Maybelle Wallis
@histwriter.bsky.social
British and Irish consultant paediatrician. Author of HEART OF CRUELTY, THE PIANO PLAYER, and DAUGHTER OF STRANGERS, all published by Poolbeg: a suspenseful trilogy set in the mid 19th century and inspired by the history of medicine. Histwriter.com ©2025
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Maybelle Wallis
@histwriter.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Having joined this new platform, I want to avoid it eating my brain. I'm going to limit myself to fiction writing, arts and culture, festivals and related events, history, and history of medicine. If I don't comment on other things, it's not because I don't care.
Bat walk yesterday evening in Gothic twilight at Johnstown Castle, Co. Wexford. 🦇 🦇
August 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Bat walk yesterday evening in Gothic twilight at Johnstown Castle, Co. Wexford. 🦇 🦇
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The HNS 2026 First Chapters Competition is now OPEN for submissions!
Find full details at hns2026.com
We're cannot wait to read your pages!
Best of luck to all!
#hns2026 #firstchapterscompetion #WritingCommunity #writingcompetition #writers
Find full details at hns2026.com
We're cannot wait to read your pages!
Best of luck to all!
#hns2026 #firstchapterscompetion #WritingCommunity #writingcompetition #writers
HNS 2026 Conference: Print the Legend | HNS 2026 Conference, Maynooth Campus
Join us in vibrant Maynooth for the HNS 2026 Conference. Hear keynote speakers, meet agents, enter our competition, and enjoy our social programme. We explore finding, defining and authoring legends…
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August 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The HNS 2026 First Chapters Competition is now OPEN for submissions!
Find full details at hns2026.com
We're cannot wait to read your pages!
Best of luck to all!
#hns2026 #firstchapterscompetion #WritingCommunity #writingcompetition #writers
Find full details at hns2026.com
We're cannot wait to read your pages!
Best of luck to all!
#hns2026 #firstchapterscompetion #WritingCommunity #writingcompetition #writers
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The HNS 2026 First Chapters Competition is now open until 17 November 2025, both to HNS members and to non-members, and to unpublished and previously published authors. Send in the opening plus synopsis of a previously unpublished full-length historical novel.
See more: hns2026.com/competition
See more: hns2026.com/competition
August 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The HNS 2026 First Chapters Competition is now open until 17 November 2025, both to HNS members and to non-members, and to unpublished and previously published authors. Send in the opening plus synopsis of a previously unpublished full-length historical novel.
See more: hns2026.com/competition
See more: hns2026.com/competition
Got this from Meta. Pay up or we’ll sell your data? I’m tempted to bin Facebook and Instagram, especially after they scraped my novel ‘Daughter of Strangers’. Any views?
July 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Got this from Meta. Pay up or we’ll sell your data? I’m tempted to bin Facebook and Instagram, especially after they scraped my novel ‘Daughter of Strangers’. Any views?
Nichole Louise gave my second novel 'The Piano Player' a detailed, thoughtful, and favourable review on her beautifully curated historical fiction website: nicholelouise.com/2025/07/03/r... Thank you! 👍 @nichole-louise.bsky.social #writersky #booksky
Review: The Piano Player by Maybelle Wallis
The Piano Player by Maybelle Wallis, the sequel to Heart of Cruelty, picks up about eight years later in Dublin. Dr. William Doughty works in Meath Hospital amidst both the Great Famine and a chole…
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July 6, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Nichole Louise gave my second novel 'The Piano Player' a detailed, thoughtful, and favourable review on her beautifully curated historical fiction website: nicholelouise.com/2025/07/03/r... Thank you! 👍 @nichole-louise.bsky.social #writersky #booksky
A beautiful day in Maynooth today sorting out some things for #HNS2026 conference with @katmezzacappa.bsky.social . More to come on HNS2026.com
June 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
A beautiful day in Maynooth today sorting out some things for #HNS2026 conference with @katmezzacappa.bsky.social . More to come on HNS2026.com
I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...
Protest Meta's Theft of Irish Writing
I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too?
my.uplift.ie
March 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr... #irishwriters #irishwriting @conorkostick.bsky.social #DontZuckOurBooks #writingcommunity
Protest Meta's Theft of Irish Writing
If we want to live in a world where laws are respected by all and cannot simply be disregarded by those with wealth and power, we have to make a stand against this piracy of Irish (and international) ...
my.uplift.ie
March 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr... #irishwriters #irishwriting @conorkostick.bsky.social #DontZuckOurBooks #writingcommunity
Happy St. Patrick's Day! I've redesigned the Irish Writers' Union newsletter edited by @katmezzacappa.bsky.social and it's lovely to get it out there in its new format on the 17th of March. To read it in full, join the IWU!
March 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Happy St. Patrick's Day! I've redesigned the Irish Writers' Union newsletter edited by @katmezzacappa.bsky.social and it's lovely to get it out there in its new format on the 17th of March. To read it in full, join the IWU!
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Privileged to be working with @histwriter.bsky.social @benbergonzi.bsky.social Dianne Ascroft and Aidan Morrissey on the organisation of the first Historical Novel Society conference to be held in #ireland @maynoothuniversity.ie #historicalfiction
I'm excited to share what I've been working on recently as one of a team of volunteers from the Historical Novel Society. I've set up our 2026 conference website hns2026.com and will update it as needed. Maynooth Campus is a beautiful venue and easily reached from Dublin. Looking forward to it!
March 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Privileged to be working with @histwriter.bsky.social @benbergonzi.bsky.social Dianne Ascroft and Aidan Morrissey on the organisation of the first Historical Novel Society conference to be held in #ireland @maynoothuniversity.ie #historicalfiction
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#ICYMI Sharing our earlier Editorial Book Review of
🌟Times of Turmoil by Anna Belfrage🌟
"Times of Turmoil ... is an amazing story that will have you flipping pages till dawn."
thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2023/10/edit...
