Chioma Okereke

Gene Hackman? RIP🙏🏾

Pathways by Katie Ward, a contemporary novel ‘of both the heart and the head’. The book jacket has a goldfish and sink plug on the cover.

PATHWAYS is out now (Little, Brown UK). ‘Pathways is sublime.’ Chioma Okereke @chiomatic.bsky.social #bookreview #booksky 💙📚 #pathways in paperback on 10 April 2025 #philsky #lablit https://buff.ly/3WzE8yM

Fantastic news, Katie! This book is a gem! 📚❤️

Discover the informal settlement of Makoko, explore the heart of Lagos, and encounter a young woman on the precipice of adulthood in this coming-of-age story.

WATER BABY: now out in paperback and longlisted for the inaugural Climate Fiction Price.

#writersky #booksky #writingcommunity #readersky

The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.

The worst case of insnoria* led me to the discovery of APPLE CIDER VINEGAR on Netflix at around 4am. Only one more episode left. Do I watch it now or keep it for the evening? It's so good, I think I need to save it 🙊

*Insnoria - when you can't sleep cos someone is snoring their ass off next to you.

Adding another one to the cat column 😂

Yup yup. I think we're all cats! Can I get a bird, a bear, a dolphin?

Anyone? Anyone?

😸 What are the odds that we ALL end up as cats?

Never really thought about this before observing my cats this morning, but I tend to move from room to room when writing at home. I stay put for about a week or so before changing locations.

Qu: what type of writing animal are you, or what's your current favourite work room?

#writersky #booksky

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Couldn't agree more! The amount of obscure searches I've enacted all in the quest of plotting 😂🤦🏾‍♀️
#writinglife

LONGLIST HIGHLIGHT

‘Stunningly, poetically realised, an urgent, tender and raw observation of how, when things come upon us at our most tender and vulnerable, we are compelled to act and protect, again and again.'
@nicolawriting.bsky.social, Climate Fiction Prize judge

Looking forward to the LIFTED LITERARY FESTIVAL 2025. Join our wonderful panel discussion on Sacred Stories, this Friday 7th February at 10am PST.

I'm in conversation with two phenomenal storytellers: Lola Akinmade and Remica L. Bingham- Fisher.

Full schedule: www.liftedunited.com/lifted-liter...

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Happy Monday, everyone!

#Monday #NewWeek #Dreams #WritersLife #RachelChurcherWriting

Friends as we transition into 2025 & the unknown please use this for your mental health. Please Worry about what’s in your circle not the stuff outside your circle & outside your control. I promise you’ll be better off both physically & mentally.

Morning!
I’d like to follow as many independent bookshops as possible, especially ones who love their children’s books.
Can you help me? If you know a great Indy bookshop on Bluesky please let me know.
We are @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social (I’m Events Manager and Trish is the Owner/Manager).

Happy pub day! 📚♥️🥳

The words of Dr King are still true today. Let us celebrate him and everything he has taught us knowing the difficult days ahead. He never sat down and neither can we.
#DRMLKJR ✊

I know, right? 😸🙊

Are unboxing videos a thing over here? Hope so 'cos I just spent (more time than I'd like to admit) shaving this video down to 60 secs. Judge me as a storyteller, not as a filmmaker!

Please visit makokopearls.org to learn more about the setting of Water Baby.

#booksky #writingcommunity #writer

But how will the BookTokkers tell us what to read?

Yikes! I can't even contemplate the three second walk to the kitchen.

Still under the duvet, which is where I'll remain until a cat drags me out.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #14151:
You don't need to write for publication, or for money, or for an audience, or for anyone but yourself. Joy is a worthwhile objective. Joy doesn't need a reason.

Cover of the paperback novel: Water Baby

The paperback for Water Baby is released in the UK today.

Supremely proud of this work and all it has taken to get here. Even more grateful for all the people that have worked on and supported this book.

Looking forward to more people getting to know, and love, Baby!

To be a reader is to be a time traveler, an explorer of uncharted territories, a lifelong learner. - Unknown

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

Picture of the paperback of Water Baby, my novel.

Excited for the paperback release of Water Baby this Thursday (16th January)! 🥳