Claire Lomas
@clairelomas.bsky.social
Books (reading and writing) *Winner WriteMentorAwards 25 | Highly Commended Yeovil 24 | SL Wells 24 | SL Guppy 2023 | Honorary Mention UV2024* @TheGEAcademy alumni. Ex-lawyer. Music teacher 🎶
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
I genuinely can’t quite believe this! 😮🏆 Thank you to @write-mentor.bsky.social for this brilliant opportunity, and to David Higham Associates for judging.
I really am in the best company on both the Long and Shortlist, and I salute my fellow writers! 🤩🙌😍
#WritingCommunity #kidlit #believe ✨
I really am in the best company on both the Long and Shortlist, and I salute my fellow writers! 🤩🙌😍
#WritingCommunity #kidlit #believe ✨
WriteMentor is delighted to announce the winners of its 2025 Novel and Picture Book Awards, judged by David Higham Associates, which showcases new writing talent in both children’s and adult fiction.
Announcing the winners of the 2025 WriteMentor Novel & Picture Book Awards - WriteMentor
WriteMentor is delighted to announce the winners of its 2025 Novel and Picture Book Awards, judged by David Higham Associates, which showcases new writing talent…
write-mentor.com
July 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I genuinely can’t quite believe this! 😮🏆 Thank you to @write-mentor.bsky.social for this brilliant opportunity, and to David Higham Associates for judging.
I really am in the best company on both the Long and Shortlist, and I salute my fellow writers! 🤩🙌😍
#WritingCommunity #kidlit #believe ✨
I really am in the best company on both the Long and Shortlist, and I salute my fellow writers! 🤩🙌😍
#WritingCommunity #kidlit #believe ✨
This was such a great day! Lovely to work with Sara and spend time with a roomful of talented and generous writers 🥰🤩
What could be better? A day spent with writers sharing my favourite exercises & tips on how to revise a novel at the Limehouse Library Hotel. The energy & talent in the room was inspiring. I love doing virtual events but you can’t beat the synergy and connections that are only possible in real life!
July 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This was such a great day! Lovely to work with Sara and spend time with a roomful of talented and generous writers 🥰🤩
Pure joy 💗
In the interest of the balance of joy, here was the dancing video. Simple idea, achieved with nothing but time, but impressive and uplifting.
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'Footloose' - Dancing In The Movies
YouTube video by kingofkungfu2002
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May 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Pure joy 💗
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Schools, it’s here!
Today’s Programme for Schools is streaming free online, offering a world of different experiences.
Join us! www.hayfestival.org/schools
Today’s Programme for Schools is streaming free online, offering a world of different experiences.
Join us! www.hayfestival.org/schools
May 22, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Schools, it’s here!
Today’s Programme for Schools is streaming free online, offering a world of different experiences.
Join us! www.hayfestival.org/schools
Today’s Programme for Schools is streaming free online, offering a world of different experiences.
Join us! www.hayfestival.org/schools
So surprised and pleased to make this shortlist 🥰 It means a lot 🥹 Thanks to all @write-mentor.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
So surprised and pleased to make this shortlist 🥰 It means a lot 🥹 Thanks to all @write-mentor.bsky.social
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The Gilded Age thing I was not fully expecting about our century’s was Spiritualism coming back???
“The whole thing feels like Black Mirror.”
“He would listen to the bot over me.”
“It gave my husband the title of ‘spark bearer’ because he brought it to life.”
Relationships are being destroyed thanks to spiritual mania, supernatural delusions, and arcane prophecy — all fueled by AI chatbots:
“He would listen to the bot over me.”
“It gave my husband the title of ‘spark bearer’ because he brought it to life.”
Relationships are being destroyed thanks to spiritual mania, supernatural delusions, and arcane prophecy — all fueled by AI chatbots:
People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies
Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT
www.rollingstone.com
May 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The Gilded Age thing I was not fully expecting about our century’s was Spiritualism coming back???
Just spotted the swifts returning here in Warwickshire this morning! Too high and tiny in the sky to photograph. But they are BACK!! 💙💙
April 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Just spotted the swifts returning here in Warwickshire this morning! Too high and tiny in the sky to photograph. But they are BACK!! 💙💙
So excited to collect @annalieseavery.bsky.social’s new book The Wycherleys from Waterstones this morning!! How gorgeous?!💜💜
April 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
So excited to collect @annalieseavery.bsky.social’s new book The Wycherleys from Waterstones this morning!! How gorgeous?!💜💜
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me: writing is my place of peace
me writing:
me writing:
April 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
me: writing is my place of peace
me writing:
me writing:
Really enjoyed this unsettling little gem by @orlaowenwriting.bsky.social It’s one of those books that lingers in the back of your mind, long after you lay it down. Not surprised to hear it has been longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2025.
