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Sue Reed
@suereedwrites.bsky.social
Author, wild & free, tough yet kind.
✍️ The Rewilding of Molly McFlynn
Rep'd Nicky Lovick at WGM Atlantic .
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Have you read The Rewilding of Molly McFlynn? Set in the wilds of Northumberland during Spring, it tells of one girl's journey to find her authentic self intertwined with the true story of Ann Watson & the Newcastle Witch Trials
Available wherever you get your books or signed copies from me #BookSky
View from the bedroom window, gargoyle on guard.

It's St Swithin's Day so you know what they say!

No plans to venture out in the rain for me - think I've broken my toe and have the manuscript for book two to get ready to send to my agent before the end of the week.
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#stswithinsday
July 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
A cool breeze and damp air this morning here in Northumberland. Perfect hosta growing conditions, helped too by the slug-eating hedgehog spotted trundling down the path last night. 🦔
Have a good week, everyone
July 14, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Our roses have struggled this year, but today, on the first anniversary of Mum's death, the yellow rose she bought me has come into bloom.
July 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It's the anniversary of my mum's death this week - a whole year has gone by, and it's complicated!
I've written about it in my latest post, Wrestling Rhubarb:
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Wrestling Rhubarb
On complicated grief
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July 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Thinking of my mum who died this time last year as I pick the rhubarb. Mum loved a dish of rhubarb, preferably with some rice pudding on the side.
July 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Happy Summer Solstice everyone 🌞
Come on in! We're gathering herbs & edible flowers to make Solstice Salt today.
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#summersolstice
June 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Starting a slow travel series, Wrinklies On The Road over in my online magazine. We take a trip down memory lane in this first article, and travel to Spain & Portugal in a converted Dodge truck, me pregnant and with a toddler in tow.
Link in bio or inboxes for subscribers
#travelblog
June 19, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Welcome to RIPE.

You can look forward to writing about post-trauma badassery, unapologetic ageing, gardening as witchcraft, menopausal resurrection, van life joyrides, better late than never publication, and neurospicy chaos.

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#ripe #midlife #menopause
June 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I wrote this on 1 October 2023 just after the felling of the tree that I could see from the hillside here and to which we walked on countless occasions

The two men who were charged with its felling have today been found guilty.

#sycamoregap

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The Felling of Northumberland at Sycamore Gap
Don't tell us it was just a tree.
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May 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I'm very excited to be coming to the end of the first draft of the second book in the Molly McFlynn series, but I need your help!

What might you write on a placard if you were going to a protest to save an important tree from being felled?

Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash
#protest #trees
May 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
On the anniversary of the publication of John Keats' poem, 'O Solitude!' read about my recent trip to Samye Ling Tibetan Monastery and the fears & benefits of being silent and solo.
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Solitude, Silence & Synchronicity.
On the fear and benefits of being alone and still.
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May 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Sunday Storytime continues at 3pm today over on Substack.
We're up to Chapter Seven, The Girl.
May 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Make way for the lilac! Blooming marvellous 💜
May 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Love it when a reviewer totally gets why I wrote the book!
#BookSky
May 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Over on my blog I'm talking about returning to hard core exercise at 63, of the euphoria felt and the need it fulfills, along with some of the trials and tribulations of past attempts at group exercise.
Have a read then pop back and share your stories.
#raveon
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May 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
When you hear from a local high school that they'd like to book you for an author talk and they finish the email with this:

“We loved The Rewilding of Molly McFlynn and one of our Learning and Teaching Assistants successfully used it with a student who was having issues with her friendship group.”
April 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Love this photo sent by Vanessa, one of my followers. It shows many of the elements from my story, placed on a piece of recycled knitwear from my days as The Woolly Pedlar.

I love how loyal folk have been, no matter what hats I've been wearing.
April 20, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Have you read The Rewilding of Molly McFlynn? Set in the wilds of Northumberland during Spring, it tells of one girl's journey to find her authentic self intertwined with the true story of Ann Watson & the Newcastle Witch Trials
Available wherever you get your books or signed copies from me #BookSky
April 20, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Treated myself to a day of nature journalling with pen and paint with Hexham based artist Steve Pardue in Allendale as part of the Highlights Rural Touring Scheme.

A morning of calm, reflection and good company.

@highlightsrural.bsky.social
April 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
We have triplets! Three baby leverets, discovered while Tim was planting potatoes, nestled against the stone wall of the greenhouse.

The mother hare can be seen in our wild garden early in the morning and late in the evening, as she comes to care for her young. Feeling so very blessed.
#wildlife
April 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Come on in, the garden gate is open, the kettle is on and there’s a cake about to come out of the oven.
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Welcome to The Bridge Cottage Way, now to be found Down Clarty Lonnen.
A new home base, but the same warm welcome to the Bridge Cottage kitchen and garden.
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April 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
And so to write … lighting a candle and coming to the page. The end is in sight! Determined to have this first draft of book two finished by the time we set sail for France in a couple of weeks.
#BookSky
April 18, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Sharing a piece of writing about Sycamore Gap which was a commission from the Veteran Tree Project and which will eventually go on an app for a tree trail on Hadrian’s Wall. Thought you lot might like an early read!
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April 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Bloody brilliant! Been looking forward to the release of The Best of Everything by @kitdewaal.bsky.social for yonks.
I love her writing! It cuts straight to the core, and has your heart aching for her characters right from the off. Oh, Paulette! Life can be so unfair.
Get a copy if you can!
April 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
A day in the life of a writer - selling books at the Queen's Hall in my local town of Hexham this morning
#authorlife #Hexham
April 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM