***It was meant to be a game***
It’s PUBLICATION DAY for
#AGuiltySecret
(because we just couldn’t wait!).
I’m so excited about this book & can’t wait for you to meet Carrie & her friends 😵❤️🧡💚😵
Available wherever you buy great books (links below).
Happy reading!
The trans football manager mentioned here is the lovely Lucy Clark. She & her wife are friends of me & Ellie via
@transradiouk
🎶 (where Ellie sometimes DJs).
JKR’s been mocking her for days.
This is OUR FRIEND.
JKR’s bullying affects real people simply trying to live their lives
@SexMattersOrg
So in this situation, the trans man has been barred by default from using the men’s service because of his biological sex (female), but he has also now been excluded from the women’s service (that aligns with his biology) because he is trans.
So he supposed to go where, exactly?
The truth about “celebrity novels”:
the vast majority are ghost written but the industry isn’t up front about this.
Celebrities are falsely credited for talent, skill & effort they don’t posses, cheapening that of genuine authors 😕
I want ghost writing properly acknowledged.
I am thrilled to announce that the incredible ⭐️
#CateBlanchett
⭐️ has been cast* as the lead character in my new book!
#Book5
I know she’s going to be perfect as my disgraced, menopausal investigative-journalist-on-a-mission-to-uncover-the-truth Elizabeth…
*by me, in my head 😆
OH MY F*CKING GOD!
😱
“Parliament is sovereign. It should be able to make decisions that cannot be undone by the courts.”
No no no no no!
This is *exactly* why we need international Human Rights laws like ECHR: they’re the guardrails that stop a Government abusing its own people.
I'm too busy working on the last PM's misconduct, to deal with the current one going full fascist dictator on Rwanda, with this "I'm one of the good ones" xenophobic crap...
But for now I'll say this:
Rishi Sunak is just a shit person.
The SEPARATION of powers is the most
⭐️⭐️⭐️ GIVEAWAY!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️
To celebrate
@The_CWA
SL, I have five (yes FIVE!) signed copies of
#LittleWhiteLies
to give away (UK & Ireland). RETWEET TO SPREAD THE WORD!
To ENTER, reply to this post (saying eg “me please!”) by 6pm on Sat 8th Aug
Good luck & HAPPY READING! 😊😊😊
Whoop,
#SafeAndSound
is 1 year old today! To celebrate I’m giving away three (yes, 3!) signed copies 🤩🤩🤩
RETWEET to spread the word!
❤️🦟🥀
To ENTER drop a comment below (eg “me, please!”) and I’ll pick the winners at random at 9.00pm tomorrow.
Uk & NI only.
#giveaway
⭐️⭐️IT’S PUBLICATION DAY for
#IllNeverTell
!!⭐️⭐️
I’m so excited to share the twisty story of the Goodlights with you &🙏 everyone who helped me get to this point
#IllNeverTell
is available in ebook, paperback & audio wherever you buy great books
💗
Enjoy!!
🗡 DAGGER AWARDS NEWS 🗡
Today’s the day! Announcing the 2020 CWA Dagger Awards LONGLISTS, featuring dozens of the past year’s best crime books, authors, and publishers. Congratulations to all those selected!
#CWADaggers
@Treecraft_Arb
@SexMattersOrg
So if they are barred from the women’s service (as outlined above, re using para 28), and already barred from the men’s, and there is no third option, they should just… not use a changing room, rape crisis centre or toilet at all?
I usually try not to post about JKR on here, as it only amplifies her voice & platform. But I think so many people remain unaware of just how cruel she is to random trans people who cross her timeline. JKR has opinions & concerns, and I respect that. But this is just abusive.
For the record, the person who made the problematic Toastmaster speech (outlined below) was Peter Gutteridge.
The person who made an inappropriate sexual comment to a debut author on a panel was Barry Forshaw.
@SexMattersOrg
You might say there should be a third space he can use to navigate both above exclusions.
This has two issues.
