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Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

At @writersreview.bsky.social we welcome a new guest, novelist @emmapassauthor.bsky.social praises THE MIDNIGHT HOUR: "I adore immersive stories that allow you time to get to know the characters and settings ..." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/06/gues... @evepollychase.bsky.social #mystery

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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

New guest @emmapassauthor.bsky.social praises Eve Chase's family saga: "primarily a mystery, but it turned out to be so much more...twisty, multi-layered ... compelling characterisation..." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/06/gues... @evepollychase.bsky.social #greatreads #family #mystery

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Emma Finlayson-Palmer @finlaysonpalmer.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Join us tonight for #ukteenchat with the fabulous @ianhcreates.bsky.social, chatting all about his new MG - Fyn Carter and the Legends From Atlantis. All welcome to come and join in the chat 🙂 #kidlit #FynCarter #writerslife

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Next on my TBR! (The good folks at @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social have sent me a proof and it's GORGEOUS.) Congratulations, @emmashevah.bsky.social!

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Our lilac tree has gone crazy this year, and the whole house is filled with the scent. Glorious.

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Writing East Midlands @writingeastmidlands.com · 29/04/2025

Find out how to secure a literary agent from the agents themselves! This panel and workshop brings together experts from every step of the traditional publishing process, including editors, agents and publishers. Aimed at global majority writers but all are welcome. Book now ➡️ bit.ly/MEETAGENTS

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Cathie Dunn – Historical Fiction & History 🥰📚 @cathiedunn.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Welcome to our 🌟exciting Blog Tour🌟 for ༻*·The Finding·*༺ by Jane Hunt! Check out our tour stops today, all shining bright spotlights on this poignant tale of forbidden love and war! thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2025/02/blog... #HistoricalFiction #WWII #BookBlast @histficcompany.bsky.social

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

It really is time we lost the term 'disorder' when describing autism/ADHD etc. It leads to faulty reasoning & prejudice. Neurodivergence is just a different cognitive makeup. It'd be like saying someone with fair hair who burns more easily has a 'skin disorder'. We don't; we just say it's genetics.

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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Our next guest will be the wonderful Stephanie Burgis! @stephanieburgis.bsky.social has books for adults, books for kids & dragons galore! Her latest adult book, Wooing The Witch Queen is a villainous romantasy of a helpless prince seeking shelter with the wicked sorceress! Also there's a library.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I think we can all agree that I'm officially HOPELESS at keeping up with Bluesky, but I'm still here, kind of! Over the past few months I've been working on 2 new WIPs, completed another project with Fiction Express, delivered a workshop to c.100 people at the @writingeastmidlands.com conference…

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Shirley-Anne McMillan @shirleyannemcm.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Really disturbed by an ad I've just seen for a 'service' promising a pathway to publishing run by someone whose website is littered with spelling errors. The books on their site have AI covers and blurbs, maybe the content too, who knows. I am not against indie publishing but this grift is not cool.

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

In January 2021, during the third national lockdown, I pulled into this deserted pub car park to turn the van round and found a lamppost and a bin engaged in lively conversation while they thought no one was looking. Incredible.

A photograph of a deserted pub car park surrounded by bare trees on a murky day: wet asphalt, grey sky. In the centre, next to a flumpy yellow cypress tree, are a litter bin and an ornamental lamppost who appear to be sharing a joke together. The head of the lamp is bent at an angle so it appears to be looking down at the bin whose lid has broken given it the appearance of a laughing face.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Excited to share that my story THE GHOSTS OF HOLLY HALL is being launched this Friday with Fiction Express! Every week, readers will vote for where they want the story to go next. And isn't the cover great? My MC, Lauren, has mild cerebral palsy like I do – I'm thrilled this has been represented!

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Van day. The Pointy One approves. 😁🙌🏻🚐❤️ #VanLife

Image shows a black greyhound wearing a blue harness, sitting on some blankets in the back of a campervan. She's looking at the camera with her ears half-pricked.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Been a bit quiet on here because of life/work stuff, but popping up to wish everyone a Merry Christmas/holiday season and a Happy New Year! Auburn has already been at the gin, as you can see… 😂

Image shows the head of a black greyhound who is asleep with her mouth open and teeth showing, looking like she's drunk. She is lying on a furry blanket. At the top of the image is a graphic of Christmas decorations. At the bottom is "Merry Christmas" in a white calligraphy font.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It's #BookSky #BookAdvent Day 4! Today I'm sharing the 10th anniversary edition of STARRING KITTY by @keris.bsky.social, a heartwarming LGBT+ teenage romance about Kitty, who is falling for Dylan, the girl with the purpley-red hair…but Dylan wants to be more than Kitty's secret. What will Kitty do?

