**LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024**
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If you have enjoyed KILLING JERICHO, I'd really appreciate a vote! Huge thanks from me and crime fiction's first Traveller detective -harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com/vote/

Jenny 🥨 Accents are a sign of bravery, most native English speakers don't understand the time and effort it takes to become fluent. Anyone who judges an accent likely has not learned a second language.

This. I have severe social anxiety and it bugs the shit out of me when people go “introverts be like” and then proceed to describe my medically diagnosed mental illness like it’s a fun quirk.

I’m afraid mine is likely to punch you in the throat, apologise, then promptly do it again. And it’ll be ranting at you like fucking Woody Allen the entire fucking time. What an arsehole.

Audentes fortuna juvat.

Being in any post alongside Matar, Hayes, and Olson is basically A DREAM

Can someone explain to me why Affinity Publisher 2 decided the rest of this text frame could go fuck itself?

welp, will be sharing this with every class I teach until I die

The stunning and talented Fiona West returns to fantasy with her new release BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WITCH FOR, a cozy fantasy for the parents out there! With a blurb like this from Quenby Olson how could you possibly resist?!

Come check it out at BWG 👇👇

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Gorgeous work by Nick Cave. AND THE ASS SAW THE ANGEL is making me a better writer.

To my fellow #writers who have hired editors: how much do you typically pay for copy edits and/or for dev edits? Trying to get an idea of what an affordable average price is.

And #editors , feel free to drop your links!

#writingcommunity #editing

'It's all over for pronouns' say people who don't understand how language works.

A PSA for #infertilityawarenessweek .

If you have a pregnancy to share and a loved one struggling with fertility, tell them in writing (text, letter, etc.) and explicitly state you're not looking for an immediate reply.

Let them work out their feelings without being perceived.

Finished Monte, started Company! 🐴🤠

I’ve had people try to talk me *out* of it.

Representation matters, and a vote for our gay Traveller detective would mean the world! 🏳️‍🌈🕵️‍♂️
#VoteKillingJericho 🙏👇
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Cannot believe the atm just ate my card 😭 🙈

I’d hugely appreciate any boosts of my ko-fi while I wait for my new one! 🩷

ko-fi.com/rjcrunden

This was not, by the way, an invitation for “but mah free speech” whiners to commiserate about how they “can’t even say anything anymore these days”. I just wanted my fucking spellcheck to fucking let me fucking swear in peace.