Jane Johnson
@janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social
Writer (Secrets of the Bees; Black Crescent, White Hare, Sea Gate, Tenth Gift etc), publisher (GRRM, Hobb, Feist, Lawrence, Heartfield, Kaner, ex Tolkien), allotmenteer. History. Morocco/Cornwall. Covid is airborne 💙📚 #Writing #Books
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Reintroducing myself to try to find my people after X meltdown! Publisher at HarperCollins (GRRM, Hobb, Feist, Lawrence, Kaner, Heartfield), author of 20 novels, inc Tenth Gift, Salt Road, Sea Gate and Black Crescent for Simon & Schuster and Head of Zeus. Look forward to meeting you! #books
Touring around Cornwall on a book signing tour really opens your eyes to what a beautiful county this is - Mousehole, Penzance, St Ives, Hayle, Newquay and Fowey have signed books: next up, Helston, Falmouth and Truro. Happy Publication Day, SECRETS OF THE BEES!
#books 💙📚 #Cornwall
#books 💙📚 #Cornwall
February 12, 2026 at 6:44 PM
I stomped up to the allotment in the rain and picked some of the few flowers that had dared to bloom. And then crowned Our Lady of the Hellebores.
February 8, 2026 at 2:38 PM
I stomped up to the allotment in the rain and picked some of the few flowers that had dared to bloom. And then crowned Our Lady of the Hellebores.
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The next stage is Insurrection Act, canceling elections and Martial Law.
That's the Trump plan.
If u think I'm crazy well you have refused to pay attention to the evidence of your eyes & ears for the past decade.
We have to use all our powers to stop them. Go on offense. Legally & peacefully.
That's the Trump plan.
If u think I'm crazy well you have refused to pay attention to the evidence of your eyes & ears for the past decade.
We have to use all our powers to stop them. Go on offense. Legally & peacefully.
January 24, 2026 at 9:10 PM
The next stage is Insurrection Act, canceling elections and Martial Law.
That's the Trump plan.
If u think I'm crazy well you have refused to pay attention to the evidence of your eyes & ears for the past decade.
We have to use all our powers to stop them. Go on offense. Legally & peacefully.
That's the Trump plan.
If u think I'm crazy well you have refused to pay attention to the evidence of your eyes & ears for the past decade.
We have to use all our powers to stop them. Go on offense. Legally & peacefully.
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This is from a symposium of the Worlds leading long covid experts (August 2025) . H/t Charlos on X. This should tell everyone what you need to know. Not one long covid expert without a respirator, no non maskers or gappy surgicals in sight. Experts know it’s airborne and know the health risks.
December 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This is from a symposium of the Worlds leading long covid experts (August 2025) . H/t Charlos on X. This should tell everyone what you need to know. Not one long covid expert without a respirator, no non maskers or gappy surgicals in sight. Experts know it’s airborne and know the health risks.
Curious to see THE WHITE HARE become 'The Storm House' in German. Weirdly, the cover would fit the current work-in-progress better. The fictional Penhallow House in HEART OF SAFFRON is originally Tudor, but one side has a Palladian frontage tacked on - it's a novel about deceptions and facades. 💙📚
January 21, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Curious to see THE WHITE HARE become 'The Storm House' in German. Weirdly, the cover would fit the current work-in-progress better. The fictional Penhallow House in HEART OF SAFFRON is originally Tudor, but one side has a Palladian frontage tacked on - it's a novel about deceptions and facades. 💙📚
Unbelievably exciting and magical to be able to see the aurora from our own door! We RAN down to the end of the South Quay to get away from the streetlights and just stood there gasping at the majesty of it all. What a privilege. Thank you, universe! #NorthernLights
January 19, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Unbelievably exciting and magical to be able to see the aurora from our own door! We RAN down to the end of the South Quay to get away from the streetlights and just stood there gasping at the majesty of it all. What a privilege. Thank you, universe! #NorthernLights
It's a Blue Monday today - to cheer yourself up I highly recommend AKOTSK (on HBO Max): the first episode of the tale of Dunk and Egg is just gorgeous: funny, tender, beautifully cast and shot. Gritty, grubby heaven. And when the GoT music briefly wafted past, I welled up.
#AKnightOfTheSevenKingdoms
#AKnightOfTheSevenKingdoms
January 19, 2026 at 6:17 PM
It's a Blue Monday today - to cheer yourself up I highly recommend AKOTSK (on HBO Max): the first episode of the tale of Dunk and Egg is just gorgeous: funny, tender, beautifully cast and shot. Gritty, grubby heaven. And when the GoT music briefly wafted past, I welled up.
