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Sue Reed

@suereedwrites.bsky.social
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Author, wild & free, tough yet kind. ✍️ The Rewilding of Molly McFlynn Rep'd Nicky Lovick at WGM Atlantic . linktr.ee/suereedwrites

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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
View from the bedroom window, gargoyle on guard. It's St Swithin's Day so you know what they say! No plans to venture out in the rain for me - think I've broken my toe and have the manuscript for book two to get ready to send to my agent before the end of the week. . . #stswithinsday
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
A cool breeze and damp air this morning here in Northumberland. Perfect hosta growing conditions, helped too by the slug-eating hedgehog spotted trundling down the path last night. 🦔 Have a good week, everyone
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Our roses have struggled this year, but today, on the first anniversary of Mum's death, the yellow rose she bought me has come into bloom.
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
It's the anniversary of my mum's death this week - a whole year has gone by, and it's complicated! I've written about it in my latest post, Wrestling Rhubarb: open.substack.com/pub/suereed/...
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Wrestling Rhubarb
On complicated grief
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Thinking of my mum who died this time last year as I pick the rhubarb. Mum loved a dish of rhubarb, preferably with some rice pudding on the side.
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Happy Summer Solstice everyone 🌞 Come on in! We're gathering herbs & edible flowers to make Solstice Salt today. open.substack.com/pub/suereed/... #summersolstice
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Starting a slow travel series, Wrinklies On The Road over in my online magazine. We take a trip down memory lane in this first article, and travel to Spain & Portugal in a converted Dodge truck, me pregnant and with a toddler in tow. Link in bio or inboxes for subscribers #travelblog
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Welcome to RIPE. You can look forward to writing about post-trauma badassery, unapologetic ageing, gardening as witchcraft, menopausal resurrection, van life joyrides, better late than never publication, and neurospicy chaos. open.substack.com/pub/suereed/... #ripe #midlife #menopause
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I wrote this on 1 October 2023 just after the felling of the tree that I could see from the hillside here and to which we walked on countless occasions The two men who were charged with its felling have today been found guilty. #sycamoregap open.substack.com/pub/suereed/...
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The Felling of Northumberland at Sycamore Gap
Don't tell us it was just a tree.
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I'm very excited to be coming to the end of the first draft of the second book in the Molly McFlynn series, but I need your help! What might you write on a placard if you were going to a protest to save an important tree from being felled? Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash #protest #trees
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
On the anniversary of the publication of John Keats' poem, 'O Solitude!' read about my recent trip to Samye Ling Tibetan Monastery and the fears & benefits of being silent and solo. open.substack.com/pub/suereed/...
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Solitude, Silence & Synchronicity.
On the fear and benefits of being alone and still.
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Sunday Storytime continues at 3pm today over on Substack. We're up to Chapter Seven, The Girl.
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Make way for the lilac! Blooming marvellous 💜
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Love it when a reviewer totally gets why I wrote the book! #BookSky
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Over on my blog I'm talking about returning to hard core exercise at 63, of the euphoria felt and the need it fulfills, along with some of the trials and tribulations of past attempts at group exercise. Have a read then pop back and share your stories. #raveon open.substack.com/pub/suereed/...
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
When you hear from a local high school that they'd like to book you for an author talk and they finish the email with this: “We loved The Rewilding of Molly McFlynn and one of our Learning and Teaching Assistants successfully used it with a student who was having issues with her friendship group.”
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Love this photo sent by Vanessa, one of my followers. It shows many of the elements from my story, placed on a piece of recycled knitwear from my days as The Woolly Pedlar. I love how loyal folk have been, no matter what hats I've been wearing.
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Have you read The Rewilding of Molly McFlynn? Set in the wilds of Northumberland during Spring, it tells of one girl's journey to find her authentic self intertwined with the true story of Ann Watson & the Newcastle Witch Trials Available wherever you get your books or signed copies from me #BookSky
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Treated myself to a day of nature journalling with pen and paint with Hexham based artist Steve Pardue in Allendale as part of the Highlights Rural Touring Scheme. A morning of calm, reflection and good company. @highlightsrural.bsky.social
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
We have triplets! Three baby leverets, discovered while Tim was planting potatoes, nestled against the stone wall of the greenhouse. The mother hare can be seen in our wild garden early in the morning and late in the evening, as she comes to care for her young. Feeling so very blessed. #wildlife
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Come on in, the garden gate is open, the kettle is on and there’s a cake about to come out of the oven. open.substack.com/pub/suereed/...
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Welcome to The Bridge Cottage Way, now to be found Down Clarty Lonnen.
A new home base, but the same warm welcome to the Bridge Cottage kitchen and garden.
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
And so to write … lighting a candle and coming to the page. The end is in sight! Determined to have this first draft of book two finished by the time we set sail for France in a couple of weeks. #BookSky
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Sharing a piece of writing about Sycamore Gap which was a commission from the Veteran Tree Project and which will eventually go on an app for a tree trail on Hadrian’s Wall. Thought you lot might like an early read! open.substack.com/pub/suereed/...
