AppleGidleyAuthor
@applegidleyauthor.bsky.social
Novelist (7 books), global nomad currently living in England. Miss the tropics! Annie's Day published November 2025
@HistNovSoc.bsky.social @RomanticNovelists.bsky.social @Societyofauthors.bsky.social Published by @VineLeavesPress.bsky.social
@HistNovSoc.bsky.social @RomanticNovelists.bsky.social @Societyofauthors.bsky.social Published by @VineLeavesPress.bsky.social
Thrilled that SIX @vineleavespress.bsky.social authors have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize @ianmrogers.bsky.social #ECBatista #JillAmberChaffin @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social #DavidHicks @nicolezelniker.bsky.social Congratulations and Good luck!
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Our 2025 Pushcart Prize Nominees!
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November 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Thrilled that SIX @vineleavespress.bsky.social authors have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize @ianmrogers.bsky.social #ECBatista #JillAmberChaffin @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social #DavidHicks @nicolezelniker.bsky.social Congratulations and Good luck!
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A total plonker - encourage young people to work by paying them a fair wage. It's not rocket science, or perhaps it is!
YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
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Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
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November 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A total plonker - encourage young people to work by paying them a fair wage. It's not rocket science, or perhaps it is!
Nov 3rd is Kokoda Day which, each year, honours the immense bravery and stoicism of New Guinea stretcher bearers during WW2. #AnniesDay celebrates these men, also known as Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels #history #HistoricalFiction #WarFiction Released Nov 18th
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Annie's Day by Apple Gidley
“Delicious” Jane Johnson, author of Secret of the Bees “Absorbing” Katherine Mezzacappa, author of The Maiden of Florence War took everything. Love never had a chance. Until now. As a young Australian...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Nov 3rd is Kokoda Day which, each year, honours the immense bravery and stoicism of New Guinea stretcher bearers during WW2. #AnniesDay celebrates these men, also known as Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels #history #HistoricalFiction #WarFiction Released Nov 18th
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Coming soon on #blogtour with The Coffee Pot Book Club:
💫Annie's Day by Apple Gidley💫
Discover an absorbing, evocative tale of the cruelty of war, loss, new beginnings & hope!
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#HistoricalFiction #WomensFiction #WWII
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💫Annie's Day by Apple Gidley💫
Discover an absorbing, evocative tale of the cruelty of war, loss, new beginnings & hope!
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#HistoricalFiction #WomensFiction #WWII
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October 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Coming soon on #blogtour with The Coffee Pot Book Club:
💫Annie's Day by Apple Gidley💫
Discover an absorbing, evocative tale of the cruelty of war, loss, new beginnings & hope!
thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2025/10/blog...
#HistoricalFiction #WomensFiction #WWII
@applegidleyauthor.bsky.social
💫Annie's Day by Apple Gidley💫
Discover an absorbing, evocative tale of the cruelty of war, loss, new beginnings & hope!
thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2025/10/blog...
#HistoricalFiction #WomensFiction #WWII
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Delighted to have been a guest blogger on @maryannwrites-24.bsky.social #HistoricalFiction #Language @vineleavespress.bsky.social @histnovsoc.bsky.social #WW2 #NewGuinea #Singapore #BerlinBlockade #Cambridgeshire @australianbooks.bsky.social #AustraliaArmyNurses
Delighted to have been a guest blogger on @maryannwrites-24.bsky.social #HistoricalFiction #Language @vineleavespress.bsky.social @histnovsoc.bsky.social #WW2 #NewGuinea #Singapore #BerlinBlockade #Cambridgeshire @australianbooks.bsky.social #AustraliaArmyNurses
Language Of The Day
So happy to have this guest post from Apple Gidley, sharing her views on keeping language of characters true to a time and place, especially when writing historical fiction. She’s the author …
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October 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
God forbid!
Kinda seems like you don’t do huge renovations on the place you’re living in unless you’re planning to stay. 🤷🏼
(Or sell it)
(Or sell it)
October 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
God forbid!
Now.... let me think of a comparison - oh yes, Trump's new ballroom!
Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.
October 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Now.... let me think of a comparison - oh yes, Trump's new ballroom!
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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
Come and join us, this evening 8pm this evening. Hear from new works, old works, all works!
#memoir #fiction #WarFiction #mystery #tragedy #weird #HistoricalFiction Something for everyone - see you at eight!
#memoir #fiction #WarFiction #mystery #tragedy #weird #HistoricalFiction Something for everyone - see you at eight!
What are you doing Wed 8pm BST? Come to this happening, for the last week of summer time! Four readings of #mystery #tragedy #weirdlife #memoir #home. It's #FREE!! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-virtual-... #lifewriting @vineleavespress.bsky.social @applegidleyauthor.bsky.social @janetclare.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Come and join us, this evening 8pm this evening. Hear from new works, old works, all works!
#memoir #fiction #WarFiction #mystery #tragedy #weird #HistoricalFiction Something for everyone - see you at eight!
#memoir #fiction #WarFiction #mystery #tragedy #weird #HistoricalFiction Something for everyone - see you at eight!
It's usually a pass for me if any book is described as such!
Semi-relatedly to my earlier thread on YA, if the marketing for a YA romantasy describes the book as "sexy," "spicy," or "steamy," it's a pass for me.
