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Not far off sending out my first ever batch of queries. It's scary and exciting to have reached this point. Honestly, though I'm looking forward to diving into some of my other ideas to see which I want to run with next..

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Today, I've been working on the epilogue. I've got the ending now ✨️

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I've put aside some time for writing tomorrow. It's time to translate my notes over the last few months into word count.

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In the zone of swirling thoughts of things to do. None of them concrete. Everything is still dancing around the perimeter just tantalisingly out of reach. Really, though, I need some sleep. Sleep, then action. It's not time yet and that's ok.

#postpartum

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I ticked a longstanding item off my to do list today. Celebrating the win of achieving a simple task with a 3 month old baby and a 2 year old. Go me.

Coffee date with my notebook ✨️

Book haul from #TheReadingRoomGrantham ✨️

Excellent stuff! ✨️

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 534:
In a good story, everything contributes. Every description, every piece of information, every gesture, every detail is linked somehow to some part of the whole. If you come across something in your work that isn't, then bin it. Useless ballast weighs you down.

Got some notes down for draft 7 edits today. Postpartum potato brain will not stop me! 🤓

Books and cool items on offer at the Genre Creators for Trans Rights Online auction

Books and cool items for the Genre for Trans Rights charity auction

Some of the featured items on the Genre Creators for Trans Rights Charity Auction, inclkuding books, a desk, a dedication in KJ Charles' new book.

Handmade things of beauty donated for the Genre Creators for Trans Rights online auction. Images clockwise from top right, handspun Kent Romney yarn in trans colours, a hand-painted fan, a handmade music box inspired by Good Omens, which is a white wooden bench with a bird perching on it and a black hat resembling Terry Pratchett's iconic hat, a crocheted pink whale held aloft by a person's hand.

Oh hey, today is your LAST chance to get your hands on any and all of the gorgeous things donated by brilliant people in our community in Part 1 of the Genre Creators For Trans Rights charity auction. This phase of the auction ends midnight BT, today, Friday 2 May www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans.

I'm at the library and I love it. You should go to the library.

Finished watching the documentary, Jack The Ripper: Written in Blood on the weekend. It was eye-opening to be shown it from the perspective of the journalists from The Star newspaper. Now, to see from the perspective of the women.

#TheFive #HallieRubenhold

Spotted in the wild #I'llNeverTell by the fabulous and talented @philippaeast.bsky.social at The Reading Room in Grantham ✨️

Went for my first solo walk in a while. Blue skies and windy with Royksopp as a soundtrack. Not too shabby.

Really in the mood to do some drawing, if only I could find my sketchbook!

I did it!! Absolutely worth it, what a journey. I certainly need a minute before I pick my next read, though. 📚

Anna’s book the alchemy

My 1st book on writing, The Alchemy, has been a kindle bestseller for 16 months now. (I KNOW it’s Amazon & lots of bad stuff, but it’s still a significant point of data.) A small indie publisher, no big publicity budget & not reviewed anywhere - there’s even a tiny number of ratings on Amazon 💙📚

Set myself the challenge of reading #TheStand by @stephenking.bsky.social before my little girl is born. I hit 35 weeks tomorrow, my son was born at 34 weeks. Can I do it??

A white neon sign on the corner of a house. It says: You're not lost you're here.

We are opening submissions on the theme of GRIEF tomorrow! We are looking for poems and short CNF about grief. By this we mean not only the grief for a person/ for people, but also grief for animals, grief for a place, a home, a time, an idea, our health, the world, 🧵

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Today's writing task is structural changes, reordering progressive complications to maintain momentum. A little too much of how I would deal with things has crept in (observation and analysis), rather than an active protagonist.

screen shot from the Read Easy website confirming our donation.

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screen shot of the amazon landing page for unbound, which reads: ALL PROFITS FROM UNBOUND WILL BE DONATED TO READ EASY From amateur sleuths to mathematical geniuses, heatwaves to catacombs, school days to parenthood and everything in between, this second anthology from the D20 Authors showcases 11 fresh new short stories for you to enjoy. Meet the resentful young man navigating his high school reunion; the amateur dramatics group baffled by a suspicious death in their midst; the theoretical physicist dreaming of exquisite discoveries; and the isolated archivist fighting to preserve her unravelling sanity… Compiled by best-selling author Philippa East and covering everything from cosy crime to uplit, historical fiction to the paranormal, this second multi-genre collection from the D20 authors has a tale for everyone. Contributors to UnBound have been longlisted, shortlisted and winners of a variety of literary awards, including the People's Book Prize, the HWA Debut Crown Award, The Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize, and the CWA New Blood Dagger. With this fantastic second anthology, the D20 Authors are delighted to be raising funds for the adult literacy charity Read Easy (CC 1151288), which provides free, one-to-one reading coaching programmes for adults, with the vision that every adult who wants to read, can.

So pleased that we've just made our first £100 donation to our nominated charity Read Easy UK, with the profits from our second short story anthology #Unbound. Thank you to everyone who has bought a copy so far, and if you haven't done so yet, you can grab one here! www.amazon.co.uk/UnBound-fant...

In floods of tears watching the finale for series 2 of Big Boys. Absolutely superb television.

@nemmersis.bsky.social
Just what we were talking about!

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Oooo! The paperbacks of #LittleWhiteLies and #IllNeverTell (by me😆) are currently both on offer!
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