Outside is now up on Netgalley which is both exciting and utterly terrifying!

Here’s me chatting a bit about my new book OUTSIDE and a pre-order discount voucher 😃🦜

A little calming video - OUTSIDE available for pre-order now 🦜

We're thrilled to announce a two-book deal with @robpalk.bsky.social . 📚 The Crowd Pleaser (Feb 2027) and a reissue of Animal Lovers (Oct 2026) – funny, tender, and quietly devastating comic fiction. We can't wait to share them.

This is Missy. She escaped from her backyard and ran straight to daycare, where she had a spa day and got to play with her boyfriend. Lessons were learned, but not the ones her parents probably hoped. 13/10 (TT: spotsplaceyqr)

Just accidentally sang 'Wuthering the high street'

COVER REVEAL & LIMITED TIME OFFER!!!📚 Hello everyone! Please behold my GORGEOUS cover for my new book OUTSIDE - out 6th August. How cool is it though?! It’s by far the favourite cover of all my books. I love it so much 😍 (and it’s the favourite of all my books) but ALSO…

I’ve managed to add an extra step to the not being able to sleep on a Sunday because of Monday dread, to not being able to sleep on Saturday because the next day is Sunday, the day of the Monday dread

Last year I read Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal and am now disconcerted that each article about common animals I've read since is "uh, probably smarter than we think."

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

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I have to say that since getting a robot hoover that I’m a lot less worried about them taking over the world

It’s been a while! I’ve been busy working on my next book, OUTSIDE, for three whole years! It’s a real passion project and is quite different to my other books. Im afraid you’ll be hearing from me a lot more now! Cover to follow soon! 😃🥰

Do I have children? No. Was I still forced awake at 5am on Christmas morning? Yes. Yes I was.

Morrisons weren’t lying about their salad being crunchy

Just think of the marketing spend which can now be distributed among all the other celebrity children’s authors

I have sent off my edits. Partly done with a broken shoulder! So please do buy it out of pity when it's out 😂

a cat laying on the floor with the words finally done written on it

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I've written a big piece for the Observer about the Big C. Would be lovely if you find time to read it sometime and feel free to share. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

‘He suggested we go to a quiet room to talk. I knew that was not good news’ | The Observer

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So I fractured my shoulder on Monday and have subsequently had the worst few days as I live alone and have 3 cats that still need feeding and medicating and it’s been agony and hard 😩 don’t recommend

I’m currently at this stage in the editing process

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Hi everyone! I am really proud to have taken part in this Radio 4 programme about agoraphobia. So if you want something in the background while you're making your dinner, please do tune in! 🙏 p.s. I've no idea what made the edits so I'm a little scared! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, The Little Box Which Contains the World

Emily Berry's exploration of agoraphobia.

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I genuinely had about three sips of 7UP for the entirity of my childhood

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 9mo ago

If you were not alive in the 90's, you don't realize that no one back then drank water. The idea of hydration didn't exist yet, if you were thirsty there was soda or some kind of very bright blue sugar water and that was it Every kid was extremely dehydrated and close to organ failure at all times

Me trying to give my cats their flea treatment

a man is making a funny face in a living room with a gun on the wall .

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Happy Hide In Your Bedroom with The Lights Off Day!

I know lots of authors find it annoying to have their edits to do with tight deadlines during Christmas or the summer holidays but I’ve got to do them during Traitor season!

Tbf as a vegan I do believe tofu tampons are the best available because they’re great at soaking up but I do think the non-vegan mozzarella sticks can work just as well. Don’t recommend frankfurters though

I'm going to start with some high quality content and ask - have jams always had such short use by dates? Now it's like three weeks to use up a big pot of jam! What?!

I’ve not really got into the swing of Bluesky and miss Twitter. But if I start posting on here will you all leave me hanging and make me look a fool?!

These are the things that make me proud to be British 🫡

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The Author Clinic@theauthorclinic.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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