Deb Palmer

2) Sarah Walters: Fingersandwiches

Gail Honeyman: Eleanor Oliphant is completely full

JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the party rings

Apologies in advance for these 🫣😁

Hope you feel much better soon! 🙂

Apologies to anyone who doesn't like illness chatter (you may want to mute me) and general self-pity 😶 but I feel the need to moan. I've given myself a couple of days off and I've just been so ill, and it was the same at the weekend and the weekend before 😭

This is one of the best writing resources I’ve ever come across and, incredibly generously, it is completely free. Whether I’m preparing a workshop or looking for inspiration for my own work, this is always my first stop.

Fiona Robertson EMERGENCY CALL OUT: DISABLED PEOPLE HAVE TEN DAYS BEFORE THE DISABILITY CUTS VOTED ON IN PARLIAMENT WE NEED A REBELLION I am begging, even if you think there's no point, even if you have tried before, please contact your MP and ask them to vote against the cuts on the 1st. If they are Labour, this is vital: If they are already against the cuts, please write to support them. They will be under enomous pressure from the party and need to know we are grateful, and will defend them against attacks. If they're pro-cuts, tell them they have betrayed everything Labour was meant to represent, and their ideological crusade is just eugenics. Tell them these are cuts even the Tories didn't dare make and the myth that there's no money in one of the richest countries on earth doesn't fly anymore.

And if they're swithering or quiet, these are the most important - tell them they have a chance to be heroes of the Labour movement. Tell them rebellion is a duty and they will be supported and lauded. Tell them this is their chance to take a real stand for the people and yes, Rayner is threatening reprisals but this is the essence of labour solidarity - we stand together as a collective because they can't fire everyone. Don't be the weak link. And then maybe tell them if they do vote for the cuts, you'll spend what's left of your life fighting to get them deselected. If they are Tories, make the obvious economic case that the loss of people from the workforce to provide care for people who no longer qualify for support, the cost of increased emergency and exacerbated conditions, etc, will cost far more than it could save. Lib Dems and the SNP should be on board anyway, but write with support and fear. They still need to hear it.

Reform... Well. They'll likely vote against as part of their current manipulative 'no really we're friends to disabled people, please ignore our plans to privatise health and social care and do far worse cuts than this to the support you rely on oh and you'll have no legal human rights to challenge any of it'. But probably worth telling them making Labour look bad is possible. If you can get a meeting with your MP, zoom or in person, even better. But please write. You can use the wonderful site Write To Them (just search those words) Look at Disability Rights UK and DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts) for information and statistics you can use the comments as I find them. I'll link some in Our lives depend on this. Please help us.

EMERGENCY CALL OUT: DISABLED PEOPLE

HAVE TEN DAYS BEFORE THE DISABILITY CUTS ARE VOTED ON IN PARLIAMENT

WE NEED A REBELLION

I am begging, even if you think there's no point, even if you have tried before, please contact your MP and ask them to vote against the cuts on the 1st.

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Hello, April! 🌱

Ahh, that sucks. 😬 Hope you find another agent soon and it all works out. It’s deserved. Hugs x

Sorry to hear this Philippa. Has she quit as an agent altogether ie to all of her clients? That must be so tough. x

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It really is 🧡

How special. I’ve got my Nan on Google Streetview 🥹

Happy Birthday, Miranda! 🎂✨

A fridge magnet depicting the White House in Washington DC which has been broken.

This old fridge magnet broke today, and I can’t think of any more appropriate symbolism for 2025…

Oh no! Sorry to hear that. Hope you manage to have a lovely time 🫶🏻

Ahh, a fave movie of mine!

Ha! We watched this last night and made a similar comment. Sadly, its laughably bad.

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Another day of calls to our landline as it’s one digit different to our local Specsavers.
Maybe they should’ve gone…elsewhere?

Call to acknowledge all writers behind celebrity books - The Society of Authors The Society of Authors is calling for celebrities, publishers and agents to acknowledge the writers behind celebrity books, particularly for children

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The Society of Authors (@societyofauthors.bsky.social) have put out an official statement calling on celebrities, publishers & agents to properly acknowledge, promote & recompense the expert professional authors (“ghostwriters“ & “co-creators”) behind “celebrity fiction”.
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Have you read her others? So Late in the Day, or Antarctica?

Same! But in my case with a cat 😅

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Oh my days! 😍😍

Can’t help with the London thing- but I watched it last night too! It was a joy. 🙂

New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.

“How’d the world die? A pack of no-talent tech grifters created a digital artbarf machine to spew endless artbarf and each time the machine threw up it drank more water, destroyed more resources. Nobody wanted it but they did it anyway! Eat your roach paste.”

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Happiest of birthdays to you, Clare! 📚 🎂

Poor Milo! & you. Hope he feels much better soon 🤍

The struggle is real…

LOVE this!

Road Ends by Mary Lawson, is good. Set in both Canada and Britain. I also read The L-shaped Room (Reid Banks) many years ago and that’s also in the ‘60s I believe- but I can’t remember it very well!

👋🏻…I have returned! 😁