Anna Vaught
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Writer, teacher, hustler, momma, #Curae . PGR @yorkstjohn . Mentor @jerichowriters 2024: To Melt the Stars. @brokensleep 31/07; Her Winter Song @renardpress 20/10
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Out today, 31/07
To Melt the Stars
@brokensleep
These are essays on love, dedicated to Mr Bookworm on our silver wedding anniversary - with a few surprises in the book, that’s for sure.
I hope you enjoy it. Do let me see copies in the wild!
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Asking for a friend. Is it weird to choose to stay in on New Year’s Eve and read? In a dressing gown, by the fire, with pom pom socks on and drinks and quality snacks?
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In other news, scandalously I was asked yesterday why women swoon over Andrew Scott. If anyone feels like contributing to this discourse, maybe over your lunchbreak, I shall leave this right here. You needn't be a woman
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Putting this out there. Would anyone be interested in contributing to an anthology on loss, were I to be able to put such a thing together over the next 18 months? Short non-fiction and creative non-fiction. Bereavement if you would want, loss of friendships in the sea changes...
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I needed a mac; a jaunty little waterproof, but no; I got this cerise fake fur number instead.
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Hello. Is this a ridiculous item please? I have wanted a vintage Welsh wool coat for ages - I am sure many of you feel the same way - and this is 1960s. Will I look like a rug or a chair? Or my nan?
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Too embarrassing & will remove! I got into a ghastly industry situation, was bullied & nearly gave up.
@Joannechocolat
saw I was in trouble & lovingly extended a hand, gave advice & helped strengthen me. Never made that public; am now - in case it's nice for her to hear today 😍
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My eldest just went to get my heart meds for me as I’m not allowed out. We hadn’t twigged you could not pay for prescriptions with cash, which was all he had. A lady came forward and paid for it with her card & told him not to worry about it. No need to get contact details.
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Contract signed on a book. That's always a lovely little moment there. I hope you don't mind my sharing.
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Book news. Delighted to say that I have just signed with a fabulous new agent:
@keslupo
@binderyagency
New adventures and a variety of projects - just wait! Hooray!
#writingcommunity
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A request twitter friends! This is my youngest: loves maps, geography & making flags. Loves to travel & meet people. He wants to wish EVERYONE a HAPPY NEW YEAR. Wherever you are in the world, do say hi & tell him where you are? X From our Anglo-Welsh-American-Cherokee family! ❤️
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I’m not and will likely never be an award winner, never got a grant, a residency or asked to be a fellow of anything, - oh but I tell you what I’ve done, sandwiched in there, pending final supervision, I’ve just finished writing a PhD and I am
FUCKING JUBILANT
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I have NEWS.
From next month, I shall be writing a monthly column for
@thebookseller
Yes. I am over the moon.
@spinningkates
@WolfLiterary
and a big ❤️to
@mollyflatt
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Thread. 10% of authors earning nearly half all author income. That's startling, isn't it?
This is going to be a long thread and it's personal because I thought it might be helpful to show you what I have done. I am going in hard with information on £ but also ideas. Ready?
"A picture of a writing profession that is inaccessible and unsustainable for too many" - our response to
@ALCS_UK
's 2022 report on author incomes.
#PayTheCreator
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@DrPragyaAgarwal
@pocobookreader
Quite so. I agree with Pragya. With a secondary background, I’d say straight to Head of Department and Head. Governors if no action is taken immediately.
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If I may? This is a section of Oxford Street. There are few words; it’s unconscionable. One thing I know - I worked in this area for years - is that homelessness can happen to anyone with a particular confluence of circumstances & things going wrong
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Things are kind of heartbreaking for us - our family - right now. I do see twitter as a community. May I ask you, lovely ones, to send cheer, light a candle, remember us in your prayers if that’s you? Reply if you like! Positive encouragement thaf everyone can see
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@GiantRatSumatra
@RSmythFreelance
Sadly I took it into the light to check. Yes. D is not wearing a lilac pigeon snood
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AN ANNOUNCEMENT.
