Julie (Mae) Cohen
@juliecohen.bsky.social
Author. Immigrant. Queer. Owned by dog. PhD student University of Reading.
Usually pissed off, but like in a funny way. Latest novels: BODY COUNT (UK) and EAT SLAY LOVE (US). Next novel: PARADISE (Nov ‘25)
Usually pissed off, but like in a funny way. Latest novels: BODY COUNT (UK) and EAT SLAY LOVE (US). Next novel: PARADISE (Nov ‘25)
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Julie (Mae) Cohen
@juliecohen.bsky.social
· Jun 10
SAFFY’S BACK…AND SHE’S GETTING SEX THERAPY 🔪🔪🔪
So my next novel BODY COUNT is a sequel to BAD MEN but to be honest you can read it as a standalone too if you like murderous women. It is out on 14 August in the UK, and you can pre-order a SIGNED COPY: bertsbooks.co.uk/product/body...
So my next novel BODY COUNT is a sequel to BAD MEN but to be honest you can read it as a standalone too if you like murderous women. It is out on 14 August in the UK, and you can pre-order a SIGNED COPY: bertsbooks.co.uk/product/body...
I saw a meme recently that said everyone who owns two cats has one cat who is a brainless doofus and one cat who is an evil genius. I present to you: my parents’ two cats.
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I saw a meme recently that said everyone who owns two cats has one cat who is a brainless doofus and one cat who is an evil genius. I present to you: my parents’ two cats.
I saw this Good Dog on Sunday. Her name is Rosie
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I saw this Good Dog on Sunday. Her name is Rosie
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
I’m on 5
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I’m on 5
I have a story in this week’s My Weekly magazine. It is a prequel to my novel EAT SLAY LOVE and it details the exploits of Godzilla the hamster. The illustration is epic, 10 out of 10, could not ask for better.
November 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I have a story in this week’s My Weekly magazine. It is a prequel to my novel EAT SLAY LOVE and it details the exploits of Godzilla the hamster. The illustration is epic, 10 out of 10, could not ask for better.
This morning I was walking the dog when I saw a man just off the towpath with his hands down his trousers. Last spring, a man exposed himself to me on the same path. So I stopped dead. My instinct after last time was to snap a photo and call the police. Instead I called ‘What are you doing?’
November 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This morning I was walking the dog when I saw a man just off the towpath with his hands down his trousers. Last spring, a man exposed himself to me on the same path. So I stopped dead. My instinct after last time was to snap a photo and call the police. Instead I called ‘What are you doing?’
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
My plotting dilemmas at the moment are all like, yes this person is a psychopath killer but would doing this or this or that make them TOO MUCH of a psychopath killer??? @benwillisuk.bsky.social
a man wearing a clear plastic raincoat is walking through a kitchen .
Alt: Patrick Bateman in a clear plastic raincoat is dancing to Huey Lewis and the News
media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
My plotting dilemmas at the moment are all like, yes this person is a psychopath killer but would doing this or this or that make them TOO MUCH of a psychopath killer??? @benwillisuk.bsky.social
The only way Meg can get through the fireworks is to have her own personal speaker playing white noise and/or opera music on a loop
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The only way Meg can get through the fireworks is to have her own personal speaker playing white noise and/or opera music on a loop
If you would like a novel full of love, loss, bisexual longing and gorgeous settings (oh and amnesia) my new paperback PARADISE is available to pre-order: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/para...
Paradise
Check out Paradise - <p>Katie never stops moving-constantly changing her address, her boyfriends, her life. But every June, for a month, she goes back to Maine. To the old lake house her family calls ...
uk.bookshop.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
If you would like a novel full of love, loss, bisexual longing and gorgeous settings (oh and amnesia) my new paperback PARADISE is available to pre-order: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/para...
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Bloody foreigners coming over here and saving peoples lives.
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Bloody foreigners coming over here and saving peoples lives.
This is a horrible measure that would discriminate against the elderly, the disabled, overseas voters (eg the military), and anyone who finds it difficult to get to the polls (eg prople who don’t drive, people with more than one job, or people with children with special needs) #Maine
Mainers will decide a ballot measure tomorrow that could restrict mail voting, with an outsize effect on older folks.
