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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 2h

Oh dear. I've had a few of these offers. Haven't accepted any, thank god. But still, good to know.

Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

PSA: Just a reminder that looking after your mental health isn't a luxury you earn once everything else is done (aka your book is finished). Read a book, take a walk, call a friend, pat a dog/cat, have a nap. Everything else will survive an hour without you. #WorldMentalHealthDay #WritingCommunity

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trying to inspire myself to hit a very hard deadline. So wearing my favourite #fairytale brooch from #Erstwilder while editing the fairytale makeover section. Yeah, that's me. #AmWriting #WritingandBooks #WritingCommunity

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#Friday question time. What book made you a reader? Please not the clever answer (of something French literary), but the real one. Mine? A well-loved copy of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘯 𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭 and a torch under the blanket well past bedtime. Still have it 40yrs later #booksky #amreading #FirstReadingLove

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As a woman, your midlife crisis doesn't announce itself with a sports car. It's a Thursday, unloading the dishwasher, thinking huh, is this it? If you've had that Thursday or any other day, my book was written for you. #womensfiction #booksky #WritersofBsky #MoreThanThis #writingcommunity

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Douglas Adams apparently said he loved deadlines, especially "the whooshing noise they make as they fly past." My next one is October 31. What’s the #deadline you're currently pretending isn't happening? #writingcommunity #amwriting #draft1million

Photo by Callum Mullin on Unsplash:

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Who's the fictional character you'd trust with your house key? And your life? Is there one? For me, it's Hermione Granger. Soooo earnest. So straighty-180. And ridonculously smart to boot. I love her. I want to be her in my next life. #fictionalcharacters #writingandbooks #Writingcommunity

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've just learned of the passing of Lord #JeffreyArcher. His #KaneAndAbel series really kicked off my love of reading epic fiction at the age of 14. Thank you. May you rest in peace. #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #ForTheLoveOfBooks

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So I have a confession. Sometimes I reread my own writing and forget what I wrote, then get annoyed waiting to find out what comes next. Vanity, or just my short-term memory? Either way it's a good feeling. Please tell me it happens to you. No? Just me then. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Happy 21st B'day 𝘛𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 (pub'd Oct 5, 2005). Stephenie Meyer wrote it after she dreamed the meadow scene in her sleep. I started the series in 2009 and took me 3 goes to move past it being a kid read in my head. But then my family didn't see me for a month #booksky #TeamEdward #WritingandBooks

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's #Monday, and here's your permission slip to start badly. No-one's first draft is good. Mine read like it was written by a overly-caffeinated pigeon. Write the crap version anyway, it's the only one that turns into a real book. #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today is #DoSomethingNiceDay #Kindness. Yep, and the universe conspired to give me a long weekend to boot. Huzzah!! What are you doing today? Me? I'm practicing some self-kindness and doing some of this. #Aussie #Koala #TimeOut

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Aussie clocks went forward o/night, so if you're reading this bleary-eyed and an hour poorer, same. The upside: lighter evenings, which I fully intend to waste reading until #sunset on the deck (my actual view below). What are you into at the moment? #booksky #amreading #WritingandBooks

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Quick intro for my new friends. I write #ChickLit about women who do everything right, tick all the boxes, and still wake up at 40-something wondering what the hell happened. My debut novel, 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴? is one woman's very messy attempt to find out. #womensfiction #booksky #WritingCommunity

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy #Friyay - I'm collecting opinions. What's a book everyone loved that left you cold? No judgement, this is a safe space for unpopular bookish takes. I'll go first, but only if you promise not to yell. #booksky #amreading #WritingandBooks

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's #FirePupDay. My fur-worker doesn't work for the Firies, but he was saved by them. Does that count? He helps with the #words on #writing days. Actually, no. He doesn't. He belches, farts and is a pain in the butt. But he's my pain in the butt & I love him #Animals #WritingCommunity #Coworking

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's International #Coffee Day, or as the #writers amonst us say, a day ending in y. My coffee habit has outlasted several careers and relationships. How do you take yours, and how many cups in before the words actually turn up? Me? At least 2 strong lattes #WritingCommunity #BookSky

