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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Just signing copies of my books in Europe's biggest bookshop, as one does.

Fiona signing a copy of Freya's Gold in waterstones Piccadilly

Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hi, gang! I'm Fiona, usually to be found telling stories about loveable oddball kids solving mysteries and falling in the sea. When I'm not doing that, I'm usually hanging out with my dog, driving my tractor and eating things I find in the hedges.

Fiona sits on a rock with a stack of her books in her lap. She is a white woman with long ginger hair, wearing a burgundy linen dress. There is a tree behind her and a froth of cow parsley to one side.

Fiona is standing side on to the camera smiling at the black dog who is jumping up on her

Fiona is driving a blue vintage tractor through a field

Fiona's hand is holding a bowl full of chamomile flowers in a flowery field

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

@jo-clarke.bsky.social *waves enthusiastically* So good to see you earlier, pal! In 3D and everything!

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Do you ever think about National Book Tokens sitting down and being like "hey, let's do a cute game for our bookworm fans" and instead getting a day of death threats and simmering violence from the entire publishing community? Glorious.

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

*ominous voice* IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN.

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Sorry to everyone's day job, but it's the best and worst day of the year!

The National Book Tokens Hidden Books game with a countdown timer showing that it starts in 55 minutes

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Travelling for a meeting, which means waiting on a platform in November for a train that's delayed 40 mins by a storm and having a man immediately strike up a conversation with you, opening with "there's too much immigration, that's the problem". I just know this meeting isn't gonna be worth it.

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Do you ever think about the wedding dress designer on Selling Sunset who had to pretend that Christine Quinn was the first bride to ever ever ask for a black wedding dress?

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Making myself a big heaping plate of cheesy pasta and referring to it as cacio e pepe to make myself feel fancy.

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

I have read this book twice this year because I find it so genuinely delightful, and I'm not sure what that says about me, really. I'm also now cutting tomatoes with a serrated knife! Thanks for changing my life, Dorothy!

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

#NaNoWriMo update: I have written thirteen words today and they are "Never trust anyone who wouldn't go down a helter skelter, given the opportunity."

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Lads, where do I buy a bunch of perfect, soft, cosy-yet-cute sweater dresses? Happy to spend a little bit for something really good.

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

For anyone who said they were curious about our cottage...

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

One year ago, we picked up the keys to a 200 year old stone cottage. No floor, no plumbing, no electrics, no internal walls. Here's what we did...🧵

Fionas hand holding up a set of keys. In the background, there is a patio door, bare stone walls, a dirt floor and exposed rafters

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S.A.M. Rundell @rundells.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Hi Bluesky, nice to be here. Have some art from last year 👍

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Did youse see the poster I made for the Gig for Gaza? Youse should all buy it and get tickets and go the gig FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

A dark green poster for the Gig for Gaza on the 28th of November in Vicar street featuring many cool bands and artists

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

As if my husband had never seen Jennifer's Body before tonight.

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Happy Halloween, you ghouls. Sew an annoying man into a bear and burn him today 🥰

A collage of images of Fiona wearing a white shirt and red dress and bright red lipstick, and an image of a character from Midsommar, dressed the same

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

I think I'll light my candles and pour some wine and read the whole of the Haunting of Hill House in one go.

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Alright, where's my #NaNoWriMo gang on here? This will be my eighth NaNoWriMo and I have never been less prepared.

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Becki Jayne Crossley @beckiwrites.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

No longer querying… I’m now officially represented by Saffron Dodd at ASH Literary! ✨

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Okay, deal - give me a few days to sweep up all the dog hair and I shall amaze you with our transformation!

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

It's been almost a year since we picked up the keys for our 200 year old cottage. It had no floor, no plumbing, no electrics and no internal walls. Should I do some before and after pics for the anniversary?

Fionas hand holding up a set of keys. In the background, there are some thick stone walls, a dirt floor, a pile of piping, a load of exposed rafters and a patio door

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

To be fair, both large print wordsearches and dinosaurs round the world sound like they absolutely slap.

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Final session with my little writers at my local library tonight, and I am going to be simply BEREFT without them. Just the absolute greatest job in the world.

A tiny drawing of Fiona standing beside a stack of books with the words "thank you Fiona" at the top

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Rewards for a complete third draft 🥳

Rooftoppers, by Katherine Rundell and a strip of white chocolate

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Feels like a great day to finish a book.

