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Katie Allen
@katieallenauthor.bsky.social
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Baker, walker, animal-lover and writer who's hoping this place is kinder and wiser than the last. Books: Everything Happens for a Reason out there somewhere, Happy is the One just out and available here: https://geni.us/G3otY
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My first book is just 99p on #Kobo until the end of the month! Loosely autobiographical, it's a story of grief, dogs and unexpected friendships
bit.ly/3DvtJdi

#booksky #babyloss #breakthesilence
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July 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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The face that says, 'Heatwave finally over.'
Phew!
July 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Just found these in our old road map and I'm remembering how my mum would tell me directions and I'd make these notes and tape them all along the dashboard 🤣
SatNavs have to be one of the best inventions to enter my life

#Y2Knostalgia
June 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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And of course I couldn't leave a bookshop without buying something! Picked up this for the murder mystery fan in my house. Thanks for the recommendation @villagebooks.bsky.social
The book A Case of Mice and Murder by Sally Smith
May 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Lots of signed copies of Happy is the One now available in @villagebooks.bsky.social

Such a pleasure to go in and chat to Harriet and Harriet
Thanks for all the support with this book and the last 😍☄️📘

@orendabooks.bsky.social #BookSky
Me signing copies of the book Happy is the One in Village Books in Dulwich, South London Me holding a copy of the book Happy is the One outside Village Books in Dulwich, South London The book Happy is the One with a tag saying Local Author in the window display of Village Books in Dulwich, South London
May 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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In the ongoing series of me dressed like my book cover and doing a daft face... all dressed up in my new charity shop find to go and sign copies of Happy is the One at @villagebooks.bsky.social

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Me in a navy jacket with gold trim and mustard yellow trousers holding a copy of the book Happy is the One and my black dog Miko sniffing the book
May 30, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Doing a daft face in Dulwich Books where their wonderful support has helped Happy is the One fly in its first week ☄️📘😀

@orendabooks.bsky.social #BookSky #HappyIsTheOne
Me smiling and pointing to Happy is the One in the bestseller spot on a shelf at Dulwich Books The Bestsellers shelf at Dulwich Books
May 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Massive thanks to Fabulous magazine fot featuring #HappyIsTheOne today
And there’s a chance to win a copy ☄️📘
#Giveaway #BookSky

www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/350...

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May 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Ready for launch 🚀☄️

#HappyIsTheOne @orendabooks.bsky.social
Me at the hairdressers with loads of foil in my hair
May 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Turning myself into a Smurf as I stamp and sign bookplates for @bertsbooks.bsky.social to go in copies of #HappyIsTheOne

#booksky @orendabooks.bsky.social
Stickers stamped with a blue comet and my hand covered in blue ink, next to a copy of the book Happy is the One
May 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Cuddly girl
A black Labrador type dog lying across my lap as I sit on a garden bench A black Labrador type dog lying across my lap and leaning her head back to lick my face as I sit on a garden bench
May 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Boxes of Happy is the One came. Don’t have time to do unboxing video right now. Don’t trust my family

#BookSky
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May 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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If you’re in south London, do stop by for the annual losing of my temper at the dead blossom
#MiddleClassSisyphus
Two dustpans next to a garden waste bag full of dead blossom
May 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Promotional shots going well …
May 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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I'm writing a piece about the story behind Happy is the One and thinking again that if someone wrote a song about my main character Robin, it would be Radiohead's Creep. Incidentally, I once met Thom Yorke after a gig in Wolverhampton and he kindly (but inaccurately) signed my ticket
A framed picture of Thom Yorke and gig ticket signed by him to "someone equally famous", the frame is next to the book Happy is the One
April 29, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Good morning! Here’s Miko presenting you with an alternative to bluebells. The Indian Hyacinth
A black Labrador sitting on grass in front of tall purple flowers known as Indian hyacinths A close up of a purple flowers known as an Indian hyacinth
April 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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A question: What would you do differently if you knew the date you were going to die?