“We’re not even a voting rights advocacy organization, but we’ve had to become one,” says the director of the Maine Council on Aging.
“We’re not even a voting rights advocacy organization, but we’ve had to become one,” says the director of the Maine Council on Aging.
A Ballot Measure Targets Mail Voting in Maine
Question 1, on the November ballot, would set up a barrage of new restrictions on absentee ballots. This would considerably affect older voters and people with disabilities.
boltsmag.org
November 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This is a horrible measure that would discriminate against the elderly, the disabled, overseas voters (eg the military), and anyone who finds it difficult to get to the polls (eg prople who don’t drive, people with more than one job, or people with children with special needs) #Maine
Oh @bertsbooks.bsky.social never change
November 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Oh @bertsbooks.bsky.social never change
So far, I have probably harvested 2.5 kilos (5 lbs) of olives off my olive tree this year. Today, I was out in my garden on a ladder, with a sheet under the tree, pulling down olives with a rake. This is in England!!! Insane. They’re in brine and will be ready to eat in a few months. 🫒
November 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
So far, I have probably harvested 2.5 kilos (5 lbs) of olives off my olive tree this year. Today, I was out in my garden on a ladder, with a sheet under the tree, pulling down olives with a rake. This is in England!!! Insane. They’re in brine and will be ready to eat in a few months. 🫒
Our best trick or treater last night was a kid in a rumpled suit using a cane and wearing a Hugh Laurie mask. I said ‘Hey doctor my stomach hurts’ and they said ‘It’s lupus’
a man in a suit and a pink shirt looks serious
Alt: Hugh Laurie as house MD winking
media.tenor.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Our best trick or treater last night was a kid in a rumpled suit using a cane and wearing a Hugh Laurie mask. I said ‘Hey doctor my stomach hurts’ and they said ‘It’s lupus’
Currently reading 👻
November 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Currently reading 👻
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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Every now and then it’s fun to search the internet for someone I used to have a crush on or go out with and then go HOLY CRAP REALLY???
October 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Every now and then it’s fun to search the internet for someone I used to have a crush on or go out with and then go HOLY CRAP REALLY???
My trampoline exercise class had a Halloween special tonight. So I dressed like a bunny.
October 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
My trampoline exercise class had a Halloween special tonight. So I dressed like a bunny.
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I've no idea if AI can help, but my list of writers who admit they didn't believe in writer's block till it happened to them includes @juliecohen.bsky.social @sarahhilary.bsky.social @freyanorthauthor.bsky.social @jennashworth.bsky.social.
More help here:
emmadarwin.substack.com/p/twelve-ide...
More help here:
emmadarwin.substack.com/p/twelve-ide...
People who aren’t writers think writer’s block is at least as big and real a problem as I thought quicksand would be, as a child.
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I've no idea if AI can help, but my list of writers who admit they didn't believe in writer's block till it happened to them includes @juliecohen.bsky.social @sarahhilary.bsky.social @freyanorthauthor.bsky.social @jennashworth.bsky.social.
More help here:
emmadarwin.substack.com/p/twelve-ide...
More help here:
emmadarwin.substack.com/p/twelve-ide...
This wood pigeon has been hanging out in my garden quite frequently, and I learned yesterday that it had been raised from a chick by one of my neighbours.
October 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
This wood pigeon has been hanging out in my garden quite frequently, and I learned yesterday that it had been raised from a chick by one of my neighbours.
Someone has left a framed poster commemorating their anniversary outside their house on the curb. There is a story there…
October 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Someone has left a framed poster commemorating their anniversary outside their house on the curb. There is a story there…
I think she wants something
October 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I think she wants something
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A fascinating, absorbing & terrific listen… uncovering hidden stories, important representation, queer rural constellations & Broken Futures, not to mention the persistence of work & inquiry that goes into museum work. Bravo @timjerrome.bsky.social @olliedouglas.bsky.social @themerl.bsky.social
🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.
In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
October 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
A fascinating, absorbing & terrific listen… uncovering hidden stories, important representation, queer rural constellations & Broken Futures, not to mention the persistence of work & inquiry that goes into museum work. Bravo @timjerrome.bsky.social @olliedouglas.bsky.social @themerl.bsky.social