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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱

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Writer. Feminist. LGBTQ+. She/her. Socialist. Whovian. Rebel scum. No AI. From the UK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Unapologetic bookworm, word nerd and lover of humour. Human rights, equality 👋🏿👋🏻👋🏽🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Writing novels one word at a time.📚 Author contact: vcwillow@gmail.com

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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 9h
Can't disagree. However, while using broad genre descriptions will be beneficial at increaing the market share of readers who are interested in your book(s), sub genres can indicate specifically to your audience where your book lies within that genre.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 12h
This Friday, our big Douglas Adams graphic novel, Share and Enjoy launches on Kickstarter. I'm immensely proud of it. A work of skill and tender love from Mark Griffiths and Martin Geraghty. The prelaunch page is here www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo... Going live this Friday, 2nd October.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When people discuss the Booker Prize and say male authors are "lagging behind" when the winner has been a bloke for four of the last five years 🤦🏻‍♀️ #Writing #BookSky #Books #BookerPrize
List of the Book Prize winners for the last five years. Four of the winners have been men.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I promise you, the things you regret are the ones you were too afraid to attempt. Write that book, take up that hobby and go for that opportunity being dangled in front of you. You never know the wonderful places it might lead you to. #WritingCommunity #Writing #BeBrave
Our doubts are traitors and makes us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt

William Shakespeare
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Who else has that Thursday feeling? On the other hand it is Friday eve, so the weekend is almost here!
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"LGBTQ+ wouldn't be tolerated in Palestine. Why are you supporting people who hate you?" Because human rights & international laws - against apartheid, genocide & persecution - are not conditional on whether people like us, they are universal principles Never Again, means never again for everyone
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Seen in the wild, in Manchester
Poster of a turtle saying Lucy, no excusey!

Image is a turtle on its back.

The poster says its time for MP Lucy Powell to protect the oceans because we all deserve safe seas.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Vinyl hits that spot that other music just can't reach. Can you guess what I'm listening to? I am so thankful for the record player from the lovely Rod xx
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Never has a truer word been said Doug! In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and widely regarded as a bad move.

Douglas Adams
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Why have I never noticed before how small Marty Mcfly's guitar is at the begining of Back To The Future?
Image is Matty Mcfly from Back to the Future
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Remind me again why I'm on this crazy merry go round 🙃 Is it the fourtune, the fame, the glory? Nah, it's the opportunity to work in my Pyjamas and get that buzz when someone says they love your writing. ##WritingCommunity #Writing #Authors
Image is a post from Facebook from LJ Vitanza. It says bingo! 

Image is a pie chart of the perks of being an author with, working in your pyjamas, calling yourself an author and finding the one fan who loves your books equally shared out in the chart.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Today, I start building the Marble run while listening to some grand tunes...this is going to be fabulous, complicated and a lot of fun. I'm such a happy bunny Wish me luck! 🤣😆
Marble run bookletMarble run push out boardsMarble run push out boards, pins, screws, tools and fittings.Marble run motor, tools and bits and bobs.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Fascism expressed through misogyny, homophobia and ethno purity - in the Western world wrapped up as Christian, white nationalism - has a play list and right now this is their tune.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If you ever worry Brits are too serious or reserved, ask us about our politics where a man dressed as a bin got 9,000 votes to be a member of our Parliament in a by-election. Brits love a bit of anarchy and an underdog who rinses establishment rubes. May the Count be forever standing for election.
Image is of Count Binface with the words clac-attack underneath.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Writers and editors are human - mostly, which means that there will always be some typos and grammatical errors that slip through the process of writing and editing drafts. The trick is to catch as many as possible and enough that it doesn't interfere with the reader's enjoyment of your book.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Spectacular red hued moon last night driving back from Newcastle. Much "fun" was had when they closed the A1 & A19 but didn't put up diversion signs. No one updated Google about the road closures, so some old style navigating ensured. The bonus was the moody photo capture of last night's moon.
Red hued moon, partly obscured by dark clouds over a moonlight field.Red hued moon against the nights skyRed hued moon in the night sky with one dark cloud across its width.Red hued moon above large trees besides a road with cars beneath.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Assumptions made by authors, readers, publishers and gatekeepers, that a subset of people are the default leads to minority groups not being represented in books. Read in full: vcwillow.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/r... #writing #writingcommunity #representation #lgbtqia #disabilityawareness #BIPOC
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Representation – because anyone of any background can be the hero of your story
The main character or hero of your story is the main face of the novel. But all too often, assumptions are made by authors, readers, publishers and publishing gatekeepers that a subset of people ar…
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"In Germany we see charity as a failure of government" Henning Wehn Governments are there to serve citizens, to ensure society functions and fulfils the needs of the people (one where the health, education, national and international security and protection of vulnerable citizens are met). 1/
Image is of comedian Jason Manford on the last and a hospital ward on the right.