Fiona's laptop is sitting on her wooden kitchen counter with a word doc on its screen. A vase of dried nipplewort sits behind it. Fiona's kitchen is visible in the background with pale green units, a bright green range cooker and a sunny yellow doorframe. The sun is shining in pale stripes on the floor.

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Facebook tells me it's the three year anniversary of maybe the best pie I ever made.

A pie ready for the oven with the words "pie is my love language" stamped in pastry on top

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Accountability thread: I have twenty-one chapters of this book left to edit and seven(ish) days to do so, if I want to have enough brainspace to start drafting something new on November 1st. *Alexander Hamilton voice*. Let's go.

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Someone better call Hercule Poirot, we've got a full blown mystery on our hands.

An innocent little puppy sitting among the wreckage of a dog bed

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Seeing more bookish people pop up here every day, so here's another intro! I'm Fiona, and I write middle grade adventures. I live in a teeny cottage in the Irish countryside with a very surely cat and a very naughty puppy, and like to eat things I've picked out of the hedges. #KidLit

Fiona is sitting on the sea wall at Brighton, a stack of looking for Emily books beside her. She is wearing a yellow dress with a big burgundy jumper and her hair is blowing wildly in the wind. The sea and the old pier are visible behind her.

Fionas laptop is sitting on the table with a word document open. A tortoiseshell cat is sitting beside it and a scruffy black puppy is jumping up to nose at the cat.

Fionas laptop is sitting on a woolen blanket in a field of lush green grass

A graphic of the looking for Emily cover surrounded by arrows. Text reads: a murderous plot, Costello the dog and his very soft ears, a truly massive library, chips like really seriously a lot of chips, gay dads in matching jumpers, nefarious villainy, friends in unlikely places, a secret museum

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Can't believe Faolán's early good behaviour was down to him being tiny and nervous, and not down to me being a magical dog whisperer.

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Recovering from a full day of young writers' workshops yesterday with my new prized possession: this drawing by one of my students of me as a pterodactyl.

A pencil drawing of a very angular creature, labelled "terodactal Fiona"

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

It's a beautiful October day, so I think I'll clean my entire house while listening to the You're Wrong About Amityville Horror series.

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Why are recipe books always lying about how long it takes to cook an onion? 8 minutes to get an onion golden, be serious.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

i told my wife we’re discussing Legally Blonde for our next 5-4 episode. she said “what if I wrote up a list of questions I have about Legally Blonde as a non lawyer” and I said sure and she goes “I’m gonna start right now” and has been furiously typing for ten straight minutes

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Everyone has arrived to help me with my edits.

Fionas laptop is sitting on a table, with a word document open. A tortoiseshell cat is sitting on the table beside the laptop and a little black puppy has his paws on the table and his nose in the cat's belly

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Have transitioned to my winter perfume, gals. Get outta here, jasmine, it's time to smell like an orange being candied in a church.

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

He is also not responding to rumours that he tuckered himself out and fell asleep like this.

A black puppy fast asleep on his upside down bed, with his legs in the air and his head thrown back

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Faolán does not wish to comment on how either himself or his bed came to be upside down.

A goofy black puppy lying on his back on top of a flipped over dog bed

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Incredible to address the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment this morning, so delighted to have the chance to spotlight some of the amazing work being done in the Irish physics community 🚀❤️ www.oireachtas.ie/en/committee...

Fiona addressing the joint committee on enterprise trade and employment. She is sitting behind a microphone looking down at a page of notes. She is wearing a white blouse and a green suit jacket.

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

If you had told me a year ago that I'd be able to walk into my local hardware store and ask them to stick a pallet of bricks on my account, I'd have laughed in your face.

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Taking thirty one year old me by the hand and forcing her to actually experience this moment, instead of sitting worrying that all her colleagues are mad at her.

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

I wish I could take fifteen year old me by the hand and show her this moment where I close the statement I'm drafting for a parliamentary committee and wander outside to sit and daydream on the bridge I built over the stream in my garden before I go teach my creative writing class at the library.

Fiona is sitting on a wooden bridge, leaning back on one hand and smiling at the camera. A lush green field is visible behind her.

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

I wonder what impact the realising of the true meaning of Christmas had on Whoville's seasonal economy.

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Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Writing characters with my little writers tonight! I cannot wait!

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