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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

And we're off!! My latest thriller FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE is now on Netgalley!!!! You can request it here: ow.ly/rtNZ50VaU15 #netgalley #reviewers #thrillerbloggers #thrillerbookblogger

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

WIN!! I'm giving away three signed copies of Clickbait to my newsletter subscribers this week (UK postage only) ... To be in with a chance to win just sign up for my newsletter on my website: www.lauren-north.com/mailinglist I only send newsletters when I have news and you can unsubscribe anytime!!

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

NEWS!! New name, new genre and a lot of 🌶️🌶️🌶️ coming in September from @bellanorth.bsky.social. Thrillers still coming too! I’m not leaving the dark side. 😂

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Today I'm preparing to put my WIP away for a month while I work on something else. This kind of juggle happens a lot. If it happens to you, be kind to your future self with a little note reminding you where you're up to and what's next. Don't assume you'll remember! 🤯 #writing #planner #author

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Bella North @bellanorth.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The strange thing about this industry is that there are times when it's mad busy and times when you're in a waiting zone and it's quiet. Trying to make the most of it. Christmas shopping is done. Edits back tomorrow. #romanceauthor #spicyromance #debut2025

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Laura Shepherd-Robinson @laurasrobinson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Thought I'd do a thread on writing tips that I might add to from time to time... 1) I've cited this one before on the other place... A description of a person or a place should tell you as much about the person doing the describing as the person or place being described. Examples below.

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I'm always so amazed by authors with other creative talents. Crochet, pottery, painting, drawing, baking. You guys blow me away. I can string a sentence together most days but there ends my creative talents. Show me your magic!!! #Authorlife #hobbies #authors #writing #creatives

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Amanda James (Mandy) @amandajames.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️I loved every single moment. Without question, this will be one of my books of the year. 🌻Escape the chill and escape into a book! Come to sunny #Cornwall today. Visit Rose's garden and discover the magic!🌻🌹 👉 bit.ly/3Z2ejI5 #fridayfeeling #writingcommunity #booksky #writingandbooks

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Today’s poem is called ‘First Date’.

First Date

We’d so much in common, that was clear from the start:
a marriage of souls, like de Beauvoir and Sartre.
The connection was instant, almost irrational:
simply simpatico, fully compatible.

You confessed you loved winter, north Yorkshire, and cats.
‘Me, too!’ I responded. ‘How amazing is that?’
You were wild about Wharton: you loved Ethan Frome.
‘His best,’ I said, thinking I’d read him when home.

You praised a revival of Pinter’s Dumb Waiter.
I nodded along. I should google that later.
The discussion then turned to things that you hated:
Pulp Fiction, you thought, was quite over-rated.

‘You make some good points,’ I eventually said.
I could always hide that poster under my bed.
You spoke of a loathing of poetry that rhymed
and I said yes,
that stuff’s awful.

Brian Bilston

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Love this cover!!! This is the perfect escape read for next summer!!! 😱❤️😱

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Update: I have an opening line and four paragraphs. Stopping to clean the house for a few hours. Not quite the glamorous profession people assume 😜

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Nikki Smith @nikkismithauthor.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

A new episode of In Suspense podcast publishes today & our topic is Mining Trauma for Fiction - and who better to discuss this with than the fabulous @jojakeman.bsky.social whose latest book, ONE BAD APPLE, is out now – paperback coming early next year! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Today’s poem is called ‘She’d Dance’.

She’d Dance

She’d dance like no one was watching
although she liked to think he was.
The kitchen was her grand ballroom;
her partner was a mop.

She’d foxtrot among the pots and pans,
she’d paso doble to the sink,
and as she swept across the floor,
her mind danced, too. She’d think

of how he’d held her in his arms
at the Locarno and the Ritz -
whirling, waltzing, a world apart -
in the years before the kids,

and longer still before the shadow
the doctor spotted on his lungs.
How dazzlingly they had danced!
How dizzyingly she had spun!

Her neighbours saw her sometimes,
shuffling bent-backed to the shops.
But at home, she’d dance like no one was watching
although she liked to think he was.

Brian Bilston

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I've been struggling to write lately due to publishing setbacks and lack of confidence. I've found a few things that help and thought I'd share. Please tell me what works for you. - Setting word targets - Getting outside and exercising - Absorbing all sorts of art - Remembering why I started.

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I'm starting a new book today. That blank page never stops being daunting no matter how many times I do this. The fact that it will become an 80,000 word novel seems quite impossible right now, but as my character would say, "chin up, tits out, let's do this." #newbook #author #writing #thrillers

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Off to a book group tonight to talk about my debut thriller - The Perfect Betrayal. It was 14 books ago but still holds a special place in my heart ❤️ #bookclub #bookgroups

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Amazing lunch with these fabulous authors today. 2025 is looking just a little bit busy (thanks for that @bellanorth.bsky.social 😂🙄) so it was brilliant to see these fabulous women. I’m so grateful to have such amazing friends in this business #authorlife #writing #thrillerwriter

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Amanda James (Mandy) @amandajames.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️I loved every single moment. Without question, this will be one of my books of the year. 🌻Get cosy in #Cornwall today. Visit Rose's garden and discover the magic!🌻🌹 👉 bit.ly/4bwwf1G #BookAddict #booklovers #readers #Gardening #Tuesdaynews #writingcommunity #booksky

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

If you could give my pal Bella a follow, I'd appreciate it! 😆

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hello 👋 Thanks for all the new follows! For those who don't know me from the other water coolers, I write psychological thrillers. Here are some of my most recent ones. I also write in a few other genres too, but more on that soon 😉 #Hello #thrillerwriter #kindleunlimited #author #bookbluesky

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Why am I scrambling to cook a roast dinner on a Monday night? Let me tell you why… reader, I went to the pub yesterday afternoon. Past me, you selfish cow 🤣

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Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

If you’re a grown adult in a front seat on the top of the bus and there’s little kids around, let them sit there

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

If you're a panster and you think your structural edits would be so much lighter if you could plan first, let me put your mind at ease! It won't. I'm a massive planner and I just had to rewrite a very saggy 100page middle 😭 #writing #authorlife #structuraledits #thrillerwriter

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Transworld Books @transworldbooks.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hello Blue Sky! Happy to be joining you here. We love to talk about all things books here - come say hello!

