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Vikki Patis
@vikkipatis.bsky.social
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Author of queer dark novels, aka Victoria Hawthorne. Scottish with an English accent. Owned by golden retrievers. Views mine. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 she/her https://linktr.ee/vikkipatis
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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · Jan 8
Hello, Bluesky! I thought I'd post this again since I've just had a sudden flurry of new followers. I've gone freelance since being made redundant, offering all of these services, and I'm now booking for March onwards.

www.vikkipatisauthor.com/services
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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 17h
It's not often a book makes me physically squirm, but this one did. You Weren't Meant to be Human is an unflinching, unforgettable novel of body horror, queerness, and trauma. A truly consuming read, if you can stomach it (heh).

Out now from @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social @daphnepress.bsky.social
The book cover for YOU WEREN'T MEANT TO BE HUMAN by Andrew Joseph White
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 4d
It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.
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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 3d
Is this like Garioch?
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Leona Scream @editor.scot · 5d
We need this in Scotland. It’s not even wishful or fanciful thinking: it’s financially astute. Our creative industries are absolutely vital
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 6d
The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow
Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent
The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow.
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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 5d
🙏🙏🙏
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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 6d
Fantastic news!
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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 6d
I know what you mean! My wife prefers the wee brush thingies, and we also have a water flosser which is 🤌
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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 6d
This, and FLOSS! My teeth have been the bane of my life. Genetics, upbringing, and coeliac disease really said 'fuck you' 🥲 I got veneers recently, genuinely life changing
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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 7d
WINTER HAUNTS returns for 2025 with a loaded line-up of interviews, panels and workshops - and here are just some of the awesome authors you'll be hearing from! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-hau...
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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 9d
Anthropic didn't steal any of my books, and on the one hand that's very good, but on the other I am of course incensed
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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 9d
'so I asked Chat GPT—'
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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 10d
Yes the individuals are amazing. The system, not so much!
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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 10d
Yeah I think that does influence buyers, though I'm not sure how much. Publishers truly do let their midlist authors down by doing absolutely nothing to try to promote them, then blame the bookshops. They can't order books they don't know exist!?
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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 10d
I feel like more authors (and agents) should be telling publishers that they don't care for their bad track nonsense. If the publisher fails to sell a book they've gambled on, that's their problem. The fact is that the celebrities and huge debuts get the lion's share of marketing money.
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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 10d
Christ, what poor timing from that agent. It doesn't make sense how they tell us that authors often can't move the needle on sales, but it's also our fault if sales are bad? I refuse to take responsibility for a multimillion pound company failing to sell my book 😂
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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 10d
So-called 'bad track' is complete and utter bollocks.
Frankly, this is absolute gaslighting of the worst kind. It’s like publishers have all agreed on the myth that if an author’s first book didn’t sell well, it’s because of the author’s name. Not perhaps the cover not being eye catching enough … certainly not their marketing efforts (heavens forbid the publisher be responsible)… or how they positioned the book, which perhaps caused the ‘miss’… or the amount of publicity that book was lucky to get (or not)… it’s not the fact that traction is hard for anyone to lasso, even huge publishers raking in millions … not the factors of luck and chance which btw are extremely real … (r u getting me here???)
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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 11d
September reading wrap-up! A varied month packed with brilliant reads. I was glad to find Flat 401 on BorrowBox so I could finally read @kingsley-pearson.bsky.social's excellent debut!
VPatis's September 2025 reads: CARELESS PEOPLE COME CLOSER 59 MINUTES BLUEBEARD'S EGG FLAT 401 BRIDGE JAMES WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER THE BLUE HOUR PALAVER
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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 14d
I parted ways with my agent last year and put something like 'I'm seeking new representation after parting ways with my previous agent' in my query letter. Nobody really cared, and I only gave the details to the new agent I ended up signing with. It happens a lot in this industry!
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 18d
It’s a mistake to be discussing drugs we know to be safe. Time after time we take the bait of their provocations - their wild claims. We need to stop accepting their terms of debate - stop wasting our time trying to win their arguments. Instead, make real connections within and across communities.
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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 19d
It's going about! I had it a few weeks ago 🫠 feel better soon!
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annethology 💫 @anchosays.bsky.social · 24d
when are the precedented times
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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 25d
Just finished my third (?) rewatch of Better Call Saul and man, it just gets better every time.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 27d
Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 28d
It's pissing it down just now, will have to get the dehumidifier out soon 😭
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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · 28d
We've been ill this week and I actually put the heating on for an hour. Such a difference from the hot summer!
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