Jo Dutton
@jodutton.bsky.social
Committing crimes to paper 📝 Wells Lit Fest 2nd 25 @writementor mentee 23, NID Hon Mention 22, Yeovil Children’s Book SL 22, Room 204, DYCP, Stafford Litfest winner 20
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Jo Dutton
@jodutton.bsky.social
· Nov 20
In 1916, Tolkien moved to Great Haywood with his wife Edith, to train for WW1 at Brocton camp.
Between the two locations, by foot, is this wonderful, human-like oak tree planted 500 years ago, during the reign of King Henry VIII.
Between the two locations, by foot, is this wonderful, human-like oak tree planted 500 years ago, during the reign of King Henry VIII.
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Want to do a six month writing course with me? Or looking for a great Christmas present for the writer in your life?
Sign up quickly as there are only 15 places.
I would love to see you there!
Want to do a six month writing course with me? Or looking for a great Christmas present for the writer in your life?
Sign up quickly as there are only 15 places.
I would love to see you there!
The Six-Month Writing Course with Kit de Waal - Gladstone's Library
Join Kit de Waal for a six-month journey into the art and discipline of storytelling, with two visits to the UK’s finest residential library.
www.gladstoneslibrary.org
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
www.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/the-si...
Want to do a six month writing course with me? Or looking for a great Christmas present for the writer in your life?
Sign up quickly as there are only 15 places.
I would love to see you there!
Want to do a six month writing course with me? Or looking for a great Christmas present for the writer in your life?
Sign up quickly as there are only 15 places.
I would love to see you there!
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So completely chuffed to have a brilliant review in the @scotnational.bsky.social for #MurderatChristmas
I can't link to it but delighted to say that they think it's a "Young Adult Murder mystery that serves as a perfect introduction to the genre." I'll take that!
I can't link to it but delighted to say that they think it's a "Young Adult Murder mystery that serves as a perfect introduction to the genre." I'll take that!
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
So completely chuffed to have a brilliant review in the @scotnational.bsky.social for #MurderatChristmas
I can't link to it but delighted to say that they think it's a "Young Adult Murder mystery that serves as a perfect introduction to the genre." I'll take that!
I can't link to it but delighted to say that they think it's a "Young Adult Murder mystery that serves as a perfect introduction to the genre." I'll take that!
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Share Michael Rosen's Manifesto for Reading with pupils, parents and colleagues - expert tips to spark a love of reading in young people 📚
www.walker.co.uk/michael-rose...
www.walker.co.uk/michael-rose...
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Share Michael Rosen's Manifesto for Reading with pupils, parents and colleagues - expert tips to spark a love of reading in young people 📚
www.walker.co.uk/michael-rose...
www.walker.co.uk/michael-rose...
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We’re excited to announce that next year’s National Flash Fiction Day will be Saturday 13 June.
a dog is standing on its hind legs in a room with the words cant wait written on the floor .
ALT: a dog is standing on its hind legs in a room with the words cant wait written on the floor .
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November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
We’re excited to announce that next year’s National Flash Fiction Day will be Saturday 13 June.
The book I’m querying starts on 10th November - the date I decided to follow the idea. Whatever does or doesn’t happen with the queries, I’ve absolutely loved my year with this book ✨
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The book I’m querying starts on 10th November - the date I decided to follow the idea. Whatever does or doesn’t happen with the queries, I’ve absolutely loved my year with this book ✨
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Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill
November 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill
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I am trying something in November. National novel-reading month, basically. It is the PERFECT month for reading (at least in the Western hemisphere).
naomialderman.substack.com/p/november-i...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/november-i...
November is for reading
or: a month of sheer luxurious intellectual pleasure
naomialderman.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I am trying something in November. National novel-reading month, basically. It is the PERFECT month for reading (at least in the Western hemisphere).
naomialderman.substack.com/p/november-i...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/november-i...
Two weeks today is anniversary of starting a supernatural crime caper. I’ve loved mentally inhabiting this story.
To celebrate, please can I have an offer of representation from an agent on 10th November - if someone can arrange that?
Many thanks in advance 😉
To celebrate, please can I have an offer of representation from an agent on 10th November - if someone can arrange that?
Many thanks in advance 😉
October 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Two weeks today is anniversary of starting a supernatural crime caper. I’ve loved mentally inhabiting this story.
To celebrate, please can I have an offer of representation from an agent on 10th November - if someone can arrange that?
Many thanks in advance 😉
To celebrate, please can I have an offer of representation from an agent on 10th November - if someone can arrange that?
Many thanks in advance 😉
We’re all poorer because of the pandemic and wars and immigration* and there are far fewer billionaires now for the same reason.
Wait, billionaire wealth surged last year*?
www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
*hmmm
Wait, billionaire wealth surged last year*?
www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
*hmmm
October 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We’re all poorer because of the pandemic and wars and immigration* and there are far fewer billionaires now for the same reason.
Wait, billionaire wealth surged last year*?
www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
*hmmm
Wait, billionaire wealth surged last year*?
www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
*hmmm
The clocks changed for winter and I woke to a new hankering for slipper wearing, eating roast dinners and drinking mulled wine. Hbu?
October 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The clocks changed for winter and I woke to a new hankering for slipper wearing, eating roast dinners and drinking mulled wine. Hbu?
