Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this

For You Keralam India

Soothing tropical night sounds for you - below my window x Keralam, Induq

These are for you - with drops of monsoon rain on them. Alappuzha, Kerala kerala.me/environment/... if you want to know more

This is an important principle for - perhaps - all but a very small number of people: make your book part of a creative portfolio. Me, broadly: 1. Mentor and teacher. 2. Occasional lecturer 3. Editor 4. Write across genre, but also form - and starting more commercial work under a pen name

BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught@bookwormvaught.bsky.social · 2y ago

Try to make this book part of a broader creative portfolio - maybe you organize an online event, write a few short stories, start a writing group, whatever it might be: this is very good for morale, improves perspective & takes the weight off one single book, one like a sword of Damocles above you

Next! The Elixir - 2nd of 5 in my creative writing teaching series - out October 26th. A gentle guide to craft. If you like, you can pre-order. www.foyles.co.uk/book/the-eli... or renardpress.com/books/the-el... My teaching platform - The Alchemy with Dr Anna Vaught - launches April, 2027

In Keralam the gardens press in most wonderfully on the houses. Here is where I am right now. Alappuzha

Next! The Elixir - 2nd of 5 in my creative writing teaching series - out October 26th. A gentle guide to craft. If you like, you can pre-order. www.foyles.co.uk/book/the-eli... or renardpress.com/books/the-el... My teaching platform - The Alchemy with Dr Anna Vaught - launches April, 2027

Great to see the newsletter from @bookwormvaught.bsky.social kicking off again! #womenwriters

BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught@bookwormvaught.bsky.social · 2w ago

bookwormvaught.substack.com/p/july-on-we... My newsletter kicks off again. I’m sorry to have been remiss! Lot going on. Out last week of every month and free with lots of presents for you, like…#booksky

It’s where your book meets market, meets taste, meets timing. (Or possibly meets not very good advice in the first place - hides; runs away).

BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught@bookwormvaught.bsky.social · last yr.

For querying writers & #writingcommunity I see people across socials who are upset that they cannot find an agent/indie publisher despite having glowing professional feedback on their novel - such as a manuscript review or assessment. They don't understand how this can be and feel something's amiss

On writing and publishing…being not quite the same thing and thoughts on coping. Although things can always change and sometimes suddenly, for a sustainable career as a published writer for the vast majority of people, the best approach is one of portfolio - in which writing a book is one part 💙📚

BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught@bookwormvaught.bsky.social · last yr.

1. There are no guarantees 2. Publishing pros are frequently dealing with vast numbers & that limits time for something that doesn't strike home. 3. Writing and publishing are interlinked of course, but ALSO separate. See point 1. A fine book may not get attention in the way you had hoped, assumed

Where I am, Fort Kochi

bookwormvaught.substack.com/p/july-on-we... My newsletter kicks off again. I’m sorry to have been remiss! Lot going on. Out last week of every month and free with lots of presents for you, like…#booksky

July! On Wellbeing and Writing. (Practical tips.)

I have a gift for you.

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You can message me if you’d like to help. We’ll kick off this September 🇵🇸❤️#booksky

A thread of sanity, common sense and good advice.

BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught@bookwormvaught.bsky.social · last yr.

For querying writers & #writingcommunity I see people across socials who are upset that they cannot find an agent/indie publisher despite having glowing professional feedback on their novel - such as a manuscript review or assessment. They don't understand how this can be and feel something's amiss

bookwormvaught.substack.com/p/july-on-we... My newsletter kicks off again. I’m sorry to have been remiss! Lot going on. Out last week of every month and free with lots of presents for you, like…#booksky

July! On Wellbeing and Writing. (Practical tips.)

I have a gift for you.

bookwormvaught.substack.com

🍁🍂 Hot off the press! 🍂🍁 Living up to their name, these #beautifulbooks, a new lease of life for the nature-rooted memoir by @bookwormvaught.bsky.social, are fresh from the printer and looking resplendent in russet 🙌 Out now with Haywood Books haywoodbooks.com/these-envoys... #bookstagram

I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w ago

Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli

Very interesting reading, not least by incidentally revealing rather more than the interviewer intended. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

‘An overnight success after 25 years? Delicious’: Ted Lasso’s Hannah Waddingham on sexism, stunts and stardom at 51

The actor seemed destined for a long but unflashy career in musical theatre – until a role as a football club owner in the TV hit changed everything. She talks about her new Hollywood era, calling out...

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If this is something you or yours can do, please message me. It’s one life but also a way to lift up a whole family. We’re talking about exceptional work and skill here. We could do this. 🇵🇸❤️📘#booksky

uh no @newyorker.com also “aim to level that imbalance” is a weird way to say “scrape more data for the tech oligarchy”

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 3w ago

Research shows that mothers in heterosexual partnerships take on a disproportionate amount of the mental load involved in raising children and running a household. New A.I.-powered family assistants aim to level that imbalance. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/bxUx9T

With apologies, this event is postponed. Xxx

BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught@bookwormvaught.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bookwormvaught6 insta live tomorrow Just a gentle little chat really. Do come Xxx

BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught@bookwormvaught.bsky.social · 2mo ago

www.foyles.co.uk/book/these-e... Republishing this week. New home, new fireword. Do read. But it’s not an easy read I must warn you. I survived though x

These Envoys of Beauty by Anna Vaught | Foyles

Buy These Envoys of Beauty by Anna Vaught from Foyles today! Click and Collect from your local Foyles.

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It feels like I've read nothing but wall-to-wall horror, gothic and folklore books for as long as I can remember and I'm suddenly weirdly craving some McEwen/Amis-esque nonsense about some bloke walking around London with a broken shoelace worrying about his life or something like that.

Opening up a judgement free zone but what's the smallest thing that discouraged you from entering into a vast cultural landscape that others have found vastly rewarding. Mine was discovering that the hero/protagonist of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash was called Hiro Protagonist.

www.tickettailor.com/events/nonep... Launch do tomorrow night, Sunday 28th, for this brilliant debut historical fiction. Free and online. I’m hosting - do come!

Select tickets – Launch of Claire Fuge's new novel, The Siren's Daughter, hosted by Dr Anna Vaught – Google Meet

Launch of Claire Fuge's new novel, The Siren's Daughter, hosted by Dr Anna Vaught – Google Meet, Sun 28 Jun 2026 - Please come along to the online launch of Claire Fuge's new novel, The Siren's Daught...

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www.tickettailor.com/events/nonep... Launch do tomorrow night, Sunday 28th, for this brilliant debut historical fiction. Free and online. I’m hosting - do come!

Select tickets – Launch of Claire Fuge's new novel, The Siren's Daughter, hosted by Dr Anna Vaught – Google Meet

Launch of Claire Fuge's new novel, The Siren's Daughter, hosted by Dr Anna Vaught – Google Meet, Sun 28 Jun 2026 - Please come along to the online launch of Claire Fuge's new novel, The Siren's Daught...

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2026 output. February, July and October. Aren’t they pretty?

Two funded PhD studentships just opened at @qub.ac.uk as part of LIFELANGS: a living observatory studying shared languages and identities across Ireland and Northern Ireland. Application Deadline: 9 July. Details 👇 lifelangs.com/vacancies/ Thread 1/3