Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 30/10/2025I’d totally forgotten about using a ruler to make a margin in books at school. (Just heard Bill Nighy mention it.) 120
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Seems unfair that Karen and Harry look like that and I look like this #strictly 040
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 15/10/2025I just saw two toddlers cheersing ring donuts 🍩 and it made me very happy. 010
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 25/09/2025I bought Bourneville Old Jamaica cos it was my grandad’s favourite (and I like the packaging redesign). Good lord, who is buying this stuff?? It tastes like tyres. 000
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 24/09/2025I know people complain about lighting in modern films but what is up with the sound? I saw The Sound of Music yesterday without my hearing aids and every word was clear. Today I saw A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, my hearing aid battery ran out, and I’d say I missed half the dialogue. 030
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Screenshot this in 2021. Thinking about it today for no particular reason. 010
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Dreamt I was dating a celebrity and kept putting off our first kiss to savour the moment. Woke up before I got to kiss him. Learn from my mistake. Snog that celebrity! Seize the day! 100
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 27/07/2025This is really useful revivr.bhf.org.ukrevivr.bhf.org.ukRevivRRevivR is a short, self-directed CPR training from British Heart Foundation, that could teach you how to save someone's life. 000
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 25/07/2025This is like finally watching A Streetcar Named Desire, thinking “can’t wait to find out what the title means!” Huh. 000
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 25/07/2025In all the years I’ve been wanting and intending to read Fun Home, never did it once cross my mind that Fun was short for funeral. 010
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 19/07/2025One thing that drives me nuts is buying off-peak tickets. Me: So which are the off-peak trains? Rail companies: It’s a secret. 210
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Truly baffled by people who loved that book. I read it for book club and found it both unbelievable and tedious. The Simon Armitage stuff alone! 010
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Last night I dreamt I was in a band and the song we were playing rhymed “a tornado that blowed” with “sandals, open-toed.” Mortified that my subconscious is such a shit songwriter. 130
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Why are photoshopped pictures in TV and film still so rubbish? 000
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 22/06/2025If you see this, post an image you saved because it makes you laugh 010
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Just heard Dua Lipa on a podcast saying her album Future Nostalgia was inspired by the music she grew up listening to, which was the music her parents were into. Like Jamiroquai.media.tenor.coma man wearing a plaid shirt says i 've been diagnosed with excessive oldnessAlt: The actor Matt le Blanc, a white man with grey hair and wearing a plaid shirt, saying, “I've been diagnosed with excessive oldness.” 040
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 11/05/2025I legit just thought “god, showers are great. If you’re cold you can have a hot one and if you’re hot you can have a cold one.” I’m basically this guy 030
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 10/05/2025If you're a writer and you worry about repeating yourself, here's Ted Lasso's "semantic satiation" in the Spin City pilot from 1996 020
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Started watching a film that opens “Forty years ago…” My brain: the fifties, cool. 3332
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 15/04/2025It’s here! Fifteen years almost to the day since my first ever author copies. 160
Reposted by Keris FoxRebecca Turner (she/her) @turnerebecca.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Did an interview with @keris.bsky.social about money and disability go give it a read x open.substack.com/pub/theladyb...open.substack.com"Being disabled is super expensive!"+ a list of my anticipated income for 2025 052
Reposted by Keris FoxNaomi Jones @naomijones1.bsky.social · 23/02/2025I loved asking author @keris.bsky.social lots of questions about publishing and creativity at Words and Pictures last week - but it was her thoughts about money, advances and transparency in the publishing industry that I found the most insightful: naomiandjamesjones.substack.com/p/words-and-...naomiandjamesjones.substack.comWords and Pictures with Keris FoxWhy we need to talk about money more in the publishing industry, the difference between writing for teens and adults and top financial tips 001
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Me: Omg, apparently they’re phasing out landlines! My 16yo: What’s a landline? 130
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Been stuck under a cat for the last hour, but it meant I could finishing this absolutely gorgeous new novel from @sarramanning.bsky.social 100
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 06/02/2025An actual life changing post! In this economy. (It’s not about Gary Barlow. I can’t believe I have to say that again. What is my problem.) keris.substack.com/p/the-articl...keris.substack.comThis is my idea of a very nice day out.+ an article that changed my life (spoiler: it's about chips) 000
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 04/02/2025My latest money post featuring my latest money cock-up 😬 But also Sarah’s excellent bookshelves (and wisdom) open.substack.com/pub/theladyb...?open.substack.com"Don’t internalise the idea you’re bad with money, when really you’re underpaid."And, yes, I had a Harry Styles rollercoaster gif to hand. 010
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 29/01/2025My teen just asked “What’s this with the bats and the newts?” I explained. Him: “Ohhhh… I thought it was an expression. Like the birds and the bees.” 020
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Latest post from my mum’s suitcase. She went to Austria in ‘59 and the cinema (a lot) in ‘62. “Royal with Mo to see [Mission] to the Moon and The Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow. Both of them were stupid to say the least.” keris.substack.com/p/the-view-f...keris.substack.com"The view from the top was marvellous. I took some photos, I hope they turn out."Austria. Of course. 031
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 28/01/2025The Year of LESS, not “yes”. I should’ve waited until I was more awake. But also I’m reading Birdy Arbuthnot’s Year of ‘Yes’ by @joannanadin.bsky.social and it is delicious. 121
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 28/01/2025My latest money newsletter. A tax cock-up, a subscriber milestone, and an inspiring interview with Cait Flanders, author of The Year of Yes open.substack.com/pub/theladyb...open.substack.com"Don’t let your ego be attached to the numbers."And how I learned this exact lesson last week! 021
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Just spent my entire shower composing bad reviews for my own forthcoming book.media.tenor.coma woman in a black dress is giving a thumbs up in a crowded room .Alt: Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope in the sitcom Parks & Recreation, giving a double thumbs up with outstretched arms. 230
Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · 22/01/2025The teen just asked me “What’s the point of pyramids?” I said “Right there at the top.” Turned out, he actually said ‘periods’ but we both cried laughing anyway. 050