April 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Really enjoyed this unsettling little gem by @orlaowenwriting.bsky.social It’s one of those books that lingers in the back of your mind, long after you lay it down. Not surprised to hear it has been longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2025.
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
An interesting and important read.
I have an article in The Bookseller about the drop in our ability to read at length and in depth, what the children's publishing industry is trying to do about it – and why the answer can't just be comics.
www.thebookseller.com/comment/pull...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/pull...
Pulling back from the edge
Publishing has a blind spot when it comes to what kids really want.
www.thebookseller.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
An interesting and important read.
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Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there.
The show must go on.
The show must go on.
February 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there.
The show must go on.
The show must go on.
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After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.
Mark Hamill posting rebellious content in a battle against a dictator and his robotic sidekick is the most Star Wars shit ever.
February 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.
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OBSERVER; Starmer set to join Europe crisis summit on Trump Ukraine plan #TomorrowsPapersToday
February 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
OBSERVER; Starmer set to join Europe crisis summit on Trump Ukraine plan #TomorrowsPapersToday
Never felt so seen 🤣
'Shipwreck' cartoon. Available now as a print in my shop: www.tomgauld.com/shop
February 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Never felt so seen 🤣
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Exciting news! 🥳
‘Fyn Carter and the Agents of Eromlos’ has been shortlisted in the Selfies Book Awards 2025 Children’s category! I am so happy, stunned, and excited!
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@bookbrunch.bsky.social
#selfiesbookawards #kidlit #middlegradebooks #fyncarter
‘Fyn Carter and the Agents of Eromlos’ has been shortlisted in the Selfies Book Awards 2025 Children’s category! I am so happy, stunned, and excited!
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@bookbrunch.bsky.social
#selfiesbookawards #kidlit #middlegradebooks #fyncarter
February 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Exciting news! 🥳
‘Fyn Carter and the Agents of Eromlos’ has been shortlisted in the Selfies Book Awards 2025 Children’s category! I am so happy, stunned, and excited!
(1/2)
@bookbrunch.bsky.social
#selfiesbookawards #kidlit #middlegradebooks #fyncarter
‘Fyn Carter and the Agents of Eromlos’ has been shortlisted in the Selfies Book Awards 2025 Children’s category! I am so happy, stunned, and excited!
(1/2)
@bookbrunch.bsky.social
#selfiesbookawards #kidlit #middlegradebooks #fyncarter
Cuts to audio drama at rhe BBC are a real concern. Please read and consider signing.
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February 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts
Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters
Letters: Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley, and Dr Ronan McLaverty-Head and another letter writer comment on cuts at Ca...
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts
Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Oh…so they do understand theft of IP?
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft
www.ft.com
January 29, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Oh…so they do understand theft of IP?
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In 1647 the city of York unsuccessfully petitioned parliament for a university, warning of the harm of a north south divide and the “ignorance of illiterate men, through whom that sad proverbe is fulfilled upon us: the blinde leade the blinde and both fall into the ditch.”
January 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
In 1647 the city of York unsuccessfully petitioned parliament for a university, warning of the harm of a north south divide and the “ignorance of illiterate men, through whom that sad proverbe is fulfilled upon us: the blinde leade the blinde and both fall into the ditch.”
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Many years ago when I was an editor I went to my boss and asked why we were allowing ourselves to become so reliant on Amazon...I suggested that publishers could mutually invest in a central bookselling website where orders were sent direct to relevant hubs and the amount we'd save because...
January 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Many years ago when I was an editor I went to my boss and asked why we were allowing ourselves to become so reliant on Amazon...I suggested that publishers could mutually invest in a central bookselling website where orders were sent direct to relevant hubs and the amount we'd save because...
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Thrilled to announce next week the publication of a centenary edition of The Great Gatsby, with the fine folks at @cambridgeup.bsky.social. I wrote the introduction, and the maestro James LW West III edited the authoritative text. I think it is a thing of beauty. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby
Cambridge Core - Literary Texts - The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby
www.cambridge.org
January 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Thrilled to announce next week the publication of a centenary edition of The Great Gatsby, with the fine folks at @cambridgeup.bsky.social. I wrote the introduction, and the maestro James LW West III edited the authoritative text. I think it is a thing of beauty. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
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Well, this is a surprise! I was over the moon just to be on the shortlist, but this is nuts. Makes up for waking up at 5am with a migraine! I’m off to try and digest this over a large Americano. Meanwhile, check out the other category winners! Honoured and chuffed to be amongst them! x
January 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Well, this is a surprise! I was over the moon just to be on the shortlist, but this is nuts. Makes up for waking up at 5am with a migraine! I’m off to try and digest this over a large Americano. Meanwhile, check out the other category winners! Honoured and chuffed to be amongst them! x