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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Remember! Ghosts are not just for October. They are for Christmas, the anniversaries of unavenged murders, and really any time you least expect them.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Congratulations! Brilliant book! x

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Amanda Mason @amandajanemason.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's publication week for #TheDark so allow me to share some generous words from fellow authors. @annamazz.bsky.social @manillapress.bsky.social

An image of my third novel, The Dark, with a quote from Anna Mazzola which says 'A brilliantly eerie novel that plunges us into the darkness of the 1970s blackouts.'

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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We're talking books this Saturday with Icelandic authors Sólveig Pálsdóttir, Jón Atli Jónasson and Erlendur Arason, plus @annamazz.bsky.social, @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social, Felix Francis, @paulwaters.bsky.social and more ... a short train ride from Marylebone. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-noi...

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Global Noir Festival - Crime Fiction from around the world at Chorleywood

Global Noir: featuring acclaimed crime fiction authors and stories from around the world, plus pitch to a literary agent one-to-one.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tick, tock, you’re going to die!

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’ve gone down a dark hole of looking up Tudor items on Vinted and oh my word

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank you, anonymous writer in @thebookseller.com today. As a lawyer, I find it mind-boggling that there’s supposedly no way of holding publishers accountable when they renege on things they agreed to do. We deserve honesty even if information is hard to give. www.thebookseller.com/comment/who-...

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Exquisite. I'm about to read it for the third time. She signed my copy!!

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(I'm not including novels that cover the Revolution more generally as there are lots of corkers, Place of Greater Safety being the best).

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bonjour. I have now read a lot of very bad fiction (and a lot of very good non-fiction) about Marie Antoinette. Surely there must be some good novels that I've missed, other than Farewell, My Queen and Dumas.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As my cousin found out, they absolutely are detachable. The problem is when you need to reattach them.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When I say iconic, I of course mean moronic.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

‘When you come to Auschwitz, bring some food and drink’. Iconic.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Official Conciergerie Inventory listing the meager possessions Marie Antoinette left in her cell before her execution. Somehow, this one of the saddest things I’ve seen about her.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Very gracious, but I prefer the Shirley Jackson approach to responding to bad reviews.

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

La Mulata de Córdoba was a legendary woman accused of witchcraft in colonial Veracruz. One famous tale says she drew a ship on her prison wall, stepped aboard, and vanished. When the authorities returned, only the drawing remained. #WyrdWednesday

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Really hoping our racists will have an ‘are we the baddies?’ moment soon.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New mini cat just crossed your path. Consider this good luck.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fell in love with a wolf I fell in love once and she might eat me 🎵

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harpy @harpy.party · 07/06/2026

if i was Paddington Bear I'd be feasting on British people until Scotland Yard killed me in a hail of gunfire

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I am reading Traitors’ Nest at the moment and it is brilliant. However, somewhat unnervingly, I just went for a run and encountered 30 to 40 magpies flying around. Has this happened to other readers??

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If only someone could have predicted that teen boys who watch trash-hunting videos wouldn’t want to buy a novel written with some bloke their dad reads.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Just found out that, in the Netherlands, instead of 'Irish goodbye' people say 'taking the rat taxi', i.e. scuttling away. Which makes more sense than 'Irish goodbye' given actual Irish people say goodbye at least five times or just don't leave at all (my mother's side is Irish).

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was the opposite of Elon Musk. She created, she donated, she gave, she loved. We all need to be a bit more more Dolly now that she’s gone.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Brilliant article by brilliant @annalisadinn.bsky.social on how funding is being quietly withdrawn from disabled creatives. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Maybe they should….NOT do that?

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

She's so good. 'I forgot my purse.'

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I love everything about Widow’s Bay, but in particular I love The attention to sinister detail. The Daddy’s Home game with its whisky bottle, belt and other things to hit with. The Stephen King book next to YOUR TURN, and the hilarious opening page.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Really hope you have a small face.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Writing a novel is like doing a giant jigsaw puzzle where you have to create all the pieces yourself and many of them are misshapen and don't fit, but when you FINALLY put all of the pieces together you have an immense sense that the puzzle is shit.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

School summer holiday status: heard the song ‘you’ll never walk alone’ earlier and it sounded like a threat.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The first draft is supposed to be shit. But maybe not this shit.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Looking at the first draft of my novel through a colander so as not to blind myself.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It’s okay. I only post every eclipse.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 13/08/2026

"PSA: don't leave the house. Make our low-paid contractors do it for you instead."

A shitty notification from Zoom from Ocado

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