Vicky MacKenzie
@vickymackenzie.bsky.social
Writer, cat lady, John Ruskin obsessive, wrote a novel about medieval mystics. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/
Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
This is awkward - no one has bid for a signed copy of my novel, FOR THY GREAT PAIN... yet. 😬
Go on, you can get a personalised present for someone AND help raise money for such an important cause! 🙏
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Go on, you can get a personalised present for someone AND help raise money for such an important cause! 🙏
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is awkward - no one has bid for a signed copy of my novel, FOR THY GREAT PAIN... yet. 😬
Go on, you can get a personalised present for someone AND help raise money for such an important cause! 🙏
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Go on, you can get a personalised present for someone AND help raise money for such an important cause! 🙏
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
This auction is now LIVE! Funds go to Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. I've donated a signed pb copy of my novel, FOR THY GREAT PAIN... and I'm happy to dedicate it if you're buying it as a present!
app.galabid.com/creatives4su... #keepeyesonsudan
app.galabid.com/creatives4su... #keepeyesonsudan
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
This auction is now LIVE! Funds go to Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. I've donated a signed pb copy of my novel, FOR THY GREAT PAIN... and I'm happy to dedicate it if you're buying it as a present!
app.galabid.com/creatives4su... #keepeyesonsudan
app.galabid.com/creatives4su... #keepeyesonsudan
I am in love again.
November 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I am in love again.
Thank you @ruthiesthomas.bsky.social for recommending THE HERO OF THIS BOOK by the inimitable Elizabeth McCracken - what a deep and wise joy it is! A memoir written on the aftermath of her mother's death, it is so gloriously perceptive and witty and tender. #BookSky
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Thank you @ruthiesthomas.bsky.social for recommending THE HERO OF THIS BOOK by the inimitable Elizabeth McCracken - what a deep and wise joy it is! A memoir written on the aftermath of her mother's death, it is so gloriously perceptive and witty and tender. #BookSky
"Stella lounged against a cocktail cabinet whose glass frontage was engraved with the outline of a naked woman. I'm not going to be cowed, she thought. Not by nipples."
Bliss to be indoors on a rainy day reading my new favourite author. Thank you @dauntbookspub.bsky.social for this wonderful proof!
Bliss to be indoors on a rainy day reading my new favourite author. Thank you @dauntbookspub.bsky.social for this wonderful proof!
November 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"Stella lounged against a cocktail cabinet whose glass frontage was engraved with the outline of a naked woman. I'm not going to be cowed, she thought. Not by nipples."
Bliss to be indoors on a rainy day reading my new favourite author. Thank you @dauntbookspub.bsky.social for this wonderful proof!
Bliss to be indoors on a rainy day reading my new favourite author. Thank you @dauntbookspub.bsky.social for this wonderful proof!
Some tidy paws just for you 😘
November 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Some tidy paws just for you 😘
My reading companion 😍 I don't post enough cat pics. #MyCatGeoffrey
November 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
My reading companion 😍 I don't post enough cat pics. #MyCatGeoffrey
We're discussing Richard Flanagan's memoir QUESTION 7 in my 'Reading Like A Writer' book group on Thursday. Wow, it's quite a book! Can anyone think of anything remotely comparable in terms of his approach to memoir? Wildcards welcome! 📚
November 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
We're discussing Richard Flanagan's memoir QUESTION 7 in my 'Reading Like A Writer' book group on Thursday. Wow, it's quite a book! Can anyone think of anything remotely comparable in terms of his approach to memoir? Wildcards welcome! 📚
Oh my god stop the bus! Look what just came through the door! A thousand thank yous to the magnificent @dauntbookspub.bsky.social and esp @marigoldatkey.bsky.social!
October 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Oh my god stop the bus! Look what just came through the door! A thousand thank yous to the magnificent @dauntbookspub.bsky.social and esp @marigoldatkey.bsky.social!
I am tickled by your enthusiasm - and always pleased to get recommendations!
In fact, I've checked the shelves and found this, so might well start here! (Better not start it today, I have at least 6 books on the go just now... 😂)
In fact, I've checked the shelves and found this, so might well start here! (Better not start it today, I have at least 6 books on the go just now... 😂)
October 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I am tickled by your enthusiasm - and always pleased to get recommendations!