Image shows the cover of STARRING KITTY by Keris Fox. The cover has a cartoon-style of two girls seen from the back, one in a pink top and black trousers with her her reddish-brown hair tied back in a ponytail with a spotty red scarf, and one wearing a yellow jacket and grey jeans – she has bobbed purple hair and a white rucksack with vertical black stripes across it and a black pocket/flap on the front. The girls are standing on a golden beach, looking out towards the sea, which is various shades of turquoise. The sky is blue with a few white clouds in it. There is also a quote that says "A beautiful, warm, kind, romantic, utterly special book – Susie Day"

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Today involved getting up early to do some writing (yay!) but also getting a MASSIVE filling redone and the left half of my face being completely numb for 4 hours afterwards (boo). I'm quite tired now...

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Reposting for the evening (or perhaps it's morning where you are, or somewhere in between!) crowd. A stunning collection from a brilliant poet that's well worth a read. 🖤 #BookSky #BookAdvent

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#BookSky #BookAdvent Day 3! Here is the wonderful SURRENDER, a poetry collection by the equally wonderful Cathy Grindrod, which explores how we connect and disconnect with the past, place, work, nature, the animal world and ultimately, with others. Available from @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social 🍃📚

Image shows the cover of SURRENDER by Cathy Grindrod. The cover is black, with the text in white, and a black horse's head, face on, in the middle. The horse has a brownish tint to its mane and around its muzzle.

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Caroline Carlson @carolinecarlson.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I'm thrilled to see WICKED MARIGOLD on this list of best middle grade novels of 2024 from Imagination Soup! There are lots of great titles here for your young (and not-so-young) readers: imaginationsoup.net/best-middle-... @imaginationsoup.bsky.social #kidlit #mglit

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The Best Middle Grade Books, 2024 - Imagination Soup

Discover the best middle grade books of 2024 curated by a former educator and parent who read over 200 books this year.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

For day 2 of my #BookSky #BookAdvent I'm sharing the twisty & brilliant DARK ISLAND by @spacemandan13.bsky.social! Midwinter in Orkney. ND journalist Freya has returned to her childhood home, only for her life to be turned upside down when human remains are uncovered & dark secrets are revealed… ☠️

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 01/12/2024

Rather than the town square, treat BlueSky like your favourite bar, pub or community. Just like you would avoid or silence snarky, argumentative fascist baiters, avoid them here. Block and don’t engage. Move on to the next cool interesting person. The trolls will eventually leave. Cheers!

Diverse group of people in a pub raising their glasses to say cheers

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Happy December, Bluesky! Every day this month I'm going to try and share a book (fic, non-fic, poetry) I love. A kind of #BookAdvent, if you will.🎄📚 First up: @sheenawriter.bsky.social's MRS HART'S MARRIAGE BUREAU – a gentle, intelligent inter-war romantic comedy, perfect for fans of Dear Mrs Bird.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

So much WTAF here. Mind you, it's the Daily Heil, so is anyone surprised? (And just for the record, my husband and I are both not-secretly-at-all AuDHD and sometimes struggle to "read the room", and yet we both find it *incredibly* easy not to be inappropriate or creepy. Wild, huh! 🙃)

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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

So we can go public now - @rozc.bsky.social and I will be accepting novella submissions for @wtpress.bsky.social early next year. And congrats to @queex.bsky.social @bethkesh.bsky.social @dergullen.bsky.social and Juliet Kemp!

