Nigel Jay Cooper Author
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Bestselling author of 3 contemp/lit fiction novels. I'm nigeljayauthor on Threads and IG and TikTok.
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12YO has Norovirus but he’s feeling better and has been painting ❤️
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Honestly, the success of this post has really boosted 12YOs confidence. He got up this morning (he’s feeling much better) and he’s been happily painting at the kitchen table ever since.
12YO has Norovirus but he’s feeling better and has been painting ❤️
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It’s our 30 year anniversary today! Neither of us look a day older, I know!!! 🤣 If you’d have told either of us then that in 30 years we’d be living in the French Alps now with our 2 teenage kids (well, 1 nearly teen) we’d have laughed at you. Here’s to another 30 years ❤️
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12YO went to a school fete thing with a friend this afternoon/evening.
She rang earlier and told me she'd won a holiday for 4 to the Canaries - as she's a wind up merchant I laughed and assumed she was pulling my leg.
Reader, she won a holiday to the Canaries. 😱
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Remember I told you 10 year old was getting a poem published in an anthology? Well here it is. 😁🙌
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What this Friday needs right now is a picture of little miss flappy ears on her walk this morning. You’re very welcome.
#FridayVibes
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Bank holiday here today. 12YO painted ‘pensive bear’ this morning ❤️
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Nana let the kids buy some toys. They’re these banana things that you peel back to reveal the inside.
I’m not completely convinced she hasn’t let them a bunch of s*x toys from Poundland. 😳🤣
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I’ve just this second decided, in case anyone cares, that 2024 is going to be my year. Hope it’s your year, too. I’m a bit bored of it not being my year, truth be told. So watch this space.
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@JanetEmson
@sarajcox
So much this. I love my kids but right now I’d sell them* for an hour alone.
Disclaimer for twitter weirdos: my kids aren’t actually for sale, I’m just being over dramatic.
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The absolute ease with which my 10YO son just answered the barber’s ‘does your mum know you’re having your hair this short?’ question with ‘I don’t have a mum, I have two dads’ makes me incredibly proud. 🌈
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I’ve shown him the response to this post and your lovely comments - because sometimes he doesn’t take praise or feel good about his achievements.
He shrugged and said ‘is that good?’
But I think the praise went in as he’s painting something else onto canvas now in his room 😊
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Bodie dog just met her sister and litter mate who she hadn’t seen since she was 8 week old… and my heart can’t take it! 😍
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Seeing a lot of posts about people feeling too old to publish first book as they’re over 40. I was 40 when my debut was published. It never occurred to me I was too old - I feel 40 and beyond is when a lot of writers get their shit together in a writing sense, tbh.
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Was weirdly awake at about 6 so have already done 2 hours on downs with this one… beautiful day out there. Happy Saturday all.
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Want to see my epic
#WorldBookDay
fail? 10YO was suppose to be a character from
@neilhimself
’s Coraline with button eyes but he looks more like Brandon Lee’s The Crow 🤣
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@jtweeterson
Can you imagine becoming health minister and deciding this was the most important thing to convey to NHS staff to put your own mark on the role and make them feel you were on their side?
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Just found out about this Nigerian proverb and now I can't really think about anything else.
"You cannot run naked after a mad man in the street after he has taken your clothes away from you because the public will not know who is the mad person between the two of you."
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On her lead of shame in the park now because she just shoved her head in a picnickers bag.
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🌟U.K. GIVEAWAY 🌟
You got loads of new books at Christmas. More in NY sales. Want 3 more for your TBR pile? Am giving away a set of 3 SIGNED paperbacks, inc 'Life, Slightly' (out Sep'22). To be eligible, follow me & retweet this. Ends 9/1.
#bookgiveaway
#bookgiveawayuk
#2022
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Bodie finds it really relaxing watching Peggy cat through the window.
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Ladies and gentleman, meet Bodie Cooper-Seel, first of her name, big little sister to Peggy the kitten, breaker of chains and bringer of joy.
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If you could burst from pride, I'd be dead.
A poem my 10YO son wrote has been chosen for publication in a book showcasing talented young writers. His school entered it into a competition with over 10,000 entries.
He hadn't mentioned it to us at all.
Published poet at 10 😍
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Struggling a bit mentally today (lots going on) so took day off. Currently walking this one on the South Downs. Can confirm that while she’s hard work, she’s also the bestest pup in the world (I’ll be taking no further questions on this 🤣)
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In other news, it's our 28 year anniversary today. I was 19 and my partner was 24 when we met...
28 years, 2 kids, 2 dogs (1 gone, 1 here and bloody mental) and a chilled out puss-cat later... I'd say we got pretty lucky.
