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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

A really fun and varied show.

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Sherry Morris 💙🇺🇦💛 @uksherka.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

It's Friday! The day to catch Sherry's Shorts on @highlandhradio.bsky.social at 12 noon UK time--featuring short stories with a connection to the Scottish Highlands. Listen anytime via the Mixcloud link⬇️ Thanks to @ruralunease.bsky.social @veewalker.bsky.social & Keely O'Shaughnessy for fab stories.

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Sherry Morris 💙🇺🇦💛 @uksherka.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The April episode of Sherry’s Shorts with @highlandhradio.bsky.social is now available! Featuring fantastic stories from Highland writers @veewalker.bsky.social & @ruralunease.bsky.social as well as Keely O'Shaughnessy. Here's the link to listen: www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...

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Sherry's Shorts - April 2025

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Mike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Still some copies of my collection Things Grown Distant available from @confingopublishing. Here's my favourite review: manchestereviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/t...

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

So... my funny short story Front Page News, based on a real incident, is set in Fortrose on the Black Isle in the early 2000s. One character mentioned is real, but which? It's the second story read, about 15 minutes in, free here - thanks again, Sherry! 👇 www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...

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Sherry's Shorts - April 2025

A monthly spoken-word show featuring local writers & stories focused on the Scottish Highlands, along with music and chat. Presented by Sherry Morris, a short story writer local to the Inverness area....

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Thanks Sherry, my pleasure to participate.

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

That'll do, Black Isle. That'll do. ☀️ #BlueSky

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I couldn't possibly comment... maybe he only keeps her alive so long as she is useful to him 🤣🤣🤣

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I've kept my account but flagged that I have moved elsewhere. Twitter was all bots by the time I jumped ship!

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I used to dread the dentist but as I have aged the fear has diminished and the gratitude increased. Nothing they do to you now is half as bad as the pain of toothache or an abscess. Thank God for dentists!

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

J'ai même un petit AirBnb pour la visite si ça vous intérèsse... airbnb.com/h/chanonrybolthole. J'accueil pas mal d'écrivains et de français 😊

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Guest suite in Highland · ★4.96 · 2 bedrooms · 2 beds · 1 bath

The Chanonry Bolthole sleeps 3 with breakfast 😎

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Oh là là, oui alrs ça vaut le coup! Si jamais vous vous trouvez en visite dans les Highlands nous avons souvent des repas ou des promenades avec des d'autres enfants.

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

La Franco-Scottish Society est très active à Edimbourg ainsi que l'Institut Français franco-scottish.org.uk/branches/edi.... Notre CFH fait des activités un peu plus sociales et moins académiques que la FSS mais ils font des trucs chouettes aussi! 🇲🇫 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Edinburgh Branch – The Franco Scottish Society

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Great #scotwriterpitch2025 entertainment here today, thanks and welcome to all new followers... and 👏👏👏 to @peterurpeth.bsky.social and team 🙏

A courageous step into the unknown: statue perched on the seawall at Antibes near the Picasso Museum

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Vous êtes française ou francophone? Je gerais autrefois le Club Francophile des Highlands, la ci-devant Franco Scottish Society 🇲🇫

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Imposter syndrome gets us all from time to time. Just keep writing! Good luck! 📚

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Hope it's been good overall? I've been combining it with some overdue editing so a bit intermittent this time.

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iowwriter.bsky.social @iowwriter.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

One young woman put to death, another trying to keep her alive #scotwriterpitch2025

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

And finally... still 1919. Joe is the only son of Mary and Henry. They are my paternal grandparents. But Joe is not my father. 📚 Anyone fancy a long, immersive, escapist read about two real families, one of them Indian/Irish and royal, the other Canadian/British - and my own? #scotwriterpitch2025

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Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Writers! Keep them pitches coming! Publishers & Agents! Follow the hashtag #scotwriterpitch2025 for some very good book ideas!

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

What time does it end, Peter?

