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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.

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

…taken on a brilliant new WEM mentee, run creative writing sessions with my wonderful #BeyondTheSpectrum young writers, passed my driving theory test (woo-hoo!) and knitted most of this jumper (just the sleeves to go)! Hmm, maybe all this is why I'm a bit behind with my social media… 🤔

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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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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

#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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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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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 · 29/11/2024

In THE GIRL FROM NORWAY, Norwegian refugee Hedda & Canadian airman Bill meet after Hedda flees occupied Norway for Shetland with her young son. It becomes a place of unexpected hope and possibility for them both, but as war threatens the islands' shores, tragedy is closer than they think… 2/3

Image shows the cover of THE GIRL FROM NORWAY by Emma Pass. A blonde woman in a red coat and blue beret is looking towards the left of the picture. Behind her is a wooden jetty and a wooden building, some flags and a fjord with snow-capped mountains in the distance. Three planes are flying across the sky, which is blue with clouds in it.

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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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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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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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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Thinking wistfully back to June, when we took Vera the Van for a big road trip up to Northumberland and the Scottish Borders and the weather was like this...Le sigh. Is there anyone else here who could happily hibernate between November and March?!

Image shows a large white campervan with the side door slightly open. It's parked by the side of the road overlooking as green hill and the sea. The sky is blue with white clouds on the horizon and the sun is shining.

Image shows a black greyhound wearing a blue harness, standing on a sandy beach and panting. In front of her is a river estuary with a white rowing boat moored at the edge and a small hill on the other side. Beyond that are fields. The sky is blue with fluffy white clouds in it and the sun is shining.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Storm Bert's blowing a hooley where I am today. I'm retreating into the WIP and pretending I don't need to take Auburn out in it at some point (she's hoping I'll forget completely)...

Image shows an out-of-focus view of a garden through a rainy window. There is snow on the ground, houses and shed roofs that is melting fast.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The greyhound. So refined. So elegant. So…erm… 🤪🙃😂

Image shows a black greyhound upside down on a cream-coloured sofa with a red and grey flower design on it. The greyhound is chewing her own back leg and is showing her teeth.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Number 7 for me. I wrote my first ever novel with a black Bic Crystal and nothing else has felt right since!

Image shows a variety of different pens numbered 1-7 laid out on a beige carpet, including gel pens and a biro. The text above the picture says "OK, you can only write with ONE type of pen for the rest of your life, which one are you picking? (Ignoring the ink colour)

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Age yourself with your first computer: Well, it was my dad's, but I remember, as a 10 year old, losing HOURS to drawing pictures on Kidpix. Bloody loved that programme!

Image shows a classic Apple Mackintosh computer from the early 90s - a beige plastic box with a chunky brown and beige mechanical keyboard and a squarish mouse - sitting on a white table in an office.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Feel free to add me and my hound!

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

It took me until 11.30 am to get a certain someone off the sofa, but she quite enjoyed it once we were out...

Image shows a black greyhound wearing a blue coat and orange boots, leaping in the snow.

Image shows a black greyhound in a blue coat and orange boots, standing in the snow and looking back at the camera.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

No, but I will be trying to convince this one she wants to go for a walk (wish me luck)...

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Bit nippy up our way today (the weather forecast was for "sleet"). 🥶☃️

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Today started with sock knitting, a book and greyhound snuggles in bed. That's more like it!

Image shows a pair of hand-knitted socks in various shades of teal and pink on a set of metal circular needles, resting on a red blanket with a blue and white blanket also visible. Also in the picture is a Kindle and a black greyhound's back leg, partly covered by a pair of black fleece pyjamas with a tiger stripe trim.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hello, Bluesky! Not brand new here but haven't posted for ages. For any new followers: I'm a neurodivergent author who writes for children, teenagers and adults. I also work as a reader & editor for The Literary Consultancy & as a mentor and CW teacher. Come and say hi! 👋 P.S. Here is my silly dog.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Quote a picture of water you took.

Image shows the river estuary at Aldeburgh at sunset. The sky, reflected in the water, is pink, orange and blue with a sweep of high cloud. On the river, boats are silhouetted against the light as the sun dips towards the horizon. In the foreground are the remains of a sunken boat sitting in the mud.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

Sorry, a bit quiet on here at the moment – I have A Thing coming up and am frantically trying to clear the decks work-wise before it starts. I did get out for a mini-adventure in the Manifold Valley with Auburn last week, though – it was so good she cracked out her best Squirrel! ears… 😂

Image shows a black greyhound in a blue harness, looking along a tarmac path in the countryside. The greyhound's ears are upright with the tops flipping over backwards as she's just seen a squirrel.

Image shows a view of the Manifold Valley in the Peak District, with a large hill silhouetted against a blue sky that has white clouds in it.