#AKnightOfTheSevenKingdoms
#AKnightOfTheSevenKingdoms
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All of these people - Mogg, Farage, Carswell, Jenrick, Hannan and the rest need to be forever reminded of what they backed and supported
January 18, 2026 at 5:41 PM
All of these people - Mogg, Farage, Carswell, Jenrick, Hannan and the rest need to be forever reminded of what they backed and supported
Starting tonight (3am UK, HBO Max) George RR Martin's A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS - glorious tales of hedge knight Dunk and his squire Egg adventuring through Westeros. Heart, soul, humour, thrills, beautifully bite-size.
Proud to have published the stories back in 2017. #books 💙📚
Proud to have published the stories back in 2017. #books 💙📚
January 18, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Starting tonight (3am UK, HBO Max) George RR Martin's A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS - glorious tales of hedge knight Dunk and his squire Egg adventuring through Westeros. Heart, soul, humour, thrills, beautifully bite-size.
Proud to have published the stories back in 2017. #books 💙📚
Proud to have published the stories back in 2017. #books 💙📚
For the 25th anniversary, some cinemas are showing the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy in its extended versions. 25 years! I was Tolkien publisher and as Jude Fisher wrote the Visual Companions, and was the only person allowed to take photos apart from the official stills photographer... 1/ #books
January 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM
For the 25th anniversary, some cinemas are showing the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy in its extended versions. 25 years! I was Tolkien publisher and as Jude Fisher wrote the Visual Companions, and was the only person allowed to take photos apart from the official stills photographer... 1/ #books
It was always the plan.
President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act as anti-ICE protests in Minnesota come to a tipping point. Princeton University Professor and MS NOW Political Analyst @esglaude.bsky.social analyzes what's at stake for Americans.
www.ms.now/chris-jansin...
www.ms.now/chris-jansin...
Trump’s response to Minnesota ICE protests presents moral question to nation over civil rights
President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act as anti-ICE protests in Minnesota come to a tipping point. Princeton University Professor and MS NOW Political Analyst Eddie Glaude joins ...
www.ms.now
January 15, 2026 at 7:32 PM
It was always the plan.
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Just because we are in mourning for the victims of ICE do not think we mourn any less for the victims of EPSTEIN. We do not forget.
January 12, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Just because we are in mourning for the victims of ICE do not think we mourn any less for the victims of EPSTEIN. We do not forget.
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Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds.
Net migration to the UK fell by more than two-thirds to a post-pandemic low in the year ending June 2025, but 67% of the people polled thought it had increased
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Net migration to the UK fell by more than two-thirds to a post-pandemic low in the year ending June 2025, but 67% of the people polled thought it had increased
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds
Exclusive: Voters say they have little confidence that government can control borders despite sharp falls in net migration
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds.
Net migration to the UK fell by more than two-thirds to a post-pandemic low in the year ending June 2025, but 67% of the people polled thought it had increased
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Net migration to the UK fell by more than two-thirds to a post-pandemic low in the year ending June 2025, but 67% of the people polled thought it had increased
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The calm after the storm. Good to see life thriving after our hurricane-force winds. There's been so much damage in Cornwall, 1000s trees down, roofs lost, and one poor man crushed by a fallen tree. But the birds and even butterflies are out, as is the sun, the butterbur and the gorse. #cornwall
January 10, 2026 at 3:51 PM
The calm after the storm. Good to see life thriving after our hurricane-force winds. There's been so much damage in Cornwall, 1000s trees down, roofs lost, and one poor man crushed by a fallen tree. But the birds and even butterflies are out, as is the sun, the butterbur and the gorse. #cornwall
The last night of the Mousehole Lights for you @ianpolitics.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 9:26 AM
The last night of the Mousehole Lights for you @ianpolitics.bsky.social
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TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 5, 2026 at 11:26 PM
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
Very very late to the party, (happens a lot when you're both a publisher and an author, so little time to read for fun), but Ruth Ozeki is an amazing writer. What a wonderfully playful, thought-provoking, entertaining book this is: 💙📚 #books
January 4, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Very very late to the party, (happens a lot when you're both a publisher and an author, so little time to read for fun), but Ruth Ozeki is an amazing writer. What a wonderfully playful, thought-provoking, entertaining book this is: 💙📚 #books
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So not only is generative AI environmentally unfriendly, grounded on massive intellectual property theft, hugely over-hyped, and probably a bubble about to burst, but it's ALSO also driving up costs for everyone else's devices. Great.
