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SAM BLAKE

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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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Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social · 4d

Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 4d

Leonard Cohen who died on this day 2016:

I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 6d

It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat

Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pen and ink drawing of himself mourning his wombat, showing a man kneeling over the corpse of a rotund wombat, its toes turned up. They are in front of tomb bearing the date 6th November 1869, and a palm tree

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 4d

On Toad’s birthday Frog gave him a hat. Toad was delighted.

“Happy birthday,” said Frog. Toad put on the hat. It fell down over his eyes.

Toad puts on his new birthday hat, and it slides right down over his eyes. Frog looks on, thoughtfully.

From "The Hat"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

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SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks so much M!

Mairéad Hearne (Swirl and Thread Book Blog) @maireadhearne.bsky.social · 5d

Wishing @samblakebooks.bsky.social a Very Happy Paperback Publication Day 🎉

#TheKillingSense is a superbly researched, taut, contemporary thriller with a strong Parisian flair

Review:
swirlandthread.com/the-killing-...

Shortlisted for Crime Fiction Book of the Year
➡️ VOTE irishbookawards.ie/vote/

The Killing Sense by Sam Blake against a darkly lit street

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SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · 4d

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Atlantic Books @atlanticbooks.bsky.social · 5d

A Year in Numbers #KyleDEvans
Crooks 2 #PaulWilliams
The Killing Sense @samblakebooks.bsky.social

SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · 8d

Oh goodness!!!

SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · 10d

What a brilliant idea!

SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · 10d

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 10d

We are 5! 🎈

THANK YOU for being part of the mission. At a time when Amazon profits are soaring, and small businesses face ever increasing pressure, WHERE you choose to spend your money makes all the difference in keeping these community spaces on the high street. Bookshop.org

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 24d

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Diarmaid Condon Author @diarmaidcondon.ie · 15d

Best of luck to @samblakebooks.bsky.social and Kieran Marsh in the An Post Irish Book Awards. If you haven't done so already, please do go and vote at www.irishbookawards.ie/vote (you can vote for Sam, but not Kieran, unfortunately).
#IrishFictionBooks

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SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you so much Diarmaid! ❤️

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 15d

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 15d

Books may well be the only true magic.

Alice Hoffman

(Halloween week - I’m indulging in AH audio books as I work!)

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 15d

As we approach our 20th year anniversary in publishing.

We've just had our BEST MONTH EVER for book sales.

Thank you to all the bookshops and librarians for
placing our books in readers' hands.

Phenomenal!!

@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@forumbooks.bsky.social
@book-ish.bsky.social

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Matovilka @matovilka.bsky.social · 15d

You know when Terry Pratchett said 'It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works'? Yeah, he meant this.

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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · 15d

A year ago, Spain was hit by deadly floods

They were supercharged by climate change

Yet in their wake, climate-denying politicians gained influence - which risks undermining climate action, making people less safe

Today we publish new research on this troubling dynamic🧵
www.scri.org.uk/derailment

Welcome to the Strategic Climate Risk Initiative

How can we stop the consequences of climate change from undermining climate action?

www.scri.org.uk

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 16d

9-year-old's letter to BBC Children's programme: Blue Peter (1973)
Hollander is now Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research & Impact and Professor of StemCell Biology at Liverpool University
#highered #science #medicine #surgery #edchat #education
www.liverpool.ac.uk/researcher/w...

Dear Val, John, Peter and Lesslie

This may seem very strange, but I think I no how to make people or animals alive. Why Im teling you is because I cant get the things I need.

A list of what I need.

1. Diagram of how evreything works (inside youre body)

2. Model of a heart split in half, (both halvs)

3. The sort of sering [syringe] they yous for cleaning ears (Tsering must be very very clean)

4. Tools for cutting people open

5. Tools for stiches

6. Fiberglass box, 8 foot tall, 3 foot width.

7. Picture of a man showing all the arteries.

Sorry but in number 6 in the list the box needs lid. If you do get them on 1st March I can pay £10, £11, £12, £13 or £14. Send your answer to me,

Love from Anthony, London, NW11

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 15d

Just finished Han Kang's We Do Not Part last night. It will take a while to process all that is contained between the covers. The writing & translation (by e. yaewon & Paige Aniyah Morris) are exquisite. There is love & tenderness & care, profound trauma & brutality, art & nature & spirits & memory.

Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 18d

Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia.
tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9

A photograph of the 14 titles longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. The books are stood on a wooden table against a brick wall with their spines facing the camera.

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SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · 16d

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SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · 17d

How lovely is this?! ❤️😊

Posted by @littleluxurieslibrary on instragram:

What a SUPER read. This is my first @samblakebooks but it absolutely will not be my last. 🥰😍

A reader's hand holding a copy of Sam Blake's The Killing Sense with its Parisian cover (she has very cool black and white nail polish)

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 17d

Can’t say I know much about the powers of the Irish president but it’s interesting that this woman ran as a left-wing independent, won 63% of the vote, was lauded by her opponent, and is succeeding the man who took his adorable dogs everywhere. Seems a proper country.

Independent left-wing politician Connolly wins Irish presidency in landslide

Catherine Connolly, a veteran lawmaker on the far left of the Irish political spectrum, was elected president by a landslide margin on Saturday in a stinging rebuke to the recently re-elected centre-right coalition.

www.reuters.com

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SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · 17d

What a fab day in Waterford yday talking to aspiring writers - we delved into their indiv issues as well as explaining publishing. And look at these fab mannequins - Paris! I'll have to go back! If u have a sec to vote for The Killing Sense at www.irishbookawards.ie/vote I'd be hugely grateful ❤️❤️

Sam Blake with Writers Ink members Theresa and Sam in Waterford Art Gallery, a magnificent modern painting behind us that pops with colour

Two dress mannequins covered in vintage Paris inspired fabric, and Sam Blake's hand holding a paperback copy of The Killing Sense infront of them

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 17d

When Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin in 1931, Einstein said, “What I admire most about your art is its universality. You do not say a word, and yet the world understands you." “It's true.” Replied Chaplin, "But your fame is even greater. The world admires you, when no one understands you."

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SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks so much Julie's, thrilled!