@christinemichael.bsky.social
Writing novel #3, editor of the Wellesbourne and Walton News, hapless gardener, AVFC, @booksineverycorner on Insta. Hello!
‘Goodbye, Captain. I’ll never forget that time when you painted me like one of your French girls.’ #GirlsOwnCC @girlsown.bsky.social
05.10.2025 19:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We’ve moved to Bluesky!
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The Crow Lady tried hard to fit in with the townsfolk though her long black wings and claw hands rather gave her away. But placing a clooty dumpling on her head was a cunning distraction #GirlsOwnCC
14.09.2025 20:52 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Join us on Bluesky TOMORROW, Thursday 24 July, at 6 pm BST for our live #WomenWritersNet #AuthorInterview with @annehamilton.bsky.social. Anne will talk to us about her recently released novel, “Letters from Elena”! See you there!
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*A blush crept up her cheek and she clenched her jaw to suppress a grin* He has, and once you’ve been made aware of it you see it everywhere! Terrific lesson in avoiding elaborate and unnecessary showing. Love Harry!
15.07.2025 10:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Showing v telling: in a few stories I’ve read lately, descriptions of furnishings stand in for characters’ feelings, e.g childhood home was cold and garishly lit - lack of nurture explaining current alienation. Is it avoidance of ‘body part emotions’ as despised by @jerichowriters.bsky.social ? 😀
13.07.2025 09:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The latest one on Jane Austen is brilliant too.
13.06.2025 08:40 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The most annoying/insulting thing: when organisations respond to a request for editorial comment as if you’re trying to sell them an ad: ‘oh no thank you, we have other ways of reaching our customers’.
27.05.2025 12:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Really enjoying Code of Silence on ITV. Terrific premise and pace.
18.05.2025 20:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fine. More semicolons for the rest of us.
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Reasons to enter a #writingcompetition:
*Gives you deadline which can focus your efforts
*Increases your chances of being spotted by a #literaryagent
*Sparks new creativity
*Winning or being shortlisted can give you a confidence boost
So why not enter? www.iaminprint.co.uk/competitions-2025
Delighted to be longlisted in the @write-mentor.bsky.social novel competition! #booksky
05.05.2025 20:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of my favourites is reading someone described as a ‘copper-bottomed ocean-going chateau-bottled weapons-grade ****’
30.04.2025 10:32 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Eating banana custard and watching Z Cars on @tptvw.bsky.social As OH has helpfully pointed out, I’m reliving A level year #thanks #notfeelingoldatall
16.04.2025 18:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Good luck!
14.04.2025 19:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Then it would be fine to email and ask her to be a bit more specific. On the other hand, an agent who just says ‘change it’ without offering suggestions may not be great to work with anyway, so maybe no loss!
14.04.2025 18:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Congratulations to all on the short list! 🥳
14.04.2025 10:51 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It would have been better if it had started with the par beginning ‘One Friday night’. Other than that I quite like it. When she describes the food, she does it well. But I’m surprised she’s 40. It reads like a review in an undergraduate magazine.
13.04.2025 15:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
no idea who made this but it’s genius
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22.03.2025 19:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thrilled to be on the longlist for the Exeter Novel Prize. Good luck to all the authors who’ve got this far! #booksky #amwriting #authorsky
18.03.2025 14:03 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fab Monday news! 🤩 #Retreat the psychological thriller I co-wrote with its director, Carl Tibbetts, is now on #Netflix 😱 featuring the huge talents of Thandiwe Newton, Cillian Murphy and Jamie Bell 🎥
www.netflix.com/gb/title/702...
When all news is fake, where do you find the truth?
Read about the propaganda war in WW2.
‘A superbly plotted historical drama… highly recommended!’ The Wishing Shelf
#99c #KindleDeal #WW2
amazon.co.uk/Shadow-Netwo...
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For a work thing, just read the whole of ‘The Old Vicarage, Grantchester.’ Blimey! Rupert got a lot off his chest didn’t he? #poetry #amreading
05.03.2025 11:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Once for for the evening crew...
04.03.2025 18:25 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Ooh, had some exciting writing news today! #amwriting #writersky #booksky
04.03.2025 16:46 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What makes you think those things won’t be next? Will take far more than aid spending cuts to meet targets
28.02.2025 13:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So pleased to see my debut The Secret Collector on this list with some amazing looking titles 🤩
16.01.2025 11:27 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
My debut novel #TheSecretCollector is now one of the most requested books on #NetGalley! If you want an uplifting read about an elderly eccentric hoarder and a troubled teen, click that request button!
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Can’t help hearing Elvis Costello’s ‘Shipbuilding’ as the soundtrack to any political discussion at the moment #politicslive
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