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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 17h

Where I talk about invasive main characters and my ability to waste hours of writing time on "research" Really enjoyed these questions from Anna on her great new(ish) blog. Thanks for having me @orendabooks.bsky.social

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

What a lovely post and pic! Big thanks to my giveaway winner @philgroom.bsky.social for sharing this @orendabooks.bsky.social

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I have a copy of the 1935 1st edition ('illustrated by Bip Pares'). Yet another of the writers of that era I was collecting decades ago being rediscovered and republished. www.lesleyahall.net/wmwrtrs.htm (must update the note for Ertz)

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

In love with this new edition of Woman Alive by Susan Ertz - rediscovered and republished by @manderleypress.bsky.social Written in the 1930s, it's the story of the last woman left in a world of men in an imagined 1985 #BookSky

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Four days left to enter this #giveaway of books and more 🍫🧦🍬. Like, share and tag your favourite bookshop to enter (UK Only) ☄️📚🪩 @orendabooks.bsky.social

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Question: someone i know who's already a writer in another area wants to do a crime-writing course. No getting published content, they have that covered, just craft stuff. Preferably online, suitable for a UK timezone. Please do share if you don't know of one! #AuthorSky

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I have two bundles of signed books & treats to #Giveaway to celebrate #WorldBookDay For a chance to win a #HappyIsTheOne bundle or an #EverythingHappensForAReason bundle: 💙 🔄 Like and share this post 📚 Tag your favourite bookshop Closes 12th March. UK only @orendabooks.bsky.social

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

If you fancy winning signed books and other treats, I'm running a #giveaway to celebrate #WorldBookDay2026

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

For anyone who's ever hankered after a garden gnome, know that I'm offering up this little fella as part of a giveaway later this week to celebrate #WorldBookDay @orendabooks.bsky.social

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Holiday packing tip - this! I loved Anna's first book of poetry and excited to be taking this away with me on Kindle (lots of other ebook versions available - click on @annadavidson.bsky.social profile for links)

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Lovely words about Happy is the One Thank you! ☄️📘😍

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

My first book is just 99p on #Kobo until the end of the month! Loosely autobiographical, it's a story of grief, dogs and unexpected friendships bit.ly/3DvtJdi #booksky #babyloss #breakthesilence @orendabooks.bsky.social

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The face that says, 'Heatwave finally over.' Phew!

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Happy publication day to @annesenes.bsky.social whose beautiful Double Room comes out in English today - in a masterful translation by Alice Banks This book utterly captivated me and still lingers… #BookSky #NewFiction

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

This is such an honour & I love how @pussmilligan.bsky.social sums up Happy is the One "This story of a man unravelling - and rebuilding - reminds us that life's messiest detours often lead to its most meaningful destinations." Thank you for including it in Heat's Hot Summer Reads 🤓📘☄️ #BookSky

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Just found these in our old road map and I'm remembering how my mum would tell me directions and I'd make these notes and tape them all along the dashboard 🤣 SatNavs have to be one of the best inventions to enter my life #Y2Knostalgia

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Lots of signed copies of Happy is the One now available in @villagebooks.bsky.social Such a pleasure to go in and chat to Harriet and Harriet Thanks for all the support with this book and the last 😍☄️📘 @orendabooks.bsky.social #BookSky

Me signing copies of the book Happy is the One in Village Books in Dulwich, South London

Me holding a copy of the book Happy is the One outside Village Books in Dulwich, South London

The book Happy is the One with a tag saying Local Author in the window display of Village Books in Dulwich, South London

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

In the ongoing series of me dressed like my book cover and doing a daft face... all dressed up in my new charity shop find to go and sign copies of Happy is the One at @villagebooks.bsky.social @orendabooks.bsky.social

Me in a navy jacket with gold trim and mustard yellow trousers holding a copy of the book Happy is the One and my black dog Miko sniffing the book

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Just having a little cry at this... "As much as we (and Robin) would like to be ordered and prepared, we aren't and we can't. We have to seize the moment, we have to realise that today, here and now, is our life and we have to treasure it and try to live it to its fullest"😭

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Doing a daft face in Dulwich Books where their wonderful support has helped Happy is the One fly in its first week ☄️📘😀 @orendabooks.bsky.social #BookSky #HappyIsTheOne

Me smiling and pointing to Happy is the One in the bestseller spot on a shelf at Dulwich Books

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

"Living is right now!It’s not when we have money, or have lost weight, or when we have better health. It’s now, when we’re skint, fat and feeling ill. Whatever life looks like right now, we absolutely must live." This captures exactly what I was trying to say lotuswritingtherapy.com/2025/05/27/h...

