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Beth Underdown @bethunderdown.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Using this woodland goat I photographed today to let you know that the GOAT historical fiction writing course, taught by me for @faberacademy.bsky.social, has new dates available to book from today! Run don’t walk. Or do whatever goats do. Scamper? More info here: faberacademy.com/product/writ...

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Serenity Booksellers @serenitybookshop.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

NEW EVENT! Join us in Stockport on Thurs 27th March for a deligtfully dark and macabre evening celebrating the release of two brilliant new horror novels - Susan Barker's OLD SOUL & @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social's THE LAMB! Susan & Lucy will be discussing their work with @bethunderdown.bsky.social

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

you: from printers to POS terminals, you can shop for a versatile range of products from us my brain, pleasantly, every time: from printers to piece of shit terminals, you can shop for a versatile r

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Beth Underdown @bethunderdown.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Joined @societyofauthors.bsky.social and rejoined @historia-hwa.bsky.social which had lapsed because I want to be more connected to other authors next year 💚

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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

My friend and mentor @bethunderdown.bsky.social is teaching a historical fiction course for Faber in January 🤩 snap up these places!

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Beth Underdown @bethunderdown.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Hello! I wrote a little something for the @faberacademy.bsky.social site on how to go about writing historical fiction! If you’re a historical fiction writer, I’d love to hear which bits of this resonate for you: faberacademy.com/how-to-write...

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Beth Underdown @bethunderdown.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

AS IF you get to be taught by both these powerhouses at once

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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

**Black UK PhD students** This is the programme you want! It is all the bells and whistles, full fees and stipend, any subject, industrial experience offered, 50 other Black scholars already on board and administrated in an environment of care. **Tell everyone**

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Writing tip: Kill your darlings. Bake them in a pie and serve it to your editor at a grand dinner. When she compliments the chef, say, "Oh, do you like it? Aren't you curious about what meat it is?" and empty a sack onto the table. It is your darlings' decapitated heads!

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Rachel Mills Literary @rmlagency.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hello, Bluesky! 👋 We’re thrilled to join this vibrant community and continue championing incredible stories, authors, and ideas in this exciting new space. 🎉

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Beth Underdown @bethunderdown.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Fiction readers, a little help? What are books that switch POV, each POV telling the next bit of the same story/plot but none of the POVs recurring (except maybe one)? I’m thinking like Mrs Dalloway, although even then really the different POVs are telling different stories… Reposts appreciated!

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Beth Underdown @bethunderdown.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This is a great alternative to muting loud posters 😂

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Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Still reeling from this announcement yesterday: my debut short story collection Monstrous Longing has made the Edge Hill Prize shortlist!! Huge congrats to the other shortlisted writers, and thanks as always to my powerhouse indie publisher Farhana Shaikh of Dahlia Books 🦍💚

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Beth Underdown @bethunderdown.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Never been prouder of my friend @afahynes.bsky.social and her wonderful MONSTROUS LONGING 💚🩷💚

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Beth Underdown @bethunderdown.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Ok, my first spicy-hot Bluesky take is: I’m not LOVING The Mirror And The Light. (I say this as somebody who highly respects the wonderful actors and makers involved in the show, and who’d have let Hilary Mantel drain all the blood out of my body and use it as ink if she’d fancied doing so)

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Beth Underdown @bethunderdown.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Hello! I teach fiction, I write literary historical fiction, I sometimes try to write for screen, I read lots more kinds of fiction. I’m intending to use Bluesky for i) jokes, ii) spicy-hot takes, iii) curious thinking and talking about writing, iv) self-promotion (cf photograph of existing books)

A photograph of two paperback books side by side, The Witchfinder’s Sister and The Key in the Lock, both by Beth Underdown.

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Beth Underdown @bethunderdown.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Do you have a very high waist to hip differential? Do you long for jeans that are comfy and will stay up without a belt? Then might I recommend these: www.newlook.com/uk/womens/cl...

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Kate Feld @katefeld.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

HEY. We need more journalists & news orgs on Bluesky. I'll be doing my bit w/ my contacts & at my journalism school, but here's the email to share for press invite codes. The Discourse thanks you 🙏

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Beth Underdown @bethunderdown.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

So we can get a Manchester-Birmingham cycleway now, yeah?

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Beth Underdown @bethunderdown.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Did anybody else cry loads at the last episode of Derry Girls?

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