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Tanya Shadrick @tanyashadrick.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Like my mentor #DavidNash, I make work with long timespans: It’s also the art I’m most drawn to… If that speaks to you too, here’s a starter pack of others engaged in serious noticing - through repetition, return, time series & other forms of slow art… go.bsky.app/V6j8hdS

Join the conversation - slow art: artists who work with time and repetition. A Bluesky starter pack created by artist and author Tanya Shadrick

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Sounding the "both my books are less than a fancy coffee on Kindle right now" klaxon… in BEFORE THE DAWN, Ruby, who longs to escape Devon & her controlling father, meets American soldier Sam & they plan a future together. But then, on June 6, 1944, Sam's battalion sets off for Omaha beach… 1/3

Image shows the cover for Before the Dawn by Emma Pass. A soldier in a khaki uniform is kissing a woman in a red hat and brown coat. Behind them a plane flies through a sky filled with pink and gold cloud. At the bottom of the cover is an image of a coastline and the sea. The tagline says "In their darkest hour, can they find their way back to one another?"

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Megaphone Writers Cic @megaphonewriters.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This is crucial work to be carried out long-term, thanks again to CLPE. It's disappointing to see the drop in overall presence of racially minoritised characters - but I'm shocked by the *halving* of books with racially minoritised main characters.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Woo-hoo! @orkneylibrary.bsky.social is on Bluesky! Great to see you (and your balls) here.

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Sam (formerly Barisan Hantu) 🇸🇬🍉 @neuroliminality.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

If I had to distill my perspective on neurodiversity, it would boil down to the notion that minds that function differently need to supported on the basis of how they work, not on the basis of how the "normal" or "average" mind works

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The greyhound farts are keeping me warm too. 🤢😂 #AmWriting #VanLife

Image shows the interior of a campervan with a wooden ceiling, white walls and wood effect lino on the floor. On the back doors are blue and white tile effect stickers and there is some yellow floral bunting hanging across the van in front of them. On a blue-cushioned bench that runs up the side of the van and across the back, a black greyhound wearing a blue harness is asleep (and farting) with her head on a cushion.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Writing from the van office today in the freezing but beautiful Peak District (I have a mug of hot coffee and the diesel heater is on, so I'm nice and toasty!). #AmWriting #VanLife

Image shows a laptop on a wooden table inside a campervan. There is a metal mug of coffee next to the laptop and a window. Visible behind it is part of the van's bulkhead, which is painted pale grey, a metal handle, a wooden sign saying "Vera" on it and some small magnets. Through the window is a view of a road, trees, fields, hills, the sky and some clouds.

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Writing East Midlands @writingeastmidlands.com · 27/11/2024

Last chance for free feedback on up to 15K words or 150 lines! 👉 buff.ly/4i3VGvP Our Free Reads Scheme for low-income writers closes next Wednesday. If you want the chance to receive a professional report on your writing worth £200+ for FREE, make sure to send in your writing!

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I've realised that a huge % of my zero AKA binfire drafts (as I like to call them) are just my characters talking to each other, trying to figure shit out. So. Much. Talking. (And also frowning and smiling and frowning again.) #AmWriting

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

You know what would **really** disrupt the publishing industry? Fair contracts and decent pay for authors. No AI training without the creator’s consent. Artists and translators on the cover. No NDAs for ghostwriters.

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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 26/11/2024

I was going to put the bat down and step away from the dead horse, but now that we've been quoted in the Guardian talking about the AI dingbats, I want to just say a couple of things about self-publishing and the value of $5,000.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Authors, let's start a chain of posts of your FIRST published book! Quote post the cover, a link, and three words about it! Here's mine: ACID (2013, UK & Spain; 2014, US) Kickass dystopian heroine! emmapassauthor.wordpress.com/my-books/

Image shows the cover of ACID by Emma Pass. The cover has a photograph of a girl on it with long red hair, wearing a black vest, jeans and a tool belt, walking towards the camera with a serious expression. Around her is what looks like a shower of rubble and rain in silver and red. At the top, in white lettering, is the tagline: "They stole her life. Now she wants it back." ACID is written in large, metallic-looking letters at the bottom with the author's name in red underneath.

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Dr. Zoë Marriott @zdmarriott.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Anyone a fan of Kate Morton or Susanna Kearsley? Fancy a timeslip novel with lashings of 1920s glamour, forbidden love, found family & long-buried secrets? THE MOONLIT MAZE is available to review on Netgalley: www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book... (& for pre-order in all good bookshops!)

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The Moonlit Maze

NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

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