Manford is replying to a tweet asking him why he would vote for someone who wants to "tax the shit out of him"

Manford replies: I voted for the many, not the few. Happy to pay more tax if nurses who've looked after my kids don't have to use food banks to feed theirs.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
laylIj bo'DIj vIghro' qaghbej Qo' Klingon. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Post from Instagram from keeping_up_cardassians


Timescanner posted:

Duolingo has Klingon for English speakers but does not have English for Klingon speakers.

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A Klingon would not dishonour his whole family by learning English from a smug little owl on his phone.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Name a bald film Character.
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Patrick Stewart's Funny Giggle in Star Trek
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The only film about the by-election I want to see!
Mock up of Independence Day poster that reads Bindependence Day with Count Binface on the central inage.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Fat bottom girls you make the rockin' world go round. A brave statue to put above a sports shop.
Statue of a woman in an old fashioned sports outfit. The woman is wearing welly boots and sitting on a ledge above the door of a sports shop.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New book genre definition: Literary Feminism - prose before bros #Books #BookSky #WritingCommunity #Writing
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Feminist Flex: Arm with Female Symbol
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/07/2026
Please avoid all salads, including word.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Someone get me a pillow and a duvet. Too much falling over and petty pushing and not enough goals and good football so far. #WorldCup #EngvsArg
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Richard Roche @rrocheneuro.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Ha! Don't make me tap the sign...
Paolo Maldini explaining why it should never be necessary to use an Oxford Comma
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Sylvia Plath doesn't talk about her Iranian years. It wasn't the best years of her life so she put it in the bell jar and never talked about it. But come the fuck along. Common sense alone tells you the and is the conjunction joining two subjects and not a secondary descriptor of the subject!
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My French friend sent me this meme. She's definitely not taking tonight's World Cup match against Spain seriously 🤣 To be fair I did say we'd forgive the French for William the Conquer if they beat Spain tonight! The game is on. Allez les bleues 🇫🇷
Omage is the French cock with it's foot on a slayed Spanish bull
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
For all my lovely French friends Happy Bastille Day Joyeux 14 juillet à tous
Image is of the La Tour Eiffel (The Eiffel Tower) with the words joyeux 14 Juillet (happy 14th July)
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It's alright lads, you can call off the search. I've found the world's worse coffee at Lufthansa airlines!
Image is of a cup of coffee, a twix, a bottle of water and Richard Osmomd's book The impossible fortune.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Might as well face it, you're addicted to plants 🪴
Image is split in two.

The first box shows a woman holding a plant saying 'Let's call it Robert"

The second box shows the 1980s singer Robert plant looking into the room.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
You will recieve good, bad and indifferent reviews. Do not reply to #Reviews regardless of how rude, insulting and personal they are about your book, writing or you personally. It looks unprofessional. Accept that not everyone will love your #Book Happy #Writing and always trust the cat lady 😉
Image is Sigourney Weaver in her role as Ripley for the  Alien films.

It reads:

"Alien is a movie where nobody listens to the smart woman and then they all die except for the smart woman and her cat. Four stars."
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The BBC cancelling Winterwatch is such a shame, especially when we need to be connecting with nature more than ever. If we want people to protect our wildlife, we have to show them it! Add your name to ask the BBC to reconsider. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
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Tell the BBC: Save Winterwatch!
The UK is losing its wildlife, and shows like Winterwatch are vital for connecting us to nature. The BBC's decision to cancel it makes no sense. Let's ask them to rethink this! Add your name here:
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Not so much a manic Monday as a perfect day to travel. 22 degrees, blue skies and sunshine.
Image is blue sky,  white clouds and an almost empty road.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I suspect that an unkindness of ravens must peer across the park at the murder of crows and think to themselves 'those guys just take things too far!' #BookSky #Books #Reading #WriteSky #Writing
I suspect that an unkindness of ravens must peer across the park at the murder of crows and think to themselves 'those guys just take things too far!'