If you are a would-be Creative Writing student (or combined honours) & you missed your university place because of the A level fiasco, would you like me to mentor you for a year? It would be an honour. Portfolio, cheerleading, ideas, reading suggestions?
THEN...
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Whoah this light
Come over if you’re sad. I have books, blankets, buckets for your tears, kittens, the kettle is on - plus I’m defrosting some Welshcakes - ooh warm, is it - with butter?
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So I met this guy from Georgia on a street in Kolkata; he asked me for directions. Later I went for a boat ride with him, as here. I married him 10 months later. All a bit mad. It’s just occurred to me that next year is our 25th wedding anniversary which is so strange
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@scriptwren
Ah no bloody love this. It’s my silver wedding anniversary this year to a random bloke who asked me for directions.❤️
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@AdamSinger
@niais
@destroytoday
@ArmandDoma
Yes. You sound wonderful. I talked to the school nurse (mine are 8, 15 & 17) and she said, “Bottom line is everybody fed and nobody dead.” ❤️
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@Philippa_Perry
He asked me for directions, I gave him bad directions and he subsequently got lost. Then I encountered him again. Married him ten months later. This was 23 years and 10 months ago. Neither of us is lost any more x
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RIP to the most awful, naughty and beautiful boy. The King of all elderly Tabsters. I know he’s made a lot of you smile so I hope you don’t mind my sharing. A horrible shock tonight. Be away for a little while; today already brought loss. ❤️
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I have NEWS.
I am in at York St John University for a PhD by Published Works, to start December this year.
‘Go there on a wing in your imagination’: Magical Realism as therapeutic writing in Saving Lucia and These Envoys of Beauty. Massive thanks to all involved
@YorkStJohn
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I have to share this with you because I am the world's biggest idiot. I have successfully uploaded a picture of the kitten for the school's cutest pets competition rather than my first degree certificate - the former said Baby, the latter BAhons. This is for a PhD application
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I met this guy - nice American; look at that grin - when he asked me for directions in Kolkata. Reader, I married him a few months later. It’s our silver wedding on July 31st & I’ve got a book out for him, wild impulsive thing that I am. Literally fell over this guy in the street
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I have never been on a writing retreat. I would like to. With a small group of folk who don’t mind my being a weirdo. We go for walks and work for hours, then talk - but also there could be custard slices and Murder she Wrote.
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An announcement. Other than for book news and updates (excepting FB, which is a private site for me) I will be taking a year away from socials. It’s for time & space to write the PhD & take my books to a new level in the context of significant challenges. Stay well bookworms ❤️📚
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Quick fly by. 23 years and 10 months ago, a guy from Georgia asked me for directions on a flooded Kolkata street. 23 years ago, I married him. It's a story though, isn't it? Happy Anniversary Dixie and a big heart full of love to you all. (Pic: Lyme Regis in a stiff breeze.)
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News! I am delighted to have given a bursary to support a Creative Writing student
@BirkbeckUoL
allowing them to flourish regardless of their financial situation. This means a huge amount to me & I so hope it will be a great boost for someone. Details up in good time.
@tobylitt
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Grants for writers in need - The Society of Authors In case you’re unaware of these. You can apply at any time and you don’t even need to be a
@Soc_of_Authors
member
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So it was suggested to me earlier that I might start a literary festival. Maybe mid 2026 onwards. Fully hybrid for access. How about it? Who’s in? An additional twist would be that I’d actually be at a festival. 10th book out next year & never had an invitation. Anyway - ❤️📚
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I’ve never been more ashamed of our government and THAT is saying something
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I want to show you something I’m proud of. I had neurological damage on one side 3 years ago. I’ve been doing Spirograph with Nipper and look. I’m very slow but manoeuvring & controlling my hand so much better. Bit teary about that.
