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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Hopefully, we can now go back to reading children's books by proper authors like Cat Deeley, Simon Cowell, Fearne Cotton, Dermot O'Leary, Meghan Markle and (checks notes) … (rechecks notes, adjusts spectacles and check notes again) … Keith Richards.

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Huge commiserations to the HarperCollins PR team, who chose the last Friday afternoon before Christmas to hide, sorry ‘make’, their Walliams announcement. Didn’t work guys (I assume they were guys). Was never, ever gonna work.

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chloehadj.bsky.social @chloehadj.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I spent months on this investigation and gathered docs from the UK courts, Land Registry and a French local authority, to show that Raynor and Moth Winn's story is not as they claim. @tortoisemedia.bsky.social @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I haven't much to say and the world seems a bit grim, so … here's Bobbie. She doesn't care about that stuff as long as she gets to chill on the sofa.

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I hear folks with big Twitter/X followings say they're reluctant to come to Bluesky because they'll have to start again. I get that. The problem is, those followers on X are either RW arseholes or the left-over zombie accounts of people who've come to Bluesky. Are they really worth staying for?

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Thank you to the @societyofauthors.bsky.social & @samblakebooks.bsky.social for leading on this. Could we propose a code of practice for publishers to ensure transparency for stakeholders & customers, eg ghosts & illustrators must be named on the front cover? Smaller font perhaps, but present.

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Other industries are required to give credit where it's due, eg movies and academia. Why not publishing?

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Ryan Mason will be searching out his ‘Interim Head Coach’ business cards right now.

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I'm really serious about this. We should start a movement and embarrass celebs into being honest. If it's 'co-written' (i.e. ghosted), at least put that person's name on the cover too. The @societyofauthors.bsky.social should get much more involved. What do you think?

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

We need a campaign for real fiction. I have no problem with celebs who write books. I have no problem with ghosted memoirs, etc. But ghosted fiction novels with a celeb’s name on the cover are just plain wrong. It’s cynical, branded merch, nothing more.

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Just got followed by Mark Twain and Gabriel García Márquez. They're keen to know how I'm doing. Honestly, it feels pretty sweet to be mixing in such prestigious company.

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I'm being forced to watch A Very British Christmas by @shelleyharris.bsky.social. It's set in the present day, and the American star has just travelled from the airport to the quaint English town by steam train.

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I've written an AI novel to disrupt the industry. It's completely original, of course. Here's the beginning. I hope you like it, but it doesn't matter if you don't as I'll be producing another one this afternoon and a couple more tomorrow. Maybe you'll like them better. Or my cookbook. Or my album.

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Laura's a brilliant author and a lovely person. Well worth listening to this podcast, especially if you love a bit of gothic.

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

My new novel is currently 76k words long, but I don't seem to be getting any nearer to the end. Does it have to end? Can I just going on writing more and more, forever?

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Reposting this Starter Pack for Historical Crime Authors. Please note it’s the crime that’s historical, not the author (allegedly). go.bsky.app/2oZd48F

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Academic: first, we must define what we mean by ‘cup’

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C.J. Schüler @schulercj.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

My latest (free) Substack post tells the story of the creation of 'Doors of London' by Cath Harries @CathLondon & Melanie Backe-Hansen @HouseHistorian, pub @SheldrakePress on 21 November

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Can I highly recommend this new book by wonderful @cathlondon.bsky.social and Melanie Backe-Hansen. It’s a book of photographs of doors in London, and it’s utterly beautiful and mesmerising. If you know a lover of all things London, this would make a perfect gift.

Book showing a lovely photo of a black house door

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

My debut novel was published when I was aged over 50. I don't feel so old, but my birth certificate doesn't lie. I’ve talked about this before, but not here, so here's a quick thread on why it's NEVER TOO LATE.

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The BOOKS AND DOGS starter pack from @isabelashdown.bsky.social - what could be better?

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

In the next half hour or so, Bluesky will hit 20 million users. Most of us joined in the last few weeks or days, so we're fairly engaged. Comparatively few dormant account, duplicates, bots and lurkers. Quite a thing we're building here.

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

As we're all getting to know each other, I propose we volunteer something about ourselves which will infuriate everyone else. But no politics, religion or other nastiness. we're looking for cheerful infuriation only. I'll start. I sleep amazingly. I've had maybe 10 bad nights of sleep in my life.

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A reminder that the Historical Crime Authors Starter Pack exists and is growing, so maybe worth another look. If you'd like to be added, let me know. Also, a reminder that it's the crime that's historical, not (necessarily) the author! #historicalcrime #crimefiction go.bsky.app/2oZd48F

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

People are introducing themselves, so here goes. Writer of novels (new one almost complete), professor at a business school, married to amazing @shelleyharris.bsky.social, two kids (all grown up), two dogs (not grown up), lives in Oxfordshire, well meaning but introverted, socially inept, leftie.

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I couldn't find a Starter Pack for historical crime writers so I started one. If you'd like to be added, let me know! Please share so we can build up a great list. #historicalcrime #crimewriters go.bsky.app/2oZd48F

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

@andrewvargaauthor.bsky.social Ping! I’m a historical author (in every sense) 😀. Would love to be added to your starter pack.

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

There’s stuff, isn’t there? Good stuff, bad stuff. Little high, little low. It’s about how we cope, I think, with the bumpy ride. How we keep our optimism and joy while not being utterly destroyed by the next plummet. Can we do it? Can we hang together and keep up our chins? I say we give it a go.

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

I don’t have anything interesting to say, so here’s our dog Bobbie.

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Alex Reeve (storyjoy) @alexreeve.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Hello! I've escaped from Elon's butt-hole for a more fragrant neighbourhood. Feeling good about it already.

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