- New adult romance - Overworked, grumpy hero (big brother's ex-friend) - Fresh-out-of-uni heroine - A rambling old house in Oxford - Sri Lankan party food! Nominated for RNA Romantic Comedy award 2017 Buy Girl Having A Ball https://books2read.com/GHAB

-small town romance -second chance (love after loss) -enemies (ish) to lovers -looking after a teenager when there's no phone signal! -family loyalty is complicated Belonging - a #romance #novella #britishromance www.books2read.com/u/bzPAZq

There's a steady drizzle outside. We have a word for this. It's called summer.

Apologies to those who know this already. If you're an aspiring author who submits a manuscript to what looks like a traditional publisher, and they write back saying that they adore your book but want you to pay £3k or so for an 'editing service'... Please don't sign with them.

Finished watch #TheApartmentJob. I enjoyed it. The villain was truly scary. The found family was excellent.

Happy 10 year anniversary of the best mic drop on Twitter. Hard to believe it’s been so long! Congrats @astrokatie.com

Have they forgotten about the ghosts in #SpookyInLove (ep 8 & 9)? They have such a great premise with the ghosts, I hope they don't throw it away.

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The sitting MP got 22k votes in a joke election where a novelty candidate got nearly 10k, and has thus beaten the establishment or something, at a cost of some £300k to the taxpayer. Cool. Can we now get back to the parliamentary standards enquiry into that £5million bung?

Apparently £5million can’t buy you enough security to protect you from an imaginary threat.

This is how you know we need a wealth tax

I couldn't get the collander thing to work, but the shadows on the wall clearly showed crescents.

A hill I am willing to die on - book publishing should be paying better than survivable salaries. Especially irksome given the hoops they expect young people to jump through to get their first jobs.

ANNOUNCEMENT: All our sundials will be out of order this evening between about 6pm and 8pm, we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Normal service will resume tomorrow. In unrelated news, enjoy the eclipse later... Photos: Mike Selby, Annapurna Mellor, Chris Davies, John Millar

Just finished watching #AnnDroid on BBC iPlayer and it was delightful.

I added my new book to the PLR website. I love doing that.

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Rhoda Baxter's "The Christmas Express on the Brambleberry Steam Railway" was a lovely read, with tough issues covered but a sweet and kind community trying to make things OK. librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/b... @jeevanicharika.bsky.social

Bill Nye breaks down the Science of Skin Color and shows why Racism is Ridiculous.

This week's video is about Meta tagging Canva made images as having AI even when they weren't AI generated. Caused by Background Remover being tagged as AI). I've also covered how to see if you've used AI credits in your Canva account and a other AI-avoidance bits. [https://youtu.be/ESA5X49qzGQ]

This is Bruce. He prefers his sticks with a little pizazz. 13/10 (IG: brucewaynethegoldenboy)

I was going to apologise for all the book posts and then I remembered I don’t have a massive marketing budget. And I need as many people as possible to know about my book. Please help me spread the word. THANKS! Hot mess FMC - ✔️ Friendships - ✔️ Real life issues - ✔️ Lols - ✔️ mybook.to/Tuesdays

I'd spend less time swearing because I forgot to turn off the Ai part of the search and I'd be able to use tools I've used for years without wondering if they've sneaked in some AI feature I didn't ask for and are now burning a tree when I use it.

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have one answer.

I blogged! On GenAI and full-fat plagiarism, and some striking similarities between the two.

The Plagiarism Machine — KJ Charles

Back in the day, as an editor, I was witness in varying degrees to various plagiarism cases. The thing about plagiarism accusations (real ones, not nonsense vexatious lawsuit ones) is, every damn time...

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New book!

Bella Osborne@bellaosborneauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s publication day! Tuesdays Are For Oversharing is OUT NOW! Louisa Hall has a whole new life . . . and emotional baggage she definitely didn't ask for. Out now in ebook, paperback, audiobook. Please share the book love - thank you! mybook.to/Tuesdays #newbook #newromancebook #booksky

I've started watching Netflix series that release new episodes each week. Yes, it's frustrating, but the excitement on new episode day is delicious. Turns out the anticipation is part of the fun. #Kdrama #SpookyInLove #TheApartmentJob

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

I've read some of The Rooks books and they are hilarious.

Gabby HC@scriblit.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hello new people! If you like words I write, BOY HOWDY HEY do I have good news for you, bc I write words a LOT, and many of the things I write are free for you to enjoy at point of use - or otherwise pretty cheap to buy. BEHOLD! A SELF PROMOTION THREAD! (might pin this)

Working on a second draft and taking note of some evergreen advice I heard from @juliecohen.bsky.social at a conference, and was recently reminded of by @jeevanicharika.bsky.social (and I’m paraphrasing: it might be “go deeper”, but the sentiment is the same).