For reading addicts
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eli b. talkin' @eli-b123.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
In the spirit of diverse reading #BookSky Here's a few books to help shake up your work life: Elizabeth Blackley's favorite books for frank and fearless conversations about the workplace share.google/jAmtYrRV8Oep...
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Elizabeth Blackley's favorite books for frank and fearless conversations about the workplace
Elizabeth Blackley wrote ROW Your Business to Health. These are their favorite books on frank and fearless conversations about the workplace.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Apparently this is a controversial statement in a writing group I belong to on that other sm site. No-one is forcing you to read diverse books, but to do so makes you a better writer and makes for a more interesting read. #WriteSky #Booksky #PrideMonth #LGBTQ
The whole point of reading is spending time in someone else's shoes. Why would we want all the shoes to be the same?

Image is five shoes of different designs. The middle one is painted in rainbow colours with a rainbow heart above it.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
38 degree heat is no excuse to not get on with editing chapter 6 of the novel. This fantasy novel is not going to edit itself...looks like I'll have to pour myself an ice cold beer though to help keep my fluids up while I work! #WriteSky #Fantasy #novelwriting #Editing #Imnothot #Melting
Image shows a Word Document headed Chapter 6. It also shows the first paragraph of the chapter.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Like the wicked witch of the (North) West I'm melting 🫠 10.20 am and it was already 32 degrees xx
Picture of blue sky,  blazing sun and trees.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Well at least the sun will give you a good stroke boys 🤣🤣 Is it only me who thought the hand placement of the sun was suggestive? Just me then 😉
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It's that hot, I'm walking around like an overheated chicken, beak open, and wings out trying to get some air under my (bingo) wings. Someone tell whatever passes as mission control, English people are not meant to survive 38 degree heat 🫠 Proper scorchio here in France!
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Scorchio! The Fast Show Weather Forecast
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I was saying this afternoon - before I heard our Lord and master Sir genocide denier had resigned - that I'd vote for Larry the cat as a replacement prime minister. I see I was not alone in this thought. Glad to see Larry is the odds on favourite as replacement leader of the UK 🤣🤣
A made up page to look like a breaking news headline says Larry the cat to replace Keir.

Photo shows the 10 Downing Street cat, Larry in front of the Prime Minister's front door.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Last night's greeter at Chalet du Steak in Orleans was a bit robotic in his welcome, but we ate like queens xx
Image is a robot in a restaurant entrance in a sitting position.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Editing in the sunshine...this is the writer's life for me
Image if from my instagram account V.C. willow which shows the location of Givry,France. I feel it Coming by The Weekend is the tune playing in the post. Image shows a patio with an umbrella over a table with a striped tablecloth.  There is a laptop,mouse, mug, water bottle, papers, a notebook and a book on the table. Along the bottom the text says:

Editing in the sunshine...this is the writer's life for me
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
England do know that they're meant to be kicking the ball at the other goalkeeper and not just passing it to their own to waste time right! Right? In bed already with my book. Mary's more appealing
Image is the cover of Mary Beard's  book, Women and Power.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Wise words from Steve. Be more like Steve.
Image is an otter in a tie with a name badge of Steve sat next to a computer. It says:

Do not seize the day. That only startles it, and nobody wants to deal with an aggressive day before coffee. Approach it slowly. Avoid eye contact. Maybe offer a polite nod. Act casual. If the day growls, starts making demands, or Mentions shenanigans back away quietly and return to bed.
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Yep, it is a bit warm here and it's only going to get warmer. This peely wally North West Englander is not use to these temperatures. I am kind of enjoying the sunshine (sssh don't tell anyone in case they revoke my environmentalist credentials)
image shows a weather forecast that shows temperatures of 32 degrees
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Mark Parisi @offthemarkparisi.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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V.C. Willow 🏳️‍🌈📚🪐🪄😱 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
There are some inalienable truths. Prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old. ...except the price of peasants, apparently they are still at bargain basement prices.
Image is of a high street. Outside a shop is a chalk ad board which reads:

Just landed locally sourced peasants only £5 each
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