My character Robin knows when he's going to die in #HappyistheOne & takes a job where he meets strangers so he can ask them what they'd do
Keen to do my own survey ahead of publication so pls do share this. Thanks
A paperback with a blue and yellow cover and the title Happy is the One The back of the book Happy is the One with the synopsis: Robin Edmund Blake is halfway through his life. Born in 1986, when Halley’s Comet crossed the sky, he is destined to go out with it, when it returns in 2061. Until that day, he can’t die. He has proof. With his future mapped out in minute detail, a lucrative but increasingly dull job in the City of London, and Gemma to share his life with, Robin has a plan to be remembered forever. But when Robin’s sick father has one accident too many, the plan starts to unravel. Robin must return home to the tiny seaside town of Eastgate, learn to care for the man who never really cared for him, and face the childhood ghosts he fled decades ago. Desperate to get his life back on schedule, he connects with fellow outsider Astrid. Brutally direct, sharp-witted and a professor at a nearby university, she’s unlike anyone he’s ever met. But Astrid is hiding something and someone from Robin. And he’s hiding even more from her…
April 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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In my head, when my cat miaows at me, I hear René from Allo Allo saying “you stupid woman”
(We’ve had a morning of me offering him the wrong food choices)
April 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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I’ve been hanging out with ghosts at West Horsley Place in Surrey. Loved it! Really recommend if you want a fun day out with or without kids
#BBCGhosts #ButtonHouse
Me posing with a cardboard cutout of the character Pat from the TV show Ghosts The window in the TV show Ghosts where Fanny jumps out every night - the real house is called West Horsley Place in Surrey A painting of the character Fanny Button from the set of the TV show Ghosts
April 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Starting Saturday with excellent company: These two and the latest thriller from @evesmithauthor.bsky.social
The Cure is out next week!!

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#BookSky
A paperback book lies on a bed by two black Labrador cross dogs. The book is The Cure by Eve Smith with the tagline: Living forever can be lethal The blurb on the back of the book, The Cure by Eve Smith. Ruth is a law-abiding elder, working out her national service, but she has secrets. Her tireless research into the disease that killed her young daughter had an unexpected outcome: the discovery of a vaccine against old age. Just one jab a year reverses your biological clock, guaranteeing a long, healthy life. But Ruth’s cure was hijacked by her colleague, Erik Grundleger, who hungers for immortality, and the SuperJuve – a premium upgrade – was created, driving human lifespan to a new high. The wealthy elite who take it are dubbed Supers, and the population begins to skyrocket. Then, a perilous side-effect of the SuperJuve emerges, with catastrophic consequences, and as the planet is threatened, the population rebels, and laws are passed to restore order: life ends at 120. Supers are tracked down by Omnicide investigators like Mara, and executed… Mara has her own reasons for hunting Supers, and she forms an unlikely alliance with Ruth to find Grundleger. But Grundleger has been working on something even more radical and is one step ahead, with a deadly surprise in store for them both…
April 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Amazing signs, speeches, solidarity and action at @societyofauthors.bsky.social protest outside Meta today

#MetaBookThieves #DoTheWriteThing
April 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Need to work on my angry writer face ahead of today’s @societyofauthors.bsky.social demonstration outside Meta.
In all seriousness, I’m bloody furious at this shameless and relentless devaluing of our work
#DoTheWriteThing
April 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Look at this beauty just collected from Dulwich Books👀📘

Murder Below Deck is the follow-up to @orlandomurrin.bsky.social ’s brilliant Knife Skills for Beginners
⚓️📘🛳️📘🔪
#BookSky
April 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Morning, bloomscrollers!
I’ve been out pic-ing flowers (sorry 😬)

Loving the spring sunshine and colours in London

#bloomscroll
A collage of nine pictures of flowers, all different shades of red and pink A collage of nine pictures of flowers, all different shades of yellow and orange A collage of nine pictures of flowers, all different shades of purple and pink A collage of nine pictures of flowers, all different shades of white
April 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Monday

#Cats
A ginger cat asleep on the floor on his side
March 31, 2025 at 7:05 AM