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I know you shouldn't have a favourite child, but out of all the books I've written, this is mine.📗
Set on the West Wales coast, the quote from Library Journal says it all.
(Link below👇)
#books #summerreading
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Catherine McCarthy🏴 retweeted
Okay Blue’s first EP - you’ll love it 🙏🥰🎉 (my son writes and sings every song)❤️
music.apple.com/gb/album/oka…
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Jun 12
See, a proper book, (little book, but a proper one) with an ISBN number and everything. Cover reveal and ordering details coming soon-ish. And yes, there is an-anti piracy, anti LLM curse embedded in the text. It is Hookland – you'd expect nothing less.
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Great news, and about time. Our education system needs to move with the times, not stagnate for decades.
Jun 12
Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now young people will be able to get to know & love the natural world & gain vital skills to protect it @curlewcalls🌷🌳 🦅🦡 theguardian.com/education/20…
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It's so cold and wet here in Wales on this mid June day that I'm snuggled in with a hot water bottle. Ridiculous!🌧️
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I just read and thoroughly enjoyed Valinora's latest newsletter. Quite touching!🥹
My newsletter is going out tomorrow! With news, views and writing tips! If you would like to sign up and get some free gits in return , check out my website: valinoratroy.com/sign-up-to-…
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Treated myself to these beauties. 😃
If Land is anywhere near as good as Hamnet, I'll be thrilled. As for The Buried Giant, I'd already read the eBook, which was so beautiful it made me cry. I just had to buy a physical copy!
#books
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I love this film. Such a comfort blanket!
“Daddy, my daddy!”
Jenny Agutter’s cry at the station is unforgettable to anyone who knows the 1970 British masterpiece (I don’t use that word lightly): The Railway Children directed by Lionel Jefferies. It’s his centenary and 29 years ago I talked to him. independent.co.uk/arts-enter…
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Loved this one!👇
The ebook of my collection of short horror stories is free today.
Links below.
Retweets/shares very much appreciated. Thanks!
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A huge issue for my elderly father and many others too. Please spare a few minutes to respond!👇
Jun 8
Important. Please share.
The govt is doing a review of access to face-to-face banking. For many elderly and vulnerable people in person banking is crucial and we need to protect it. The review wants your view, you can feed in here... smartsurvey.co.uk/s/accessto…
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Jun 8
Today's MRI scan and other malarkey made much more bearable by waking up to @EdKarshner’s foreword to the first Hookland Fragments volume. Hookland as an invitation to be a character in your own ghost story indeed. Thank you Ed.
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Celebrating #WorldOceanDay with a dreamlike pic of a gull, a bird that often features in my writing.
(Pic taken by my husband)
#BirdoftheDay #Writer
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I know you shouldn't have a favourite child, but out of all the books I've written, this is mine.📗
Set on the West Wales coast, the quote from Library Journal says it all.
(Link below👇)
#books #summerreading
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Catherine McCarthy🏴 retweeted
here's a thread about how I make the natural oak gall inks !
please do order if you have been wanting some amazing medieval style inks for art, letter-writing, DND campaigns, gifts or magic <3 🙏
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1/ a little thread about how I make my medieval magical inks!
I start by collecting galls. My favorite galls for inks are knopper galls. they are more rare, I don't find them too often.
whenever I'm in the forest, I keep my eye out beneath any oak trees in the hopes I will find
ALT me in a frankly bonkers medieval outfit in teh woods wiht a basket full of galls
ALT oak galls on the ground
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It's been one of those odd kind of days that included sheep and lambs frolicking down from the farm up the hill and taking up residence on our parking area.🐑
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Catherine McCarthy🏴 retweeted
My short horror story collection “Tales From The Parkland” and my horror/dark fantasy/mystery “The Candy Witch” are now available as audiobooks. I would really like to thank, Sean Drc Cordry, @VeloxBooks, and @SpokenRealms for bringing my books to life. (1/2)
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Jun 5
Do these lift thingies even work? I'll bite. It's been a bit.
Want fiction that's dark af? I got you.😘
mybook.to/AllsWell
#writerslift #HorrorStories #bookfriday
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Ragaire received a special mention in Pushcart '26 and will therefore be included in my ranking next year. They are currently open for submissions: prose (1-3k words) and poetry (3 poems). Submissions are free and they pay EUR 150 per story/essay and EUR 80 per poem 1 copy.
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Just clicked 'send' on an 'invite' submission because if I tweak it any more I swear it will punch me in the face.😅
#writerslife
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