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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Haa, I suspect Valentine Marshall at twenty-five was an edgelord of epic proportions - "I am a SERIOUS GOTH ACADEMIC do not perceive me!" I think at thirty-six he's more of a squashed and stressy traumaflapjack, in the side pocket of the rucksack of life.

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm back!!! Rejoining #SpoonieAuthChat It's autumn so I'm leaning fully into the cosy with the latest - plus-size heroine, AuDHD hero, and a three-legged lurcher in a jumper, fully embracing a Yorkshire October. tammasinbiscuit.substack.com/p/dog-and-so...

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Dog & Social Butterfly

More Frivolous Tales From the Admin Hub, this time involving more than one Arthur and more than one dog....

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

substack.com/home/post/p-... Autumn, and the Cosy is strong in this one. Meet Hannah Ward and Valentine Marshall, and their three-legged rescue dog Arthur.

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Dog & Social Butterfly

More Frivolous Tales From the Admin Hub, this time involving more than one Arthur and more than one dog....

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

#SpoonieAuthorChat the Book Dragon and The Teapot novella - my #Spoonie main character continues to negotiate Thursdays, and the admin hub, with extreme caution....

Four pints of milk and an empty mug with a teabag peeking over the edge.

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I NEVER know how a book will go. I'm not even sure sometimes if it's going to BE a book. Currently writing my Halloween story (MC of the romance I'm writing, ten years younger, doing his field archaeologist thing.... finds creepy Things) - I know damn' well it won't stop there. #SpoonieAuthChat

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

open.spotify.com/playlist/1bY... My Book Dragon & The Biscuit Witch playlist! The Biscuit Witch is a 90s pop/dance queen. The Dragon is a 90s goth maven. Sometimes they meet in the middle. More usually he rolls his eyes and swears quietly about S Club.

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Spotify – Web Player

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

✨ NEW RELEASE ✨ 🗡️ fantasy novella ⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals 🏹 gallant knights 👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom 🪾 enchanted plants and forests 🥀 romance and friendship 🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR 💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-... 📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Ebook cover for ‘A Light for the Dead to Follow’ by Rebecca Crunden. Cover image is of a skull surrounded by red-pink flowers. There are vines at the top beside the title. The title font is black and maroon, the name font is white.

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Two of my bois now gone beyond - Flank-Tanker and Aubrey. The Tank was my heart cat - although I do love the Ancient Warlord.

IMage shows two elderly cats, one tabby and white and one ginger, on decking, like a feline Waldorf & Staedtler

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

#DrawingAugust #TTRPG #D&D #Smaugust Chatting to a lovely someone on Substack about my D&D scribbles. Am now committed to a regular Friday night sketch.

Line drawing of a Dragonborn Artificer stirring a cauldron whilst his Wyrmling companion complains about not having any tea

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Can't help reading this as the cat's voice, the Ancient Warlord would literally say this....

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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

As part of our theme #OutintheField, we’re sharing recent discoveries made by National Trust archaeologists and partners alongside current fieldwork. Did you know that the Sefton Coast at Formby in Lancashire contains tantalising glimpses into the lives of our hunter-gather ancestors? 🧵

A row of preserved human footprints in a sandy, muddy beach, with red flags marking their locations

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

@minorfracas.bsky.social how is doggo feeling? Think she has a street team here thinking about her...

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Demelza, a world-weary witch, and Uliana, an even more exhausted vampyre, work together to send wayward demons, ghosts and otherworldly creatures back to where they came from. But some jobs are more difficult than others. 🔖 story: mybook.to/RXIIkD 💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/on-demon-wra...

cover for On Demon Wrangling and Interpersonal Relationships Between Weary Immortals by Rebecca Crunden; purple background with a cat and flowers.

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

@historianinharness.bsky.social am probably unrecognisable these days but Wardlaws' Kit, as was. If you have spare minute my 15 y/old lad would like to fanboy a bit over your armour and pick your brains about 14thc. wargaming and armour. Yrs shamelessly...

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Go for it, young folks. Seize this opportunity. Also, if you do seize it, look after your joints. Archaeology is hard on the bones in more than one way.

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Just a noisy Northern bird ranting about #spoons and #radicalkindness nothing to see here open.substack.com/pub/tammasin...

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Of Faith & Spoons

(Or, That's A Low Bar To Trip On, Right There)

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The words "everyone's got a book in them" spring to mind.... I think storytelling is often overlooked as a craft, because it *looks* effortless, physically. #SpoonieAuthorChat

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Zeggy @infernulls.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

#FantasyIndiesAugust Day 4 Favorite line in your WIP It's still very early in the rough draft for #Infernulls The City of Lights. So forgive any errors, and this might not be in the final cut (It will be if I have anything to say about it.)

Line from "Infernulls: The City of Lights"

“But don’t worry! You got this!” Cepheia held her hand out, giving me a thumbs up, before putting her arm back underneath the ropes that bound her.

