To kick off my Substack series on Creative Growth, I explore how cherishing your inimitability is the key to finding joy as an artist. #MondayMotivation #creativity
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In celebration of eclipse week here in the USA (which was mindblowingly beautiful), here's my second YA, all about young love under that big starry sky of ours. HarperCollins HarperCollins 360 #asfarasthestars #eclipse2024 #yafictiond

Following my keynote at the Derry Author Festival, I'm releasing a series on my Substack, THE WRITING CAFÉ: 7 Tips for Creative Growth. I hope you'll follow along.🌱
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In 2024 I want to STRENGTHEN my writing practice, my mothering, being a partner, a friend, my health, the way I show up in the world - not by powering through, but by building up the fabric of who I am. Do you have a word for the year? I’d love to know.🤍 #NewYear2024

INTRODUCTION: WRITING FROM FICTION
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A clever, tender book about a child who doesn't fit in and the grief following the death of a mother. A beautiful look a father-son relationship and the power of the natural world to heal - and how we need to save it before it's too late. Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 #bewilderment #BookReview

Monday #bookhaul from Blackwell's, Oxford’s Bookshop: possibly the best way to start the week! Have you read any of these? They've been on my #tbr pile for a while - can't wait to dive in.

Airports have the right idea. If you’re gonna stress people out, at least give them bookstores, coffee, cocktails, and let them wear sweatpants. It’s only fair.

The awesomely talented Jon McGregor has done it again with #leanfallstand : one of the most moving explorations of marriage and the failure of language and the painful and beautiful recovery of love and body and mind and words. I loved the final third, especially. 4th Estate Books

🐈‍⬛Happy #WorldBookDay from our very own #SixDinnerSid . 🐈‍⬛

It’s #WorldBookDay and the teachers are on strike so the kids section in Blackwell's, Oxford’s Bookshop is filled with little wizards and Harry Potters and Peter Pans running around the shelves. It’s pretty magical.🌟

I'll keep re-reading this novel over and over again until I die. First read 10 years ago. Read again last weekend, and it felt as exquisite as the first time. I'm not sure any novelist writing today makes the ordinary as remarkable as Jon McGregor. #favouritebook #rereading

Sometimes she's up there for hours, in her beautiful, still silence, before I even notice that she's been watching me the whole time. Cats are poets and mystics and philosophers, I'm convinced of it.

And there I was, sitting at my desk, hoping for a good stint of uninterrupted writing time before the kids got home from school...Little feline rascals. #catslife #writerslife

A warm, sunny read to get us through the end of winter about the power of community and female friendship. Love how she brings older female characters into her stories and allows them to live full, meaningful lives - and to find love! Another lovely UpLit from Libby Page.

A stunning, moving and timely read about raising a trans daughter in America's complex socio-political and religious climate. But more than that too: about how to parent any child into their true-souled flourishing self. A brilliant memoir. #agirlhood Picador Books

Another totally relatable tweet from the brilliant Jonathan Edward Durham!

Starting a new novel = a rollercoaster of falling in love, dizzying excitement, obsessive thinking - alongside a loop the loop of self-doubt. Oh, the joy of being a writer! #amwriting #writerslife #authorslife #creativity

Chalking this up to one of my favourite reads ever: heart wrenchingly sad and sidesplittingly funny - all about friendship and love and life and death and so beautifully written. Can't wait to read more Catherine Newman! #BookRecommendations #booklove #bookish