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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A strange experience as a writer reading Hemmingway's 'The Garden of Eden' - normally I'd identify with the female character, but he makes it impossible. Who else has read this book?

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Congratulations to everyone who won an award or was nominated 👏

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

‘As a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.’ - Ursula K. Le Guin #amwriting

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hot tip for plotters - I'm finding a #Miro board really useful to construct a giant plot structure with endless post-its. #amwriting

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Exactly 😆 I did laugh a lot.

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bit late to #celebritytraitors but anyone who has seen the first episode will recognise my howl of 'Oh Richard E Grant!'

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Back working on the nautical tale after a long gap. Avast!

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Glos/Bristol folk - come along to this Berkeley concert on fri, raising money for amazing rescue charity SARA 😊 #whatsonbristol

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Well that was a nice holiday from social media. #FrenchAlps

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thanks. Yes though I wrote it halfway through the research, then checked and amended. I find that's a good way not to let the research affect the creative direction of it too much.

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I've been writing a short story about WWI

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Make late summer more summery... escape to a tropical (and not at all dystopian) island 🏝️ 😎 www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0GH... #BookSky #KindleDeals @srlpublishing.bsky.social

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's determined to be a novelette... An awkward length. But it's reminding why I write.

Close up of paper with title "The Paper Bridge"

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

September is full of surprises 😊

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I sense an end-of-summer storm coming 🌩️

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Enjoying this so far, it's something @laurasrobinson.bsky.social mentioned at an event and I've been meaning to pick it up. Pretty intriguing title eh?

Book cover in garden - An Instance of the Fingerpost

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sign up now - summer edition of Picaresque will be drifting like a sleepy butterfly into inboxes this evening! 🦋https://www.heather-child.co.uk/contact/newsletter/ #booksky

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Ebook £1.99 - only in August! 💙 #BookSky #KindleDeals www.amazon.co.uk/Peoples-Repu...

Book cover: The People's Republic of love. Text alongside: What if influencers ran the country?

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SRL Publishing @srlpublishing.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

ON SALE - ebook just £1.99 "A cracking page turner." In a brand new country ruled by influencers, visibility is all that matters. But if Tamsin doesn’t act quickly, neither she nor her best friend Charlotte will ever be seen again. #BookSky

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So writers, where's the sweet spot between speed and good coffee-making? I've recently switched from the filter-drip method to aeropress - a fraction longer... But better, hotter coffee ☕

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Now I can see why people find print art so satisfying.

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Is the UK social media ban for under-16s a strong move towards sidestepping a certain dystopia? Or will we all still end up trapped in our own personal reality TV shows? 🎥 All this and more in my upcoming summer newsletter. Sign up now for PICARESQUE 👇 heather-child.co.uk/contact/news... #BookSky

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

👀 Millions are watching. Only Tamsin can see what's really going on... 💙 THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF LOVE is on special offer - ebook only £1.99 during August #kindledeals #ebookdeal #dystopianfiction #BookSky @srlpublishing.bsky.social @julieacrisp.bsky.social

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A glimpse of Trebah garden 🌸

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Summer special! Ebook only £1.99 in August 🌞 Celebrities have their own country – what could go wrong? Find out in THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF LOVE "Compulsively readable" - Anne Corlett Going on holiday? Load up that kindle! 😎👇️ www.amazon.co.uk/Peoples-Repu... #booksky @srlpublishing.bsky.social

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This is why I never get any of the homegrown lettuce... #guineapigs

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

From tomorrow! Ebook only £1.99 - buy at amazon or wherever you get your ebooks. Enjoy this year's hottest summer read 🌞 #BookSky #ebookdeal #kindledeals #ThePeoplesRepublicOfLove @srlpublishing.bsky.social

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Muriel Spark's debut is inventive and a bit mind-bending, a countercurrent to post-war realism. #BookSky

Book cover: The Comforters, Muriel Spark. Beach background

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Thanks 😊 Hoping it will start popping up in the library system soon so it's a bit more available.

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Yes, perhaps a couple of his. The island setting, crypto and personality over politics aspects also make it reminiscent of my book The People's Republic of Love.

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Heather Child @heatherika.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Jersey Tiger #moth, a bit further north than usual.

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