Vee Walker
@veewalker.bsky.social
Author, editor, translator 🇲🇫 to 🇬🇧, genealogist, gardener, forager and cook. Occasionally wins prizes for some of the above.
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Vee Walker
@veewalker.bsky.social
· Mar 28
Great #scotwriterpitch2025 entertainment here today, thanks and welcome to all new followers... and 👏👏👏 to @peterurpeth.bsky.social and team 🙏
A really fun and varied show.
The link to my spoken-word show featuring Scottish Highland writers is now on the @highlandhradio.bsky.social website: www.hhr.scot/show/hhr-sho...
The April episode features @ruralunease.bsky.social & @veewalker.bsky.social (BBC Short Story Award finalist) + a fab tale from Keely O’Shaughnessy.
The April episode features @ruralunease.bsky.social & @veewalker.bsky.social (BBC Short Story Award finalist) + a fab tale from Keely O’Shaughnessy.
April 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
A really fun and varied show.
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It's Friday! The day to catch Sherry's Shorts on @highlandhradio.bsky.social at 12 noon UK time--featuring short stories with a connection to the Scottish Highlands. Listen anytime via the Mixcloud link⬇️ Thanks to @ruralunease.bsky.social @veewalker.bsky.social & Keely O'Shaughnessy for fab stories.
The April episode of Sherry’s Shorts with
@highlandhradio.bsky.social is now available!
Featuring fantastic stories from Highland writers @veewalker.bsky.social &
@ruralunease.bsky.social as well as Keely O'Shaughnessy. Here's the link to listen: www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...
@highlandhradio.bsky.social is now available!
Featuring fantastic stories from Highland writers @veewalker.bsky.social &
@ruralunease.bsky.social as well as Keely O'Shaughnessy. Here's the link to listen: www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...
Sherry's Shorts - April 2025
www.mixcloud.com
April 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
It's Friday! The day to catch Sherry's Shorts on @highlandhradio.bsky.social at 12 noon UK time--featuring short stories with a connection to the Scottish Highlands. Listen anytime via the Mixcloud link⬇️ Thanks to @ruralunease.bsky.social @veewalker.bsky.social & Keely O'Shaughnessy for fab stories.
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The April episode of Sherry’s Shorts with
@highlandhradio.bsky.social is now available!
Featuring fantastic stories from Highland writers @veewalker.bsky.social &
@ruralunease.bsky.social as well as Keely O'Shaughnessy. Here's the link to listen: www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...
@highlandhradio.bsky.social is now available!
Featuring fantastic stories from Highland writers @veewalker.bsky.social &
@ruralunease.bsky.social as well as Keely O'Shaughnessy. Here's the link to listen: www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...
Sherry's Shorts - April 2025
www.mixcloud.com
April 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The April episode of Sherry’s Shorts with
@highlandhradio.bsky.social is now available!
Featuring fantastic stories from Highland writers @veewalker.bsky.social &
@ruralunease.bsky.social as well as Keely O'Shaughnessy. Here's the link to listen: www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...
@highlandhradio.bsky.social is now available!
Featuring fantastic stories from Highland writers @veewalker.bsky.social &
@ruralunease.bsky.social as well as Keely O'Shaughnessy. Here's the link to listen: www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...
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Still some copies of my collection Things Grown Distant available from @confingopublishing. Here's my favourite review: manchestereviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/t...
February 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Still some copies of my collection Things Grown Distant available from @confingopublishing. Here's my favourite review: manchestereviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/t...
So... my funny short story Front Page News, based on a real incident, is set in Fortrose on the Black Isle in the early 2000s. One character mentioned is real, but which? It's the second story read, about 15 minutes in, free here - thanks again, Sherry! 👇
www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...
www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...
April 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
So... my funny short story Front Page News, based on a real incident, is set in Fortrose on the Black Isle in the early 2000s. One character mentioned is real, but which? It's the second story read, about 15 minutes in, free here - thanks again, Sherry! 👇
www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...
www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...
Great #scotwriterpitch2025 entertainment here today, thanks and welcome to all new followers... and 👏👏👏 to @peterurpeth.bsky.social and team 🙏
March 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Great #scotwriterpitch2025 entertainment here today, thanks and welcome to all new followers... and 👏👏👏 to @peterurpeth.bsky.social and team 🙏
I'd read this!
After her best friend’s suicide, Leah stops pretending. She drinks to forget and wakes up in strangers’ beds with no memory of how she got there. Glasgow doesn’t care. Her eerie new neighbour does though. He moved in the day her friend died and knows things he really shouldn’t.