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I am spitting with rage today anyway, so, as an English teacher, might as well point out that the apostrophe ought to be after the s unless your friend has multiple homes.
There are a limited number of things you can now do in England that you could not do before.
Don't break the rules - regularly check if things have changed here:
#StayAlert
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She won’t admit it, but we believe she got at the spaghetti Bolognese
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So I just submitted my memoir. This is a piece of work I have not written about much; I think I felt a bit shy. It's called These Envoys of Beauty and is a collection of twelve interlinked essays on nature and trauma and is both pretty and dark & super-plant-nerdy. Ooh I wonder
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IT IS ALL HAPPENING
Here's some lovely
#writing
news. My 2nd short story collection, Ravished. A Collection of Cautionary and Reckless Tales (subtitled, A Series of Reflections on Age, Sex, Death and Judgement) will be published by
@reflexfiction
Autumn, 2022.
Hooray.
SCARY!
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Here's what I'd really like to know. There are many beautiful books about writing. Which ones did you find most helpful and REALLY IMPORTANTLY encouraging - with realistic work, ideas and practical solutions in them? Below are my top three.
#WritingCommunity
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In other news, finally got openly cross with someone who’s criticised our home, the kids, me for 20 years. All that time it upset me but I thought best keep the peace. Usually when I get cross, it’s very sweary, but I said YOU WILL DESIST ON THESE TOPICS. Who the fuck says that?
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Nice to share good news in whatever form & this time it’s medical. I have long Covid & have been unwell since March. I was born with a heart condition & concern about this in context/with symptoms. Given the all clear from cardiology just now: so happy & relieved. Been scared.
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...but also loss of what you’ve seen you can’t have, make or do. I’d thought first of interpersonal relationships but broad brush here would be better, huh? And I’d want hope in there; inspiration: ideas. We need that too. I’d be looking for a small pub to take it on...but then..
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2024 commemorates a reckless decision to marry - with indecent haste - a bloke who asked me for directions on a Kolkata street. Everyone went, WTF are you even DOING?
Happy silver wedding anniversary to this babe, and I hope he likes the book published for him that day, 31/07/24
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Well. Head MRI is clear and although heart stuff not ideal, can be managed and medicated. I am so pleased and wanted to share.
On we go.
Sunny desk; grateful face x
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@cullenbohannons
I love the high camp of this. Glorious stuff. Also is he on a cross channel ferry there?
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Hi. I’m a teacher and this chap is in jail because he refused to stay away from school during the disciplinary hearing about this. If there is an investigation, you must stay away from the school. Whatever it is for. He refused to comply.
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Newsing
.
@renardpress
has snapped up Anna Vaught’s "beautifully written folkloric fable", Her Winter Song, illustrated by Maya Chessman 👇
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For a tenner
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Hope you love the new book. Very sadly, I won’t be able to be about much for a while but I will love seeing copies out in the world so do share.
I said it’s a joyful book about grief.
I also told you to Be More Zebra.
Feel that and be that ❤️🦓
Your ever-loving Bookworm
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In other news - unbelievable to you because I’m barely an adult, but I just got this frock for my silver wedding anniversary. It will of course be worn barefoot and with no elegance, but lots of energy because that’s my vibe
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I know it’s a simplification but let go of worrying about your age. I’ve lost 2 close friends recently; 1 more is v ill. I think this: today go out there in whatever way you can (inc. online) & be ragingly alive: to grow older is a blessing & a privilege not accorded to all❤️
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No dad, never had a dad, had a horrid dad, miss your lovely dad, have a dad & he’s not v nice WELL here’s a mighty hug from me, or hug look, if not a hugger. My own dad’s a shadowy presence in memories, but I think the world is full of other loves - oh so many - so be comforted
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Here is the news. Over the coming year there will be much to tell you about this new novel and I hope you love it all, but for now welcome to the world The Zebra and Lord Jones and big love to this dream team
@spinningkates
@renardpress
and
@WolfLiterary
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Still can’t get over the fact my book and I got mentioned in The Bookseller. It’s like...well I was generally third olive tree from left in the nativity play and it sort of continued like that. Now briefly I get to be Mary. Or maybe a camel.
