A*S*H actress Loretta Swit dies aged 87
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M*A*S*H actress Loretta Swit dies aged 87
Swit won awards for her role as "Hot Lips" Houlihan, a nurse based at hospital during the Korean War.
www.bbc.com
May 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
RIP Loretta Swit, aka Hot Lips Houlihan. A fixture in my childhood. You were way too good for Frank!
BBC News - M*A*S*H actress Loretta Swit dies aged 87
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - M*A*S*H actress Loretta Swit dies aged 87
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Heading to Scarborough in a week. Will pay respects at Ann Brontë's grave and dig toes into the sand. AND talk about The Glassmaker at Books by the Beach. Come along!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/ymcascarboro...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/ymcascarboro...
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May 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Heading to Scarborough in a week. Will pay respects at Ann Brontë's grave and dig toes into the sand. AND talk about The Glassmaker at Books by the Beach. Come along!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/ymcascarboro...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/ymcascarboro...
Reposted by Tracy Chevalier
Delighted to announce the winner of the Best First Novel Award 2025, chosen by @tracychevalier.bsky.social from our shortlist of six, is Ferdia Lennon for Glorious Exploits: www.authorsclub.co.uk/best-first-n...
Best First Novel Award Winner Announced | The Authors' Club Since 1891
The Authors’ Club is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2025 Best First Novel Award is Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits (Fig Tree). This year’s guest adjudicator, novelist Tracy Chevalier…
www.authorsclub.co.uk
May 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Delighted to announce the winner of the Best First Novel Award 2025, chosen by @tracychevalier.bsky.social from our shortlist of six, is Ferdia Lennon for Glorious Exploits: www.authorsclub.co.uk/best-first-n...
Taking part in a project by Carrie Mae Weems, at Turin book fair. Intense and profound.
May 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Taking part in a project by Carrie Mae Weems, at Turin book fair. Intense and profound.
UK authors and readers: Please help protect authors' livelihoods from unlicensed use of their work in AI training by signing this open letter to the UK government:
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April 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
UK authors and readers: Please help protect authors' livelihoods from unlicensed use of their work in AI training by signing this open letter to the UK government:
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A rousing protest today at Meta UK HQ by authors angry at having their work stolen to create data for AI. It's illegal and wrong! We should be asked and paid for our work. Where's your morals, Meta?
#metabookthieves
#makeitfair
#societyofauthors
My favourite sign there👇🏼
#metabookthieves
#makeitfair
#societyofauthors
My favourite sign there👇🏼
April 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A rousing protest today at Meta UK HQ by authors angry at having their work stolen to create data for AI. It's illegal and wrong! We should be asked and paid for our work. Where's your morals, Meta?
#metabookthieves
#makeitfair
#societyofauthors
My favourite sign there👇🏼
#metabookthieves
#makeitfair
#societyofauthors
My favourite sign there👇🏼
Sickened that Trump administration is meddling with Smithsonian - museums I grew up. History gets rewritten/reinterpreted all the time, but rarely so blatantly and to such biased, destructive ends😣
BBC News - Trump targets 'anti-American ideology' at Smithsonian museums
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Trump targets 'anti-American ideology' at Smithsonian museums
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump targets 'anti-American ideology' at Smithsonian museums
The order says that "divisive narratives" must be purged from the US museums and research centres.
www.bbc.com
March 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Sickened that Trump administration is meddling with Smithsonian - museums I grew up. History gets rewritten/reinterpreted all the time, but rarely so blatantly and to such biased, destructive ends😣
BBC News - Trump targets 'anti-American ideology' at Smithsonian museums
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Trump targets 'anti-American ideology' at Smithsonian museums
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Can't wait, Stephanie! I want to hear all about that University Challenge triumph!
Very over-excited to announce that I’ll be back at my favourite literary destination @hayfestival.bsky.social doing an event about my new novel with stone-cold legend @tracychevalier.bsky.social - tickets on public sale Fri 14 Mar! ⬇️
www.hayfestival.com/p-23626-trac...
www.hayfestival.com/p-23626-trac...
www.hayfestival.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Can't wait, Stephanie! I want to hear all about that University Challenge triumph!
This sums up where we are in 2025 perfectly.
BBC News - Apple AI tool transcribed the word 'racist' as 'Trump'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Apple AI tool transcribed the word 'racist' as 'Trump'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Apple AI tool transcribed the word 'racist' as 'Trump'
Experts have questioned the company's explanation that it is due to the two words being similar.
www.bbc.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This sums up where we are in 2025 perfectly.
BBC News - Apple AI tool transcribed the word 'racist' as 'Trump'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Apple AI tool transcribed the word 'racist' as 'Trump'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I'm so chuffed this is on the radio! ♥️ BBC
#Books #Radio
Episode 1
The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier
Today 22:45
BBC Radio 4
In the sweeping historical novel from @tracychevalier.bsky.social, Orsolo Rosso the glassmaker's daughter flouts Venetian convention to save her family. Read by Emily Bruni.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Episode 1
The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier
Today 22:45
BBC Radio 4
In the sweeping historical novel from @tracychevalier.bsky.social, Orsolo Rosso the glassmaker's daughter flouts Venetian convention to save her family. Read by Emily Bruni.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier, Episode 1
As Renaissance Venice thrives, a young woman flouts convention to keep her family afloat.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I'm so chuffed this is on the radio! ♥️ BBC
Any other Europeans starting to feel like we're on a Risk board, counting up our troops and where to mass them 😬
February 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Any other Europeans starting to feel like we're on a Risk board, counting up our troops and where to mass them 😬
Today's awful crash in DC reminds me of the 1982 plane crash into the Potomac. My dad was a photographer for Washington Post & spent many hours on 14th St bridge taking photos. I remember him describing this heartbreaking boot; I can't recall if he took it. Thinking of the families and rescuers 💔
January 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Today's awful crash in DC reminds me of the 1982 plane crash into the Potomac. My dad was a photographer for Washington Post & spent many hours on 14th St bridge taking photos. I remember him describing this heartbreaking boot; I can't recall if he took it. Thinking of the families and rescuers 💔
This is amazing, moving stitching
Today I learned about the 🇨🇦 artist Sandra Sawatzky and the epic-scaled embroidered tapestry she has created, emulating the Bayeux tapestry, to chronicle the history of fossil fuel extraction. #needlework, #SubversiveStitch www.theblackgoldtapestry.com
January 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This is amazing, moving stitching