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Bloody brilliant! Been looking forward to the release of The Best of Everything by @kitdewaal.bsky.social for yonks. I love her writing! It cuts straight to the core, and has your heart aching for her characters right from the off. Oh, Paulette! Life can be so unfair. Get a copy if you can!
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
A day in the life of a writer - selling books at the Queen's Hall in my local town of Hexham this morning #authorlife #Hexham
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Talking today about perceived rejection and how a dip in the burn helped to wash it away. It's another post in my #ADHD journey series as I learn more this late-in-life discovery, how this manifests in my life and what I can do to mitigate the fall out. open.substack.com/pub/suereed/...
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Glorious sunrise that had me hanging out the bedroom window in my nightie to take this! #GoodMorning
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Spent a wonderful afternoon in the presence of the Beltingham Yew. I always get such a sense of awe as I approach this majestic tree. I sat for a while with my notebook, recording my feelings, listening to the birds that visited its boughs & left with such a sense of peace.
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Narcissi bend their heads to the frost while the morning sun hits the burn. (which is what a small river is called in these parts). Love my morning wanders listening to the sound of rushing water, birdsong and the calling of sheep to their new born lambs. #GoodMorning
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Planning a van trip from Caen down through France to the Pyrenees - any advice for good spots, park ups, things or places we should see etc.?We like it remote & wild! My husband has a rule of thumb never to stay where they mow the grass!
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
So lovely to get this super feedback from Little Felton Book Festival. It was an absolute pleasure 😊
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
It's Sunday Storytime! We're up to Chapter Six... open.substack.com/pub/suereed/...
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I was sitting at our table in the garden room last night when this beautiful brown hare walked past the decking. As she made her way down to the burn, I opened the door as silently as I could and stood while she feasted on plants. We shared the space for a good ten minutes. Absolutely magical!
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Delighted have been commissioned to write a piece about the peace labyrinth at Walltown Crags on Hadrian's Wall. open.substack.com/pub/suereed/...
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The Peace Labyrinth
wakes up after a winter of rest
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Update on our resident hare. She's down among the daffodils. Giving her plenty of space as we expect the birth of a leveret is imminent
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Very much looking forward to meeting readers and signing copies of The Rewilding of Molly McFlynn at Jaspah Crewe Gift Shop in the beautiful village of Blanchland #Northumberland on Sunday 13th April. Do share this and come along if you're local and would like a natter!
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
My heart soared this morning when I saw that, yet again, this beautiful hare has returned to our wild garden. Will be keeping an eye out for her leveret. Photos are as sharp as I could get them through the kitchen window - I didn’t want to spook her! #hare #wildlife #northumberland #spring
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Our Molly's having a bit of a moment over on Amazon. I think this makes it a best seller, doesn't it? #books #reading #WritingCommunity #TheRewildingofMollyMcFlynn
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Fiona Erskine @chemicaldetective.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
A wonderful talk and reading by @suereedwrites.bsky.social at #feltonbookfestival
Sue Reed reading from The Wilding of Molly Flynn
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Some hilarious facial expression as I bring the drama to the reading of The Rewilding of Molly McFlynn at Little Felton Book Festival
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
When you hear from a parent that your book is on a list of recommended reads for year 9s alongside To Kill A Mockingbird and The Bell Jar.
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Wild and windy here but if you look closely, there's a rainbow over the sauna. I'm off to my story room, where I'm nearing the end of the first draft of the sequel to The Rewilding of Molly McFlynn. Hope is an action! Let's get writing folks. #WritingCommunity #hope
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
As Mother’s Day looms, supermarket entrances fill with buckets of flowers, rows of boxed orchids, pink wine & chocolates that attack the senses & emotions, I've written a post for all of us who are struggling with #Mother’sDay this year. I know I am. 🔗 in bio
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
It's Sunday storytime. Are you sitting comfortably, then I'll begin! open.substack.com/pub/suereed/...
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The Rewilding of Molly McFlynn - Chapter Five. Kingfisher and Cresent Moon
Sunday Storytime
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Now with added voiceover! Read or listen to my latest essay on balance as we pass through the #SpringEquinox gateway. Are you spinning plates? #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek #WritingCommunity open.substack.com/pub/suereed/...
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I'll show you mine, if you show me yours. What's on your writing desk? Aka procrastination. #WritingCommunity
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Dreams really do come true.... #booksky #writingcommunity open.substack.com/pub/suereed/...
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Dreams Really Do Come True
A pinch me moment in London Town
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Looking forward to joining the good folk at Little Felton in Northumberland as we talk about what it's like to feel like an outsider as I share themes from my novel The Rewilding of Molly McFlynn See you there perhaps? #booksky #bookfest
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
POV: when you spot a guy walking down a London street who is a dead ringer for a character in the book you are writing 😂 . . #writingcommunity #booktwo #amwriting #mollymcflynn
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Sue Reed @suereedwrites.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This feels like a monumentous day. I am off to London to meet my agent! You have no idea (or perhaps you do) how good it feels to be saying this. . #WritingCommunity #therewildingofmollymcflynn
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