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We’ve been together for nearly 27 years and Andy still doesn’t get how much this horrifies me. I think he does it on purpose... 😳🤣
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It’s my birthday today - I’d like to thank the entire nation for coming out and celebrating with me 🙌
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Favourite thing I’ve seen on Twitter today.
I have a real job. I write TV and comics, including Marvel’s Dark Ages… which is the comic your profile picture is from.
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We are moving and I’ve been sorting the shelves and so far this is how many bags of books are going to the charity shop…
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10YO: The new kids at school keep asking me how I can have two dads.
Me: What do you say?
10YO (shrugging, like it’s a bit boring): I tell them that *of course* I do have a birth mother, but my dads are my parents.
Very proud of how dull he finds the whole thing, to be honest.
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@LauraPAuthor
If I’m taking Beverley Hills 90210 as my benchmark, you’re about 33 when you’re a freshman (a la Andrea Zuckerman).
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Some handy advice from other half this morning after his trip to Waterstones:
You need to stop writing contemporary fiction and start writing crime or sci-fi and fantasy. They get their own sections on the second floor whereas your books are just in ‘fiction’.
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@NJSimmondsbooks
I didn’t know how invested in this I was until this tweet landed and my heart skipped a beat waiting for his reply...
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All of you people (you know who you are) that are trying to shame all of us who share their Wordle scores each day… just move on if you don’t like it. Doesn’t hurt you to just scroll past, does it… ‘cos it’s actually giving us all a lot of pleasure so stop being such a killjoy.
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I met a friend for lunch in London today. My mum messaged me about 12 times to check when I was leaving for home / was I okay etc.
I’m 47. I also used to work in London and commute every day.
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27 year anniversary today, which is crazy because I can’t possibly be old enough to have been in a relationship for that long.
Still, together we have two kids, a business, a cat, a dog and a ghost dog and we’re still going strong, so something must be right. 💪
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I’ve been quiet as we moved last weekend and it’s been chaos. But Bodie dog says hi to you all 🐾🦴🦮
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@HadleyFreeman
They've never met a child either, frankly, if they think parenthood is all about being loved and showered with affection (and not in fact being shouted at a lot because you chose the wrong spoon for their cereal and didn't get the right colour bowl out)... :)
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Kids rarely let us share pics of them so taking the opportunity while they allow it. 😍
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Poor Bodie hates the snow. Barely even wants to go for a walk.
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Happy New Year from Bodie dog.
She’s loving life this morning (like every morning). It truly is a dog’s life, I think.
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Remember that lovely new bed bought Bodie to stop her going on the sofa? Yeah.
She’s in the bad books.
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I'm not saying my kids outshine me or anything, but my 12YO had a poem published in an anthology at 10YO (I was 42 before my debut novel was published) and the 2 tweets about his paintings got over half a million views combined and about 16K likes.... more than any of mine!
12YO has Norovirus but he’s feeling better and has been painting ❤️
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My partner is all right, I suppose 😍.
Haven’t had a writer’s getaway for 2 years with Covid, so he’s bought me 3 days in a spa hotel writing in January to work on screenplay and book 4. Best present I’ve ever had to be honest. 👏😁🎉
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Those of you who have followed me for a while know we lost our beautiful old girl Luka last January... so you know just how much this means to me. We are on our way home with Bodie dog, first of her name, big little sister to Peggy and bringer of joy 💕
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When you're concerned you've been eating too much rubbish & have put on weight, I find the best way to combat this is to eat a cheese toastie, crisps and an entire 100g mint aero chocolate bar (500 calories on its own) for lunch. I'm on hand for more expert dietary tips & advice.
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Turns out, am having one of those 'I'm an absolute fucking failure and every other author living or dead, published or unpublished, is more successful than me and maybe I'm a deluded sack of shit who can't write for toffee' mornings.
You know the ones,
#writers
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#amwriting
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Managed to convince my mum - who is afraid of flying - to come back to france with me for a little holiday and to see the kids 🙌
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I got up with the intention of starting a low-carb diet today. I've just eaten a salted caramel Gu pudding and two slices of toast with peanut butter.
So that's going well.
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London, we’re on our way to say Bonjour.
Rare permission from kids to post this*
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On a scale of 1 to ‘just got our French visas approved’, we just got our French visas approved.
So I can now tell you that after 20 years, we are leaving sunny Brighton for the French Alps next week 😱
Kids are enrolled in local French schools. They don’t speak French yet 😱
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Living room is prepped - eldest child is 12 in the morning. She’s told us we have to get up at 6.30am so she has time to open her presents before she goes to school. 🤣
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Lovely day with the 11YO… youngest on a play date and sleepover, other half visiting his mum. 😍
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Spent the afternoon on Brighton Pier with the kids… we are now in the American Diner for dinner.
