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Rosie Fiore

@rosiefiore.bsky.social
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Author of The Death & Life of Lucy Westenra. Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Middlesex University London. Tutor on Jericho Writers' Ultimate Novel Writing Course. rosiefiore.com

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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Last night I dreamed we were all telling each other to insert rectangles of tinfoil into our shoes and were taking special pills to stop the government from forcibly putting AI into our brains and I realise I should probably eat less late night cheese.
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I mean... this is fine. FINE!! I can't see any way in which this might go wrong.
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Artificial Intelligence used to design brand new viruses
Scientists made 16 successful viruses that had their genetic code designed by artificial intelligence.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This is a 15-year-old female tiger living her best life as a giant kitty playing with a cardboard box. That's fun, no matter what age you are!🐅📦
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St. Simeon the Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The wonderful thing about Tyggers Is Tyggers are burning bright Their tops are made out of rubber In the forest of the night What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, Immortal hand or eye Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers, Their fearful symmetry!
William Blake’s illustration for “The Tyger” has what appears to be a dippy grin for some reason.
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Hooray! Hooray! For #PLR Day! Srsly, when the world is burning, the fact that people are still going to libraries and borrowing and reading books (specifically mine) lifts my wizened heart. Love you all!
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Bought myself this dragon brooch in Trafalfar Square today. This is the energy I'm taking into 2026. A little bit glitzy, with wings.... and considerable fire power if required.
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Thanks so much for including my Lucy. And now I have a list of other Dracula-themed titles to buy!
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This exactly. It's a very loose adaptation indeed.
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I'm a regular swimmer at the ladies' pond and have of course filled out the consultation. What I want to know is... how would they police it? For women who look a bit masculine, will there be a genital check?! Preposterous and hateful.
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Dan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀 @coil.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
AI impoverishes us at every step of the process: 
- data centers pollute our environment
- energy use drives up costs
- content theft robs creators of income
- the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages
- using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence
- the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape

