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Louise Fairbairn

@scarletrix.bsky.social
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...sometimes you wake up. sometimes the fall kills you. and sometimes when you fall you fly... www.crimebookgirl.com

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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 7h
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 7h
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 7h
I just buy what I like, radical I know 😂
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 11h
Worth quietly passing it to other programmers who could be thinking of booking them... Always rubbish to see that behaviour from someone who should know better.
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 11h
FFS...
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 14h
New @ianrankin1.bsky.social in da house... Arrived a fraction before release day, safe in the knowledge I won't get round to reading it for, oh, at least two months 😁 #BookSky 📚💙
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Ian Rankin @ianrankin1.bsky.social · 18h
Hometown gig! Dangerously close to the Oxford Bar! Less than two weeks away…
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 17h
Alas I am out of town that night! I shall have to buttonhole you for a signature at some other point 😁 (it's on preorder, ofc!)
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 17h
Yes. Also, karma is a bitch...
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 17h
No boards but just right for a Tuesday, I tire of those with a million words! I played squaredle.com 10/06: 36/36 words (+3 bonus words) 🎯 In the top 10% by accuracy 🔥 Solve streak: 7
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Squaredle
Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 17h
😂
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 18h
Such extra creativity on top of the fiction writing! Tho the game would be up when you were in the PP room 😁
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 19h
You also had a pen name for pitch perfect, as I recall! I think sometimes a different name is understandable re changing genre, other times you may lose the audience you had. And sometimes it's disingenuous, escaping ho-hum sales by painting someone as a debut who is anything but...
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 20h
@scotlandchris1.bsky.social @portybelle.bsky.social ticked off the weekly early for once I played squaredle.com/p/weekly 10/05 (Special Weekly Puzzle): 77/77 words (+5 bonus words) 🎯 In the top 8% by accuracy
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Squaredle
Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 20h
Beautiful but surely that time still yesterday...
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
😍😍
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ok it's a Monday but a perfect accuracy is still a good thing! Nae boards tho. I played squaredle.com 10/05: 31/31 words (+1 bonus word) 🎯 Perfect accuracy 🔥 Solve streak: 6
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Squaredle
Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So hard even with the hints - I think the high accuracy is because I couldn't see anything at all? I played squaredle.com 10/04: 72/72 words (+15 bonus words) 🎯 In the top 9% by accuracy 🔥 Solve streak: 5
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Squaredle
Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!
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Mary Picken @bethsy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Winter Job by Antti Tuomainen trs by David Hackston @anttituomainen @orendabooks @countertenorist @RandomTTours Source: Review copyPublication: 24 September 2026 from Orenda Books (paperback)PP: 300ISBN-13: 978-1917764346 My thanks to Orenda Books for a review copy Sofas, secrets and a…
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The Winter Job by Antti Tuomainen trs by David Hackston @anttituomainen @orendabooks @countertenorist @RandomTTours
Source: Review copyPublication: 24 September 2026 from Orenda Books (paperback)PP: 300ISBN-13: 978-1917764346 My thanks to Orenda Books for a review copy Sofas, secrets and a snowbound road to trouble… Helsinki, 1982. Recently divorced postal worker Ilmari Nieminen has promised his daughter a piano for Christmas, but with six days to go – and no money – he’s desperate.
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
😂
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Looks a beautiful spot, but that postcode definitely suggests remote!
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Ed James @edjamesauthor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Big Ed James news… A print deal??? Just wanted to drop some news I’ve been sitting on for the last few months. I’ve signed a traditional publishing deal with Atlantic Books’ Corvus imprint to publish new editions of the first… edjamesauthor.co.uk/2026/10/04/big-…
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Congratulations!
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Great thread. Just because a genre isn't one you care about doesn't make it worthless; a lot of people enjoy seeing new takes on old tropes in all kinds of genres - series is the privilege of genre fiction and the whole point of series is the mix of new and familiar. #BookSky 📚💙
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I may give up and reboot my streak yet again
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh, very nice 😁
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Completely stuck at 45 on today's main tho 😂
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@scotlandchris1.bsky.social @portybelle.bsky.social Finally got the weekly nailed I played squaredle.com/p/weekly 09/28 (Special Weekly Puzzle): 88/88 words (+10 bonus words) 🎯 In the top 15% by accuracy
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Squaredle
Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I know that feeling 😂 I have also been known to reach for the emergency tin of macaroni cheese instead...
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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tomorrow / Sunday 4th I’m at Portobello Book Festival with this luscious gang. Tickets are free and can be scooped up from Porty Library. There are only a few left so seek them out and come thrum our way. 💛🖤🩵💙💜
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Looks pretty tasty!
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I used to own those 2000AD ones...
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
True!
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No boards but not bad I played squaredle.com 10/03: 59/59 words (+11 bonus words) 🎯 In the top 21% by accuracy 🔥 Solve streak: 4
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Squaredle
Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Even better than a lanyard, at least a badge won't try and strangle you 😁
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Completely starving, haven't had anything to eat for 15 minutes... 😍
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That 0.5mm rule doing a lot of heavy lifting there 😂
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Amen I played squaredle.com 10/02: 66/66 words (+6 bonus words) 🎯 In the top 15% by accuracy 🔥 Solve streak: 3
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Squaredle
Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dear America, please vote more sanely in November...
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Without radical thinking on the part of Churchill and all those recruited for it, the ministry of ungentlemanly warfare would never have existed...
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think they've always been for something that makes the process cheaper and easier for them...
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Doug Johnstone @dougjohnstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've been playing a lot of my music at book events recently, so I thought it was worth reminding you that you can stream or download everything from my Bandcamp site. What's more, Bandcamp regularly waive their commission on Fridays, including today! dougjohnstone.bandcamp.com/album/crow-h...
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Crow Hill, by Doug Johnstone
12 track album
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bloody Scotland in September and Theakstons Harrogate in July plus Capital Crime in London in May are the biggest, but there are loads of great smaller ones all over the UK, from Brighton to Shetland and everywhere between. They'll be planning now, get your publisher/agent to make enquiries!
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If only I wasn't working! I'm sure you'll have a great time without me tho 😁 (book is on preorder, obvs!)
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Congratulations! 🎉
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Since Edinburgh is central to the book, hopefully! And do get your publisher to approach crime fiction festivals, I'm confident you'd find an audience at those - crime fiction fans love a bit of crime non-fiction 😊🖤 @bloodyscotland.bsky.social in Stirling always has a nonfic panel or two...
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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good! I hope many writers will be, but I worry for those who feel they can't be.
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