PLAY OF THE WAVES
By day, a lawyer supporting whistleblowers. By night, a fighter of injustices with her fellow hactivists. Aoife’s clandestine activities don’t trouble her unnecessarily until she learns she is pregnant and a whole new future needs negotiating.

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28.03.2025 12:21 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

ON THE MARCH
In a world facing food insecurities, plant scientist Gwen works tirelessly to develop resilient crops. But new information about her activist mother who vanished when Gwen was 13 threatens to rip apart her carefully guarded world.

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28.03.2025 09:59 — 👍 33    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Set up to fail, DI Ruth Sinclair fights back determined to find who murdered friend and GP Rosie. And why they both still pose a threat to the establishment. She discovers that powerful women attract powerful enemies. #scotwriterpitch2025

28.03.2025 14:10 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Unsolicited writing advice, no: 291:
Read your work aloud. Not only does it help refine your dialogue, avoid difficult to pronounce words and eliminate repetitiveness, but it also means that your future audiobook readers will have an easier job making your work sound as good as it can possibly be...

26.03.2025 08:47 — 👍 200    🔁 29    💬 8    📌 11

The front cover of 'Rizzio' by Denise Mina, part of Birlinn Books' Darklands series. David Rizzio, the private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots and one of her favourites, is violently murdered by Lord Darnley, Mary's jealous husband, and a gang of his supporters, for a number of reasons - Darnley suspects that Rizzio may be the biological father of Mary's unborn child, but it's also suggested here that Darnley and Rizzio may have themselves been lovers. The act sets in motion a chain of events that shaped the rest of Mary's reign as well as the future of Scotland.

Another of @birlinn.bsky.social 's Darklands series, where @damedenisemina.bsky.social explores the murder of David Rizzio, a favourite of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the ripple effect this has on her reign. Full of lies, betrayal and intrigue.

26.03.2025 23:32 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I made a Starter pack of Scottish Writers. If you’d like to be included, msg me.
go.bsky.app/QVgoAEA

21.03.2025 14:50 — 👍 41    🔁 21    💬 19    📌 0

Book cover for The Tomorrow Project: A silhouette of a woman against a brightly coloured sky, behind a ripped wire fence.

Very excited to share the cover for The Tomorrow Project - my speculative thriller coming from Canelo in May 2025…

The end of the world is just the beginning 🧡💚🩷

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21.11.2024 10:04 — 👍 21    🔁 3    💬 5    📌 0

Really looking forward to taking part in @hburghbookfest.bsky.social
next weekend talking about my publication journey and getting to hear writers pitching their ideas! Super excited to be part of the brilliant line up.
#booksky #pitchperfect

21.03.2025 12:27 — 👍 5    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0