1) all service providers would *have* to create third spaces in order to accommodate 🏳️⚧️ people.
2) being forced to use a third space potentially “outs” a 🏳️⚧️person.
Proofs of
#AGuiltySecret
are heeeeeere! 🤩🤩🤩
… And I’m doing my FIRST EVER unboxing (unwrapping?) vid😆
Did you notice I’m wearing tartan trews—because the book is set in Scotland 🏴 Don’t know how impressed
#Mimi
is 🤣
#AGuiltySecret
is out 18th Jan & you can preorder now!👇
Want to win an exclusive signed advance copy of
#IllNeverTell
?
🤩💗🤩
It’s
#giveaway
time!
⭐️RETWEET⭐️ to spread the word & to ⭐️ENTER⭐️ just reply with a comment on this post (eg “can’t wait to read this book!”)
UK&NI
Ends 9pm Mon 22 Aug
💗GOOD LUCK!💗
I've just started my first
#RuthRendell
book. Where have you been all my life, Ruth?????
😍😍😍
(I mean, I saw your stuff on telly, but --- your BOOKS!)
#TheSecretHouseOfDeath
She's like the original domestic noir author, right? I am LOVING IT!
...ah Ah AH, it’s finally here! PUBLICATION DAY for
#SafeAndSound
!!
🥂🥂 ❤️🖤❤️ 📖📖
THANK YOU to everyone who helped me reach this next goal, especially
@SarahHornsley
,
@CicelyAspinall
& all at
@HQstories
.
Lovely readers! You’ll find it here:
Can anyone advise on what alcohol underage teenagers might have drunk in 1977 (not 1997 - that's when I was getting drunk!), specifically in a field in rural Lincolnshire? 🤣
This brilliantly-freakish mannequin salvage-and-sales yard is only a few miles from where I live in
#Lincolnshire
.
PLEASE can someone set their next crime novel here??? You know you want to....
⭐️The
#EditLetter
— a 🧵⭐️
So…I’ve just received the letter from my editor for my fourth psychological suspense novel (due out early 2024).
I thought I’d write a thread with a blow by blow account of this part of the writing process, to motivate myself & share some insights!
1/
Guess what I’m doing this Xmas? I’m going on a WRITING RETREAT!
…in my own house
…with the cat
…while Ellie is away at her family’s
…and I am going to write and write and write and I CANNOT WAIT!
Great to receive my annual PLR (Public Lending Right) payment! Amazing to think how many people borrow my books from their local libraries😍
PLR is a crucial source of income for authors - and as you can see, authors get 13.69p each time you borrow their book!
#ILoveLibraries
Hi guys! HERE IT IS!!!! Thank you to the
@HQstories
design team for such a fantastic cover. I LOVE IT!!!
#SafeAndSound
out February 2021 and available for pre-order now 🤩🤩🤩
So.... this happened! Thank you so much to everyone who helped me get to this point, and especially to my wonderful agent
@SarahHornsley
and to HQ editor
@Charlo_Murs
for her incredible enthusiasm and passion for my book. I am quite overwhelmed.
❤️❤️❤️VALENTINE'S
#GIVEAWAY
!!!❤️❤️❤️
For a chance to win a unique SIGNED COPY of
#SafeAndSound
- just RETWEET!
...Plus for FUN, which work of fiction do each of the couples below belong to? 1/2
UK & Ireland only. Winner (and quiz results) announced 9.00pm tonight. GOOD LUCK! 😊
Happy
#TransAwarenessWeek
!
As you may be aware 🤗 my spouse Ellie is trans, having come out and transitioned during our marriage 😲
Huge thanks to everyone who has loved and supported us.
We are honoured to be part of the trans / LGBTQIA+ community.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️❤️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
1/
@MxVivianWulf
.
@jo_bartosch
, you have put this clarification at the bottom of the article, but this implies that the activist you originally named was the correct person ("the activist alledged to have tweeted about Joanna Cherry").
