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Just my imagination. Running away with me. Author of lit fic. Foodie. Cat momma. (Not necessarily in that order.) WATER BABY (Quercus) available where books are sold only you have to ask a bookseller cos mid-list titles can't be found on the shelves!😆 🙊
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Gene Hackman? RIP🙏🏾

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PATHWAYS is out now (Little, Brown UK). ‘Pathways is sublime.’ Chioma Okereke @chiomatic.bsky.social #bookreview #booksky 💙📚 #pathways in paperback on 10 April 2025 #philsky #lablit https://buff.ly/3WzE8yM

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Discover the informal settlement of Makoko, explore the heart of Lagos, and encounter a young woman on the precipice of adulthood in this coming-of-age story. WATER BABY: now out in paperback and longlisted for the inaugural Climate Fiction Price. #writersky #booksky #writingcommunity #readersky

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The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.

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The worst case of insnoria* led me to the discovery of APPLE CIDER VINEGAR on Netflix at around 4am. Only one more episode left. Do I watch it now or keep it for the evening? It's so good, I think I need to save it 🙊 *Insnoria - when you can't sleep cos someone is snoring their ass off next to you.

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Never really thought about this before observing my cats this morning, but I tend to move from room to room when writing at home. I stay put for about a week or so before changing locations. Qu: what type of writing animal are you, or what's your current favourite work room? #writersky #booksky

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Don't miss our next online event! ✨ Discover how to make your flash fiction stand out ✨ Writerly insights from published flash writers Kirsty Logan, @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social and @adamzed.bsky.social ✨ £10 / £1 tickets also available ✨ Sign up: www.crowdcast.io/c/fire-up-your-flash-fiction

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LONGLIST HIGHLIGHT ‘Stunningly, poetically realised, an urgent, tender and raw observation of how, when things come upon us at our most tender and vulnerable, we are compelled to act and protect, again and again.' @nicolawriting.bsky.social, Climate Fiction Prize judge

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Looking forward to the LIFTED LITERARY FESTIVAL 2025. Join our wonderful panel discussion on Sacred Stories, this Friday 7th February at 10am PST. I'm in conversation with two phenomenal storytellers: Lola Akinmade and Remica L. Bingham- Fisher. Full schedule: www.liftedunited.com/lifted-liter...

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Got that, America?

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Happy Monday, everyone! #Monday #NewWeek #Dreams #WritersLife #RachelChurcherWriting

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Friends as we transition into 2025 & the unknown please use this for your mental health. Please Worry about what’s in your circle not the stuff outside your circle & outside your control. I promise you’ll be better off both physically & mentally.

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Morning! I’d like to follow as many independent bookshops as possible, especially ones who love their children’s books. Can you help me? If you know a great Indy bookshop on Bluesky please let me know. We are @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social (I’m Events Manager and Trish is the Owner/Manager).

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Happy pub day! 📚♥️🥳

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The words of Dr King are still true today. Let us celebrate him and everything he has taught us knowing the difficult days ahead. He never sat down and neither can we. #DRMLKJR ✊

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Are unboxing videos a thing over here? Hope so 'cos I just spent (more time than I'd like to admit) shaving this video down to 60 secs. Judge me as a storyteller, not as a filmmaker! Please visit makokopearls.org to learn more about the setting of Water Baby. #booksky #writingcommunity #writer

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Unsolicited writing advice, no. #14151: You don't need to write for publication, or for money, or for an audience, or for anyone but yourself. Joy is a worthwhile objective. Joy doesn't need a reason.

submitted 40 days ago • 11 comments

The paperback for Water Baby is released in the UK today. Supremely proud of this work and all it has taken to get here. Even more grateful for all the people that have worked on and supported this book. Looking forward to more people getting to know, and love, Baby!

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Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

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Excited for the paperback release of Water Baby this Thursday (16th January)! 🥳

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This movie is racking up awards so part of me is curious to watch Emilia Pérez, but first I'm going to need someone to zip-tie my arms and legs to a chair, AND put a helmet on my head in case I try and launch myself at the TV! Still unsure I'm going to make it through the runtime.

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A writer's work is never done but it feels AMAZING when you complete the first draft of a new work! Now the real work begins as the editing phase commences. This is a lesson in patience and humility as you're confronted with your opening chapters, which suck. 🤦🏾‍♀️ But stick at it! #happywhensday

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Everyone's a critic. What are you working on this year? #amwriting

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Happy New Year/Day/Moment. New slate. A million possibilities. Let's get to work! ♥️ #happywhensday

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Looking forward to getting stuck into these (and hopefully some more) over the holiday break! What are you reading? 🎄📚👍🏿

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Thank you @brittlepaper.bsky.social for including Water Baby in the 100 Notable African Books of 2024. So many incredible works this year; truly appreciate the mention. Going out on a high note! 📚♥️

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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. - Frederick Douglass What's lighting up your day? #happywhensday

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not saying I'm feeling especially lazy today but I briefly - very briefly! - considered buying a copy of my own ebook while in the living room because the physical copies I keep at home are upstairs in my bedroom and that just felt like too much effort

submitted 79 days ago • 92 comments

I'll be at The Southbank Centre in April taking about my new novel. For the very, very organised amongst you, tickets are now on sale :)

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👍 prepared!

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Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

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Writers: yes, you are still a "real" writer if you - have never published anything - have no readers - didn't write anything this month - didn't write anything this year - can't articulate words anymore - can only float and mournfully wail - were murdered ten years ago on this very spot

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Poem by Joseph Fasano. It’s that time of year. H/T to Alice Adams for the picture.

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Latest Author Q&A is on the Big Bearded Bookseller blog, this one is from @katiewardwriter.bsky.social and talks about her novel Pathways and some of her writing habits #author #AuthorInterview #blogging 💙📚 #BookSky www.bigbeardedbookseller.com/2024/11/26/k...

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