AppleGidleyAuthor
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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
Yes, I cry sometimes when I'm writing!
I'm kinda curious. Do people ever get really teary eyed when you're writing an especially sad scene? Like describing the death of a loved one?
I do, I also ALWAYS get sad when anything remotely sad happens in a movie or show. Or even in a book...I was curious to know if other people get that way))
I do, I also ALWAYS get sad when anything remotely sad happens in a movie or show. Or even in a book...I was curious to know if other people get that way))
February 2, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Yes, I cry sometimes when I'm writing!
And still they clutter up my inbox! Curse them. #Scammers
Scammers that target authors are becoming increasingly persuasive. Here's a reality check from @annerallen.bsky.social including a good reason why you shouldn't string them along even though it's tempting annerallen.com/2026/01/stay... #writingcommunity #writinglife #authorlife
10 Facts Writers Need to Stay Safe from Scammers
Scammers are everywhere. Writers are their favorite prey. Here are some facts you need to know to stay safe.
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February 2, 2026 at 2:31 PM
And still they clutter up my inbox! Curse them. #Scammers
Delighted @histnovsoc.bsky.social have named Annie's Day as an Editors' Choice. @vineleavespress.bsky.social @australianbooks.bsky.social @cathiedunn.bsky.social @wwiimuseum.bsky.social #IWM #WorldWar2 @bluebookclub.bsky.social #Bookclubs
February 2, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Delighted @histnovsoc.bsky.social have named Annie's Day as an Editors' Choice. @vineleavespress.bsky.social @australianbooks.bsky.social @cathiedunn.bsky.social @wwiimuseum.bsky.social #IWM #WorldWar2 @bluebookclub.bsky.social #Bookclubs
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
What a sky! Driving in Oz. Trying to focus on beauty and goodness, rather than the bad and ugly. #health #sanity #nature #Greenland #Denmark
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
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.
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
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
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.
#booksky
Thanks to @crobertcargill.bsky.social for being a motivator.
January 17, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Bravo - now comes the hard work! 🙄😂
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
The #US is out of control. Thanks to those #photographers #Reporters and #politicians who are attempting to hold #Trump accountable.
#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
#MaxHastings #OperationPedestal #research for my next #novel! Brilliant as one would expect! #amwriting #amreading
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
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.
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
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 🙄
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
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?
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?
January 14, 2026 at 2:12 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?
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!
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#Fiction #Genre
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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
So true @helenhollick.bsky.social How about 'spyrom' or 'hisficom' 😂 #genre #amwriting #writingcommunity
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.
The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.
January 13, 2026 at 4:55 PM
They are totally out of control! Yobos with guns, handcuffs and faces covered.
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
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'm so sick of them cluttering my inbox! Today I had one addressed to someone else! #BookScammers
I met Count Basie and Lena Horne many years ago when I worked for OBM - we were doing a shoot with them. Both delightful!
Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Music Column Retro - The Big Band Era with William Price King and Sally Cronin - 1930s - Count Basie, Bunny Berigan, The Boogie Woogie smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/s...
Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Music Column Retro – The Big Band Era with William Price King and Sally Cronin – 1930s – Count Basie, Bunny Berigan, The Boogie Woogie
Welcome to the 2023 series of the music column where I am joined as always by Jazz singer and composer William Price King. We hope you will join us every Tuesday for some of the chart hits of the …
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January 13, 2026 at 4:48 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!
Such fun to answer interesting questions about #belonging and #home from the #FIGT #Bookclub when we talked about #Annie'sDay @vineleavespress.bsky.social @histnovsoc.bsky.social @romanticnovelists.bsky.social #GlobalAwareness
January 13, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Such fun to answer interesting questions about #belonging and #home from the #FIGT #Bookclub when we talked about #Annie'sDay @vineleavespress.bsky.social @histnovsoc.bsky.social @romanticnovelists.bsky.social #GlobalAwareness
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.
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#HistoricalRomance #Romance #FictionTale #RomanceNovel
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#HistoricalRomance #Romance #FictionTale #RomanceNovel
January 13, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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Smorgasbord Weekly Round Up - 29th December - 4th January 2026 - Music, Blockbusters, Book Reviews, Funnies. smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/s... @dgkayewriter.bsky.social @carolcookstwo.bsky.social @terrytyler.bsky.social @lisettebrodey.bsky.social @applegidleyauthor.bsky.social
Smorgasbord Weekly Round Up – 29th December – 4th January 2026 – Big Band Era, Chart Toppers, Blockbusters, Book Reviews, Funnies.
Welcome to the first of the weekly round ups of 2026… I hope you have had a wonderful holidays and are raring to go in the New Year. Welcome to 2026 and time to have a look at some of the fe…
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January 4, 2026 at 6:50 AM
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Poignant thoughts on Christmas Eve turn to humour! @theoldie.bsky.social #TheOldie #Death #Humour #Flanders&Swann #Grandparenting #Song #LPs #SimonBerry
Poignant thoughts on Christmas Eve turn to humour! @theoldie.bsky.social #TheOldie #Death #Humour #Flanders&Swann #Grandparenting #Song #LPs #SimonBerry
Follow me, follow….
Christmas Eve has been, for the last twenty years, a day tinged with poignancy. It was the day my mother died. She loved Christmas, and spent many of them with us wherever we happened to be living.…
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December 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Poignant thoughts on Christmas Eve turn to humour! @theoldie.bsky.social #TheOldie #Death #Humour #Flanders&Swann #Grandparenting #Song #LPs #SimonBerry
Poignant thoughts on Christmas Eve turn to humour! @theoldie.bsky.social #TheOldie #Death #Humour #Flanders&Swann #Grandparenting #Song #LPs #SimonBerry
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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
@applegidleyauthor.bsky.social
#HistoricalFiction #RomanceSky #Romance #Fiction #AllAuthor
December 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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
@applegidleyauthor.bsky.social
#HistoricalFiction #RomanceSky #Romance #Fiction #AllAuthor
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!
A few mighty tips to ensure your precious book-in-progress doesn't wither during the holidays. nailyournovel.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/k... #writingcommunity #writingprocess #writingtips
Keeping hold of your work-in-progress over Christmas (or nail your novel while nailing your noel)
For all of us with creative work on the go, Christmas and the end-of-year holidays might mean one of two things: 1 Goody! Loads of time to work properly on my book. 2 Gah! Too much to do, too many …
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December 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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!
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Smorgasbord Christmas Book Fair - Book Review - #Love #War #Courage Annie's Day by Apple Gidley smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/s... @applegidleyauthor.bsky.social
Smorgasbord Christmas Book Fair – Book Review – #Love #War #Courage Annie’s Day by Apple Gidley
Delighted to share my review for the latest release by Apple Gidley…a story of love, war and courage, Annie’s Day. About the book War took everything. Love never had a chance. Until now…
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December 20, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Smorgasbord Christmas Book Fair - Book Review - #Love #War #Courage Annie's Day by Apple Gidley smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/s... @applegidleyauthor.bsky.social