September 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
It's usually a pass for me if any book is described as such!
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#USPolitics #Trump #children #Farage #idiocy #wildflowers #travel #innocence
#USPolitics #Trump #children #Farage #idiocy #wildflowers #travel #innocence
I’m Trying to Smell the Roses!
It’s been a trying week. Oh hell, let’s call it what it is. It’s been a trying year. Nothing personally dramatic has occurred—how fortunate I am. No, I’m talking about the daily offerings of those …
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September 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Coming Soon! @histnovsoc.bsky.social @deborahswift.bsky.social @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social @katmezzacappa.bsky.social #WWII @berlinblockade.bsky.social @australianbooks.bsky.social #AANS #Berlin @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @usafacts.org #ChocolateSoldier #GailHalvorsen #History #LiteraryFiction
September 17, 2025 at 8:29 AM
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
September 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
September 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I'm so incredibly impressed you have 3 books out in a year. Two is nearly killing me! Bravo.
September 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I'm so incredibly impressed you have 3 books out in a year. Two is nearly killing me! Bravo.
I don't know about you, but the news around the world is pretty awful these days. If I hadn't written Finding Serenissima, I'd be tempted to pick up a copy and escape to #Venice #Travel #Italy @australianbooks.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @margieinitaly.bsky.social @womenover50travel.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I don't know about you, but the news around the world is pretty awful these days. If I hadn't written Finding Serenissima, I'd be tempted to pick up a copy and escape to #Venice #Travel #Italy @australianbooks.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @margieinitaly.bsky.social @womenover50travel.bsky.social
Well, now, doesn’t that just make the award a farce?
Wow.
why not give him military honors while you're at it evennthough HE never served.....just like YOUR FAT ASS.
why not give him military honors while you're at it evennthough HE never served.....just like YOUR FAT ASS.
September 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Well, now, doesn’t that just make the award a farce?
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New Audiobook in The Elizabethan Series: Bess - Tudor Gentlewoman. Forced to choose between loyalty and love, duty and desire, this is the story of Bess Raleigh, one of the last true Elizabethans
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#Elizabethan #Tudors #HistoricalFiction #Audiobook
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#Elizabethan #Tudors #HistoricalFiction #Audiobook
September 12, 2025 at 6:57 AM
New Audiobook in The Elizabethan Series: Bess - Tudor Gentlewoman. Forced to choose between loyalty and love, duty and desire, this is the story of Bess Raleigh, one of the last true Elizabethans
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#Elizabethan #Tudors #HistoricalFiction #Audiobook
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#Elizabethan #Tudors #HistoricalFiction #Audiobook
It seems Brazil has a stronger Supreme Court, more in tune with actual democracy, than the US.
Meanwhile in Brazil...
"Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting military coup in Brazil
Former president sought to ‘annihilate’ country’s democracy after losing 2022 election"
Sounds familiar 🤔
"Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting military coup in Brazil
Former president sought to ‘annihilate’ country’s democracy after losing 2022 election"
Sounds familiar 🤔
Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting military coup in Brazil
Former president sought to ‘annihilate’ country’s democracy after losing 2022 election
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September 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
It seems Brazil has a stronger Supreme Court, more in tune with actual democracy, than the US.
Delighted to have been a first-line judge for this wonderful #competition @vineleavespress.bsky.social Some tremendous entries. Congratulations, and good luck to all those long-listed. To those who weren't - keep writing! #writing #nonfiction #memoir
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LONGLIST for the 2026 International Voices in Creative Nonfiction Competition!
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September 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Delighted to have been a first-line judge for this wonderful #competition @vineleavespress.bsky.social Some tremendous entries. Congratulations, and good luck to all those long-listed. To those who weren't - keep writing! #writing #nonfiction #memoir
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ARC's up on booksirens.com/book/KSA3AU7... #WorldWarII and beyond from an #Australian Army #nurse's perspective #historicalfiction #war #Culture #fiction #bookclub
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September 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
ARC's up on booksirens.com/book/KSA3AU7... #WorldWarII and beyond from an #Australian Army #nurse's perspective #historicalfiction #war #Culture #fiction #bookclub
Cape Leeuwin in #WestAustralia one of the "three great capes" of the world named by English navigator Matthew Flinders after the first ship known to have sailed the waters. Pretty damn awesome to stand at the #lighthouse imagination soaring.
September 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Cape Leeuwin in #WestAustralia one of the "three great capes" of the world named by English navigator Matthew Flinders after the first ship known to have sailed the waters. Pretty damn awesome to stand at the #lighthouse imagination soaring.
#ARC of #AnniesDay available #HistFiction from an Australian army nurse's perspective @australianbooks.bsky.social @readability.bsky.social #WorldWarII #BerlinBlockade @bars.bsky.social @lrb.co.uk @bookspotlight.bsky.social #Bookclubs #literary #Wartime
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September 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
#ARC of #AnniesDay available #HistFiction from an Australian army nurse's perspective @australianbooks.bsky.social @readability.bsky.social #WorldWarII #BerlinBlockade @bars.bsky.social @lrb.co.uk @bookspotlight.bsky.social #Bookclubs #literary #Wartime
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