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

This one makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck, always a good sign!

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I am just reluctant to spend more time on social media than I already do... it eats into my writing and editing time!

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Good luck! It's fun seeing what's in vogue each year. Picking up on a desire for escape, adventure and optimism this time.

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

(Cont'd.) These two books based on real events. Mary and Henry are my paternal grandparents. Joe (pictured here as a boy with Mary) is Mary and Henry's only son. So... if Joe fails to return to Vancouver from India in 1919, will I ever be born? 😳 Saga/Historical Fiction/autism #scotwriterpitch2025

Young boy beside pony cart with his mother and a fox terrier named Cracky Jack

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

It has the merit of not being a Meta-based platform too.

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Just curious, fellow #scotswriterpitch2025 folk. Did you set up your account just in order to do this event? I've had a BlueSky account here for a while but found it hard to fathom at first. Have been more active on Threads since leaving TwiX last year. Enjoying today though!

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

(Cont'd) Will strange, courageous Mary find her missing son Joe as she travels through India? And what is the shadowy connection between Joe and the court of the Maharajahs of Patiala? Will either Mary or Joe ever see Henry, or Vancouver Island, again? (TBC!) #ScotWriterPitch

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

It's been going on Twix for some years already. Wondering how engagement compares thus far, hope it's good.

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

(Cont'd). 1919. Mary and Henry's only son Joe grows up on Vancouver Island, just as strange as his over-protective mother. When he runs away to India, only to vanish feared dead, Mary leaves philandering Henry and travels to India alone to try to find him. (TBC!) #scotpitchwriter2025

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I've read an early version of this MS. Sits on the cusp between fiction, biography and memoir. It's extraordinary. #scotwriterpitch2025

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iowwriter.bsky.social @iowwriter.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Two young women separated by a century but united by a quest for justice. A biography/memoir. #scotwriterpitch2025

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

(Cont'd...) C19th child bride Mary is cut off from the family fortune that dodgy husband Henry was relying on to shore up his fortunes. And Mary is pregnant, with no idea what childbirth will mean. Shamed and broke, will Henry choose Canada or India for their new life? (TBC!) #ScotWriterPitch2025

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

True. There are mugs I never touch at the back of the shelf ....

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I really like the sound of this this. If you take inspiration from Kingussie, check out the CWGC graves from WWII in the cemetery. So many from south east Asia, often army drivers, a story to be told there too.

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

We all need hope at present. Here's to some optimistic writing. Good luck!

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

On her 30th birthday, a small-time reporter suddenly finds that every time she asks someone a question, they tell her the truth. Excellent news for her career, less so for her personal life. Truth hurts... Yellowface x Really Good, Actually Speculative/book club fiction #scotwriterpitch2025

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Anna P. Read @annapread.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Kingussie, 1901: When a patient gets murdered in a TB sanatorium, Nell, a foreign nurse, with three days to investigate, discovers deception in the small community of patients and staff. What will she do when her own secrets start coming into the open? Inspired by real setting #scotwriterpitch2025

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I'm still in recovery from The Devil Rides Out! Aleister Crowley back from the dead, horrors (and great idea).

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I had a hoodie crow who could imitate my car alarm!

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

If you start liking and sharing posts with the hashtag #scotwriterpitch2025 today (search for it initially) it should train the algorithm 🤞🤞🤞 @peterurpeth.bsky.social?

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Vee Walker @veewalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Strange Mary Southgate is locked up for most of her childhood. She bites, paces carpets, shatters wax dolls. When she siezes her only chance to escape, eloping with dubious lawyer Henry, what could possibly go wrong? (TBC!). C19th - C20th. Two-novel historical fiction/saga #scotwriterpitch2025

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PeterUrpeth @peterurpeth.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Good luck to all writers pitching their work today in the Bluesky Writers’ Pitch 2025 - don’t forget to include the all important tag: #scotwriterpitch2025

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