I ordered a wine.
Waitress came over with it and said ‘White wine?’ and looked at us, waiting to know who it was for.
Twitter, it’s just me, a 9 year old and an 11 year old.
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Nearly had heart failure when I just saw "Tom Baker" trending.
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Bonjour la France!
Made the midnight ferry and are now on the French road towards our new life! Bodie is in the back so no pic of her yet!
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I might need an intervention - I had an almond croissant followed by a pain au chocolat et almond for breakfast and I’m having a ham and cheese croissant for lunch.
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*Christmas giveaway*
... to celebrate the start of Advent, I thought I'd do a book giveaway. I'm giving away 3 copies of my latest novel
#LifeSlightly
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RT to enter (anywhere in world).
Closes midnight 2 Dec.
#bookgiveaway
#christmas
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This place is actually ridiculously, ridiculously beautiful.
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Kids are at my parents, so I met other half on his way home from office for a drink in the sunshine. Woman behind bar just asked if I wanted a medium or large Sauvignon Blanc. What kind of monster is she?
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This week Bodie will be mostly messing about on a canal barge with us. Happy Easter all.
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Off for a 3 day writing retreat at a spa hotel (my Xmas present from other half). As is the way with these things I’m currently not excited but stressed thinking I can’t leave work and kids and dog and cat and somehow if I take this time for myself, the world will actually end.
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First walk this week she hasn’t rolled in fox sh!t, so I’m taking that as a win.
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Our back garden right now! Peggy has been having a right old time in the snow.
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Never felt more British than when someone we’ve recently met here (who is lovely btw) popped around with no warning and knocked on the door for a cup of tea and a chat and so the dogs could play in the garden.
No text, no warning, Twitter. Just on the doorstep with a smile 😱
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Early walk with the monster today as daughter has a dance competition in Geneva today … but what a morning!
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This morning ‘me’ decided to make a lasagna for dinner tonight and bought all the ingredients to do so.
This afternoon ‘me’ wants to smash this morning ‘me’ in the face now he has to actually, you know, make it.
Because, you know, that sofa looks bloody awesome.
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Our living room shelves have one lamp on with a very expensive bulb. Where do you think Peggy cat likes to sit and stare at me from each night?
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@matthaig1
Mixed. There are times when it feels like being in a room full of people shouting at one another and not listening, so I have to step away from it... but there's also the way it connects people, it's supportive side and the sense of community.
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Ridiculously beautiful run with doggus and 10YO this morning. 😍
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Nous arrivons. All a bit surreal! Bodie and Peggy were so good on the journey and both settling in well, although Peggy still confined to one room but she seems super happy.
We made it!
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I’m having one of those ‘I’m a really shit writer and everything I wrote is pointless so I shouldn’t bother days’.
You all have these too, right? I need reminding that they pass.
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It’s like a misty Famous Five novel on the South Downs. Without the casual racism we didn’t notice as kids but good lord do we notice when we read them to our own kids.
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Twitter, I’m back because I need to tell you that I’m by the seafront in Brighton having some food with my son and I had a glass of wine and the waiter just took it from the table - a third full - and walked across the restaurant and threw it away. 🧟
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Just signed the book deal I was offered for book 3 a couple of weeks ago, so it's all champagne lunches, expensive launch parties and improbably expensive flats in the city based on my author salary from now on, right? Right. 👏👏🥂🥂
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I can’t stop it being Monday I’m afraid but I can give you this beautiful monster in your feed. 😍
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Somehow, this manic mutt is 1 today. Happy birthday Bodie dog. May the following year see you calmer than the last 🤣😍💕
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Went to a friend’s for dinner last night and was loudly hit with the ‘so how many books have you sold’ question and the entire room full of people waited for the answer. Which was nice.
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While I was away from Twitter, we met this beautiful little one. She’s called Peggy and she gets to come home with us in 5 weeks. She’ll be followed by a puppy sister in December.
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Someone I was at school with who I haven’t seen for 30 years just contacted me because a friend had Beat The Rain on their coffee table & he thought ‘it can’t be the same Nigel I was at school with’ & honestly, I might dine out on this minor ‘fame’ moment for rest of my life 🤣
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Got up, got my running gear on, realised it was raining so instead made peanut butter and jam on toast, washed down with black coffee. It’s almost the same as a run right?
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In bed last night, I did that ‘oh my god that’s a brilliant idea that changes everything for book4… I can’t be bothered to get out of bed to write it down but it’s such a brilliant, game changing idea that I’ll definitely remember it’ thing.
Reader, no fucking idea what it was.
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Out looking at potential wedding venues. Partner doesn’t want me posting pics of him so I’ve cropped him out like a Lidl Ryan Reynolds 🤣
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