Demand for memory chips currently exceeds supply and there's very little chance of that changing any time soon. More chips for AI means less available for other products such as computers and phones and that could drive up those prices too. n.pr/49aDwVE
Memory loss: As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise
Demand for memory chips currently exceeds supply and there's very little chance of that changing any time soon. More chips for AI means less available for other products such as computers and phones and that could drive up those prices too.
n.pr
December 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
So not only is generative AI environmentally unfriendly, grounded on massive intellectual property theft, hugely over-hyped, and probably a bubble about to burst, but it's ALSO also driving up costs for everyone else's devices. Great.
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“Billionaires have taken control of this country in ways we’ve never seen before, and it is hurting all of us. Progressives in Seattle who won spoke pretty unapologetically about that reality,” says a newly elected Seattle city council member.
Progressives Win in Seattle, Changing Directions on Public Safety
Voters ousted a mayor who oversaw a surge in encampment sweeps, and a Republican prosecutor who pursued punitive policies toward homeless people and drug users.
boltsmag.org
December 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“Billionaires have taken control of this country in ways we’ve never seen before, and it is hurting all of us. Progressives in Seattle who won spoke pretty unapologetically about that reality,” says a newly elected Seattle city council member.
Just hit 80,000 words on HEART OF SAFFRON.
Working in publishing leaves you very little time to empty your head of other people's (wonderful) words and ideas to concentrate on your own. But maybe it helps me build a quiet head of steam in the compartment of my brain labelled 'STORIES'...
#books 💙📚
Working in publishing leaves you very little time to empty your head of other people's (wonderful) words and ideas to concentrate on your own. But maybe it helps me build a quiet head of steam in the compartment of my brain labelled 'STORIES'...
#books 💙📚
December 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Just hit 80,000 words on HEART OF SAFFRON.
Working in publishing leaves you very little time to empty your head of other people's (wonderful) words and ideas to concentrate on your own. But maybe it helps me build a quiet head of steam in the compartment of my brain labelled 'STORIES'...
#books 💙📚
Working in publishing leaves you very little time to empty your head of other people's (wonderful) words and ideas to concentrate on your own. But maybe it helps me build a quiet head of steam in the compartment of my brain labelled 'STORIES'...
#books 💙📚
Hope you all have an excellent Christmas!
I'm 20+ chapters into writing HEART OF SAFFRON, a novel that centres on the growing of saffron in 18th c Cornwall, so it feels rather apt that Abdel's turban and the embroidery of his traditional desert gandoura is the colour of that magical spice.
💙📚
I'm 20+ chapters into writing HEART OF SAFFRON, a novel that centres on the growing of saffron in 18th c Cornwall, so it feels rather apt that Abdel's turban and the embroidery of his traditional desert gandoura is the colour of that magical spice.
💙📚
December 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Hope you all have an excellent Christmas!
I'm 20+ chapters into writing HEART OF SAFFRON, a novel that centres on the growing of saffron in 18th c Cornwall, so it feels rather apt that Abdel's turban and the embroidery of his traditional desert gandoura is the colour of that magical spice.
💙📚
I'm 20+ chapters into writing HEART OF SAFFRON, a novel that centres on the growing of saffron in 18th c Cornwall, so it feels rather apt that Abdel's turban and the embroidery of his traditional desert gandoura is the colour of that magical spice.
💙📚
On my lunchtime walk through the Fulham Palace grounds, a gift from the wild: first one, then two healthy-looking foxes, who ran and gambolled together, then settled down in the winter sun for some mutual grooming. They passed me at an uninterested trot - "I see the humans are out again, dear...".
December 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
On my lunchtime walk through the Fulham Palace grounds, a gift from the wild: first one, then two healthy-looking foxes, who ran and gambolled together, then settled down in the winter sun for some mutual grooming. They passed me at an uninterested trot - "I see the humans are out again, dear...".
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Elon Musk has weaponized and monetized a global disinformation network on X, which he is using to help him fight his new war against the EU. My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social:
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/08/e...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/08/e...
December 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Elon Musk has weaponized and monetized a global disinformation network on X, which he is using to help him fight his new war against the EU. My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social:
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/08/e...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/08/e...
@tomtivnan.bsky.social Great interview on The Food Programme, Tom!
December 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
@tomtivnan.bsky.social Great interview on The Food Programme, Tom!