Amanda Berriman

Here’s a New Year’s Resolution:

Be on the side that reads books — not the side that bans them.

Curae anthology book

On New Year’s Day, the #curae prize for writer-#carers opens for a second time. It’s supported by brilliant people across the industry and it’s for YOU. It’s free to enter and all the info you need is on the site thecuraeprize.uk This year you can enter a poem, short fiction or short nonfiction

Instant classic of the genre.

above the fog. the tops of the trees poke out above the cloud into the sunshine in the countryside.

Took 215 photos on our foggy Boxing Day walk yesterday. The conditions were outstanding!

Happy Birthday!!

Cold weather phrases…

7. It’s pig cold (German)
6. It’s duck cold (French)
5. It’s dick cold (Greek)
4. It’s as cold as Russian hell (Finnish)
3. It’s so cold the crow rides the bus (Spanish)
2. It’s so cold that foxes are shitting copper (Turkish)
1. Penguins are begging for tea money (Croatian)

A list of bands in order of efficacy:

3. Placebo
2. The Cure
1. Prevention

Professional String Quartet for weddings and functions. 💕

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Find these and other lovely gifts in our gift sections 👇🏻

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I have 9/20 on the #hiddenbooks game & it's driving me mad as usual 😆 Anyone want to swap hints? I have Panda, Sherlock, map, CCTV, man walking in the door, cocktails, girl with the toys, cardboard box (sooooo disappointed that wasn't my 1st guess 😆) and the left-side music bookcase...

Idea for a crime novel. Someone sets up a starter pack and each name on there are killed off one by one. The remaining people have to team up to work out who the killer is. 💙📚 #booksky

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

A stack of 11 Scottish books on a wooden bookshelf alongside a giraffe shaped vase. The books shown are Young Mungo, The Salt Flats, Home, Meredith Aline, Paper Cup, Strong Female Character, Hear No Evil, The Young Team, His Bloody Project, Dark Island and Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine.

Did you know that today marks the start of Book Week Scotland, an annual celebration of reading across the country! Here’s a stack of some amazing Scottish books, let me know if you’ve read any or what you’d add to the pile 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙📚

Daniel Aubrey's Dark Island is excellent - made me want to visit Orkney (despite the murders 😆)

Based on how much time I’ve spent on here I’d suggest Skyvers 🙈

And there you go making me feel good about being me 😁😁😁 Thank you x

I am good at holding things together in a crisis! 😆 Also good at problem solving, forward planning and pattern spotting. I notice a lot generally and use it to help me make good decisions.

The thing I loved most about Twitter was that I could post some nonsense and then happily spend hours reading the witty replies by the brilliant people I was fortunate enough to have as mutuals. I'm not just saying this, but this place has already surpassed that. See the replies to this for proof...

Glorious! 😄😄

Photo of open kindle on my legs with lit wood stove in the background.

Reunited with my kindle 😍😆 #BookSky #Reading

Or, and this might be more disturbing, your husband is wrong and the character is very much still alive at the beginning of the novel but they know their fate is sealed and their only job is die again and again with each new reading 😬

That would definitely help to send me to sleep 🤣🤣

I know! Here I am now, at the end of a night out, and no book to read myself to sleep. Gaaaah!

No and no! But we're heading out shortly and then going home after breakfast tomorrow so I only have to cope for a few hours 😆

Now would be a good time to remind people that applications for the bursary for January's course are now open. jerichowriters.com/jericho-writ... 55 courses since April 2011 and 645 alumni! Please apply if you're eligible.

I've come away for a night and accidentally left my handbag behind. Fine because I'm with other people who can pay for stuff. NOT FINE because I remembered to put my kindle in my handbag before I left 😭😭 #Reading #BookSky #Book

Bluesky suddenly looking like old Twitter with a feed full of people I want to hear from. Lovely 😊

Whilst I’m not leaving X as yet, I would very much like to spend more time here.

So, if you see this and you’d be kind enough to share it to let readers find me, that would be greatly appreciated. Hi!

I've got one and I can see the rest of my day disappearing 😆