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Sign up to the Bert’s Books Secret Santa by 30th November, and pick a book you'd like to gift to someone else. I'll work out the best person to send that book to - and in return you'll get a book to unwrap too! bertsbooks.co.uk/secret-santa

A book wrapped in Christmas paper and tied with a ribbon, held up in front of Bert’s Bookshelves

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Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The sign of a good book is being caught up in the story. The sign of a great book is wanting to see what happens after the final page as I did with You Are Here by David Nicholls. A wonderful story of loneliness, love & starting over in the middle. fromfirstpagetolast.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/y...

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You Are Here by David Nicholls – review

Published by Sceptre Publication date – 23 April 2024 Source – review copy Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way Marnie is stuck. Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck…

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Kathy Steinemann, Writer, Author, Poet @kathyswriter.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

Here's the URL, folks: bridportprize.org.uk/news/residen...

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

How to say “he’s lazy” in different countries… 5. He works less than Tarzan’s tailor (Spain) 4. He eats like a bear and works like a bug (Bulgaria) 3. Work is smelly for him (Hungary) 2. He doesn’t even snap a green bean (Cuba) 1. If there was work in the bed, he’d sleep on the floor (Ireland)

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Delighted to be sharing the cover for #TheTeachersSecret OUT 23.02.24!! On a sunny Friday afternoon, beloved teacher Mrs Walker and her 8yo son wave goodbye to their friends in the school playground. But they never make it home… Pre-order here: geni.us/B0CLKZ9WTPau...

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

📚Hello from a very wet Monday Morning here in Suffolk! 📚 What plans and excitement have you got on this week? I have another cover reveal today (yes I know, 2 in 2 weeks is very greedy of me 😂), copy edits to finish and cracking on with my WIP. 💪 Have a great week #writingcommunity #authors

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Linda Hill @lindasbookbag.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Home from a sunny walk to discover @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social in my post box! Thriller Clickbait is coming from Bantam on 11th April 2024 and is a very welcome surprise! My thanks to Chloe Rose at Penguin Random Hose for sending it my way 📚❤️

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Woo woo Clickbait is on Netgalley 😍😍😍

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

It’s one of those fab author days when I get to have lunch with some fantastic authors I admire 😍 #authorlife #writingcommunity

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

I have a very exciting cover for my next L.C. North book!!!

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

📚Hooray for Monday!! And back to school day. 📚 I've had a break from my WIP for a few days and so I'm taking the opportunity to go back to the start and add in some much needed and fill in some plot holes. What are your goals for the week?

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

I’m on a mini break!! It’s going to be roarsome 🐯🎢

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

As Halloween approaches, here’s a #terrifying poem called ‘Bride of Dracula’.

Bride of Dracula

Yes, it is rather draining,
having a vampire come and feast on your neck
every single bloody evening,
particularly when you’ve got work the next day
and a pile to get through
because it’s the run-up to year-end.

I know Mr Bradshaw is getting concerned
about my productivity levels
but that’s the thing about having the life sucked out of you
by an eight-hundred-year-old fanged demon,
it plays havoc with your vitamin D.
I’m on supplements now.

Sandra thinks I should ward him off
with a bit of garlic or something –
at least until we’ve got the accruals finished –
but she spends half her day
flirting with Clive Pickering in purchase ledger
so she’s a fine one to talk,

and besides, I enjoy his nightly visits,
the hungry way he looks at me
before he leans in towards my neck,
it makes me feel dead
special, and after a long, boring day of chasing invoices
who wouldn’t want to feel like that?

Brian Bilston

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Anyone else still struggling with the clock change? Feeling frazzled and in need of nap and it's not even lunchtime. #writers #authorlife #books

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David H Headley @davidhheadley.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

My submissions are open again, and you can find out what I am looking for here: www.dhhliteraryagency.com/david-h-head...

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Lauren North @laurennorthauthor.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

📚Happy Monday Blueskies 📚 Hit me with your plans for the week! We're still on half term and have a night away to a theme park planned at the end of this week, so it's a race to get to 50K words in the first draft for me. #writing #writingcommunity #thrillerbooks

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Natali Simmonds @natalisimmonds.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Want to learn how to stay positive and develop a thick skin as a writer? I'm very excited to be teaching not one but TWO workshops on 'Rejection & Resilience.' Join me 21 November at @jerichowriters.bsky.social (online) and 12 January at ABC Bookshops, Amsterdam (in person and totally free).

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Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Morning #5amwritersclub ✍️😊 How is everyone? Good weekend? Who's aiming for end-of-month deadlines? #amwriting #writingcommunity

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W.A. Kelly Author @wakellyauthor.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Thanks so much to everyone who's ordered signed copies of the book so far. For those who just want to grab an unsigned paperback and get next day delivery - feel free to order on Amazon. If Kindle is your thing - you can pre-order on Nov 7th. Links in the comments.

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