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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Very exciting pre-order post today (not least because it’s not officially out until next Thursday!). I’ve been looking forward to being able to read this for ages.

A hardback copy of ‘The Shock of the Light’ by Lori Inglis Hall. It is held up against a green wall with a collection of framed landscapes hanging on it.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

THE GREAT BEYOND Ruby, the daughter of a celebrated 1930s spirit medium, falls in love with the man trying to debunk her mother and must make a life-changing decision about who – and what – to believe. 🕯️Upmarket #HF 🕯️Faith vs illusion vs fraud 🕯️Knotty mother–daughter relationship #QuestPit #Q

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The sun is shining, I’m feeling reasonably okay and I’ve got big plans for the next few scenes in my novel redraft. So, I’ve decided to preemptively name today a Very Good Writing Day. Who’s with me?!

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I cried reading this letter to @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social and @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social. Please, please fund the plan, people with ME/CFS have waited too long already. A huge thank you to Tessa Munt and the other 71 LibDem MPs for this much-appreciated and much-needed support.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

A vague whim and an impulse Ebay purchase later, and I seem to have started a new collection of old photographs. (I also seem to have written about it over on Substack).

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On a New Collection of Old Things

Or, on how I came to be the owner of a box of vintage faces.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I have acquired this fascinating little booklet from 1935, filled with all manner of things that were considered ‘general information’ at the time of publication.

A brown paper booklet, printed with the words: ‘EVERYBODY'S POCKET COMPANION. Compiled by A.MERCER, M.R.S.T. A HANDY REFERENCE BOOK
of useful Astronomical, Biblical, Chemical, Geographical, Geometrical, Historical, Mathematical, Physical, Remedial and Scientific Facts, Dates worth knowing. World Sports and Speeds Records, Mythological, Physiological, Monetary, Postal and General Information.
INTERESTING AND USEFUL TO
YOUNG AND OLD.
MADE AND PRINTED IN ENGLAND.’

The contents/index page of ‘Everybody’s Pocket Companion.’

It includes:

Abbreviations. common
Africa--Countries and Capitals
Air- Composition of the
Ale and Beer Measures
Aliquot Parts of £1, etc.
America-Countries and Capitals
Ancient Wonders of the World.
Angles of a Polygon
Apothecaries’ Weights and Measures
Approximate Speeds
Areas, Calculation of .
Asia--Countries and Capitals
Atomic Weights and Symbols
Australasia
Barometer. The
Bells and Watches aboard ship.
Bible. The, and Curious Facts
Biggest Things. The World's
Birth Stones
Boiling Points
Book Sizes.
Boxing Weights
Bridges. Famous
British Dominions Empire Isles--Area. Population. Divisions, Capitals Names of Places
British Officers. Relative
Buchan's Periods
Calories (Heat)
Capitals of The Dominions
Central America
Chemical Elements
Chemical Substances. Everyday
Names
Children. Law about
Chief Historical Events
Circle. The
Co-efficients of Expansion
Coins Current in Former Times
Comparision of Thermometer Scales
Composition of the Air

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

For reasons I’m not entirely clear on, I’ve taken an unplanned 7 month hiatus from my Substack. But! I read back through it this afternoon, remembered I’m actually rather proud of it, and have tentatively started writing a new post. …hopefully it will not take me another 7 months to publish it.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I have had to talk myself out of a research rabbit hole about how telegrams worked. But! I did come across a great (unrelated to my novel!) anecdote about Spike Milligan, who, when holed up in his attic writing room, used to send telegrams to his wife downstairs, requesting cups of tea.

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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Pretty sickened by UK's Supreme Court 🤮 So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Today's news really does show how important trans voices are, and I would encourage any UK based trans authors who have horror books on sub to get in touch with me. I want to read your work.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Today’s Supreme Court ruling is deeply shameful. I want to live in a world that’s becoming more tolerant, not one that’s rolling backwards. Sending solidarity to trans people today and everyday.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

In world’s-slowest-doll’s-house-project news, this weekend I have finished painting the railings and have attached them to the pavement.