#TimeSlip #HistoricalFiction #BookReview
@abelfrageauthor.bsky.social
🌟Times of Turmoil by Anna Belfrage🌟
"Times of Turmoil ... is an amazing story that will have you flipping pages till dawn."
thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2023/10/edit...
#TimeSlip #HistoricalFiction #BookReview
@abelfrageauthor.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
#ICYMI Sharing our earlier Editorial Book Review of
🌟Times of Turmoil by Anna Belfrage🌟
"Times of Turmoil ... is an amazing story that will have you flipping pages till dawn."
thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2023/10/edit...
#TimeSlip #HistoricalFiction #BookReview
@abelfrageauthor.bsky.social
🌟Times of Turmoil by Anna Belfrage🌟
"Times of Turmoil ... is an amazing story that will have you flipping pages till dawn."
thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2023/10/edit...
#TimeSlip #HistoricalFiction #BookReview
@abelfrageauthor.bsky.social
Also I’ve been reading this witty memoir about an eclectic antiquarian bookshop in London. Funniest cover praise: “Unfortunately I have mislaid the book in question “
February 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Also I’ve been reading this witty memoir about an eclectic antiquarian bookshop in London. Funniest cover praise: “Unfortunately I have mislaid the book in question “
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Life Under My Belt: Kristin Hannah’s commitment to telling women's lost stories: https://buff.ly/3CwYUYQ #HistoricalFiction
Life Under My Belt: Kristin Hannah's Commitment to Women's Friendship & Telling Their Lost Stories - Historical Novel Society
WRITTEN BY MARY TOD Kristen Hannah does not tackle light-hearted topics. Instead, her novels consider women and men facing tragic circumstances, life-altering decisions, war, drought, marriage…
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February 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Life Under My Belt: Kristin Hannah’s commitment to telling women's lost stories: https://buff.ly/3CwYUYQ #HistoricalFiction
Mary Kearney arrived on my Kindle today! Perfect evening reading in my comfy chair 👍
February 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Mary Kearney arrived on my Kindle today! Perfect evening reading in my comfy chair 👍
I'm excited to share what I've been working on recently as one of a team of volunteers from the Historical Novel Society. I've set up our 2026 conference website hns2026.com and will update it as needed. Maynooth Campus is a beautiful venue and easily reached from Dublin. Looking forward to it!
February 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I'm excited to share what I've been working on recently as one of a team of volunteers from the Historical Novel Society. I've set up our 2026 conference website hns2026.com and will update it as needed. Maynooth Campus is a beautiful venue and easily reached from Dublin. Looking forward to it!
A classic, erudite yet heartfelt: the tale of a love that transcends social divisions ❤️
It's out at last! The first draft of this book was written in 2016, thanks to a talking to from @bridgeanne.bsky.social 8 novels out since, but I kept faith with this one (revised it a lot, of course) #Irishwriting #historicalfiction #publicationday #newrelease #Histria @historia-hwa.bsky.social
A very happy publication day to @katmezzacappa.bsky.social – The Ballad of Mary Kearney is out today. What happens when a nobleman falls in love with his servant in 18th-century Ireland and, what's more, he is Protestant and she is Catholic? Sounds like a must-read! #newrelease #historicalfiction
January 15, 2025 at 11:27 AM
A classic, erudite yet heartfelt: the tale of a love that transcends social divisions ❤️
This stunning novel of 18thC Ireland entwines joy and tragedy, as a tender and passionate love grows ever deeper in defiance of an unjust society. #TheBalladofMaryKearney #historicalfiction #historicalnovel www.amazon.co.uk/Ballad-Mary-...
January 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This stunning novel of 18thC Ireland entwines joy and tragedy, as a tender and passionate love grows ever deeper in defiance of an unjust society. #TheBalladofMaryKearney #historicalfiction #historicalnovel www.amazon.co.uk/Ballad-Mary-...
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Wishing you all a joyful, enlightening, and prosperous New Year!
December 31, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Wishing you all a joyful, enlightening, and prosperous New Year!
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Gobsmacked. Thank you @patrickkincaid.bsky.social for such a heartfelt endorsement. #HistoricalFiction #Renaissance @historia-hwa.bsky.social #Fairlight #Bookrecommendation This makes my day and many days to come.
The Maiden of Florence is one of my books of the year. One of those historical novels that plunges you into a time and place so fully realised, so convincing, that you’re left gasping.
December 31, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Gobsmacked. Thank you @patrickkincaid.bsky.social for such a heartfelt endorsement. #HistoricalFiction #Renaissance @historia-hwa.bsky.social #Fairlight #Bookrecommendation This makes my day and many days to come.
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Writing-wise, I had little success in 2024 because all my short stories and novels were rejected. Almost all. “To End All Wars” initially failed to be placed in Write for Palestinians event, but I knew it had legs.TY @madeehahwrites.bsky.social and @safiyacherfi.bsky.social for vibing with it ❤️ 🇵🇸
If you download the PDF for issue 4 of Overtly Lit magazine, you can read my story "To End All Wars" - a time slip tale set in Gaza. It's very short :) overtlylit.com
Overtly Lit
An online literary magazine where faith meets art.
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December 31, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Writing-wise, I had little success in 2024 because all my short stories and novels were rejected. Almost all. “To End All Wars” initially failed to be placed in Write for Palestinians event, but I knew it had legs.TY @madeehahwrites.bsky.social and @safiyacherfi.bsky.social for vibing with it ❤️ 🇵🇸
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You can message me here. I do have big plans x
December 26, 2024 at 6:24 PM
You can message me here. I do have big plans x