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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

To be honest, it might have come from the Clock app but I'll defend it to my death. Gimme all the sleep.

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The *dream*! Sometimes I’m in bed before the kids 😆

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I mean, does this mean I'm blogging again?

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I read somewhere that the 'you need 8 hours of sleep' idea came from studies done on men, which also determined that women need 10. They kept that quiet...

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Alex North @alexnorth.co.uk · 29/01/2025

Yeah, it really sucks when other people steal your work, doesn’t it?

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

It’s true, am a huge fan of @diftk.bsky.social because it’s all good people (and leadership!) 😊 Also thinking about community building for ADHD writers and very much wanting to avoid Meta

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I’ve never heard of it and it sounds amazing!

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Here’s what going to get me through February, woohoo!

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Ah, I now have a vague memory we were on holiday. Awww teeny tiny Weemalee!

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Was I there @meemalee.bsky.social?(damn you brain fog)

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Yes my mind was blown when I somehow connected you and J

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Jeez @meemalee.bsky.social sure they’d hardly notice us if we snuck in at the back

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I suspect you knew Pete before I did, @petefrasermusic.bsky.social I first remember you coming to our place when P was pregnant

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I can’t recommend the weird, almost body-horror gruesomeness of this episode on mincemeat enough, but my biggest takeaway is that Fanny Craddock appears to have perfected an aesthetic that can only be described as “Samurai Thatcher”. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

More protein helps me, along with batch cooking for the freezer when I can manage it. Protein breakfast. 2l of water a day. Weekly “menu” for kids to avoid decision fatigue.

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Seen at our local Waterstones today - apparently all thrillers/crime with a Walthamstow connection?? #hotbed

Piles of books outside a bookshop - Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway, Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater, The Witness by Alexandra Wilson

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Good news! Please share! The Society of Authors (@societyofauthors.bsky.social) have put out an official statement calling on celebrities, publishers & agents to properly acknowledge, promote & recompense the expert professional authors (“ghostwriters“ & “co-creators”) behind “celebrity fiction”. 1/

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Call to acknowledge all writers behind celebrity books - The Society of Authors

The Society of Authors is calling for celebrities, publishers and agents to acknowledge the writers behind celebrity books, particularly for children

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I’m sorry Kavey, this sounds rubbish. Have a recommendation for private if you decide to go that way.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Autism and other neurodivergent traits can be socially oroblematic. Being able to explain that your divergent response and behaviour has a cause can defuse tension and offence from people who read the situation as rudeness etc. These weasels appropriating it harms the real community.

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ditchpony @ditchpony.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I’m only a failure by human standards. if I was a children’s book badger in an apron I’d be like “whoa this house is massive, and I own so many cheeses and jams.”

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Haven’t seen Conclave yet but Wicked is extremely entertaining!

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 04/12/2024

Check it out 👇🏽

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Small happy dance here after chaotic morning because I get to see @meemalee.bsky.social today 💃

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

In hindsight, the scissors are possibly a step too far 😂

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I don’t mind cold so much (swim outdoors in UK winter etc) but once the temperature starts to rise, I basically melt. Sweaty, brain fogged mess, completely disregulated, foul tempered. I loathe summer.

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

#kidlit authors are going to reign supreme, because they’ve done their time in the fiery crucible of school visits

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

If that’s an option then yes, I’d run towards it. Well not run, you know what I mean 😊

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I had this with <meds for stomach> Once a clinic prescribed it, it was fine to be on it for years.

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

FFS. they didn’t offer anything else? Like you’ve spontaneously recovered 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

“How’d the world die? A pack of no-talent tech grifters created a digital artbarf machine to spew endless artbarf and each time the machine threw up it drank more water, destroyed more resources. Nobody wanted it but they did it anyway! Eat your roach paste.” www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...

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New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone

A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

(that’s for fibro pain)

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Oof. Pregabalin in a low dose has been a game changer for me. But if I miss it bc GP/pharmacy screws up, it’s horrible. Like I’m glued to the bed.

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Oh also asking to be referred to clinics eg specialists rather than relying on the GP has helped too.

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Not helpful to you my lovely but invariably every time a GP has been truly helpful for me is when it’s a locum or they’re new to the practice. Now if I could get them to prescribe the meds, ongoing, in a timely way…

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Jodie Hodges @jodiehodges.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

shorturl.at/YA2bR Do I think these tech bros care about reading? I do not. Do these tech bros have $16m? They do. Do I think incredible work could be done if even a 20th of that sum were invested in marketing *the act of reading* as an essential wellbeing and self improvement tool. I know it. 💔

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New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone

A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Head is a cathedral of bees today.

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Forwarding this to Mr D who keeps floating the possibility of a dog…

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LizzaAiken @lizzaaiken.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Stories that stay with you...Joan Aiken's best brought back in this beautiful new edition from @manderleypress.bsky.social Find it here: www.joanaiken.com/books/tales-...

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Tales of London Town

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Let’s be honest it’s probably effing hormones isn’t it

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Bad Atheist @badatheist.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Remember that libraries are proof that not every goddamned thing needs to be “for profit.”

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Gail Doggett @gail.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

If it wasn’t when it was released, it is now.

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