A traditional, wooden, four storey doll’s house, painted in two shades of green. There are steps leading up the the front door from the front panel, which is painted grey to look like the pavement. There are some wooden railings painted black along the front on either side of the entrance to the steps.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Keep writing, keep creating, keep making art.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Raising an imaginary glass to myself this afternoon for officially passing the dramatic midpoint of my novel draft just in time for the children’s Easter break. Let me know if you’d like me to raise my imaginary glass to you, too!

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Thank you to the many people protesting alongside The Society of Authors today about Meta’s theft of authors’ work. Have you signed the petition yet? #DoTheWriteThing

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Last year, I wrote the very first lines of a new novel project just as the daffodils were coming into bloom. A year later, the daffodils are back, and I’m half way through a third draft of that same project. Feels like great progress.

A photo of daffodils blooming beneath the city walls in York. The sky is very blue. The photo was taken from the passenger seat of my car, which is the closest I get to the city walls these days.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I had a birthday this week and celebrated with flowers, cake, lovely friends, and painting pottery in my kitchen.

A close up photo of a bouquet of pink roses with lots of greenery. Behind the flowers is a mantelpiece with a row of birthday cards.

A flower pot I’ve been painting. It has some simple leaves and flowers painted on it in green, pink and yellow, along with a frilly turquoise border around the top. It hasn’t been fired yet, so the colours aren’t very vivid.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

It’s Friday, the sun is shining and I’m about to edit a scene about a psychical researcher visiting a young woman who claims to be being bothered by a poltergeist.

My hand holding a cup of tea in front of the pinboard above my desk. The pinboard has a pink frame and a floral background. On it are various black and white photos and clippings, including an old photo of an auditorium and a printout of a front page of ‘Psychic News’ from 1932. The sun is shining on the green walls behind the pinboard.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Writers! When you’re putting a synopsis together, do you capitalise the first instance of each character’s name? I haven’t done previously, but I read something recently by an agent/editor who said it makes synopses easier to read.

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ThereForME @thereforme.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

We’ve been so moved seeing the #FundThePlan videos over the past few weeks. Now, we want to get our call to #FundThePlan out far and wide. Here’s a little something we’ve put together for the campaign. We’d love your help making some noise with it 🙏

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Hayley’s comics about her experience as a cancer patient are so emotionally striking & important. I particularly resonate with this piece about the NHS and how we shouldn’t let our gratefulness stop us striving for better care (or, in the case of many people with ME, literally any care at all.)

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Today’s unexpected research rabbit hole: the history of intercom systems for flats. (If you’re interested — from what I can tell — they originated as tube-based systems in the late 19th century.)

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

On World Book Day a few years ago, my youngest dressed up as a character from a gorgeous picture book written & illustrated by a friend of a friend. I sent the author a photo of my daughter’s costume on Instagram and she sent a super nice message back.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Shouldn’t there be a name for the unsettling and deeply modern phenomena of looking at the changes made to your old home on RightMove?!

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

There is an awful lot to worry about in the world at the moment, but today I’m trying to focus on the good. So, the sun is shining, I’m wearing my favourite t-shirt and my friend came over with fondant fancies. (Oh, and the writing is going well, too!)

Katie, a white woman in her 30s with curly, brown hair stands smiling in a sunny room. She is wearing a pink Jane Austen-inspired t-shirt (the wording is not all visible in the photo, but says ‘Society of obstinate, headstrong girls. Seriously displeasing people since 1813’). Katie is holding a diamond-shaped pink fondant fancy cake with flowers iced onto it.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Knitting progress! I’m hoping to actually finish knitting the sleeves before the end of sweater weather.

My knitting project in progress. It is a petrol blue knitted jumper/sweater with a cream colour-work pattern in the shape of leaves around the yoke. One sleeve is half-knitted, the other sleeve has yet to be started.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I’m writing in bed this morning after a full on (for me!) half term week. There‘s something so wonderful about the way words can transport you somewhere else, especially when you don’t actually have the option of physically going elsewhere.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I loved reading this little Valentine’s story about the Brontë sisters and William Weightman!

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Today my editing has largely consisted of adding a pillar box hat and a Japanese silk robe to my MS. I’m now wondering if vintage fashion is the main reason I write historical fiction. (Verdict: probably.)