#scotwriterpitch2025
#scotwriterpitch2025
March 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I'd read this!
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March 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
And finally... still 1919. Joe is the only son of Mary and Henry. They are my paternal grandparents. But Joe is not my father. 📚 Anyone fancy a long, immersive, escapist read about two real families, one of them Indian/Irish and royal, the other Canadian/British - and my own? #scotwriterpitch2025
March 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
And finally... still 1919. Joe is the only son of Mary and Henry. They are my paternal grandparents. But Joe is not my father. 📚 Anyone fancy a long, immersive, escapist read about two real families, one of them Indian/Irish and royal, the other Canadian/British - and my own? #scotwriterpitch2025
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Writers!
Keep them pitches coming!
Publishers & Agents!
Follow the hashtag #scotwriterpitch2025 for some very good book ideas!
Keep them pitches coming!
Publishers & Agents!
Follow the hashtag #scotwriterpitch2025 for some very good book ideas!
March 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Writers!
Keep them pitches coming!
Publishers & Agents!
Follow the hashtag #scotwriterpitch2025 for some very good book ideas!
Keep them pitches coming!
Publishers & Agents!
Follow the hashtag #scotwriterpitch2025 for some very good book ideas!
(Cont'd.) These two books based on real events. Mary and Henry are my paternal grandparents. Joe (pictured here as a boy with Mary) is Mary and Henry's only son. So... if Joe fails to return to Vancouver from India in 1919, will I ever be born? 😳 Saga/Historical Fiction/autism #scotwriterpitch2025
March 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
(Cont'd.) These two books based on real events. Mary and Henry are my paternal grandparents. Joe (pictured here as a boy with Mary) is Mary and Henry's only son. So... if Joe fails to return to Vancouver from India in 1919, will I ever be born? 😳 Saga/Historical Fiction/autism #scotwriterpitch2025
Just curious, fellow #scotswriterpitch2025 folk. Did you set up your account just in order to do this event? I've had a BlueSky account here for a while but found it hard to fathom at first. Have been more active on Threads since leaving TwiX last year. Enjoying today though!
March 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Just curious, fellow #scotswriterpitch2025 folk. Did you set up your account just in order to do this event? I've had a BlueSky account here for a while but found it hard to fathom at first. Have been more active on Threads since leaving TwiX last year. Enjoying today though!
(Cont'd) Will strange, courageous Mary find her missing son Joe as she travels through India? And what is the shadowy connection between Joe and the court of the Maharajahs of Patiala? Will either Mary or Joe ever see Henry, or Vancouver Island, again? (TBC!) #ScotWriterPitch
March 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
(Cont'd) Will strange, courageous Mary find her missing son Joe as she travels through India? And what is the shadowy connection between Joe and the court of the Maharajahs of Patiala? Will either Mary or Joe ever see Henry, or Vancouver Island, again? (TBC!) #ScotWriterPitch
(Cont'd). 1919. Mary and Henry's only son Joe grows up on Vancouver Island, just as strange as his over-protective mother. When he runs away to India, only to vanish feared dead, Mary leaves philandering Henry and travels to India alone to try to find him. (TBC!) #scotpitchwriter2025
March 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
(Cont'd). 1919. Mary and Henry's only son Joe grows up on Vancouver Island, just as strange as his over-protective mother. When he runs away to India, only to vanish feared dead, Mary leaves philandering Henry and travels to India alone to try to find him. (TBC!) #scotpitchwriter2025
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Two young women separated by a century but united by a quest for justice. A biography/memoir.
#scotwriterpitch2025
#scotwriterpitch2025
March 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Two young women separated by a century but united by a quest for justice. A biography/memoir.
#scotwriterpitch2025
#scotwriterpitch2025
(Cont'd...) C19th child bride Mary is cut off from the family fortune that dodgy husband Henry was relying on to shore up his fortunes. And Mary is pregnant, with no idea what childbirth will mean. Shamed and broke, will Henry choose Canada or India for their new life? (TBC!) #ScotWriterPitch2025
March 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
(Cont'd...) C19th child bride Mary is cut off from the family fortune that dodgy husband Henry was relying on to shore up his fortunes. And Mary is pregnant, with no idea what childbirth will mean. Shamed and broke, will Henry choose Canada or India for their new life? (TBC!) #ScotWriterPitch2025
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On her 30th birthday, a small-time reporter suddenly finds that every time she asks someone a question, they tell her the truth. Excellent news for her career, less so for her personal life. Truth hurts...
