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Novelist (7 books), global nomad currently living in England. Miss the tropics! Annie's Day published November 2025
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What a sky! Driving in Oz. Trying to focus on beauty and goodness, rather than the bad and ugly. #health #sanity #nature #Greenland #Denmark
January 18, 2026 at 11:53 AM
I'm fighting jackdaws who keep taking over the bird feeders, even tho' I've tried to make it difficult for them! The robin holds firm, others not so brave.
Word has spread on the long tailed tit grapevine that I run a very good bird café. This family group (likely brothers & sisters from a 2025 brood) came to dine. I’m passing on these 5 adorable tiny birbs (colloquial name: flying teaspoons) to you bc we all need a bit of joy rn🪶:
January 18, 2026 at 11:41 AM
It's chilly, curl up with coffee & find warmth in Amelia's quest for serenity #Venice as she learns the customs & canals of the island city @womenover50travel.bsky.social @necessaryfiction.com @romanticnovelists.bsky.social #BookClubReads #ContemporaryFiction #belonging #SoloTravel #GlobalLiving
January 18, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Bravo - now comes the hard work! 🙄😂
Amidst some of the most trying times of my life. I have finished my first draft of my novel. Wrote the last sentence five minutes ago.

#booksky

Thanks to @crobertcargill.bsky.social for being a motivator.
January 17, 2026 at 4:10 PM
The #US is out of control. Thanks to those #photographers #Reporters and #politicians who are attempting to hold #Trump accountable.
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 4:08 PM
#MaxHastings #OperationPedestal #research for my next #novel! Brilliant as one would expect! #amwriting #amreading
What's everyone reading this weekend?
January 17, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Gone are the days in #USPolitics where a heckler could be turned by #civil #discourse - a skill @barackobama.bsky.social had in buckets. The present incumbent of #TheWhiteHouse is a money-grubbing, misogynist, who thinks #politics and #diplomacy are games of chance on a Monopoly board.
The fact that a sitting United States president gave the middle finger to an American, regardless of being heckled, and we all just went, “Yep, this is who we are now,” and moved on is genuinely absurd.
January 17, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Thank you to #readers who are kind enough to write #BookReviews #Reviews are hard to come by, even when sales seem to be okay. Not brilliant, but okay 🙄
January 17, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Learning from history, for some people in power, is difficult if they don't actually read it. Does anyone honestly the leader of the US has ever read a book, any book, from cover to cover?
January 14, 2026 at 2:18 PM
I hate that all these people cover their faces - is it shame, I wonder? Are they gutless? Don't believe in what they're doing? I believe if you write something, put your name to it. Doesn't the same go for anything?
Temporary power, permanent consequences 💥
January 14, 2026 at 2:12 PM
So true @helenhollick.bsky.social How about 'spyrom' or 'hisficom' 😂 #genre #amwriting #writingcommunity
ICYMI:
Join The Coffee Pot Book Club on #WriterWednesday as bestselling author Helen Hollick goes deep into A Matter of Genre!

You think choosing a genre is easy? Well, check out Helen's insightful post!

thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2024/08/join...
#Fiction #Genre
@helenhollick.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 2:09 PM
They are totally out of control! Yobos with guns, handcuffs and faces covered.
They don't seem to realize that the video of them abusing a legal observer is probably worse than whatever video the legal observer had already obtained of them.
New video shows ICE agents detaining a US citizen legal observer in Minneapolis.

The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.
January 13, 2026 at 4:55 PM
I'm so sick of them cluttering my inbox! Today I had one addressed to someone else! #BookScammers
Unfortunately, here’s a second list today of book marketing scammers sending emails to your inbox.
John Lee Dumas guests.eofire@gmail.com
mickelshub03@gmail.com
#bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #author #writing #amwriting #amediting #writer #booksky #writerslife #indieauthor
January 13, 2026 at 4:52 PM
I met Count Basie and Lena Horne many years ago when I worked for OBM - we were doing a shoot with them. Both delightful!
January 13, 2026 at 4:48 PM
January 13, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Have You Eaten Rice Today? is a story about a violent period in Malaya’s history leading to independence, merdeka, and how love is found in unexpected places.
@applegidleyauthor.bsky.social
#HistoricalRomance #Romance #FictionTale #RomanceNovel
January 13, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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Have You Eaten Rice Today? is a story about a violent period in Malaya’s history leading to independence, merdeka, and how love is found in unexpected places.

@applegidleyauthor.bsky.social

#HistoricalFiction #RomanceSky #Romance #Fiction #AllAuthor
December 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Have you been reading my mind? I'll pick my #WIP up again after Christmas, after I go to Trinidad to see my daughter, after, after, after. I know I will finish, because I always do, but it is daunting. Thanks, Roz!
December 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Oh my goodness, a wonderful review for Annie's Day. Thank you! #historicalfiction #Australia #secondworldwar
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Candlelight Reading...
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December 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Welcome to Day 9 of our blog tour for

༻*·Annie's Day·*༺
by Apple Gidley!

Check out today's stops, sharing an excerpt & fascinating research treasure hunt!

thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2025/10/blog...
#HistoricalFiction #WWII #FamilyHistory #AustralianNurses
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December 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM