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Jacky Colliss Harvey

@jackycollissharvey.bsky.social
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Redhead, bookworm, tractor girl; writes fiction as J. C Harvey. #TheWantonRoad out 1 May 2025. Jack Fiskardo in London. And in the English Civil War. And in love…..

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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
#WPreorder. Let’s all book ourselves in for a long, leisurely walk in the countryside next Spring… #thoughtlands #suffolk #haus #amwriting
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
#WPreorder. Let’s all book ourselves in for a long, leisurely walk in the countryside next Spring… #thoughtlands #suffolk #haus #amwriting
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Look what I got, (tractor)boys and girls…. #thoughtlands #suffolk #newbook #amwriting
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
It’s so tiny! It’s so green! It’s so NEW!!!!
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
In the sphere of small good things, I have just managed to turn off effing Copilot. Let joy be unconfined!
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
That was an interesting exercise. #TheLesson v. #Saltburn. Both with Richard E Grant; and revolve around a stranger in an oddish household, and one movie is truly clever, and the other… thoughts?
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
On the one hand, I am dead proud of how this has turned out. On the other, how is it so chilly in August that I am cooking cauliflower cheese?
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Face ID refuses to recognise me. You just know what sort of day it will be when it starts like that.
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Dunwich beach yesterday. There will be a prize (signed copy, next book) for anyone who can tell me what this plant is. #suffolk #walking
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I now feel utterly validated in my new birding obsession. #Merlin #birdapp
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The men’s loos (as was) at the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich. Arf!!!! #euros25 #Lionesses
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
First publicity and marketing meeting today for my next non-fiction title. Publication is not until March ‘26, but you can’t start this conversation too early. Feel kinda like I just had an early pregnancy confirmed… #amwriting
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Let us laugh all we can.
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Watching the most perfectly balanced tennis match with two extraordinary players treating each other with absolute respect - can we settle more of the planet’s disputes this way?
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Gluten-free courgette bread. First time EVER tried gf baking. Just look at these little boules of delectability. Damn, I’m proud of this! #glutenfree #amwriting (or at least am supposed to be. Heh.)
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Spotted this handsome fella in the garden. No wonder the birds were so noisy!
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I hope all you Blueskyers are Merliners too - my new obsession! #merlinbirdIDapp @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
@libbybuckwrites.bsky.social read and greatly enjoyed your article in ‘The Craft of Writing’, especially the alligators. Yay us art-historians! And will look out for your book.
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Look at this gorgeous sexy thing. Look at these gorgeous sexy books! Summertime is reading-time - dive in and indulge! #fiskardoswar #C17th #thewantonroad
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Look at this fabulous spookiness we found on our research walk in #Suffolk this weekend. Coast path near Leiston. Anyone know what it is? #walking #walkingwriterssuffolk
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
If mine were that size, I’d be sitting down too. #SuffolkShow
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Is ‘I cannot rise because cat’ still acceptable as an excuse these days? #Caturday
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Wonderfully spooky discovery in Swiss Cottage today. #ghosthouse
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
@noreenmasud.bsky.social reading ‘A Flat Place’ as research for my own book on writing and walking and Suffolk. Bloody brilliant, lady. (Also, love the cats.)
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Today, for the first time since I bust the thing one icy night in January, I stood one-legged for a whole minute on my right ankle. 🥇
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Sounds like it’s the start of a ransom note, dunnit?
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Calling all #redheads: My lovely friends on the fabulous Ginger Parrot website have #TheWantonRoad front and centre! gingerparrot.co.uk/2025/05/out-...
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Out now: 'The Wanton Road', by J.C. Harvey | Ginger Parrot
We’re always ones to highlight red-haired heroines when we find one, and today we have an exclusive treat for you! The Wanton Road is a book not only centred on a ginger heroine, but is written by the...
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Oh they just should not tempt a girl like that! #amwriting
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Well duh! Cambridge University study finds art enhances abstract thinking
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
NYT best-selling author's new novel dissed by cat. My very first TikTok didn't go quite as planned... tiktok.com/@jcollisshar... #JackFiskardo #TheWantonRoad #histfic #EnglishCivilWar #FiskardosWar #amwriting #writerscat #CatsofBlueSky
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
#dearengland @nationaltheatre.org.uk sell a kidney if you must, but get a ticket. See this show, any way you can.
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Dammit, was there EVER a team with a crueller sense of dramatic plotting than #tottenham?
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
It’s publication day for ‘The Wanton Road’!!!! What a journey this has been. Here’s a sneak peek at one of my favourite passages from the book for you. Be warned Jack Fiskardo, Cupid never misses twice! #JackFiskardo #TheWantonRoad #histfic #EnglishCivilWar #FiskardosWar
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
You know what? I was this years old before I discovered that if you double-tap the caps key on your fone keyboard, IT KEEPS IT ALL CAPS, and now I don’t know if I should be proud of myself or go away and have a little cry.
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Could this be the start of something good? #JackFiskardo #TheWantonRoad #histfic #EnglishCivilWar #FiskardosWar
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Thoughts from your humble author on using ‘real’ people and locations in #histfic. Thanks to Helena Schrader for the use of her blogspot. #jackfiskardo #fiskardoswar #thewantonroad - out 1 May! schradershistoricalfiction.blogspot.com/2025/03/hist...
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Historical Figures in Historical Fiction -- A Guest Post by Jacky Harvey
J . C. Harvey  is the fiction pen-name for Jacky Colliss Harvey. Jacky   worked in museum publishing before becoming a full-time writer of...
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Am I the last writer on the planet to discover this wonderful tool (and means of losing hours of life) exists? No more angsting over the perfect names for characters - instead, PING! And there they all are, laid out for you! namesboom.com/victorian-na...
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Victorian Name Generator for Authentic Vintage Names
Generate authentic Victorian names with our comprehensive name generator, perfect for writers, history enthusiasts, and character creators seeking inspiration.
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
You write your book. Your lovely publishers publish your book. Then, if you are very lucky, it is brought to life as an audiobook by the wonderful Peter Noble - C17th intelligencers, crime-lords, street kids, peers of the realm, physicians royal, Royalist soldiery and kick-ass heroine and all!
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
There is a big black pussy cat IN the book, and now there is one on the book, too. Thus is the kitty yin-yang of the universe preserved. @allenandunwin.bsky.social #thewantonroad #jackfiskardo #histfic
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Dreamies wouldn’t melt…. 10 seconds before, giant boxing match.
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Oh, oh, oh! This Tractor Girl so pleased! The best-ever demon-dog, and he’s from Suffolk! (Mind you, the price of new stamps is still an absolute scandal.)
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Caturday.
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Jacky Colliss Harvey @jackycollissharvey.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
My one-handed video skills are coming along brilliantly, not so?
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