All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
That is deeply impressive. It is my least favourite household job!
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I am a feminist and all, but sometimes I wish someone would pop into my garden to marvel at how beautifully I hang up washing: neatly, by type of clothing and owner, so it can be folded straight off the line and returned to cupboards. What totally pedestrian skill are you really good at?
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
By all accounts he feels 24 if she'll stand still for long enough...
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Read it aloud
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The Death & Life of Lucy Westenra is currently 99p on Kindle! Grab her while she's hot! www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Life-L...
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The Death & Life of Lucy Westenra eBook : Fiore, Rosie: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
The Death & Life of Lucy Westenra eBook : Fiore, Rosie: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Just delighted with this insightful review from Rambling Mads of The Death & Life of Lucy Westenra. ramblingmads.uk/2025/05/27/b...
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Blog Tour: The Death & Life of Lucy Westenra – Rosie Fiore
What desperate steps will Lucy Westenra take to save her own life? Hillingham in Hampstead, once the home of the well-to-do Westenra family, is now divided into apartments. When teacher Kate Balcom…
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Who is Lucy Westenra? Sweet or flirtatious? Virtuous or wicked? And who is lurking in the shadows, determined to do her harm? The Death & Life of Lucy Westenra. Out now. www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Life-L...
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The fabulous @karenking.bsky.social asked me about my writing journey. As I said to her, there have been quite a few road closures and diversions on this journey! karenkingauthor.com/2025/05/16/m...
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My Writing Journey by Rosie Fiore
My guest today is novelist Rosie Fiore. Rosie is going to talk to us about her writing journey, and her latest book. So grab yourself a cuppa, get cosy and let’s get chatting to Rosie. Biogra…
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Bram Stoker created Lucy Westenra as Dracula's first victim: but who was she really? A flirtatious girl? A wicked temptress? A loving fiancée? A child killer? Read her true story in The Death & Life of Lucy Westenra. On sale now. www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Life-L...
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Lovely friends, here's my big news! My new book, The Death & Life of Lucy Westenra, will be published on 2 May this year. After a torrid few years battling the publishing industry, I am self-publishing this one, and I couldn't be happier. www.rosiefiore.com/the-death-li...
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Working with students on a job spec, I was stunned by this example of quadruple tautology: "Ability to self-reflect on yourself personally" "Reflect" suggests looking inward, so "self-reflecting on yourself personally" suggests navel gazing that may well turn you inside out...
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
My work life is currently so insanely busy, I have to use every spare minute. That's what I should have said to the cleaner who walked into a meeting room at 6pm to find me face down on the carpet. I was squeezing in my daily yoga practice. And that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
You should be so proud my lovely. It's a wonderful book. Now let's find it a home!
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
If the term is new to you, I have been informed that the poet John Agard has "legendary aura". Adjust your style accordingly.
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
15yo has a perfectly serviceable winter coat. Today he went out in a flimsy Adidas zip top. When we pointed out he'd freeze, he told us that this jacket "had better aura." Am now concerned that in my mid-fifties, I have given insufficient consideration to my own levels of "aura".
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
It's not my list... it's @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social's. Drop him a line!
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
go.bsky.app/PiMXKb6 A brilliant starter pack of authors seeking agent representation... including me!
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I will! Thanks!
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Hi Paul, if there's room for another, please add me! x
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Chris Williams (dink) @chriswilliams-dink.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
And you thought there was not much to be happy about today... But turns out it's Tom Baker day! 91 and still going strong. #DoctorWho
Doctor Who actor Tom Baker with kittens.
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Luckily, I am in the middle of reading a gorgeous book called The Stolen Kiss, and that's giving me energy! 😉
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Inauguration day, Blue Monday... it should be no surprise that today is the day our coffee machine has died. Please can someone deliver lattes at hourly intervals?
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I lost my considerable streak today. Gutted.
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I have an enormous p*nis on my car roof. I'd like to say it's because I'm interested in ancient history and it's a tribute to the Cerne Abbas Giant. But the truth is I have a 15-year-old son and that's all the explanation you need. Eye roll emoji.
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
When I type my first name at speed, it inevitably comes out as Orise. I've decided I rather like it. Maybe it's an exhortation: "O-Rise!" Taking that typo energy into the new year.
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Like death and taxes, it is an unassailable law that once you've packed away the Christmas decorations, heaved the box into the loft and smugly sat down with a cup of tea, you will spot two baubles under a bookcase. Every jingling time.
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Esmeralda is the most excellent procrastination enabler. She lies down and SLEEPS on one in a very emphatic manner, giving the perfect excuse to say, "Well I would get up and do things, but..."
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I never thought I could do it, but I was hooked from my very first go!
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Post-swim smugness... water was four degrees, snow in the trees, mist over the water. Glorious!* *(double glorious now I'm home with hot water bottle and French toast)
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I love them! They look like pterodactyls.
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Today's delight: a freezing, glittery morning swim at the pond, sharing the water with three cormorants. Then I learned their collective noun is a "gulp". A gulp of cormorants. Delicious.
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Terrence Williams 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 @terrencewilliams.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
OK, my left-of-centre friends, let us see if we can swing the vote in favour of Sadiq Khan; and really upset the Daily Express xd.wayin.com/display/cont...
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Do you agree with Sadiq Khan’s knighthood?
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
All thanks to the amazing Yoga With Adriene, whose sweetness, humour and skill have guided my practices. Next year's calendar is ready. On I go. If you want a daily habit calendar like mine, you can get one to download from Etsy. www.etsy.com/.../2025-365...?
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I'm probably stronger and more flexible, but I haven't "transformed my body". That said, I have learned to drop into a calmer, quieter state the minute I sit on the mat, I have learned the stretches that ease the pain of the body or heart. >
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
This is me completing 366 days of yoga in 2024. I didn't miss a single day. I practised in friends' homes, on a stone floor in 40-degree heat in San Vincenzo and on a grotty nylon hotel carpet in Hull. I fitted it in at 5am or 11pm, depending on the pressures of the day, but I did it. >
A daily habit calendar for 2024, with every day coloured in.A blank daily habit calendar
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
One of 15 yo's friends just described the way "slightly older" people hold their phone at arm's length, craning away and typing with one forefinger as "double-chinning" and I feel personally attacked.
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
My brilliant son, Ted Fiore-Burt, has released his first song. He composed the music, and played and programmed every instrument. Please watch, like, share, say nice things and support this ridiculously talented 15-year-old. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL2X...
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SOLSTICE - [Official Music Video]
YouTube video by TEDFB
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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
PD James was a rigorous plotter, while Ruth Rendell was pure pantser. I don't think the final results were a million miles apart...
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