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'My spouse & I both care for our life limited child & I am also disabled: we squeeze our writing into the cracks. I think we are both going to enter. Such a supportive idea.' As received today❤️
#Curae
A new writing prize for carers. Subs close 1/03.
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@RebeccaRideal
I'd have been in there too. It does leave you shaking. Here's a hug for you because you awesomely challenged an unacceptable thing.
PS: sharing that I threw someone out of my house the other day because of things that were said. This time on immigration. Yes, shaking x
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COVER REVEAL! Welcome to the world. Out at the end of March 2023 from
@reflexfiction
this is my memoir - set over twelve essays on the natural world. See description here:
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LOVELY BOOK NEWS
I am delighted to tell you that The Alchemy, a guide to gentle productivity in writing, is - subject to successful crowdfunding - publishing with
@unbounders
Thrilled that the team has got behind this with such passion & look forward to an adventure with you ALL
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Please share & RT.
OPPORTUNITY! Pleased to announce 2 FREE mentoring slots of 6 months each for disabled & chronically ill
#writers
currently working towards a novel or short story collection.
*Fully online (additional needs discussed)
*Monthly meet on zoom (or other platform)
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Why you write is entirely up to you, but if you want to think about it as career, something with longevity & a source of remuneration, let me share again the single best bit of (book) writing advice (other than keep the day job & don’t rest your identity & self-esteem on it)I got
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BOOK NEWS. This WOULD happen the moment I steal away but I’m sharing (partial only) because, you know, love & possibility.
My memoir, These Envoys of Beauty, has found a home. 12 essays: nerdy, weird, pretty - nature & trauma; imagination: fractals to constellations to lichen
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Whoah. Didn’t see that coming. Thank you so very much.
Really making our way through and now it’s time for our Publisher & Winner Award winner… it’s
@BookwormVaught
!
Well done for hard-copying a great entry to us this year!
#CreativeBathAwards
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I've been asked not to mention Amazon before but please let me have this. Over the past 10 days, The Alchemy has been doing really well and that includes being a bestseller on kindle across multiple categories. Today, it's done the same as a paperback. My sweet unpublishable book
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I am so delighted and honoured. This is such a wonderful boost for me and I take my hat off to you, Jake and team. Thank you.
We are happy to announce the longlist for
The Barbellion Prize 2020:
(Thread below)
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Some folks reached a new low on twitter today and I want to have everyone round who feels upset and scared. It's hard to know where to start, but I will just say, don't EVER use anyone's child as a way to criticise them or gain leverage over them. EVER.
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Hamster Hoover made a six year old laugh for a full five minutes.
Cord-free. Hassle-free. Powerful suction.
Hamsters™
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Hi everyone. you may have seen in The Bookseller that I am starting a literary festival - The Renegade - in 2026, funding dependent. 70% online for access; the rest, bookshop partnership on Wilts/Somerset border + a day writing retreat at Bookworm Towers. We make a modest start!
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Welcome to the world, you strange little book! A first short story collection:
#Famished
@Influxpress
@MWLiterary
@spinningkates
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3 years ago I had neurological damage: less symmetrical than before; like I’m recovering from a dental injection; movement’s restricted on on 1 side of my face. Been self conscious about photos. Let’s kick that into touch. So selfie, full of cold, no filters: a big thing for me❤️
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So we have a engaging little thread going on the use (or not - please) of synonyms for ‘said’ but how about this one? I think the ‘show don’t tell’ maxim is over-used & can tie writers in knots & lead to florid prose (fine one to talk obvs 😂). Controversial!
What do you think?
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Have I got the lunchtime question for you. So. How did YOU know when to let something go? To put it down and move on? A career, friendship, job, dream, relationship, ambition: whatever is germane to you.
