Kate Blackadder

If that's not a story-in-waiting I don't know what is.

Announcing the Scottish Christmas Book Fair!

* The perfect occasion for Christmas gift shopping

* All your favourite genres for adults & children

* Chat with Scotland’s indie publishers & meet their authors

See below for who'll be there!

www.publishingscotland.org/event/scotti...

Edwin Morgan Aberdeen Train Rubbing a glistening circle on the steamed-up window I framed a pheasant in a field of mist. The sun was a great red thing somewhere low, struggling with the milky scene. In the furrows a piece of glass winked into life, hypnotized the silly dandy; we hooted past him with his head cocked, contemplating a bottle-end, and this was the last of October, a Chinese moment in the Mearns.

Rubbing a glistening circle
on the steamed-up window I framed
a pheasant in a field of mist…

—Edwin Morgan, “Aberdeen Train”
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
#poem #poetry
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All my books are standalone but some are connected by the fictional village of Willowbrook- including my latest book Christmas at the French Shop.
Do you recognise the village I drew inspiration from in real life? 📸
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Having a horrible time here in Torquay.

The food is very good. Each patrol takes it in turn to help Mrs Lovegrove cook it. We cooked spaggetti bolangeze & pie then for breakfast we had eggy bread.

Weather arctic. Seas septic. Companions acerbic. Food bubonic. Wish you were here.

HOW I LONG TO HUG YOU WITH MY NEW HUGE MUSCLES.

Tea time! If you know anything about me at all, you’re probably aware I like a cup of tea (with cake, obviously). The campervan teapot and kettle are currently getting plenty of use.Tea isn’t jus…

Tea time! patsycollins.co.uk/tea-time/

Ron & I bought a 40oz of Teachers Whisky (Red Label) and we're half way through it.

3 in 1!

The Elaine Everest Memorial Saga Writing Competition – SWWJ The Society of Women Writers and Journalists in memory of romance/saga author and SWWJ member Elaine Everest 1953–2024 is proud to present THE ELAINE EVEREST MEMORIAL SAGA WRITING COMPETITION for […]

SWWJ saga writing competition is now open. Entries from new and already published writers welcome. Trophy, cash prizes and a year's RNA membership on offer. And only chapter one required to enter!
#sagawriter #writingcompetition
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Capital stories ...

My latest People's Friend serial begins this week, set in London in 1978 (issue dated 4 October). Love the illustrations, thank you! @mandydixondraws.bsky.social

Coming next week, a newly rebranded issue of Carys Davies' astonishing debut collection of short stories, Some New Ambush.

Have just discovered Squaredle - it's fiendish!

The Family at Farrshore: Cathryn hopes to escape her problems by working in the north of Scotland, until she meets Magnus who has his own reasons for being there. A romance set in the beautiful Scottish Highlands.

myBook.to/Farrshore

#scotland

Delighted to have my @edfringe.bsky.social Edinburgh-Festival-Fringe-set cosy crime in The People's Friend Special No 281 on sale now. It's a long short story, in a pull-out 'mini-mag'. In the illustration Briony looks just as I imagined her!

Apple sauce? Can be frozen.

Footsteps In Ashbridge Episode 01 Lou was becoming increasingly concerned about her husband’s reluctance to find a job...

My last (as in last-published, new one coming soon!) People's Friend serial is available to read on their website. That's teacher Sarah with the gorgeous red hair just as I'd pictured her. www.thepeoplesfriend.co.uk/series/foots...

British Railways poster by Alasdair MacFarlane. (c.1950)

In case you've forgotten, this is what pure #goodness looks like. Soccer star Diogo Jota and his brother, Andre, were killed in a car wreck July 3. Liverpool FC announced it will pay the two remaining years of Diogo Jota’s contract in the amount of £14.5 million to his wife and their three children.

Soon to be renamed.
Up the Garden Path☹️

Short Story Smorgasbord All reads less than an hour!

Free short stories

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Matt and Flora's story coming soon... (19th June UK; 1st July North America) mybook.to/AKisstoStopa... #Regency #Historicalfiction #Romance

Would you like to win a bundle of really awesome books including my award-winning collection, TURDUCKEN?

Spaceboy Books are doing multiple giveaways to celebrate their 8th anniversary, so check it out here: mailchi.mp/84482b74a45f...

Ben Lomond Kathleen Jamie Thae laddies in the Celtic shirts, a baker’s dozen lumbering all the way to the summit cairn the hot last Saturday of May as larks trilled and the loch-side braes released their midgies … Well, up at the raven-haunted trig-point (as the sun shone bright o’er the whole lower Clyde) they unfurled a banner, and triumphant-sombre, ranked themselves behind it for the photies, ‘R.I.P.’ it read, then the name of a wee boy they’ll never meet again. Ach, would the wean were playing fit-ba on some bonny banks somewhere … There’s no accounting for it, is there? I mean the low road, and the high.

Thae laddies in the Celtic shirts,
a baker’s dozen
lumbering all the way to the summit cairn
the hot last Saturday of May
as larks trilled
and the loch-side braes released their midgies…

—Kathleen Jamie, “Ben Lomond”
published in THE BONNIEST COMPANIE (Picador 2015)

I think it's about time Mark knew where and when and how long.

Thank you for the shortbread. I haven't tried it yet but was pleased to see the use by date of February '95.