Yellowface x Really Good, Actually
Speculative/book club fiction
#scotwriterpitch2025
Yellowface x Really Good, Actually
Speculative/book club fiction
#scotwriterpitch2025
March 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
On her 30th birthday, a small-time reporter suddenly finds that every time she asks someone a question, they tell her the truth. Excellent news for her career, less so for her personal life. Truth hurts...
Yellowface x Really Good, Actually
Speculative/book club fiction
#scotwriterpitch2025
Yellowface x Really Good, Actually
Speculative/book club fiction
#scotwriterpitch2025
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Kingussie, 1901: When a patient gets murdered in a TB sanatorium, Nell, a foreign nurse, with three days to investigate, discovers deception in the small community of patients and staff. What will she do when her own secrets start coming into the open? Inspired by real setting #scotwriterpitch2025
March 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Kingussie, 1901: When a patient gets murdered in a TB sanatorium, Nell, a foreign nurse, with three days to investigate, discovers deception in the small community of patients and staff. What will she do when her own secrets start coming into the open? Inspired by real setting #scotwriterpitch2025
I had a hoodie crow who could imitate my car alarm!
A Scottish Wildlife Collection for young readers🐿️🪶🐈
A scatty red squirrel who loses his nuts, a wily wildcat without a home, and a hooded crow who thinks he's a cockerel...
Meet Scotland's iconic species in this collection of short stories. Fiction plus fun facts.
#scotwriterpitch2025
A scatty red squirrel who loses his nuts, a wily wildcat without a home, and a hooded crow who thinks he's a cockerel...
Meet Scotland's iconic species in this collection of short stories. Fiction plus fun facts.
#scotwriterpitch2025
March 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I had a hoodie crow who could imitate my car alarm!
Strange Mary Southgate is locked up for most of her childhood. She bites, paces carpets, shatters wax dolls. When she siezes her only chance to escape, eloping with dubious lawyer Henry, what could possibly go wrong? (TBC!).
C19th - C20th. Two-novel historical fiction/saga #scotwriterpitch2025
C19th - C20th. Two-novel historical fiction/saga #scotwriterpitch2025
March 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Strange Mary Southgate is locked up for most of her childhood. She bites, paces carpets, shatters wax dolls. When she siezes her only chance to escape, eloping with dubious lawyer Henry, what could possibly go wrong? (TBC!).
C19th - C20th. Two-novel historical fiction/saga #scotwriterpitch2025
C19th - C20th. Two-novel historical fiction/saga #scotwriterpitch2025
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Good luck to all writers pitching their work today in the Bluesky Writers’ Pitch 2025 - don’t forget to include the all important tag: #scotwriterpitch2025
March 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Good luck to all writers pitching their work today in the Bluesky Writers’ Pitch 2025 - don’t forget to include the all important tag: #scotwriterpitch2025
Could you fill this bookcase with new books? If so, what with? Today is #scotwriterpitch2025, here on BlueSky for the first time after dumping toxic Twitter, hurrah,so please follow the hashtag, then repost and like according to the book pitches which catch your eye. @peterurpeth.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Could you fill this bookcase with new books? If so, what with? Today is #scotwriterpitch2025, here on BlueSky for the first time after dumping toxic Twitter, hurrah,so please follow the hashtag, then repost and like according to the book pitches which catch your eye. @peterurpeth.bsky.social
Dear @europesheila.bsky.social start following #scotwriterpitch2025 today and liking and sharing pitches and you'll find a different vibe altogether!
Dear BlueSky people, do you think you could manage maybe one post in four that is not about the shit show in the US?
In the interests of our communal mental health?
In the interests of our communal mental health?
March 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Dear @europesheila.bsky.social start following #scotwriterpitch2025 today and liking and sharing pitches and you'll find a different vibe altogether!
Anything by Fran is worth reading! #ScotWriterPitch2025
#scotwriterpitch2025
When 'Newt' accidentally discovers a witches' grocery shop behind his mum's lab, he has no idea what's in store for him!
Coffee making robots, Latin-speaking frogs, and a trip back through time await NEWT AND THE SNICKET WITCH.
Upper MG, 25000 words.
When 'Newt' accidentally discovers a witches' grocery shop behind his mum's lab, he has no idea what's in store for him!
Coffee making robots, Latin-speaking frogs, and a trip back through time await NEWT AND THE SNICKET WITCH.
Upper MG, 25000 words.
March 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Anything by Fran is worth reading! #ScotWriterPitch2025