@vanessawalters.bsky.social
Writer
Trump is America’s Brexit. I expect economic decline and an increased turning in as people can less afford to travel and the US becomes less attractive for business and tourism.
15.11.2024 20:43 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Absolutely. If not for yourself, block for others so gradually trolls realize this is not X and that Musky behavior is not welcome here.
15.11.2024 20:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
While we’re here, following each other & being nice can I tell you about my podcast, ‘The Conversation’ 😁 Every week I’m in conversation with one of your favourite authors, talking about their journey, books & everything in between. 🎧
Apple apple.co/3RSKsxK
Spotify spoti.fi/3DVDB0G
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I'm excited!
15.11.2024 20:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We live in an age of free information and what is considered outrageously and offensively ‘woke’ is actually just understanding where we are at as a society, that it’s not okay to write about marginalized people without some self-interrogating. Being a writer is literally self-interrogation.
15.11.2024 15:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Jamie Oliver debacle is being hotly debated in my writers WhatsApp group with some furious about publishers giving deals to celebrities without a second thought for what they are writing and and others furious at the censorship.
Personally, I’m annoyed at Oliver for his myopic writing.
When things get hard off the page, I try to write about a thousand words a day. It’s not about quality, but staying on track, keeping a focus on writing, commitment and consistency. I call it a shitty 1000 words a day, for perspective. I’m not trying to be Wole Soyinka, just get down the page.
15.11.2024 13:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0FREE, FRIENDLY spaces for you to get some words in and feel supported in building your writing practice and community.
Any form/genre and no commitment necessary.
We go together 🔥
It IS going to get harder, but in these times of feeling unsafe, please remember my free writing channel over on my IG. Writing is Hell-Take a Seat where I post content to keep you from giving up.
I also run a FREE Tuesday workshop at 3.30pm over on Clubhouse. Sundays with @harooncreates
Hi BlueSky! I'm an author of literary fiction and creative non-fiction, scholar, recovering academic, part-time anti-racism/justice consultant, astrologer, and down for the inevitable revolution✊🏼. Check out my debut short fiction collection Suite as Sugar (Dundurn Press). 🇹🇹🇨🇦
14.11.2024 13:45 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0For the algorithm:Caribbean literature, BIPOC literature, Caribbean books and writers,artists,creatives!
14.11.2024 14:04 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
BOOKS! Read 'em while you can! Reading is resistance.
www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2024-11...
We will create the vibe. All we need is us. 💛
14.11.2024 05:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
#WritersofBsky
I post about writing, books, being published etc. Currently in the trenches of the next novel and always looking to expand my virtual writing community!
Just had a visit from @VanessaWalters with a proof of her novel “The Lagos Wife”.
A suspenseful crime novel set in Nigeria revolving around the disappearance of a wealthy expat…
My POV in a cafe. A cup of coffee next to a proof copy of “The Lagos Wife”, whose cover features an illustration of a Black woman swimming
Perfect start to a day off, I feel.
07.02.2024 09:54 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0"The Lagos Wife" on the Crime Fiction Lover radar
#WritingGoals #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackAuthors
crimefictionlover.com/2024/02/on-t...
#LAGOS
The TripFiction Book of the Month - March 2024
The Lagos Wife by Vanessa Walters
www.tripfiction.com/book-month/m...
#BOTM #Blueskybooks
Jumping for joy on #LeapDay! Good morning and happy publication day to @vanessawalters.bsky.social (THE LAGOS WIFE), Lesley MacDowell (CLAIRMONT) and all the other inspiring #authors with new books coming out today.
29.02.2024 08:32 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Lagos Wife is out today in the UK! It's even in Sainsbury’s! 😀
www.penguin.co.uk/books/454011...
Thanks for sharing!
25.02.2024 01:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Guardian Books' crime and thrillers of the month: Nightwatching by by Tracy Sierra; The Lagos Wife by @vanessawalters.bsky.social; Anna O by Matthew Blake; Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? by Nicci French. tinyurl.com/24jyb7yu
20.02.2024 21:48 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I spoke to You Magazine about the Lagos life that inspired THE LAGOS WIFE. My novel is available to preorder now from the usual suspects! www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/art...
18.02.2024 02:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Who do I have to F**k to get off this boat?
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