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Harper Collins paid £2 million for Boris Johnson's memoirs. Booksellers are left with piles and piles of unsold books. When are they going to learn to invest in real writing talent rather than throwing ridiculous amounts of cash on politicians and celebrities?

I don't mean to brag, but I just changed the clock on the cooker.

Back in the game, swinging into competitions - here we go again! Flash 500 Writing Competitions Anyone else?

I’m filled with hope again about my WIP. I fear this may also be me embodying that famous definition of stupidity 🤣🙈

FINAL DAY to enter the International Novel Opening & Synopsis Competition. #fiction #novels #amwriting flash500.com/novels/ Entries close at midnight tonight UK time (31 October).

Have an Autumnal tree. What else is there to say?

My reading manifesto launched today for #MichaelRosenDay

when the BBC reports on the BBC

Need to nominate one book next year for my #BookClub - which book???

To prevent flooding in our communities, we must start in the uplands. Replanting woodlands and restoring peat bogs helps store more water in the landscape, reducing the risk downstream. We can keep building higher flood walls, but working with nature is far more effective.

As a long time lover of Spain, really enjoying this as my inbetweens read Just ME - looking forward to getting back out there in 2025!

Very disappointed that online giant @Photobox missed the specified date to send out my daughter’s 18th BD photobook - and no email to complain either. Paid extra to receive it 4th Jan … 😭😢 no apology just an “overwhelming demand” note on my account against the word - delayed.

I have worked all weekend on my novel. Not that anyone cares. I have nobody to tell, and Twitter/X, I don’t expect you to care either. But hey ho. Into another week of the day job. And ad infinitum … nobody said this was easy etc etc

Rain is the writer’s friend, isn’t it. Hunker down, stay in the dry, get those words working …

Just a joyous start to my day, and every rule breaker’s day …

Reading Persuasion and finding it hard going … think I lost the knack of classics 🫣 #JaneAusten250 #JaneA

What did you do over Easter? I rewrote my flogging scene. Ha. #writerslife

Just watched Netflix doco on #Grenfell. Incredibly well told - the careful narrative mostly driven by Inside Housing trade press journo Peter Apps - incomparable in his tenacity and eloquence. So many reporters only stick around for the headlines - Pete never walked away.