Suzie Wilde
@suziewilde.bsky.social
Author , reader, book podcaster and opinionated dog owner. https://omny.fm/shows/petersfieldstories/talking-books-november-2024
@thetimes.com If you want to get Britain reading, don’t have a firewall beyond the QR code.
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 AM
@thetimes.com If you want to get Britain reading, don’t have a firewall beyond the QR code.
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So this is why I’ve been so quiet for so long.
So this is why I’ve been so quiet for so long.
Death of a publishing dream: how the Unbound revolution b...
The literary disrupters enjoyed great success with their crowdfunding model, signing authors that other publishers overlooked. And then the money ran out…
observer.co.uk
August 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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So this is why I’ve been so quiet for so long.
So this is why I’ve been so quiet for so long.
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Hugely chuffed, grateful (and relieved) to share the news that my novel, The Low Road, will be published as a paperback and e-book by @eyebooks.bsky.social this year, following the collapse of my former publisher, Unbound. I love the new cover too! www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...
#EyeBooks
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Eye Books rescues award winning historical novel
Will Atkinson's first acquisition for the indie publisher is Katharine Quarmby's The Low Road
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July 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Hugely chuffed, grateful (and relieved) to share the news that my novel, The Low Road, will be published as a paperback and e-book by @eyebooks.bsky.social this year, following the collapse of my former publisher, Unbound. I love the new cover too! www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...
#EyeBooks
#EyeBooks
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In November we publish the paperback edition of @katharineq.bsky.social’s powerful historical novel The Low Road, currently on the shortlist for the New Angle Prize. Pre-order it online from Waterstones using the code SUMMER25 and you get 25% off shorturl.at/zUUyu
July 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
In November we publish the paperback edition of @katharineq.bsky.social’s powerful historical novel The Low Road, currently on the shortlist for the New Angle Prize. Pre-order it online from Waterstones using the code SUMMER25 and you get 25% off shorturl.at/zUUyu
It won’t stay pink - that’s an old colour 👍
June 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It won’t stay pink - that’s an old colour 👍
Trying to find the right green for spare bedroom … clearly not there yet!
June 18, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Trying to find the right green for spare bedroom … clearly not there yet!
Dogs and humans loving the garden at this temperature (23C). Can it please not get hotter?
June 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Dogs and humans loving the garden at this temperature (23C). Can it please not get hotter?
God, I’ve been painting for similar reasons … but not bookshelves!
June 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
God, I’ve been painting for similar reasons … but not bookshelves!
I needed this post - thank you - and reposting in case you do too ❤️🩹
June 18, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I needed this post - thank you - and reposting in case you do too ❤️🩹
I have spoken at length to @damianhinds.bsky.social who has listened respectfully. I probably haven’t changed his mind but had to try. We are at the sharp end now.
June 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I have spoken at length to @damianhinds.bsky.social who has listened respectfully. I probably haven’t changed his mind but had to try. We are at the sharp end now.
It may not be perfect but it’s all we have. I had to sit on my mum’s legs to keep her from damaging herself with the pain, dying 3 weeks after pancreatic cancer diagnosis. Please don’t let fear of endless potential problems cause agony right now, for real.
This Friday, MPs will vote on the assisted dying Bill.
It all comes down to this - Tag your MP and ask them to vote yes.
If it passes, the Bill continues its journey in the House of Lords - if not, it falls.
This could be our last chance to secure a compassionate law.
It all comes down to this - Tag your MP and ask them to vote yes.
If it passes, the Bill continues its journey in the House of Lords - if not, it falls.
This could be our last chance to secure a compassionate law.
June 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
It may not be perfect but it’s all we have. I had to sit on my mum’s legs to keep her from damaging herself with the pain, dying 3 weeks after pancreatic cancer diagnosis. Please don’t let fear of endless potential problems cause agony right now, for real.
I think we all need a dog picture. Unless you’re a cat.
March 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I think we all need a dog picture. Unless you’re a cat.
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Congratulations to Matt Cain @mattcainwriter.bsky.social on being awarded an MBE in The King's New Year Honours List 2025 for services to #LGBTQIA+ culture! 👑🏳️🌈
TheMadonnaofBolton is available from Macmillan, Gardners and your usual supplier (Paperback 9781783528004).
#books #queerlit
TheMadonnaofBolton is available from Macmillan, Gardners and your usual supplier (Paperback 9781783528004).
#books #queerlit
January 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Congratulations to Matt Cain @mattcainwriter.bsky.social on being awarded an MBE in The King's New Year Honours List 2025 for services to #LGBTQIA+ culture! 👑🏳️🌈
TheMadonnaofBolton is available from Macmillan, Gardners and your usual supplier (Paperback 9781783528004).
#books #queerlit
TheMadonnaofBolton is available from Macmillan, Gardners and your usual supplier (Paperback 9781783528004).
#books #queerlit
Well - my girl has a twin spirit called a skern based on the Norse fylgja … maybe you’re mine 😁
January 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Well - my girl has a twin spirit called a skern based on the Norse fylgja … maybe you’re mine 😁
Hope it’s repeated - though I’m always worried with seeing things again that the magic may have gone as the world changes.
‘The high point of TV as a medium’: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks may never be bettered
‘The high point of TV as a medium’: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks may never be bettered
The surreal murder mystery’s impact is so profound that its fingerprints are on every show made during TV’s golden age. What a legacy
In the coming days and weeks, much will be made about David Lynch’s gargantuan contribution to cinema. This will be…
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January 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Hope it’s repeated - though I’m always worried with seeing things again that the magic may have gone as the world changes.
Thank you! When I wrote my Bera trilogy I tried to use plain or Norse words + our Welsh terms like caffled for tangled hair. It was fun!
January 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Thank you! When I wrote my Bera trilogy I tried to use plain or Norse words + our Welsh terms like caffled for tangled hair. It was fun!
Always up for a Viking word-hoard
🌿☕ 'Odd' comes from the Scandinavians, these prolific travelers brought 'oddi' to the British Isles, meaning without a corresponding mate
By the C15th it meant astounding or illustrious
So if someone ever calls you odd today, channel your C15th ancestors💃🌿
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
By the C15th it meant astounding or illustrious
So if someone ever calls you odd today, channel your C15th ancestors💃🌿
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
The Odd History of 'Odd'
The word comes to us from geography
www.merriam-webster.com
January 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Always up for a Viking word-hoard
And it changes with each decade I view it
January 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
And it changes with each decade I view it
The steady gaze of one who can resist all male attention-seeking.
January 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The steady gaze of one who can resist all male attention-seeking.
Unless you were right all along …
January 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Unless you were right all along …
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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
January 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
This is what I call a Peter Pan sky and I love it. Anyone else know what I mean? Or have their own terms for something that’s book nostalgia
January 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This is what I call a Peter Pan sky and I love it. Anyone else know what I mean? Or have their own terms for something that’s book nostalgia
I taught in these. No sex that I can remember. But I’m very old.
January 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I taught in these. No sex that I can remember. But I’m very old.
So true. I was writing a gritty thriller but kept seeing snow and fire. Went to Iceland and found Bera, whose story is now a trilogy @unbounders.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
So true. I was writing a gritty thriller but kept seeing snow and fire. Went to Iceland and found Bera, whose story is now a trilogy @unbounders.bsky.social
The most exciting live update was when Mainoo fell into a bank of snow.
January 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The most exciting live update was when Mainoo fell into a bank of snow.