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I was feeling pretty smug about having now made twenty-one tiny books. But then I put them on the bookshelf in my doll’s house and, well. Let’s just say I have a lot more tiny books still to make.

Twenty-one tiny antique-looking books made from card, lined up across the palm of my hand. Each one is 2-3cms tall.

Twenty-one tiny books put in a wooden antique-style floor to ceiling doll’s house bookcase with a ladder. The books don’t even fill a whole shelf and there are another 14 shelves to fill.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I think all of us could benefit from taking more of this energy into our daily writing practice.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The sun is shining, my brain feels far less full of cotton wool than it did yesterday, and it’s late pick up at school. I have therefore decided that today is going to be a Very Good Writing Day.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I had my first non-medical outing of 2025 this morning! There was blue sky and birdsong and bare trees and crocuses and snowdrops and a wide open space. (And, of course, children laughing and den-finding and dogs running about.)

A photo of a copse of winter trees. Blue sky is visible through them. There are a few patches of purple crocuses on the scrubby, dead-leaf covered ground in front of the trees.

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Dee Montague @deemontague.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Happy publication day to all of my amazing fellow writers! Beyond / Tu Hwnt is officially out now 🥳 Get your copy now - available at all good book stores! (I've always wanted to say that!) Diolch, Jannat & team at Lucent Dreaming, Bethany Handley, Megan Angharad Hunter, and Sioned Erin Hughes.

Dee's copy of Beyond stands up in front of a display of Lego flowers and an R2-D2 model made by her sister.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We sowed these coleus seeds at the start of the year & tucked them up in a plastic bag to do their thing. I took a peek in the bag today & found all these shoots! Perhaps there’s a metaphor here about germination time & hidden progress, but for now I’m just going to enjoy the lovely new greenness.

A dozen or so fresh green shoots growing in a small concrete plant pot on a sunny windowsill.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I’ll be honest, being tucked up on the sofa with a poorly 10yo and Frozen 2 doesn’t make for ideal editing conditions. (Which, admittedly, may be because I love Frozen 2 and am therefore very willing to be distracted.)

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I am not usually one for pondering maths-adjacent questions, but I will make an exception for book maths.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Checked my Office 365 subscription and found the same. I had to click to cancel my subscription before it gave me the option to revert to the ‘classic’ (no AI) option.

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Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

We’re currently accepting applications to five different FREE opportunities for #UnderrepresentedWriters as part of the Breakthrough Writers’ Programme! Funded by Curtis Brown Books and our partners. #AmWriting www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/break… Details below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Breakthrough Scholarships | Curtis Brown Creative

Our scholarships provide regular funded places on our courses to talented writers facing barriers to entry.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Today I’ve been both reading about séances at the start of the 20th century and reworking a novel synopsis. To be honest, I’m not sure which of the two involved the most complicated trickery.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

There’s a lot to be said, I think, for small, hopeful acts of resistance. There may not be a huge amount that I can do as one single very unwell person, but I can do *something*. So, as a start, I’ve sent a message volunteering editorial support to a cause that’s important to me.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Sometimes (ok, often!) I worry that I’m taking too long to break into publishing. I loved this thread from Imogen as it’s a great reminder that our priority should always be to produce creative work we love and are proud of rather than rushing to meet arbitrary deadlines.

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I had my first mentoring session with @clotimms.bsky.social at the weekend. Chloe’s feedback was so brilliant & thoughtful that I made 10 pages of notes! I’m very excited to explore all this inspiration in the next draft. So grateful to Chloe & to @cbcreative.bsky.social for the opportunity 💙

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Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

This snowman has officially been in residence in our garden for an entire week. I’ve got quite used to his company, so might have a bit of a Raymond Briggs moment when he’s finally gone.

A snowman with a carrot nose. There is snow and frost directly around it, but otherwise the garden is its usual green.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The death toll in Gaza is even higher than estimated - study by the Lancet. All those sneering comments about "hamas run health ministry" (implying they're inflating the figures) are even wronger than we thought. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Gaza death toll 40% higher than official number, Lancet study finds

Analysis estimates death toll by end of June was 64,260, with 59% being women, children and people over 65

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