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Kate Baucherel
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Sci-fi fan & writer thereof | Mum standing up for 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 | Dual national 🇬🇧🇫🇷 NE England & Vienne 86 | Sandan karateka 🥋 | Speaker, Author, Blockchain & Emerging Tech specialist | https://linktr.we/KateBaucherel
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Roman ruin cats
Two black cats curled up on a tiled terrace, observing the world.
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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There are worse places to work. Long four days though - and this is the only time I see the place in daylight.
In the foreground, a laptop. In the background, a magnificent view over palm trees, orange buildings and the sea beyond.
November 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Current view. Unfortunately not holiday but working - I barely saw the outside world yesterday! Glorious start though.
Sunrise over the sea in Tunis.
October 30, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Really? Fred will be getting some sleep to celebrate.
A black cat fast asleep in the angle of a sofa.
October 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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It’s no Fail Whale but it’s a decent effort.
The header of the Kindle Direct Publishing website and beneath it a cartoon showing a small dog eating a sheet of paper with a bar chart on it.
October 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Comic cons are even more fun when sitting next to Atticus Finch Wobbly Cat and his protégée Pandora. Both have cerebral palsy, and they dress up to raise money 2Wish and disabled cats.
A full stall of books at Barnsley Comic-Con Atticus as BB8 Pandora as Lilo (Atticus has a Stitch costume) Atticus and Pandora in their ‘green room’. The food bowl is very empty but Pandora is still checking.
October 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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It’s one of those Mondays. Met this lovely chap last year and it’s absolutely awful to hear about his MND diagnosis.
OP with Lewis Moody
October 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Train!

Stockton & Darlington Railway 200th Anniversary - a replica of the machine that changed everything.
September 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Launch day! Near future cybercrime thrillers - bit of cyberpunk, lots of tech, and remarkably 'cosy' according to my editor (cats, family etc). Both of these are out NOW on Amazon, Kobo, Apple and the like - book 6 of the SimCavalier series, and the completed second trilogy. mybook.to/QuantumBreach
Two distinctly cyberpunk book covers - Nexus, the second SimCavalier Trilogy, and Quantum Breach, SimCavalier book six
September 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Bookish gorgeousness!! The hardback trilogy edition has landed.
Book cover ‘Nexus - the second SimCavalier trilogy’ Cover art shows three android heads lined up like the video of Robert Palmer’s addicted to love video.
September 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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A little blatant self promo, but I Wrote A Thing…. Preorder now!!

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Cover of book “Quantum Breach” Do you believe the simulations, or the evidence of your own eyes? The SimCavalier adventures continue 27th September 2025 PRE-ORDER NOW
September 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Layla is ignoring me and Fred is asleep.
Side profile of the head of a black and white cat, with a blob of black fur in the background.
September 18, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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A picture of Pikachu and an Eevee holding paws. Text reads “Pokédex complete Congratulations! You've caught all the discoverable Pokémon.”
September 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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The boss says it’s not time to work yet.
A small black and white cat sitting very firmly on a wooden desk between edge and keyboard.
September 11, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Edits are back… a little bit of tweaking to do and then we are GO!!
A book cover “Quantum Breach” SimCavalier Book Six, Kate Baucherel. Text beside it reads “In a world where machines can decide who lives and who dies, humans are the enemy. The SimCavalier adventures continue... 30th September 2025”
September 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Mystery solved. I have the alert notifications switched off on my phone! No idea when I did that, but probably when travelling in the U.S. a few years ago, as they used to go off all the time.
Screenshot of phone settings showing that Extreme Alerts and Severe Alerts notifications are disabled.
September 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Wondering why I am aching a little this morning. Ah, that'll be 12 hours of training over the weekend...
Two people wearing white karate gis and black belts. The gentleman to the right is the founder and chief instructor of Go Kan Ryu, Kancho Robert Sullivan. The women to the left is me, 28 years after starting training and still going strong. A group of karate black belts standing in line and listening attentively to the Chief Instructor as he explains the next deceptively simple move. A woman in a white gi and black belt with her guard up, grinning like a girl who knows there are only two hours left. The whole black belt class (220 of us) some sitting and others standing on a floor of blue training mats in a large sports hall at Keele University, listening attentively. (Not my image - thanks R12)
September 1, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Notebooks!!
One of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks in the museum at Clos Lucé (I still think it’s displayed upside down)
August 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Same. Also, Layla can hold a grudge for a remarkably long time, the swine. And who would have thought something so cute could be such a monster...
A small, innocent looking black and white cat lurking on a step behind an orange flower.
August 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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How do you make an author happy on their birthday? Go on, give one of these beauties a whirl... www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Kate-...

Already read them? Reviews are the second best gift!
#booksky📚💙
A banner showing the five (soon to be six) books in the SimCavalier series and the standalone The Travels of Finch.
August 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Releasing my inner 18 year old at the Pet Shop Boys headliner last night. Although 40 years on it was nice to drive home from the festival and sleep in a real bed.
Neil Tennant resplendent in a silver overcoat, arms outstretched. Chris Lowe partly hidden behind him and their backing vocalist / keyboard / Dusty standing to the left. There is a spectacular purple light show behind them. Light show of streetlights scrolling to infinity while Tennant and Lowe stand under fixed streetlight props at the front of the stage. Wide shot published by Hardwick Festival of the crowd in front of the brightly lit stage.
August 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Cat, enthroned.
A black cat with yellow eyes lounging on a plush red high-backed chair. The chair has elegant antique styling and trim and wooden arms.
August 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Tummy tickling temptation: 10/10. Practicality: minus several million... @thecatreviewer.bsky.social
A lioness rolling on her back like a house cat looking for a tummy rub. Bioparc de Doue la Fontaine.
August 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Checking out the stars after the Mairie installed some really annoying lights that stay on all night 😭😭. Lost the dark sky, I reckon 40% diminished, but still impressive. Couple of meteors flashed by too. But that light pollution is dreadful. Will be having words…
Stars as picked up by an old iPhone - lots in view, a couple of constellations hidden. Light pollution 101 - the bright reflection of the new lights 300m away on the neighbour’s wall of our garden. At 3am.
August 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Portrait of a burrito.
Head and extended paw of a soundly sleeping black cat who is loosely wrapped in a blue duvet cover.
July 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM