81% of people say they want to write a book. 15% start. 6% make it halfway. Only 3% finish. If you’ve finished a book, you’re among the rare few who didn’t just dream - you did the work. That’s more than an accomplishment, it’s something to be proud of. | #WritingCommunity |

The Birds opens with this: “On December the third the wind changed overnight and it was winter.” Short, chilly and to the point. It could almost be a weather report. Stephen King on the brilliance of du Maurier. theguardian.com/books/2025/sep…

¡Ya está aquí! My Spanish adventure begins...The first foreign edition of one of my novels is out! Los Impostores, now available in Spain; soon the world! (ISBN 978-84-10001-46-6). The original, The Impostors, still here to be enjoyed, with all my books: tinyurl.com/3v3kfkt9

Handing AI companies the life’s work of the UK’s creatives, for free, isn’t building a “fairer country”

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Piracy IS theft. It is defined as robbery. I can’t believe in the year 2025 we have to assert this. Literacy matters, YES. This is why there are myriad resources offering FREE reading materials of all kinds. But this does not entitle you to steal. Stop undermining our work!

Milei had to beg a bail-out. Already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him. Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership." SHARE!

"You should not be afraid of someone who has a library and reads many books; You should fear someone who has only one book, and he considers it sacred, but he has never read it." Nietzsche

Great news for independent bookshops and anyone averse to feeding the Bezos behemoth

Cal Flyn recommends Notable Novels of Fall 2025 fivebooks.com/best-books/not… via Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations

I’ll just leave this here. 😁

I love the typo here: "Toy government" - that's exactly what it was for Boris Johnson And yes, of course it should be investigated.

How about that for inspiration?

Reform can use lawfare all they like, but there's no escaping the fact that Farage has engaged in shady Russia-related activities for years It's worth regurgitating this Bylines Supplement every day for the next 4 years bylinesupplement.com/p/nigel-farage…

Maybe this comes as no surprise, yet still it's shocking to read "book jacket design is part of the assessment" and students have to be made "aware it takes time to get into the rhythm of a novel"

We went from “what good are the humanities?” to “suddenly, no one can read” in about a year, and it's no coincidence that we're suddenly awash in misinformation and lack of critical thinking. This is WHY we need the humanities. This is what they prevent.

So here is our launched book. Ready for the spooky season! Get your copy today and give the kids a really fun treat! SHIVERTIME STORIES amazon.com/Shivertime-Sto… #books #launched #Halloween #kidsbooks #readers

So sad to hear that Jilly Cooper has died after a fall. theguardian.com/books/2025/oct…

The silence from our govt and media on the conviction of former Reform UK Wales leader, Nathan Gill, as a Russian agent of influence is deafening. Gill appears to be just one link in a wider and deeper connection between Reform UK and Putin’s Kremlin. This needs to be exposed.