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I’m sorry if this is embarrassing, but my proof has arrived & so I’m giving my new book a hug. Also, have set the disco coffee table-come book shrine to orange. That bird ornament: a sparrow (you’ll see). It’s for Violet & is from our garden
#SavingLucia
Thank you
@Ofmooseandmen
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Look! We have Britain’s weirdest kitten. She has dragged these items into her manger come lair including, just now, a breadstick
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I regret to inform you that Mr Bookworm and I will indeed be starting a literary podcast. Chat on what we’re reading. Possibly some light bickering. He’s wildly clever & you may think, fuck me, who’s that idiot on the podcast with Mr Bookworm x
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BOOK NEWS. So changing lit. agency - much more common than people realise & done in good humour, strategically. I’ve various meetings to go, requests for fulls on a new novel, lovely direct contact from a publisher +announcement in The Bookseller next week. For encouragements,
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If I may? For our British viewers, this looks like someone having a go at Graphics who’s not going to be doing it for GCSE - they’re in year 9 and were set a branding homework & took 2 minutes on it because they didn’t give a toss and their homework was shite
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BOOK NEWS
Delighted to announce that my first essay collection, To Melt the Stars, will be published
@brokensleep
in July 2024. ❤️
@GodzillaKent
& the team for taking it on. All about love: passionately queer, curious, sad, twisty, full of rage and dark humour.
Thanks, Flaubert
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I've been asked why the shortlist & winners of
#Curae
are all female. So, everything was read blind, but I've seen the stats too. From 280 entrants, 13 were male. Evidence tells us that women are more likely to provide unpaid care than men in every age group up to 75 to 79 years
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Front door. Come over and we will let in more soft light like this. There are blankets and mugs of tea and I have buns and those little pretzel sticks which you can’t stop eating and we’ll be okay, yes?
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@mikegalsworthy
@big_taff
Oh God. Send help. One of my eldest’s Sociology teachers is actually recommending Ben Shapiro and (breaks into cold sweat) Jordan Peterson. There was a bloody argument in our house because I disputed BS’s compelling ‘facts and evidence.’
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Just signed the contract for UK & commonwealth on new novel The Zebra and Lord Jones. Out September 2023.
This is a lovely & life-giving moment and hence I wanted to share. And say thanks to
@renardpress
@WolfLiterary
@spinningkates
❤️🦓
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Announcement proper - as it’s bound up with other lovely things (none of which I made) - in early November, but I can tell you that my first book about writing will be out, autumn 2023. Gentle, counter-intuitive & about working with what you have, however you are. ❤️📚YAY
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I hope this is okay to share. Mr Bookworm just gave me this. For all the books & memoir tomorrow & also we've been & are going through the fire & he sorted this present even though he's been poorly, in hospital & we're run ragged. There's love, see; I wish it so hard for all x
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Floating this out there. I have never been in a writing group or able to find one locally. And so I am wondering: anyone fancy being in a writing group with me, meeting online once a month? I will leave this up for a bit and see who fancies it. Reply here; don't be shy!
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I loved the simplicity of this cover! The memoir is out next March
@reflexfiction
and I’ve also given some of my photographs for it. A first! It’s a memoir - and not an easy read but stay with me - across twelve essays about the natural world - lots of nerdy detail too
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This Friday here at 6. A gentle hour’s twitter chat about the beautiful new memoir A Still Life by Josie George
@porridgebrain
@BloomsburyBooks
Josie will be here to answer questions & I will host. Please come.
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If I may Sara? Interesting isn’t it? To me ‘said’ is an invisible sort of word & it’d be better just to remove the verb altogether if it’s obvious speech occurs. I think the problem occurs when writers start looking for alternatives & the text ends up looking like synonym central
I get tired of reading "said."
I get tired of writing "said."
If the book is full of nothing but "said," it makes me feel like the writer is unimaginative, and I might have trouble finishing their story.
Just saying.
There are so many words out there. Use more of them.
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