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bev 🎃 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

#IndieAugust Want to support a (struggling) indie author? Check out my cozy romances and spooky collection of horror stories!! b2r: books2read.com/ap/8pprVp/Be... itch: beverlyannemichel.itch.io kofi: ko-fi.com/beverlyannem... #booksky #romancelandia #horrorsky #sffh 💙📚 🌈📚 🌶️📚

Mechanical Heart book cover: grey and red binary code forming a heart. A science fiction romance.

The Horrors of Small Town Nebraska book cover. Grey background with a creepy scarecrow.

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Also, if you dream about noodles, is that #ramentasy?

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Well, I had a lovely afternoon yesterday with my author friend who is not on here and as part of our "how the hell do we get people to read this stuff?" chat she's gonna come join us and talk nonsense. Where do the peeps who write #romantasy hang out?

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Well, I bit the bullet and started to serialise my novella on Substack. tammasinbiscuit.substack.com/p/the-book-d... This is a total departure from my successful histfic authoring so am building a completely new audience from nowt. #SpoonieAuthChat #NorthernLit

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The Book Dragon & The Teapot

aka Thursday, You Bastard - A Serial In A Number Of Uncomfortable Parts

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

What the heck. We can always do with a few more. #catsky because my big tabby Flank-Tanker is long gone and so is his peach cat bro Aubrey, but then more people can see them....

Tabby cat and ginger cat on decking - the tabby cat is poking his friend in the chest with a paw. They are both big old cats.

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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Our theme for August and September is 'Out in the field' - we'll be hearing from our archaeologists who are out undertaking surveys and excavations, our HART teams undertaking condition surveys of the heritage features that we care for, and looking back at some fieldwork undertaken in recent years.

Archaeologists undertaking geophysical survey using an ATV in a field on the Attingham Estate

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

When authors are made fun of for posting their hard won wins, so in turn they post their stats so that others can feel inspired or empathise with fellow struggles, and you, as an author, decide to view that empathy as ‘humble bragging’ and post snark, perhaps don’t. 🧵⬇️

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Ami - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️📚💙 @amithero.bot · 31/07/2025

Indie authors - describe your book in one sentence like this Just a bunch of demons yapping at each other

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Sanshin Soba @sanshinsoba.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I'm going to ask you a big favor. Please be kind to yourself tonight. You deserve as much love as you give others.

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Proper lighting! I've been to venues where I've not moved from my seat for most of a day because I can't tell where I'm putting my feet! God save us from moody and enigmatic lighting arrangements...

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I'm the other way - I will often say no b/c I'm sight impaired & scared. Will trip over something, will make a show of myself, will get lost in unfamiliar place. Be nice if ppl gave me a bit of space/reassurance to do things, instead of "no?- NEXT!"

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

open.substack.com/pub/tammasin... Finally started the novella serialisation on Substack! Meet Dr Valentine Marshall - hoarder of knowledge and grubby teaspoons, and mildly overclocked conflict archaeology lecturer. #Northernvoices #booksky

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The Book Dragon & The Teapot

aka Thursday, You Bastard - A Serial In A Number Of Uncomfortable Parts

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Probably my favorite story I’ve published this year… and not just because my dog’s face has started turning white and I cry incoherently about that fact at least once a week.

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Ally Ally Oxenfree @allymalinenko.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Also please for the love of god be nice to librarians. We are tired

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Victoria Jayne @victoriajayne.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

⚠️WARNING⚠️ What happens on the ship... doesn't always stay there! Will their love story end at sea or continue onshore? ✔️Cruise Ship Romance ✔️Plus Size Lady ✔️Golden Retriever ✔️Fling Reserve your copy TODAY 🔗 books2read.com/u/mKMVRd 📆 Available: August 19, 2025 #booksky

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Mark Ezra Stokes @markezrastokes.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Some days it feels like the void is winning. The dread sets in, whispers “what’s the point?” Here’s the point: you showed up. You’re still building. Still dreaming. That’s defiance. That’s magic. #TTRPGCommunity #CreativeProcess #Hopepunk #MentalHealthMatters #GMthoughts

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Also this is literally the best photo of my very old cat ever, because he looks like such an old reprobate. He's 19 and he has one tooth left. I adore him. He ate a bee yesterday. #catsky

Image of elderly tuxedo cat with slightly ragged fur and long whiskers, on a patchwork quilt

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

What's mildly alarming is how much Nine Inch Nails, New Model Army and dubious goth adjacent nonsense is on mine....

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I was today years old when I learnt that my apparently unmarketable niche fiction has a genre after all! tammasinbiscuit.substack.com/p/radical-ki... Yours hopepunk-ly, Tamsyn x

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Radical Kindness, Knitting and Feminism

Thoughts From A Cardigan Pocket

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

It's sunny. I am writing about a woman stripping carpets from a house where they used a chip pan every day. You might call it reclamation. You might call it vengeance. Either way, do not mess with her. #writingsky

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Tamsyn Russell @biscuitwitch.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

This is me. (And this is where I live.)

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