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

20 years ago today (1996) Nicholas Sparks published his debut novel, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬. The bit that gets me - when we see Noah reading their love story back to Allie every day, hoping she recognises him just for a moment. Beautiful and totally devastating. #booksky #amwriting #WritingandBooks

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

International Podcast Day and the last day of September, so a 2-for-1. Which author or writing podcast should be in my ears while I edit? Hit me up with your faves please. #WritingCommunity #Author #Podcasts #WritingandBooks

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What one small win you managed this month? I'll start: I hit up an agent. My first real pitch. On the actual book. #writingcommunity #booksky #SeptemberWins #WritingandBooks #MoreThanThis

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nobody warns you #writing the book is the easy bit (yep, really). Then it's a blurb, a pitch, a bio and a synopsis, somehow harder than the whole novel that came before them. If you're in next phase with me, pls wave 👋. We'll trek on together. #writingcommunity #amquerying #writingandbooks

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Note to self: Borrowing from Churchill, lightly rewritten for those of us in the trenches: success isn't final, rejection isn't fatal, it's the courage to keep querying that counts. Also a strong cup of tea. Mostly the tea. Keep going. #amquerying #writingcommunity

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Tom Hanks' Tea Time

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last September Monday and October's breathing down our necks. What's one writing or reading #goal you want to drag over the line before the year runs out? Plonk it here, make it real. We'll call it friendly accountability. Mine? Get #MoreThanThis finished, out and querying #WritingCommunity #BookSky

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's #Sunday. If you need a permission slip here you go. You're allowed to want more in your life without being ungrateful for what you've got. Both can exist at the same time. Now go do that one small thing this week that's just for you. #WomensFiction #BookSky #WritingCommunity #MoreThanThis

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Heya #BookSky -ers. #HappyFriday I'm feeling nosy. What's the book you'd force into everyone's hands if you could? The one you get slightly unhinged about over dinner with friends. I need new material, help a gal out #amreading #WritingandBooks #WritingCommunity

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm sensing the jiggling of bells heading our way. There's less than 100 days until we ring in the new year. KILL ME NOW!! What are you committing to do between now and then? Me? #MoreThanThis (D4) will be finished, polished & have found its people. #WritingCommunity #WritingandBooks #BookSky

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The most honest relationship in #MoreThanThis? Between my MC and her cat, Snowy, who hands out affection like it's rationed and judgement like it's free. Such fun to write. Nothing like my needy dogs tho. Do your pets deserve a co-writing credit? Mine are demanding one. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

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White Cat

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A tiny reminder for humpday. You're the MC of your own life story. Keep writing - even if it's crappy. Keep growing & pushing yourself outside your comfort zone. If you want to quit - huzzah, that's you rubbing up against your comfort zone. Keep going. #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WritingandBooks

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So anyone else experienced the down that follows the crazy prep for a literary agent speed date? Yes, I get to submit my work. Huzzah! But, I expected fireworks and got a tea light candle instead. #AmQuerying #Pitching #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WritingAndBooks

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For anyone staring down a blinking cursor today: put the words on the page. Good words or bad, doesn't matter, any words will do. You can't fix a blank page but you can fix a messy one. Now go write your gloriously ordinary crappy first draft. #writingcommunity #amwriting #BookSky

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A question I keep circling back to: at what point do you get to call yourself a #writer? The first draft? The first rejection? The first person who isn't your mum reading your work? Tell me where you draw the line. I'm intrigued. #WritingCommunity #BookSky #AmWriting

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today's #WorldGratitudeDay, so here's mine: the writers in this feed who cheer each other on for no reason other than plain kindness. You've made an often lonely hobby feel more connected. Tag someone who keeps you going. That and today's my 1st pitch for #MoreThanThis #WritingCommunity #BookSky

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#Sunday thought. We treat starting over like it's only for 20-somethings. But the best reinventions I know belong to women in their 40s & 50s who decided they weren't done yet. Mid-life doesn't need fixing - it just needs a makeover. #womensfiction #WritingCommunity #MoreThanThis #AmQuerying