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Happy Is The One by Katie Allen

Robin is exactly half way through his life. Like Mark Twain before him, Robin came into the world with Halley’s Comet in 1986 and fully expects to go out again when it returns in 2061. Recently he’…

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Massive thanks to Fabulous magazine fot featuring #HappyIsTheOne today And there’s a chance to win a copy ☄️📘 #Giveaway #BookSky www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/350... @orendab.bsky.social

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Love this so much! Look at those cakes and their amazing maker! I had the most amazing night and am so grateful to @orendabooks.bsky.social , to Dulwich Books, to everyone who came and to all who have ordered, reviewed and posted about Happy is the One. Thank you! Happy is this one 🤓

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Happy is the One is out today. Massive thanks to everyone who has ordered, posted about it, read early, joined the blog tour! So so appreciated #BookSky geni.us/G3otY

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Happy is the One - Katie Allen

Pre-order your copy now:

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Thank you to @jenlucas.bsky.social for this beautiful publication day review ☄️📘

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Giving the people what they really want.... Me making a xxx of myself

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Take a look at behind the scenes of #HappyIsTheOne promotion, starring author @katieallenauthor.bsky.social 🤣 From that blooming doorbell to interrupting fur babies, watch this video if you'd like a laugh THEN pre-order Happy is the One: geni.us/G3otY Out 22/05 💜 #NewBooks #SummerRomance #Books

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I'm in pieces 😭 Cal and I connected over shared experiences in my first book and now we have connected over yet more shared experiences from my second I think this is why I make myself write about such difficult and personal things, to read takes like this on it...

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Turning myself into a Smurf as I stamp and sign bookplates for @bertsbooks.bsky.social to go in copies of #HappyIsTheOne #booksky @orendabooks.bsky.social

Stickers stamped with a blue comet and my hand covered in blue ink, next to a copy of the book Happy is the One

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Me in my silly T-shirt Unboxing #HappyIsTheOne ☄️ Out 22nd May geni.us/G3otY #BookSky #Books #MeetRobin

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Boxes of Happy is the One came. Don’t have time to do unboxing video right now. Don’t trust my family #BookSky @orendabooks.bsky.social

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The video my kids don’t want you to see Dressed as the Milky Way and saying “spacey” #BookSky

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The video my kids don’t want you to see Dressed as the Milky Way and saying “spacey” #BookSky

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Just two weeks until my comet book flies off into the world. Here's a taste for you... #BookTrailer #BookSky #HappyIsTheOne

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

If you’re in south London, do stop by for the annual losing of my temper at the dead blossom #MiddleClassSisyphus

Two dustpans next to a garden waste bag full of dead blossom

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

What if halfway through your life was just the beginning? @katieallenauthor.bsky.social's poignant, life-affirming new novel, Happy is the One, is out THIS MONTH! 🎉 Look at some of the early praise #HappyIsTheOne has received so far 😍 Pre-order your copy today: geni.us/gdk4 #BooksOfBlueSky

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Not one but THREE Blog Tours in May, filled to the brim with FABULOUS bloggers! 🚔 #ShatterCreek by @rodwr.bsky.social ☄️ #HappyIsTheOne by @katieallenauthor.bsky.social ❄️ #TheDarkestWinter by @carlolucarelli.bsky.social t. Joseph Farrell Keep a look out and follow the tours! #NewBooks #Readers

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The carefully ordered life of a middle-aged man falls apart when he is forced to return to his hometown to care for his elderly father, and meets a woman who has as many secrets as he does … A warmly funny, poignant, life-affirming novel about coming home & letting go. #HappyIsTheOne out this month!

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I'm writing a piece about the story behind Happy is the One and thinking again that if someone wrote a song about my main character Robin, it would be Radiohead's Creep. Incidentally, I once met Thom Yorke after a gig in Wolverhampton and he kindly (but inaccurately) signed my ticket

A framed picture of Thom Yorke and gig ticket signed by him to "someone equally famous", the frame is next to the book Happy is the One

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