Andrew McAleer

A golden retriever lies on the floor like a melancholy dishcloth. Her comfortable bed lies slightly away from her but no! She spurns comforts! Only hard floor.

I am also delighted to say I've just signed with Robinson to publish No One Talks About This Stuff. Robinson publishes It's Not a Bloody Trend and are a dream to work with. I am so excited for NOTATS to have a proper life given all the Unbound horrors. As you can see, Sybil is very supportive 🙄

It means a lot that Reading Well has books on dealing with loss. It's something that many parents experience. It's also why No One Talks About This Stuff is deliberately intersectional: grief and loss don't exist in a vacuum. They are informed by who you are. It's a support group in a book.

A picture of my book No One Talks About This Stuff: Twenty-Two Stories of Almost Parenthood, which has been chosen for the Reading Well parenting list and will feature in 750 libraries around the UK.

Some lovely news. Accessibility means a lot to me with my books so I'm really thrilled that my anthology No One Talks About This Stuff has been chosen for @readingagency’s new #ReadingWell for Families booklist! Now available to borrow for free from libraries. readingagency.org.uk/get-reading/...

Pope Tim Tams VI

Me and Karyma Ellis, the founder of Makes Sense to Me, grinning cheerfully while I brandish a copy of my book

In cheering news, if you’re near Moorgate, you must pop into Makes Sense to Me’s bookshop pop-up at 120. (Inside the Barclays.)

Karyma Ellis specialises in neurodiversity and sells books and fidgets for kids, teens and adults - really really lovely! makessensetome.co.uk/pages/events-1

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Whilst I wholeheartedly agree, worth skipping to Ed and James's postmortem in the last five minutes. Very funny.

With gratitude to
@drrachelgibbons
for raising awareness #Hope #ItsOkayToTalk #MentalHealthAwareness #Support

Cover image of 'It's Not a Bloody Trend' by Kat Brown, now just 99p on Kindle for all of March 2025. Picture also features a selection of endorsements of the book.

'It's Not a Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult' by @katbrownwrites.com is just 99p on Kindle for the whole of March. An ideal time to snap this up if you haven't already.

It's Not A Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult It's Not A Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult eBook : Brown, Kat: Amazon.co.uk: Books

It’s Not a Bloody Trend is a 99p Kindle deal throughout March if you’re looking for an accessible book about ADHD adult diagnosis - lots of people I haven’t paid and do not know have told me its funny, helpful and informative, which really surprised my mum. www.amazon.co.uk/Its-Not-Bloo...

He had a chat that had been running for four months. It was endless pages and pages...

My dad had the same issue, they randomly decided to make his 'blueyonder' email address defunct: 'just set up a new email address to fix it'. I managed to get him back him but he'd spent months going back and forth to customer services, how do Virgin expect people in their 80s to cope with this?

These books will be invaluable for young people, parents, and clinicians. I highly recommend them for anyone struggling with these very common difficulties

Wonderful to see the launch of these two fantastic evidence based guides for teenagers relating to social anxiety and eating/body image worries. Congratulations to all the authors 👏👏
@littlebrown.bsky.social

Still 99p on Kindle!

Book covers for Overcoming Anorexia Nervosa, An Introduction to Coping with Eating Problems, Overcoming Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating, and Mealtimes and Milestones.

For #EatingDisordersAwarenessWeek, we have a number of books that support people with eating disorders.

Four books covers against a blue background: How to Cope When Your Child Can't; The Compassionate Mind Approach to Postnatal Depression; The Compassionate Parenting Workbook; and The New Motherhood Workbook

Today is #ParentMentalHealthDay so seems a good time to mention some of our supportive publishing for parents - aimed at looking after yourself when your own children are struggling, and being more compassionate with yourself during new parenthood and the following years. #PMHD

A shelf full of It’s Not a Bloody Trend at Goldfinch Books in Alton, Hampshire

I was utterly thrilled to get my first PLR statement today. Over 1400 people have borrowed It’s Not a Bloody Trend from a library since it came out, which, as a former Library Child makes me hugely emotional. Hurrah for people with ADHD (and for that title)

‘Through the compelling personal account and practical guidance it offers, this book helps turn immense grief into a pathway for healing, ensuring that the suffering of those we’ve lost becomes a catalyst for deeper human connection and care’ 🌱 Dr Rachel Gibbons, Royal College of Psychiatrists

I choose to believe you have a window display in a nice bit of London rather than uncharitably considering that she might be making that bit up.

Bookshop window, result!

Hello! I interviewed lots of people about the ups, downs and middles of ADHD, AuDHD and more for It’s Not a Bloody Trend. It was really inspiring and lovely. My publisher also put the resources section online if that helps connecting you overcoming.co.uk/1647/Its-Not...

Low-demand parenting | Autism Central The series of seven webinars, with Dr Naomi Fisher and Eliza Fricker, is for parents and carers to understand more about low-demand parenting.​

and myself have created 7 brand new, fully illustrated free webinars about the low demand parenting approaches.
www.autismcentral.org.uk/news/low-dem...

Please know that I read this on waking in Marrakesh and now I am going to be luxuriously sobbing in Marrakesh. #adhd

Hello and thanks to all my new followers.
My name is Eliza Fricker and I am an author and illustrator.
I have always loved drawing but there wasn’t much time in school for art.

Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness Buy Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

Another great long read about why cynicism is for suckers. If you find yourself up in the mentions lamenting that nothing will ever change, repeat after me: "Cynicism is a tool for the status quo." Being an optimistic realist or - as I identify - a grim optimist, is WAY more punk

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John Gibson Doc PW on LinkedIn: When the Naughty Step Makes Things Worse Parenting for Children (and… A great read - recommended to me by a foster carer.

www.linkedin.com/posts/john-g...

After years of ‘big trauma’, I’m now ready to embrace Christmas For those going through difficult times, December can be tough. This year, the writer Kat Brown is determined to make the most of the season

I have my first piece in Sunday Times Style today - teenage me is screeching - about grief and sadness and how the evergreen melancholy of Christmas can be a surprisingly brilliant time to sit with both (should be a gift link)
www.thetimes.com/article/0247...

Started listening to Gender Magic by Rae McDaniel, and it's AMAZING. Already made me happy-cry, in-the-feels cry, and laugh out loud in the first chapter.

Pressure builds.
They get quieter.
Thoughts less malleable.
So we offer ways out.
We won't judge.
We will flex.
Until they are able to come to us.
Cancel, change.
We can always find a way.
Without a sigh, without guilt.
We make it safe to lighten the load.
There's a solution, always.