The person you named was NOT the correct person😬
@MForstater
@BigotsBiteMe
@SexMattersOrg
Sorry - I’m just in this moment - using the language of Sex Matters, to hold them to account for the claims they are making.
🙏
Holy sh*t,
@HQstories
, I’ve got them and they are glorious.
Dear friends, if you want one, you’re not to late to preorder; here’s the links:
Hive
Waterstones
Amazon
COVER REVEAL! The wait is finally over 🤣
I’m so thrilled to finally reveal the cover (and video teaser!) for
#AGuiltySecret
, my twisty new thriller about friendship and lies…
⬇️⬇️⬇️
Out February 2024
Pre-order now:
Whaaaaaat?? Not quite sure how
#LittleWhiteLies
got all the way up there, but shoop shoop shoop, I’m THRILLED!
Thank you to the wonderful
@HQstories
for their amazing work 🤩🤩🤩
#Top50
If you haven’t already, you can grab it here:
When your second-wave Scottish feminist mum throws down a Rainbow welcome mat for
#PrideMonth
in solidarity with her trans daughter-in-law (my spouse Ellie).
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️😍🥲😆🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Ellie & I came out to my mum her & dad two years ago and they (& our whole families) have been just great.
Oh my golly, guys, I'VE BLOODY DONE IT!!!!!! Cranked my way to the end of Draft One,
#Book3
.
Nice & sh*tty and 92k words long.
Think I need a big cup of tea.
10 things I❤️about being a writer:
1 All the tea
2 Can work in bed
3 Don't have to talk to anyone
4 Can work in jim jams (I don't but I could)
5 More tea
6 Reading's "part of my job"
7 Watching telly's "part of my job"
8 Other writers R cool
9 Readers R cool
10 Naps R allowed
@JolyonMaugham
Can I flag that the EHRC hasn’t published any Board Meeting minutes since Nov 2022?
I know there’s usually a lag between a meeting taking place, and approval & publication of minutes, but (assuming they met in December or January at least)…
Three months?
@RooneyRachel
An interesting point. Lucy has certainly criticised & targeted JKR, generally to call out her anti-trans views. Sometimes, yes, with a mocking tone.
What I’m highlighting here is that JKR is criticising & mocking Lucy for getting a job & serving her community while being trans.
Thanks, CrimeFest
Folks, after all the discussion in the last few days, I (& others) have suggested that Peter Guttridge & Barry Forshaw no longer be invited as event speakers or panel moderators
We need people who represent our fab community way better than that
#LetsJustSayNo
🤗
The CrimeFest organisers wish to apologise wholeheartedly for comments that were made during CrimeFest which caused hurt and discomfort to attendees. We pride ourselves on our inclusivity and desire for equality and diversity, both as individuals and within the crime genre.
80k words and double-vaccinated!! Got my second jag yesterday and managed to get in my daily words before the 24-hour aches hit today, which means I HAVE FINISHED MY
#BOOK3
FIRST DRAFT!! Topped all this excitement off with a four hour nap.
In a London bedsit, a radio is playing. A dinner table is set for three & curled up on the sofa is a body.
All indications suggest that
#SarahJones
was pretty, charismatic & full of life... So how did her death go unnoticed for ten whole months?
FIND OUT
🗡JOIN US LIVE AT THE CWA DAGGERS
This year, like so many events, the
#CWADaggers
will be held online – so everyone is invited! The live event, with guest speakers and winners' speeches will be on THURS OCTOBER 22 @ 7:30pm BST. Get your FREE ticket now!
It was my husband’s birthday yesterday. They are 42. Last night, we went to a fancy London party with old uni friends, did a lot of dancing, and later I was sick in the hotel toilet.
#BestBirthdayEver
ps This is our before shot 😆
I’m sorry, what? Cracking down on illegal foxhunting isn’t “attacking rural communities”. I live in a lovely rural community and we manage to have a great time together without stampeding around killing innocent animals.