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I learned so much about myself over the last nearly 3yrs of writing #MoreThanThis. I have the tenacity (and level of crazy) that it takes to complete a manuscript. Huzzah! #HappyFriday #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My novel in one line - a married 40-something writer becomes the crash-test dummy for her magazine's online dating series and ends up with two phones and one very inconvenient emotional awakening. It's a comedy - mostly - of nightmarish proportions. #womensfiction #amquerying #WritingCommunity

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you're a woman, somewhere around 40 a little voice starts up. Is this it? The mortgage, the school runs, the same six dinners on rotation. It isn't ingratitude. You just wonder if there's more. That voice is the entire reason I wrote a book. Anyone else hear it? #womensfiction #WritingCommunity

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In addition to ongoing edits this wk, I'm also neck deep in comp research. So far, I've got The Sex Lives of Married Women by Saman Shad, Eleanor Oliphant Is Absolutely Fine by Gail Honeyman & Jojo Moyes Someone Else's Shoes. Hit me up with your mid-life women faves. Pls, I beg you #WritingCommunity

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hello #Friday! I'm after your comfort reads. The ones you go back to like an old jumper. The book equivalent of a cup of tea and someone saying 'you stay put, I'll handle it'. Tell me yours, I'm building a very unscientific list. #BookSky #AmReading #WritingAndBooks

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So this week, I'm supposed to have done a chapter a day of edits. Uh, no. I'm still finishing off Ch7, which is doing my head in. It's a chapter with a character I want to change. UGH! Have I written/edited each day? Yes. Does that still count? Apparently yes. Big sigh! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

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Moira Rose: Ugh, So Tired

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's R U OK? Day. Consider this your nudge to actually ask the people you love, and to truly wait for the answer. And if someone asks you today, you're allowed to say 'not really' out loud. That's sort of the whole point. 💛 #RUOKDay R U OK? Frankly, I've had better days.

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

30 days check-in. Today I got through line/copy editing Ch7 of the debut novel More Than This? It's going to be a looooong September. Send Tim Tams (IYKYK - for those who don't they're Australia's best chocolate biscuits).

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

International Literacy Day today. Somewhere a kid is finding out a book can be a whole other world to disappear into, and honestly that never stops being true no matter how many candles are on your cake. Who taught you to love reading? And what's your fave book? #InternationalLiteracyDay #booksky

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Agnes Asks 'Pretty Please?'

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm attempting to write all 30 days of Sept. Not writing exactly, but hardcore editing - draft 4. I'm hoping to be done with 30 chapters by month end. So far, so good. But it's only been 6 days. Will also attempt daily check-in. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBSky #EditingHell #TooManyWords

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hack, slash, cut, kill Darlings lie dead on the floor Silent, still, sad It’s always my darlings The ones I love most, that I’m truly wedded to Oh my precious darlings It’s unforgivable what I do How could I A tear falls as the pen scrawls The joys of a #writer with too many words #writingcommunity

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Parton's legacy is proof that you can be a wealthy, powerful, genius who is kind and loved. The jerks at the top are like that by choice.

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And I will always love you, too #DollyParton. She might have been tiny, but she was mighty and her music-writing, story-telling pen was well used. Rest in peace you tiny, glorious, sparkly genius. #Vale #WritingCommunity #writing #music #country #Western

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Dolly Parton Sings and Plays Guitar

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I asked @anthropic.com's Claude to catalogue my @medium.com canon. 160,000 words written over the last 10+ years. All MY OWN work. And now, its grotty fingerprints are over everything. Can you say IP infringement? I can. Thank god I haven't used it for anything else. #writersofBSky #WritingCommunity

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

And just like that, I'm emerging from underneath the rock I've been hibernating under for drafts 2 & 3. More Than This? is now on it's final approach to being finished and ready to query!! Oh my! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #BookSky #author

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Kris Tinleigh @kristinleighwriter.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Why is it that when I sit down to edit on a deadline, I suddenly find myself doing almost anything else aside from working on what needs to be done. OMG!! Anyone else feeling the same? #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Author #MoreThanThis #OnADeadline #writer

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Adorable Distracted Puppy Plays with Ball

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