Tackling this massive bastard today … going to be a cheery one 📖
Any Marat fans out there? Personally I’m looking forward to the bit where he has to go and live in the sewers & gets a skin disease
Our ridiculous feral children running amok without supervision
I usually see it in cat appreciation groups 😂
This is very important and a major pet peeve of mine. If you don’t know what you’re doing- and if you learned on the internet, then sorry, you don’t know what you’re doing- please leave old gravestones well enough alone.
We are thrilled to share that our Human Authored scheme is now live.
This scheme has been designed for the benefit of SoA members, to help identify works written by humans in a market increasingly flooded by AI-generated books.
Well that does sound intriguing!
In a talk to young writers last night I showed this viral tweet as an e.g. of public engagement
I was gobsmacked when a number of people came up & said they had already seen it loose on the internet (w/o my name, obviously)
Clearly drunk cat is my true & most enduring legacy, & I wish him well 😽
Just a lovely evening speaking at Wollaton Hall about writing & the world of non-fiction publishing, & meeting so many aspiring young writers 🤓
Sadly no sign of Bruce Wayne, but you can’t have everything
This looks exciting!
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Never mind the endless Jane Austen adaptations, here's a period drama I'd watch:
Prison Break, except it's 1740s London & the hero is a 5 ft 4 Herefordshire woman called Elizabeth, with massive hands & massive feet
Come on @netflix.com it's what we all want
The ‘Sappho’ fresco from Pompeii.
A beautiful Roman portrait of a young woman for #InternationalWomensDay
She holds a writing tablet, and raises a writing stylus to her lips in thoughtful contemplation. 55-70 AD.
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Yes I wasn't sure which would be weirder!
Austen herself was around 5 ft 7, so would be tall even now!
Nice detective work, I hope there are descendants out there
I feel like the massive hands would be more challenging 😂
Jane Austen/fashion expert Hilary Davidson has estimated that the average height for a UK woman c.1810 was 5 ft 2 – so I imagine this would have been a few inches above average in 1740
Never mind the endless Jane Austen adaptations, here's a period drama I'd watch:
Prison Break, except it's 1740s London & the hero is a 5 ft 4 Herefordshire woman called Elizabeth, with massive hands & massive feet
Come on @netflix.com it's what we all want
Aspiring writers! The folk at Wollaton Hall (aka Batman’s house) are running an event for young people hoping for a career in writing
I’ll be there to talk history & non-fiction, alongside brilliant children's authors, poets, & novelists
🗓️ 10 March, 4–7pm wollatonhall.org.uk/writing-for-...
It's a beautiful place!
Aspiring writers! The folk at Wollaton Hall (aka Batman’s house) are running an event for young people hoping for a career in writing
I’ll be there to talk history & non-fiction, alongside brilliant children's authors, poets, & novelists
🗓️ 10 March, 4–7pm wollatonhall.org.uk/writing-for-...
I love Fiona Sampson’s work on Mary Shelley so I’m VERY excited to have my hands on her new biography of the incredible Aurore Dupin / George Sand
Swipe for the jazzy real cover, it’s out now ⭐
Congrats @fionasampson.bsky.social & thank you for the sneak peek @doubledayuk.bsky.social 📚
I love Fiona Sampson’s work on Mary Shelley so I’m VERY excited to have my hands on her new biography of the incredible Aurore Dupin / George Sand
Swipe for the jazzy real cover, it’s out now ⭐
Congrats @fionasampson.bsky.social & thank you for the sneak peek @doubledayuk.bsky.social 📚
One of Marie Antoinette’s chambermaids … it’s very sad!
That chapter did happen to be of particular interest to me, it’s greatly informed my own account
Yes, me too!
Me when trying my best to write a fairly grisly & emotional French Revolution death, but my toddler is insisting on listening to Westlife over and over and over and over
I completely agree, and it’s made me want to watch To Walk Invisible again, which I loved
Emily in Yorkshire is something I, personally, can get very much behind
