I've had a sneaky look at the nominations and I can feel it in my bones that it's going to be very hotly contested this year! Get ready to vote tomorrow!

Off on holiday tomorrow. My brain:

Voting is now OPEN for the 2025 Inside Soap Awards!🏆🌟✨ 🔗Head to insidesoap.co.uk/awards to cast your vote. This will send you to a page on Digital Spy with all the instructions you need. Tell all your friends and get voting! 🤩

Today I’m talking to Jo Morey (rhymes with story) about her psychological suspense novel The Night Lagoon, why her title changed, her main character’s hearing loss and Jo’s strategy for getting an agent, including keeping an on-going query letter HarperCollinsUK 🎧 bit.ly/COADNjomorey

LOVED talking to Chloe on her fantastic podcast…

Mainland Europe’s shunning of Diet Coke everywhere in favour of Coke Zero will never not hurt my feelings. Missing her.

Home after an amazing jam-packed week in Amsterdam and first things first - cuppa and a big soaps catch up!

I'm watching Oscar's first episode and he's already an icon #EastEnders

Today I’m talking to Danielle Giles about her queer historical novel Mere, what she learnt from 5 years of writing a novel that didn’t sell and why she describes writing historical fictional as creating a translation of the past Mantle Books 🎧 bit.ly/COADNdanielleg

I'm gonna need #Emmerdale's John to start losing the plot soon because the amount of luck this man has is too much. I don't need him to be another Cameron or Meena but let the unravelling begin before I lose patience!

Debbie vs Carla and The Great Gazumping of 2025 has been my favourite part of my big #Corrie marathon today! I'm finally all up to date!

Today I'm talking to Krystelle Bamford about her unique greek chorus novel Idle Grounds, creating dread for her child protagonists and the reader and why Krystelle recommends her experience with an early career agent Hutchinson Heinemann 🎧 bit.ly/COADNkrystelle

It took me 23 days, and an appeal, but on principle I was not giving up and missing out. Finally received my whopping £2.95 Delay Repay compensation 🎉

Off to see the legendary Claudia Winkleman at a special Traitors event at the Proms today! Never been to The Proms before, feel very cultured!

What an absolute treat this was! Incredible orchestra and performers, but the extra treat was the all the special guests!

New “trains of the future” will have self-balancing snack tables and cinema-style onboard entertainment, but wheelchair users still won’t be able to board independently. An enraging reminder that we disabled people live in a different universe than our nondisabled peers.

Leslie for president #LoveIsland

And y’all are gleefully using it and helping train it 🥴