@sylviahehirwrites.bsky.social
writer in Scotland. likes being outside
It’s nine years since I started sharing my breast cancer experience in a blog. This was the first post. Perhaps you know someone who’s dealing with it now. I hope it’s helped some people along the way. I’d still like to make a book of it one day.
breastcancerandbaby.com/2016/04/27/t...
Early purple orchid in grass
Early orchids!
27.04.2025 11:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Artwork featuring three purple poppies with soft open petals on long green stalks and four poppy seed heads on long green stalks, all against a cream background
Colleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #WomensArt
20.04.2025 06:05 — 👍 4937 🔁 481 💬 0 📌 26#RainbowBlooms #Bloomscrolling
20.04.2025 08:42 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Thanks Peter. Lots of fun
28.03.2025 21:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0ON THE MARCH
An activist mother walks away from the Occupy camp in Edinburgh and never comes back. A decade later her daughter discovers why.
Flight Behaviour x East (film)
90K words
ContempF
#scotwriterpitch2025
Fabulous!
28.03.2025 17:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0If the Famous Five were witches they'd be The Bewitchers.
A team of preteen sleuths must stop the infamous Scottish witch trials coming back as the Malleus Society threatens to destroy the world.
Perfect for fans of Rick Riordan and Skye McKenna.
#scotwriterpitch2025 #MG
Omg! What a dream.
Help my banish imposter syndrome forever by voting for Five by Five
Voting is now open until 31st May
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Set up to fail, DI Ruth Sinclair fights back determined to find who murdered friend and GP Rosie. And why they both still pose a threat to the establishment. She discovers that powerful women attract powerful enemies. #scotwriterpitch2025
28.03.2025 14:10 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The Bewitchers. #MG #Fantasy
Hedgewitch x The Bletchley Riddle
After Sadie witnesses the kidnapping of her mother, she and her team of Bewitchers must unravel the history of the infamous Witch Trials and rescue their families before the threat destroys the supernatural world.
#scotwriterpitch2025
A God-fearing boy and his atheist auntie travel north to the 1869 gold rush in the Scottish Highlands, striking up an unlikely bond en route. Faith is tested when it becomes clear some men will kill for their fortune.
Scottish 'True Grit'
#scotwriterpitch2025
PLAY OF THE WAVES
By day, a lawyer supporting whistleblowers. By night, a fighter of injustices with her fellow hactivists. Aoife’s clandestine activities don’t trouble her unnecessarily until she learns she is pregnant and a whole new future needs negotiating.
ContempF
#scotwriterpitch2025
Two teenage girls. One family secret. A life lived twice.
24 years before she was born one terrible mistake was already shaping Lucy’s future. Who’s the threatening stranger following her that noone else can see? Lucy must find answers before she turns 16... again.
#scotwriterpitch2025 #speculative
Remember to enable ‘everyone’ in your chat settings so that agents or publishers can contact you. #scotwriterpitch2025
28.03.2025 12:03 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0love it! my favourite bird is the gannet!
28.03.2025 11:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Free to download PDF reading list for Year 11 – perfect for promoting #ReadingForPleasure or holiday reading challenges. Includes titles by Leigh Bardugo, Josh Silver, Alice Sebold & more.
📥 Download here: media.schoolreadinglist.co.uk/free-reading...
A really cool new study on the impact of climate activism has just dropped! Some highlights:
1) "There is strong evidence that climate activism shifts public opinion and media coverage in a pro-climate direction, but this varies by context and the tactics employed."
All well! Glad to see you on here. Good luck with your pitches today. x
28.03.2025 10:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0She wasn't looking for revenge but revenge found her
One of the first female officers in an all male jail, Kat Duncan gives 110% to gain promotion until an incident in one of the worksheds turns her life upside down and someone starts wreaking revenge on her behalf #scotwriterpitch2025
ON THE MARCH
In a world facing food insecurities, plant scientist Gwen works tirelessly to develop resilient crops. But new information about her activist mother who vanished when Gwen was 13 threatens to rip apart her carefully guarded world.
90K words
ContempF
#scotwriterpitch2025
Good luck to all writers pitching their work today in the Bluesky Writers’ Pitch 2025 - don’t forget to include the all important tag: #scotwriterpitch2025
28.03.2025 08:45 — 👍 54 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0I made a Starter pack of Scottish Writers. If you’d like to be included, msg me.
go.bsky.app/QVgoAEA
On Friday 28th March, Scotland’s former ‘Tweet Pitch’ event will take place here on BlueSky!
Writers - pitch your work to publishers & agents in <280 characters + the hashtag #scotwriterpitch2025.
We can’t wait to read your pitches!
More info at www.publishingscotland.org/ps-opportuni....
Book cover for The Tomorrow Project: A silhouette of a woman against a brightly coloured sky, behind a ripped wire fence.
Very excited to share the cover for The Tomorrow Project - my speculative thriller coming from Canelo in May 2025…
The end of the world is just the beginning 🧡💚🩷
amzn.eu/d/7yvXiFI
Really looking forward to taking part in @hburghbookfest.bsky.social
next weekend talking about my publication journey and getting to hear writers pitching their ideas! Super excited to be part of the brilliant line up.
#booksky #pitchperfect
Great event. Thanks Peter, Louise and Lina.
20.03.2025 15:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you want to read a book about the film industry told from an insider POV then my new book, Where The Light is Hottest, is out on February 27th. You can preorder it here: tinyurl.com/Where-The-Li...
03.02.2025 10:27 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
'Deleted' and 'Delivered', YA contemporary fiction. Free over Christmas. (23rd-27th December)
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08944K8Q2
#LoveAndTheVillage
#ScottishFiction
#kindleReads
