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Friends!!! I have a ton of ARCs of my next novel to give away! Like and repost this to enter. I’ll pick a winner tonight (Thurs May 29) at 9 pm Eastern. US only sorry ❤️

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Meanwhile, over at the other place.... the power of words to oppress. Words that don't even appear on the packaging concerned. Words that should be there, shouldn't be there; it doesn't matter: the shouting will happen anyway.

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On #Nemo 's performance #Eurovision2025 and the ensuing snide, bullying, blockhead comments (mainly on X)... It was raw. It was edgy. It was courageous. It wasn't meant to be comfortable. It was a howling cry of pain, magnified by the very hater-dictators who tell you to bury who you really are.

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A note to @bbc #eurovision commentators. The next time you talk over Hazel Brugger, I cancel my TV licence

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If you're looking for a hot math #Eurovision tip, the best position in the running order to win from is 17th Tonight, that means 🇬🇷 Greece, Klavdia – Asteromáta

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#pretendpanel May 17: Is there a panel you're dying to hear? Who is on it? What are they talking about? The panel I'm dying for features me talking about the WIP I finished just 5 minutes ago. Sorry. I know it's off topic. I'm just so happy. #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

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I'm in but can't take your call. Busy making grapefruit jam with Yoko Ogawa. The pregnant sister is slurping it up as fast as we can make it. It's the only thing she's kept down for months. Call back in the final trimester. #books #booksky💙📚 #reading #AmReading #readingCommunity

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Please accept my apologies for anyone watching #Eurovision in the UK and struggling to hear the brilliant and funny English-spoken broadcast all because BBC commentators think spoilers, repetition and arrogance somehow adds to the spectacle.

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Catching up with first episode of #HandmaidsTale Season 6 .... and trying to catch my breath. 😥 Gets me every single time. The best, most important television imaginable.

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Sorry, phone's out of range right now. I'm out at Dutchman's Creek with John Langan. Having second thoughts to be honest. Weird nightmare and dire warnings at a diner en route. Hey ho. Get the chips on. Bringing back a monster. #books #booksky💙📚 #reading #AmReading #readingCommunity

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Can't take your call. I'm out for a meal with Dolki Min. The subway is so0O0o packed, but so is the bloke we're eating... I mean meeting. Call you back after a bite... 'bit'. #books #booksky💙📚 #reading #AmReading #readingCommunity

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NYTimes article on the participatory culture of Japan's otaku, and its historical legs #fans #fantom www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/t...

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#pretendpanel April 19th: what popular writing advice does NOT work for you? Writing advice is great, but needs to negotiate the contexts of your WIP. I write 1st person, but it's largely a round hole to the square peg of 'show don't tell'. #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

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#pretendpanel April 18th: favourite writing advice? If you work and write, you are a trapeze artist. You will get knocked off balance. Learn to deal with those feelings. I lost 6 weeks. Just got back up. Careful steps. Progress. 3,000 words today #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

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Sorry I'm not around to take your call. I'm back at the zoo with Otsuichi. There's no one else about. He's showing me that photo of his dead girlfriend ... again. Call you when the zoo closes. #books #booksky💙📚 #reading #AmReading #readingCommunity

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A 450-yo oak is felled without permission by a Toby Carvery (don’t eat there), who falsely claimed it was "dead". A tree alive when The Gunpowder Plot was hatched, which supports a web of 2000+ species, is in pieces. Legal protection for heritage trees needed. enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-carvery...

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Sorry I can't take your call. I'm at the hotel with Daisy Johnson, trying to avoid room 63. Do leave a message with the woman in white at reception! #books #booksky💙📚 #reading #AmReading #readingCommunity

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Down the deep end with Jade Song. Her tail is growing on me. As is her tale. 👋 Wave if you need me. #books #booksky💙📚 #reading #AmReading #readingCommunity

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Spring blossoms at Kew @rbgkew.bsky.social

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Adverts in space would vandalise the night sky www.scientificamerican.com/article/spac...

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Can't pick up right now. Down in the cellar with Marcus Kliewer. The house was a killer deal, Mo reminds me. If you do call back, answer the secret knock: Duh--duh-duh-duh--duh...

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#pretendpanel March 29: Name a book (or books) that shook you (for better or for worse) Dennis Cooper's thrilling books linking sex and violence, now known as the George Miles cycle, disturbed the safe boundaries I'd assumed between life and art. #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

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Thank you for calling. I'm off to Seoul with Esther Yi, penning fanfic and stalking K-pop idol 'Moon'. Please leave Y/N after the tone. #books #booksky💙📚 #reading #AmReading #readingCommunity

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If I was making Doctor Who, the title sequence would be original Radiophonic Workshop set to this

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#pretendpanel March 23rd: What kind of a reader are you? 1/2 I am a slow fiction reader: I want every syllable to sing, every thought pondered, every act embodied, start to finish. I hate giving up on novels. Only with non fiction am I .... #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

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Hari is taking advantage of the spring sun #caturday

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#pretendpanel March 22 ⬇️

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pretendpanel March 22nd: Is it about the journey or the destination? For me, it depends on where I am in the process. I'm a journey person, but always pay the ticket at some point on the ride. End first? I only use strategic reading with NF. #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

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Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender? 99p on Kindle all Friday 21st March!!!

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#pretendpanel March 16th: Do you consider yourself a plot-first or character-first writer? I generally define characters before developing the plot. Having said that, I'm a first person rhizomic plantser with naughty, undisciplined tendrils. #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

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There's no wrong answers tonight, #pretendpanel! March 16th: Do you consider yourself a plot-first or character-first writer? #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

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#pretendpanel March 15th: what is your approach to violence or death in your stories? In my WIP, volence and death are essential to the orbit of character and story. I lean into that weight - a significant commitment to theme, continuity and tone #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

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Hari dreams of being the cover star of i-D magazine #Caturday #Cat #CatsofBlueSky

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Hey, I've gone down The Pachinko Parlour with Elisa Shua Dusapin. Don't be old! Message me! #books #booksky💙📚 #reading #AmReading #readingCommunity

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If you're trying to reach me, I'm somewhere in The Factory doing the hike with Hiroko Oyamada. Been here a day, or a week. Smells of birds, most likely shags. Leave a message. #books #booksky💙📚 #reading #AmReading #readingCommunity

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🩸 Microhorror Prompt Contest – Enter If You Dare! 🖤 A single chilling image. A 500-word horror challenge. Can you craft the most haunting tale? 🔪 Submit your story in the Forbidden Forum. 📖 Winner featured in Whispers from Beyond! 🕛 Votes tallied on the 25th. Join now: www.darkholmepublish...

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Dark Holme won’t stay silent—we stand for unity, diversity, inclusion, and the right to be who you are without fear. We stand with Americans fighting tyranny, for women’s rights, trans rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and human rights. Hate thrives in silence. Speak up. Be loud! #diversityandinclusion

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Theme of the weekend: Golden Hour ⏱️ Photo by Ole Henrik Skjelstad (instagram.com/ole.henrik.skjelstad) #landscape #landscapephotography #photography #lshweekend

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#pretendpanel Your publishing pathway? Rhizomic. 1st pub story was Teddy Comes Home + won TV comp age 10. Poetry in teens. Won Brit Fash Journo award. Lots of Non Fic inc my book Marco Polo. Short stories lately. Seeking publisher 4 horror novel #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

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