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No 1 bestselling Irish crime writer (adult & YA) 💙📚 Chair Society of Authors, views my own. Agent: Simon Trewin https://linktr.ee/SamBlakeBooks
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A greeting for negligent penpals and procrastinating authors. Postcard from my collection, 1911.

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I just realized the two astronauts on the space station must have received the email

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I had my flight delayed by 4+ hours, and so did another woman who also couldn't be bothered going back through security, so we spent the afternoon grumpily working on our laptops in the corner of a departure lounge. We're bonded now and I'm fairly sure we'd die for each other.

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👏👏👏

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The Dark Hours by Amy Jordan jenmedsbookreviews.com/2025/02/24/t... via @jenlucas.bsky.social

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cats typically hate eye contact bc it’s a form of aggression but my girl cat puts a paw on my chest and insists on prolonged eye contact. she purrs and tilts her head side to side while we trade slow blinks. she gazes adoringly at me until she rubs her face on mine then curls up in my lap 🥹🥰

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have literally called every shop i looked in today, just in case 🫠

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Nearly at 5,000 signatures now - let's keep this going! actionstorm.org/petitions/ma...

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Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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In 59 years, 9 months and 27 days of living I had never knowingly come across the word ‘pandiculation’ and I have now seen it twice in a morning. Something’s afoot.

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I was looking for a picture of one of my cats bc he reminds me of #Assan for a post reply. He's just so cute, I had to share him on my page. Everyone, meet my Mr. Biscuits. He likes BBQ chicken, baking biscuits, and stiring up trouble. 🧡 #cats #datv

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Here's a COOL thing. today's first book was a copy of The Murder Game by Tom Hindle. The person who bought it was visiting the UK from ALASKA, and made sure a visit to Bert's Books was on their itinerary!

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*Checks calendar* Oh brilliant it's the 23rd at last. Ten days since I bought that punnet of Pears. Which means, after years of trial and error and research and failure after failure: in one hour exactly that punnet of Pears will be perfectly ripe for precisely forty seconds

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Some good news. A tribute to persistence, and the importance of taking the long view. Seeds from the last toromiro, unique to remote Easter Island, were taken away in the 1960s. Now, after a crucial discovery gave hope for its survival, it is making a return." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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What good choices! Keep Your Eyes on Me (my first standalone) was inspired by Strangers on a Train ('cept they were on a plane, and two aggreived women...)

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If you need a book or two, I’m here until 4pm!- Sally

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Serendipity is a real thing. I know this is Ireland & we bump into each other in the wildest unexpected places, but really wasn't expecting it in Term 2 at 7.45 am on a random Friday. (I rarely travel on a Friday.) Where's the craziest randomest place you've bumped into someone?!

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The very good and slightly remarkable news that I forgot to share, was that I bumped into one of my bestest friends, who I haven't seen for far too long, in the airport on Friday. Which was very lovely.

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It was -60° around here last week. Today it was 38°. That’s a 98 degree temp shift. But who’s counting, yknow? 💀

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Always bear in mind what your characters do not know at any given point in the story you're telling.

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Plan

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Anyway, here's Sugar the cat contemplating the impermanence of life and the very nature of existence, as one does

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Loved this book so much. Breathless reading and I cried...

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lads i have to say my panel yesterday at Granite Noir was so good. we had such a lovely time. Elle Nash & Kirsty Logan are so, so smart and warm, and Eris Young asked absolutely unreal questions. it went by in a flash. it’d do your heart good to be talked to like your ideas matter!!!!!

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Planning a european train holiday and i want to think the nice person who put together this site, it's a godsend. www.seat61.com

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Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

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the small wolf

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Dora Carrington’s Farm At Watendlath, 1921 www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks...

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Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro has joined calls for the UK government to “reconsider and change course” when it comes to AI, warning that “no one believes the proposed ‘opt-out’ system will work”. 👇 #BookSky

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Beautifully succinct, and applicable to so many people other than who she is actually talking about.

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Oh goodness 😥

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Can anyone look at this graphic and say that we do not urgently need rewilding on a massive scale?

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Adding alt text because this is super important

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With an unexpected extra weekend, I've managed to get wormer for the beast. The other morning he tried to wake everyone up with his cold murder paws at 3.30, wanting his breakfast. When I got up at 5 to go to the airport he arrived with a protest rodent and sat and crunched it outside the bathroom 😳

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More storm today ⛈️ It had occurred to me that getting home from #GraniteNoir in Aberdeen could be an issue, had I got there, obviously 😢🤦 Well worth the trip for such a fantastic event, so well organised & fabulous venue 👏👏 Sign up for their newsletter so you get info early for next year!

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