A great time was had by ME! Thank you to the wonderful
@JerichoWriters
,
@annamburtt
and all the fantastic attendees. I had a wonderful time and hope you did too! Best of luck to everyone doing
#FridayNightLive
and I hope you all enjoy the rest of the weekend.
#LFOW23
Here’s me and Ellie being visible for
#TransDayOfVisibility
! Hanging out at a party, seeing family at the launch of
#AGuiltySecret
& making music together as
#TheMiracleCure
. At other times, we can be found eating toast, watching
#Gladiators
& snuggling with Mimi the cat🤣
🏳️⚧️❤️🏳️⚧️
HIGH DRAMA!!
Cat (Mimi) discovered with a SHREW on upstairs landing 😱
Wrestled Mimi away into study; got on knees to rescue shrew 😬
Shrew ran up my trouser leg. Twice 😱😱
Designed trap with dirty sock husband had left on landing 🙄
Caught shrew in sock; set freeeeee outside 🤗
I have been sitting on this news for MONTHS and I am so so so so so so so happy to be publishing two more books with
@NotCecily
and
@HQstories
who are the loveliest, cleverest besets people.
Plus thank you to my brilliant agent
@SarahHornsley
who makes up this dream team. 🤩🤩🤩
@Treeflair_arb
@SexMattersOrg
It’s good that, in these discussions, we can get clear on people’s attitudes to this issue and trans people.
I think people need to be aware of the sort of attitudes are driving this campaign, which is being presented as a simple semantic clarification to “protect” women.
This is good messaging, thank you.
Sexual harassment and abuse of women is a *men’s problem*. We need to target men’s attitudes and behaviour, and bring up our boys with the ability to relate positively to women and to themselves.
Inappropriate behaviour towards women and girls is not banter. It's not harmless and it's not okay, so
#JustDont
Find out more and how you can help bring about change at
@MxVivianWulf
@jo_bartosch
@MForstater
@spikedonline
I'm sorry,
@jo_bartosch
, this new clarification is no better. It implies you included the (correct) name but have removed it.
You need to make it clear you *accused the wrong person* of making the tweets about Joanna C and have removed their name to remove the false allegation.
@fliceverett
This tweet makes me sad: your comments show you’ve already accepted misinformation about the issue which may be why you can’t see the harm JK causes
Namely, trans access to single sex spaces has been based on self-ID since 2010, but JK et al. present it as a new (legal) threat
I’m sorry to share *anything* to do with GB News, but here is a massive wake up call for where we are heading.
First they came for the refugees and migrants.
Then they came for transgender people.
And now they want to scrap our entire Equality Act.
❗️WAKE THE FECK UP❗️
Really cool to see a segment during the coverage of this year’s
#BoatRace
about how the
#MenstrualCycle
affects things.
It’s great to hear discussion about the physical and psychological changes, which are a fascinating and critical aspect of sports physiology/psychology 👍👍👍
@DianaUrban
Unfortunately, my spouse had the exact same reaction to cutting out gluten.
She’d never felt better in her life.
But she’s addicted to bread, so it was never going to be a solution 🤷🏻♀️😆
It’s been chucking it down all day here and Xmas is a bit of a washout all round, BUT - looky here! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Santa (aka
@NotCecily
and
@HQstories
) has just delivered a festive bundle of beautiful
#SafeAndSound
’s!! 1/2
🗡 THE JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER:
Steph Cha, ‘Your House Will Pay’
Samantha Downing, ‘My Lovely Wife’
Philippa East, ‘Little White Lies’
Robin Morgan-Bentley, ‘The Wreckage’
Trevor Wood, ‘The Man on the Street’
#CWADaggers
My third psychological suspense novel
#IllNeverTell
is out now!
🎵🎧 Hear the audio of chapter one here:
📘💗 Grab the book here:
or here:
📚And find more about me & my books here!
VERY EXCITING NEWS!!