Image shows a tree standing in a field. It has no leaves left on it. Behind it are more trees, a hill, blue sky and clouds. The sun is shining.

Image shows a Passing Place sign beside a tarmac track. There are trees behind it. The sky is blue and the sun is shining.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

As a freelancer it's so easy (and sometimes necessary) to put my commissioned work before anything else, and let my own creative practice slide to the bottom of the pile. But today I decided to spend all morning on my own writing, and it's been such a treat. 🥰 #WritingCommunity

Image shows a screenshot of a Word document with "Part 1, September – December" in the middle of the page.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

I got up stupidly early this morning to write, as I have loads of other stuff to do today as well, and now I've gone all tired and don't want to move. Gah! Might just channel my inner greyhound for the rest of the afternoon… #WritingCommunity

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Scenes from a foggy dog walk (with some squirrel-spotting at the end)…

Image shows a dew-spangled spiderweb in a gorse bush, and the out-of-focus figures of a man and a dog walking along the road beyond.

Image shows fog beginning to lift over a landscape of fields and hills.

Image shows a dandelion clock, covered with beads of water, in front of an out of focus background of blades of grass. A small black spider with brown legs is crawling across the top of the clock.

Image shows the head and neck of a black greyhound in a blue coat standing on a tarmac road in the woods. The photo is taken from behind. The dog is staring at a squirrel with one ear forwards and one sticking out sideways.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

It's a cold and foggy Monday morning here! I'm wrapped up in my warmest jumper and my heated blanket, about to dive into my weekly online writers' group meeting. Working on an exciting new project that I hope I can share soon! #WritingCommunity

Image shows Emma, a white woman with long, dark wavy hair and glasses, wearing a navy knitted jumper with light grey dandelion clocks on it and a dark brown heated blanket wrapped around her.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Do you have a favourite writing quote? This has to be one of mine, from Gary Provost. Good writing really is like music – it really does sing. #WritingCommunity

Image shows a quote from writer Gary Provost in black text on a white background. It says "This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important."

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

We currently have an amber warning from the Met Office for rain, and I have to convince Auburn that she does, in fact, need to go out to do her business at some point this morning. Wish me luck! 😬

Photograph shows a greyhound lying on her bed with her head hidden behind a curtain.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

I've almost finished my first proper weaving project! Hopefully this will be a scarf if I haven't completely misjudged the length of the warp. It's mostly sock yarn with bits of Shetland wool chucked in. (Yes, I am writing too. 😆)

A close-up photograph of fabric being woven on a loom. It has stripes of grey, pink, blue and turquoise sock yarn and some random pieces of white and blue Shetland yarn in it.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

So when I (sort of jokingly) said I wanted a rigid heddle loom, I guess the eBay/weaving gods were listening… on Sunday I won an auction for this little beauty with literally 1 second to spare! 😍 It turned up yesterday and as I have a day off today, it would be silly not to spend it playing, right?

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

After having to reschedule for 3 years in a row, I finally got to deliver a writing workshop for the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, part of my 2020 commission to create 'Burn Bright', a poem looking at the roles of women & enslaved people in Derbyshire's cotton industry. A great session!

A table of artefacts from the cotton industry: 2 wooden bobbins, 2 boxes of twine, a dried cotton plant, some old packages of cotton and images of people and buildings.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Learning how to weave the houndstooth pattern (and the edges are *almost* straight! 😀).

A small piece of weaving in a brown and cream houndstooth check pattern. The weaving is on a wooden table. In the left hand corner of the photo you can also see the corner of a frame loom and part of a laptop keyboard.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

All ready for an early morning editing session with my favourite mug! 💻☕ you've not read Mrs Hart's Marriage Bureau by Sheena Wilkinson yet, I can highly recommend it - she's a wonderful writer.

A photograph of a mug of coffee, a glass of water, a banana and a some cashew nuts on a kitchen worktop. The mug has the cover of Irish writer Sheena Wilkinson's historical romance Mrs Hart's Marriage Bureau on it.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

My latest WW2 romance The Girl From Norway, set in Norway and Shetland, is only 99p on Kindle at the moment (and free for Kindle Unlimited subscribers!)!

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Playing with weaving again. I do not need a rigid heddle loom. I do not need a rigid heddle loom. I do not need a rigid heddle loom... 😬

A piece of weaving on a wooden frame loom. The pattern is purple diamond shapes on a white warp. The purple yarn is attached to a wooden stick shuttle.

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Emma Pass @emmapassauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Started the day with a Zoom writing session in the company of some wonderful writer friends. It makes such a difference having this sort of support, especially as I spent so many years wondering if I'd ever find my tribe. ❤️❤️❤️

A photograph of a laptop, a mug of coffee and a cup of water, on a desk covered with a blue, white and yellow patterned cloth.

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