E-book deal alert! The Night Guest is on sale today (and only today I think!) for 2.99 USD across all online retailers, courtesy of @torbooks.bsky.social!

Would appreciate if you would share this for me lovely friends 🙏😉😘

Me: Reading 📚

You: Talking 🗣️

WHY!?!?!?!? 🤯

Bit of a reverse Black Friday tip. Go buy a book from an independent bookshop. While the richest companies in the world have another bonanza, put a smile on the face of a struggling writer and bookseller. Thank you x

500 words done.

With every passing day I better understand the mothers in Victorian novels who stay in their bedrooms with the curtains closed and complain vaguely about their “nerves.”

A few, small (bookish) acts of rebellion & fuckery
*prioritize books by marginalized authors (pre-order their books, it sends a message that this is what we want)
*shop indie bookstores
*celebrate the achievements of marginalized creators
*read banned books
*support library programming and services

James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.

Horrifyingly accurate from Edith Pritchett in the Guardian…

Clocking in for writing. 08:06.

Slowly typing up the handwritten chapters into Scrivener.

The book I started writing well over 10 years ago.

The digital landscape then, compared to now 🤯

Bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year.
Amazon doesn't need your business, bookstores do.