In fact, I've checked the shelves and found this, so might well start here! (Better not start it today, I have at least 6 books on the go just now... 😂)
In fact, I've checked the shelves and found this, so might well start here! (Better not start it today, I have at least 6 books on the go just now... 😂)
Don't know why this post is getting so much attention (all relative - it feels like lots of attention compared to my usual posts...). Should have added: Buy my novel! 💙📚 #ForThyGreatPain
October 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Don't know why this post is getting so much attention (all relative - it feels like lots of attention compared to my usual posts...). Should have added: Buy my novel! 💙📚 #ForThyGreatPain
Went to a bookshop on my day off📚📚📚😍
October 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Went to a bookshop on my day off📚📚📚😍
How to follow Turtle Diary? With something completely different...
October 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
How to follow Turtle Diary? With something completely different...
This is turning out to be my perfect book. Thank you @jacquiwine.bsky.social and others who drew my attention to it! #TurtleDiary #RussellHoban
October 19, 2025 at 8:05 AM
This is turning out to be my perfect book. Thank you @jacquiwine.bsky.social and others who drew my attention to it! #TurtleDiary #RussellHoban
Fife thinks it's still summer...
October 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Fife thinks it's still summer...
A misty Sunday morning in October, might as well read this... Surprised the translator, Barbara J. Haveland, isn't mentioned on either the front or back cover - I thought we were over erasing translators these days? Seems not.
October 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
A misty Sunday morning in October, might as well read this... Surprised the translator, Barbara J. Haveland, isn't mentioned on either the front or back cover - I thought we were over erasing translators these days? Seems not.
Oh, hello there! 📚💙 #Nonesuch #FrancisSpufford Published by @faberbooks.bsky.social in February next year.
October 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Oh, hello there! 📚💙 #Nonesuch #FrancisSpufford Published by @faberbooks.bsky.social in February next year.
One of the best books I've read this year - @willhodgkinson.bsky.social's biography of Lawrence (Felt/Denim/Go-Kart Mozart), STREET-LEVEL SUPERSTAR, is an exploration of a singular man, a true artist and visionary in an age of brands and commercial pap. I 💙 u Lawrence. (He's also a nightmare 😂)
September 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
One of the best books I've read this year - @willhodgkinson.bsky.social's biography of Lawrence (Felt/Denim/Go-Kart Mozart), STREET-LEVEL SUPERSTAR, is an exploration of a singular man, a true artist and visionary in an age of brands and commercial pap. I 💙 u Lawrence. (He's also a nightmare 😂)
I'm starting the reading for my upcoming online book group, 'Reading Like A Writer', which kicks off on Thurs 9th Oct with Catherine Lacey's BIOGRAPHY OF X - described by the Guardian as “an impressive and enchantingly strange novel”. A few places left - details here: victoriamackenzie.net/teaching/
September 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I'm starting the reading for my upcoming online book group, 'Reading Like A Writer', which kicks off on Thurs 9th Oct with Catherine Lacey's BIOGRAPHY OF X - described by the Guardian as “an impressive and enchantingly strange novel”. A few places left - details here: victoriamackenzie.net/teaching/
Reading David Constantine's translations of Hölderlin today and discovered Hölderlin's mother kept his inheritance from his father a secret his whole life. Hölderlin died a rich man but didn't know it! Oh my god, someone write me a slim devastating novel about this, please!
September 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Reading David Constantine's translations of Hölderlin today and discovered Hölderlin's mother kept his inheritance from his father a secret his whole life. Hölderlin died a rich man but didn't know it! Oh my god, someone write me a slim devastating novel about this, please!
Among non-Irish essay writers, I love Lavinia Greenlaw's book of essays, THE VAST EXTENT @faberbooks.bsky.social - she describes them herself as 'exploded essays' and they braid art, literature, science and memoir to consider what can be seen and not seen.
August 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Among non-Irish essay writers, I love Lavinia Greenlaw's book of essays, THE VAST EXTENT @faberbooks.bsky.social - she describes them herself as 'exploded essays' and they braid art, literature, science and memoir to consider what can be seen and not seen.
Bluesky made me buy it, etc. (Yes, it probably was you @jacquiwine.bsky.social 😉) 📚😍
August 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Bluesky made me buy it, etc. (Yes, it probably was you @jacquiwine.bsky.social 😉) 📚😍
Just a week ago the Fife sky was full of swallows, martins and even swifts. This video from 14th August doesn't do it justice, it was TEEMING! Today - empty, a gloomy woodpigeon the only sound.
August 23, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Just a week ago the Fife sky was full of swallows, martins and even swifts. This video from 14th August doesn't do it justice, it was TEEMING! Today - empty, a gloomy woodpigeon the only sound.
