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No 1 bestselling Irish crime writer (adult & YA) ππ Chair Society of Authors, views my own. Agent: Simon Trewin https://linktr.ee/SamBlakeBooks
The problem with modern life is all the beeping.
14.10.2025 08:20 β π 109 π 10 π¬ 12 π 4Me too!!! And I'm hopeless with numbers!
15.10.2025 08:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The older I get the more I appreciate when people say "oh I don't know the answer to that" or "actually I was wrong". It's probably the biggest shortcut to get me to trust you tbh.
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A photo of the Alaskan tundra in the autumn Sony A1, Sony 24-70mm f/2.8 GM ii - 5 image panorama
Wow - 3 people have placed orders on my store over the weekend!
Itβs not a lot, but itβs more than Iβve ever had in one go since opening my online print store
Thank you all so much for the support, and for assisting my mission in promoting wildlife conservation & indigenous rights for Alaska
This PhD on a reparatory history of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, exploring the legacies of empire is open for applications. It features a great supervisory team (moi, Kerry Pimblott, and Sadia Habib) and fabulous public history opportunities. Please share.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Delicious images of Edinburgh from Tom Duffin
Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train.
A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin
@tomduffinphotos.bsky.social.
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Starmer's face!
14.10.2025 05:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The childrenβs book industry has been misjudging reading levels for decades. It doesnβt pay well, so itβs populated by book lovers β keen readers who produce books for the kids they were: the most capable readers. But those were the minority. The majority read at a lower level, and still do.
13.10.2025 19:17 β π 25 π 8 π¬ 3 π 0Woo hoo!! πππ₯
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Barnacle geese, Marske Stray
90+ heading south-east following the coastline just now towards Saltburn. @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @longnabbirder.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social
Come back again and wake me up at about half past May.
One of my favorite Halloween time paintings by Fragonard -- The Magician
13.10.2025 14:32 β π 133 π 16 π¬ 3 π 1The ratio of novels with good opening quarters to novels that are properly good the whole way through is 10-to-one. Most books should therefore be choose-your-own-adventure beyond a certain point, to hold attention and disguise the difficulty of sustaining a strong start.
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The Green Man's War is a 99p Kindle deal for October in the UK, for those keen to catch up with the series before The Green Man's Holiday is published on 30th October, with a launch at the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton π
www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Mans-W...
These are gorgeous
12.10.2025 14:35 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Brilliant!!
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Authors Catherine Ryan Howard, Andrea Mara and Prof Marie Cassidy with moi, Sam Blake at the River Bank Arts Centre standing in front of a packed theatre - the room was full and there were 135 people on the waiting list!
Fab event last night at @kildarereaders.bsky.social with the ladies of crime, all these people came out on a Saturday night to hear how we kill people βΊοΈ
And we're doing it all again next week at Murder One!
We are back,
Eat the Storms, the poetry podcast, Season 10
with @suefinch.bsky.social @bethbpoet.bsky.social Chris Campbell and Giles Watson
Tune in today on your preferred podcast platform π
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That's gorgeous!
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Sam Blake, Andrea Mara and Catherine Ryan Howard with Professor Marie Cassidy (Ireland's state pathologist, now bestselling fiction writer) against a green wall full of gold signatures
On stage: Sam Blake far left, sitting beside Marie Cassidy, Andrea Mara is laughing. On the far right Catherine Ryan Howard is listening intently . I have no idea what I was saying!
2nd event: Packed house for Prof Marie Cassidy, Andrea Mara & Catherine Ryan Howard at the Riverbank Arts Centre. Lots of laughs & fabulous insights into process and quite a lot on murdering people...
1st pic by Ger Holland. Books are on sale via Woodbine Books & they have lots of signed copies!
Very blurry photo of Sam Blake, Roisin O'Donnell and Brendan Mac Evilly wearing headset mics, about to go on stage
Cover of Sunday Times bestseller Nesting - a black and white picture of the sea and rocks with a mother comforting a child far right. Title and blurb flashes are in a fabulous bright pink.
Sam Blake's hand holding a copy of Brendan's Deep Burn - the cover is a glorious red and cream chequered board with significant images from the book hand drawn in each square
Deep Burn has flaps! Text inside the cover says: in a small seaside village in South Kerry, Martha Knox develops an unlikely career burning emotionally charged objects and photographing the results. Her clients travel from far and wide with things they want destroyed... buy the book to get the rest!!
Two fab events today at @kildarereaders.bsky.social, 1st: debuts w Roisin O'Donnell & Brendan Mac Evilly- Roisin's Nesting was longlusted for the Women's Prize & Brendan's Deep Burn was launched this week! Copies at @woodbinebooks.bsky.social -do order, brilliantly original & beautifully written π₯
11.10.2025 23:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0πHappening tomorrow!
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10.10.2025 13:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In 67AD the Emperor Nero entered as a competitor to the Olympic Games. He competed in a number of events, most of which he had made up, and then declared himself the winner of each.
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okay I'm almost done with the second book in @maryrobinettekowal.com's Lady Astronaut series and I cannot recommend it enough to all you incident response and human factors nerds
the first book had me hooked from page one, which is a rare thing for me:
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the portland chicken guy π₯°
10.10.2025 03:38 β π 829 π 155 π¬ 6 π 7@louiestowell.bsky.social my class had personal reading time and I went out to the class library to discover a child being introduced to Loki by another classmate and has now started the 1st book on that recommendation! π This kid is going to love Loki! #UKKidLit #BookChat #EduSky #ScoEdu
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