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Wait a second, so Frankenstein:
• Is immortal
• Sneaks into houses at night
• Sometimes leaves gifts for nice people
• Lives in the North Pole
🤔
• Is immortal
• Sneaks into houses at night
• Sometimes leaves gifts for nice people
• Lives in the North Pole
🤔
October 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Wait a second, so Frankenstein:
• Is immortal
• Sneaks into houses at night
• Sometimes leaves gifts for nice people
• Lives in the North Pole
🤔
• Is immortal
• Sneaks into houses at night
• Sometimes leaves gifts for nice people
• Lives in the North Pole
🤔
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Scrolling through my 5,000 photos on my phone, trying to organise them into albums, and stumbled on this important piece of journalism from 2022 🤣🤣🤣
![It's all downhill for philosophy!
HISTORIAN Greg Jenner had a useful suggestion for utilitarian
philosopher Jeremy Bentham's preserved body. "I asked [its curator] whether it'd allow for maximum happiness if we could put Bentham in a bobsleigh and push him down the hill at the Winter Olympics," Jenner tells us, as Bentham argued for maximising happiness for the most people. But Jenner, host of the You're Dead to Me podcast, says his suggestion was met by
"disappointment and genuine alarm".
Happiness minimised.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:knlwbyvg36keh64h6awokbqx/bafkreieb4ejxbjcnu72il754xrnw4w66tsnbcifjptfg447jyvh7pkttde@jpeg)
October 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Scrolling through my 5,000 photos on my phone, trying to organise them into albums, and stumbled on this important piece of journalism from 2022 🤣🤣🤣
Should be fast asleep for work tomorrow but I’m buzzing with excitement from Wells Literature Festival. Stunning readings and a drive home past Diwali fireworks… so grateful to @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social for 2nd place & thrilled to meet Fleur, @drkshingler.bsky.social and other wonderful writers 🎉
October 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Should be fast asleep for work tomorrow but I’m buzzing with excitement from Wells Literature Festival. Stunning readings and a drive home past Diwali fireworks… so grateful to @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social for 2nd place & thrilled to meet Fleur, @drkshingler.bsky.social and other wonderful writers 🎉
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July 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Ellie is 3 today 🥳 she’s celebrated with long walks and by inhaling peanut butter and carrot ‘pupcakes’.
August 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Ellie is 3 today 🥳 she’s celebrated with long walks and by inhaling peanut butter and carrot ‘pupcakes’.
Found out Bring Me The Horizon and Arctic Monkeys went to the same high school, in the same year group, and now feel I owe it to my kids to move them there.
June 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Found out Bring Me The Horizon and Arctic Monkeys went to the same high school, in the same year group, and now feel I owe it to my kids to move them there.
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New poem up on my blog. Enjoy. joshuaseigalpoet.blogspot.com/2025/06/quot... #BookSky #writing #music #poetry
June 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
New poem up on my blog. Enjoy. joshuaseigalpoet.blogspot.com/2025/06/quot... #BookSky #writing #music #poetry
Movement to BAN losing an hour’s sleep on Mother’s Day. SLEEP IS WHAT MUMS WANT MOST.
March 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Movement to BAN losing an hour’s sleep on Mother’s Day. SLEEP IS WHAT MUMS WANT MOST.
This, 100% ⤵️ All the arguments of new and inflamed Twitter making me feel like a bonobo who’s strayed to the chimpanzee side of the river 🙈
Future iteration of a screen time warning that I need
March 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This, 100% ⤵️ All the arguments of new and inflamed Twitter making me feel like a bonobo who’s strayed to the chimpanzee side of the river 🙈
Anyone else looking out at blue skies, the lighter evening - daisies and daffodils - and breathing great lungfuls of sweeter air for it?
I bloody love spring 💚
I bloody love spring 💚
February 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Anyone else looking out at blue skies, the lighter evening - daisies and daffodils - and breathing great lungfuls of sweeter air for it?
I bloody love spring 💚
I bloody love spring 💚
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Day 36 of #365DaysOfSmiles
Break on through to the otter slide!
Break on through to the otter slide!
February 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Day 36 of #365DaysOfSmiles
Break on through to the otter slide!
Break on through to the otter slide!
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This is brilliant. A declassified World War II guide for citizen saboteurs on how to fight fascism is going viral
www.404media.co/declassified...
www.404media.co/declassified...
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This is brilliant. A declassified World War II guide for citizen saboteurs on how to fight fascism is going viral
www.404media.co/declassified...
www.404media.co/declassified...
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📣 HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! 🐍
It's COVER REVEAL TIME!
I'm proud to present my new novel
🏮NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST 💥 out June 12th.
The wonderful cover art is by Simone Douglas @SimsDougie
Published by @PiccadillyPress
It's COVER REVEAL TIME!
I'm proud to present my new novel
🏮NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST 💥 out June 12th.
The wonderful cover art is by Simone Douglas @SimsDougie
Published by @PiccadillyPress
January 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
📣 HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! 🐍
It's COVER REVEAL TIME!
I'm proud to present my new novel
🏮NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST 💥 out June 12th.
The wonderful cover art is by Simone Douglas @SimsDougie
Published by @PiccadillyPress
It's COVER REVEAL TIME!
I'm proud to present my new novel
🏮NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST 💥 out June 12th.
The wonderful cover art is by Simone Douglas @SimsDougie
Published by @PiccadillyPress