Mikela Bond
@mikelawriter.bsky.social
Author of crime and thriller novels. Rep Emma Shercliff, Laxfield Literary.
This time next week: creative writing workshop about creepy folklore & twisted traditions. 🌿 #WolseyWriters FOLK HORROR 🌿 SAT 5 JULY, 10:30am-12pm 🌿 New Wolsey Theatre, IP1 2AS 🌿 Homework: Read THE LOTTERY by Shirley Jackson Pay what you feel £0-£25 ⤵️ www.wolseytheatre.co.uk/events/wolse...
What a brilliant day. Fascinating talks from fabulous authors and editors. Can’t wait to dive in to my new books! @katesawyer.bsky.social
Wrote chapter one of a new novel today… love the rush of new characters, settings and plot.
Well done to my brother and husband and friend for cycling 100km in aid of St Nicholas Hospice. Link below if anyone would like to donate: www.justgiving.com/page/philip-...
Thanks Phoebe for such an open and honest insight into the submissions process. I hope that I’ll experience it very soon! open.substack.com/pub/honested...
The submissions process...
Why does it take so long to hear back from publishers?
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Delighted or maybe absolutely flabbergasted to share that The Night Before Christmas has been shortlisted for Debut Novel of the Year at the @romanticnovelists.bsky.social Romantic Novel Awards! Huge thanks to my publishers @bloodhoundbooks.bsky.social and everyone who has supported me #booksky
For those of you interested in writing, I interviewed Lisa Jewell about how she writes her best-selling twisty thrillers without knowing the plot beforehand. Or even having any idea where she's headed. jojomoyes.substack.com/p/i-need-my-...
"I need my character to talk to me and tell me things because there's so much I don't know."
A conversation with bestselling novelist Lisa Jewell about trusting your subconscious to come up with your plot.
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Thrilled to be hosting again this year alongside the always fabulous @thomasruyssmith.com - get those orders in quick, last year we sold out in two weeks! www.redwings.org.uk/news-and-fea... #booksky
Redwings Horse Sanctuary@redwingsuk.bsky.social · 2y ago📣 EXCITING NEWS! 📣 The Redwings Book Festival is back for 2025! 🎉📚❤️☀️🐴 Following the sell-out success of the inaugural Redwings Book Festival last summer we're excited to be holding the event once again at Redwings Caldecott in Norfolk on Saturday 14th June! www.redwings.org.uk/news-and-fea...
New Online Fiction Workshop starting May 1st. Drop me a line if you have any questions or queries. www.unthankschool.com/product/onli...
Online Fiction Workshop
Next session runs 1st May to 17th July 2025. A 12-week online fiction workshop for writers with work-in-progress in any form or genre Experiment and grow your writing, or edit and polish final-d...
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It’s a great weekend to pre-order Getting Away! 25% off if you buy online at Waterstones using code PREORDER25 www.waterstones.com/book/getting...
Beautiful in one of my favourite places today. Dunwich ❤️
This is a novel. This amazing documentary about a group of people going mad together on a boat crossing the Atlantic is a novel. If you wanted to write a novel but have no subject, here you go: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Illuminated - Dark Crossing - BBC Sounds
A cross-Atlantic journey turns into a gripping psychological thriller.
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Awesome evening with two different literary launches! @ellygriffiths.bsky.social with @nicolaknightwrites.bsky.social at the cathedral in Norwich and the brilliant @ashleystokes.bsky.social with Dimmer.
‘I have just bought my first gun’: the war diary of late Ukrainian novelist Victoria Amelina, introduced by Margaret Atwood Published next week! @margaretatwood.bsky.social
FINALLY!! Announcing Dead To Me - a standalone thriller, featuring dark academia, a missing woman, and a very messy breakup. Meet disorganised, brilliant journalist Anna - and moral, pigheaded detective Reid. Their relationship ended eighteen months ago, but now Anna's missing...
Everyone should read this!
Katie Ward@katiewardwriter.bsky.social · 2y agoPATHWAYS is out now (Little, Brown UK). ‘The most original love story I have read in a long time. Funny, poignant, elegantly written, I adored this novel.’ Amanda Hodgkinson #bookreview #booksky 💙📚 #pathways in paperback on 10 April 2025 https://buff.ly/3WzE8yM
Thriller writer Clare Mackintosh is set to move to HarperFiction in a two-book deal 👇
Clare Mackintosh moves to HarperFiction in two-book deal
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When you’re wondering whether what your fictional killer has done with an MC is believable enough… as if this is normal stuff. 😜
Hello Creatives and Community in Suffolk. This starter pack is updated, with space available for more. #suffolk #suffolksky go.bsky.app/CXM3u4c