The annual
@JerichoWriters
Festival of Writing will be taking place again this October… and I will be a KEYNOTE SPEAKER! 🤩🤩🤩
🧵
Full details of
#LFOW23
here:
And more about me & my books here:
1/…
Wee hee! SO THRILLED to see
#LittleWhiteLies
on the Not The Booker Prize longlist, alongside so many of my fellow debutists!
I’d LOVE it if you wanted to support me in the public vote - click the link in the tweet below for all the details 😍
@NotCecily
@DebutsUk2020
@HQstories
When I began
#LittleWhiteLies
(many moons ago), what kept me going through the 25+ drafts and all the tears and tantrums was visualising my book on the shelves of my beloved local library.
So this moment right here is honestly pretty cool.
Just thinking about those unique little phrases we each have to help people spell our names.
Mine goes... (inhale)
"'East' as in 'east and west' and "Philippa" - one 'l', two 'p's, don't worry, everyone gets that wrong hah hah!"
😅
What's yours?
@moira_robin
In a situation that feels pretty Kafka-esque, I've reported Badenoch's own consultation as a real-world example of bad guidance, given how it contradicts official EHRC guidance and the 2011 Statutory Code of Practice.
The Gov is calling for examples of incorrect guidance on single sex services.
Unbelievably, their *own consultation* is a real-world example of exactly such guidance😱🤯
I’ve set out how below.
1/
@SexMattersOrg
So in this situation, the trans man has been barred by default from using the men’s service because of his biological sex (female), but he has also now been excluded from the women’s service (that aligns with his biology) because he is trans.
So he supposed to go where, exactly?
@DSanderson_85
Just a reminder that, under sch.3 para 28 of the EA, it can still be lawful to exclude a person with the PC of gender reassignment (a transgender person) from a single-sex services / space.
This is *regardless* of their “legal sex” (GRC status)
👏GRCs👏do not👏affect👏spaces👏
Yes. Don’t pretend you’ve authored a book when you haven’t done the work and haven’t got the skills. It completely undermines what is a highly-skilled and very demanding profession, and takes readership away from non-celebrity professional authors.
Just so you know, if one of my books ever hits the Sunday Times bestseller list, I’m getting a tattoo.
Never had a tattoo before. But that’s my rule.
Who’s in?
Managed to get my hands on my NHS pension statement (having left the NHS in 2015😅)
Discovered I’ve a pension that can pay a monthly annuity & lump sum from when I’m 50—a bit over 7 years’ time.
😮
Guys. This is potentially life-changing for me, my day job & my writing career.
Crime writing superstar
@MarkBillingham
and clinical psychologist and novelist
@philippa_east
open Lincoln Book Festival
@collectionusher
on 11 October discussing their latest thrillers. We can’t wait! Tickets on sale via our website very soon.
Huge thanks to all who signed this important petition.
It’s reached 138k (overtaking the counter-petition). However, Sunak seems keen to press ahead with this rewrite of the EA, seriously impacting 🏳️⚧️ folk.
So 🙏🙏🙏 keep sharing & signing.
More info👇
1/2
I'm thrilled to be longlisted for the
@Mslexia
Novel Award 2017. Best of luck to fellow longlistees, those on the shortlist & the winner (tba). What great books we're clearly all writing.
Very happy to report that the
@CrimeFest
Organisers have now confirmed that this 👇 will indeed be the case.
Thank you, everyone, for the assertiveness and support shown over the last few days.
💗💗💗
Onwards and upwards!
Thanks, CrimeFest
Folks, after all the discussion in the last few days, I (& others) have suggested that Peter Guttridge & Barry Forshaw no longer be invited as event speakers or panel moderators
We need people who represent our fab community way better than that
#LetsJustSayNo
🤗
Okay, so today *two different authors* (both of whom I really admire) have contacted my editor at
@HQstories
after reading
#AGuiltySecret
to say I’m at the “TOP OF MY GAME”
🤯🤩🤯🤩🤯🤩🤯🤩🤯🤩🤯🤩
Thank you so much,
@LouiseWriter
and
@laurellizabeth
!
❤️🧡💚❤️🧡💚❤️🧡💚